Posts by LaeMing

Re: iOS7 update....

Just avoid the update that turns it into a brick.

Re: If it helps as exposition

Yes, n-key rollover isn't something you get at the CE-junk end of the IT spectrum*.

*Not only pun not intended, but had a good think about how to rephrase that to do without that word, but came up empty.

Re: You're hardly a kid at 20

One of my mum's pet peeves too: news commentators referring to clearly-adults as 'boys', 'kids' etc. She feels it doesn't encourage adults to behave like adults by giving them a get-out label.

@Number6

Yes, you could even have a version of the power brick embedded in a wall plate or in the desk, though if you go that far, you probably should include GbEthernet in the same plug for high-current PoE.

In fact, a global standard high-power PoE with signal, DC+/- and Earth terminals would be rather nice!

Re: Good luck finding a replacement auditor that doesn't rely on Excel

It will take exactly as long as it takes one of the potential contractors to realise they can win a big contract by not relying on Excel. Then the dominoes just keep falling.

Re: Subtitle is....

I signed up for all three. Not with my real identities of course! I'm not a complete zonk!

Only use twitter for work (make work-related announcements to students).

Left FB from general boredom with it.

Never officially closed my SL account, but only use OSS VR environments these days (and not for social things, generally).

Re: Linux support... well, who can say?

If it doen't come up on MacOS immediately without extra drivers, I would strongly assume it wouldn't be any different on Linux. It wouldn't be the first or second drives from a major drive manufacturer (WD, Segate, both) have some some funky custom chipery that /isn't/ industry standard and requires special drivers (though at at least in this case - unlike the two previous I alluded to -- they might actually have an excuse this time!).

Re: Precedent

Wasn't it just a couple of specific instructions, which Godson didn't implement for that reason?

Re: Not Quite

Or people should realise that with 7 billion people on the planet, namespace collisions are going to happen!

Re: I wonder if they ever heard the story

Yeah, sueing him for IP infringement of their business plan is their fallback financing option.

Re: Second most feared??

I alway know when it is time to spider-bomb mum's back shed for red-backs because of all the sucked-dry skink (small type of lizard) carcases littered around the corners of the space. Hungry little critters, and while a single red-back bite won't necessarily take you out, they often like to live in communes, so getting bitten by just one is less iikely. Just looking where you are sticking your bare body parts before sticking them there is generally a good enough strategy for dealing with most Aussie crawlies, though

Re: Let's face it

Copper... Bleeding.... He must be a deep-ocean cockroach. I knew it!.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolymph

Re: Wrong on so many levels

You would, but an entire chapter isn't an 'extract'. And 'contracts' don't over-ride actual law. Ever. If the law says you can, all the warnings in the front of all books mean naught but a weak attempt at denying the audience their clearly-legally-defined rights.

Re: The only way to beat them

No, stop the planet long enough to throw /them/ off.

Re: Enquiring minds want to know...

Tastes like pheonix.

Re: "check their condition and predict failures."

"Open the Garage door, HAL!"

"I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that."