Posts by druck

Re: Psych out the psyche-less?

No, all the pictures of forests with tanks on them were taken on a sunny day, and all the pictures of forests without tanks in them on a cloudy day, so the AI learned the difference between sunny and cloudy forests.

The only budget IBM would allocate; is to the legal team to prosecute the restorers for performing unauthorised repairs, and the compliance team make sure the licences have been paid on any software when its running again.

Re: Steps for working with electricity in the home

Check for sockets and pipework on both sides of the wall, in a line vertically or horizontally for where you want to drill, as that is how they tend to run. Although at some point I fully expect to find some diagonal wiring/pipework that someone thought was a good idea.

Re: Madness

Have you seen this? C-plus-Equality

Re: SMETS2?

No the primary aim is to allow selective load shedding when wind and solar aren't available and the grid starts to fall over, which is going to happen more frequently with increasing reliance on renewables.

Instead of the situation which happened recently, of everyone in large parts of the country experiencing blackouts, they can instruct the smart meters to disconnect peoples houses. That is unless you are on the Priority Register (elderly, ill, or have small children), in which case they'll leave you on, so as to try to avoid any negative publicity from the deaths of vulnerable people.

The reduction in call volumes suggest to me, people have given up reporting bugs in the ever shifting mess, and are just resigned to waiting for the next update.

Re: A bad craftsman…

True, but it doesn't mean there aren't poor tools too. If I hadn't used git from the command line before Atlassian's SourceTree, I would have thought git was thoroughly useless. SourceTree is OK for very simple use, but you enviably need to drop to the command line for anything remotely complex.

The same thing probably goes for Mercurial which I've only used via Tortoise Hg. That and now my company is only using it for legacy products, the lack for familiarity and differences to git's work flow are the things that stand out. My main grievances with Tortoise Hg is it doesn't automatically refresh, doesn't get the latest version on copying a repository, and its not always clear which the latest release commit to update to.

Re: Physical Access

If this story was about about being able to get CAN commands on to the aircraft's bus via a comms or nav system, then that would be an issue, this isn't.

Re: The Fix

There's plenty of places to hide in the tens of thousands of lines of human readable interpreted javascript pulled down and executed each time you visit a website - because you look at all first, don't you?

Re: Only getting 1/4 of what I pay for here!

It's pointless trying to measure wired broadband speed over WiFi, you need to connect to the fibre modem with Ethernet to know what you speed you are getting.

There are so many factors which can affect the WiFi speed between the access point and the client, its near impossible to get the optimal transfer rate, so you will never get an accurate measure of a 1Gb broadband connection using WiFi.

Re: Counter Correction

Only the one middle aged nudist out there?

4 + 4 + 4

I was at RAF Coningsby listening to the 8 Merlin's of the last two flying Lancasters, when the 4 Olympus' of the Vulcan started up, and they could still just be heard. The flypast of all three was just wonderful.

Re: Embarcadero is priced too high for developers .

Two and a half to neigh on three grand for basically a 17 year old copy of Delphi for Linux which is x86-64 only. The heat here today is certainly getting to me, but surely I can not have just read that.

Do pay, and they'll take it away

Do the right thing, reject easily downloading pirated copies, support the artist and distributor by paying for your digital content. Then wake up one morning, and find that the DRM bailiffs have taken it all away.

Re: If you want to buy enough of them

...but in a good way - a very good way!