Posts by richardcox13

Re: Open Cmd Here?

Because typing wt is harder?

Re: I called the cops

As noted in a reply this should be 011 (memory gets worse in time, but is better than the alternative).

Re: Of course if they weren't so greedy ....

TV on and get it down an aerial and it is not encrypted, indeed everybody can snoop and see the traffic if they want.

Third parties cannot see what you are watching in that case. Or see traffic from you back to the source.

Both of which happen when using a streaming service.

Re: Basically tells you all you need to know about Stack Overflow users...

> I tend to believe TIOBE, i

Only if you want to see what employers think they want (which will largely be their legacy systems, combined with some bait and switch).

If you read the notes around the SO survey you'll find ~3% (IIRC) of respondents are using Rust. But a lot more of the respondents would like the opportunity to use Rust.

Re: Microsoft only have themselves to blame

On a one line script... not really,

On a script with a few hundred lines of code: yes.

Definitely the stream to watch, over the rather more scripted official streams.

Re: Funny that

I just remove it

Re: Have some Mint instead!

> US$2,499 + VAT...that is a lot of money for a desktop.

But not a huge amount for a workstation. Comparisons are with Dell Precision, Mac Pro and the like. (In this space a fully loaded up NUC Pro is low end.) Consider that price includes ~$1000 for a graphics card which will look pretty more if you want FPS for your FPS, but if you need maximum quality rendering then it is cheap.

Specialist machine for those with high end requirements.

Refection is not that slow (at least after the metadata is loaded for that type: the first time is slow). Unless you are measuring the performance you are just assuming.

ASP.NET MVC uses reflection heavily, and still manages to be massively faster than Web Forms (and as pages get more complex, even more so) and yet MVC uses reflection at its core.

As with anything performance beyond the simplest code it is far more subtle than you can predict.

Re: I hope they thought this through

> Zoom make you sign three year licensing deal

Not for personal usage they don't. And that is where much (if not almost all) of the growth has been. Families and friends keeping in contact.

Re: spare disk space

Because the typefaces found on mechanical typewriters were typographic horrors.

Two spaces did help readability (as did double line spacing – which was required in many cases).

But with mechanical typewriters[1] being something for museums and hipsters, we should move on to better options.

Many people were taught two spaces, but that is because the teachers were taught that. This does not make it good.

[1] Outside parts of the Indian legal system IIRC.

Re: I believe OpenSSL was audited...

It was.

But neither an audit or extra compiler checks solve the halting problem.

Because it is insoluble.

Re: Elevator interface

Reminds we of a story boardcast on (maybe RI Christmas Lecture when I was the right age... so a while ago!)

Some academic (so really a post-Grad or post-doc) had developed a really sensitive inclinometer in Aberdeen.And were confused by a not-quite 12 hour cycle in the readings when left sitting on a (very stable) surface.

Aberdeen.... built on lots of granite was moving with the tide.

Re: OK, so can run a game server on a switch

A typical home router contains:

- WAN modem (or multiple for ADSL and VDSL)

- Backup WAN connection

- Multiple Wi-Fi Access points (including a guest network)

- A LAN switch

- A router between LAN, multiple Wi-Fi and main and backup WAN connections.

- NAT, Firewall, DHS, DHCP, ... fuinctions

Guest Wi-Fi only routes to/from the WAN ports (no LAN access).

Yes, a lot more than a router, but most definitely a router making choices on which port to send a packet based on which subnet it came from in addition to its destination.

Considerable more capable than early IP routers...

Re: £2.5m

But this is a lift and shift: not an ERP upgrade (or replacement) so none of that should be needed.

More a case of working through all dependencies and updating them to work with a different hosting solution, While definitely non-trivial this is a much more reasonable scope for a project.

Re: Remember serial breakout boxes?

Yes they were useful, but for real troubleshooting and testing a protocol analyser was even better.

A breakout box with an attached computer that would allow you to record and show you the data being sent. Along with changes to hardware signals. For when you wanted to push things programmable to emulate another device.

Like this.

> To be fair, there are a lot of facepalm questions, but I seldom encounter them.

Mostly because that 1% have already moderated them.

Re: Perrow

Looks like it now in primt... with a revised edition published in 1999. Also a Kindle edition is available.

Re: I actually believed it for a moment ...

> and they are BIG

"You may think it is a long way around to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to a Saturn V."

They are really really BIG! Until you want next to one you have no idea.

> The big problem

Also significant parts of the engineering drawings have been lost as well. So a re-start of the program would be a redesign pretty much from the ground up. The only advantage over the original program would be that it was known to work from the start.

But the biggest issue would be the kind of risks that were taken in the Apollo program are simply not accepted today.

Re: I remember the days ..

So do I.

But I also recall that was but a pale shadow of "real" project management systems that run on big systems. Perhaps consider the difference between notepad and a real text editor: if all you've ever seen is notepad then you don't know what you are missing.

Re: Use fresh fruit and veg

This is why the "don't go out for shopping" in work day is a poor rule.

30-45min trip can be done while shops are quieter (and shelf fillers have a chance to get things there) with fewer people around. Add time on to the end (or start) of the day to compensate.

Re: Loo Roll(ers)

My shopping run a few hours ago: there was some loo roll! It was going pretty much as quickly as it was brought out.to the shop floor.

Maybe the panic buyers have run out of space, and the rest of us can reach a normal level?

Re: Key workers

Government document

Says IT and telecommunications but with the caveat "their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service".

Re: First I heard of it

Definitely a case of YMMV.

I could do everything except change notification settings...

Re: v5?

Answer is to avoid confusion with .NET Framework 4.x.

.NET 5 is the next update to .NET Core, but will drop the "Core" becoming the next version aimed to (eventually) fully replace .NET Framework.

(Framework does have the usual MS >10 years of support, so no rush to rewrite... yet.)

Re: Under no circumstances

Big Brother Bezos is watching you and you will be assimilated.

FIFY.

Re: You don't need to know how 1,600 services work

Exactly.

While each micro-service may be simple, all that has happened is the complexity has been pushed up to the interactions between those micro-services (to some form or orchestration layer).

Maybe that allows Monzo to, at least now, to more easily manage that complexity. Or maybe having a greenfield development has just avoided the legacy complexity because Moizo don't have that much IT history.

Only time will tell.

Having read read some of the comment threads it seems revoking all potentially insecure certificates within 5 days of the discovery of the flaw is part of the Baseline Requirements agreed between CAs.

Re: "But we’ll do this all online"

Conferences are not really about the formal scheduled sessions. The real benefit is all the other communication and ad-hoc discussions.

That does not work online.

(However, in current circumstances, cancellations are a good idea.)

Look: east-west privilege; other directions have just as much value!

Re: NMR wiping.

> p.s., hydrochloric acid on your ATM card is also not very good for it.

One wonders what a HCl infected magnetic strip did to the readers...

Re: Driver Signing

> Can Microsoft not revoke the signature for the driver, or would that invalidate all Gigabyte drivers?

It would certainly block existing, otherwise working, drivers.

But there is another option with code signing, when the code was signed the timestamp itself should include a certificate that it is a valid timestamp for the then now. (This. in Windows, appears as a counter signature on the signature details.)

The code signing certificate can thus be invalidated from a given date by the issuing authority.

Code with a signed timestamp from before that point is still valid and passes its check. Code signed after that date, or without a signed timestamp does not.

In the DOM, so on clients it is built in Fetch.

On server side (Node.js) not so much...

Re: Same as Audits

Yes.

MS Excel,... which copied Lotus 123