Posts by Sgt_Oddball

Ahh...

About the tinnitus stuff. It's pretty much part of me by this point. I've had since as long as I can remember (undiagnosed childhood ear infection which was only picked up once the damage was done).

Hasn't stopped me hunting for better sounding stuff and is only irritating when it's quiet.

Which at home has become more of a problem.

Re: This is why my phone line is separate from my Internet access.

I'm on a fibre connection but when installed the wire was in two parts. Turns out they replaced my telephone line with a fibre/telephone line paired cable. So if I lose Internets I know I should still be able to use the phone line.

This is also helpful for my house alarm since it gets quite unhappy without a dial tone.

On the flip, with a decent fibre package from a certain privatised national provider, you can get a 4g router as a backup anyway which works better than expected considering victorian red brick houses and NIMBYS combine to give poor phone signal.

Re: Ethereal AntICQs

You must be new here.. The fact that you made it to the 4th paragraph of a 'amanfrommars1' post at all puts you ahead of most of us.

Either that or it's evolving becoming slightly more coherent.

With regards to Xi pinging them down... Kids in glass houses...

We have to remember that whilst yes, China and Russia are taking extreme measures. The west's lack of action on things like curbing the reach of large corporations has resulted in elections being influenced, leaders being bribed/lobbied, wild, unsubstantiated lunatic fringes blaming secret cabals behind their inability to have reliable Internet instead of just greed and apathy (as Occam's razor would instead suggest).

If only we could find a middle ground between the extremes. Where the worst corporate excesses are correctly dealt with, taxation is fairly taken and leaders competent, accountable and take responsibility of failings.

Re: 'Remote Onboarding'

Fast dual core models, rather than the more desirable quad cores so not much demand to jam them into a 775 mobo.

There's also the issue that most 775 socket motherboards have died by now owing to the capacitor plague at the time.

At any rate there's not much demand for them.

Re: Banks across America test facial recognition cameras

Pretty sure you can't fit "a small, off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden" or "the Bolivian Navy on manoeuvres in the South Pacific." onto a post-it note though.

Re: BSOD

One of my work colleagues took that to the next level with just about every error message screen from the last 30+ years.

Think Amiga 'Guru meditation', Macintosh 'dead mac', Amstrad CPC 'load errors' etc etc.

Most users though would have been thoroughly confused by just the variety of errors, us devs though usual go misty eyed...

Re: Says it all

And then you finally decide to enforce it, people can politely (and not so politely) point out that its already been somewhat watered down.

For reference, see the #FreeCuthbert hash tag trending on twitter... The Streisand effect in all its glory.

Re: People still forgetting the Facebook financial model

It was scraped accidentally.... People are supposed to pay for the access to the data, not get it for free.

Re: A satellite junk collector ...

In fairness the Soviets beat everyone to it having an actual canon in space (not the point and click but point and clunk - no boom since its a vacuum and all that).

The promise of not military in space is naive in the extreme to think that no one would ever dare. Its just that they at least try to hide it and not make a huge fuss over it. No large scale space navy battles.. Its abit like Nukes. Everyone knows they're still working on them but they just don't openly test them (except for fringe lunatics in hermit states).

Re: It could be worse

Been there, done that. Accidentally dropped the wrong raid array with my Windows server install (it came with the server... No backup of the license key or spare media)... Oops.

On the plus side I'm now much more proficient at Linux off the back of it, every cloud and all that.

Still have a stick of dead ram on my desk from my fully populated homeserver (it's a pain chasing which is the bad stick when you have 16 to choose from and the front panel diagnostics keeps jumping from one stick to the next) which went bad shortly after the array fiasco too.

But yes, there's nothing quite like having people pressure you unnecessarily when you're juggling live and test. Especially on the same box.

And yes, I've also worked with different colour schemes for live and test/dev. It's a mistake you only make once.

Re: There's a problem with the app...

You could use something like bluestacks and run an Android device as a vm. I admit it's a pain, but if you really want to add your stats to the pot it's an option.

It might also be an idea to use something more modern than IE11 so you could take advantage of things like HTTP2 to see if that gives you a performance increase (owing to more efficient data transfer methods).

Re: ballet dancers

Oh come now, that's stretching it too far...

Re: "Doing an OVH"

Surely you can't be serious?

Re: REM

You live in the wrong town. I've got at least 4 in the area (admittedly only 2 have the roasting machine right by the window,but they all have a machine in house)

Re: Why is the second part of:

No, it's pretty much the same.

Like the World War 2 plane investigation that looked to up-armour planes that came back full of holes in particular areas where those holes were. Until it was pointed out, that it'd be better where the holes weren't since those ones didn't make it back.

In this respect, we just assume that the scams always work the same way and that the crims get caught because that's what we hear and want to happen. The reality is more likely that the smart ones walk away and never get caught or the error is never reported (because it's embarrassing, leads to awkward questions etc.etc).

Alot of that...

Depends on just what you want from your OS.

Support for a whole raft of technology and services takes up alot of space. Universal formats to support things consumers.... Consume takes space. Admittedly support for a huge number of programming languages is unnecessary, as are including stacks to cope with unpopular tech.

Then there's the enterprise features. I mean how many home consumers need iSCSI support or the ability to support a huge raft of databases via ODBC connectors?

Then there's the issue of legacy compatibility. No-one needs to support anything older than a couple of years right?

Re: Moronic job adverts

"In yet another a pay rate specified by the day but marked up as "per annum" made me think "can I choose the day I work? February 29th perhaps?"... "

You never know, it could have been a Government special advisor day rate so probably correct...

Re: The auto takedowns...

However, I wonder how long it will be before the scam artists spot this money making opportunity.

I'd say sometime last year going on how it seems to be getting worse.