Posts by /dev/null

Bitnet?

Is that thing still going?

Payload???

What's the point of being able to attach a payload of 64k of arbitrary data to a heartbeat message anyway?

What's wrong with a simple sequence number?

Did they think the case where the other end was sufficiently functional to interpret and respond to a protocol message, but somehow incapable of copying a block of memory correctly was worth detecting?

Did this Request for Comments actually get any comments?

Huh?

AMD have just announced a chip based on a completely new (to them) architecture, and they called it... Opteron???

I'll never understand marketing people...

"stereoscopic sound"?

I think you mean stereophonic sound, unless you're one of those rare people who say they can see sounds..

"odd versions are experimental"

Huh? There was no IPv1,2 or 3 - IPv4 was numbered to match the corresponding TCP protocol version (RFC793). TCP actually predated IP, (see RFC675) and hence was in its fourth version at the time.

And IPv5 didn't really exist either - version 5 was used to distinguish IEN-119 ST stream protocol packets from IP packets. ST was not intended as a replacement for IPv4.

I think someone might be getting mixed up with the old Linux kernel version numbering scheme...?

"Windows 3.0, the first version to do the Protected Mode trick"

Erm, didn't the Windows/286 and Windows/386 editions of Windows 2.10 do protected mode tricks?

A great story about a long-forgotten computer, but...

...somehow I doubt they managed to get 40 lines of text on a 128-pixel-high screen!

Platforms

So the A4 (or PQ34 as VW Group call it now) platform was "dull and wretched", but the A5 (or PQ35) platform is "a country mile better". In terms of dynamics, the main difference between the two was the rear suspension - torsion beam on the former, multi-link on the latter. Interestingly, the New New Beetle only gets the PQ35 rear suspension on the 2.0 TSI model. What do the lesser variants have? You guessed it, torsion beam!

As for the "daft rear spoiler", I don't think that back end is going to generate much downforce by itself, so I think I'd rather have one, thanks. Anybody remember the hasty recall of the original, spoiler-less Audi TT?

Wow, a point release!

First point release of Solaris since 2.6 in 1997. Possibly the only good that's come of Oracle's acquisition is that they've finally dropped the "Solaris 10 9/11"-style maintentance release identification...?

TIFKAM tiles and colours?

Never having used Windows Phone or Windows 8, am I correct in guessing there is no colour coding to the background colour of the tiles, and the colours are in fact chosen in a random-and-pleasing manner? Seems like another violation of fundamental user interface principles if so...

Ahem...

I believe I made this comparison about four months ago.

(IIRC the ZX80 keyboard was thinner than the ZX81's so probably a better match).

Surely...

The card suits should be ISA, MCA, EISA and VL-Bus?

What is this "PCI+" anyway?

Recently declassified?

This report on the Avro Canada Y-2 (complete with lots of lovely drawings) was released in 1998.

Cross-compiling?

Compiling ARM code using native compilers under QEMU seems like a total bodge. Any package that can only be compiled using a native toolchain without massive effort is broken, frankly.

Does Windows Server Core 2012 really not have a GUI?

Or is it like Server Core 2008, which has a desktop, just no Windows Explorer?