Posts by Roland6 10751 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2010
The differences between the mobile platforms have some resemblance to the differences between vendors proprietary platforms of the 1980s, although I agree it’s is hard to develop across platforms, especially when the business only consists of 5 people all doing development, but with some tough decisions and good software engineering practises it is possible.
However, agree with your observation on market fragmentation.
>” It's bad enough having to build two versions of your app for technically completely different platforms.”
Don’t see your problem = platform choice is much reduced and the tools to support development across multiple platforms are much better than they were in the 1980s and 90s.
Although if you still think you have it hard, suggest looking at Oracles supported platform list, which is significantly shorter than its circa 1990 list.
>” I would have thought your cheapest option …”
Get some people to remove a good length of copper; losing circa 0.5 mile of copper trunking (between two man holes) a couple of times, accelerated the delivery of fibre to my village….
Only problem is that those who took the copper can’t tell the difference and last year pulled out the fibre…
Given the article implies this is less than 50% of the UK's annual consumption of fiber, that is a lot of fiber being installed in the UK, every year.
I wonder if this is really the government protecting an industry, or just wanting to be seen to protect an industry because at some point in the near future, the UK's consumption is going to fall off the cliff.
I wonder what the additional cost of laying 4x that capacity either as a single cable or as a bundle of cables.
Whilst we probably don’t currently need this sort of capacity, from all the guff about AI, I suspect it will get.used. Plus it would enable them to claim the first petabyte per sec cable.
If my understanding is correct, OpenZFS 2.2 has been fully integrated into the FreeBSD release and is not a separate install, hence it would seem this specific instance of the code is being released under the FreeBSD license (without any other caveats or limitations) and not the CDDL license...
>That makes it sound like the problem is with the ZFS license.
As from this release of FreeBSD the Linux community should be able to take the BSD licensed ZFS source code and incorporate that into Linux; unless the Linux community don't want to comply with the strictures of the BSD licence...
>"As is common in such cases, Google has pushed for sensitive documents obtained during the discovery process to be redacted or sealed. This has become an issue in the US government's ongoing antitrust trial against Google"
Alternatively, there is an unsecured server on Azure/AWS/Google etc. or even the dark web - which allows for further distancing between leaker and finder...
> Can the UK shut down all its power stations and demand that France supply it with free electricity?
Yes, however the French are free to ignore the UKs request…
However, things get a little m less clear cut if the French government were to instruct EDF to shutdown all the UK power plants it operates.
> What prople seem to forget is…
The zionists who founded the modern state of Israel and their hard line followers have similar no shades of grey views over what the extent of modern Israel will be and who gets to live there.
If the current residents of Gaza leave and cross the border into Egypt, expect Israel to block their return and occupy Gaza in the same way they have occupied the West Bank…
The only real way forward is to neuter the firebrands and rabble raises, who are predominantly men, on both sides…
Cheapskate, you really should have got the Hic365 connected one - it comes complete with tethered cable and dock(*) and refil subscription. The really nice thing about it is the website and app where it gives you real time feedback on your pen usage and alerts for low usage - which are really useful as if you don’t regularly use your pen the nozzle blocks and you then have to waste time going through the cleaning routine by scribbling on spare sheets of paper.
(*) ( https://www.temu.com/uk/1pc-office-desk-pen-business-advertising-gift-pen-hotel-front-desk-ball-pen-chain-metal-pen-g-601099520207400.html )
>” a historian about medieval scribal handwriting. It's a whole other world.”
Being able to read medieval scribal handwriting is probably an asset when faced with pre 1941 German fonts (the banning of which was probably the only good thing that can be said about the Nazis - although to save face etc. they said the German fonts that had previously been used were Jewish fonts and thus not German, naturally there is no evidence of this).
Trabant? Either this new standard OS is what the US corporate lobbyists agreed to, so it’s of no consequence to their sales, or Linux really must have gone downhill since 1999 when Neal Stephenson likened Linux to a tank.
[https://www.globalnerdy.com/2013/02/11/the-apple-icar-and-those-if-operating-systems-were-cars-jokes/ ]
>” And finally, in today's connected world, what the OS itself can do will be less and less relevant”
And that is why MS are doing so much UI in-your-face change, it’s not needed or necessary, just that MS need to be in people’s faces to justify their prices and financial market valuation. Some in MS recognised this was going to happen circa 2 decades back, hence the gradual migration to subscription since then.
It’s funny how todays A4 ruled pad and Biro are uncannily similar to the A4 ruled pads and Biros I used 40+ years back, and the stuff I wrote on them(well the sheets I kept) are still readable without special tools…
Perhaps there is a lesson there for MS et al…
Really useful feedback.
In reading your workflow and use of shared resources, I am reminded of the ideas behind Apollo Domain distributed computing environment, where the OS sends the jobs to appropriate resource. Looking at modern OS’s it seems such useful capabilities are a long way down the to-do list (that’s if they are even on it); unlike UI frippery…
Aside: I assume you are using 10 Gbps LAN.
> Meshing large models can take a while and scales very well with cores.
How many cores does your current system have and are you max’ing them (and the memory I/O channels) out when meshing.
Just interested, as to whether the problem really does scale linearly or you reach a peak performance point because other factors limit the extent to which you can parallel process. Ie. Going from 8 to 16 cores is a massive improvement, 32 a slight improvement because you only really needed 21.
>” is it when the company uploads the content, or when someone views it?”
There doesn’t seem to be a single solution.
My view would be if the website is registered as being UK owned or domiciled according to either its domain name (.uk) or domain registration (.com etc operated by UK entity) then to access it you are effectively doing the online equivalent of walking down the street and looking into someone’s real world UK located property.
Agree the real issue is whether Clearview offering a service to say Oz law enforcement - so Clearview are both the service operators and data owners, is the same as Oz law enforcement running the same system “on prem” and thus wholly within their control. I suggest not, and thus the tribunal have got it wrong.
So is it still joined to the work domain and you do not have local administrator privileges?
If this is the case then your only option is to do a full wipe and reinstall - the W10 installer will guide you through this.
If you have local admin privileges then you can create new local user accounts (admin and limited) and via the “advanced system settings” > User Profiles > Settings. delete the old work profile, which will probably be listed as unknown user.
Thanks for the feedback; I really need to increase the priority of playing around with my AMD systems as one of the reasons for putting WS2019 on to an AMD Thinkpad was to permit the running up of complete WS instances which contained Hyper-V environments for diagnostic/investigative purposes.
Aside there was nothing wrong with luggable computers, I remember my Compaq Portable… - and people today get upset because their laptop weighs more than 1kg…
Maybe not as intrusive, but just as penicious.
For some reason, even though you've selected the "stay on W10" option, it will still after a month or so offer W11 in the updates section as the only available update, dismiss the offer and W10 will go away and find a whole bunch of updates that may date back several months that need to be applied...
>Any laptop from before 2018 is not likely to be on Windows 11 approved list.
Don't expect any CPU that doesn't have an "AI accelerator" being on the Windows 12 support list. so that early 2018 system may only have a relatively short life and that recently purchased 2023 system an even shorter life...
Intel: " And nested virtualization is only supported on Intel CPUs with virtualization (VT-x) and Extended Page Tables (EPT)."
AMD "Nested virtualization is available on Windows 10 build 19636 and later."
[ https://petri.com/how-to-enable-nested-virtualization-in-hyper-v/ ]
Personally, given WS2019 is a supported OS for Thinkpads, if I really needed Nest-V etc. I would probably install that rather than W11...
But agree MS have form going back decades in making political decisions on what does and doesn't get included in a still in support OS.
>Send you a text to your cell for MFA
Not sure about this one, I've already used one of my three legacy send a code to my phone/email account login allowance, it seems now I should be using the Microsoft Authenticator app on my phone, which if not set up in the right way the authorisation credentials won't be transferrable to another phone in the event of the loss of my current phone...
>installing Linux these days is nothing special. Try going back and installing Gentoo circa 2001-2002...
I'm glad installing an OS these days isn't anything like installing Unix on a new system back in the 1980's.
It really is quite pleasant being able to install a batch of systems with just a few mouse clicks.
The Linux install had to become like Windows, likewise the UI/UX; if it hadn't it would have an even smaller marketshare and almost certainly be restricted to servers.
It would be more useful if they fixed the Windows button in the centre of the taskbar, so it doesn't move when you open more applications; better still allow it to be placed vertically down one side of a wide screen. But I suppose they are now expecting users to use the Windows button and cursor keys to navigate the toolbar rather than mouse etc.
>it worked before, why change it?
Because the muppets at Microsoft clearly don't recognise the word shapes "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" to mean what they say, but can recognise some random ideograms as meaning "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste".
Fundamentally, the change is all about self-centred attention seeking, to justify the ever increasing subscription Microsoft feels it is entitled to charge its customers.
Double whammy ?
The question would be how long before and whether the CIA cyber experts would recognise the difference between the two X profiles, until they tried to login to view the account...
What the fake X profile did was to prove that X does very little real checking of details and thus saw the two Telegram handles as being different even though they were in reality the same.
IBM/Lenovo used 7-Zip as an integral part of their ThinkVantage suite, so knowing a system was a Thinkxyz odds were that C:\Program Files\ThinkVantage\SMA\7z\Formats\7z.dll existed.
This wasn't a problem until 7-Zip got used as part of an attack vector. As whilst you may have updated the install at C:\Program Files\7-Zip you were probably totally unaware of this hidden in plain sight installation...
Hence I would not be surprised if the RAR.exe exploit is similar style of attack ie. it exploits these legitimate but hidden in plain sight installations.
The crux of the problem is that highly useful venerable standalone utilities such as PuTTY, cURL, 7-Zip and RAR, but not forgetting the NirSoft utiliies, don't auto update and hence represent potential doors into an otherwise secure system.
Good piece of research, leaving the door wide open for further research, if only to build a larger dataset of readings and find out where these particulates disperse to. [Aside: In some respects NASA probably did us a favour in collecting the Ozone data and not analysing it for several decades as the larger dataset presents a more compelling picture than the individual snapshots. ]
>The linked paper:
“ Ground source heat pumps are more suitable than air source heat pumps due to maintaining a higher coefficient of performance during cold periods.”
Nice to a see a report support the blindingly obvious. It’s one of the reasons when the Conservatives came up with their air source heat pump imitative, I laughed derisively at it. Not saying air source heat pumps don’t work, but given people want the heating on when it is sub 12C outside and definitely when it is sub 6C, air sourced heat pumps were always going to struggle; just like (air sourced) heat pump tumble driers (located in the largely unseated utility room) are totally incapable of actually drying washing.
I was countering the assertion: “ we could get away with a continuous running heat pump of about 5kW.”.
Also, whilst most of the time we can “get away” with low spec kit, you will really notice it when things go more extreme - what will be the output of at 5kW heat pump when ambient air temperature is lower than -10C and you really need the heating to keep the house near to 16C.
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