Posts by Roland6 10727 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2010
It's a window, not a deadline. Which does raise a question as to what is happening during the merge window:
How the development process works
From this we see that it isn't just about submission but a timeboxed activity in which changes are assessed and merged, resulting in the production of a release candidate. Because this activity involves humans, there is a limit on the number of changes that can be merged in a single day ...
So I am inclined to agree with Linus, you have advance warning of when the merge window is going to happen, plan accordingly because it is unreasonable to expect others to put in extra effort just because you can't be bothered to be disciplined and organised.
However, perhaps, Linus does need to set a deadline for change submissions and then conduct the two week merge activity.
I brought the STM4 to replace my 1970's Garrard SP25. Like you it served its purpose, but was ultimately found wanting, so was replaced by a Technic's belt drive deck which I still have today, but like the LP collection is in storage (the other half is happy to have the amp and CD player in the lounge...)
interesting article here: https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/t1/top
From the diagram, its not motorless, unlike the Strathearn, but does use a magno-float magnet bearing.
From my recollections of the STM4, I wonder if it can handle all grades of vinyl... The STM4 struggled with the heavier audiophile vinyl...
By entering the code, you link the phone to you. Obviously no use for the initial transaction, but subsequent transactions...
Just having some fun, a financial institution is sending me the details of investments being requested by a firm of solicitors because it is my name and contact details on the death certificate; until such time as I provide them with a certified copy of the WiIl etc. they don't believe the solicitors have a legitimate interest in the investments.
>Lock out?
Yes from too many attempts?
Well...
As from the October 11th 2022 cumulative update:
All Windows versions can now block admin brute-force attacks
Although from the article it seems there are circumstances where this won't be enabled by default.
Additionally "Microsoft also announced today that it now requires local administrator accounts to use complex passwords"
>the stapler function of a large printer...
Well seeing this article late morning made me laugh.
Arrived on a client site and immediately gained the attention of a frustrated and increasingly irate user; the printer driver wasn't letting them select the stapler function on the MPD...
>but it skips the step of actually printing
Back in the early 80's I was told a tale where at one (mainframe) facility, they had a shredder positioned directly under the output path from a lineprinter. The joke was that it was cheaper to do this than to pay for the application software changes necessary to achieve the same effect...
Set one up yourself?...
Back in 2005 that is effectively what I did, however, it was for a mobile telco (and not my own business venture) and formed their secure remote access offer to business.
In the (joe public) personal space things aren't so simple, with people relying more on word-of-mouth and media campaigns, hence why NordVPN are doing so well and why practically all security suites are pushing their VPN offering. A problem is websites blocking traffic from (known) VPN gateways, however, I would expect the majors, especially the security suite vendors, to provide privacy-maintaining ways around such blocks.
As for the eavesdropping on the traffic going through the gateways, well perhaps a good starting point is to not use any VPN product from a US company...
>I wonder how many people work in the local Starbucks, etc., without a thought of Wi-Fi security / snooping / infiltration / etc.
Well if they are using a company laptop to access corporate systems (on-prem and/or cloud) then if the laptop doesn't automatically use end-to-end VPN etc. suggest the IT department needs talking to...
Obviously VPN products such as NordVPN being sold to joe public are also a defence to the coffee shop Wi-Fi attack vector, but how many have set these to automatically carry all traffic once outside of the home network....
>I have to make sure to update the Extension pack to keep the version in sync whenever a VirtualBox update comes through the regular channels. Failure to do so causes some weird behaviour.
I suspect Oracle already know this hence this note on the website:
Please install the same version extension pack as your installed version of VirtualBox.
[ https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ]
But yes it would be nicer if they also updated the Extensions pack.
That is the calculated risk - which they are already taking with their on-prem server offering, remember it is a common business strategy, often implemented out of the application of the 80:20 rule. (Which gets quite interesting if you apply it to board rooms, something Tom Peter's - management writer, alluded to...)
I suspect unless PC World et al. fully adopt A.N.Other OS distribution (Currently they are favouring Apple, but they could adopt some Linux-based distribution and thus grab a bigger slice of the on-going support sales and revenues, although I would not totally rule out something from left-of-field like ReactOS! ) Joe public will have little real choice: it's either Apple or Microsoft.
>Why can't Win11 cope with older hardware by not offering certain features?
Commercial decision. MS has made many similar decisions in the past to encourage upgrades to their new OS and Office product offering.
Personally, I think physical TPM is a dead end technology, Windows really needs to include a software TPM, so that my VM/cloud instance can fully benefit from TPM.
>The interesting question is what happens in 2025 when all this "legacy" hardware is still going strong and MS want to turn off support for Win10.
Given how many companies are beholden to investment analyst forecasts, MS exec's won't really care - if you are not using W11 and M365 then they aren't getting any subscription revenue from you.
Obviously, companies with volume licence agreements will still be paying, but MS know they can apply pressure to bring them back into line.
>Peak Windows
That would have been Windows Server 2003 and XP-SP3 (Classic UI), although Windows 2000 did much to prepare the ground.
I find it interesting that my new Thinkpad will directly support Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 with Lenovo provided drivers etc.
>Maybe in reality there isn't much difference between installing Windows 10 2022H2 and installing Windows 11
From reports there is a big difference between upgrading to W10 22H2 and W11 22H2 - with W10 there is a very good chance your system will still be operational, with W11 22H2 be prepared to rollback...
Expect to see OFcom do a u-turn over its previous statements concerning there being room in the UK market for 4~5 national operators. It will also use the same justification for allowing the merger to go ahead, namely: it is in consumers interests.
Why will Ofcom do this? Well because Truss & Co. are devotees of the unregulated free market. They will say that if consumers don't like it they can vote with their feet; being devotees they will naturally be blind to the real world....
The question surely is what is "good enough" fidelity?
Going way back to the late 1980's with all the work on MAP/TOP and GOSIP. Whilst the IT crowd got obsessed about the networking stack, it was obvious the real challenge was the application standards, which were rapidly evolving at the time.
The keys to fidelity were Standards and (interop) testing and governments using their buying power to put teeth into the Standards. Unfortunately both the UK and US governments back tracked on GOSIP with the end result of getting themselves largely locked into Microsoft Office for 30+ years...
>The don't use Facebook button?
From my reading of the article, you probably don't want to install FB. The impression I got was that FB would effectively replace Chrome with FB-WebView/Chrome as the default browser; so doing anything that invokes the browser will result in FB-Chrome being loaded...
A little surprised this has taken so long.
Oliver Sacks decades back identified the study of damaged minds as giving insights into how the (healthy) mind actually works. This might form the basis of a useful hypothesis on speech, giving the potential for even better speech recognition and generation systems.
Well for a "Test and Dev" environment, my eye's were caught by this limitation:
"The load module or object code compiled on IBM Z Development and Test Environment cannot be promoted to production."
So what I'm testing isn't a production ready system build. I presume the dev compilers etc. insert dev and test friendly handles etc. into the code. Hence why you would want to recompile using a production ready toolkit.
Given your description of the installation, I would agree with your analysis.
Suspect from what I've seen around here the OR fibre team have done their work, however, the fibre may not actually be for OR; OR installed the pole mounted Gigaclear fibre to a row of cottages near me, it took some months before the Gigaclear engineers did their part. So given the multi year lag you've seen wouldn't be surprised if either OR have it as a low priority job for their fibre node team (too few subscribers per node), or the original ISP who installed the fibre have effectively abandoned it.
We had a slightly different problem. The planners decided back in 1998 when approving the plans for an 800 home development that installing Virgin cable was "out of character" for the rural location. Thus the estate was built without fibre. The first FTTP circuits were installed in 2019...
>fttp apparently does not exist here (them laying a new duct & fibre across my drive 3 years ago must have been my imagination).
Given you are getting FTTC, that fibre probably goes to a cabinet, to provide the fibre-to-the-cabinet aka exchange backhaul...
> last time I looked into the costs it was a minimum of £20,000 + additional costs for wayleaves & construction / roadworks (estimated total +/- 25% £52,000)
Infrastructure is expensive, when I looked at putting FTTP into my village (circ 2012), we also had to budget for two street cabinet installations at £30k each...
Yet people want someone else to foot the bill and only charge them £30 pcm...
No the builders have successfully lobbied gullible governments to ensure the building regulations that govern construction of houses for sale to job public are weak(*), compared to those required for council houses. Hence they can build rabbit hutches for £60k and sell for £300k plus land price, council houses are built to contract so its £60k + 20% margin.
As recent events have made abundantly clear, the Conservatives object to this style of deal because it favours the buyer and not the well-heeled Conservative party backers.
(*)We could have been building carbon zero houses since the early 2000's, but lobbying by the majors mean it is only now, some 20 years later, the regulations are catching up...
Funny how people still think the x86 is CISC..
Having encountered a number of mainframe and minicomputer assembler languages and done several years of x86 assembly programming, when RISC vs. CISC first blow up, I didn't really see the x86 architecture as truly CISC, but more of a RISC architecture with instructions merely being shorthand handles to standardised microcode for many common operations. From memory the comparisons at the time had problems identifying clear water between "true RISC" and x86 instructions...
Remember the blue hole from the mid 1970's along with the Penryn quarries - riding in the buckets on the aerial ropeway...
There is also the related problem, "we had to destroy xyz in order to preserve it", ie. people wanting visitors.
Take a location in the Geek's Guide, the Lizard Wireless Station at Bass Point. I visited the site back in 1999 (solar eclipse) and revisited in 2017.
In 1999, it was just some concrete footings in a cow field, with preservation, the cows have gone and been replaced by a car park and visitor centre and maintained grass.
Seen similar with Bletchley Park, its a great museum and day out, and will now be preserved, but compared to visiting in the mid 1990's...
Heat build up is also a problem when dealing with extremes of temperature. It is also quite a challenge to keep electronics happy so that it can be protected from the extremes of Antartica whilst also not overheating.
Obviously, the extremes of space present further problems - see the design of the James Webb telescope.
Marketing and bragging rights.
Intel and AMD are in competition and with most things IT related 'speed' is an important yard stick; whether it is relevant to everyday users...
As we've discussed elsewhere on ElReg, the majority of homes don't actually need particularly fast broadband (ie. anything over 100Mbps), yet that hasn't stopped the speed-based marketing and competition between ISPs.
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