Posts by Boothy

Re: Percentage?

Hellisheiði Power Station produces 303MW on it's own (the biggest geothermal station in the world).

Another 5 plants produce 401.5MW, so 704.5MW in total for Iceland as far as I can see.

Re: And another thing....

Sysinternals is a good set of tools, usually one of my first downloads for any new PC.

Interestingly, if you look at the updated Task Manager in Win 10, it now has quite a few of the features that Sysinternals Process Explorer has had for years.

Re: "reflects perhaps misplaced confidence"

I've had one 'remind me later', a couple of weeks back, which I selected, and so far no new reminders, and it doesn't appear to have gone into stealth install mode either? Bonus!

Re: Hmm

Indeed, or even add geo-location, so it can only be activated on known 'good' locations.

"You're not on a highway, computer says no!"

Re: Technological objections

With the force of the inrushing air, just how fast will the train be travelling when it ploughs back into the station?

It wouldn't, the pods aren't airtight in the tube, so this isn't like firing an air rifle. The pods are designed to travel in air, just not as fast as when in a vacuum.

All that would happen is the train would slow down, have brakes applied, and stop. Might be a bit bumpy for a little while with the air rushing past, but basically the same as air turbulence on a plane.

They would also have airlock doors every mile or so, (for ease of maintenance, and emergencies etc).

So a break happens at 149 miles in, they stop the pods in transit, close the airlock doors either side of the break, to contain the air loss. Then any pods in the still vacuum parts of the pipes, before and after the airlocked section, are just sent on to, or back to. the next/previous station.

Only people with any real issue would be if they were in the bit where the break was, but that section would now be in atmosphere. Assuming the power was still active, just maglev them slowly to the airlock, where they'd be a maintenance hatch, and by that point emergency services to grab them. Worse case, no maglev power, just wait for rescue, they pop an emergency hatch, and you walk to the nearest hatch.

It's just engineering issues, so not something insurmountable.

Re: Missing from review

Just to respond to Timmy B.

All my past Android devices, from a HTC Hero (my first Android device back in 2009), to a Desire S (2011), Samy S3, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 etc. Have all ended up with a custom OS at some point. (Cyanogenmod back then). Usually due to official updates stopping, or being very out of date, or too much bloat being pre-installed etc.

The OnePlus 3 is the first phone that's survived so far (almost 2 years now), and I've left it as stock, as there is no bloat, it gets an update most months, and is by far the most stable phone I've ever had (no having to re-boot to clear some issue, like slow running apps, or clear the memory out etc.).

Re: Firewalls?

They are likely using hostname/s.

If you know what those are for Office tracking, it can be added to the hosts file, assuming it doesn't stop other things from working of course.

This is a good spot to look at....

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

although I've no idea if this Office info is blocked currently, but it does include Windows 10 reporting domains.. So if Office is using the same domain names, they too would be blocked.

Re: It's not a sink

I find the dinner / tea debate an oddity, and other peoples experiences may differ of course.

I've worked all around the UK, and I find it interesting that even in the North, when in the office, the meal in the middle of the day tends to get referred to as lunch. But start talking about meals outside of office hours, and it's back to dinner and tea, no such thing as lunch.

People seem to have office speak mode, and then their off-duty, back home, with friends mode.

Just an observation. (and for ref, I'm a born and bred notherner).

Seems completely logical to me. They've been having lots of yield issues with 10nm.

Going with a low clock, low core chip seems the sensible idea, keeping the transistor count down gives you more chance of producing working silicon, and keeping the speeds down, means less likelihood of a failure.

Build these i3's in bulk gives Intel a chance to tweak the 10nm process, whilst actually managing to sell some of the silicon. Over time they should then get the process improved, get yields up, and then start producing better i3's, then onto i5's and so on.

Most devices I've seen using fingerprint readers, ask you to set a pin or password first, and will periodically ask for the pin/password anyway to unlock. They also won't let you disable/change the security settings without the pin/password.

@AC ...XP era programs that demanded to be ran Admin .

One of the issues with a lot of XP era programs was that they were not following MS guidelines for NT platforms. Often being apps, or games, from Win 9* that had been ported across/tweaked to run in XP (or newer), or simply written by people who hadn't taken into account the differences between the old 9* platform, and NT OSs like XP.

A common issue I've seen with a *lot* of older (or just badly written) programs (utils and legacy games), is when the program has config data (often in .ini files), and they put these in the programs installation dir, rather than where they should be, i.e. under user space (e.g. in AppData, or even Docs).

The programs usually want to open these with write access, but as they are under the protected Program Files area, they need admin rights to do this under XP/Win7 etc..

A simple work around is to install these programs to somewhere that isn't protected, like D:\Apps or D:\Games instead.

Doesn't work with everything, but I've found quite a few old apps or games will stop asking for admin rights after doing this.

Re: you mean just like windows 10

@Dave15

For large Win 10 updates, you typically need a lot of free space on the boot drive (10GiB+), as it's basically doing a fresh install of Windows with the larger updates, and it keeps a copy of your old Windows dir (now called 'Windows.old' ) on your boot drive afterwards. This old Windows dir is quite often 10GiB+ in size.

This was to get round the old issue of the Windows dir just getting bigger and bigger over time, full of old cruft you no longer needed. This 'should' also get rid of the old need to reinstall Windows every couple of years or so (in theory anyway!). Still doesn't stop places like AppData getting bigger and bigger though!

Unfortunately this basically means your boot disk needs to have at least enough space for two full copies of Win 10, your old and new version, as it retains the old version for 10 days so that it can roll back if needed (it should be deleted automatically after the 10 days is up).

In my experience so far, you basically seem to need around 15GiB free on the Windows boot disk, otherwise the larger yearly updates are likely to fail. But the size is very dependant on your current Windows dir size.

(Would have been nicer if MS gave the option to use a separate drive for the Windows.old backup).

Re: "direct surveillance of potential targets of interest"

Not all drones are battery powered, gas/petrol versions are around and they can fly and hour+ without issue.

Also who's to say even if they were the battery powered versions, that they didn't have multiple drones to hand, replacing an almost flat one, with a fully changed one.

Or could use spare battery packs, land, swap for a fresh pack, takeoff. With say 3 or 4 battery packs on rotation per drone, all on charge when not in use, you could keep a drone up in the air almost continuously.

Re: Interesting wording

You seemed to have missed this bit:

Quote: "Data protection authorities may, however, take into consideration the measures which have already been taken or which are underway when determining the appropriate regulatory response upon receiving such complaints."

Which seems to imply that if ICANN can demonstrate they are actively working on compliance, even if not compliant yet, that would, or could, be taken into account.

It also seems to indicate that they'd only start looking into this, after receiving actual complaints against ICANN. i.e If no one complains, then they won't do anything against ICANN.

Re: Skills ?

Agree.

skill

None of these definitions seem to fit the usage here. These are programs, or 'apps', nothing at all to do with skills!

Re: What is this "7v battery" you speak of?

@ab-gam

Nope, not a Brit/UK thing, plus this lock seems to be designed for the US market, and from a US company, so I don't think there is much UK/Euro influence in there.

A very odd voltage indeed. I could understand a 9v PP3 type battery, common everywhere as far as I know, small and convenient. So would have thought a PP3 would be a much better option.

Have you understood what is happening?

Whois is not going away, registrars will still be asking for, and storing the same data they currently do, so no change there for the domain name registration business. It's only the visibility and access of the data that is changing.

If anything, it's making things slightly more complex, and removing a stream of revenue (making current registrations private), and therefore if anything, this will reduce income and push costs up by a small amount.

I guess that depends on how many local (to other countries i.e. not USA based corps), have cloud hosting services in the USA.

Re: AOL memories

My first modem was also 2400 bps, it was a 'loan' modem from where I worked as they'd just bought a 28.8kbs one.

I just used it for BBSs etc at the time. I remember one local computer shop (PCs, Amigas, Atari STs etc) had things like stock-lists on a dial-up BBS system. You could even pre-order items via the BBS, and then go pick them up. (No payment system etc back then). They even gave you a free Compuserve email address (wow! ;-) ).

Once I got proper Internet access (Demon), I went and bought a USRobotics external 56k modem. Was in an aluminium case, almost exactly the same size as an external 3.5" floppy drive. This was all on an Amiga, didn't get round to switching to PC till the late 90s!

Re: As with the browsers

Browser version numbers are just bonkers. Unless it's a major functional change, it should not mean a major version increase, a point update, yes fine. Chrome and Firefox et al should be on something like v10, not in the 60s +

All domains need contact information. Otherwise it becomes impossible to perpetuate the healthy operation of the domain pool. Domains which do not have valid contact information are subject to be released back into the pool.

I don't care if you're being spammed. If you refuse or are not able to provide a valid means of contact you don't deserve to participate in the domain registration system.

As said several times already, NO ONE is saying that contact details cannot be asked for and stored, IF that is needed to provide the service. This is about who has access to that information. i.e. ICANN having access to your email/phone number in order to let you know your domain is about to expire is a valid business requirement, so is allowed, but some random person on the internet being able to grab your personal contact details in order to spam you is not!

Re: In parts of Latam, ISP gives Zero / NO access to Router!

Can't comment on this. I always toss the ISP-supplied router and replace with something I've bought myself and which is better than the sort of junk that ISPs pass off as being fit for purpose

Unfortunately here (UK), some major ISPs, such as Sky, bake the account details for the *DSL side into the router itself, with no direct access to it, and won't provide the user/pass to the user on request (against their Ts&Cs. So using 3rd party routers can be difficult.

(There are ways to get the user/pass, but it can be convoluted depending on the router model you have).

Re: My 2009 desktop still works fine

I have a home built i7-3770k (built in 2013). Stock speed is 3.5GHz, but runs quite happily at 4.25GHz with a good cooler (sealed liquid).

As an example, this can run Far Cry 5 (using their built in benchmark tool) at 58fps in 3440 x 1440 on High, drops to 53fps on Ultra (this with a now also old'ish 980Ti (AMP EXTREME factory overclocked version)).

As I'm not a framerate whore, I really don't see any point in upgrading my rig any time soon.

a) Nope, not anything good anyway, and probably not for a long time. You're talking about hardware more advanced/complex than a modern high end mobile phone, so we'll get *good* & *cheap* VR, when you can buy the equivalent of a current iPhone for less than $200 (by which times the hardware will be even more advanced of course!).

b) Vive works fine off-line, as long as what you are running works off-line as well of course.

Vive games/apps also don't need to be in Steam to use the Vive, the drivers and Steam VR software is managed via Steam, but once running, any app/game that supports OpenVR can use the headset.

c) Not sure what you are asking here.

d) I wear glasses, had a Rift DK2, and have a Vive, no issues wearing glasses with either (Vive especially). But obviously that's going to depend on things like size of your frames. Regular sized frames, or smaller, shouldn't have any issue, but oversized frames might have problems. Also bifocals and varifocals are not too good with VR, as the bottom part of the screen gets blurry.

Re: Who pays the tax?

You seem to be the one missing the point.

The main issue here is Amazon etc, due to their current legal, but unethical tax payments, can undercut their competitors, basically trying to become a monopoly by forcing competition out, by unfair means.

Adding this tax, is about trying to level the playing field again. So yes, prices could well go up a little for the consumer, but that's only because consumers have been underpaying till now.

Companies like Amazon have effectively been using what should have been paid as tax, as a subsidy to keep prices artificially low.

Plus the companies impacted, could chose to absorb the tax themselves, and not pass it on the the consumers, time will tell.

Re: Typed 'Reboot' where ... ?

I used to use PuTTY a lot on Windows, into *NIX boxes, back then we had direct access to boxes. So we just set up each environment with it's own custom colour and Widows title settings. Green, you're on a Dev box, Red - prod, etc. Nice and easy.

These days we have to go via jump boxes, and are usually on Linux laptops. So it's all basically one shell, same colour for text etc. But someone did tweak all the Red Hat boxes, so if in a live environment, the user and server name all have a red background colour at the prompt. (The name@server: bit).

Still doesn't help if you're on the wrong prod box, but at least you are less likely to run something not prod friendly.

Re: Unsurprising outcome

I saw Enterprise Profile and immediately thought, how is anyone going to do keyword searches with that? Or fit that easily into package names etc?

If you're creating a new brand name, at least try to make it standout, Enterprise Profile doesn't! How did it even get shortlisted?

Re: I still have a 7110...

Also a 7110 owner, it was my first personal mobile (had a few work ones before this).

I can remember having to clean the contacts now and again, otherwise the mic stopped working.

Also the stops for the slide wore out eventually, so you couldn't pop it open via the button, as it just shot off the end. Of course this also automatically answered any incoming calls, which you couldn't then talk to until you managed to get the base re-attached! Happy days.

And WAP! Almost forgot about the wonders of Internet access back in those days :-)

Re: Hear fucking hear!

But isn't that poorly configured dev environments?

One of our clients insists all all developers use Ubuntu laptops, and these are locked down.

Developed apps (Java) cannot have libs put directly into them, all build and dependencies are managed by Maven.

App builds (other than local IDE) and deployments are all run on remote Jenkins environments, that have no Internet access for dependencies, so all Maven dependencies can only be downloaded from a local curated repository.

Re: It could be worse

quote: "Was not allowed to take any holiday for first 12 months".

Was that in the UK? As we have statutory leave entitlement in the UK, 28 days for someone in full time employment, less if part time or Irregular hours, but you still get some.

A company might (probably would) expect you to work for a period before taking your first leave, say a month or two, but they still have to give you your full legal entitlement before the 12 months is up. If not, off to court with them.

Re: But there is still little use for laptops.

For me:

Tablet : Checking, but not replying to email. Reading, some web browsing, small amount of mobile gaming, checking news and weather, doing searches on the Sky box (rather then using the remote).

As soon as I need to type more than a word or two (i.e. anything beyond simple searches etc) I open the Chromebook.

If I need the Internet for more than an hour, or want to do anything productive, so App development, gaming, finances, images, video etc. I switch to Desktop, in a proper chair, at a desk, with a proper keyboard and mouse.

At work, I use laptops (multiple due to client requirements, mix of Windows and Linux).

Re: The first virus EVER was a DRM tool.

The first computer virus was around 1970, early DRM didn't turn up till the mid 80s.

Re: Now get rid of Cortana

If you don't want to mess with regedit etc. Just grab Shutup10 from :

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Just run it (no installation needed), select the recommended settings, apply, and restart (don't have ti restart, but some changes only kick in after a restart).

It disables Cortana, removed the Bing/Internet searches from the Start menu search box (so is back to just local searches), disables metrics etc. (It disables more than is done by following the privacy settings in Win 10 itself), and a bunch of other stuff.

You just need to remember to update it and run it again after any major Windows Updates, as those will sometimes re-enable things like metrics again.

When using Chrome, I change the autoplay settings under chrome:/flags to disable HTML5 autoplay.

Does mean sites like YouTube etc need an extra click to start playing, but that's a minor issue that I'm happy to accept in order to avoid misbehaving sites.

I switched to duckduckgo for search and all the AMP stuff just vanished.

AMP was basically the last straw for me with Google search.