Posts by Ian 55

Re: How much is this costing Intel?

Yes, there must be a serious subsidy somewhere. Buy one CPU, get 100,000 free?

It's the money

Providing gullible domain registrants with premium (i.e. expensive) email addresses generates a pile of money.

We know how to run our own servers, but lots of people don't and allow themselves to be persuaded that 'sucker@gullible.ltd.uk' is a better email address than gulliblesucker@gmail.com too.

See also: hosting single domains for more than it costs to have a complete VPS.

"most good PRs"

What do the other ones do? The other good ones and the far greater number of crap ones?

Still I suppose if you have plenty of companies stupid enough to pay the crap ones, or who can't specify a contract in terms of actually useful results, it shouldn't be a surprise that the crap ones are in a majority.

Cloning 2

For backing up / restoring the Linux root partition, partclone.

For trying to do the Windows loader and main partitions, Clonezilla (a UI for partclone on a live CD, from what I can see), something that was bundled with the SSD and, erm, can't remember.

My copies of Norton Ghost and True Image are too old to be able to do Win 7. The idea of paying more money to people who keep changing image file formats to enforce upgrades doesn't appeal.

"The idea that pictures can ever 'cease to exist' is .. massive misrepresentation of the truth."

Says someone who's never had a disc drive die when it's not been properly backed up!

My copy of the source code is so old I can't find it on the current hard drives, so probably.

'Only ever the odd-numbered releases that are any good'

Anyone saying that never used Windows 1.x

Lost that self awareness vs simply doesn't care any more.

She knows there's likely to be a Tory leadership election soon, and she's acting like anyone else who wants a chance at beating the vile Boris.

Re: Oh, why Steam?

"Steam rules"

Well, it wants to.

If it let you transfer games - and WTF not, given that it can be sure you've not retained a copy - it would be a lot better.

Re: Good source material and very good speakers or good headphones needed

The people we bought this house from had reasonable quality CD player / amp / speakers.

But they had one speaker behind a sofa in one room, and the other one in another room, next to a radiator.

1. Yes, it's a disgrace. At least they've stopped insisting you have an account called 'admin', and then stopped strongly suggesting you do.

2. See every other popular bit of software.

3. Use fail2ban to block the bots and password-protect access to wp-login.php at the webserver level.

Re: "verified to be in working condition"

I'll give you a dollar for the Altair...

If you were stuck in the desert, would you rather see a horse or a camel approaching?

A horse, because it suggests that I am closer to some sort of human settlement.

Re: Solution:

Deposits.

Quite true

But that doesn't stop the morons in the Tory party from wanting to renounce it.

Citizenship

Obviously everything in Scotland's Future - the document which loves to say 'when' rather than the much more honest 'if' - is not binding, but...

"We plan that British citizens habitually resident in Scotland on independence will be considered Scottish citizens. This will include British citizens who hold dual citizenship with another country. Scottish born British citizens currently living outside of Scotland will also be considered Scottish citizens.

"Following independence, other people will be able to apply for Scottish citizenship. For example, citizenship by descent will be available to those who have a parent or grandparent who qualifies for Scottish citizenship. Those who have a demonstrable connection to Scotland and have spent at least

ten years living here at some stage, whether as a child or an adult, will also have the opportunity to apply for citizenship."

.. suggests that it will.

There was no Total Recall remake

It was all in your mind.

If you would like to lie down here, normality will be resumed in a few moments.

"There are no oxygen-free cables in Sony studios."

I knew there was a reason One Direction sound so awful...

Re: Niven has this one covered

With every passing year, Brazil looks more and more like a documentary.

Re: Wasted IP ranges

What does the Dept of Work and Pensions need 16 million IPv4 addresses for? Is this why they're so determined to cut down the number of claimants / people eligible for any benefits, so they can have one IP address each?

Re: Nice Traffic System You've Got Here...

To be fair, the London licensed taxi system is not quite the protection racket that it is in, say, San Francisco. If you can pass 'the Knowledge' test, haven't any significant criminal convictions, and have a few hundred pounds for test etc fees, you too can be licensed.

What you charge is then regulated and you can't go 'Nah, not taking you there, mate' without risking losing your licence.

Re: We're all running out of IPv4 address space

If you want to move everyone to IPv6, just ban HTTP/1.1 requests. If we went back to one IP address can only host one website, people would risk getting killed in the stampede away from IPv4.

Best 'smart' TV

.. any dumb 1920x1080 screen with a spare HDMI socket and a Raspberry Pi attached to it.

The £200 TV + £25 Pi here craps all over a friend's £700 'smart' TV of the same size.

Re: Chaos ahead

You can't sue a horse or its creator. I suspect you've never needed 'third party' insurance to have one pull your milk float either.

You can sue the company that designed the driverless car, the company that programmed it, their insurers, and anyone else vaguely in the line of fire.

If you were an insurer, would you accept that the software was bug free and would not cause a serious crash?

Re: Pi WiFi

I just used the ethernet port and plugged into the router...

Perfect tedium

Obviously, I'm going to be downvoted for this, but Tetris is a boring puzzle game for people who can't do Sokoban.

Lots of even better board games

If you haven't already seen boardgamegeek, do have a look.

Depending on his age, SmallWorld would be another one to try.

"The core of Windows XP was developed before the Internet."

Really?

"Not to be confused with the World Wide Web", as WP's page on the Internet says at the top.

Even Windows 95 was developed after the Web.

Second will be

"How much did Microsoft pay Apple for this"