Posts by Lars

Re: finally a brexit benefit (for EU)

Hold on Ledswinger, this is what you wrote not that long ago. 13 Sep 2016

"As usual. Big fat bastard corporation doesn't really want to pay UK salaries much of the time, or any UK taxes that it can avoid. But wants access to UK courts and legal system, privileged lobbying access to our government, and to have ready access to such UK research as it chooses to conduct here.

Hypocrites.".

What makes you so upset when the EU tries to do something about the tax avoidance.

Re: El reg does it agian

What are you actually complaining about.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_%28marque%29

BMW redeveloped the entire Cowley plant, demolishing much of the factory, to create a new factory and renamed this "Plant Oxford", on the site of what was historically the Pressed Steel Company's Cowley Body Plant and next door to what was historically the Morris factory.

2009, the Mini was Britain's seventh best selling car - the first time that a BMW-era Mini had appeared among the nation's top 10 selling cars.[76] It also was Britain's seventh best selling car in June 2010.[77]

Mini sales worldwide were up 22% in 2011 over 2010, with 285,000 cars delivered across the globe. In the U.S., the brand’s largest market, 57,000 were sold in 2011, a 26% increase over 2010. The next two largest markets, the United Kingdom and Germany, saw 13% and 28% sales increases last year, respectively.[78]

A total of 301,526 Mini vehicles were sold worldwide in 2012.[11] The largest national market was the United States, with 66,123 units sold, followed by the United Kingdom with 50,367.[11] The Mini Countryman sold a total of 102,250 units in the year.

The moaners of Europe.

Re: "commits"

Yes, it's a bit strange, but if you start to have a strange look at the language then you will never stop wondering about how strange it is (any language).

1.

perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).

"he committed an uncharacteristic error"

synonyms: carry out, do, perform, perpetrate, engage in, enact, execute, effect, accomplish; More

be responsible for, be to blame for, be guilty of.

"he was on trial for a murder he had not committed"

2.

pledge or bind (a person or an organization) to a certain course or policy.

"they were reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion"

synonyms: pledge, devote, apply, give, dedicate, bind, obligate

"local business leaders committed themselves to community projects"

Re: @a_yank_lurker Cupertino is ...

The distro I use, Mageia, demands a root and a user password from the very beginning. I have used other distros too but I cannot remember even one that did differently.

Reh: MVNO

Long ago I was working with web programming. Then one day my boss, who had visited a daughter company abroad came to ask me what PHP and LAMP stood for. I think I was able to keep a straight face, slightly pleased he would ask me, probably because he knew I was writing programs when he was still in kindergarten, but a bit surprised too. He had a Microsoft only background. So I told him all those abbreviations can be very annoying but that there is this whatis.com I use, if in doubt. He later came to thank me for the tip.

No, the euro has not also correspondingly fallen against the dollar in the same period. And I consider the whole Brexit a lose/lose situation as stupid as if Trump becomes the next POTUS. This should not prevent you from being an optimist, by any means, but please try to stick to facts.

@ CrazyOldCatMan

I have a fairly similar background but went with Mageia after Mandrake/Mandriva, works fine, uses systemd but I don't really bother about it, as long as it works.

Re: I don't get it!

Perhaps used at sea first, they call pilots to assist them after all.

Re: Change because of the change?

@ShelLuser, had a look at your previous comments just now and perhaps I had no good reason for calling you a troll, but then again what prevented you from entering "limux" into the search engine of your choice as the saying goes.

So here we go on the state of Limux in Munich.

http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/08/24/no-munich-is-not-considering-ditching-linux-and-going-back-to-windows/

Quite a project indeed and I am not surprised at the amount of "politics" around it. The state of things in the video.

And on TechRepublic we find this.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/after-three-years-of-linux-munich-reveals-draft-of-crunch-report-that-could-decide-its-open-source/

"Across the council there are about 20,000 Linux-based PCs used by staff alongside about 4,163 Windows-based PCs, with Windows generally used where line of business software cannot run on anything else."........

" The staggered nature of updates to client PCs is reflected in the spread of operating system versions used by the council. The most up to date clients run LiMux 5.x, based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is run on about 45 percent of machines, 32 percent run version 4.1 and 23 percent run version 4.0.

Of the Windows machines, about 77 percent run Windows 7, nine percent run Windows XP / Vista and 14 percent run Windows 2000. The report gives the impression that managing Windows clients is more difficult because of the extent to which the configuration of each machine and installed software varies between departments, as well as processes for managing Windows machines being less well-established."

It does require guts to pull a project like this and I wish the town I live in had some of that. Also note how much Munich has contributed to LibreOffice.

Re: Stupid?

I am not surprised this whole Brexit is a bit confusing for many, to quote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/world/europe/uk-britain-tories-hard-brexit.html?mabReward=A5&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

Janan Ganesh, a columnist for The Financial Times, summed up the situation on Twitter: “There’s no plan. Each panic-inducing remark gets toned down. May as well ask your cat.”

iPhone plebs should understand that articles like this one only undermine the value of a guy like Jobs. Surprised there was nothing about him also inventing the micro computer, rounded corners and the touch screen too. He was an exceptional person, no doubt, but a mortal all the same. As for cell phones I would claim he was the only CEO who actively used and fine tuned the interface to his liking.

Re: Now that ARM has been bought by a bank its future is uncertain IMO

"I have a feeling they will end up charging a bit more and just resting on the companies laurels". Perhaps I am a bit rude but that could sound more British than Japanese on a bad day, the laurels that is. I think more companies should go private (like Dell).

Re: Let the hate flow...

It's not hate it's disgust and I endorse this video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rqQ5-RlwaQ

and the Fox version here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lZ0r1-mvMY

The version in English is here;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQRbqc2qtY

Re: Enid Blyton

You forgot the pimples, note to parents, I you feel you have to give "kid books" to your kids, first read them, then decide if to burn them or not. Not kidding.

Re: do you work for VW by any chance?

@Steve Davies 3

As allenschaeffer claims modern Diesel engines have become better and better and can achieve near zero emissions. So far that technology comes with the large engines only.

As you mentioned VW, this study by Transport & Environment.

Dieselgate 1st anniversary: all diesel car brands in Europe are even more polluting than Volkswagen - study

https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/dieselgate-1st-anniversary-all-diesel-car-brands-europe-are-even-more-polluting-volkswagen

Which of course means VW is the least polluting* diesel in Europe, which of course, doesn't change the Dieselgate but makes one wonder about all those other brands in that chart too. Well read the article.

*The glass is half full or half empty.

Re: Email at scale is easy

Fair enough LDS.

Some more about the XP.80 from the Wiki.

"The XP-80 had a conventional all-metal airframe, with a slim low wing and tricycle landing gear. Like most early jets designed during World War II—and before the Allies captured German research data that showed the speed advantages of swept-wings—the XP-80 had straight wings, similar to previous propeller-driven fighters. It was the first operational jet fighter to have its engine in the fuselage, a format previously used in the pioneering German Heinkel He 178 V1 of 1939"

As for Russian cars, as kids me used to slam stickers with the text "Made in the USSR by slave labour" on them, provided by the MAD magazine. Very childish, no doubt, as those cars belonged to people who couldn't afford any better.

I visited Russia the first time before it fell apart and was amazed at how old their cars were.To day they are car crazy, the bigger the better. and preferably American.

Knowing history is fine especially if one understands that each country has a strong tendency to slightly "colour" its history. Eventually when the history is a bit further in the past more balanced versions are born or not. Russia had Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Labelled as dissidents of course. An American looking under the rug will be called a leftist, of course.

Look at how upset some Americans are with Oliver Stone and "The Untold History of the United States". Much the same with Michael Moore. Enough of this, see you on some other topic.

Re: Yawn..

My solution is to keep the max of what I can draw low enough not to make a larger problem. So far without any need for it, except once when I was unable to draw what I wanted, of course. But then, the optimist I am, sometimes, I came to the conclusion that she wasn't worth it anyway.

This is a bit lie understanding the first law of betting, which is, never bet for more than you can afford to lose.

Poor Cameron, why did nobody educate him. Looking at you, Eton College.

Icon not totally accurate.

Re: "Is the community relatively free of conflict?"

Jim Zemlin has a go at it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTHdcmjenI

And Linus has a go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOXeXauRAm0

@Tom7

Decent normal intelligent people don't tend to brag about their talent. For that you need something totally different, like a Trump,

I do believe kids have a different set of talents from the beginning, music is one where I think we are indeed unequally talented. Still one of our big problems is that we are very talented at killing kids talents from very early on.

And then there are teachers, good teachers (to be kind) and teachers with the ability to make it interesting.

Like, suppose you have to teach a bunch of kids about Pi. So there you go, drawing a circle and its diameter. By then, when you babble about the ratio, some of the more advanced kids will think cunt and look smug, some if not asleep will fall asleep. But if you now ask them what they need to know in order to work out the speed of the Earth around the Sun you might have their attention, and you can throw in an AU and why not some planets and moons losing no time.

I would suppose teaching kids a programming language has similar problems, spending too much time babbling about the syntax is not good, there has to be a task a problem to solve very early on or they end up knowing "all the best words" but with no knowledge of how to fit them together.

Re: Health and Safety

As has been pointed out it's sometimes possible to learn something from ElReg comments, I agree and I now feel I am an expert on Victorian plumbing. Mission accompliced. Some Brits apparently not amused as mixer taps are for the wussy only.

This world takes water out of lakes and rivers, the fish shit, and those pesky birds, still it's apparently better with fish and shit than no fish and shit.

This reminds me of an old woman who kept her (mixer?) tap running day and night because "running water is cleaner". That only stopped when her downstairs neighbours started to wonder what was going on with their ceilings.

I get perfectly clean water from a 80m deep drilled whole in the granite by my summer cottage, but should I test for radon too. So many questions, where the taps are just a distraction.

Re: Exactly

"Woz is quite wealthy.".

Yes, but that is just because he refused to sell his shares in Apple Computer when Jobs desperately tried to buy them. As far as I have understood Woz was rather pissed off with Jobs efforts then.

@TheOtherHobbes, please slow down, the stuff you mention, if not already available, would have come later anyway, without any doubt. It's a bit like claiming no cars would exist without Ferdinand Verbiest or Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and similar guys.

Innovations mostly build on previous innovations, no light bulbs without electricity, no microcomputers without a microprocessor and so forth. And yes, I did have an Apple II+ and I was impressed and Jobs was an impressive character, still I think I would rather go fishing with Woz than with Jobs if that was possible.

In a more "joke alert" mode, dear Brits now when you eventually will be able to write your own laws without the EU interfering with you. Be careful, the following law was not written i Brussels.

"The Locomotive Act (1865), which required many self-propelled vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. This effectively halted road auto development in the UK for most of the rest of the 19th century;".

Re: CzechMate

Czechia, easy peacy, try to pronounce the name of the town Hardwicke. Yes, Americans will fail too.

"got any pointers". In his movie "Where to invade next" Michael Moore deals with this question in several European countries, like here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3Km5kSi7A

What the hell is going on, now you have May apparently believing it's possible to lineup kids at the age of eleven in the bright and not so bright, what a totally stupid idea, known to be stupid more than one hundred years ago, my Deity.

Re: I honestly don't know who'd be worse

@ Big John

Like the USA Europe would have voted for Obama both times. Bush would have lost both times in Europe because he was a fool. Try surfing European news sites every now and then. You have created your problems all by yourself regarding Obama.