Posts by jabuzz

Re: Didn't work for me :(

Golden rule of driving is to be able to stop in the distance you see to be clear ahead. So unless the Police car overtook you or pulled out from a side road into your clear space and then broke you where in the wrong if you needed to overtake him for any reason. In effect you got off on a technicality and the initial conviction was correct.

Note this golden rule of driving might mean that you need to slow down to go round a bend, not because your car is unable to make the bend at the speed, but because the bend reduces the visible road ahead that you can see to be clear.

Re: Give it time

Consumer drives account for a small fraction of the shipped used capacity. My educated guess is most capacity is going in the data centre or at the very least consumer level NAS drives, for which SSD makes no economic sense. So unless there is a huge drop in the cost per GB of SSD's disk is not going anywhere. It's just like tape, need to back up 500TB, well doing that to D2D is just not economic even with dedupe.

So while spinning disks (there has been no spinning iron in disks for decades) may well disappear from end user equipment, and 10k/15k RPM hard drives are on the chopping block, the bulk storage 4TB+ 7200/5400 drives are going nowhere fast. I have a pair of 4TB 7200 RPM drives in a RAID1 and it happily could do six different simultaneous 720p streams from my Plex server. At that point I ran out of playback devices, in these sorts of applications SSD is not replacing HDD any time soon.

Re: Coincidentally...

A CRT will never be bio-hazardous waste. That is a term reserved for biological based material that is potentially hazardous, think hospital waste or material from bioscience laboratories.

On the other hand a CRT is full of heavy metals (lead in particular) and is therefore hazardous waste. That said the recovery of the lead from a CRT makes it a roughly cost neutral process, aka the value of the recovered lead is about the same as the cost of recovery.

Note that putting any electronic waste into general landfill has been illegal in the UK for quite a few years now.

Re: get_iplayer

get_iplayer pretends to be a flash player using rtmpdump. If you read the blog article on the BBC website then you will see they intend to still serve to flash based devices for a few years yet. What happens then is another matter of course. Hopefully get_iplayer will be able to switch to HTML5 before then.

Re: @Bota I hope..

You don't get third generation immigrants who can't speak English in the U.K. either, unless you are talking about a small child who is being looked after by a none English speaking grandparent and these are tiny in number.

Re: They could solve the drought...

That's not going to end the drought however. That is no more water is going to fall from the sjy even if every last almond tree in California was chopped down tomorrow. The result is at a minimum that ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada mountains will still be impacted. That is assuming the drought does not end this winter, which seems unlikely.

Re: UHD Blu-ray is already sunk

It is fully blown DRM it is the same scheme that is used by DVD-Audio, which Wikipedia tells me has been broken. However given that CSS in DVD's has been broken, AACS in Bluerays is at least circumventable, and HDCP is smashed into very tiny pieces it is all rather moot.

Re: Uh ...

Because they have tweeted from their mobile phone which is using the mobile signal to send the message and not routing over their Plusnet connection.

Re: They have their uses

The rest of us buy a Bluetooth handsfree headset for a tiny fraction of the price.

Depends if you are going to use it for backup purposes then the costs to recover is to some extent irrelevant, and you switch to someone else by simply dumping your existing "backup" and taking a new one to a different provider.

Re: "The need for secrecy tells us all we need to know about its intent."

You are aware that trans fats occur naturally and having zero trans fats in our food is basically impossible if you eat anything with any source of animal fat in, and that includes milk. So unless you are a vegan you will continue to consume trans fats, though the levels of consumption will drop.

Re: List of supported channels/services

But if all you want is the UK catchup services, then a NowTV box is far better value than anything else. They seem to be out of stock of the £10 ones, but you can get one for £20 with a 3 month entertainment pass, and then flog the pass on eBay for a tenner. Best bit is you are getting Mr. Murdock to in effect give you money because Sky are subsidizing the box. Even better you can side load the Plex or Emby (aka mediabrowser) client onto the box.

Re: Que?

Er go check you facts. The vast majority of slaves transported from Africa (we are talking 99.999% and upwards type figures) where rounded up *BY* Africans for sale to the slave traders. Anyone who thinks Europeans sailed up to the African coast jumped out and rounded up people to ship over the Atlantic is a deluded idiot. Africans were UTTERLY complicit in the slave trade, and without their participation it would not have been possible. When in 1807, the UK Parliament passed the Bill that abolished the trading of slaves. The King of Bonny (now in Nigeria) was horrified at the conclusion of the practice saying

We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#African_participation_in_the_slave_trade

In short no side in the slave trade is without blame.

50% of a 77% turnout is 35%. The number of votes cast for the SNP in the election was about the same as those that voted Yes in the independence referendum, and that was *BEFORE* the collapse in the Oil price.

Personally if I was David Cameron I would ram fiscal independence down Sturgeons neck. I would have it coming into full force in April 2017, which is slower than Salmond wanted, because he was going for *FULL* independence in May 2016. When faced with the reality of devastating cuts to public spending and/or massive tax rises that fiscal independence would bring the SNP might just not do as well next May. Of course if the SNP did not win next May you could back peddle on it :-)

Business taxes is the difficult one, we know the SNP plan is to have a lower rate than England so they can leach taxes from England by getting multinational corporations to relocate their headquarters to Scotland. Two solutions to that in my view, the simpler one is just match anything the SNP do and play a game of chicken that Scotland will loose. The more complex one is say force companies with a profit over say £1m to make up the difference lower Scottish taxes based on percentage of turnover generated in the rest of the UK removing the benefit of a multinational relocating to Scotland to avoid tax and sinking the SNP's taxes plans before they get out of harbour.

The other thing I would do is ram another independence referendum down the SNP's throat. When the loose for a second time they are going to have a hard time calling a third for decades, by which time there should be no oil left and their economic plans will be in complete tatters.

Re: Automatic bricking...

You have a right to remain silent, aka you don't have to answer the Police's questions if you don't want to. It would also be in those sorts of scenarios unwise to answer any questions put to you buy the Police unless you where under arrest and had a solicitor present.

Re: Oh wow...

To be honest the best platform for something like Civilization is a tablet. It's head and shoulders above a PC.

Re: He is single

Neon is much much more expensive than Helium. So while Neon does not when released into the atmosphere escape into outer space as Helium does, and thus not be lost to humanity, it is more expensive. That said it probably costs a few pennies for the amount required to fill a drive.

"As the older more conservative voters fade away, and as SNP support continues to climb, a new referendum is inevitable, just a question of when."

As a No voter I would like to see another referendum this year, I suggest September the 17th. This time we can put to bed the total and outright blatant lies that where the economic policy of the SNP. Unfortunately there won't be one for a generation by which time the closet Tory "I' all right Jack, we have oil now sod you." policy of the SNP will be dead and buried as there will be very little oil left.

Had there been a Yes vote Scotland would now be staring down the barrel of economic ruin. The SNP's calms of prosperity where all based on a price of ~$100 a barrel for oil. Now at half that there would be a massive black hole in the Scottish government's finances that would only be pluggable with massive unsustainable borrowing or austerity that would make the current round pale into insignificance.

It would have been the Darien Scheme all over again.

Re: "Broadcast is efficient"

Assuming your broadband connection is up to it, the BBC iPlayer HD stream is 720p as can easily be ascertained by using get_iplayer to download a stream to disk and examining it to your hearts content. So in reply the BBC iPlayer HD stream is better than an SD broadcast.

Re: Z2 Compact

There is no such thing as a Z2 Compact. There is a Z1 Compact and a Z3 Compact. Probably because the only real difference between a Z1 and a Z2 is the IPS display, and the Z1 Compact has an IPS display already. I have the Z1 Compact for reference.

Re: How big a problem and why?

Yes I would because it is a very specific form of spam that they are complaining about and I don't have any matching spam in my inbox or anywhere on three PlusNet accounts that I have checked.

So the question is if said database has been breached why has the spam not been delivered to the none PlusNet email addresses for these three accounts?

My Occam's razor is at this point telling me the spammer got them from somewhere else.

Re: "what comes after is breathing heavily down the neck of flash"

Only iron oxide is rust, all other metal oxides are just that oxides. So given the platters are either glass or aluminium, that the recording layer is devoid of any iron based materials there is no "spinning rust" in a hard drive and it has been that way for many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust

Re: no proof

Sorry but you can setup your email at PlusNet so that all email to *@myid.plus.com gets delivered. It is one of the features of their system and has been like that since well longer than I care to remember certainly more than an decade. That said I have the wildcard address directed to /dev/null another very long standing feature, though I can remember a time when it was not.

The amount of spam I get on my PlusNet hosted email account is very limited ever since they included virus and spam filtering by default rather than an optional extra. I have personally not received the spam in question, and one would presume that if the PlusNet database had been compromised that the spammer would have spammed all the addresses harvested not just some.

That last bit suggests to me that the spammer has managed to harvest the email address from somewhere else. Where and how is the question.

Re: So, can Kryder's Law in fact carry on?

There has been no iron oxide in hard disks for over a decade at a minimum. The whole spinning rust notion is complete nonsense. Hard disks have aluminium or glass platters coated with magnetic materials that don't include iron.

Re: With a Maunder Minimum you win some, you lose some

The lack of frost fairs on the Thames has everything to do with London bridge being replaced and the embankments being built. Put another way the winters of 2010 and 2011, where plenty cold enough for the Thames to freeze, but it came nowhere close. It did not freeze in 1947 and 1963 either. It is unlikely the Thames will ever freeze again in London.

Re: Sorry Tom

Just exactly how does that work with the download feature of iPlayer then? They actually advertise it as being suitable for taking stuff on holiday, and in my experience it worked in the France on my Kindle Fire HD earlier this year.

Re: Who says they can?

Given DigitalGlobe are a U.S. based firm and that they are launching for a polar orbit from a U.S. military base I think it is perfectly reasonable for the U.S. government to limit what they are doing.

Want to set up a company outside the U.S.A., build your satellite outside the U.S.A. and using components that are not under U.S.A. export restrictions and then launch using none U.S.A. launch vehicles outside the U.S.A. you would be good to go selling what ever resolution imagery you want. That is presuming other governments don't also put restrictions on what you want to sell...

Re: Frame

Take a look at the Shimano Nexus and Alfine range of hub gears available in 7 and 8 speed versions. They are aimed at commuter bikes however, their big selling point being the much lower maintenance and the possibility of using full chain guards to reduce chain maintenance. They introduced an electronic shifting model last year. There are also 8 speed Sunrace Sturmey Archer hubs these days.

Re: Interesting ruling, but

The Treaty of Versailles confiscated the Asprin trademark as part of war reparations from Germany. So in USA, UK, France, Russia there is no such thing as brand name Aspirin. One presumes that parts of the world that where in the British Empire in 1919 can also claim the trademark is not valid, as could fragmentary parts of the victor nations so Ireland, Belarus, Ukraine etc. are also covered.

Re: For marketroid values of "archival"

Funny the archive life on the side of my LTO tapes says 30 years. You probably want to shift the data onto newer tapes sooner because of issues with tape and drive compatibility, so if your data is on LTO3 you probably want to move them to LTO6 in the next few years. That said I did a several hundred TB LTO1 to LTO4 migration five years ago. Anyone doing large scale archiving should have a tape robot so they can just load the new tapes, set the software off and forget about it. Took several months but so what.

RAID6 even with 4TB drives gives rebuild times that are bigger than one would wish. Fortunately there are solutions to this, Google for "dynamic disk pools" to see one fix, it is like 8D+2P RAID6 but is done at the block level. Of course this is for large numbers of drives.

Re: Time to Migrate.

Lets get past this no GUI by default is total rubbish. Server core is the Linux equivalent of running an X11 server with TWM and some xterms, except they are newer and prettier. You still need a video card, with appropriate driver and you still get a graphical interface. It is by no stretch of the imagination a text interface that could be redirected over a serial port for a headless configuration.

Anyone that claims that server core has no GUI has absolutely no concept of what that actually means.