Posts by Borg.King

Scripted

I've had this whole shebang scripted on Windows Server for several months now. I even have an nginx proxy that's properly certified too. This is hardly a difficult thing to do, and once you've learnt the underpinnings (about three days with trial and error), it's good knowledge to have.

Just make sure you create a certificate with a subject alternate name defined to please Chrome.

Special powers

Under the Terrorism Act or somesuch may well see a ban on public drone sales in the future.

Skype should be simple

Easily editable list of contacts, their current online state, and a button to start a video chat with them.

Anything else is Skype Pro, which I do not need myself. My iPhone can handle making real telephone calls.

AoA sensor replaced prior to fatal flight

Wasn't the Angle of Attack sensor replaced prior to this last fatal flight of this aircraft?

So far I have heard reports that there were issues on the 3 previous flights to this one, and the sensor had been replaced. Had one faulty sensor been replaced with another one? Had the wrong sensor been replaced? Did the new sensor pass all ground tests on the system before departure? Had the ground tests been properly executed? Has the cockpit been found to determine the state of the MCAS switches?

If the MCAS / AoA system had issues on the previous flights, were those pilots aware of the new equipment operating procedures on the 737 MAX? How did those previous pilots overcome the documented system failures?

The final AAIB report on this will make extremely interesting reading. I hope they find the cockpit voice recorder, though I expect it will just have the two pilots extremely baffled at why their aircraft is repeatedly countermanding their control inputs.

What a crap article

Well done.

Pocket Rocket

The new Mac Mini line looks to be in the same ball park as a refurb Mac Pro (6 core i7, 32GB, 1TB SSD, $2499), but it supports the latest Mac OS X and has Thunderbolt ports.

With some adaptoring, I think it'll even be able to drive my two Apple 30" monitors. I write code, so video resolution/performance has absolutely no bearing on my needs at all.

The new Mac Pro (next year?) needs to be a significant step up to have me looking away from a high end Mac Mini.

Nigel's Condoms

'For when you cannot contain your excitement!'

iPhone 8 Plus

It took four visits to the Apple Genius Bar to get my iPhone 8 Plus replaced when it had exactly this issue at the start of this year.

Needed a jolly

In a former life, many a time bringing an ailing PC or printer back to base would remove all trace of the reported issue. The thing just needed a day out of the office.

Similarly, temporary HD fixes for worn out bearings could be achieved by putting the HD in the freezer for a few hours. They'd run long enough afterwards to copy off the data to a new HD.

Feature Comparison Table

I'm not a VR connoisseur by any means, but I've yet to see a side by side feature comparison of the Magic Leap One with the other [leading] units on the market?

If this unit is as poor as reporters would have us believe, then a few facts and stats would be helpful to illustrate this conclusion.

So long Grandma, thanks for all the fish

1. Overload the switch.

2. Trip the GFCI on the main distribution panel.

3*. Powers down the automatic defibrillator, and the WiFi connected panic switch.

4. Anyone want Grandmas cat?

5. Donations to the RSPCA please.

* At this point you could switch the movie script to mix alien and human DNA to create whomsowhatever.

I love my Mac Mini

1. It's my home server,

2. It captures video from my home security cameras

3. I can Remote Desktop into it

4. It sits nicely hidden away in my networking cabinet - behind the towels, the sheets and the 2 bumper packs of toilet rolls :)

I would love a new one though. Faster (i7), more RAM (32GB), 2TB+ HD. One HDMI port, and a handful of Thunderbolt / USB C would do it.

(Plus I can use one for Windows and get rid of my wife's desk space consuming Dell tower too.)

1.21 Gigawatts

Did Emmett arrive in a DeLorean, and was he wearing clothes from around the 1930's?

As exciting as this is

Is it economically sensible to actually buy these compared to, say, four 256TB units and then spend the purchasing dollars saved on renting extra datacenter floorspace/power/cooling?

I'm sure in time they'll become economically viable, but is that 6 months from now, or 2 years?

I'm not a datacenter purchasing, commissioning or operations engineer (I write code), just curious to understand the economics here.

Want to chat with a Stork

Dial 100 and ask to speak to Buzby.

We're out of Post-It notes

and screen wipes.

Guess we wouldn't of found out about either of these if Slack had not been offline.

Lars & the future interview

Do I, or do I not, now give date related coding questions to any interviewee named Lars?

2026?

@Simon - where did you see information stating the end date was being moved out. I only see a change in the update model. I do not see any mention of the new model being continued past the already announced Jan 14 2020 end date.

PVFS

Plagiarized Virtual File System

Is it bigger. . .

. . . than a London double decker bus?

End of SourceDepot?

Adios.

180 degrees of separation?

If you had two engines coupled in opposition across a pressure sensor, and measured the force on that sensor, would that eliminate the effect of any force exerted externally on the apparatus as a whole?

(Asking for a friend)

K9

As the register seems intent on avoiding a beer carrying back pack for the humble golden retriever, which is also very adept at following balls, might I suggest that the final chassis of LESTER bears a significant resemblance to a certain robotic assistant of Dr. Who.

Plus K9 did have a LASER in his nose, and you can never have enough LASERs, can you?

Chicken creme egg kiev

Stuff the fondant in the middle of the chicken, and then dip it into a big saucepan of molten chocolate.

Bonus points for putting a long lollipop like stick in it.