Posts by Paul

if Chrome starts blocking effective use of Ghostery, I will be looking for a new browser. f*ck 'em.

do they really think if they won't sell it to an overtly government agency, that the government will simply buy it and use it through some other channel?

EBay listings reveal longevity of the oculus go

There are many eBay listings for the Go, of which a large proportion say the item is in mind condition, boxed with plastic film still on.. I.e. hours of use.

This suggests that the novelty wears off very quickly, or it's cumbersome or uncomfortable etc.

Whether the oculus quest will fare and better is another story.

Toothless ofcom, why wasn't it a GDPR violation?

If this was declared a gdpr violation, couldn't the ICO fine the perps a lot more money?

Don't patronize your readership

Dear The Register,

You don't have to explain, and get it wrong, by conflating FTTP with broadband, in a lame attempt to tell us that fttp is an internet connection.

"Connecting to the Galileo system should be a no-brainer"

You don't connect to GPS or Galileo satellites, you don't "talk" to them, as the article says. You listen passively, and use the incredibly accurate time information they give to work out your location.

Lenovo or ZUK phones with exynos?

There have been lots of stories and rumours that Lenovo, or their sub-brand Zuk, would produce a phone with an Exynos chip inside, but I couldn't find evidence of any going into production and mass market.

Does anyone know of one?

If your internet connection is important to you, you should have a backup circuit.

I have a Zen primary circuit and a cheap crappy Plusnet secondary and automatic failover, its not rocket science.

Stop whining when your only provider goes down and you're too cheap to pay for a backup service.

Given the republicans are rolling back much of the legislation that controls companies, they can't really complain when those companies do whatever they want.

Banking protections rolled back.

Asbestos restrictions rolled back.

Internet neutrality rolled back.

risc-v fears?

I agree that risc-v must be making Arm fearful of losing sales, offering these designs isn't something they'd do normally

Microsoft Presentation about their journey to IPv6 on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvaqpW4vLA

Apple will doubtless pay the fine and continue...

Apple will doubtless pay the fine and continue to milk the lucrative market for proprietary lightning port: cables, chargers, docks, headphones, etc.

Wine for Linux

I would much rather Microsoft submit code, under the GPL, to the Wine project, so that it becomes more reliable to run windows applications on Linux.

I only boot windows for the third party applications, I have no interest in booting windows to get windows.

I failed to train my replacement

I was leaving a company which was cutting nearly half its staff as it was running out of money.

I showed the putative replacement the web control panel for the firewall whilst his boss observed. I made no attempt to explain in detail, just quickly shipped showed the key configurations like the vpn tunnels to explain which was which. There was a look of panic, and they asked whether all that was voodoo magic, but I said it was just everyday stuff, anyone should be able to do it.

They went off into a huddle. For the first time, the management realised my job wasn't trivial and maybe they couldn't find a cheap graduate to do it.

"There is also a more water concentrations"

"There is also a more water concentrations"

yuck!

have a play with Jukedeck which allows you to make longer pieces and choose a style.

shameless referrer whoring:

https://www.jukedeck.com/make?invite=ccd596dc5f8a20be9546d12dea7d9716715cbd499227297fb815356c204caa14

OK, so you need 6kg of plutonium, that sounds a lot?

The snag is that Pu is very very dense. 6kg is just under a third of a litre, actually 302cm^3

Suddenly, the prospect of a hand-portable nuke doesn't seem so unrealistic :-(

using my Gemini right now

using my Gemini right now

I reflashed over the weekend to triple boot android, debian and sailfish.

it was fairly easy. the only downside is I had to wipe android and I was too lazy to back up everything, but then I'd not invested too much time setting it up.

I've found that at best HT gives you 30% added processing power than one core.

When hosting VMs on linus, I'm careful to allocate virtual core siblings together to get some benefit from ht.

The competition from AMD's ryzen has finally forced Intel to start shipping complete cores in desktop and laptop processors again which is great.

secure for everybody, or secure for nobody

How often do we need to tell governments this...

repeat after me: communications are secure for everybody, or secure for nobody

in some countries it's illegal to use a VPN service with severe criminal penalties. It can also be illegal to use VOIP services, including Skype.

Be sure to check before visiting countries in the middle east, but really, check for any country you intend to visit for any specific laws on internet use, whether you'd consider the use normal (vpn to work, cloud services, instant messaging and VOIP) as well as ahem personal (pr0n, movies, chat, social media).

I'd be happy with a full VDSL2/2+ 80Mb/s speed, but a long phone line means I can't even get the full 40Megabits/s lower tier, and my upload speed is just 5.5Megabits/second :-(

Needless to say, there's nothing that can be done, as Openreach won't deploy a closer cabinet, so that's as good as it's likely to get. Although the exchange has been unbundled, there's no competition for the last mile, and there's no virgin media service in the area either.

I recommend people have a play and build a TVHeadend server.

* listen/watch live

* set up timed recordinds

* keep your recordings indefinitely

* transcode recordings to other formats

* install minidlna and stream recordings across your LAN to various devices which support DLNA

* install Samba and make available over file shares for laptops and desktops

* set up a tool which scans directories and makes a podcast feed and then you can take your recordings with you on your phone/tablet etc.

of course, don't do any of the above if it will violate copyright. ahem.

El Reg missed a trick, the headline could have been

Xiaomi The Way To Google Home

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_the_Way_to_Go_Home

It's US$250 st Bestbuy in the USA, and £250 in the UK, which even after accounting for sales tax in the USA, means a hefty markup!

This article also failed to mention it's made by Xiaomi, so I imagine in due course when the exclusivity contacts lapse, you'll be able to buy one without the Facebook branding and spyware.