Posts by wangi

Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up

Re: This is great news but...

"Even in Scotland it's unlikely they'd be running lighting to that extent"

we only turn on the lights when guests are in

If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

Re: Function keys on a touch bar?

You're being sarcastic yeah?

The power button on the XPS 13 is under the delete key (which is one of the virtual touchbar ones), right next to the backspace, and is completely unmarked.

What is missing from the web? We're asking for Google

bring back the <BLINK></BLINK>

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach

Re: "api.optus.com.au"

Nonsense, it's generally absolutely fine to call a public facing API server api, and it helps to do so. Giving it some cryptic hostname might feel more secure, but it just ends up sowing confusion. After all, it is presumably public facing for a reason: there will be client-side JS (or applications) with knowledge of the cryptic hostname, therefore trivial to gain knowledge of it via them.

Of course there's no point having the api public facing if it's either a) no-longer used; or b) only used internally by the backend or other public facing servers...

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

there shall be a password

Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware

Re: Is there anyone out there who actually thinks Teams is as great as MS does?

Well done, you're describing why Teams Rooms hardware exists

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

aye, and if you rotate your head ninety degrees the comment will still be flying over it

Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them

Her^H^His

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

I18N

Would love to fly on a jobby from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Once you get over the smell.

Reds on the beds: Putin's war sparks Chinese chip boom, starting with electric blankets

Re: Next thing you know...

notchr

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

If only

... they could build the datacenters where there is both plentiful water, power and it's already bloody freezing

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Re: One step forward, 1000 shuffles backward

It would just take a moment

No, Windows 10 hasn’t beaten Windows 7’s market share. Not for sure, anyway

That's right. 50% of the folk at home are running Solaris, but go out of their way to spoof it as Vista. Just for LOLZ like.

YouTube sin-bins account of KRACK WPA2 researcher

"prospective hacker would have to be within range of the network" - glad you've picked up how wireless networks work.

Radiohead(ache): BBC wants dead duck tech in sexy new mobes

Re: Broadcast vs. Mobile network.

Multicast?

Finally, a USEFUL smart device: Intel boffins cook up gyro-magneto-'puter bike helmet

Re: dropped

"given they've seen fit to include the huge safety issue and distraction of streaming music and calls" - radios and CD players are pretty ubiquitous in cars. Likewise handsfree calls are acceptable too.

Why do you think it should be different on a bike?

Roku flashes $50 HDMI TV web dongle at anyone sick of Google's stick

It's not a new form factor though, is it? I've got one of these stuck into the HDMI in the back of my telly running stock Android 4.2. MK809, JUSTOP K9B etc - 40 quid... Had it for over a year.

Adobe to Jobs: 'What the Flash do you know?'

"no crash bugs

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch might like to try Flash on 64 bit Linux...

That's assuming crashing down to a white box isn't the intended behaviour.