Posts by phil dude

Re: I, personally, am not surprised

and yet, per process tabs are not standard....

I have had far fewer crashes with chrome. I keep firefox because I need some plugins to work...

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Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad

or occasionally Lockport, NY....

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Re: Support your local library by using it

if copyright were sane, local libraries should legally be allowed to lend an electronic book where they have a physical copy. I believe that may be true over here...

The problem is we are all living in a post-scarcity era - now the business model being clung to is artificial scarcity. I have sympathy for those who write the books, but gauging consumers is never the answer.

Surely with the netflix model working quite well (although their catalogue is hilariously incomplete) once price for access to everything.

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dual boot

no need, ubiboot makes it dual boot so you can try any number of OS's without fear of losing meego...

Still, there might be jolla refresh in the pipe, and their android-on-demand IMHO is the perfect phone solution.

Put android in a cage, on a short leash...

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Re: It's worth repeating ...

yeah, but they didn't the internet. The most effective waste of time possible. Sure we can use it to cure disease but there is more media available for consumption than any human lifetime....

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Re: reminds me of

I'll raise you a "Sherlock memory palace".

Rolls dice...

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hp microserver...

I got at least 4 HP microservers (both us and uk) , they were very cheap ($150/150GBP) and had 4 bays, 6 if you do a bit of DIY.

Since you are spending most $$ on the media, it seems perverse to spend much more than the cost of a drive on the hardware...

Oh and running Linux+opencloud, does it a treat even for all my MD data...

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Re: When I was involved....

this may be a coincidence but my ISP sent an email last week saying "we are charging you $5 more starting next month". I called and gave a piece of my mind, and they relented. But perhaps this is a systematic effort to move the argument into financial territory and make the politics murky(ier)...

Google Fibre cannot come fast enough....

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mandatory...

making it mandatory, would be a good start...but +10^6 upvotes for the list earlier regarding fake information...

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Re: @Christian Berger

it doesn't need to be written down, just a firm hand shake will do...

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Re: If it wasn't for ****ing cheques

here in the USA it has been like that for a while. Of course, being suitably paranoid I have my credit union (!Bank) make some extra accounts specifically for that purpose.

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Re: And This Whisky Is A Scotch

that would be "Glenlivet.fr" or possibly "Glenlivet.eu" ...

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jealous...

never managed to make a launch yet...

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Re: My gripes

well there's the rub. United and other US airlines will try and sell you a *bit* more leg space with their "not quite economy economy" seats. Basically, the exits row, and some other seats near 1st. Often 1st class upgrades are usually only 2-3x the economy upgrades, if the flight is not full. Very nice when going trans-usa...

Something I have learned from mucho flying, seat prices are not uniform. In fact, generally the very cheapest business class seat is usually slightly more than the most expensive coach class seat... When you factor in the cost of checking luggage (>3 bags), it actually makes business class a possible choice.

Beer, because they don't charge for it in first...

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Re: sad but true.....

I stand by my choice of phrase.

Perhaps "sad" covered this specific instance. I somehow think this is only being reported because one of the persons was socially prominent/rich.

The travesty is that unintended drug poisoning/overdose is probably a good deal more common than is generally reported. That is, until the media/govts and big corps want to fund themselves another "war on drugs", rather than treating what is a disturbing medical issue.

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talk radio...

Some guy on the radio here was trying to imply this was the biblical end of times.

Of course, another guy on the radio was trying to sell me a car (no money down)....

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Re: Security scan?

i use find ... -exec rm {} \;

you can preview the list, and as someone pointed out, sometimes "windows/mac" files that have been copied can have strange names. using "find" it goes through the directory listing file by file, then applying the "-name" flag.

I would prefer a copy on write fs though....

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Re: ancient technology

true. However, thermionic noise is a source of true randomness, and we all want one of those....

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Re: speed of light...

ahh yes, got you. yes, i was thinking classically, quantum sims take too long.....

Mea culpa

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Re: Not unexpected

i thought they fixed that?

On a side note, I wonder how hard it is to port Libreoffice to DALVIK....?

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Re: Just drop the damn thing when above the point you want to be above...

yes of course. I mean, they could plant the prison garden to be a giant QR code target, needing no direction at all....!

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Re: Only a lawyer

mod up. Govt's cannot be trusted. Govt's have the resources (your taxes!) to fit anyone up (and it goes wrong when they're wealthy). Provide the best defence for worst alleged crimes, and we all benefit.

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physical reality is tightly coupled..

and sometimes(!) you need you computer to be as well.

The top 500 is as relevant as it has ever been - what is the largest engineered system that can application X for Y hours to produce scaled set Z.

On a side note the "cloud industry" has been pretty convincingly marketing that you can solve problems in a loosely coupled way, so long as you buy enough cloud time. I expect few reading this to get the jibe, but if you do, pipe up ;-)

Since LINPACK implicitly tests the cpu,memory, all communications and the installation HVAC (Yes, they can fail), power supplies, it has become a pretty good test of all round machine stability - and bonus, it's objective. Change something, run it again...

We would all love to have our favourite applications be the test on these machines, but that would only decrease the applicability, whereas linear algebra is phenomenally widespread....

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Re: Authorities here wise to it...

try getting a parking pass in Oxford!!! If it is anything other than your name on the V5C(registration), receipt for the car, house lease they WILL not give you a parking pass.

Hence, having a car is an exercise in futility, since you can't park anywhere else...!

An app like this would probably not work in many UK small cities...

I will say I have seen the *informal* version of this in Rome and Catania, where guys will help you park your car for one Euro...I mean, unless they are , y'know, connected the locals had no problem with it....

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Re: Not programmable

A nice post! I am still waiting for my slides from D-Wave for the curious presentation given at SC13... I was given the nudge not to discuss "certain uses". Go figure, it is only a hobby for me...

However, buying a supercomputer to program your quantum computer (that was the presentation's thrust, though it was mentioned it was part of an iterative process), is marketing genius at a computing conference - no really! Buy 2!!

I have a number of colleagues who really hope this works, but so far the resounding lack of evidence suggests there is much more research to do understanding exactly what the machine they have built *is*. Apparently, if you agree not to use the QC for anything "useful" you can apply online to have a go.....see what I did there?

In another thread I wrote "it's still a really good fridge". A friend of mine who makes deuterium bullets, thought is was a cryogenics research project on first hearing "microKelvin" mentioned....

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Re: The future is APUs

i would agree, as I have the same chip in the HP, and I was genuinely interested in seeing what FP performance I could get out of the APU.

Only is is nobbled by HP, so I cannot do it and use an Nvidia card as well.

I'm a big fan of all technologies that increase computational density!!

Yours wobbling molecules,

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