Re: See that Iceberg on the port bow?
From personal experience, I'd say I have little confidence in such labels and certificates.
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Yes. The VT100 keyboard was really good. Probably one of my all-time favourites. We also had a couple of VT100 clones, I think from CIT, its action was slightly softer and the keys had a rougher surface for better grip.
Lovely feel, lovely sound. I miss the "good old days".
I hate to break it to the Whitehouse, but most other governments are giving press conferences about the current state of the SARS-COV-2 (aka COVID-19) multiple times during the course of a day.
Giving information like how many government run, free testing stations have been set up, how many thousands of people have been tested and how many infections and deaths have been reported...
It is not just healthcare. In industry, it is the same story. Why replace several million Euros worth of plant equipment, just because the PC that runs it needs XP or Windows 7? We just isolate the kit or remove it from the network completely.
I'm the same way with the Dune series, English and German books and the Audible series in German.
I loved THHGTTG when I was growing up. I had the radio plays on cassette and listened to them on the bus every day going to college. I bought some anniversary version of the book (all parts in one bound edition). I also have the first part in German.
The TV series was okay, but the film was a real disaster, and I'm not talking about Disaster Area here.
I even had the Infocom adventure game for my Amstrad.
Our favourite brand is on offer this week at Famila, so we will probably buy 2.5Kg, as we usually do, when it is on offer... I don't see a need to suddenly buy huge amounts of everything.
Interestingly, the local supermarkets were all fully stocked on Saturday, but about 200KM south in the Ruhrpott, the shelves were being stripped bare by "hamster" buyers. I love the German term, Hamsterkäufer (hamster buyers) and hamstern (to hamster), sounds much more cute than panic buying.
The problem is, most people don't even know they are vulnerable.
"Hey, its a phone."
As long as their app du jour works, they don't know or care about anything else on their phone.
My brother-in-law and wife replaced their 2013 Galaxy S4 mini smartphones last summer. I'm guessing they probably haven't had a security update since 2014.
One of the problems is that the ZX Spectrum was designed as a stand-alone computer. It has no networking it has no security and it is used by one user at a time.
The problem with legacy corporate IT is that is generally used by many people at diverse locations, whether it be in an office block or at separate physical locations in other cities or countries. If the system is easy to isolate, there are no problems, but for systems that have to stay online, but are no longer secure, an FPGA won't help there.
On the other hand, FPGAs are a great way for modelling problems going forward. Doesn't Azure already offer FPGA instances?
I came here to say the same thing. I bought a long and short standing desk from Ikea in December, when I re-did my office. It is only manual, there was an electric motor available as an option, but I decided I could make do with the manual winder.
I think I paid under 500€ for both desks together (L-Shaped desk when put together). I'm very happy with them. Very stable (and very heavy!).
One of our devs managed to take the network and the VAX down in one go!
He was the first to receive a DEC VT1000 X-Windows terminal. He was working away and people would crowd around his desk to look at all those terminal windows. And those X-eyes in the corner, following the mouse around.
He then tried experimenting, making the eyes bigger. Then, we had a "fun" idea... Open up dozens of X-eyes windows. Gesagt, getan, as they say in Germany. The whole screen was carefully filled with dozens upon dozens of x-eyes at the smallest windows size possible. A bit jolty as he moved the mouse around, setting them up...
Then wooosh, wooosh, wooosh, he moved the mouse around as fast as he could. The VT1000 stuttered, the other terminals stopped responding, the VAX stopped responding. All those hundreds of eyes following the mouse were sending packets back to the VAX with each small mouse movement.
I've had 1 aptitude test, for my first job application at an insurance company in the late 80s. I failed.
It didn't stop me getting a job a week later at a defence contractor and nuclear processing plant builder. Those traffic lights at the end of the street? Yep, no aptitude test to administer the systems running those :-P
I've had several jobs over the years, but it was always just an interview, a talk and a handshake. Given the current landscape, that will probably be via Skype and the handshake will be of the electronic protocol variety going forward.
The number of "useful" apps for European users is relatively sparse in the Huawei App Gallery at the moment.
Neither of my banking apps are in there, no Audible/Amazon, no PocketCasts, no Signal, no Outlook. The only non-Huawei app I use that is in the Gallery at the moment is Telegram...
I like Huawei's phones, I disable most Google services anyway, so the current situation, with the exception of the PlayStore, is fine by me. But without the common apps, it is a little pointless. (Yes, I could side-load the Play Store and hope everything works.)
On the other hand, running a math benchmark on a multi-tasking PC is never going to give you the full performance, unless you boot into benchmark, with no macOS running in the background. iOS has an advantage there, in that it sleeps a lot of the background stuff.
But it is still indicative. What will be interesting is to see if their ARM architecture can do full multi-tasking and what Apple had to tweak to get it from the phone to the laptop. I think it will be very interesting.
Raw numbers are fine for the "mine's faster than yours" brigade. What we need are actual numbers for running things like Photoshop under macOS and real desktop multi-tasking results. Of course, we won't see that until Apple actually releases something.
The architecture has been fine-tuned for lower power and "co-operative" multi-tasking, with non-visible tasks sleeping most of the time. I suspect this is where Apple has been concentrating its efforts, getting their ARM design optimized for a general computer, as opposed to the more controlled environment found on an iPhone or iPad.
It will be interesting to see, if they can turn that theoretical advantage into a real one.
Apple also has the advantage, that they have done this before. As well as Rosetta, they had "big executables", which had resource branches for PowerPC and Intel code. They just need to bring that back into play for Intel and ARM, then developers can cross-compile to both platforms in one package.
Of course, the emulation would need to be there for software that hasn't been re-released in dual-executable format.
I still abide by the rule "the 'S' in IoT stands for security and treat all IoT devices appropriately - i.e. they don't receive any power and are not joined to my network, well, with the one exception of a FireTV Stick, but that gets a bunch of special rules at the firewall, to help isolate it.
Yes. That is my point. If they want to do something to help users, they should be helping them learn how DNS works and to secure their networks. Instead, Google are breaking DNS in a way that cuts other data gobblers out of the equation and allows them to get all the information on a connection.
Firefox are going half-way and providing a, theoretically, indepedent DNS provider, who won't log your lookups.
And my network is smaller than the Internet and the Internet DNS server don't know anything about it.
n1a is a server on the local network, that the local DNS resolves. No need for the browser to go to Google or to use DoH, because it won't find it!
If I ping it, it translates to a local IP address, if I enter it into the browser, the browser ignores the DNS lookup and goes straight to Google/DuckDuckGo/whatever. You can override it with "n1a/", but most people generally forget the first time.
Agreed. I use a local (to my network) DNS server which connects upstream to a main DNS server using DNS over TLS (same security as DNS over HTTPS, just using the standard DNS protocol) and DNSSEC.
That then covers all services and all devices on the network.
It makes trouble shooting much easier. If the browser stops working, you can use other tools to check the network connection and they respond in the same way.
I also have around 2.5 million tracking, malvertising and malware websites blocked by my DNS server. I don't want the browser ignoring that.
If I am out-and-about
That is why I am glad I live in Europe, which decided software isn't patentable. You can copyright it, but not patent it.
If you live in a country that allows software patents, use the software patents yourself to stop competitors, you should also abide by them if you are caught using other people's works.
In most countries, you need to be a registered business with a registered VAT number. Registering my one-man-business with my local council was the first thing I had to do, when I started a consultancy in Germany, then obtain a tax number.
Before I had the tax number, I couldn't buy anything or sell anything.
Using Amazon for business, in the past we have bought stuff from Amazon.de which was sold through a UK firm on the marketplace that wasn't VAT registered. As a VAT invoice is required for every transaction, we had to return the goods. Since then, we have avoided UK sellers, unless they actually have a registered VAT number in their Amazon profile.