Posts by phuzz

My other plan is to to go to a scrappy and get the door and boot locks, as well as the key from a wrecked car and swap those into mine. So, almost getting a new car...

Re: @Peter2 - The mass of the pilot was a considerable constraint...

I don't understand why they bothered with an F-16 in the first place

Because they have a few spares

Re: But why?

Never discount the power of spite as a motivation ;)

I don't think I know anyone under the age of 40 who regularly irons. With most clothes, as long as you take care to hang them up to dry without creases, you don't need to iron them.

Re: Vaccumming up for you

I'm talking to the adults in the audience; you Millennials and later can get back to your lattes.

You realise some of us millennials are in our 40's now? So yes, we know what mops are.

Re: 16GB of RAM is the minimum

Depends what you're doing with the OS.

Mint runs and boots fine on 4GB of RAM, but as soon as you start using a modern web browser you'll want at least 8GB.

Re: Sebastian!

Took me a while to get it, because I pronounce /etc as "etcetera" or "ekt". I don't think I've met someone who says it as "ee tee cee".

Next you'll be telling me it's "em vee" not "muv" or "cee pee" instead of "cup".

Re: Nothing, Forever is always-on, runs 365 days of the year, and delivers new content every minute

an episode of _Married with Children_ where Al is watching TV

I read that as AI (ai) instead of Al (AL). Bloody sans-serif :(

Re: Been there, done that

The link in TFA shows the 'neutralisation' of an MQM-107 target drone, so more like a cruise missile than a balsa wood plane.

Of course, this was a fixed emplacement, in perfect conditions etc.

Also as TFA points out, even a system that can only take out quad-rotor* drones would be useful on today's battlefields.

(* or hex-rotor etc.)

Re: Unforgivable!

That could be it. At home my connection uses different DNS servers (can't recall which right now). No idea how to access the router where I am now though.

Re: To access or not to access

I used to work at a company, where an important tool for the finance team was an Access DB, that pulled data from the actual accounting system, and spat it out into an Excel spreadsheet. The only person who understood any of it was the CFO (other staff having moved on), and they only understood about 85% of it.

None the less, it was deemed 'business critical', so I had to occasionally wave a dead chicken at it to keep it running. Keeping it under the 2GB limit for Access DBs (iirc) was the main problem.

As the lowly IT serf I couldn't force it's replacement, and as far as I know it's still an integral part of the finance systems.

My mum uses an iPhone, and it has dramatically simplified my tech support. Yes, there's Android solutions that might fit the bill, but it would require more research on my part than "just buy whichever iphone you like mum".

(Before the fanboi' complaints come in, my personal phone is a 5 y/o android running LineageOS)

Re: So which is it?

It sounds like you'll need at least a basic AIO cooler to hit 6GHz even briefly on a couple of cores, a big custom watercooling loop should be able to boost to 6GHz for longer and on more cores, and you'll need liquid nitrogen to hit 8GHz (probably briefly, on a few cores).

Re: As a thought...

Going with the assumption that Intel will try and wring as much money from their customers as possible, my guesses to the answers are:

1) maybe

2) probably higher

3) hahah nope.

4) nope

5) nope, buy another one each time

Although, with 3, it's not impossible that in future someone will reverse-engineer the licensing making it possible to fully unlock chips. I'd assume Intel have done a pretty good job of locking it down, but who knows what reverse-engineering tools will be available in twenty years time?

I don't know if there was any explicit links between the Amiga and BeOS, but in the late 90's, when Commodore was busy hammering the last nails into it's own coffin, and Amiga users were realising that we'd have to jump ship, BeOS was looking like the most Amiga-like choice.

Of course, it turned out to be very Amiga-like, as it crashed and burned well before achieving it's potential.

Re: Flashback

Same with Adobe. Kids pirating Photoshop was good for them, because a small percentage of those kids would end up becoming graphic designers at firms which couldn't afford the risk of pirating software. So they'd insist that the full Adobe Suite was necessary for their job, and every new version as it came out.

RIP my software budget, because what the marketing department wanted...

Re: Long Term Bonkers

If they're that big, why not just carry a small generator?

Of course, if it was integrated into the car, you could run it while you were driving to extend the range...oh wait, I've just reinvented hybrids haven't I?

Re: Going BOFH on a spammer.

A few weeks ago I got a letter from our letting agent asking us to please pay our rent in one lump sum on the due date, and not to only pay a third up front, with the rest a week or so later.

The thing is, we always have paid in one lump sum, so someone somewhere in that letting company is holding on to 2/3rds of our rent for a week each time. Fuck knows what's going on, but at least I have all the bank statements to prove our side of the argument.

Re: Surely the solution is simple?

The next Crew Dragon is scheduled for February, so they might be able to send that a few weeks early.

If anything, more choice in DIMM size helps you to have excess memory. If you're speccing a workload that needs (eg) 15GB, having the option of a 24GB kit will still give you headroom, while being cheaper than the 32GB you'd have had to go for otherwise.

(Or if you're a BOfH, you buy the 32GB kit, then swap it for 24GB and pocket the difference)

Re: Why would the ad networks care?

Because their customers (ie the companies buying ads) might realise that most of what they're paying for is worthless.

The server was destined to go to a customer, and they tend to be unhappy when their new server arrives with blood splatter inside.

Re: United States, if you're listening

SpaceX are flying national security payloads now so I can imagine them insisting that Musk is kept away from anything classified.

It's possible they already have an understanding along those lines. All the day to day work at SpaceX is done by Gwynne Shotwell anyway, and I can imagine Musk is more interested in Starship than whatever the military are putting on Falcon 9's. He seems to have the attention span of a bored child, so distracting him with shiny new rockets would be pretty easy.

Re: It took a very long time...

It was part of the plan, to make sure that the capsule could float by itself for a period of time, in case they can't recover future capsules right away.

Could be worse, as part of the Apollo program they twice tested having people floating inside the CM, in the ocean, for 48 hours!.

Re: RDF

Steve Jobs may or may not have been as much of an arsehole, but his desire for publicity was much lower.

They are quite similar in that they are/were both good at getting other people to make good/desirable products.