Posts by Will Godfrey

Just a wee little point

Looks quite nice for minimalist stuff.

But, what is this $10? And how much cheaper is it? (seeings as this is supposed to be a British rag) in pound sterling?

A breath of fresh air

Very welcome after a puzzling time with a bit of code. I'm too embarrassed to say for how long, but I'd forgotten that memset was in the string.c library not std.

Seasonal best wishes

I'm no lover of Amazon, but Lounge-suit Larry is so in need of a real slap that I hope they get through Christmas without so much as a stutter.

An Achillies heel?

What are the power requirements? Also I'm assuming that even a brief interruption would be pretty dire.

Hmmm, don't suppose it uses Linux for control.

I never expected that

A Home Office screw up with a pork barrel too. Who'd 'a thought it?

I stand corrected

There really is no limit to people.s stupidity.

Why would a so-called security establishment go anywhere near the internet? ... Except to snoop on what other people were saying.

Why Gnome?

I wasn't keen on Gnome 2, but at first sight of V3 ran away to any other desktop KDE, XFCE, MATE, OPENBOX...

Oh, and since KDE started to go rotten they're of the list too now.

Friends

Does America still have any? At the rate these arrogant shits are going there can't be many left.

Confusing

I've been getting these to and find it very worrying. You see, I don't have a smart phone, and only go on the net with an ordinary computer. It doesn't have a camera at all, nor anything plugged into the audio inputs.

I can only guess that they have found a way to send ultrasonic signals from my (very cheap) speakers and somehow measure the infinitesimal change of loading caused by the interference patterns of my {cough} activities.

Trash talking

As soon as hear a company doing that, I walk away. It is a clear mark of desperation.

It's just a matter of time

Manufacturers are still ignoring all the warnings. Will they even so much as blink when some real serious damage is done and large numbers of people are badly injured?

Needs flea powder

This is insane. The stock market is steadily become more of a total parasite.

Ugh

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but to me this seems rather obscene.

Conspiracy theory?

Is it possible that the entire story was invented by some people wanting to depress the value of Super Micro - some aggressive investor maybe. Although Icant think of anyone who'd want to do that.

Two baskets for the eggs

When Sourceforge had big problems a couple of years ago I mirrored our little project on GitHub and have maintained both ever since.

It seems I did the right thing.

A statement from the 5 eyes

On being asked how it was possible that Kaspersky was the first agency to make a detailed report on the NSA's leaked malware, they said:

*crickets*

SNAFU

... in an unknown way.

Sad

It's amazing how quickly Australia has gone from almost 'Do as you please' to 'Don't do anything without permission'.

Exasperating

No matter how long I live, I will never get used to the idea that people will knowingly assist those intent on harming others. In cases like this, that's likely to be harm to many millions of people - including those that engage in such assistance!

Warning bell

Intel is a monolithic American company with deeply entrenched attitudes to {cough}acceptable{cough} business practices. ARM is a competitor.

Nuff sed?

Not Surprised

Just depend on an actual secure system.

P.S.

Having a dog is a good start :)

It's a duck

You know the rest.

Train Wreck

Totally predictatable - they'd barely started to build the 'rails' when they started the train.

So how much did this particular fiasco cost us? Or do we really want to know?