Posts by Daniel Nebdal

Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft

Re: Testing Failure Modes

One approach is to just do CO2 capture on top of the normal process, and then pump the liquid CO2 down into old oil wells (ref https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/remove-carbon-emissions ). More expensive than just venting it, but at least the product should be indistinguishable?

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Re: Code as documentation

"Should" is probably more correct, since the environment the code runs in has its own bugs and features that can change what actually happens when running seemingly straightforward code.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: The right to demand a collective agreement ?

This is Nordic Model unions, so the agreement sets the minimum pay and benefits for everyone in the company, including the non-members.

Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux

Re: You will see it a little with the introduction of Wayland

It's used by default on Fedora, and Ubuntu if you use the (also default) Gnome desktop, and Red Hat talks about completely replacing X.org with Wayland and XWayland in their next release. If you install a new Linux desktop today, it will most likely be Wayland.

Merchants and punters cry foul over Verified by Visa

Passwords?

Hmm, all online bank sites in Norway that I'm aware of use some form of authentication keyfobs plus a PIN - and that's also what we use for VbV. Of course, this means that you can't get past a VbV screen unless you're set up for online banking - but I don't think the "online shopping but not banking"-subset is large enough for that to be a big problem.

Customers give Dell the finger over keyboard screw-up

Re: Revising US keyboards

There's already a modifier key you can use to do much of what you ask for in the "Euro key" in AltGr. With an US-international layout, AltGr N gives you ñ (alt AltGr E does indeed give € . They've even snuck in ÆØÅ in some random free spots.)

Of course, I'm partial to what I'm used to (no surprise there) - the standard norwegian layout. I've got a norwegian-layout mobel M here, and using that as a base:

* There's a number of dead keys you can use to build characters. I can type èéêëñ without too much trouble - as an example, é is AltGr+\ , followed by an e.

* Shift and dot, comma, hyphen gives the entirely logical colon, semicolon, underscore

* I like having ,.- on the right of M, but I guess that's a matter of taste.

There's a few downsides, though - I've got the quite useless ¤ as shift 4, with $ dowgraded to altGr 4. This makes PHP and shellscripts even less fun to type.

Ditto for {[]} - that's AltGr 7890. A fragment like " =$arr[$x][$y];} " is downright fiddly to get right.

Lenovo ThinkPad T61

Regarding the 4:3 models

I quite recently picked up not one but two 14.1" 4:3 T61 laptops (part number UZ26DNO, which seems commonly available), one for my mother and a bit later one for myself. Both were bought after the "what's available for a reasonable price" - principle, so her has Vista while mine has XP Pro. Vista is not really a good choice; the XP laptop has identical hardware but feels much faster and has a longer battery life. There's also some problems with the fingerprint reader in Vista: Unlike in XP, logging on per fingerprint is never fast, and often stops working at all.

Oh, and the battery life on the 14.1", intel-GPU model should be somewhat better than the tested one. It's also a bit trimmer - the keyboard seems to be about the same size, but there's no open space on the sides. (The front/underside mounted speaker is crap, though.)