Posts by druck 4221 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
John H Woods wrote:
If you want a Wintel box though you could buy a laptop with a broken screen off ebay, £250 seems pretty pricey to me.
The trouble is that any cheap laptop without a totally anaemic processor, will soon drive you to distraction with fan noise.
I was given an old 1st gen i7 laptop, being a HP it sounds like a jet taking off within 30 seconds, and has to be throttled down to 90% CPU or it will cook itself and die inside of 5 minutes.
I rooted my Galaxy S5 just so backup software could access the SD card, but that has saved me from the Lollipop 5.0 update which has blighted my wife's Note 3. So do unroot it and hope the security patch is delivered rather than an uwanted upgrade, or I do risk waiting god knows how long until O2 has made Lollipop 5.1 available?
Charles Manning wrote:
It is also not clear if the devices would support random access (like NOR flash) or page access (like NAND flash). I suspect it will be page access like NAND flash.
Did you not read the article? It clearly says the memory is bit addressable, so supports random access.
Irongut wrote:
Not to downplay the severity of this bug but no one in the medical or aerospace industries will be using a version of .Net released last week in a production environment. And, in any industry this should show up in testing because you should be testing release builds, not just debug builds.
No one in aerospace is using .NET for flight control systems, not now, not ever.
What no one has mentioned is the write down means that in less than a year Microsoft has destroyed every cent of value in the Nokia phones business, as they are writing off the entire $7.5bn they paid for it. This beats their previous record flop aquiring Aquantive where it took a couple of years to destroy the entire $6.3bn.
The only thing that can destroy value faster than Microsoft is a natural disaster.
DLO, it's much worse than that. There are thousands of bits of debris in intersecting orbits with inclinations ranging from equatorial to polar, and even some retrograde. There is also the issue intersections from debris in highly elliptical orbits such as booster stages.
Basically the ISS could be hit from any direction, front/back/left/right/up/down, so there isn't really a safe place to put the Soyuz, but luckily it is built like and old tank compared to the rest of the station.
Looking at a random selection of removed links to BBC stories, there looks to be some pretty serious criminals trying to whitewash their reputation.
Well to get the Pu238 for any more RTGs, things will have to get tense enough with Mr Putin in order for the US to restart it's nuclear weapon breeder reactors. Although I suspect the UK might enough in used fuel rods waiting at Sellafield for reprocessing, to kit out a mission or two.
Hopefully the app wont do things like route cyclists the wrong way down a one way street. But I'd also add some audio reminders that stopping at red lights and pedestrian crossings also applies to cyclists too.
Working in Cambridge you take your life in to your hands crossing the road, and not because of the motorised traffic. Even walking along the pavement is difficult enough with bikes chained 3 deep to every bit of street furniture and railings.
Tsung wrote:
On one hand I think we should just be done with the TV Licence, every household is going to have to pay it soon so just add it to the council tax bill. Think of the saving by not having to send out horrible letters or pay a firm to manage the collection.
TV licence collection rates are vastly better than council tax collection rates. If was up to your district council to collect the money, the BBC would have a quarter of its income slashed.
Oops, I was running LXDE not XFCE on wheezy, Mate compares even better against XFCE.
Yes; I was very pleased to run Mate on the Pi, and I gave the example as it is the lowest powered machine I'm currently using. Although I do have a couple of original EEEPC 701s under the sofa, which I always intended to put another distro on, just might get around to it now.
While not as lightweight as those mentioned, the Mate desktop is well worth a look. It's at best on top of Linux Mint, but can be installed many other distros. I've just updated my Raspberry Pi2 from Debian wheezy and XFCE to jessie and Mate, and while a fraction slower and a touch more memory hungry, the experience is far more polished, and the visuals are far more pleasing.
Several years ago, Foundem was a much-lauded price comparison site
Perhaps in some parallel universe, far, far away, but not here.
But what Google omitted were the price comparison engines that suffered during the period the European Commission is examining: Pricegrabber, Shopping.com, Dealtime, Nextag, Ciao, Pricerunner, Shopzilla and Bizrate.
Thank god - every single one was a parasite feeding off my searches, infesting them with pages of meaningless results.
gary27 wrote:
This does not excite me at all, even though I'm fully bought into the apple eco system, with 5 iphones, 5 iPads, 3 macbooks, 4 apple tvs etc for our small family.
I'm assuming; you the missus and 3 kids? And you and her indoors share one of the Apple TVs? Sounds like you need another one for your shed (and your sanity).
But back to the streaming service, <yawn>, sorry.
Solar power is far from ideal, it means a tight power budget and not all the instruments will be usable at the same time. A nuclear RTG would be much better, but I'm afraid we are all out of Plutonium 238. And it's likely to stay that way unless Putin gets so belligerent the US starts making new nukes again.
As with all completely idiotic micro-generating schemes, there must be an obscenely large feed in tariff awarded to the owners of the stodgy pavement kit, paid for the general public through their energy bills. This however is far worse than wind or solar, in that the poor general public would not only have to pay for it, but do the generation themselves too.
The free live data on the F1 website was great a few years ago, it was comprehensive and about 5 seconds ahead of the coverage on Freeview, letting you know a pit stop was coming just before it was shown. Of course Bernie the bastard has put a stop to that, what with a £billion tax bill and all.
The BBC do 'live' information on their website, but it at least 90 seconds behind Freeview, you have to use the playback buffer on the DVR in order to make it anything less than completely useless. So few races are shown live on the BBC now, it means I can't even watch those that are truly live.
Colonel Panic wrote:
The much maligned Article 8 (the one that the Daily Mail hates so much) as well as protecting your right to family life, protects your home and your privacy.There may well be a strong argument that the exemption introduced is incompatible with Article 8.
You might want to actually read it, and take note of the comprehensive list of exceptions to the rights.
Right to respect for private and family life1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
h4rm0ny wrote:
One study showed that men are more attracted to women who remind them of their mothers
Well my 19 month old is completely endeavoured with this picture of a little girl on the wall of the dining room - which happens to be mother at the same age, but he refuses to believe it.
JustNiz wrote:
You wouldn't phone a plumber then once he's in the door demand he work for nothing, so why do employers think they can do it?
More likely you'll be paying him for a good chunk of nothing. If a trades person they say they haven't got the replacement part on the van, and they have to nip to the shop to get one, pretty likely they'll actually be off to another job. You'll still being paying for their time until they get back though.
