I feel happy and sad at the same time :)
Posts by rsole
76 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Aug 2015
Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
Open-source RAW image editor Darktable releases major update to version 3.6 – and it's very accessible
NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design
Re: No, sorry.
I don't really agree with this basis of uniqueness. The instructions are not a physical thing and therefore are either unique or not as the case may be. The number of and type of atoms are irrelevent. Or maybe as some others have suggested this is my unique perspective - which I doubt.
The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop
Raspberry Pi goes 2GB for the price of 1GB in honour of mini-computer's eighth birthday
Re: Better options
At first I thought you were being sarcastic but now I am not so sure.
There is no need for a disc or an external USB hub with a Raspberry Pi 4.
I admit that a case is desirable, but which one :) the joys of choice.
As for an Atom outperforming a an Arm, possibly but what is the issue?
We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...
It woz The Reg wot won it! Big Blue iron relics make it back to Blighty
Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon
Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?
Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras
I'm not Boeing anywhere near that: Coder whizz heads off jumbo-sized maintenance snafu
Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please
MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps
Finally! A solution to 42 – the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything
RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81
Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out
City-obliterating asteroid screamed past Earth the other night – and boffins only clocked it just 26 hours beforehand
Tesla’s Autopilot losing track of devs crashing out of 'leccy car maker
Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?
One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space
Cooksie is *bam-bam* iGlad all over: Folk are actually buying Apple's fondleslabs again
WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet
Intel budges Samsung out of its seat at the top of silicon-slinger league
I think it could be argued that it will benefit Intel as they are no longer throwing money at a loss maker and diverting attention from the crown jewels. In the long term Apple will probably move on but at the moment they have removed the option of what has essentially been a bargaining tool and confronted the reality that they are not yet ready to replace Intel or Qualcomm. The real surprise to me as they took so long to confront this reality.
Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog
Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years
Apple redesigns wireless AirPower charger to be world's smallest, thinnest, lightest, cheapest, invisible... OK, it doesn't exist anymore
Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes
Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON
Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here
Re: Why Linux on Apple Hardware?
The same reason you may want to run Linux or any operating system on any hardware, the software. It may also be something you want to do to extend the life of older hardware that is no longer supported by Apple.
Also, If the data on the drive is encrypted then you effectively prevent access without the decryption key so why stop it being booted? Maybe someone else can enlighten me.
Further to this, if you can turn off secure boot and install and run Linux, then where is the issue. It then becomes like any other computer with no secure boot running.
What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++
Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory
Oz sports’ pee-samplers outed buying Cellebrite phone-crack kit
Hubble sharpens measurement of distance to ancient cluster
Leaning tower of NASA receives last big arm
It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?
Re: Dates
I would have thought that DD MMM YYYY was decreasing significance, as you are most likely to want to know the day followed by the month and finally the year. say someone said the Date, then they can usually assume the month and year, and if they append the month they can usually assume the year.
US Army warns of the potential dangers of swarming toy drones on US soldiers
Level 5 driverless cars by 2021 can be done, say Brit industry folk
American upstart seeks hotshot guinea pig for Concorde-a-like airliner
OK, we admit it. Under the hood, the iPhone X is a feat of engineering
Re: "they've missed the more human advancements and ergonomics"
There's no reason Linux or Unix users should not also like Apple or Android, this is not a mutually exclusive club; they are all based on the same underlying software. I use all the above and Windows. Fundamentally they all have advantages and disadvantages and there are cases where one is more appropriate than another. Having and making choices is always better than having none.
Just because I drive one car does not mean I cannot appreciate another, even though I may not choose to own it. If you cannot appreciate the good aspects of one thing without choosing to like it then you are just being narrow minded or obstinate, every thing is a balance and your own personal biases will influence your decisions but do not make them right or wrong.
Birds are pecking apart Australia's national broadband network
Raspberry Pi burning up? Microsoft's recipe can save it and AI
Re: What you really want is...
I really have to take issue with the Peltier coolers being unreliable statement; they are used extensively for Astrophotography cameras where they cool the sensor to -40 to -80 below ambient and they are accurate and very reliable, I have rarely heard of one failing.
'Open sesame'... Subaru key fobs vulnerable, says engineer
Dumb bug of the week: Apple's macOS reveals your encrypted drive's password in the hint box
Re: That's not even wrong
As they said, it's a bug, they intended to store the hint but stored the password. The real password is not in free text.
This has to go down in history as one of the silliest bugs I have ever seen, if it wasn't so serious.
Bug of the week - I think not - maybe bug of the year.