Posts by david 12 2774 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2009
There was a golden age of publishing before the introduction of broadcast radio. Then the bronze age before the introduction of broadcast TV.
But at least in Aus, there was an inter-glacial period after the ban on TV advertising of smoking, when all that cigarette advertising budget went into magazines.
Garrrr --- This is the country that invented the leaf blower. The reason supersonic flight was banned in the USA was because the Concorde was not an American airplane.
FWIW, I lived in a town with an airforce base. Sonic booms were normal. Sometimes people got cracks in the ceiling or windows -- as they have in every other city I've lived in since, without the sonic booms.
Italian passenger trains never ran on time, and will never run on time, as long as that society thinks that waiting for a little old lady to get on or off is more important than running on time.
A contrast to the Nordic countries, where a little old lady would be deeply offended by idea of having a scheduled service delayed by her inability.
These cultural ideas run deep. Much deeper than political convulsions.
Egg-drop experiments have been a staple of engineering design courses for the best part of 100 years. This research speaks directly to every engineer that has ever participated in, or watched, or read about egg-drop exercises, and to every student doing the egg-drop design exercise, now or in the future.
My own state -- Vic.au -- is broke, due to overspending on capital works. That does not have much effect on research grants, but does have a big effect on research infrastructure, (which is not normally covered by grants). There are half-a-dozen research groups that I know of that are cutting back or looking at closure. Even if they could grab researchers -- good researchers often come with their own grants -- they wouldn't have anywhere to put them, with all the lab space defunded (cleaners, IT, payroll etc)
Likewise BSE. I strongly suspect ESR falls in the same category.
Even the popular science press was outraged at the damage done to egg sales cause by the (true) statement that (raw eggs aren't safe to eat if you are immune compromised, and should be avoided by the very old and the very young).
When BSE happened only a couple of years later, I blamed publications like New Scientist. Both for failing to support the politician over the temporary Egg Sales Collapse, and for failing to correct later.
BSE was clearly a political failure, but if it wasn't also a Civil Service failure, you're going to have to convince me that the Civil Service wasn't also traumatized by the Egg Outrage .
t you had to be running buy the current version
Or download the compatibility updates. For example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100314133818/http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466
https://download.cnet.com/microsoft-office-compatibility-pack-for-word-excel-and-powerpoint-file-formats/3000-18483_4-10648733.html#:~:text=Microsoft%20Office%20Compatibility%20Pack%20makes%20files%20created%20with,version%20of%20Office,%20this%20download%20will%20fix%20it.
Just to be clear,
If you have not yet run this patch, you can block it, by creating a dodgy c:\inetpub, which will cause the update to fail.
The odd thing is "So you just go without security updates," he noted."
Failing one update causes all security updates to fail?
I'm no longer doing enterprise updates. Is blocking all updates now this easy?
In IPv4, the addresses are so densely allocated that (ignoring the multicast and experimental blocks) we probably are using more or less every one.
Not disagreeing with your argument or conclusion, but as I recall IPV4 is around 50% utilized. The other individual values are allocated-but-unconnected.
VMware used to have a commercial product called vSphere, which you could use to manage ESXi virtualization, including moving objects around. Without it, ESXi was fairly pointless, just a way of putting all systems on a single point of failure.
What is available now that it equivalent?
Yes, messy article that only makes sense if you already know what it means.
WSUS is scheduled for breaking sometime in the future. MS has extended support for WSUS, which is scheduled for breaking sometime in the future.
The extended support takes the form of not breaking driver update sync, which was scheduled for breaking now.
Any object-oriented language is "interpreted" by some definition. It's why "exceptions" come with "object oriented". There is a meta-process which handles dynamic code redirection for objects, and a meta-process that handles dynamic code redirection for exceptions.
Or sometimes, while the Surgeon is doing more surgery in the other suite. In either case, the registrar marks time, the anesthetist continues to ventilate the patient, the clock ticks while they wait for the "supervising" surgeon to dash in and fix up the problem the registrar has.
No surprise there, but it does put the process ~35 years out of date -- that's when I was fixing this problem in paper spreadsheets by migrating to automatic consolidation.
I wonder if their immediate problem exists because everybody who understands spreadsheet automation has reached end-of-career and has retired?
Can't we use Python now? You can, in OO, and it has the advantage that it's a pain in the butt to edit or test, as well as being more obscure.
Where Python shines vs VBA is with multi-dimensional analysis. So if they decide they want to expand their organization into the 5th dimension, python in OO will be the way to go.
We've got precast apartment buildings like this in Melb.vic.au, dating from the 1950's. The advantage for apartment buildings is when you can make many identical copies of the same casting. Using "printed" formwork may actually make precast concreate more attractive for residential houses like this station hut, allowing more variation of form.
But pre-cast concrete is still more expensive and less attractive for most residential buildings. It has poor thermal properties and is not water proof, and there are problems with windows. I mostly see tilt-up used where the factory has been cut into a slope, so no windows are required, water-proofing membrane is protected, and earth provides thermal insulation.
But the formwork was not set up on site.
As the article describes, the precast concrete was cast offsite, then transported and erected.
Offsite casting and transportation is cheaper than tilt-up construction, which is much cheaper than in-place construction. Tilt-up construction also requires a large on-site footprint, with security and site security.
For all I know, offsite casting may be a rate technology in Japan. But certainly the headline can only be explained by poor translation and editorial carelessness at TheRegister.
That's a bit of an anachronism, and not something written by Raymond Chen.
For those kids too young to remember, about 20 years ago Wikipedia discovered that the common DB9 plug/socket, used on PC's, manufactured by 100's of different manufacturers, available at 1000's of outlets and in their nascent online catalogs, used the Canon DE9 design. And Wikipedia set out on it's mission to correct the world. With considerable success, as can be measured today by searching the internet for DE9 and DB9 manufacture and supply.
Indeed, most doublespeak is the product of clear thinking and is language carefully designed and constructed to appear to communicate when in fact it doesn't. www.good-words.fans
Perhaps, should have had more natural lighting at terminal?
Recent Nottingham power outage. https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/nottingham_outage_sitrep/
"We're told a risk assessment has been carried out and it was deemed safe to hold the meeting as the room is on the ground floor and lit by natural light,"
Microwave links can provide better latency than fibre
Direct fibre beat dark microwave channels with 13ms Chicago-NYC in the early stage of the speed war -- which has since been driven down to 4ms direct microwave links. Almost all of that has been the effect of better routes and low-latency repeaters, wave speed hasn't changed that much.
The whole "risk assessment" thing is derived from the risk assessments done for the WWII uranium enrichment plant at Oak Ridge.
It's interesting to read the original documentation, and see risk assessments that start with actual identifiable end points ("plant explodes and everybody dies"), and compare that with the bogus "risk assessment" requirements of modern safety regulations, which start at the other end and try to work forward ("it's dark, what could go wrong?")
I was electronics, not mech, and we didn't do FE at the time. But while my cohort were doing their prac work and assignments on their TI and HP calculators, I did all my calculations (and graphing) in F77 on a time-share terminal connected to the CDC Cyber.
(The Comp Sci department had completely misread the direction of Comp Sci, and had lumbered the institute with a batch-processing megalith before going off on their own with a unix mini-computer.)
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