Posts by Dazed and Confused

@FunkyEric

Please don't ask Apple to do that or they'll only go and patent it. Which means the rest of the world will get sued every time we try and enjoy ourselves until 5 years down the line the patent office finally decide that perhaps there is some prior art.

Re: Yes, but...

> ...did it have rounded corners?

Ah, but did they round their corners before or after? wasn't this what the case was about?

Re: Filtering spoofed packets

Thanks Tim,

That's a good posting, basically saying exactly what I've been saying for years.

The difficulty isn't technical so much as getting all the players to act together. I, perhaps naively, wouldn't think the payback period for the investment in ingress filtering would be very long. When these things happen they cost the Internet industry a lot of money. The problem is no one has a stick to beat them into submission. I remember a discussion with an old colleague years ago about responding to attacks and he was saying the only time he'd been able to get ISP to respond quickly to problems was when he was running the networks covering the World Cup, he commented that all he had to do was threaten to throttle their connections and then publish which ISP were having their links slowed down, and all of a sudden the ISPs became extremely cooperative.

Re: No push to upgrade business machines anymore

> So that'll be Windows XP then :)

I think the situation is worse than "there is no need to upgrade" MS continual pushing out of new OSs and new versions of Office that no one actually wants is a positive disincentive to buy replacement machines. Why would you want to buy a shiny new machine when it is worse to use than the old one.

Pyhton humour

Python is named after a BBC comedy series

And a comedy series which was more than happy to use naked women for comedic effect.

Re: Tested a drivers skill...

> With a passenger you can break off briefly in mid sentence to do some driving stuff and they can see why you've stopped talking. A phone call has different etiquette.

Nope, when talking while driving the etiquette is to tell the person on the phone you're driving. So they should expect you to have higher priority events to deal with.

Whereas if you look at lots of people talking to people in the car you'll notice that they are following the normal human etiquette and looking at the person they are talking too.

Driving with the kids in the back is even worse. Lots of times you'll see parents turning right around to deal with little Jonny in the back and so playing bugger all attention to the road ahead.

The difference is just that you might be able to try and out law drink driving or even mobile phone use while driving, but you're never going to be able to out law talking to passenger or concentrating on the kids in the back.

Re: Stop the threats

> and throw them in prison for 5 years

I take it that is 5 years per SPAM call, not to run concurrently.

Re: "We like android but we prefer Tizen"

They could well do, but the economic fact of life is that Android sells itself while they would have to make a lot more effort to shift Tizen phones. It could well be a case of

Anything for an easy life

Re: Storage shouldn't be complicated.... but...

> Personally I use ZFS (or any checksum based filesystem like btrfs when stable) since to me data integrity matters.

Surely no one should be doing checksums in SW, that's just criminally insane, as bad as people doing SW RAID[2-6]. If ever there was a job crying out for a HW solution then that's got to be one. Anyone would think DMA had never been invented.

Re: There is only one thing a text editor needs

> having to type in the commands to control the app as well as type in the text i'm typing doesn't make life easier at all.

Well not many people have a telepathy interface, so you've got to find a way to feed the commands into the editor as well as the text. With vi the commands are fed in with the keyboard, originally because that was all that was available. They wanted to be able to use it on all makes of terminal so didn't rely on their being buttons available for all the functions they wanted. But this proved to be its great strength because if you can touch type, even of the random finger selection kind then its bloody quick to use because you don't even have to move your hands. Personally I hate the stupid PC keyboard layout because some damn fool idiot put the [Esc] key out of reach, whereas an IFT keyboard had it just outside the left shift key within easy striking mode. GUIs and mice might be ever so beginner friendly, but all that moving hands around kills the productivity. You end up having to remember all the shortcut key sequences which reduces the so called friendly editor to being just a pale imitation of vi.

But if you can't find vi, ed's not bad either.

Re: Hmmm..

> If some knob pointed a pair of snooping glasses at me in a private bar,

The question is whether you'd feel any remorse when you learned the poor sod who's just had his arse kicked was blind and the "snooping glasses" were just there to help the poor sod be able to sense what was around him.

Re: Why is bacon "processed"?

Since cave men we've bred out the genes that let us process most raw food.

We've contracted out part of the digestion process to the frying pan.

Re: Execellent

Getting the exchange work done doesn't even seem to mean you are even one step further towards being able to have the service. We were promised our exchange would be updated in Oct 2011. In Oct 2011 the bastards slipped the exchange back to Dec 2012, come Dec 2012 they say 31st.. come the 31 they say our box would be March 2013, come March 2013 the bastards say HA HA HA when we said March, we didn't really mean 2013, OH no, we meant March 2014. Bastards even replaced our junction box to heighten everyone's expectations.

Perhaps having some more techies on the ground might mean they'll actually do some work rather than just try their damnedest to piss off their customers.

Re: 2Mb/sec should be enough for a video stream

A lot of what the extra pixels are used for is cancelling out the effects of the MPEG artefacts, that and dithering the appalling course colour pallet (skies do work in 8bit blue). Its a mistake to think that the resolution of your eyes is the only limiting factor. As Nokia have recently demonstrated with their 40MP camera, it doesn't have all those dots to make a 40MP picture, it uses them to make a decent 6 or so MP picture.

The calculations of angle of resolution of my TV at home suggest that I don't need HD, but its easy to tell the difference between HD and SD. Its easy to tell when iPlayer only has the SD version rather than the HD one, or when the net is being lousy again and the HD stream isn't usable.

Besides, phones have HDMI output, so when stuck in a hotel it can be useful to drive the telly from the phone.

Now my point about laptops is entirely different. There, personally, I just want more bloody dots on the screen to display more information, the main thing I do to earn a living doesn't work properly on a 1080line display, I've built a work flow that needs more.

Re: Just had look at the "License"

Not sure about office, but if you run windows in a VM under windows then you need two windows licences, one for the main "windows" and another for the copy running in the VM.

Bend over Mr customer

Now pull your pants down

this won't hurt a bit..

Re: Who cares?

> Driving 23 to 25 mph, on a flat Track

Excuse me, but who the F*** buys a roadster (read sports car) and then drives it on a track at 23 to 25MPH?

The only conceivable reason would be to pose!

But even posing you're not likely to drive it on the track.

Re: With a PC it is generally straight forward to replace the OS

Err, neither are you. You can turn it off, so its no barrier at all.

The problem is that you are not guaranteed to be able to switch it off.