Posts by Will Godfrey

An ancient memory

This layer upon layer problem reminds me of when I was a kid, and dad was redecorating a room in our Victorian semi. There were multiple layers of wallpaper, some of which had also been varnished or painted, so dad decided to strip the lot off. This took the entire family days to achieve, and when completed revealed a strange crack in the plaster. Yours truly started poking around, and a large lump came away. Rather than getting a mouthful of abuse, noticed dad had gone very pale and silent - all the layers of crap had hidden rampant dry rot!

Incredible!

A regulator actually standing up to a mega-corp.

Santa really does exist then :)

P.S. Why hasn't the vulture got snow on its beak like it had in years gone past|?

Not a commercial system but...

A friend's audio server running on debian some time back when he decided to do an upgrade. Suddenly nothing worked except various (unwanted) audio cues.

I talked him through deleting the pulse audio {spit} server. A reboot and all was sweetness and li ^H^H sound.

What's the catch?

BOFH has Boss by the short and curlies... but lets him go.

Trust free zone

That's how this comes over to me. I can think of several ways this could be abused - and I know virtually nothing about chip design.

Then there's this:

Voyager

When is a crim not a crim?

It seems the dividing line between crimCorp and bigCorp is getting steadily harder to find .

Interesting

2 days of objections from us commentards, and not a word of explanation or justification from the author

They wouldn't say?

So they did pay then.

Beginning of the end?

Considering what seems to happen to just about every other successful business when it goes public, I'm not exactly delighted to see this move.

Not a surprise

In my experience, any minimalist hardware quickly becomes more expensive than the full fat kit, when you add on all the optional extras that turn out not to be so optional!

One ocassion where I really REALLY wish I was wrong

I said right along that this sort of thing would rapidly follow Brexit, and the family said I was being melodramtic.

'twould be a disaster

...for real-time multi-thread work, so I suppose that would suit a phone - just not a very smart one.

Fingers crossed

That's all.

Not again!

Look guys, I'm getting pretty sick of popcorn now.

Glad I'm out of it

.. but sorry for those just entering the job market.

I've had good jobs and bad jobs (mostly good) but in every case all my contacts with manglement were direct with real people. In one particular case very many years ago I was in a situation where I simply didn't fit in. I was able to go and talk to the boss, and after a short discussion, I resigned rather than try and bluff it out. In those days you could get meaningful references, and the one I got from him was brilliant.

All of this has gone, or is rapidly disappearing from the most mundane to the highly skilled placements. Artificial (lack of) Intelligence is accelerating the process dangerously.

Spiralling round the plughole

So rather than be competitive, the USA has decided to follow the UK's lead. Not prepared to put effort into the actual design of this kit, and not using stuff that actually works and is affordable, but hey, the rich kids are doing fine.

Hmmm

I was never particularly keen on Red Hat. This is just another check mark against.

I was lucky

I moved into to my place just before the axe came down. The wiring was a few bits of VIR cable for the lighting, so definitely pre 1960, and a couple of sockets downstairs plus an (underrated) shower line. All on rewireable fuses.

Did the lot myself. I did think about getting it certified recently, but I'm not intending to go anywhere, so not really bothered.

Opted out

I abandoned TV completely some years back and since have settled in a lifestyle where it would be an inconvenience anyway. Seems I made the right choice.

P.S. it was possibly accelerated by seeing mum totally addicted to all the soaps.

P.P.S coat because I'd rather go out for a walk.