Posts by Tristan

Enterprise ssd - why not just use a raid of cheap consumer ones? It's not like you can realistically wear them out, and even if you do then you could buy 5 for the cost of one enterprise one.

With the old spinning rust disks, the enterprise ones have tler - time limited error recovery meant that the raid array would not wait for repeated read attempts from a bad block - up to 2 minutes as a consumer level drive. It would wait for a maximum of 7 seconds before failing, and the raid controller would simply read that block from the mirror instead.

But enterprise ssds? Seems to mostly be higher write cycles tolerance, and even on consumer level ssds the endurance is "lots"

"during flight thanks to the extreme pressures"

But the body lengthening was due to the temperature of the skin, not the pressure.

Apparently there was a gap in the cockpit which was closed at speed by this expansion which was about the right size for the pilot's hat.

Microsd - check, when you've trashed the phone just pull the card with the photos on out of the wreck

Headphone socket - check, can connect it to the many older things like hifis and cars

Removable battery - nope. So expensive disassembly job if you want your costs-more-than-a-laptop device to not have a much shorter working life.

I already use cash for most purchases except fuel, that might be expanded. They'd know which cashpoint I visited and how much I may have got out, plus which shops I went in even then.

Not willing to forgo taking a phone with me, but that seems the only solution if I went to be private.

Had to read the comments to find out whether it had a terminally fixed battery. Again, microsd slot was only mentioned in the comments.

Why do android reviews talk about built in apps? If you don't like what the manufacturers apps do, just replace them. The hardware matters and is hardly mentioned.

Anyway, I've always found phones which can't be used when laying on a table annoying. It'd have to have a case which made the back flat so I could type on it without having to hold it with the other hand.

There's a firm I know of that uses the pos company name in lowercase as the WiFi key for the cash register networ, which always has wifi even where there's cable point everywhere. It's just moronic.

I'm just lucky no-one's asked me to make anyone using their junk PCI compliant!

Just works

I have solved the DRM problem by simply not buying any game which has any DRM. So I have the witcher 3, and Kerbal space program, but not much else.

I don't agree with the idea of a game publisher's flaky server deciding when or if I get to play the game today, and the game is useless as soon as that server goes for whatever reason.

So - DRM free or you aren't getting my money.

1/7 computers stayed on 10 after upgrading...

So far I have:

2 computers where the customer upgraded to it and found their printer stopped working (old HP printers just don't work)

3 computers where the customer upgraded and found that the start menu didn't work - rendering it a right pain to revert back to windows 7/8 as there upwards to be no direct run command to revert. The start menu in these cases does work in safe mode.

1 computer where the customer upgraded and got trapped by not telling anyone that his computer didn't work any more until 90 days - Microsoft sneakily delete your revert files after 30 days. Replaced that PC as it was getting on a bit anyway (another one where anything like start menu or window 10 apps like settings just never loaded but showed no errors)

1 where I was forced to upgrade to 10 due to needing windows pro (7 anytime upgrade is dead. Windows 8 pro packs work but just be bought physically from old channel stock which is like hens teeth)

Old hardware not being supported and something wrong with the start menu seems to be the main problems. However, as I keep pointing out to customers, windows 7 is supported longer than the lifetime of the pc anyway, so why change everything and learn a new interface when it is working fine?

I believe (I read it on the internet...) that damage to your car caused by driving into a pothole which has not been reported to the the council is your problem, and if it has been reported it's their problem. So, reports generated and sent automatically (at least in Chelsea) can only be a good thing.

The tagline for the RSS feed says windows server 2002!

system disk storage hard limits?

So, how long does windows 8.1 take to suicide in a 32gb soldered on emmc? I put one together yesterday and after office and iTunes but before user data it stood at 13gb free, of a 21gb c drive. User wasn't impressed at the idea that it might not survive much more than two of their planned 5 year working life for it thanks to updates.

Del did a range of power edge servers which unless you changed them had 80gb system virtual disks, and they suicide after about 3 years simply does to logs and windows updates.

but has fallen into the trap of style over substance.

Can't put microsd cards into it = can't perform the same job as my aging s4.

Skipped the s5 because it had the same screen, so no significant benefit - but now I can't use a s6 :(

Every device I have which has data in it has a microsd slot - I often use my phone to modify data or upload files from some other device's card - should I carry a USB otg cable and card reader everywhere? Or just not buy a s6?

Hmm, this sort of cack-handed political interference in a system which is critical and only relevant to a politician in terms of retaining influence is why control of such a system should never be controlled by the US government. Ours isn't any better though.

How do you fund a country-agnostic body? Or use some decentralised system of majority wins like bitcoin? But what if one country can overwhelm the others and get overall control?

We need a dictator. Only, the correct dictator. Vetinari?

Major selling point in hotels

Basically, if a hotel doesn't offer free WiFi, it's off the list of hotels I will consider when choosing where to stay. I can't be alone in this market pressure, surely?

The only exception is where there is no choice with free WiFi, then you're stuck with tethering (unlimited data and tethering, but who knows how fast the connection with be, if it even connects at all)

Ad? What ad?

What ad would this be? There isn't one, and there isn't a gap where one might have been....

oh, wait, I have adBlock. Silly me.

Faked

Surely this should read:

81% of people either handed over their identity for the chance to win clocolate, or were awake enough to realise that they could make up details and still win chocolate. As we didn't verify these details we we don't actually know how many people just made them up on the spot.

Now... someone walks up to me in the street and asks for my password inexchange for chocolate. I have three choices:

1) hand over the password, which I most likely use for everything from my bank account to my screensaver

2) Refuse, and not get chocolate

3) Make something vaguely plausible up, and get chocolate anyway.