Simple GPS signal?
Is the most complex system of clocks. Think relativity and orbital velocity.
Posts by MarkET
111 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2013
tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones
Check your bits: What to do when Unix decides to make a hash of your bill printouts
Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on
Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid spotted, flies closer to the Sun than Mercury
Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland
Wednesday 18th August 2021 11:23 GMT
Castling
Too many deep fried Haribos.
Reminds me of a tale from Oxford...
A young scholar sitting an exam demanded to be served a pint of beer as he understood it to be a right. The pint was duly served. The next day he was fined £5 for failing to wear a clean sword in attendance at an exam.
Who knows.
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Elementary OS 6 Odin released on a 'pay what you want' basis
Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?
Friday 6th August 2021 11:02 GMT
Manipulation
Reminds me of an old 'bit toggling' trick in image files for sending messages. Specific bit offsets would constitute a message without affecting the visual representation of the image. Easy to get a 1K message into a hi-res photo.Even better it those bits contain a new offset for the next image...
Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC
AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe
Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?
Wednesday 14th July 2021 12:35 GMT
Xerox
I worked for Rank Xerox in the early '80s. Don't forget they also made Sigma mainframes and the first dual 8/16 bit processor CP/M based machines for the office (820-II I think).
I remember debugging an 860 word processor for an errant interrupt handler in a smoke filled office on the Euston Road next to Capital Radio and Thames TV. They owned a hotel behind the office which provided welcome refreshments on an afternoon.
What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for
Developing for Windows 11: Like developing for Windows 10, but with rounded corners?
Updating in production, like a boss
Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too
Pre-orders open for the Mini PET 40/80, the closest thing to Commodore's classic around
Friday 11th June 2021 10:04 GMT
Re: The PETs inspired me.
Used to love the 20mA current-loop interface on those. So reliable, especially when equipped with the paper tape punch / reader. Remember loading Altair Basic onto a MITS 8800 after toggling-in the boot loader via front panel load / deposit switches. Actually soldered the S-100 edge connectors to that motherboard as a weekend job. In a museum now. The machine, not me.
Thanks, boss. The accidental creation of a lights-out data centre – what a fun surprise
Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us
Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers
Azure adds programmatic pricing API to help you sniff out global deals
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth
Suckers for punishment, we added a crawler transporter to our Saturn V
Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty
Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws
Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin
Tuesday 22nd December 2020 10:23 GMT
End all this nonsense
Quoted from their website, which also has a nice photoshop'ped image of him with a very attractive person.
"Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offering a global, affordable, simple, & secure savings account to billions of people that don’t have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund."
~ Michael J. Saylor
And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction
Monday 21st December 2020 16:35 GMT
Re: Interesting comment...the lawyers will love this
Yes. The point was that he was still an employee of HP. In most jurisdictions ownership of intellectual property related to, or in the form of, articles of work undertaken whilst in employment are the property of the employer unless agreed otherwise by both parties.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
