Posts by Tom 7

Re: Barrister BS

@spazturtle. What do you mean we didnt pay in enough to get the contribution we are demanding? The one we are legally entitled to according to the contracts we and BT signed? This is not the pensioners fault.

Re: Restoring EDBs...

We had trouble with Exchange Server 4.5. I remember running some DB repair program that took 4 or 5 hours to scan the DB half a dozen times to get it into a state that Exchange Server was happy to load.

I was pissing about with some VB for some web app and discovered VB would allow you to dump a whole exchange DB and read everyone's emails and I think I could have used that to rebuild a corrupted DB better than the MS repair program but never have the courage to try it in action. Some nice reading while repairing the DB mind.

Re: Any Closer to Halloween

Its from the play that shall not be named so pretty much anytime of year would be appropriate - except GCSEs I guess.

Re: Heaters are the bane of our lives

"Those 3A fused sockets are a total pain. Why can't they just use decently rated cable ?"

Accountants. That way they save £30 on the building budget. The fact the maintenance budget goes off scale is someone else's problem.

Re: Space Shuttle - Pop Culture Favorite

The Young Ones would like to argue with you!

Re: this has some potential

There's already tensorflow on the Pi and on a Pi3B+ with a heatsink it can run the 'starter' Mnist train and verify in under 10min IIRC.

I've seen a PiZero doing realtime object recognition on a pretrained model using the RaspberryPi camera.

My only objection to this addition to the AI collection is saying its somehow easier to program in than say tensorflow. I'd bet all they are doing is just pre-setting some parameters that you will want to vary later so its not really any easier than tensorflow.

And if you really want to master AI Weka takes a shit load of beating given you dont have to write a single line of code as the GUI can be used to set just about anything.

Re: For @#&% Sake,

Painful Document Format.

Re: risc-v fears?

They're only giving them away free for the Xilinx stuff - that would be at levels where the accountancy/licensing cost probably exceed the revenue. But if they can help you get started then when you go custom they get a share of that.

I wonder if you can get 8 Arm cores and highways on a Artix7 gate array for less than a production equivalent though?

Re: To some MSDOS was an major leap forward.

I believe you could run Unix on a Z80 with a little bit of work - this one is not Unix but shows it could probably be done http://www.symbos.de/

Re: Ok, so it's a typo ...

Not sure but I think I may have drunk a lot of that at Uni.

Re: Detail under pressure

You missed the most important detail:

Motivation.

Something sadly missing in a lot of today's work environments,

Re: 6 point plan?

A six point plan is one point short of being able to do anything about the problem at hand. I've found that point 7) Before you start get promoted to a level where you are actually allowed to actually see all the data you will be transferring.

Nothing harder than trying to verify shifting data and associated semantics when you cannot verify that certain activities* are outside your purview.

*when I say activities this includes fiddles that people quite high up never expected to be uncovered so an addendum to point 7 would be "I dont want the whole place to close down and all my friends to lose their jobs when most of the board are locked up so a decent reference and I'll be on my way if you dont clean up your act because the next one who tries to sort your IT may not be so generous.

RE:So many people, so little understanding

What utter bollocks. If your woman is called Alex the stupid cylinder tries to join in with sex almost every time.

Unless you change the trigger word to 'Sorry'.

RE $800 ? Wow, nice and cheap ... I want one - a nice toy for Xmas!

I'd guess with the ARM NN software this would come close to some high end GPUs for performance for fewer beer vouchers and running costs?

If they were connected to peltric sets I can see why they were kept unconscious.

Re: computer merry-go-round

I used to use cwygin to get things done just to prove a point.

Re: Refusing to comment

Why? Its not likely to change the share price!

Re: It used to be...

Or perhaps the problem is going to a company to discuss outsourcing your security and giving them enough details to make it worth their while to do some outsourcing themselves to ensure your motive to outsource is enhanced. Possibly.

Re: Howard Hughes

Musk thinks too big though - he just jumps on ideas without really thinking them through. I dont think he's an engineer as such - more a hacker.

Re: It's a big round ball wizzing round the sun innit?

Since Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit presumably they will demote that as it hasn't cleared its neighbourhood.

Re: Antipodal shock

One of the hard things about seismology on a global scale is the wave front of a shock is seriously blurred and diffused by the time(s) it gets to the other side of the planet. Even something as massive as Chicxulub would only be a medium to large earthquake and it would be very unlikely to act as a trigger to a volcanic eruption.

Re: "Now all Intel can do is watch from the sidelines" Softbank

I think Intel cant afford ARM. I voted against the sellout to Softbank as I though ARM would be worth 4 or five times the offer price in a few years. Seeing their post buyout release of info on there NN software I thought I'd underestimated. Seeing their ML stuff I KNOW I underestimated.

Re: What we would actually need...Multi Ghz 8 bit

I was working with some fast Bipolar in the late 80's and someone had published a design for a 600 gate 16 bit machine and I simulated a version of that at 2.4Ghz on the process I was using. It only had 7 or 8 opcodes* but at the time it would have been the fastest CPU out there by a large margin.

*IIRC but Baby only had 7 and that was 'complete'.

Re: Excellent news

Its already cured my yoga injuries!

Re: Z80 was a more sophisticated processor

@mage. I am a fan of ARM (I fucking wish I was still a shareholder though) However for nearly 40 years I have always thought that if IBM had chosen the 6809 computing would have been 10 years further on than it was. But would the future, ARM*, have still been around?

*I say the future is ARM - if there ML stuff comes out at a Raspberry Pi level they WILL be the future.

Re: I can now learn Tensorflow

You dont need a graphics card - it helps but even an atom driven laptop will be faster than a Pi.

Re: Astronomical Events in UK

I've often wondered if I should get some form of above cloud transport for events like this. Then I remembered noctilucent clouds.

And as for Eta Carinae being above the clouds would probably mean the GRB would render you blind anyway, either permanently or with a shit load of Cherenkov.