Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
Sounds very similar to those Linux distros that release a Long Term Support and Bleeding Broken, I mean Edge, versions.
Nope, there is LTS AND stable, then come the borken testing, and venerable unstable which, as the name suggests, might fry your GPU, burn your house down, explode into your face, or hit the fan ...
Check with your provider if you don't believe us.
I have, see above ;-). I get unlimited landlines, mobiles in Europe from home and while roaming ... 100Gb data/month at home, 25GB abroad.... you name it ... it's included ... if you pay more than me, you are being ripped off.
How so? The overseas networks don't provice their service for free any more than your local one does.
I go there, they come here, costs virtually nothing more ... I have had all inclusive roaming (3G, 30 days/year) in the EU+EFTA for some years now, am on a 16euro/month (SIM-only), unlimited texts/calls/data on 4G/LTE (download rate drops somewhat after 100Gb). Now, I get 25Gb data/month (when roaming in Europe, US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). Oh, and of course, I can call landlines in ~100 countries + mobiles in US & Canada ...
If you live in the EU and pay more, you are being ripped off.
http://mobile.free.fr/
Click Le forfait sans engagement en détail for details.
In theory, the BBC is ‘impartial’ and provides a ‘balanced’ view
News flash, no media outlet is "balanced".
If you ask me, journalists are a bunch of bigots, most of us are, and media outlets hire bigots that "defend their views".
A group of people I can think of that are not bigots are "real" scientists, the kind of person who applies the scientific model to life. "Real" scientists go nowhere near the media, except for the stars (Cox, de Grasse Tyson and a few others). Most of the rest of the world population are bigots. Failure of education.
Patriotism is a failure of our education system, religious faith is a failure of our education system, nationalism and xenophobia even more so a failure of our education system, as is reliance on proprietary software (to get the IT angle).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHtGyqDHGA
Anyone who wonders why DUP are so strongly against the BBC should look at BBC Northern Ireland's investigative reporting output which has exposed them to be on the take on more than one occasion (same goes for their opposition, the equally morally dubious Sinn Féin).
I think you forgot the "grabs coat" icon ... I almost went for the "keyboard" icon, but I think you nailed it properly and deserve recognition!
Thanks for the laugh ... as the French would say: "Ouh lala, tu l'as cassé sévère!"
It's much the same in France where we have the redevance tele which gets collected with your council tax. You can opt out if you don't have a goggle box. You don't have to pay of use the internet though.
Yes, maybe, but on state-sponsored TV, you get 10 minute add breaks between child programs ... on BBC, you get none of that, you pay, you know why you pay ... in France, in the 30 odd years I live here, still do not know why I pay ... I'd happily pay if only they could remove adds between the child content, the ONLY stuff we watch on TV ... keeps the kids busy while we prepare in the mornings ... we have a TV for consoles, but even they hardly ever get used ... high-end PC's have spoiled the kids, don't want to touch consoles anymore ...
Well, you might have heard, the Stasi were amateurs compared to our secret services' arsenal. They have the capacity to record your farts as you attempt to expel your excrements, should you do so with your mobile in your pocket ... as well as record the time and location of the WC's you use ...
Totally agree, it is fucked up, even if we had sustainable forests next to the plants and used the wood from there ... still better than nuclear, though ... because CO2 levels can be reduced to acceptable levels in time-frames several magnitudes (couple centuries vs millions of years) below nuclear waste disposal.
There are much better alternatives, though, wind, solar, and geo-thermal (admittedly, all still need substantial research and development). The thing is, the energy source is unlimited and free, when the sun stops shining, humanity will have already been long gone ;-).
PS10 solar power plant is very interesting, I think. We need to increase efficiency and get the costs down ... that was the first of a series.
idealogical hatred
ideological hatred TFTFY
As for the comment, with nuclear power we are powering our life on a mortgage, to be paid off over a million years ... the utilities companies do not even factor decommissioning of power plants into their prices correctly, let alone waste management. These are undeniable facts, once you know these facts, nuclear power is silly.
If you disagree, I think you could earn big bucks cleaning dirty thirty!
YOU own it!
You think you own it, you own jack sh*t, as usual, there is a "license agreement" in place, which one party can alter the way it feels, discontinuing the service even if you are a paying customer and the service as such was profitable ...
Welcome to the beautiful world of banks, lawyers, shareholders, share prices and dividends.
I've worked on assignments in France and other EU countries over the last 20 years, never bothered with the local rules - the client knows they are contracting with a UK located business, it's a single market with free movement, don't like it then get the EU to change the rules.
Well, depending on the project, if project takes longer than 18 months to complete, you are very shortly going to be out of luck. If, for whatever reason, the EU is part of the project, well, tough, same thing, even if it can be done in 6.
You are probably going to ask why ... Brexit means UK has betrayed the club, don't expect anything anymore without sacrifice.
As Merkel said: "Nach dem Austritt aus der Europäischen Union könne das Königreich keinesfalls dieselben Vorteile genießen wie als Mitglied."
No, I will not translate that .... please note that Macron is even worse:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/24/french-presidential-favourite-emmanuel-macron-hard-bargain-brexit-talks
I believe he really thinks "enough is enough", the "piss-taking has to end" and, imho, as a Brit, living the European Union's dream, I have to agree ...
Nephew doing ICT at college in UK in 2017, learns BASIC, yes, BASIC .... no C (any variant)/Java/whatever, has never seen a UNIX system, hardly ever seen cmd.exe, does not know Powershell or the command line ...
In France, step son to learn with raspberry pi's how to prototype e.g. alarm systems etc, also college-level ICT ... different branch, but still ...
UK ICT courses are obsolete, by probably two to three decades ...
Who downvoted ? I did, the following makes absolutely no ff'ing sense, so much so, I stopped reading and downvoted:
in that a program complied for one CPU could run on a version of Windows based upon a different CPU
1. HAL was there to present a single interface to drivers, on multiple platforms.
2. You still had to compile the software/drivers for the target Windows/platform combination
The question at the end is not really relevant since you got the rest all wrong, still, a simple search yields quite some interesting stuff, right:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+10+hal
Obligatory Space Oddity reference: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Simples.
Windows Phone, Windows RT, zune, bob, you name it ... if they feel like "discontinuing" it, they will.
Don't trust Microsoft ... NEVER ! Hello, anybody in ?
Been bitten ? Wait, I am am trying hard to give a fsck ... I cannot ... YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT!
Do no trust Microsoft, never, they will shaft you like they have shafted:
IBM
Apple
Caldera
IBM
Sybase
Borland
Novell
SGI
Suse
Sun
.... you name it ...
Note: many more missing, the order might not be correct, only from the top of my head. No, I do not care, my main point is: NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, NO REALLY, TRUST MICROSOFT!
Brexit means you are fucked, guyz ...Britain's dead, Jim!
This article reads like worrying about a sneeze when you have terminal cancer ...
More seriously, though. When you have an ageing population, you have two options:
1. more babies
2. more migrants
Note that 1. takes about 20 years to deliver workforce, 2. instantly creates workforce ... Migrants take jobs the locals won't take because too demanding, migrants increase GDP and everybody is happy ... the only problem is, Brexit means Brexit, no more migrants, ageing population, international businesses to leave ... you are fucked.
The fact that May's intention is to create a police state is another problem entirely, who cares, leave in droves, if you have the know-how, you have a chance abroad ... leave you must, before Brexit kicks in, or you will be fucked.
Sad day for Britannia, sad day :-(
Sign of [insert_company_name] giving customers as little as possible for as much money as they can get. <br />[insert_company_name] are a greedy corporation that focus only on margins and profit.
Welcome to the beautiful world of "businesses", "share prices", "investors", and "dividends". You will notice that apple is not all that more expensive than the competition, when you take build quality into account, plus, they come with macOS.
What is so great about the surface pro ? Look, I have yet to see anyone using touch input, yet ...
As for comparing Apples to Lemons, HP Z2 comes with an i3 at the mentioned price AND does not even have decent Ethernet, maxes out at 32Gb RAM... might as well compare to the venerable raspberry pi.
Ohh, and don't think for one second I am an Apple fanboy, hey ... as long as they solder RAM/storage, I will shop elsewhere ...
Please stop, el'reg, remember, you are NEITHER news of the world nor Daily Fail..
If this were possible, even in "scientific" theory, then we would have had bacteria that produce gold from lead a long time ago.
I want the chemical/physical/biological reaction, energy exchange, and the source atom or I call this BS. Nothing living can produce uranium, from whatever atom you want ... IF produce means "to give birth or rise to", in this context, I cannot understand how another meaning of produce (it has several meanings) can be used in this context.
Besides, if bacteria could produce uranium, then other bacteria could eliminate it and environmentalists would be more than happy. THE WHOLE BLOODY POINT OF WHY ENVIRONMENTALISTS DON'T LIKE URANIUM/PLUTONIUM IS BECAUSE WE ARE STUCK WITH IT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, my 8 yo daughter understands that, why don't you? WTF ?
I read this article, I looked for the joke, got an NPE.
This is by far (several galaxies) the worst piece of garbage I have come across on your site.
I tried with Chrome this morning:
We're sorry, sign-in isn't working right now. But we're on it! Please try again later.
If this problem persists, contact your support team and include these technical details:
Correlation ID: ---------xxxx---------
Date and Time: 5/31/2017 12:22:57 AM
URL: https://xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/personal/john-doe_example_com/Documents/SomeFolder
User: jdoe@example.com
Issue Type: Unknown issue.
Note, I have anonymized the above data, even date/time.
Issue Type: Unknown issue. <---- priceless error-handling genius
A couple more days, and it's Office 330 for me ... and we are still in May. By year end, will it go below Office 300 ?
Yours,
Hans 1
Microsoft MHP
Adobe MHP
Sadly, CEO and IT director will blame the proles, you know, the understaffed underfunded in the trenches trying to keep the machine rolling while adhering to useless time-wasting "corporate policies" and always taking the blame for the results of board decisions ...
Crap, I must be a lefty!
"The Windows 10 China Government Edition is based on Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, which already includes many of the security, identity, deployment, and manageability features governments and enterprises need," said Windows boss Terry Myerson.
Ohhh, so it can get 0wned by specifically crafted PDF's, PNG's or BMP's so the government can spy ?
Have they obsoleted SMB, yet ? Thought not .... InsecureByDesign!
I’m not a bad woman,” she told the paper. “I just went out on a date”.
“I’m a [...] [sexist] woman,” she SHOULD HAVE told the paper. “I just went out on a date [had him pay and spoiled his evening]”.
His reaction was bad ? Sorry, feminist, here, but if I am on a date watching a movie and a friend is in distress and needs my support (via mobile, whatever) ... I apologize deeply and cancel the evening out, promise to make up for it ... what she did, was piss taking ...
That woman was a BAD <whatever> that evening, if you ask me ...
Lets not forget that Sweden is like the US when it comes to sexual intercourse! You need at the very least "formal written consent" for sexual intercourse and you better understand what is written on the form, if you attempt any act not covered by the document, you are liable! Of course, if you can find a lawyer after leaving the disco before you get to hers, better make use of your find and have him witness your "agreement to have fun".
Crazy world, this!
I think this is ok, as, who knows what was wrong with the system, it would not boot. The drive might have been dodgy ... what do you do, get data recovery, retrieve all data you can onto another drive, install an os, copy data over, done!
Now, if in the process you come across pedophile images or whatever, you HAVE TO REPORT IT. IBM Portsmouth found exactly that and had to report it. It is YOUR obligation as a citizen to report any crimes you witness.
What I find quite disturbing, though, is how the guy identified the still of a girl as pedophile material, when the image as such was not even classified as "pornography" of any kind.
I have never seen pedophile content, I would not be able to identify this photo as pedophile content ... a still of a "famous pedophile video" ? WTF ? How can this stuff be widely known ? <joke>Oh, I see, I've never been to church, must be that!</joke> Seriously, I dunno ...
How has this not been to the ECHR?
Well, May does not want anything to do with human rights ... she said that one of the best things about Brexit was that she could rid the British people of reasonable human rights ... I know, I will probably get a quintillion down-votes from brainwashed fellow Brits who believe the ECHR are a bunch of nasty commies ... Then again, still time to vote libDem, I guess, right ?
I heard LibDem is the last chance for Britannia to "remain" in the EU ... on the other hand, how LibDem can be trusted I do not understand, [cough] tuition fees [cough]... If you wanna remain you probably wanna vote for the tree huggers, they can be trusted, I guess ...
#FuckedUpBritannia
"I do believe I am doing what any reasonable person would do under the circumstances in order to protect the privacy of a client."
Well, your problem is, you visited a police state with unreasonable laws, sorry! Thanks to May's addition to the arsenal, the MET can and will make up any "evidence" it requires to further the case.
The more the merrier it is not ... having centralized IT means you get volume discounts. Having IT managed in separate trusts means the gov WANTED the NHS to lose, somebody has a big fat account offshore for this somewhere (or is too incompetent to bring a pint glass to his mouth).
Of course, spend is one thing, getting x trusts to get their act together is harder than having one do it - blame game.
I have said time and time again, centralize NHS IT, move to Linux, billions saved for patient care ... no more offshore bank accounts, ok, AND better cheaper care for everyone involved!
With the sums they fork to MS, they could run their own distro, with dozens of linux kernel developers!
Worse, even, they could license their distro at a premium to our European friends, oh, wait ? We got none no more!
They're not saying all the United cockpits use the same code are you?
Not only that, it is VERY EASY to watch a steward(ess) enter the digits ...
The system makes EVERYBODY feel safer, so I guess it is OK ... Note that almost anybody can break a piece of plastic off a seat to have a sharp weapon of mass destruction ... pretty sure you can pass security with a piece of sharp plastic ... I managed to board a flight with a cork screw, hehehe, told the security guyz I was French, worked!
> The whole X86 platform should be considered legacy.
Optimistic, tell that to hardcore gamers and run for your life!
> High power consumption, static form of processing, all the cores should be the same (No high performance ones and power saving ones as in ARM) ..etc. ARM gives comparable performance and hybrid PC cores.
Wow, you really have absolutely no clue, do you ? Ok, I love ARM. But, it must be said that ARM cores are much, much slower than x86_64 cores, so you need more, and even then, single threaded performance lags behind like mad. This is not so much a problem on some server workloads that need a gazillion low weight processes running in parallel.
You are right on the battery endurance as well as the Windows RT story, I think jailbroken really says it all, right ?
2-5 years and no X86 apps will be produced. The only part that I'm sure ARM laptops will fail with is Gaming. In that case you're not replacing only the processor architecture but also the GPU, and ARM GPUs are nothing comparable to Nvidia, AMD and even Intel GPUs. Maybe this can be solved by having a normal Nvidia card in the laptop which runs the X86 games without emulation and the CPU part is emulated, but that is not that simple. You can't use two architectures together as I suppose.
Now, this is unintelligible BS.
1. x86_64 is fine for workstations and gaming rigs, will remain so for the foreseeable future, imho.
2. ARM GPU's ? You mean, SoC GPU's, surely ? To get a NVidia GPU to run on ARM, you need a PCI-Express interface and a blob from NVidia/AMD, there, native NVidia/AMD graphics on ARM. If you have x86_64 CPU emulation, then you "could" run the game, if the emulator is good enough, however, performance will lag behind. ARM SoC's come with PCI-E interfaces already, even NVidia's Tegra. A GPU has NOTHING to do with architecture, provided it gets enough PCI-E lanes, software has (blob, drivers)!
>You can remove it by going into the Add/Remove Windows Features. You will get a warning, but you can remove it
Yeah, that is akin to deleting the shortcut on your desktop, sort of ... ok, it removes some more crap ... will STILL NOT save you from that dodgy image, because IE rendering engine is part of the OS ... AND that is the whole BLOODY point.
Tip: If you *do* want an administrative copy of Explorer, fire up something harmless (like NOTEPAD) with full privileges and use the File Open dialog.
Imagine .... sudo nautilus now no longer works, you have to sudo gedit, for example, then use the File > Open dialog to do stuff ... WTF ? BTW, when I am in explorer and want to do anything privileged, I get UAC and then can do it ... am I missing something ?
BTW, I have a quick question ... on stock Windows, how do you edit %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ? It is 2017, and Windows still hates files without extension ...
"1) PC and Laptop manufactures ship their gear with something Microsoft installed"
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Because people want Windows. If there was a demand for Linux, you will see the machines. That demand doesn't simply exist. It's no longer 1990, and MS has no longer that hold on OEMs. With PC sales so low, do you believe vendors wouldn't offer a different OS to increase sales? Most servers are sold without Windows, nowadays.
As an OEM, do that, offer Linux 1:1 (any computer with Windows and Linux), and your Windows tax just increased 100 fold ...
Go look at Dell, choose Linux as OS, count the number of models that ship with Linux, switch to Windows 10, count the number of models ... notice, the Linux models are crap, you cannot get best display, best graphics with Linux ... what you get are weirdo systems with odd resolutions ... that are expensive for what they are, imho.
I call that pisstake on Dell's part, I am SURE it is NOT Dell's fault ...
Try find one on hp.com, go, try ... tell me, I had a quick look, could not find one ...
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