Posts by nagyeger 198 posts • joined 2 Feb 2008
Doesn't *look* like the original. That had wireframe graphics, not solid colour. It must be a later version.
What was really amazing about Elite was the way it switched video modes half-way down the screen, giving high-res monchrome for the view out of the window and glorious multi(4) colour below, albeit at lower resolution.
Fiendishly clever stuff. Common opinion was that someone must have been counting CPU cycles per opcode /execution path to get that right.
Macro-meteoroids? Late-stage bombardment comets (spot the craters)? Recently demised spacecraft?
10^4/cm2 /s isn't exactly masses... 44.5e6km2 per moon, so that's 44.5e20 / moon, or 0.0089g/s.
also known as 2800kg/year. OK, so maybe not the Apollo missions.
I vaguely remember we get C14 from nitrogen + cosmic rays... anyone know what solar wind / cosmic rays does to rock-stuff?
I don't know how much it actually protects anyone, but you can pretend to be a good citizen and report the address at https://www.abuseipdb.com [other blacklists exist]
If they're script kiddies from China, there may be a chance they'll actually loose some social credibility or whatever the term is for pretending to be imperialistic money grabbers.
Alternate suggestion:
some reputable site(TM) like canIuse, or even W3C defines a (yikes, horror!) BITMAP of features for each relevant feature of the different standards.
Then the your new broswer CrystalBall sends "HTML3.14 CSS2 CSS4=#ffff7ffffffffffffff0" meaning that it can do everything in HTML3.14 all of CSS2 and most of CSS4 including the new 'rotate the user in hyperspace' functions, but that echo location and all mouse actions except squeek have been disabled (the cat is currently pinning it down).
Browser makers can then say 'supports CSS4 to all 256bits!'
The electron, having been looked at, is no susceptible to further interrogation because someone went and observed the thing rather than locking it down and putting it in quarantine, and now there's a lot of uncertainty about were it is or how fast it's going.
provided they really don't collect personally identifiable data
They claim to record location data, IP address, and websites visited.
Article 4 (1): 'personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
It might depend on the time-windows for their anonymisation data. If it's once / year, they're probably OK, but the data is useless. If it's once / minute, then even in a corporate settings, if I'm in the only one on the wifi network, late at night, say, they are collecting personal data about me in near real-time.
And for real responsiveness, did you also make a 16kb ramdisk in upper memory and put copies of all your favourite .bat files into it? I know I did. People were shocked when I could just type one command and 'immediately' I'd be in the right working directory and the program would be starting up.
keepassxc (not sure about other keepassen) can merge database files if you e.g. sync them between devices with git and there's an edit conflict.
It's got a command-line version of the merge tool too, if that fits your use-case.
Caveat: It's only a 2 way merge; I think it relies on timestamps in the records to pick the latest version.
Back when MD5 was first getting broken, it was reported that MD5 + file-length was much more secure (for a given value of 'much more'). But most implementations of hashes are still not bothering to record file size. It seems like a no-brainer to spend a few extra bytes to include the file size in any checksum output. I mean, in terms of data integrity, if the checksum file / metadata says it ought to be 32GB and it's actually 10kB, then I don't care what the SHA1 of the thing is, it's not the original file, stop wasting my CPU cycles.
I'd also think, not being a crypto-maths geek, that unless there are some underlying mathematical similarities I'm not aware of, identical file size plus SHA1 plus MD5 is going to make deliberate collisions much much harder.
15? Make that 25+! I had virtual workspaces with fvwm in the mid-nineties. (when RAM was about 100quid per megabyte).
Pet peeve: Why do all X11 window managers default with click to focus these days? Don't they
know the one-true system is focus follows mouse? (Focus follows eyes being a pain when you're looking out of the physical window).
I once read/heard somewhere [citation needed], that fundamentalism is a social phenomenon that only crops up when the consensus shifts and the more traditionalist part of any population finds itself under attack for still holding their cherished, 'obvious' and previously-considered-moderate views. They react with dismay, and seeing the 'obvious errors' in the reformer's views and the unfairness of the accusations against them, they publicly adopt a more extreme / shouty position to try to get their voice heard. I.e. it's a defence mechanism, and shouting at them / belittling them just convinces them that they're a threatened minority and guardians of the truth.
By failing to listen to their just grievances with the status quo, you feed conspiracy theories and convince them that the other side are distorting the truth.
Scientists (justly!) get all upset when famous people (often actors or worse, philosophers..) speak rubbish about the deep quantum physics behind crystals/homeopathy/ley-lines/torturing cats or when someone with a total misunderstanding of say, speciation talks about how it can't work.
But for some reason some famous scientists think it's perfectly acceptable to go on prime-time TV/Radio slots to pontificate out of their rectal regions on theological issues with all the understanding of an attention-deficit 4 year old. And because they're famous scientists and the presenters are true-believers in the cult of the scientist, they're not challenged, and the conspiracy theorists jump up and down and say "See, see! All scientists are out to destroy truth, you can't trust them."
Which makes it really hard to sit down and have a rational discussion with people about how that particular scientist can be dumb and stupid when it comes to talking pseudo-theology, but actually does have some God-given evidence to back up his ideas about how God made this universe he put us in; or about how their preacher might be excellent when it comes to applying Scripture to modern life, but he's falling into the trap of deism when he starts promoting the pseudo-science known as intelligent design, that the awesome transcendent God is bigger than that, and anyway screaming "blasphemer!" might feel good in the pride department but, it is not obeying the command to put to death pride, malice, etc. and nor is it being all things to all people to save some.
There are still a lot of smartphones on sale around here that are 3G only, 2year warantee. I'd missed the end of 3G was getting near, but I expect there's going to be a whole heap of angry customers if they really pull the plug on 3G next year.
And then there are the phones that advertise 4G, but when you look at the specs are only FDD or only TDD, and the networks don't say what they actually offer....
and easily swapped out with a stronger algorithm.
Pardon? Easily? I remember it as a major headache back when I was doing it in the early 90s.
But maybe you're thinking of when people started trusting this modern shared library malarkey and blithely accepting the risk of taking out every method of logging into the machine just because of a transient data error on your SCSI bus, rather than doing it the traditional way of using static linking for anything that was recovery-critical.
Thee/thou/thy were always the formal version of you/your.. and were dropped when such formality went out of style
I've always heard it completely the opposite. The use of the plural 'you' for singular was the formal, like in French tu/vous; thee, thou were the intimate form, for use in the home. Use of the intimate form inappropriately could cause grave offence, denying them their power-trip, so you became the normal form. The biblical usage of thee/thou for God made people who were missing the theological point - yes, God knows your innermost thoughts, don't think he's distant - think it must be formal. The quakers insisted on thee/thou much longer than most people because they were insisting on the equality of humanity and suchlike issues.
I guess I'm an edge case:
1) I want my laptop to actually boot up with working wifi (thanks so much NotworkManager, for breaking this yet again), so I can ssh into it.
2) I want my laptop to boot up with properly mounted user directories so that that cron processes can run.
3) I want my laptop to display all those debug messages while it's booting, so I can SEE why it's taking longer than normal.
4) I don't expect init to ever cause a SEGV and kernel panic (every other time I log out of X, some days)
5) I want to be able to run stuff on another computer and have the results on my display, like, urm, X11
6) 'logfile corrupted, deleting' messages fill me with an inner state of horror, not the rosy glow of 'at least it saved me (maybe) 500ms at boot time'
David (the luddite)
P.S Poettering, have you heard of pam-mount? I know you didn't write it, but it lets you mount user partitions as people log in, using their password as a LUKS key. It's been around for at least a decade and a half.
I recently heard some UK politician on TV saying something like 'In the UK we elect a party'
No!, in the UK, we elect individuals and trust them to vote according to their consciences and the principles they hold dear. They might happen to be part of a party, and campaign with (local and national) party support, and we can normally expect them to let their party leaders do some leading, but ultimately, they are elected as individuals. (Otherwise we might have corruption-inducing party lists like in various chunks of Europe where you literally owe your job to the party bosses who decided to put you down as number 3 for that region unlike your friend who was in number 4 and so didn't get in.)
If only the parties and certain newspapers could remember this basic fact about our democracy, they'd stop making three line whips out of things they know >50% of the electorate think is a stupid idea.
So the signal is: google collecting loads of data and (allegedly) breaking GDPR left right and centre.
Initial reply time is quite slow, due to the transcription into legalese. error checking and passing from desk to desk, but never mind, the reply will come. (see icon) -->
Craig Turner has a solution, maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcviGYMb3U Water jets with motion detector, especially if you know where they're getting in. Electricity and water present other options of course, too.
Or just put a shark in the paddling pool, you know, one with that laser.
afraid are scary if you want to publicise your site. IIRC, they allow / encourage unrelated sub-domains,
I.e. john Smith signs up for johnsmith.linuxgeek.afraid.org and then Bill likes that and signs up for bill.johnsmith.linuxgeek.afraid.org and then someone else signs up for everyone.bill.johnsmith.linuxgeek.afraid.org and points it at their stash of pirated videos... John Smith then might have to answer lots of lawyer-questions about a site he has no control of.
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