Posts by Glen 1

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

Not to confused with what left pondians call a check mark (check for short) - which is a tick - like this ✔

Samsung says it has the future of DRAM sorted after success with new EUV process

Re: Oh goody!

You can take my socket 7 motherboard from my cold dead hands!

Re Expensive RAM

It's like housing. A median budget gets you a less-than-median amount of ram.

Britain's courts lurch towards Skype and conference calls for trials as COVID-19 distancing kicks in

Re: https://jitsi.org/

Suggestion: Chromium portable?

Delete when done.

Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

Re: My word...

Lets face it, between the accents, and the amount of time the legit staff have to deal with their equivalent of "cup holder broke off" type folk, Giving a name that has more than 2 syllables is asking for trouble.

Add to that, people taking an anglo name for professional reasons (it's a lot easier to be racist to a CV), or perhaps they are fed up of us mangling their name. I used to work for a chap who was 'Bobby' on all (non-official) correspondence, but had a very different given name. He said it was because people took him more seriously with a western first name - especially when combined with a local accent.

Add to that again how, if they are scammers, they require a made up name. (Legit call centres notwithstanding) So if you were trying to scam, say, a German, calling yourself Hans or Gretta doesn't seem that daft of an idea.

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Re: Front-end development is a complete mess

"...Tab width..."

Answer: Four (4)

Two is for people who sit too close to the screen, and who don't separate out any of their callbacks.

Eight is for writers, who tend to not have fixed width text.

Odd numbers are for summoning Cthulhu (all hail etc, but not before the client has paid)

I use tabs rather than spaces, but have succumbed to popular opinion, let the IDE do its autoconversion thing.

You've duked it out with OS/2 – but how to deal with these troublesome users? Nukem

Re: Expensive

I believe it was Quake (at least the patched GLQuake) that lead to the rise of 3dfx.

My first card was a Voodoo3 2000 during the Half-Life era a few years later.

Re: Timing is off..

When used SPARINGLY. Not seamingly EVERY other WORD.

It starts to read LiKe A cHiLd oR DaIlY mAiL rEaDeR Is WrItInG

I personally use *asterisks*. Many chat apps format that as bold.

Or you could y'know do it properly

Sidenote: Stargate and Bob are apparently not the same person.

AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs

Re: "nifty software tricks to achieve similar speeds on CPUs"

Something something threadripper

What's inside a tech freelancer's backpack? That's right, EVERYTHING

Re: Power Blocks

Briefly.

Re: Power Blocks

"Why do you need 3 ports"

Power sockets are like Network ports, Raspberry Pis, Guitars, and Cars.

How many do you need?

At least one more.

Always.

Re: Additional forgotten items ..

I have never owned a display port device.

Came up through VGA, DVI (digital and analogue), and most recently HDMI.

Was quite a surprise when I started seeing them on client's Windows machines. Just thought it was an Apple thing

Brit MPs, US senators ramp up pressure on UK.gov to switch off that green-light for Huawei 5G gear

Re: Dear US protectionists

Yes, a "protectionist" act. Also a moral one, but hey this is capitalism we're talking about.

Our weakened position outside of the EU makes the NHS more vulnerable to this kind of cash grab.

The US being able to (potentially) dictate terms in such an imbalanced way has *everything* to do with us no longer being in the EU.

Maybe you think Brexit Boris will have the spine to say no? or do you think having more of the NHS's budget being hoovered up by American companies for little gain is perfectly Ok?

If there were massive benefits on the table, it might be worth it, but so far the only thing being reported is potentially cheaper food at the cost of lowering our food standards and screwing over British farming.

Re: Dear US protectionists

That too, but more like this stuff:

Drug pricing legislation

Sidenote: I think it is good thing. However decrying US protectionism, when we (UK) do stuff like this, is somewhat hypocritical.

If only we were part of a larger trading block so we had greater collective bargaining power...

Re: Dear US protectionists

Indeed. However I was referring to the drug pricing situation.

Re: Dear US protectionists

Speaking of protectionism, thats a nice NHS you've got there...

Let's Encrypt? Let's revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on Wednesday, more like: Check code loop blunder strikes

Re: Minor arse-ache

Because, until you hit that limit there are no consequences.

That said, the staging environment exists for a reason.

Electro-smog, govt snooping be damned. Two thirds of folks polled worldwide would trade in their mobes for 5G kit

The thing is you have two different kinds of commenters here.

You have people who live in places where coverage is so crappy that cell data is too unreliable and expensive to be useful. In those cases, what's the point of 5G? In many cases, a 3G connection would be enough if it was *reliable*

Then you have people who live in places where data is just *there* and not even thought about unless there is a problem... Which could be quite rarely.

Eg I pay £25 a month for unlimited minutes and texts with 20GB of data. I often find myself tethering my laptop to my phone because between the captive portal sign up shinanagens, and the crappy WiFi signal strength, not to mention inconsistent reliability when I'm just sat at a table... it's just more convenient to tether when I'm not at home.

There is a reason that many people's primary internet device is their phone.

Re: Really?

Adequate 4G coverage is better than crappy WiFi.

I mean, how old do you think the kit is in a lot of those places. G wifi? For how many devices? With what connection behind it?

Quite rare to find N/AC in public places unless it's part of a larger complex.

It's only a game: Lara Croft won't save enterprise tech – but Jet Set Willy could

Re: ZX Spectrum != Legacy corporate IT

*tales

Re: ZX Spectrum != Legacy corporate IT

Explaining to management that the senior engineer needs to spend time writing documentation... Is a harder problem. We have heard time and a again the tails in these halls of retired engineers being called back at £$€¥ cost.

Having both the PFY(s) and the BOFH out of action for training (cus y'know... together) is, if not unsurmountable, going to be like pulling teeth.

Quantum compute boffins called up to get national UK centre organised for some NISQy business

Re: Kinda superb, but.....

Yes. On their computers.

Blue Streak/Nuclear Weapons

It'll be rockets and nukes all over again.

Were not doing it to be a competitor, were doing it so we can by the American quantum computers. The Americans will sell to us so a) well stop competing b) They can keep the best stuff for themselves.

See also: f22 Vs f35

Never thought we'd write this headline: Under Siege Steven Seagal is not Above The Law, must fork out $314,000 after boosting crypto-coin biz

only for poor people

World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts

Re: Is this another NSA operation?

No, it isn't.

The NSA already has all that stuff.

It's not the ads that are the problem. It's the 3rd (and 1st) parties playing fast and loose with peoples personal data.

Most of which is already in text format.

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

Might sound daft, but most power supplies out there at the moment only do the funky PD/QC3 on a limited number of ports, and the rest are dumb 5V.

It might have been worth trying all the USB sockets to see if it made any difference.

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

Re: Microwaves are good for you.

Obligatory XKCD

Re: Chernobyl

I didn't click on your link. I don't need to know where you get your Bananas from .

That must have cause quite a TEMPEST...

Re: electromagnetic hypersensitivity

I can sell them premium model for $200, and that's C.M.O.T.

Decent, legal, honest and searchable: C'mon, Ofcom. Let us check up on the ad-slingers ourselves

Re: Putin a ban on political advertising?

Its not the adverts that are the problem, its the click baity lies that pander to our preconceived prejudices. Probably attached to a no-name domain or spoofing a more reputable news site.

If they are transmitting stuff that resonates with your personal echo chamber, you take them in unchallenged. Further entrenching your opinion with the fantasy that *your* echo chamber is devoid of faults.

Then we all criticise the *other* side(s) for *their* lack of critical thinking.

AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen

"For big vendors, all their hardware gets extensively tested and certified as compatible with all the major software out there"

How naive.

It's more like

"Big vendors deliberately limit the hardware combinations to minimize the chance of weird driver issues, and are *big enough to shout at the suppliers* until they fix most problems"

Obligatory XKCD

Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month

Re: Convenient BS from Google...

Brexit is the cause of the "convenient ambiguity", so that checks out.

UK military buys third £4m Zephyr drone for 'persistent surveillance' trials

Re: You have to ask

"It won't even fly one day if it can't gather enough surplus energy during daylight hours to keep it aloft after dark."

or more likely, having enough capacity to not fully discharge during a bad day.

Re: Wrong County

It's not the "Made in Britain" that's the obstacle, its how many "non executive directorships" can one company offer the people making the procurement decisions.

What's Geoff Hoon up to these days?

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

Re: 'Primary storage'

Ok, not *that* cheap. Sounds like a problem with your setup.

Sidenote: Non NVMe M2 is only a change in form factor. Unless the thin profile is a requirement, you're better off sticking with SATAIII for the cheaper drives.

I went from old spinning disk to NVMe. ~100MB/s sequential to ~1500MB/s. Never looked back.

Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe

Re: "identical set of equipment on the other coast" ??!

It is and it isnt

Re: root key signing ceremony

"Disappointed the ceremony is not held at the top of Big Ben."

That's where it gets the best signal

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Re: Why isn't any one offended men were required to wear a blazer and slacks or suit?

I think they call it dress code so they can pretend it isn't uniform.

EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service

Re: The Up Side

Given current events, telephone sanitisers could well be of more immediate use than another GPS system.

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

Re: AI 101

But... But... That could be literally *any* base, in the base that number represents.

After all, there are 10 kinds of people...

Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this

Re: Brittania rule the waves

"like living in a protectorate of the allied powers"

Did we stop being members of NATO as well?

Re: If you want AI futures

If you *really* want AI futures, read "The Last Question"

Re: Harsh

"if you want to do business here, we will be rather insistent."

Works for both EU and US. The Brexit lot trying to say the same about the UK, fundamentally don't understand that the UK is not as powerful as they think it is.

Re: A Double Edged Sword

DALEK: "Would you like some tea?"

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

Re: Something they don't teach in Norwegian schools...

1kWh of coal fired power is very different to 1kWh of say Hydro.

Over 99% of the electricity production in mainland Norway is from hydropower plants. Thats why its so cheap.

BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password?

Re: web browsers are hugely complex systems

An OS *is* a hugely complex system, but when it only exists to launch a web browser, why make it more complicated than it needs to be? Saying we support X browser at versions Y-Z is much more flexible than supporting a specific OS. The thin client way is valid.

That said, support contracts tend to be for the whole stack, not just the top bit. Reducing the number of systems supported reduces costs and support headaches. Older OSs that are known quantities, that are locked down without internet and the hardware being relatively physically secure makes for an easier life than say, having to know that SVGs don't display correctly in safari.

Re: Surprised they don't use *NIX

"restaurant chain...SCO Unix"

Pizza Hut? I know when I was a PFY, the Pizza Hut I worked at had 386s running SCO as Point of Sale. This store opened in 2001/2 I don't know they got a hold of hardware that was ancient even back then.

Years later they eventually upgraded to touchscreen units running XPE.