Re: Live CD?
Maybe it is tricky to test install kernel drivers that require a reboot on a Live CD ?
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I'd really recommend this - it restores to other media so you don't risk further damage to anything remaining on the card and doesn't just find images. On a couple of bucket list trips, I've been bought a lot of beers for saving people's holiday photos.
Has once required a sort of bash shell game when I noticed I was recovering a lot of pictures of a scantily clad lady who I guessed from his expression wasn't the lady officially accompanying the camera owner on this trip.
The Usenet paradigm I would argue is essential to fully appreciating the story.
Some of the pleasure/pain of Usenet was needing to assess the veracity/utility of messages that were asynchronous, often originally written by someone you didn't share a native language with and rendered harder to comprehend by different cultural norms, which have converged markedly over the past 30+ years.
That exactly mirrors Twirlip's comment about hexapodia and the skrodes. Twirlip has no ground interacting locomotory appendages, so is lacking in context for what it is trying to describe, and at the far end of a lengthy translation train to boot.
I think it is hard to completely experience the realization at the end of the book without having spent some time on really early Usenet and having analogous experiences there.
The book is fantastic without that experience, but I think benefits from having had access to the net of a million lies at some time the 1980s.
Blow the ballistic missile defense mechanism.
Use individual MIRVs to illuminate pixels.
To economise on missiles, you can illuminate several neighbouring pixels by using a warhead with the yield turned all the way up, or turned all the way down for just one.
Frame rate should be as high as you want, but post the various SALT treaties, games will now be rather short.
I've been dipping into the classic stuff, and found I enjoyed Pertwee more than Baker, so I'd suggest Spearhead From Space. Has the bonus of a decent amount of UNIT and very good picture quality as it was mostly shot on film. Some of the shots may remind you a little of the early revival episodes.
There's a lively discussion on Ars about the practicality of exploiting it from JS.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/encryption-breaking-password-leaking-bug-in-many-amd-cpus-could-take-months-to-fix.1494795/post-42056956 in particular seems logical. A sane JS interpreter/JIT is unlikely to emit the machine code required but instead optimize it away.
There are definitely 32 bit Meltdown/Spectre patches available now.
Looking at https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4073757/protect-your-windows-devices-against-spectre-meltdown (there's a section explicitly for 32-bit Windows) and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4088878/windows-7-update-kb4088878 I think they went on general release with the March patch Tuesday.
I remember (no link, sorry) seeing them offered an an out of band not on general release update perhaps in late January or Feb.
If it's any reassurance, I've just done several hundred, deploying the initial Intel microcode and then rolling it back as they've acknowledged it is buggy.
I'd suggest waiting until you've got a BIOS release with the final microcode, and then it should be plain sailing....
Are you certain?/Do you have a link? The BIOS updates are typically for Spectre mitigation.
All the meltdown patch does is stop mapping the kernel into each application's address space.
The BIOS updates contain fresh microcode to allow finer control of branch prediction to make Spectre mitigation easer.
They'll still need to produce 2nd stages, which use the same tooling - one advantage of a common tank diameter.
The work force released by making fewer Falcon 9 first stages is now avaialbe to start making MCT parts. I suspect this is why Musk is now ready to release the plans for that project - he's got the skilled workforce avaialble to get started on enacting them..
I'm unhappy about the latter, but then I consider the recent history of Intel CPU bugs that have been discovered, admittedly more in computational accuracy than basic stack operation, and I wonder about the test process in both cases.
I do remember one of the P4 architects describing how they could no longer mentally anticipate how the CPU was going to behave in some circumstances though, so maybe this kind of thing is now just really really hard, and I don't have a good enough understanding of how one might go about designing a test suite.
Given the growing prevalence of negative interest rates (although they've yet to reach the consumer in most countries) Cash in the matress may start losing value more slowly than cash in the bank.
I wonder if one appeal of moving to cashless societies is that it makes it more practical to deploy negative interest rates come the next economic downturn, as it looks as if they're never going to raise them much if this one ever really finishes.
BTDT. They tried parachutes with the Falcon 1. They presumably decided they prefer powered landings, possibly for the potentially better accuracy.
As an aside, note that thrust to weight in this process is greater than 1. The rocket never hovers, but must come to a halt at the bottom of decent as it touches the pad for everything to succeed.