Posts by Roland6

Re: would take 4-16 hours for a team to get to the site, bring up the required pod...

>Have they thought this through properly?

If they haven't got plans for cloud data centre sized deployments, I suggest not.

As has been noted, Microsoft and others have demonstrated the viability of submerging a single container of servers, but stacked containers or scaled out to cloud data centre size - circa 100 containers, I suggest not.

Re: WTF

But it's got to be greener to contribute to ocean warming directly than via atmospheric CO2 emissions... :)

The trouble is, a single container will probably have little effect other than on what lives and grows directly on it. But scale out to a hundred or so containers together (100 x 800 = 80,000 servers) and things will be very different.

Re: Interesting difference in attitude

>But to be honest, being caught speeding is quite easy to avoid. Just don’t speed.

Whilst I quite like my bicycle, there are times when the car is required...

>"to make 'S' and 't' align beautifully for the word 'Start'"

All that effort; must have been galling when MS decided to hide the text and just display icons in the toolbar.

He's very pround of the Ribbon, Metro etc. - see https://jensenharris.com/

I therefore suspect his criticism of W11 UI is more because it isn't an evolution of his work, ie. he has sour grapes about the way Metro and W8 and the team responsible were discarded.

Re: Use the windows key not start button

> isn't it far easier to just hit the Windows Key on the keyboard, start typing the 1st few letters of whatever you are looking for

I want to run disk management...

So Windows key and type 'Disk'

Oh look with W10 it offers the option to search the web for disk management, no sign of the diskmgmt.msc

So lets continue to type, once again "Disk management" doesn't cause W10 to offer the control.

It is only when I have fully typed in "diskmgmt.msc" does W10 offer me the option to actually run the control.

Just one of many instances where W10 search fails to find and offer tools that have been part of Windows since wayback.

Repeat search for 'disk' on W7 and Diskmgmt.msc is the third (local) program in the search results...

Re: Personally.....

>The central position is useful if you have an Ultrawide screen

Not really...

Screen in sleep mode, so we touch the spacebar or move the mouse to wake things up; where is the mouse and where is it in relation to the start button?

With a conventional start button location in one corner, I can move the mouse in that general direction, knowing that when the screen lights up the mouse will be close to that corner, so only a small area of screen for the eyes to scan followed by a small hand movement for final alignment and click.

Re: I bet £5 that Microsoft is quaking in its boots

>I doubt it would say that; they are in three different markets.

But activist investors such as Icahn would, because to them the gains (to shareholders) from splitting the business up would far outweigh the benefits (dividends and increase in share price) of the conglomerate. Followed in a few years by a set of takeovers to "release synergies"...

Re: If it steers boots on the ground to double check

Years back I had to demolish an extension, the council kindly came out and reassessed my property and with immediate effect put my property in the same band as my neighbours who didn't have similar extensions.

Re: that's not how the Internet was concieved...

>I understand that, at the time (1970s-1980s), the other big networking standards were SNA and OSI.

The big networking standard was SNA, other contenders were X.25 (CCITT), XNS, DECnet, OSLAN etc. Basically the world was proprietary.

In academia, TCP/IP and the Janet colour books were big things.(*)

Practically the only part of "OSI" that existed was X.25 - okay I'm ignoring IEEE 802 LAN - because ISO OSI largely adopted the work of the CCITT.

So OSI was big because it was being heavily promoted at being non-proprietary etc. But it wasn't really until 1988 were there anything that could be called a 7-layer OSI implementation available to buy. (Yes MAP/TOP implementations based on OSI were available in 1986, but to OSI purists they weren't OSI.)

(*)Obiously, with Unix coming from academia it had TCP/IP bundled for free.. The seeds of change were largely sewn with the widespread adoption of Unix by many new workstation vendors...

Re: is it desirable?

And our specification creates a size-fits-all router that can be centrally managed and configured to suit a particular need.

Re: Apathy is the problem

>Twenty years ago I got to play with a company's newly-installed security camera system...

That's old school CCTV, where the cost of installation made it worthwhile installing a camera with good optics and (optical) zoom. It's what the police did with their camera poles.

Re: Apathy is the problem

>young teenage girls.

Given my teenagers and their friends, I'm a little surprised they haven't put lipstick or vaseline on the lense...

Re: Limits

> If I had one of these pointing at my front door I'd be contacting the owner and requesting to see proof it had been masked/excluded from recording and motion detection.

Unless things have changed, the masks effectively blocked off pixels, it didn't do anything with respect to focus. So given two doors directly opposite each other, masking the image region covering the opposite front door and its access would render the door camera practically pointless, although it would be able to show what shoes your caller was wearing.

Bet it won't be compatible with his next Telsa...

I wonder if Tesla owners upgrade as frequently as iPhone users...

Re: Disappointing news

>Mandarin isn't a script, you know. It's a spoken language

My bad, for not getting the right script language.

My thoughts weren't so much around the actual C code - although it is a relatively trival change to the compiler to change key words to alternative character sequences, but the comments describing the code and that the module would be buried on a Chinese version of GitHub on a Chinese website; so not unlikely to be locatable via a standard Google search by a typical US/Europe-based non-Chinese developer. Plus I suspect Richard Stallman never thought about such matters and simply assumed programming was only done in English.

Re: Upstream?

The full quote puts things into perspective.

"to provide basic services and the foundation for the establishment of an independent upstream."

So they have done the "simple" step and created their own distribution. This permits enlargement of the ecosystem in two directions, firstly it gives a target platform for downstream (Chinese) applications development, secondly, it gives a target from they can work backwards from and instead of taking (non-Chinese) upstream packages they can fork these packages and establish their own (ie. Chinese) expertise independent of the USA and its allies...

Given the size of China with respect to the USA and their ethos, I expect they will pull it off and some! Would not be surprised if within a few decades the maintainers of say gcc and llvm will start to take updates from China...

Yes a lot of heavy lifting, but if you are playing the long game, my bets are on China winning; unless the US, UK et al.go through a mindset change...

Re: Disappointing news

>These increased resources would make Debian improve a lot quicker

The wryly amusing thing, is that China could comply with the Debian licences by publishing modified source code on a Chinese website in Mandarin...

Re: Why should they have those master passwords?

>Why they had to tell those passwords were still safe

A concern has to be whether the source code extracted could provide details about LastPass's master password implementation that would facilitate an attack.

Re: "We're told that these master passwords are still safe"

Do they have internet in "The Colony"?

Re: Why should they have those master passwords?

>Because inevitably PEOPLE. WILL. ASK. THE. OBVIOUS. QUESTION.

And - given the number and level of security breaches to IT systems, where businesses haven't followed sensible security practices - rightly so.

and a non-US HQ'd password manager ...

Re: Witchhunt

>but I wonder how many working towards that aim have actually thought about being "unemployed" for 40+ years?

Particularly as I expect many IT people will still be mentally active and reasonably physically active for much of that.

BTW my figure of 40+ years is based on 25~30 years for me and a further ~10 years for my significant other who is a few years younger than me - who will receive 50% of my pension in that period.

You can see why final salary schemes were going to have difficulties due to people living longer, before the government aided in their demise.

That's a good thing - the neighbour can't accidentally spray my washing.

Re: Hmm

You mean I can change my water supplier and magically the water coming out of my tap will be sparkling and from Buxton Spa.

Re: Witchhunt

I expect one of th ereasons why pension providers have been reluctant to flex their muscle and influence boards, is that they have a conflict of interest, namely their bonuses (for both executives and investment managers) will be linked to the 'performance' of the underlying members investments.

Re: Just restore speed limits in driving mode please

I've found th eomission of the end of speed restriction signs to be quite common.

This last year I had cause to regularly use the M1-M25-M3 after 9pm when the overnight roadworks were happening, frequently they omitted the end of roadworks/speed restriction signs, with the result the first speed sign I encountered after roadworks on the M3 was when I exited the M1...

Re: Oh phew

n Android open Waze and in the middle of the first screen is a search box containing the text "Where to?", enter your destination, select a destination from the results list, this takes you to a map screen allowing you to confirm the location, if this is right touch the big blue button labelled "GO"...

Hence why I was thinking you were wanting a richer route setting interface - like you get in Google maps and other journey planning apps/websites.

Re: Oh phew

>I still hadn't found any way to enter a route, so I gave up.

It's not a route planner, you just enter your destination and Waze will give the option of a route or two.

As for the UI, yes it could be better, but that applies to many OS's and App's overly influenced by design school purists and their unthinking adherents...