Posts by phuzz

Re: Good luck with that

It doesn't say you can't be on call, it just says you have to be paid overtime if you are.

Where I work you get a monthly bonus for being on call, plus overtime if we actually have to do something out of hours.

Ok, it looks like they've changed the install method since it was released last year.

When I installed it it was a case of enabling the feature, and just running bash. I don't know if that method still works.

Re: I don't know for a fact or even if its happening..

The trouble is that there's only so many factories capable of producing a modern chip, and they're all being used already.

It takes years and millions of dollars/pounds/yen/etc. to start up a new chip fab, so there's no quick opportunity for nVidia (or AMD or Intel etc.) to increase production.

If cryptomining on GPUs is still a profitable business in four-five years I expect the chip makers to be producing 'mining cards' specifically geared towards that, as well as their gaming and workstation GPUs, but that's a pretty big 'if' for a GPU manufacturer to invest millions right now...

Re: Northrup Grumman

I think Lockheed-Martin would be very upset if you claim that Northrup are better at wasting tax-payer money than them.

Crapita aren't even in the same league as those two, US military money is a far vaster barrel of pork than UK government contracts.

I'm surprised they don't take tires when we can leave old engine oil and car batteries by the kerb and they'll be recycled round here.

Re: TLS 1.3

We have clients who've still not moved entirely to TLS 1.2. "but we still have customers using IE6 who spend lots of money with us!" (really). So I'm not holding out any hope of 1.3 getting fully adopted this decade.

Who's fault?

There's SPF records from 2014, and DKIM from 2011, but it's up to providers to actually implement them.

I'm sure the ICO will be pretty chuffed if this goes as planned.

I do wonder if Forgotten Weapons will be able to continue on Youtube, because one of their rules is that there can't be a link to buy weapons. However Ian does a lot of work at auction houses (I assume it's the best way to get access to some rare firearms), and unsurprisingly always mentions that it's possible to buy whatever interesting gun he's looking at this week from the auction house.

I hope he can continue the channel because he's very much about the history and mechanics of the weapons he looks at, rather than the legal/political side.

Re: Yawn

Who knows what effect a bloody great cable going all the way through the atmosphere would have on the ionosphere?

And as others have mentioned, Arthur C. Clarke's book The Fountains of Paradise is well worth a read.

Re: All your payment tokens are mine

The "All your X are belong to us" phrasing is based on a bad translation from Japanese. Russian has nothing to do with it.

Re: Great images

"investigated by proper socialists"

Is there any left? Or did you mean scientists?

Re: What Trump wants…

I'm not sure where you got that idea from mate, even the BBC is finding it hard to say anything nice about him.

Re: EE (BT)

SIM-only is the way forward. As long as you have the income to buy a phone out right, it often works out cheaper than paying the phone company in instalments, plus you can pick exactly what phone you want, and it's easier to switch to another network.

Re: and Pigs might fly a.k.a F-35

The ECM carried by the Vulcan was rumoured to be powerful enough to cause physical damage to some of the US radar equipment they used to practise against.*

Who needs stealth when the opponent's radars are all smoking from the electronics?

* Allegedly.

I'm guessing it's Microsoft minutes because all the previous updates took about 10-15 minutes for me, and this is supposed to be a faster process.

"Half want in, half want out, half want a hard out, half want a soft out,"

Which half want to shake it all about?

Re: As a non Facebook user*, let me just say...

I've never had a facebook account either, but I assume they still know all sorts of things about me, because I have friends who do use facebook.

All you need is one friend who's willing to click the "yes please, by all means have access to everything on my phone" button, and now facebook know everything that your friend knows about you.

Re: "stopped at any airport [..] and extradited by the judiciary there"

"Um, really ? So if you're wanted by the US and you go to, say, Germany, the US can call up the Germans and have them arrest you on their behalf ?"

Of course not, they don't bother asking the government of another country for permission, they just go ahead and kidnap them. For example.

Re: Pedestrians Getting in the Way

Pedestrians might be allowed to walk down the cycle lane, but they risk cyclists hitting them, shouting at them, or just pushing them out of the way.

Re: SATA ssd

The SSDs in the article are all either SAS or SATA, no NVMe. From TFA:

Toshiba PM5: 30.72TB, 2.5-inch case, 12 Gbit/s SAS interface

Micron 5100, 5200 Eco: 7.68TB, 2.5-inch case, SATA 6gig interface

Samsung PM1643: 30.72TB, 2.5-inch format, 12 Gbit/s SAS

Re: out of paper!

@ bobajob12

If you have 100 Windows PCs then you use a central print server (unless you enjoy making life difficult for yourself), so there's only one place you need to delete print jobs. You can push shared printers along with their drivers with Group Policy, so (eg) Accounts get their own B&W printer, while Marketing get some crayons their own really expensive colour printer etc.

Re: Oink, oink, flap, flap.

"it would be logical for it to maintain existing agreements"

Is that a polite way of saying that there's no way it'll ever happen?

Re: being wealthy on paper as long as they don't try to sell them

Or you can just use them to buy stuff. Well, a year or so ago it was relatively easy anyway.

Re: Weird timing

Perfect timing for me.

Until now we've been using a plugin to limit functionality in Firefox. That add-on isn't getting updated, and the ESR support for add-ons only lasts until the summer, so I'd really like a solution before then.

I can also see the logic for Mozilla. They didn't want to spend ages developing an enterprise version of Firefox on the old codebase, before having to refactor everything. Now they have a modern, clean codebase to start from.