Posts by oldcoder

Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

It was BSD/SunOS... But as soon as MS bought hotmail it started to replace it with Windows. It just took them a LONG time and a lot of expense to do it.

Re: Why not try and burst it

North American...

That way the PTBs can shift velocity at the drop of a second... :-)

Re: Multiple points

Open source software is also about NOT HAVING IT STOLEN.

Without proper copyright, someone can take the open source code the SUE you for your own code (as in trade secrets violations).

Re: Fail

Did you forget South Africa? Kenya

Gambia

Sierra Leone

Nigeria

South West Africa

Basutoland

Swaziland

Bechuanaland

North Rhodesia

South Rhodesia

Nyasaland

Tanganyika

Zanzibar

Uganda

British Somaliland

Egypt

Just about 1/3 to 1/2 all Africa.

Re: "...angular velocity..."

Angular velocity decreases as the orbit gets larger... but to go from a low orbit to a higher one you need a larger angular velocity at the lower orbit to get there...

Re: Hopefully

Except for the fact that ALL of the "cloud" technology was developed on Linux.

Even Azure needs Linux just to operate...

Between 20% and 30% of Azure instances are also running Linux...

"do it yourself" doesn't explain why chromebooks have been selling better than Windows... (besides being cheaper as well).

Re: "a previously unknown, or “zero-day,” flaw in Adobe’s Flash software"

The real surprise is having a spreadsheet tool with access to flash...

But then, it is Windows... everything has access to everything - even from China.

Re: It costs more to write new software than to maintain old hardware

I think that is only for support.

If you already HAVE a license, I didn't think there was a charge...

Re: Probably cheaper

nope. They were ALREADY in the phone business.

Microsoft had WP6 doing decently if not spectacularly. Then came the 7/7.5/8 screwup promising upgrades - and not delivering. Then just dropping the customers.

This is just trying to buy a market again (like they did with Xbox - lost money there too- at about a billion/year for 8 years).

Just another case of more money than sense.

Re: What about Azure (and AWS for that matter)

Depends entirely on how much money you wave at them...

And given the poor security Windows has, just how many months/years will it take before they notice it has been taken over?

Re: People who live in glass houses...

IBM would be a good candidate... SQL? then on to Microsoft... :)

Re: The A380 is not ugly!

Liked the Air Force museum at Dayton...

I took my wife by to see some fantastic aircraft, and got her positioned at the B36 single tire feature (the tire was on its side).

She asked me where the tire was - and I said "Behind you". Still didn't see the tire... Until she saw the placard well around to her right.

She had thought the tire was a curved wall, and the almost 7' width of the tire prevented her from seeing it... She was all of 5' 1.

Too bad it is counted as a minor display, but it is the largest tire ever made for an aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker)

Even WITH two factor authentication... That ONLY works with a human.

Computer to computer communications and transactions can't use that. What happens is that the 2F authentication is used to get a secret key...

And once you get hold of that "secret key" you can do anything you want while that key is valid.

Re: Not Negotiable

Actually, it would appear that civilization wins...

It is the members of the governments that don't.

Re: Don't worry...

Even though the replacement windows won't fit...

Leak like a sieve...

Will be replaced without notice...

while still leaking like a sieve..

and contain an undocumented camera...

And cause frequent total failures.

Re: "Microsoft had already been determined to be a monopoly"

Not quite. Microsoft was first declared a monopoly in the US.

And that made it very simple to declare Microsoft a monopoly in the EU - as they were already declared one.

Re: What!!!

Exchange a good mail server? Scale?

You gotta be kidding. One lowly MIPS based server handled more email than 5 honking big exchange servers... and never crashed without a power failure.

Re: The feasibility of a PLC worm

That would require a rather long downtime...

And some/many facilities can't be down for more than 10-15 minutes for the entire plant.

This would be for those plants that have to deal with temperature sensitive materials... cool too long and you might have to replace the entire line of machines. FAR too expensive.

Re: Need a bl**dy long bit of wire

No, getting to geostationary orbit is only about 2/3 of the length of the elevator - the other 1/3 is beyond that and attached to a counterweight to the elevator closer than geostationary orbit.

And since anything beyond is going faster than orbital speed, it allows launches to anything outside without any additional expenditures.

Re: Don't see Intel succeeding at IoTs.

Never had to rebuild an SD card yet, and had quite a few power failures (every time I hang Kodi).

It is the filesystems that can get garbled - don't use Microsoft based filesystems if you can possibly avoid it (mounting read only helps).

Re: Raspberry Pi

I understand the P3 is a 64 bit system.

Shouldn't be any flames... unless you overclock it.

Re: Similarities?

not to mention that:

sing - also means give up information

bling - flashy glitzy fake worthless stuff

wing - and a prayer that it might fly...

ping - and it might have to be restarted

cling - as can't get rid of the trash (static cling anyone)

zing - what a clever insult is...

Re: What a criminal waste of helium

That is why most others don't do it. The cost of helium will rise.

Re: Maths v the Law

"We already do trust various parties with such things."

Actually, no. We don't. Since you are referring to PKI, it is only trusted to identify that the two parties in a conversation can accept that the conversation is private.

Either of the two parties may release that conversation... But not that a third party can listen in.

Re: Sad pretty much not being able to use the PC

There are more linux systems in the field than there are Windows systems... Yet Windows is still the most vulnerable.

Re: Stallman can change the GPS as welll...

Oracle sued Google over that.

And a HUGE amount of legal fees were the result.