Posts by Sandtitz

Re: Retro Progress

"I think you're wrong: the Shuttle was the worst. It killed more astronauts than the rest of the global space program"

Apples and oranges, man...

They could have said the same about Apollo program, since all manned Gemini and Mercury flights were successes and Apollo 1 crew perished in their pod.

Mercury was about putting an American on orbit before Russians. Russia won the race but was it a failure?

Shuttle killed more astronauts purely because there were 135 manned launches vs 28 on Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. There were 2 total loss disasters, 14 killed vs 1 total loss and 3 killed in Apollo 1. Shuttle put total of 833 crewmembers in space, vs 59 for the earlier programs.

Statistically the Shuttle was more safe than the earlier programs.

While each flight brought more or less scientific knowledge, the earlier programs were just about that. And planting a US flag in Moon of course. Shuttle hauled some very important telescopes and lab stuff there. And the also fixed Hubble at one point. How feasible would that have been with the earlier space vehicle design? (I don't know)

"Musk is more interested in space than he is in getting richer than he already is."

How do you know? He's already got enough money to live the rest of his life in opulence. Does he still make money or does he reject extra wealth and direct it to foundations or funds that are pro-space?

Re: And the rest @John Crisp

"Shame they don't shitcan stuff like pptp & l2tp/ipsec v1 and upgrade their encryption levels for ipsec v2 to something that governments can't spy on."

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

IKEv2 has been there since Windows 7. Windows offers a perfectly fine combination of encryption, key exchange and hash functions for VPNs or IPsec connections.

Yes, PPTP is useless, but please explain how L2TP/IPsec is shitcan stuff? Which vendor has dropped support for that?

Re: But........

Please name and shame. Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia, Lambo, Alfa, Maserati...?

good idea, except...

Unfortunately - for those of us who enjoy raspberry jam - you couldn't find any in the shops since it would be one more hoarded item.

Also, us legit buyers would need to don at least sunglasses and fake beard (or just Groucho glasses) before approaching the jam shelf. One might as well buy a whole 6-pack of toilet paper since you're already camouflaged.

Re: It's a little late for this pseudo-emergency ...

What, no moonshine?! Ain't ya living in the boondocks and everything?

Re: 'I say, my good man, could you tell me where the bathroom is?'

"Also: I have a voice controlled model Dalek and that only seems to understand me if I do my Captain Picard impersonation."

Shaved head, Picard Maneuver and everything? You could try Jar Jar Binks as well.

Re: Quasar tsunamis ...

Sampled into a great Orb track

ALT-V-Z-R ?

CTRL+0 has been used to reset zoom since ...I can't even remember.

My localized Firefox would use ALT-N-S-T anyway for the key combo you're after.

Re: Penny for a cup of tea, guv?

"If you have nothing, the barrier to work is pretty high. First you need to make yourself presentable. You'll need to have clean, smart clothes, which means you'll need to have somewhere to wash, which means you'll need to have somewhere to live, which means you'll need a job..."

Exactly.

There's a film I remember seeing from 30 years ago with that exact plot. A young druggie wants to get clean and is promised job in a restaurant but his bare feet need to be covered. The quest for footwear thus begins.

Re: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science

Wouldn't just ORC be a great name for this...beast?

I had an Orchid EGA adapter about 35 years ago. It's too early to re-use the name.

Re: 3.6Mb download, copy, paste, read

Google Translate? Good Heavens, no!

This sort of document needs to be translated with Baidu Translate!

Re: Adam Sandler...

Punch-Drunk Love is a very good film.

Despite of Adam Richard Sandler.

Re: If FTP is disliked what about TFTP ??

"Some items still use TFTP (basically a simplified FTP without usernames or passwords) for booting."

What's TFTP got to do with Chrome or other web browsers?

A number of websites still allow FTP access as for non-confidential files it has a lower overhead than HTTP or HTTPS.

While my web browser FTP usage is pretty low these days, I don't understand what Google gains here by removing the minuscule FTP code portion from the Chromium tree. FTP is a stable, well understood simple protocol. The code probably is quite free of errors and likely requires very little housekeeping between versions.

Can I live without FTP on a browser? Probably.

Re: "turbo" button that didn't do anything.

"Actually, on my 286 the turbo button did work. I had to turn it off to play a submarine game, because at the higher speed the game became unplayable... IIRC it was "overcloking" the CPU from 10-12Mhz to 16...."

You were playing GATO? One of the first games I played on PC and thought it was fugly as hell with the crappy CGA graphics compared to my C64 version. A nice simple game, but 688 Attack Sub a couple years later totally trounced it, both in gameplay and graphics. (and I still play 688 every now and then on Dosbox).

Turbo on actually meant the CPU was running on its normal full speed and turning turbo off just reduced the MHz on the CPU somewhat.

Re: Yet another company killed by intel

"I can't remember that last company Intel acquired that actually sold a chip."

Intel (Infineon) XMM cellular modems are used by all laptop manufacturers. My laptop got one.

I'm not well versed on Intel acquisitions, I don't know how many hardware companies they've bought, except fo C&T, which 20-odd years ago was the basis for their graphics division and probably still lives in their GPUs. (in a shoulder-of-giants kind of way)

"Now if your a startup trying to sell your company and don't mind seeing your work destroyed after they give you hundreds of millions, then you gotta love them."

Intel reportedly paid about $400M for a company without any products and with <50 people working for it. I'd be happy to cash in unless I knew the company was worth more than that. Perhaps the original owners thought the same, or perhaps they were running out of money and Intel was their last resort, who knows.

The article states that Nervana under Intel was still led by its co-founder. Despite Intel's massive resources they couldn't ship a product. Perhaps the product design was faulty from the beginning, or required still unavailable technology, or the co-founder didn't have the skill to lead the project to fruition.

Icon for poor grammar.

"Microsoft have the key tied to your Microsoft account?"

The article is about EFS. You're talking about Bitlocker.

Bitlocker encrypts whole drives whereas EFS can be used by any user to encrypt their own files and folders, whether Bitlocker is in use or not.

When enabling Bitlocker you need to either print the the key, or save it into a file on an external drive or into MS account if you have one. Azure users also have an option to save it to their Azure account. Bitlocker won't proceed further until the decryption key is printed or saved.

EFS instead prompts to export the PKCS file when the user first encrypts files, but it is not uploaded anywhere, and saving it is not mandatory.

Re: Costing HP a lot of money this.

"Apparently at least 35ml of Magenta each day per lawyer"

I'd prefer 35ml of CYANide per lawyer.

(yes, some IT declined clients have actually ordered for 'cyanide' toners without any irony)

"That means that the Nokia 9000 or later would have been available"

Damn right.

Somehow it was always ony the CEO who had the latest Nokia Communicators, the minions who could have actually used it to productive work... never.

Re: Noise

"So, how much noise from the cooling system, when it's under full load? Any numbers anywhere?"

Did you read the article?

The device is in development phase and ready for the markets in Christmas 2020. They may still change the externals or some of the innards, including cooling.

From the article: "Spencer says is no louder than the Xbox One X."