Posts by Ian 55

Re: Inflation hedge

There's a limited supply of my shit too - I am not going to be around forever - but that doesn't mean that it's a viable currency or store of value.

Re: Historical practice..

M286 risks people remembering the Intel 80286 though, which they wouldn't want.

Re: "the gambling instrument and ecological disaster that we know as cryptocurrencies"

"Ethereum is scheduled to switch this year" - that's been 'true' for at least a couple of years, hasn't it?

Even if it ever does make the switch, it still fails in every regard in desirable aspects of a currency, unless you're a scammer or a hacker.

Re: Old Nicknames

Anyone who bought them "back then" probably lost the keys or lost the planet-destroying useless currency in an exchange hack / 'hack'.

Re: My cynical side thinks this is no accident.

All I'll say is that I'd like his pay package.

Re: 20 or 80 Years?

Looking at it another way, she defrauded rich people and they are the sort that contribute significant sums to US judges' election campaigns...

Re: re: If unix text editors were military aircraft:

The best version was the Borland adaptation of FinalWord - as in it finally emulates Emacs, unlike MINCE (Mince Is Not Complete Emacs) - sold as Borland Sprint.

They had a *ix version to go with the DOS one, and developed a Windows version that showed the results of its very powerful markup language wysiwyg-style, but abandoned it before release.

Re: Just one more thing

Which you can do, provided you don't slap the CD logo on the discs.

Re: "Faster horses"

Until the big boys lose money, in which case it's "We think we better think about it again" and they do a fork back to the old position.

See Ethereum and the DAO.

Re: miners

You fuck with the US Dollar, and the forces of a state with very large conventional armed forces and nuclear weapons is going to come after you.

You mess with a cryptocurrency, and people are going to laugh or write blogs about how unfair it is.

Hmmm, which to trust?

Re: Nearly but not quite

Of course he will "consider his position" - he will look at the pay cheque and consider that he would rather like to be paid for at least another year...

Re: "Turnout was 24 per cent"

That's true, but it makes buying votes rather harder.

Otherwise, you'd register ten thousand registrars as members, each responsible for one .co.uk domain. It'd cost a million, but you could make that back in executive pay quite quickly.

The original move to bring some sense back to Nominet meant that I moved my domains to someone who was going to vote the right way AND wasn't the registrar for enough domains already to hit the maximum number of votes allowed.

Re: unauthorized SPI ROM modification.

To a generation of us, SPI is and always will be the US publisher of board wargames, Simulations Publications Inc.

The IT angle is that it KNEW via computer analysis of customer feedback exactly what would sell and in what sort of numbers... and still managed to go bust.

Re: No

No sane western government - or even the ones we have - are going to use a widely distributed database for something as important as 'money'.

The main / only attraction to this is the thought that government will be able to see - ie tax - everything going on in the economy.

For obvious reasons, you don't want everyone to be able to see that your wallpaper cost £How Much!?! and was paid for by the newly enobled Lord Donor.

Similarly, no sane western government is ever going to adopt Bitcoin, with about 1/20th of the entire supply owned by someone unknown who may be dead but certainly isn't Craig...

Re: Back to the Past

Managing to break Debian's normally rock-solid ability to update from one version to another is quite an achievement - shared by Linux Mint - but not a good one.

On various bits of kit, I have successfully done upgrades from Debian Woody onwards, so nearly 20 years, and the only problem has been catching up with the configuration changes made in upstream projects each time.

Re: update the downgrade?

DEC Rainbow.

A Z-80 for the software you know and which works, and a 8088 so you can say you're up to date.

Main problem, apart from the price, was that the 8088 hardware wasn't PC-compatible, so while it ran MS-DOS, the programs had to go via it for everything rather than hitting the hardware directly.

Cache?

I think I had to install discrete chips to get a real cache on my first 80386 PC that could have one.

Re: Are the tokens convertible to cash somehow?

“Crying to meatspace courts deeply undermines the 'code is law' principles that DeFi was founded on. This is a slippery slope that ends with the end of DeFi." - the founder of Compound in June.

If you say "code is law", don't come crying when you get one character wrong three months later.

'to: or cc: fields' of course. My fingers almost automatically change cc into bcc!

The first versions of Unity were.. ok on netbooks with their short wide screens, and it was on these it was first introduced on. After that (and on anything else) urgh.

Re: Hum

Never mind that - what calendar?

Well, it has snaps for some things that should be .deb, but that may have been the case with 18.04 too.

Apart from that, I've found it better on servers than Debian Buster.

Re: "Security is our utmost priority", says company after being hit with malware

Which is more expensive: an £80 laser printer for each such desk or allowing remote code execution?

The other thought is to treat it as increasing staff's exercise: they have to walk to a PC with a printer attached.

Re: Pixies

It'd have been better with MC5: ""And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the Chome, motherfuckers!"

Re: Well

A Teletype 33 via acoustic coupler was for O-level - one for the whole class to share.

University had ADM-3As connected to a NORD mini ("They said we'd get something better than an IBM - we got the NORD"). You can get an idea of the speed by the way someone put up a sign in the terminal room saying "The NORD is a multiuser ZX-81."

All that does is increase the number of samples you need.

Remember when consumer GPS kit managed to get much better resolution for their location than the then deliberately noisy signal was supposed to allow? They just took averages of the reported locations.

In the end, the US turned the noise off for everyone.