Posts by HieronymusBloggs

Re: CBD will not make you high

Money for old rope.

"There is a ban on face coverings in Germany, unless it is for religious purposes, it seems."

I imagine that is very popular with welders, construction workers, surgeons, motorcyclists and those who don't like frostbitten faces in winter.

Re: As a practicing[0] guitarist ...

"iPad sound mixing desks are now common, and allow for on-the-fly sound mixing *from amongst the audience* - that is, the sound technician is hearing what the audience is hearing. "

That's why front-of-house mixing desks are usually placed in (or behind) the audience. I sometimes see iPads and the like used for setting up the initial calibration of sound systems, but have never seen such a thing used for a main mix in a gig of any real size. Maybe we attend different gigs.

"I have used OpenBSD mainly on firewalls for the past 13 years. Most recently installed 6.0 shortly after it came out, and the setup process was basically identical to what I remembered 13 years ago"

I only tried it briefly 10 years ago, but don't remember it being so easy to set up as a desktop system. With over 9000 packages available now, and a package management system that handles dependencies automatically it is not difficult.

It took me less time to set up a 6.2 desktop than it took to set up the Debian 9 equivalent. (Having said that, every new version of Debian seems to have more 'fashion-statement' stuff which I have to undo to make it usable).

Re: Ghostbusters

"Satisfaction GUARANTEED! Or your ghost back!"

That's the spirit.

Re: Your survey questions

"Ethical media should either avoid these so-called "surveys" or at least have a disclaimer that they have no scientific basis or significance whatsoever, have not been designed or reviewed by skilled and qualified statisticians, and are strictly for entertainment purposes."

Have you visited El Reg before?

Re: Exceptional access to WHICH governments?

"Here in the UK we have clueless twerps like May and Rudd involved. Those two understand nothing."

They understand how to patronise and sneer at techies who have the bad taste to point out the limits of reality.

Re: On the topic of ultrasound...

"Microphones can be designed to suppress ultrasound, but that either makes them bulky or expensive"

In many cases just using a heavier diaphragm in the microphone capsule would do the job (extra material cost close to zero). I suspect it's more a case of apathy than expense.

Re: Bye Bye

"...until whatever online banking sites you use stop working with it"

Not sure why that attracted downvotes. It's a constant source of irritation that no sooner do I get used to a particular browser than it stops working on some sites that I need to use.

Web developers seemingly can't resist the urge to "fix" things that aren't broken, breaking them for many people in the process. It appears to be some form of fashion statement. Banking sites are among the worst culprits.

Re: Congratulations

"never actually raised in the speech in Davos - namely anything to do with actual encryption or even secure communications"

She mentioned Telegram specifically. What aspect of that service other than encrypted communication would she have been referring to?

Re: JavaScript for Ads?

"then you have the issue that you end up downloading the same jQuery/Angular/Whatever todays framework is javascript file for every site you visit"

You almost make it sound like that stuff is necessary.

Re: I see the joke icon ...

"the Department of Calvados[0] has around 700,000 people in it"

Incider knowledge?

"the sheer hypocrisy here... "

I didn't notice any hypocrisy, as the situations are clearly different. I do notice the tendency of some commentards to take things entirely out of context in order to try and rationalise a personal dislike.

Re: A good start

"Did any of these solar panel installations get planning permission?"

That should be easy to check on your local council website, if you can resist the impulse (or programmed instruction) to post here for long enough to try that.

Re: Improbable

""As for 5V being too low to cause a current surge, have you ever used an arc welder?"

On a PCI bus ?

No."

DainB, no matter the rated current of a PSU, if there are large filter capacitors on the output it can supply many times the rated current while those capacitors discharge, even after any upstream short circuit protection has triggered. That is essentially how a spot welder works, so I'll stick to my welder analogy.

You have clearly been very lucky with all of your circuit prototyping. My experience has been quite different.

"Eat your own dog food, yankees."

I take it you're a Southerner.

Re: Why not just use KVM and oVirt?

"GNU userland has tended to be quite memory hungry compared to the BSD ones"

Good point, and one I overlooked when I made my previous comment.

Re: RE: Or is this what's meant by 'agile'

"If you don't get that, then you really need to discover what agile actually is - and then at least hate it with the added benefit of knowing why."

I suspect your joke detector may need adjusting.

"Plenty of terrorists benefiting from this handicapping of the security services."

Why is anyone bothering to downvote an obvious AI troll bot?

"So developers will turn to an OS which has a market share of around 1.5%"

What is this "market share" of which you speak?

And accepting for the sake of argument that "market" even applies to a largely free (as in beer) OS, whose hat was that 1.5% figure pulled from?

Re: Is Intel guilty of negligence?

"as long as those who needed to know (OS designers mostly) were kept informed"

Looking at recent posts on the OpenBSD and other *BSD mailing lists, this did not include *BSD developers. The whole thing smells bad.

"There was never water on Mars."

Citation please.

Re: a sealed box with no way of opening the bonnet and having a poke around ....

"s/bonnet/botnet/"

UK English: bonnet

US English: hood

"I've noticed that the commenters here on El Reg tend to be very resistant to change of any kind regardless of how useful the new feature might be."

It usually happens when the new "feature" is not actually useful to those resisting it (and may cause them a lot of pain into the bargain).

Re: Am I missing something?

"what was it before now?"

Knock out a quick Cobol or PL/1 program?