Posts by Detective Emil 263 posts • joined 10 Feb 2010
We still have a couple of a.m. radios tuned permanently to R4 LW. I hope the transmitter holds out for another ten years.
(Or Arqiva/the BBC/the UK government stumps up for a replacement — despite protestations to the contrary, there are still companies around that would be only too pleased to provide a quote.)
There's no way that well-sealed box could comfortably dissipate the full 100W that USB3 could deliver to it, so I suspect the CPU is more pedestrian. The Atom® x5-E3930 would fill the bill rather nicely: two cores, 8GB RAM max, (just) enough PCIe for those two Ethernet ports, a couple of SATA interfaces for two 4TB SSDs. And capable of a bit of undemanding virtualization. Dead cheap, and with an industrial operating temperature range, too.
The military too, it appears. The story says it's a 150kW laser, but there's nothing about the range. Judging by the haziness of the very short video of the illuminated target drone, it's quite a long way from the ship.
The cards were designed by Susan Kare, who is also responsible for the, umm, iconic Mac icon set. A quick search will locate an outfit who will sell you a physical set.
El Reg: Before anyone blows up these findings …
The Independent: Major Computer Bug Means Millions Could Be At Risk Of Hack
From Wikipedia, quoting IBM's Lee Nackman from a now-inaccessible eWeek article: the name "Eclipse" (dating from at least 2001) was not a wordplay on Sun Microsystems, as the product's primary competition at the time of naming was Microsoft Visual Studio, which Eclipse was to eclipse.
Gets well-thumbed copy of Kernighan & Ritchie (1978 edition) off the shelf …
Ah, here it is on page 137, in section 6.6, Fields: "Fields behave like small unsigned integers, and may participate in arithmetic expressions, just like any other integer."
To be fair, nobody used them much at the time.
This reminds me of Alice's Restaurant:
"Sergeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug."
He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."
I thought a domesday device took out everybody, including its deployer and non-combatants. I see no evidence of that in this article. Although I must admit that I applied today's all-too-frequent, annoyingly-insistent and without-apparent-effect Sonos update with more than the usual caution.
I too have a 2012 MacBook Pro, but the Retina model, which was one of the first howls-of-rage-inducing laptops with a non-user-exchangeable battery. It still sees use two or three times a week, and the original battery is fine, both according to the the diagnostic software and to my experience in how many hours I can use it before it runs down. So, on this anecdotal evidence, maybe non-exchangeable batteries are not such a big deal. (OTOH, let me tell you about my AirPods …)
Why does this product remind me of the mobile-phone-in-a-crucifix in The Pope Must Die[t]?
Here's a useful recent article from TechSpot. Loading it without an adblocker pulls in 79 elements from Google domains …
Lemme see. I just looked at HP's prices for its Elite x2 1013 G3. With 128GB of SSD: $1,499; otherwise identical with 256GB: $1,749. How about Microsoft? Surface Pro 6 with i7 processor, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage: $1,199; with 16GB and 512GB: $1,599. Dear, oh dear. Let's try the Dell Inspiron 13 7000 13". With 256GB, $1,199.99 (marked down from $1,98.99 — maybe my cookies tell them I've been sniffing around the competition); with 512GB AND 32GB of Optane thrown in, $1,249.99 (down from $1,448.99). My point is that most outfits are doing it, not just Apple. And Dell would get my business today.
Surely it's a move by Comcast to keep those customers they still have alive and paying.
Sonos has just introduced a "recently-played" feature with storage on their own servers. It requires email-based login and acceptance of Ts&Cs. Happily, ignoring the nag does not stop anything working. However, Sonos equipment is very naggy, so I may not be safe for long. The devices are perpetually whining about updates that usually provide noticeable new functionality only to newer equipment. A recent automatic update bricked their remote control app I'd been using on an old but perfectly good iPad. (And they bricked their own first-party remote a while back.) So, low marks for continued user satisfaction: brown goods should not be so demanding.
Besides, why on earth would they implement "recently-played" as server-based.? Because they have some nefarious use for the data, perhaps?
In Newcastle, a bit further south, you'll find the Discovery Museum, which is well worth a visit. It's free (although you'll have to pay if you want to get married in the shadow of Armstrong's Turbina).
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