Posts by JimmyPage

Sigh..

we already have the concept of "Fire !!" in a crowded theater (US spelling now being used as standard).

er ... doesn't the em-drive claim the same ?

was my immediate thought

Sounds like they are pissing in the pond

I forsee a flood of emails from Iranian ministers holding vast amounts of cryptocurrency that just need your bank details ..

Data damage come again ?????

Sorry but WTF ?

And fair play to Vulture central for indicating this is a load of marketing bollox with the quotes in the headline, but to plough (oops, we're all American now), plow on into the next 2 sentence without a hint of irony ????

I smell

a class action lawsuit.

Sauce for the gander ?

The US has been doing this since the year dot.

Sometimes, it's the little things.

But running WSL on my Win10 machine means I can drop into a shell at will and either do something on my machine (so no need to learn Powershell) or ssh into any number of my Ubuntu servers seamlessly.

Yes, there is puTTY. But that is so clunky it could only be a Windows app.

My last job needed an asset management tool. With fuck all budget I spun up a Debian VM on their hypervisor (no licence) installed a LAMP stack, got SnipeIT working and everyone happy until the boss learned we'd gone "non Windows" and insisted it was shifted to a cloud subscription service.

One quote later, and all of a sudden it was staying.

(Yet) another lunatic action

the UK has to take to show Brexit is working. If the UK was still in the EU, this would have been a done deal.

Amateur hour at a crypto specialist

...weather to follow.

I am convinced that as I get older, modern life has changed so that it's ever easier to spot morons at a distance. Maybe it's natures way of allowing me the best use of my diminishing lifespan.

Speaking of things that have no intrinsic value

hows that pound sterling looking ?

Emperor has no clothes moment ?

If it can be proven that more than 5% of Twitter accounts are dud (and I would be amazed if they weren't) then surely the value of advertising on Twitter (/Facebook/name-a-"social"-platform) nosedives ?

Or to be more precise, why am I paying $x to reach x% of a real audience when it should be $x/(100-fakes)% or something ?

Also I suspect that Twitters heyday is long gone. It has nowhere to grow, and a lot of ground to lose to the Next Big Thing.

... and USENET

nntp is still around ...

They need to stick with the clipboard history

Now that was worth it.

Question for the economists here ...

is a global downturn the best or worst times to look to change suppliers ? Will competitors be cheaper due to the downturn ?

The only "use" I've seen for Twitter these past years

has been to embarrass big companies. And even that is now waning (I've thrown a few shitballs at shit companies that have left them for all to see).

My memory was that it was a thing to allow people to SMS to forums, and as such unique.

If it's not doing that anymore, what's it for ?

Righy ho ...

So the problem is "just" a lack of technical knowledge ?

Or (prepares hard hat) is it less the technical knowledge, and more the technical knowledge that is able to negotiate the byzantine kernel development process ?

Not the greatest advert for Linux then.

Surprised MS hasn't taken ownership of this. What with their linux for windows project.

Bout time

When I worked in the education sector, it wasn't unusual for some staff to have 3 or 4 separate O365 accounts with 3 separate establishments. Plus ours. Plus their personal one.

Nightmare.

The problem is the human brain ...

is fucking amazing at picking data from noise.

There's an oft-cited experiment where someone reads a corrupted text to another person who corrects it in real time and when I say real time, I mean <30ms lag.

Alternatively there's another experiment which uses TDM to reduce the data in a flow of speech to c. 10% and it's still intelligible

Human speech has evolved over millions of years and has helped us not need power, speed or strength when it comes to bodies.

Regression testing ?

We've heard if it

If I pay for a platfrom

I don't want to see ads.

TL;DR ?

A USB stick on steriods ?