Those will be no good, what you need is a copy of pc-cilin
Posts by Terje
370 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2011
Finally, a technology angle on the coronavirus outbreak: Semiconductor biz stocks slip amid China supply chain fears
Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft
There's a basic issue here that I fail to grasp.
If I open a browser and search for something I want the response from the search engine of choice be it bing, google, duckduckgo or something entirely different!
If I seach local files or a fileshare files I don't want to be told that amazon sells some tat for $X mixed in.
Why would anyone want things mixed up, sure there's a case for mixing local and fileshare but apart from that if you have no fing clue what you want you should probably not have access to it...
Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos
Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN
Re: Hum
I always fall into the same pit of not being jaded enough. When seen from this perspective it's obvious!
1. Put intern on cobbling together basic functionality time taken 2 weeks, cost ~$0
2. Let jaded developer make sure the software is no longer fir for purpose time taken between 200 and infinity weeks, cost giga$.
3. goto 1
It's amazing just how they manage to beep up these kind of systems, at the core it's really not complicated at all. Keep track of flight hours, part durability and flag up what needs to be done. This base functionality could be cobbled together by mostly anyone in a few days, of course it would not be a fit for release, and adding on preemptive parts ordering could add a few more days, but the basics are really simple, how they manage to bloat it to such a degree it entirely fails is beyond me.
The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit
It has nothing to do with Apple (a company that I personally would like to see bankrupt and left for the crows to pick on unfortunately this is not very likely in the foreseeable future.) screaming about support for 32 bit being removed for however long making them somehow not responsible.
They are fully responsible for most issues caused by this as there's no "good" reason they couldn't have kept the 32 bit API as Microsoft have, they didn't want to keep 32 bit support because some beancounter decided that it's not cost efficient and thus forcing people to either stay on an old os version or in the best case scenario buy new versions of software if it's even available if they have legacy software they need.
If you think it realistic that all or even most legacy code can be changed without massive investments of time even if the codebase itself is fairly well maintained you are deluding yourself. making fundamental changes like this requires massive amounts of work rewriting what is likely to be core functionality and in turn requiring changes in other parts of the system and so on. Once you have a barely working system comes the fun part of near infinite iterations of testing and fixing just to get back to an apparently working system.
In the case of some critical software it will simply be better sense to just drop it like in this case as the amount of trouble you may get in from a bug you didn't find combines with the years of work needed far outweighs any future sales you may have.
To me this is nothing but another sign to stay away from apples overpriced garbage.
Now let the down votes rain...
Sometimes shining a light on a nuclear problem just makes things worse
Re: Radiotelescopes also have tricky-to-find issues
There's also the case where a telescope doing VLBI would get out of position for no apparent reason, turned out to be a heater on one side of the "pillar" supporting the dish causing uneven heating and a slight bend moving the telescope a minute distance but enough to throw the VLBI off.
Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?
Re: "Although it is not unreasonable...
Windows 10 run fine and do what I need it to, sure you have to black hole the telemetry if you don't want it, but aside from the schizophrenic control panel I find it significantly better then 7 (though I still feel that a bit of 3d would not harm anyone...).
You can't keep supporting for eternity, you have to drop the support at some time otherwise we would still have people clinging to windows 3.11
Cheque out my mad metal frisbee skillz... oops. Lights out!
Re: Oops
I would say that they are not really dangerous unless you have absolutely no idea what you are doing (something I believe the overwhelming majority of people frequenting these hallowed boards have). The only damage done on this occasion was the need to reset the breaker and throw away the old probes as the pointy bit's were strangely enough not designed to carry well in excess of 100A. Now I always check that no one has left the meter set for current measurement before I use it and always set it back to voltage after measuring current.
Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands
Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room
Re: Dont have your machine room at the top of a building
80% hydrogen peroxide (the oxidizer used in the Me163) is a LOT safer and easier to handle compared to ClF3 and there is no way to extinguish it if it starts to burn, and then we have not even started on the lovely combustion products you are likely to get.
Microsoft emits long-term support .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 16.4
As pressure builds over .org sell-off, internet governance bodies fall back into familiar pattern: Silence
In my opinion both ICANN and ISOC have shown for quite some time now that they need a firm and proper smack in the head as they have clearly lost all connection they ever had to "reality". As they in my eyes have lost all forms of trust they should be dissolved and the responsibilities given over to a new international organization with proper oversight and accountability.
Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer
Re: We'll burn that bridge when we come to it
What makes it more likely now compared to the last couple of years to my mind, is that it aligns with a process shift as well, so they still have to do the redesign of existing parts for a the new smaller process. This should make the extra work/risk of shifting to another manufacturer as small as possible.
HP to Xerox: Nope, your $33.5bn bid falls short of our valuation
Re: "not in the best interests of shareholders"
The issue is that the best interest of shareholders seems to be evaluated over a ever shortening future times span, and not over the longer time span that would be the responsible thing to do for both the company and shareholders. It's a simple fact that the two questions "How do we give the shareholders the most money NOW" is very rarely compatible with "How do we give the shareholders the most money over the next ten years"
What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest
Re: "Coldiretti – Italy's largest farmers' association – led protests in Rome"
Wild boars are a problem more or less everywhere, they increase in population fast, they can cause a lot of damage to fields or lawns. To top it off they can also be quite dangerous. Since we have been very efficient at killing off all natural predators there is nothing but human hunting and food limiting the population.
Section 230 supporters turn on it, its critics rely on it. Up is down, black is white in the crazy world of US law
Re: "This will also lead to an angry mob trying to lynch you"
No they should not be above the law, the law should CHANGE to be appropriate as the current system is broken one way or the other, you just have to be careful not to make the reworked laws either to weak so they mean nothing to draconian so they remove everything or to wide/ narrow. Is this easy to do? Absolutely not. We also have to think about the fact that this is US law that have some inherently broken (from my point of view) views on what is suitable for children and basically rather skewed morality. A movie with quite graphic violence is fine for children but if there's so much as a hint of a nipple you can't show it to anyone under 18. It's ok to have guns lying around the house (I know this is not the way it's supposed to be in most places but this is all a hyperbole) but seeing your mother naked is sure to make you scared for life...
Re: The law of Unintended Consequences applies....
I think you are aiming a bit high in this instance. Let me use Youtube as my example here.
If you give Google/Youtube full responsibility for everything published on Youtube, it will be shut down before the ink would have time to dry as you correctly stated. This will also lead to an angry mob trying to lynch you probably including me as I no longer really watch ordinary television, but I do watch a large amount of Youtube videos as the channels I watch cater to my specific interests which no other media really do. While I would not cry for Google there are no alternatives as anything remotely like it would suffer the same fate. The exact same thing would happen to every social network (I use none so I don't care, but I think that horde would be even bigger and probably even have some torches and pitchforks in it!
The fact is that every single platform for non instant communication would be gone.
The reasonable thing to do is to require the platforms to make a resonable effort to police the content provided on it and force them to act on obviously illegal content brought to their attention. If they sling ads that would not be ok in another media then it should not be allowed for them.
Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?
To avoid that Titanic feeling, boffins create an unsinkable hydrophobic metal with laser power
California’s Attorney General joins the long list of people who have had it with Facebook
IBM stands for I Block Money, says sales rep: Big Blue sued yet again by its own staff over 'missing' commissions
Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System
Re: Obligatory PTerry reference
Bears are just like dogs, they secretly love fireworks! The howling, whimpering and mauling (in the bear case) is just there to make sure we don't catch on!
I'm sure all big firework displays are just there to attract bears into the cities to increase the wildlife diversity in parks!
BOFH: Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality
Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?
Discworld fans stake claim to element 117
Don't fall for the hype around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube playing robot, Berkeley bans facial recognition, and more
The folly of multitasking?
I feel that we see the inefficiency of trying to teach one neural net to do two very different things simultaneously, i.e. solve the rubiks cube, and manipulate the hand/cube system. My guess is that if you used two different networks and limited them to one of the problems each, trained them and then fed the ouput from the solver i.e. do this move to the manipulator it would have been far superior at both tasks with far less time expended.
I'm assuming the real goal of this is not to make a rubiks cube solving robot but to investigate how to solve a much more complex multidimensional problem in this case solve the cube AND manipulate the arm and how to make it more efficient at those kinds of tasks.
Don't look too closely at what is seeping out of the big Dutch pipe
Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told
Re: An alternative solution
Of course not, you should just imprison the current leadership for treason and remain in EU. I'm not sure what hallucinogens the people that dream up the ideas that you could have all the good parts of EU without the bad ones use, but I'm sure the street price would be enough to cover a significant portion of the GDB loss you will take from leaving.
Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool
Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me
IT workers: Speaking truth to douchebags since 1977
Quic! Head to the latest Chrome version and try out HTTP/3
Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox
The question is not to encrypt or not but how and where to encrypt and handle the name resolving.
This application is doing it In the browser and over http which the consensus here seems to agree is a bad idea as opposed to the OS doing it over an encrypted channel honoring the host file etc.
i.e. Name resolving is an OS job, not a job for the application.