Posts by druck

Re: Sphere packing problems

Does that include the tongue?

Re: Flying less

Rubbish, when this is over everyone is going to want a holiday.

Re: All those billions spent in Skype

They spent about the same on Nokia and threw it away in a year, and before that with Aquantive which was supposed to help them become the next Google.

But radio isn't static like a TV set, you tend to take it to different places around the house to listen to while doing other things.

DAB is like a massive leap backwards in time, to before the transistor radio revolution in the 60s. You have bulky power hungry sets, poor reception, and most stations in mono ffs.

Re: Hang on a minute...

Isn't all the radio stuff 75 Ohm though?

Re: Microsoft talks up COVID-19 efforts with hospitals

Viruses have been around a lot longer than Windows 95, starting with Brain for DOS in 1986.

Re: Let's be honest...

Or instead of deleting large image files, simply replace with one with the same name and dimensions, but entirely black so it compresses well. For video, edit down to a single frame.

Re: Does it open at the front?

It takes nowhere near the same amount of fuel to slow a down a returning rocket, it's mass is far less and it still uses friction of the increasingly dense atmosphere on the way down.

It should be bleeding obvious watching a SpaceX launch - 9 merlins at full tilt on the way up, and on the way down a quick 3 engine burn to slow it, deceleration due to friction, and an even quicker single engine landing burn.

Re: Let's have a little fun today

Our IT department has piles and piles of old Samsung company smartphones in the basement, there must be thousands down there. I doubt if I could persuade them to donate some for this sort of experiment though.

Re: One thing is certain

Yes, and "hear more about IBM and its culture", I think everyone knows they their feet won't even touch the carpet before being offshored.

Re: google translate anyone?

You don't even need to go to google translate, just highlight beheerder on the page, and chose search in google from the context menu, and the translation to administrator is right there.

That seems rather specific. Is there some sort of self-destruct code in the firmware they forgot to remove randomise sufficiently? FTFY

Re: Plusnet Party

However Plus Net are providing the John Lewis broadband, it's not going through their core system, which is IPv4 only. But it does look like you get their crappy encryption not supported email servers though.

Re: R/O FS

A dash cam is just continuously writing 1 (or 2 if it has a rear camera) streams, this is pretty much what SD cards are designed for. Using an SD card as a general computer filing system in a Raspberry Pi with lots of random access writes far smaller than an erase block, cause an SD card to perform a vast number of re-writes. SD cards just aren't meant for that, it what SSDs are designed to do, and they have more sophisticated controllers and lots of RAM to consolidate writes.

Re: Understated..

At last an actual use for lettuce and cauliflower leaves.

Re: Simple solution

It would also eliminate companies such as ARM who design processors, but licence them to other companies to make them.

Re: At Just the Time

It's thought of as a zero sum game - whatever hurts my enemy, helps me.

Re: The challenges of remote trade negotiations

Maybe having a beer and swapping jokes is why trade negotiations have often taken 7 years or more.

Perhaps do it via video conference can cut out a lot of the time wasting, especially seeing that we've already been in negotiations for over 3 years, and it's clear than chemistry and report is rather thin on the ground with our EU counterparts.

Re: "Or heard the sphincter-loosening words: 'What's a backup?' "

She now has a MacBook... and the backup drive permanently attached

Better hope she doesn't get hit by ransomware, or lightning, or even something spilled over both.

There no thing as a 'backup' only 'backups', unless there aren't at least 3 additional copies of the data, one of which is offline and another offsite, it's not backed up.

Re: Create strong password, write it on the monitor

First I'm not a millennial by a long way, although my wife qualifies. Secondly, the first few times we both went out together after having a baby, were to Council meetings, as we were both elected councillors at the time and attendance was mandatory. So it's not all about abandoning the baby to have fun.

Re: Hey, remember Windows 2000?

After using Perforce at work, I set up one of my Raspberry Pi's as a P4D server for various other Linux and Windows boxes. It worked very well until 2016 when Perforce decided to not only drop support for ARM, but also erased it from history by removing all traces of previous versions from their web and ftp sites. I accused them of being right gits, and switched to git right away.

Re: Coding test

Anyone without an ounce of programming skill can get through an interview coding test, by arriving five minutes early and googling "20 most asked C/C++/C#/Java/Python interview questions".

Re: Kinda superb, but.....

You might not like what MPs spend their expenses on, but at least it will be something real, rather than just shovelling money at quantum computers, just in case they ever work.

Re: Autonomous?

Apollo 12 - SCS to AUX.

Re: De-de-de-de-deja vu

What a coincidence, I watched 20 Minutes in to the Future last night on YouTube, to show the wife, as she was only 1 when it came out.

Re: I'm baffled

If your mobile banking application is compromised, you will find out when you receive the next statement from your bank, the details of all transactions will be there for you to see. If you dispute any of them, there is a clear process to follow, which (in exception of cases of gross negligence) will result in any losses bing refunded.

With mobile app voting, you will not get a validated statement of how you actually voted, so you will be unaware of any fraud, and have no ability to raise a dispute and have the vote corrected.