Posts by Natalie Gritpants

Meh, magpies

My friend wants one for microlights.

Really? If your code is valuable and no-one else can compile it you have a serious barrier to redundancy.

Re: 5.30 Friday is worse

Great for contractors though. I've usually done my hours by Friday 3pm so I would get to bill for an extra 3 hours of overtime. I would be splendid in that meeting and it would take hours.

Re: unspecified techniques

You might think that shooting someone suspected of stealing a purse i good but I don't. I'd rather the bobby talk to the victim and any other witnesses to get a description of the perp and figure out which of the well know neredowells it was, at which point they can be arrested in their local boozer. Much more civilized.

Re: Why two boxes?

Yes, I'm thinking of making a smart photo frame using a spare monitor and some cheap processor. I'll want to be able to rip CDs with it as well as download photos from the various cameras (phones) we have. Not sure a PI will have enough grunt to run cdparanoia and replaygain as well as do a nice photo screensaver. Wifi will be OK for the data speed as I'm not planning on video.

Re: how is this news?

If it's that hard shouldn't it be possible to train someone? The documentation ought to be sorted out by now.

Re: James is a dick...

Further to this - the second they stop employing you they become the competition, you will work for someone else (probably in the same market segment) and the last thing you should do is reduce your new employers chances of success by helping the ones that fired you.

There are 3 separate fabs at Leixlip runing 24hrs/day. Each one will take days to settle after a shutdown. It's not 6000 hours of production though so I think that number is made up by multiplying the number of employees standing in the car parks by the number of hours spent standing in the car parks.

As for the motorway being blocked, it's usually partly blocked by thge odd tractor anyway.

Re: Was the picture necessary?

Quite, I just added regmedia to my Adblock filters and the world has not ended.

Re: Jamming.

I'm sure they could find them but don't know how they'll get the police to arrest them if the police radios don't work.

Re: Intel will now look at ARM

The SOCs I've seen inside recently have lots of CPU cores. ARM's advantage is that it can run Android apps but you only need one core to do that and it can be a cheap one. The other cores can be Tensilica or ARC or whatever as they tend to be running custom firmware for the SOC and don't need a third party dev ecosystem to succeed. As others have said Intel already has an ARM license and will always be able to have one.

Who owns the fabs is more interesting.

Re: Postcard

I've just been down to B&Q. They are clearing the shelves of black paint right now.

Next is to get amazon to remove all tiny periods of silence in their entire range of music as silence is an absence of sound so technically silence is not music.

And welcome back nosegays, you're not allowed to not be able to smell anything.

Good luck next time you go to the dentist.

So some good may have come of this. If it forces Apple to admit they have the technology to examine your iMessages before you do it will help people understand their relationship with Apple a little more. Not just Apple bashing, this applies to any message service.

Re: Just for you townies...

2nd car picture is a classic T-bone accident.

Also in the 1st it looks like the occupants of the car would have survived.

It's money well spent to keep the principles of UK law and justice alive. There is an upper limit on what it will cost: for the taxpayer the max cost will be £10m * his remaining life span; for Mr Assange the max cost is his life.

Re: A Digital Garbage Dump

You need to think a bit more meta. Each data may be worth $0 and if you add them all up you still get $0 but their presence is not worth $0. It's the cost of doing business for Facebook. If they start deleting stuff they will be replaced by the next social media start-up that does not. I am glad they are figuring out how to minimize the power consumption, not for Facebook but for the human race.

Re: Voodoo math

Yes, I think the maths is off. My puny system should have died by now (several times over).

It's 4TB of JBOD with backups. Every Saturday morning a cron job runs an MD5 checksum over all the files. It hasn't detected any random changes in about three years. The last time it did I replaced the disk and restored form backup. With this maths I should be getting an error every three weeks.

Re: Nothing wrong here

Downvoted you because berk is not used enough. I would like to see more uses of the word wazzock too.

Re: Good on them for releasing information about the vulnerability

Releasing the proof of concept will help the person trying to fix this bug to test if the fix is effective with the person affected. If you don't release the proof of concept there is no guarantee that the fix that is eventually provided is actually a fix since it will rely on the fixer guessing at how to provoke the bug.

Re: Making things simple

Don't get too smug, you will have bugs in there.

Re: "I spent a few months ripping and selling off all my CDs."

You mean pirating.

Seriously, if you sell the music you paid for you should no longer listen to it. (morally or legally)

Re: sigh

Reduce the amount of motion blur by a factor of 8 - duh