Re: wait....... what?
>> And that's before you look at overdrafts and the like.
Hmm. I wonder if you could put your overdraft on a card, buy a cheap car, and take a motoring holiday in Oklahoma?
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Did some experimentation last night: me with a linux box and my father's machine on W7, with the 'use as required' executable. Neither of us have an account at TV.
1/ until the remote end is executed, my end advises me that the remote is unavailable (I have the remote user number from previous sessions)
2/ when the far end wakes up, I get the request for his passcode, delivered by phone
3/ at this point, I can drive his machine
4/ while connected, there are three TV services running in the windows running program list (I forget what it's called)
5/ after disconnecting and closing the remote end, there is still one TV service running.
6/ trying to kill that service appears to re-spawn it
So what's going on here then? It looks as if there's something running (though my father may well be misreporting!) which isn't announcing availability but doesn't want to go away.
On my linux box, once the program is stopped, there's nothing left showing in ps -ax
How does that work then? The gap between passing the place where the bananas ought to be and getting to the checkout sans bananas can be at least a quarter hour, and if the missus is being particularly inquisitive at the shelves I get bored at, maybe a half hour.
Unless I've just gone in for bananas, of course, but usually I visit once a week and want everything.
#Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today!
I had the same kind of query: my parents have a teamviewer executable on their windows boxes which is fired up only when they are (by phone) talking to me, theoretically. Neither of us have a TV account, so every time it's used it's necessary for them to tell me the pass number.
I'm assuming that when TV is closed, it's leaving nothing behind running?
dB is a measure of relative power. Double the power, increase the dB by 3.
Years of empirical testing - real people, real ears - have established that a 3dB change in power causes the smallest change in volume that most people can detect. 10dB approximately doubles the perceived volume.
As an aside, dBv is a measure of the ratio of voltages and is commonly used when the signal is measured in voltage, since it is independent of output impedance. It's numerically twice as large as the equivalent power dB measurement. On a digital representation of such a signal, each bit of the binary value is equivalent to 6dBv; since a CD uses 16-bit linear PCM it has a theoretical maximum dynamic range of 96dB - which cannot be practically achieved for other reasons. Where your 136dB came from I don't know - but you should probably change your software for something that works.
CD players have internal software to correct for errors and missing bits in the data stream, but they should never perform any other processing; what comes out should be as close a duplicate of what went in as the condition of the medium provides.
I have a single VM with W7 in it for some diagnostic software that can't run on Linux, so it's never connected to the network.
I thought I'd play... cloned the VM, fired up the cloned W7, no W10 request.
Ah, do the updates. 171 of them. Couple of hours later, now I have the W10 request.
Request it.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
VM restarts, announces it failed...
Try again.
VM ums and ahs for a while, then drops back to W7.
Delete clone VM.
Seems I can't catch it either.
Can't speak for Facebook - but have you hit crtl-U on the Google homepage? On this machine, it pops out 268 lines of text totalling 175,623 UTF-8 characters... which is no doubt why I can frequently type half a sentence before it rebuilds the page display.
No doubt ignoring that half sentence is a mere courtesy detail. Because there is *no* way I should be able to out-type a text entry field on even the most feeble of modern computers.
Surely "Scientists say X" is all that's necessary? Are these scientists not the outstandingly trustworthy and intelligent people on the planet, with nothing more than the good of humanity in mind?
Or have I been reading the wrong sort of Golden Age Scientification?
In twenty-five years, Windows has *never* understood the difference between keyboard focus and mouse focus (e.g. trying to follow along with some example on a web page, scrolling the web page in the background with the mouse scroll wheel *without* sending your work to the back of the pile.
There are an impressive number of posts complaining about this, but not one of the suggested solutions actually works, and certainly not as well as (e.g.) Linux Mint. Apart from the suggestion to install Mint, of course...
And therein the point.
The majority of advert-plagued sites on the web are there for one reason only: to sell your eyeballs to the advertisers.
You don't see adverts on commercial sites like computer makers or washing machine makers or grocery stores or furniture stores other than for the things they are currently selling - usually directly from the store/maker in question. You don't see adverts on some sites - e.g. the BBC or NASA and no doubt others.
You see adverts on the clickbaits of this world, where the people running the sites have found a way to get people to keep coming back by offering some other service for free. The service *isn't* the raison d'etre of the site, it's just the bait - whether it's a gossip site or a news site or facebook or twitter or blog sites or porn sites. The reason the site is there is because they want to make money from advertisers. To be fair, I suspect most have tried charging and found it didn't work - or if it did, it didn't make anyone a zillionaire... and now they're starting to find that advertising wasn't quite the golden goose they thought it was.
There is no difference between a site relying on adverts (absent the commercial sites I mentioned earlier) and commercial advert-funded radio or TV - and if they can't find a way to make me and everyone else pay for the service they provide, that service will cease to exist. And for the majority of sites, that will be an issue why?
For curiosity - anyone at El Reg care to give a rough idea of the advertising income divided by the number of users in a month? A year? I bet it's in pennies a month... I did the sums on facebook a while ago and it looked under forty dollars a year.
Presumably, there must be some user input to identify people in the images? Might it be possible to poison the database if enough people are identified only as famous people from the past - Gottfried Leibitz or Isaac Newton, perhaps?
Or is the software doing something smarter and mining comments for references and cross-referencing against other named comments with the same faces, and working it out for itself?
We arrive one Monday morning to discover the place three inches deep in that which is normally all over the Parisian streets when the dogs have been by... Turns out a cast iron pipe had a right angle bend before running across our hung ceiling, and sometime over the weekend, the pipe had cracked and the poo had failed to make the bend.
The icing on the cake, so to speak, was the discovery, during rectification of the issue, of a couple of square feet of asbestos sheeting - which required another fifty or sixty thousand quid to dispose of in the approved manner.
I fired mine up recently but to no great effect. Did a little research - including building a widget to read the proms - and discovered that the proms are suffering from bitrot. Kind of to be expected after nearly forty years, I guess - but now I need to either find some replacement proms, and build a programmer, or (more likely) build an interface for a modern eeprom.
Indeed. It's a complete smorgasbord of functionality, everything in one packet. What idiot even *considered* that sticking mission planning and analysis in the same package as spares ordering?
Surely there are perfectly good systems out there to manage spares and repairs? Even if not off the shelf, I'm sure whoever supplies the airlines or the Fedexes of this world would be very happy to help the US government out. Mission analysis? Handful of GoPros scattered around the airframe and a black box logger - we've been analysing missions since the 1940s...
This is something that needs the Unix approach: lots of little packages doing one thing each and doing it well. What they seem to (nearly) have is systemd for the air.
Got it in one.
It should not matter what the OS is - it's just there to provide a mechanism to let me execute my software. For me, Ubuntu has been a no-go since the launcher; I can use it, but damnit I *prefer* a hierarchical menu for applications. Equally, I prefer the window controls on the right - it's a little thing, but it's enough to make me choose Mint over Ubuntu.Though of late there have been many other things...
There's a lot to be said for a concept of copyright which is (a) automatically vested on creation (or perhaps registration); (b) time limited to something sensible, say twenty years (seventy years after the death of the original author is *ridiculous*); and (c) applicable *only* to people. Companies may not apply.
Google et al have done a wonderful job in persuading people that having their rights stolen from them is a public good...
Two coupled pendulums (penduli?) might have a chaotically moving centre of mass, but there's still a constant momentum; they'll stop eventually from friction.
A swing moves because the rider puts energy into it by flexing and extending their body to move their centre of mass and thereby provide an impulse: they supply it on one side and collect it on the other.
Or in my granddaughter's case, it moves because she yells 'higher' at me.
but the very existence of an MP3 indicates that somewhere there exists a no loss source.
No, it indicates that somewhere there *existed* a no-loss source.
But anyway, the argument is redundant: as with most things audio, the whole thing is basically a question of 'which distortion do you prefer'. Don't even get me started on 5+1 tracks 'remastered' from stereo tapes...
It is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson: critic, dictionary compiler, and apparently futurologist also!
Seriously: what's the point, other than huge fun for the guys trying to do it? As pointed out by others above, if you wanted a Linux environment, it's best on the bare metal. If you want to test an occasional program, then a VM is your thing. But why on earth would anyone want to have a system that doesn't work, sat on top of all the potential nastiness of Windows? What were they thinking?
Nor mine - but it does meet my commuting needs, which none of the current competition do, and I have other cars with IC engines for longer journeys.
With any luck this might encourage both competition and fast-charge infrastructure (not to mention generation/distribution infrastructure) and bring nearer the point where it's worth buying one. I'm just puzzled as to the wagon-wheel sized wheels...
@Gordon - of course I do; there's no need to increment faster than you can use, though we regularly hear about how close we are to overloading the existing system, so I can't help feeling we need something fast, soon.
But at a replacement rate equivalent to current new car purchases, if every new purchase were electric, you'd have swapped most cars out in ten to fifteen years. Given the timescale of even a *little* nuclear power station, that's an issue that needs addressing *now*.