Posts by Aremmes

Re: That does seem kind of shady...

"... the Dash buttons that I need are for Coffee beans, Printer ink and Talisker Whisky!"

Sounds like a cocktail for bitter journalists.

Re: New Tag for WD ..

Username checks out.

Or...

When they said "hard drive" they didn't mean to place it on your crotch.

Re: IPv6 needs a catalyst

"The main limitation of NAT is 16 bit ports. If port addresses were expanded to 32 bits, we'd probably be fine with IPv4 pretty much forever."

For larger networks you can set up source NAT pools, so that connections are spread over a number of IP addresses instead of a single NAT address (e.g., the NAT router), thus avoiding the 16-bit port number limit. Cisco has supported this since when NAT became a thing.

Re: reprimanded for poor performance.

Perfectly cromulent Texas speak there, I'm afraid.

Re: Lets decrypt the name

Now I'm thinking of vuvuzelas protruding from all sides of a server rack, blaring a deafening racket whenever a cat licks its crotch and triggers the intrusion detection system. Why must you do this to me?!?

Re: "if you divide the data into chunks and store the chunks"

I thought of the CKD format on IBM mainframes, where a program can instruct the storage device to locate a record by key and transfer it to a buffer in memory without CPU intervention.

Re: Fun except

I don't know what "high-dimensional molecular structure" means either, but given the source I bet it involves giant robots in space.

Re: Nokia Communicator

If they put the hinge on the long side (the only thing I wished the Nokia N900 had) and give it a QWERTY keypad, I'm sold.

Re: They not be able to pronounce WhatsApp for love nor money...

"Most Spaniards I'm guesing they will pronounce WhatsApp either "WASAP" or "WARSAP""

I can tell you that when speaking Spanish anything that introduces pauses into the syllable timing will get summarily dropped. Hence, "wasap" instead of "watsap". Spanish makes little use of syllable final consonants outside of "m", "n" and "s", and even then has a preference for ending syllables with vowels -- e.g., notice the aspirated final "r"s and "s"s in Caribbean Spanish.

Re: good luck to them

Third-party software vendors have something to do with it, I'm afraid. Where I work we have a big "enterprise application suite" -- ERP stuff. It's a big nasty hodgepodge of PL/SQL, Pro*C, Pro*COBOL, Java, Forms, and other things that should be declared Not Safe For Work, very tightly integrated with the database and associated Oracle stack products. Unsurprisingly, the vendor certifies it compatible only with Oracle, and will not support its use with anything else -- I think they might even consider the use of another database product a violation of the contract or some other equally ludicrous claim. Fortunately, I'm not a DBA, nor do I want to be one.

Re: Such stamina!

More importantly, why a bus? Did the bus dress provocatively?

Re: A U-2 you say?

Only on a beautiful day, when they're not skipping from three all the way to fourteen.

Re: 26 amps?

Ouch. It's hard to go past a single rack with just two 15-amp circuits (per the standard NEMA 5-15 mains outlet rating). Data centers here usually go for dual 30-amp circuits, sometimes at 120V (with L5-30 outlets), or preferably 240V (L6-30) to reduce power losses.

Re: Not the first, I think

Each of those two has more native speakers than Cherokee (16,400 per the wikis) and use a Latin alphabet. Quechua also has the privilege of being an official language in two countries.

Re: what's with the name "kaminario?"

It sounds like another product from the strategy boutique. "Caminar" means "to walk" in Spanish, so "kaminario" sort of sounds like it's going for a walk. Probably right before being knocked unconscious and being put on the cart.

Re: Cricket bats versus baseball bats

An aluminium baseball bat will produce a thoroughly satisfying *PING* when impacted upon a miscreant's head.

http://bit.ly/ON0jFs

Re: There's a bunch in PA

Bird In Hand, PA (near Blue Ball, Intercourse, and Paradise)

http://g.co/maps/cvjzf

These towns are deep in Amish country.

Re: But WHO will play Ballmer

So, they could put Jason Alexander up for an audition, and he wouldn't have to wear his new hairpiece for it.

Re: Hyperchannel

Cray did something like that at least twice already. The XD1 uses ASICs to extend HyperTransport into a switched fabric to link 144 processors together into a single system image. The XT3 and successors connect the CPUs to the SeaStar interconnect via HyperTransport.

The processors can connect to each other without any glue logic but that consumes HT links quickly. One can only add so much to the die and packaging before it gets too expensive.

The title is optional, and may include ninjas

They're probably ninjas, and are able to perform "specific activities" too quickly for the average human eye to even notice.

A title is optional, and may contain badgers

"So come on HP shareholders - sounds like easy way to get your 20% market loss back"

You know that won't happen; even Fiorina was able to steamroll them into the ground.

definitely ignorant

Thing is, the odds of encountering a South African anywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians are so low that most people won't be able to tell a real SA accent from a fake one. Those same people wouldn't be able to distinguish between English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, or Australian accents either, for that matter.

Apple SCSI

Real SCSI, as the Lord intended it to be, uses the target (i.e., the peripheral device) to drive the transaction. Apple's SCSI as implemented in the Mac Plus, on the other hand, uses the initiator (i.e., the controller) for that function. Granted, the SCSI standard was still in development, but IIRC the roles of initiator and target were well understood back then.