Posts by Victor Ludorum 113 posts • joined 17 Feb 2010
I remember the A310 being installed in the computer room at school, and everyone being amazed how quickly this ran in BBC BASIC.
10 T%=TIME
20 FOR X%=1 TO 10000 : NEXT
30 PRINT TIME-T%
Just tried it with the BBC BASIC 'demo' edition on my i7 laptop - 1 to 30,000,000 takes one second...
I think a lot of people have been happy enough with their ~2Mbps connections for general use, but nowadays video upload for zoom/teams etc has meant higher upload requirements, which many 'legacy' connections can't cope with..
A relative lives in a not-particularly-remote village not far from me. When they moved there they couldn't get Openreach's 'fibre', so were stuck with ~1.5Mbps down / 600kbps up. Barely suitable for iPlayer without regular buffering. Eventually the cabinet was upgraded but they were in contract and unable to upgrade at the time. By the end of the contract the cabinet was 'full' so they still had to wait another 3 months before they could finally get ~37/9Mbps.
Meanwhile I'm sat here on a 220/20Mbps Virgin connection, not quite the 350/20 at the office... ;o)
It's not just OVH, I see attacks from Digitalocean, EC2/AWS, .RU and .CN as well. I guess that's the downside of cloud providers with cheap/free products, lots of inexperienced people spin up insecure instances which then get hacked by bots which attack other instances looking for weaknesses. I got hit when someone (with a .CN ip address) got into my machine using a dictionary attack on a non-standard SSH port. I forgot to set up fail2ban... Lessons were learnt!
My Halifax and one of my Lloyds credit cards also temporarily refused to show current balances and transactions. The Halifax online banking even reported something along the lines of 'error message to show customer that transactions cannot be retrieved from system at this time'. It now seems to be working again.
So there are no problems with their systems, but both times I have logged in this week I have had a banner at the top of their page saying
We're upgrading our system, so can only offer limited online functionality for now. For transaction information – please call 08085 40 50 60.
Just because someone in Chipping Sodbury gets a fast connection says nothing about the hopes and aspirations of someone in Leamington Spa.
My office is on the same street as Leamington Spa exchange but I can't get fibre (stuck on 24Mb ADSL) because my cabinet doesn't have enough residential connections so Openreach aren't planning on upgrading it...
At home, my 152Mb VM connection is to get bumped up to 200Mb 'from next month'. I'm not holding my breath, 152 is fast enough really.
V.
ARM is listed and has a market cap of over £16Bn/$25Bn. That would use up a lot of Apple's cash pile (especially after they've paid 35% tax to bring the cash back onshore), and they would have to pay a premium (up to 50%?) on the share price to sway the major shareholders. Not to mention Samsung and many others would probably find some way to club together to stop a major takeover...
I was troubleshooting some VPN issues a while ago, and when I reviewed the logs I noticed that there had been some access that looked like attempts to log in to a certain 'enterprise point of sale' system. Could this be related? Some retail systems might be set up for remote access with quite lax security?
V.
I get the feeling Apple don't really want to sell through other outlets. If they can make the terms of the deal so restrictive that few operators will agree to them, then everyone will have to queue to buy their latest iThing from an official Apple Store, thus increasing Apple's margin and the apparent craze for them.
Beer o'clock...
V.
I had a quick look at this yesterday, and thought I would buy one at the end of the week. Went to Kickstarter, and just missed out on the last $99 earlybird offer!
Oh well, I'll just have to join the unwashed and wait a bit longer....
Oh, and well done to everyone involved - surely that's the sort of thing Eben was aiming for with the Pi?
V.
Every promotional email I've had from them has an unsubscribe linky at the bottom. I know it works, because I used to get the promo on two similar email addresses, and cancelled one of them.
I realise it's difficult to read through a whole email you didn't want, just to find the little word at the end that says 'unsubscribe'.
V.
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