Posts by Down not across

Are we American? Shouldn't we at least use consistent sets of units?

Aviation uses feet for altitude. For rest of measurements to be in metric makes sense.

Of course they do. They have an agenda. They've been for decades trying to make IT chartered profession where they can have out of date, expensive certifications.

Must've been over 2 decades ago when I looked and was like how much? For what? Sod that...

With hindsight, yes they are irrelevant.

I'm the opposite, instead of losing 8-10 working hours per week on the commute to the client site I'm actually working so getting more done.

Considering how governments are all making their CO2 reduction policies and promises, you would think they would be heavily encouraging companied to promote WFH where possible to enable them to meet their targets.

WFH (for me anyway) is a win-win. I don't waste time sitting in traffic, I save money on fuel (increase in power and heating at home is not even close to costs of commute).

Companies stand to gain a lot of large proprotion WFH, as that is a lot less desks and associated power and heating/cooling needed.

Offices are not going to disappear, but would expect them to be a lot smaller and more hot desks/meeting rooms rather than traditional office space.

Some roles of course are less suitable for WFH and some people prefer to be in office.

Re: My Manager!

Even worse are conference calls for panics. People (mostly management) joining randomly all wanting to know status. Since they're all bored, they keep asking every 2 minutes "Are we there yet?"

More than once I have responded "I can either fix this, or answer the constant questions. Which one fo you want?" Generally results in deathly silence.

Re: It's been obvious for days

Oh, I know its not exactly perfect, and would be nice if there was an alternative.

My point was that if the visibiltiy that you are Signal user is a problem, there are ways around it as it doesn't have to be tied to you real phone number. Communication itself is secure and seems to work well. I still prefer it to anything coming from MZ. Haven't tried Telegram as I'm not a fan of home grown crypto.

Basic OBD II reader will not really help much other than possibly point in in generic direction of the fault.

Using my prior example of a BMW, INPA actually tells a lot more and shows how the generic codes can be misleading. INPA can be found with bit of searching and all you then need is 30-40 quid cable (assuming you have an old laptop).

Even cheap OBD scanners have come a long way and there are many that now support manufacturer specific protocols (beyond basic OBD) for not much money.

That is not to say that some kit still is not cheap, As an example Tech2 for GM (chinese clone) is not what I'd call cheap. However if you do intend to do work yourself it probably pays itself off first time you can avoid dealer.

There are also lot of good software via many forums dedicated to makes and models of vehicles where only thing you probably need to spend money on is a decent OBD cable (especially for programming you want one with decent UART, K-line support etc).

Re: Encrypted at rest

Backups should be for restoring the data in event of a problem to the primary, not because the deletion process was followed by mistake as the deletion process should have built in safeguards against mistakes.

Logical corruption, data loss (whether due to accidental deletion or otherwise) is problem at primary and DR won't help as the issues would have likely replicated to any secondaries.

In modern replicated DR environments backups are more to safeguard against logical rather than physical issues, as for physical issues you can fail over to a standby and then resolve issues in primary.

Re: Modern problems

So said brand recommends its own version of the LED bulb for that light that comes on when the door opens, so you don't run over Junior's electric buggy. The "interference free" recommended bulb, of course, is a bit more pricey than the one at the home centre.

I suppose its quite likely that there are differences in the quality of the drivers in the bulb. As an example most cheaper basic bulbs are not-dimmable (ie might take offense of tried to be dimmed with triac). A cheap bulb is likely to have fairly basic led driver which could potentially (not necessarily) cause issues/interference elsewhere in the mains circuit. A mains powered LED "bulb" is not just a bulb like old fashioned incandescent mains bulb.

Suggesting their own brand and own brand only does sound bit like money making exercise.

Re: Yet again ....

To use your arguments of people's use cases being different:

I don't have any need for 4KHDR, but I do like removable SD card for either to grab some media to take if I need to take a trip (not likely in near future obviously), to keep Keepass (or other) database on and to store normal photos (its quicker to just plug the microSD with SD adapter to almost anything that reads SD.

Note 7 was my last Samsung (and we all know how long that one lasted). I have since gone back to Nokia which seems to do decent enough, frequently updated Android phones with features I want and very little if any bloatware. As a bonus they're massively more affordable. Note 7 was pushing the price, current flagship prices are insane.

Re: 17 more years to go until 2038 kills 32 bits for good

I no longer use 32 bit computers myself since my last one, a former Media center XP laptop, died for real last year.

I still run various architectures down to 8-bit. Granted many of them don't run Linux nor are x86, but the stance that anything below 64-bit is "dead" is quite far from the truth.

Re: Lack of female managers in Indian companies

Was she an expert or a manager?

Seconded. I stil have some 170x and 300x knocking about somewhere. Used them with Brother HL-1260 and with LaserJet 4 before swappping to internal MIO.

Re: multipage .tiff files

Talking to Motherboard, Greenewald blasted the CIA for making it "INCREDIBLY difficult to use their records in a reasonable manner" due to the documents' "outdated" format (multipage .tif) and "text file outputs, largely unusable, that I think they intend to have people use as a 'search' tool. In my opinion, this... makes it very difficult for people to see the documents, and use them, for any research purpose."

Oh FFS. You got what you wanted and now you're complaining they didn't format it the way you wanted?

Not to mention multipage .tiff sounds about right for original scans so surely better than some other format. It is not exactly rocket science to convert formats.

Re: We beat you to it!

Even now we are floundering with a new set of regulations that we only finalised 5 days before they came into force. Well planned chaps.

What do you mean? It was easiest deal ever. Oven ready!

Re: Pirates on the Solarwinds

Anyone who believes that is a coincidence, I have this nice bridge for sale.

None of my Ubiquiti kit is dependent on cloud. I run the controller for APs locally, Edgerouter (when I was running it worked fine without any cloudy things).

Re: Best thing to happen...

html? What is this trickery you speak of?

I can't (and I know I am not) be the only one here who were quite happy to fetch (and server some of their own) via gopher, veronica. Yes, yes...I got my coat I'm going..

Re: @AC and @ Author Thank god

Fix the lighter.

Re: The beginnings of space industry, then ?

Space elevator would work quite nicely. If the orbital factory was large enough, it could possibly double as the counterweight.

Re: Praise Where and When Praise is Due.

MAD was widely avaible across Europe in most countries.

Re: But why?

"Why did the UK leave the EU?" "Here, there's a website that has several years of articles and commentary that represents many of the arguments used."

Whether you agree with the campaign or not it's historical evidence, so why not keep it? The domain name is itself part of that history, as well as a familiar reference.

So? All the history is in the wayback machine.

I really fail to see further need for the domain, unless they're worried someone else will repurpose the domain and make fun of them and/or rip apart the arguments.

Re: Dear Redmond

Got a flat tire.

Re: In context

It appears cutting the bloody grass is "essential/key work".

Yes, I'm sure other councils have probably even more ridiculous examples.

Re: Goldarnit

Depending on your use case and workload, it is definitely worth considering AMD if building a new machine.

Re: Cheap

That's a plausible theory but unfortunately one that can't be proven. For example, the market may end up with a different stratification, speed rather than ECC vs non-ECC.

I've done that for decades at home. Anything server-like I happily traded speed for reliability and chose slower memory but with ECC. For gaming rig, who cares if it crashes so opted for speed rather than ECC.

That's not to say if I could have my cake and eat it..

Re: What in the...

You obviously have not worked with multi-vendor environment where some flavours of RDBMS behave differently and it is easy to forget/omit things. In a predominantly Oracle shop with say few Sybase systems, there is a good chance for someone forgetting to explicitly start transaction with BEGIN TRAN given they are likely used to Oracle's implicit transactions.

Kinda besides the point.. for some situation yes there are mitigating options ava

ilable, and for some not.

Re: A hard lesson...

Colour me impressed. That is some dedication.

Back in previous life we had some customers bringing back dead drrives (why, yes of course Seagate (mostly ST-125/138 but some 5.25" versions also)) for warranty replacement.

In some cases disk were readable by borrowing logic board from a working drive. No, we were not recovery company nor was data recovery part of any official support, but if customer was pleasant and asked nicely I sometimes did give it a try.