Posts by The Specialist

Re: I wonder why?

Yes, I recently jumped in that pool (again) - now that I do get to work from home a lot longer than initially planned.

I am using OpenBSD for servers facing the enemy and FreeBSD for the rest.

Re: The great, the good, and the ugly

We have our Secretary of State for the Home Department in UK behaving the same way.

Re: Good & Bad

No it wouldn't work fine if you are running a proper firewall.

I expect the rapists and molesters get convicted here in courts where the crime took place, be Her Majesty's guest for a period then upon completing their sentence, got deported!

Re: In all seriousness, though...

Step this way sir:

https://www.home-assistant.io/

Re: criminalising the flying of any drone within three miles of a licensed aerodrome.

Do we get to keep our taxes inside M25 as well? Then you have a deal.

Re: 41 good, 44 bad?

There is the "small" matter of GFA - which states along the lines of there shall not be a hard border in Ireland. Are we to renegate on our word?

Re: does this affect more aircraft than the ill fated 737 max?

Here is a very comprehensive write up on the source of the issue specific to this aircraft:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

Re: @I M Grumby

Sir, on one hand you acknowledge

"war is hell and civilians do get maimed and/or killed when you live in a combat zone"

and next

"released operational details that did get servicemen killed"

Which is it?

What is good for goose good for gander I'd have thought. War is hell - I agree..

Re: Apple PSUs are a rubbish design.

Or use a stick of SUGRU next time you repair it. Job's done.

Re: What possible delay?

Indeed, and should it were binding, the courts would throw away the results and ask for a fresh referendum due to "alleged" foreign influence and irregularities.

Re: And another thing.....

If I were you, I would have gotten the PAC code, move to another service provider (ege. Voda) PAYG porting my number, and await for BlackFriday / Xmas sales then get my PAC code and join EE again at a tarif of my liking.

Oh, I just remembered, that's what I did :)

Re: When someone bad mouths you--what do you think?

@Aaodhhan

"For those who think America believes it pushes their will upon other nations and has double standards"

They all that sir, it is just US is brazen about it.

How else would you justify US imposing embargoes to other nations without the support of UN and threatening any nations / corporations if they choose not to take your advise even if they have no business interests in US nor use USD as payment?

Old adage was speak softly carry a big stick. Nowadays, US policy is to shout from roof tops and threaten.

Re: Facebook are appealing?

No, they put the "e" in the wrong word.

Re: Nothing beats them

"And they're surprisingly useful for beating uncooperative equipment into submission."

Ah, re-percussive maintenance - used to be one of my favourite way of fixing faults when I used to don hw engineer hat.

Re: Got Linux?

@JimmyPage

> The problem is, if you want to use an @hotmail.com email address (I've had mine since 1997 - it's myname@hotmail.com...

I used to have similar setup back then and I decided to own my own domain (surname.co.uk and several variation of TLD since) for just a few bobs and initially diverted my email traffic to "free" services until I learnt how to run my own / use hosting services. This way, my email address never changes irrespective of who / where I choose to host my email data.

There's a sucker born every minute?

@AC

> My watch only needs recharging about every three years with a new battery @ £3.

And one of my watches never needs recharging, and another needs sunshine for recharging. Does that mean your watch is cr@p and you have to buy the watch I have?

Does your watch allow you to take phone calls / listen to music / send sms etc etc?

Please stop rubbishing people's life style choices.

Believe it or not some people have disposable incomes and they like new pioneering technology and it is their choice alone how they spend their hard earned money.

I sometimes buy things because "I *want*" not "I need".

Re: And all we can do...

Imagine you are on the ledge of a cliff, 100m below you is the ocean with and at the bottom of it is full of rocks (you don't know how deep is the water) and may be laser shooting sharks.

The crowd gathered around you and 52% of them are baiting you to jump.

Would you?

On a second note, ironically, the people who are going to be most effected negatively are the ones who wants BREXIT. Although I have voted to remain, I say let them have it - because "I'm alright Jack" I can and will go where my job is going.

>the number of transactions are far too many for the typical user to be able to identify when they get their statement.

I do not know your definition of "typical user" but I get notifications whenever there is a charge to my card - be it via web, contactless (card / phone) or via entering the pin. I use my card for almost everything.

Re: This:

Good thinking but wrong. The interest accrued will also be paid to the escrow account.

If the funds eventually transfer to Irish Govm't does that mean EU will get some of the money back as the GDP for Ireland will have been different? Also, will that reduce the burdens on the other states contributing to EU coffers and if so, will they take that into account should UK finally severs the ties with them?

Yay! Gonna be difficult to unravel that clusterf**k.

Re: So that means...

> I would be very happy with 50Gb (bit) for £20 but slightly less so for 40GB (Byte).

Are you sure you have your bits and bytes the right way?

Re: TL;DR

>The fall in value of the pound is indeed a good thing.

This is true if only you sell more than you buy using USD. If you are buying your energy / medicine / industrial products and paying them in USD then how does £1 buy fewer $s than what it used to is a good thing?

Re: Or...

"Oh, and don't use 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.* for your internal network.". Curious. Why these 2 address ranges but not any other RFC1918 addresses?

Re: 3 did it in desperation

Or sometimes, one of the "big guys" buys the underdog and business is back to "normal".

Re: The important question

My guess is: R for reduced or redacted (as in features)

Re: Been looking for decent/affordable PoE for years, this looks interesting

Does it support 1Gb?

Re: excuse me!

Resetting to "factory default" ¬= Version downgrade.