Posts by John Tserkezis

Re: Uploads

"I suspect one of the limiting factors for unlimited space usage is upload bandwidth."

I don't think it's going to matter, that is, "all you can eat" deals are designed to give you more than you could possibly eat, with the attraction of "unlimited" being a mere drawcard, not an actual offer.

I did some sums some time back when the backup to cloud issue came up with an aquaintance who thought it a great idea.

I worked out, with my current ISP, it would take about a year to get what I have now up there. That's based on my actual speed upload bandwidth (about 14Kb/s), my actual allowed longer term upload bandwidth (half of the max speed they give me), and my total data (about 7.5Tb or so), and the fact, I will not have my full upload bandwidth capability available for general use for the next year (or, assuming I don't piss off my ISP in the meantime...),

Sending them a few drives would be a better proposition. Many cloud storage services offer this as a service, I'm willing to bet one of them is not Microsoft for this particular product.

Ergo, you'll never eat what they're "selling".

Re: 3 sales problems

CFL bulbs. LED bulbs (unless I'm mistaken) do use even less power

Even to this day, I'm stunned as to how much importance people place power consumption on lighting. Big things first, small things last, and lighting is a small thing - especially when they still use bar heaters.

Competition. LEDs themselves are not expensive to manufacture

Chinese LEDs are cheap because they're cheap in every sense. They're crap. That's why.

CFL bulbs tend to overheat in certain enclosures

LEDs have the same problem. They are also run harder and hotter to get the most light out, at a cost of life (even if it still is decades). Put them in a tight enclosure, and you're going to kill (or at least degrade) them, even faster.

Re: @werdsmith

"Buying a physical CD also requires putting on pants then driving to a Westfield"

Around my area, for some people at least, pants are no obstacle to going shopping.

Re: Tired of fake sh1t

"I don't know why it's so difficult to fake these chips."

It's in the results. FTDI gear works, cheap chinese crap doesn't.

I've bashed my head against the wall on the cheap stuff enough, and I'm entirely over it. For every example of "It works fine for me" I can site a number of examples that don't.

"...somewhere between $.60 to $3.00 depending on quality. That'd put a crimp in your online viewing."

That would sound like standard Australian gouging, er, pricing.

"Unless they've managed to guarantee their own existance for the rest of time, then any data they collect will only be retained for a "limited period of time". Limited by the heat death of the universe."

Or untill Wisper goes bust, and they sell their faithfully-stored data to a third party, where all the original T&Cs no longer apply... Happens all the time.

Re: i.amPULS

"Just a rapperist way of saying "I am a bean" (or "I am a lentil")..."

Is that a way of saying you fart a lot?

Re: Idiots, morons and dickheads!

"And the biggest laugh is that if an Australian publication had written this article the writer could go to jail for up to ten years for bringing these bungling fools into self inflicted disrepute"

Apparently not. Fairfax reports this:

ASIO accidentally spies on itself.

"Automated takedowns are the cancer that is killing YouTube."

Or, YouTube is the cancer that is killing YouTube.

Re: Removable battery?

"Very true, you need to keep a battery like that indoors during the winter as the cold weather will damage it I think."

It won't damage it, but it'll retard performance.

Re: Google has since promised to do something similar with Android smartphones.

"It ensures that you get 5years unless you hand the password over to the plod."

Sometimes, the perps see this as a best of a bad situation. Especially if they're looking at more than a mere 5 years in the event the plods find out exactly how far and wide the illegal activity has gone.

"Marketing Droids get put on hold"

When I'm in the mood, I say "Yes! I *am* interested - tell me all about it!" then put the phone down and walk way.

Re: Calm down girls...

"Really, it's not that easy to get it approved."

Bollocks. If you can convince the holders of the data you have an endless supply of dump trucks full of money, they will bend over backwards to help you.

If you're Joe Smuck off the street, no-one cares.

Re: "However, from what we know about human behaviour"

We had one of our guys bring in his VCR to repair (not the type of thing we normally worked on), we plugged it into the only composite monitors we had there, monochrome green screens. It would serve the purpose well enough in any case.

However, the only tape that was available at that time to test it, was a porno.

In the middle of "testing" the boss looks over our shoulders, and said "As long as it's not a blue movie, that's allright".

Re: Apple invented nothing

"So a fake prop from a sci fi show consists of prior art in your world?

They count every bit as much as all those bullshit patents of things that have allready been invented, but still legally belong to the new owners because they haven't been documented within the US borked patent system before.

You know, like the "wheel", and "curved corners".

Re: Programming is wasted...

"Programming is wasted... ... on the Ozzie's,

Remember when you were in maths class? Were you paying attention? No?

We were, and that boomerang trajectory is aimed at you.

Yep, look up. No, the other way. Oops, too late.

Re: 6GB download?

"I think the take up will be slow until 8.1 appears and resolves these issues."

After what happened to Microsoft that number is jinxed, I'm thinking the next will be 10. And they'll claim they thought of it first too.

Re: U2 and apple

"So why is he wanting to even be seen close to Apple"

Because he wants more money, and world peace doesn't put bread on the table, or gold plate on the hubcaps - whatever floats your boat.

Re: Coming to a kitchen near you

"I think my fridge has got a mole, a rat, a trojan and a virus. is there an anti malware suite to cover it?"

Perhaps, but what is more likely to happen is your internet connected fridge will advertise to you, whatever Anti-virus brand is affiliated with your fridge brand.

And because it's a locked-down applicance, there will be no way for you to turn the ads off.

Be careful what you wish for...

Re: Alternatively

"And this complicated chain of events is something you say it happens often, or what's the point?"

If your phone was stolen, and you had remote bork capability, would you bargain on the odds the thief gets caught and your data is used as evidence to incriminate them? Really?

It's always safer to bork first, ask questions later.

"App is a free download, Google can be arses sometimes, world still spinning etc etc"

Google are always arses about it, but they needn't be.

We've dealt with Organisational name clashes before, Send letter outlining situation, other side changes name, no downtime, no stress, no fuss, everyone happy. Well, reasonably happy at least.

Google's shoot first ask questions later pylosophy needs to be fined tuned a bit. That said, Apple can be worse, they'll pass you first, then unceromoniously kill you off later.

Re: Shock news. Startup pins whole business plan on single big order and gets screwed.

Agreed, but this looks worse for GT than it does for Apple.

Remember GT signed off on those "oppressive and burdensome terms and obligations". Even if they were "oppressive and burdensome", the time to complain is BEFORE you sign.

Re: Just a thought...

"And when the crying starts, remind them they are there to work, not play, and the browser is used for far more play than work in most settings..."

It's almost as if you've never actually seen anyone do work.

Re: Meh.

"there is nothing for the home hobbyist; you have to choose either from the small home solution or the more expensive (per HDD hosted) enterprise solution."

What you want is cheap and good at the same time. Face facts, you're not going to get it.

There is good reason why you either can't, or are not allowed to use desktop drives in arrays. They're not suited to the puprose, especially in RAID arrays. Quality and reliability issues aside, there are behaivoural reasons on what desktop drives do, that is not suitable within an array. They are designed to behave that way, because it suits a desktop environment. This contrasts with RAID arrays that can appear to "randomly" fall over, when you test, and see, there was "nothing wrong" with the drive. Not only that, some behaviours that protect the drive under desktop conditions, can cause the drive to "self destruct" under array conditions.

You do have some options, such as the WD Red drives. They are physically Green drives (bottom of the barrel desktops), with firmware changes that make it suitable for use within an array. So they won't randomly fall over and still pretend to be OK, but they are ARE shit drives, so will fail (catastrophically) statistically earlier. But given the price, they're plenty good enough for cheap not-so-critical mass data applications.

Enterprise drives are more than just drives that have the word "enterprise" stampted on it. They ARE better, faster, higher quality, more reliable, and because of all that, more expensive.

You're going to have to deal with it: Better products cost more, crappy products cost less. There's more to this of course, where choosing a drive for any given array is not like choosing a tyre for a car, it's more complicated, and there are many more issues to look at. And yes, price is one of those.

Re: Fat luck on the recording

"Record all calls yourself and let the courts sort it out. At the very least, the court of public opinion and the company's PR spin. Notifying the agent that you are recording will likely result in them terminating the call under the guise of not having the authority to consent."

This can be a very bad move. In some juristictions, if you record a telephone conversation without the legally required consent, and the other side finds out, they will use it against you. You'll find out real quick how the wiretap laws work, and rest assured, you're not going to like them.

In the event they hang up, this could be good for you. You can (with your documented recordings!) prove that THEY refused to negotiate with you, not the other way around. It may become a separate case, but their business is entirely based around law and leverage. You CAN use it to your advantage, instead of theirs. Remember, they want you to get fed up and go away, because it becomes their advantage.

Re: really...Microsoft...

... and irritatingly, they don't usually tell you in advance.

More irritatingly still, when you get password "set" routines that allow you to go past the character limit, with the password "test" routine that observes limits - so your new password will never pass again.

Your only option is to factory reset and start again from scratch.

F**k you TP-Link. F**k you, and the horse you rode on.