Posts by Down not across

Re: Computer says NO

if only Win 10 had had same thing instead of sneaking in.

Re: Scamdox

You need a test 3days before arrival to the UK

Only if you're not double vaccinated. If you're vaccinated you don't need pre-flight test.

Re: Same energy

Workbench? Solder? Err..

On a more serious note. Only done it once. Learned from it.

Re: Back in the early 90's

Along with dBASE.

To think I used to run dBase II on CP/M machine, on floppies. And now we have clustered instaces hooked up to massive SANs with SSDs and tons of cache (or running on ExaData or something).

Ashton-Tate (or was it bought out by Borland then already, can't recall) did cock it up with dBase IV and hence dBase III was the last "usable" version.

Blessing in disguise perhaps

Ironic that so many critical flaws in the PSP. You would that is one bit where they would be extra vigilant.

Perhaps, that is a blessing in disguise and the flaws can be used to improve our security by offering a way to disable or at least effectively neutralize the abomination that it is.

Personally I think the concept of DST is a great one and I wish we went double during June. It's ridiculous how much gorgeous daylight is being wasted between 5am and 7am when it's little use to anyone. Shift it to the evening where we can all enjoy it :) (*)

Who is stopping you from getting up at 5am to enjoy daylight if that is what you want to do?

Re: Why?

You have software from a vendor that only supports commercial databases? SQL Server is lot cheaper than Oracle, and if you need one I would rather run it on Linux than windows. You might also have some Sybase databases that you can't get rid of in which case SQL Server license is likely to be again lot cheaper than new ASE license.

If "something else" is supported, then hell yeah it probably is better option.

Re: Another plotless hack'n'slash?

And FF XIV also has "jobs" where your "class" is based on the weapon you wield. So you can do everything with one character if you really want.

It is also possibly the most bug free MMO I have ever played (I am referring to the relaunched version after they pulled the oirignal and rewrote it)

Re: How does Signal fund itself?

[Interestingly, the support for the Signal Technology Foundation is apparently in the form of an interest-free loan (see page 31 of non-textual PDF), rather than a donation (thanks to Signal Technology Foundation article on Wikipedia for the link).]

I wonder if being a creditor, help shield the foundation from potentially hostile actions.

Re: Bodged rack mount server

I like SCSI. Mostly. As long as you don't accidentally mix LVD and HVD. Use of proper active terminators is a must. Internal termination (if offered) on most devices might work if if you only have couple of targets, but I'd avoid it and use decent terminator instead.

It can also get messy when it comes to the time to perform the obligatory sacrifices.

That's like asking: Does Ferrari do rock climbing? Jeep does.

Re: HP LaserJet 4

Service Manuals are available. other sources for the manual exist too.

LaserJet 4M is almost infinitely repairable.

More widespread than routers. Problem with too many (most?) web pages these days is they a make all kinds of assumptions (screen/font size) or worse and try to force things look exactly how they envision it instead allowing the browser to render it.

I suppose I better mow the lawn now...

Re: Obscurity

There is only one man who would dare give me the raspberry!

Lone Starr

Re: Keep POTS.

POTS is a fundamental piece of infrastructure. It works. It can't be hacked from the nether regions of the net.

I beg to differ. POTS was hacked before there even was any internet to speak of.

Re: Stupid idea

...thought of more of those in the sky and autonomous terrifies me.

Engine failure is terrifying, falling at 1800 feet a minute at 70 miles an hour. From a height of 1500 feet means things get ugly really quickly when training over a field. Revs go to low the blades fall off, go to high they explode. Imagine that for passengers with no pilot in a city. On something that can't auto-gyrate.

From the article:

Joby Aviation, founded in 2009, builds all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that it hopes will eventually each shuttle up to four passengers and a pilot at a time from A to B in the sky.

So dunno where you got the "no pilot" from.

I must've already killed my hands over the decades, as for me the thumb operated is excruciating, where as MX Master is actually quite comfortable to use. As is proper (read: old arcade style) trackball but those are somewhat harder to come by.

Re: Some learn, some don't

At a previous position, my task was to implement a shiny new Web Proxy at our European head office, which would service all our satellite offices around Europe. Since UK law appeared to mandate that we made an attempt to prevent in-workplace browsing of pr0n, a netnanny was also installed to filter the traffic.

Seen similar attempts. Didn't go down so well in mainland Europe where such blocking was not apparently legal. This was decades ago so things may have changed since.

Re: I like rockets.

I fondly remember when you could buy solid model rocket engines (along with rocket kits) easily. Did launch couple and was great fun and good learning experience.

These days you could do so much more with regards to sensors and telemetry, alas looks like engines are almost banned and whole thing wrapped in much bureaucracy. Yet any idiot is free to buy fireworks.

10Base2 taps

Of course, each time you added a new machine, you'd get different reflections from all the previous taps, and of course you also had to terminate the cable itself properly. The end result is that you'd add a new machine, and some random arbitrary pair of other machines might start having trouble communicating.

Hence the markings for vampire taps at 2.5m intervals so as to NOT have reflections in phase.

Re: Loss of the ability.....

Most importantly. Don't forget your towel.

Re: A BASE jumping error

Brexit has been done, complaining about it doesn't fix anything. BASE jumping is fun and makes you feel fantastic when you get it done and land without loosing consciousness or breaking an arm or leg - but a lot of the time it needs a hell of a lot of hard work to get it done - just jumping off the wireless mast, or cliff isn't easy a lot of times - and the pandemic just means the wind was blowing.

Pandemic masked the real impact.

Re: registration

It is simple: You legitimately registered your product right after purchase, verifying your immediate ownership. You now reported it as stolen, from the authorized registrar - we can brick it for you.

When you say "register", you mean subscribe to spam and additional tracking and exploitation?

How many people really register their TV, create a vendor account etc? I certainly never have, as the manufacturers have repeatedly proven not to be trusted, so why give them even more data to abuse.

Re: Pi Zero W

I've been trying to get hold of a stack of (7 or 8) CM3+ (or just CM3) and no luck. RS/Farnell have some potential future delivery dates but they look like they've been pulled out of a hat.

Re: Apple has learned a lot from China

I can't wait for the federal lawsuits that will be triggered by this moronic idea if Apple doesn't backtrack and forgets about it.

Cat's out of the bag. Would you believe Apple if it said it changed it mind?

I can see potentially lot of pressure from LE and/or governments now that Apple has dangled this "backdoor" into the "unbreakable" iDevices.

Re: Crap rolls down hill.

Easiest way around is just always ask for things in writing. Doesn't have to sound like CYA, just something like "Could you just drop it in an email so I have all the facts in one place" or something.

Re: A business opportunity

Do. Not. Give. Them. Ideas.

And I thought shoving down ads on your EPG for something you already paid for was bad enough...

Re: Ball crud

It required a specially patterned mouse pad - highly reflective with a very fine grid silkscreened on it

I don't recall a Logitech one, but Mouse Systems did make one and in fact Sun Microsystems Optical Mouse Type 4 was in fact rebranded Mouse Systems M-4. If my memory serves.

Re: Childcare

Quite. I recall considering a position in Sofia Antipolis but whilst Paris weighting was a thing, sadly no such was offered for Côte d'Azur which had similar inflated living costs.

Re: ambition comes at a price on the desktop

Well a lot of office workers need Teams and that is a right processor hog when you start videoconferencing.

FTFY

Re: Self defense?

That is my experience also. I tried couple RV series devices and they were the most unreliable and useless POS. Further research revealed numerous complaints on various forums (including Cisco's own) about issues and Cisco's total unwillingness to address any of them.

I learnt my lesson and will never touch Cisco's "Small Business" line ever again.

Back to the original point, I doubt they manage to stay up long enough for anyone to hack them.

Re: If he had just kept the tank

You'd hope so since he has 250kEUR fine to pay.

Re: A Good Lesson

HR is NOT there to protect the worker, it's there to try to cover up the crimes of the company. There's just no way the HR department wasn't fully aware of what was going on and they just chose to turn a blind eye.

Very much so. And even in lesser things HR is always totally on company's side. It didn't used to be like that. It all changed when Personnel became HR.

Yes, and Xbox is worse than that. If you want to replace/upgrade your disk you can't (well, not officially) unlike PS4 that just lets you format it, download and install system software from the web.

Re: "he had clearly accidentally fired off every possible debug command at once"

Cisco CLI is not immune to losing characters from the input if the system is busy and/or the buffer fills up.

What jumped at me in the story is that with such careful planning of what to do, why on earth not do undebug for the exact debug command you know you have executed earlier just to be safe.

Anyone with any experience in Cisco IOS, especially on a more heavily loaded device, would be acutely aware of its tendency to occasionally miss characters from input as it quite understandably prioritises shuffling packets to what is going on in the CLI.

Indeed. Thank you Dusty. I have seen several of their gigs (great gigs) and the records (perhaps music would be less indicative of medium since FLAC/MP3 will save on wear and tear on the original) will live on.

Re: Not as bad as I expected

I'm guessing that comment will have different connotations (for large part of readers) depending on which side of the pond you are. If in US I can see the "Eww", if in UK it might cause quizzical or blank stares.

Re: GPDPR

Yes, that is obviously very much intentional and intended to confuse the public which in itself is telling. Makes is rather obvious the whole thing nefarious rather than benevolent.

That's likely to depend on what is wrong with it. There is a good chance it may have some dry electrolytic caps (both PSU and motherboard).

Re: Forgive me for saying this...

Teams is awful. Work laptop takes forever to boot while Teams is wanking itself blind. Once you get to task manager and kill it off things progress bit better. Killing it off also makes running unplugged bit more viable.

Re: Dump

Same thing with re3 in Berks. I was hoping "Freedom day" would scrap those rules but no. And to make it worse re3 says not to book more than one appointment in a week. Whether that is enforced, I have yet to test. They also have ever changing ways to check if you're resident or not.

Its almost like they want people to fly tip... I wouldn't do that, but I could see how some people might when "doing the right thing" is made so difficult.