Posts by Michael

Re: Doubtless with the assistance of a baseball bat peppered with rusty nails.

Ah, I remember visiting a former HQ building to work with the QA department to train them on some new software. On the wall was a frame with the message for repeat offenders and a small pistol. A new team leader happened to start working in the QA department that week. She picked the pistol off the wall and pointed it towards the room. Everyone but me hit the floor and the QA manager moved at high speed from his desk and pointed her hand upwards.

Apparently nobody could remember if it was still loaded with live rounds. They had been shooting with it recently. After that I decided to avoid visiting QA. Or putting my name on code commits....

Re: Galaxy Xcover Pro

Missing the desired price point, less than $200.

Couldn't agree more. I thoroughly disliked many of the things he allowed to happen whilst running Microsoft. I've huge respect for what he has done since.

Re: Business cases?

Anyone driving on the A9 regularly would consider dualling the carriage way to be value for money.

Re: Solution is not simple at all

Farnell, digikey and RS will happily sell to you.

Re: Drums away.

Usually only the newer distilleries will sell you a new fill cask. I could suggest Arran?

https://www.arranwhisky.com/our-distillery/buy-a-whisky-cask

Older casks are a bit pricey...

Re: Makes sense

Mmm. I've run out of Talisker. I generally prefer Islay, Lagavulin for preference, but I seem to spend too much time in Speyside and I can't seem to pass a distillery without buying another bottle.

Re: They emailed...

Bash script looping over each file to diff with the original and appending the different lines to a new file?

Re: When you have nothing...

Actually, the UK government are contacting companies across the UK to see who has the capabilities to manufacture ventilators. I received a call on Monday. I had to clarify that we use contract manufactures and could manufacture anything ourselves.

However, given the lack of manufacturing and assembly capabilities in the UK I'd be surprised if there are many companies left that could change production lines to make ventilators in a reasonable time period. This won't be helped by schools phoning for parents to collect children that cough once to keep them out of school for 14 days.

Alternatively

Some of us would like to see a reduction in the stupidly high levels of pay and an increase in the number of doctors trained. Reduce work load and increase availability of skilled staff. Also, the fact that you can't get an appointment with a consultant on the NHS, but can pay privately to see the same consultant within 2 weeks indicates that there is a clear bias to work privately and not for the NHS the further up the chain you get.

Do I get to cast the first stone?

Now, I'm not saying I've never had software issues. Certificates, however, have never been an issue.

Re: Right to repair?

Probably at least 70% mark up on everything. I'd be surprised if it were any lower. Marketing is expensive. This scheme is all about encouraging people to part with extra money more quickly than would otherwise be the case if you have to wait for products to fail and users to buy a replacement.

Re: (strokes chin)

To be followed by the model B, model E model 4S and model T

Re: Facebook/Google et al

As this ruling requires that there is an international law to apply. Right to be forgotten is an EU only law and not part of general worldwide agreed treaties. Therefore it applies locally. This judgement states that if there is a relevant international law found to be breached then the locally applied for an won court ruling should be enforce globally.

Re: Whatever

Based on 2900 people in London. The rest evenly distributed. Apart from the one person in Glasgow who lives and works within 200m of the mast and still has crap coverage.

Let me know when you have results for 10%of the population per city. I might believe the results have any significance.

Re: Just Tell Me...

Simple. Install your favourite Linux distribution.

Re: Please explain

As the kid that wrote the software on a summer placemeny at his dad's pals company carefully crafted it using a visual basic script and excel to total the results?

Re: Shifting a lamb

Well, as aniseed balls are about 1cm in diameter, 0.5cm in radius. So the aniseed ball is around 600,240,096,038,415.4 times bigger than the proton. .

Or to look at it another way, if you imagine that the aniseed ball is the proton, you'd need to compare it to something with a radius of around 20 Astronomical units.

Re: Contradiction

Kilo doesn't mean 1024.

1 kibibyte (KiB) = 210 bytes = 1024 bytes

This is not the same as one kilobytes. Which follows standard SI unit convention. This has been the case for over 20 years. I think, since 1998 as I remember the arguments during my undergraduate course.

Re: Can someone explain...

There are a number of advantages. largely around the increased use of MIMO directional antenna, improved capacity and better uplink speeds. For businesses and users with higher upload requirements 5G will make a huge difference as the speed achievable are significantly improved. There are plenty of business uses for the 5g network that need more responsive upload speeds. These can't come to market until the network exists.

I have to agree that for most users it will make little difference and the increase in mast height will be more significant to more people. Equally, networks will be upgrading their hardware anyway to maximise profits by reducing the number of mast required or by being able to service more customers. There will be a long term benefit to users as data usage continues to increase.

Re: "they weren't in use so nobody was affected"

20 years old is new? Seriously?

I'd recommend

Ember and PostgreSQL because its low cost, can be developed quickly and will work on all platforms such as Apps and PWS.

Re: Just like buying a magazine.

I have three kids. I don't negotiate. I am their parent. They will do as they are told or there will be not internet access. I fail to see the complexity involved in this process.

Re: How long...

Or a group of women suing him will register trumpjustwantedtofuck.us

Re: Automotive Systems & Software

Yes there is. Mistakes can still happen. Given the failure combination that is required to happen and the fact that you can over come it by pressing the break this isn't really that significant. Beyond the number of vehicles that require to be reprogrammed by a dealer. This is more annoying as they deliberately make it difficult for non dealerships to fix, which in turn slows the whole process down.

Re: Apps??

No they were programmes back then. They still are to me.

Disaster recovery

It is all relative.

For example, in our small team, we destroy our entire staging environment and perform complete restore from backups once every month or two. We also use the production backups for restoration to verify that these are working in a separate environment. I deliberately get someone that hasn't done it recently to check the documentation is correct and everything works. Given that we also have the git repos and source on multiple dev machines also for everything, the worst case data loss is from a dev not committing regular changes. But everything is tested, and I believe regularly enough for a team of 10.

If I was hosting thousands of peoples data, I'd expect a more regular testing of the backup and recovery procedure. The can never have tested it with production data as they have no working backups. That is just incompetent.

real time costs

You can get real time costs if you put a little effort in and try something like Netflix ice:

https://github.com/Netflix/ice

Although pricing estimates can still be somewhat confusing.

Re: Linux

Nope, we have been forced to use office 365 as other departments are using it. Only, no Linux support so we need to either restart into a windows machine, run a VM or remote desktop onto a Windows PC to work on documents or browse the random locations where others have shared files.

The web interface is a joke for document editing.

The fact that you can't selectively sync files is painful to deal with.

Re: @LDS (was: Yes, Word is the worst word processor....)

Lyx for those that want to see as they type.

Re: HTPC?

Get a USB IR receiver stick it somewhere unobtrusive and mount the PC on the VESA mount at the back of the TV. Or in a drawer. Having the IR on the PC means I need to have it on show.