Posts by cosmodrome 196 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2011
Malus, meaning "bad" or "evil", the domain name malus.sh suggesting "evil shit" and the too honest to be real point about not wanting to credit anyone who works for free are certainly not without satiric qualities. Pretty dry and dark but probably satire.
The whole thing has been broken by design since the advent of USB-Midi. Not only will Windows reinstall any MIDI device that connects via USB as a new device wheneveit connects to a different port, it also has a completely idiotic limit of 16 devices. No operating systems except Windows does that shit. It gets even worse: some very smart person decided to give every virtuutal audio device including audio channels on HDMI-enabled monitors their own MIDI-device. Yes, they will create extra devices if reconnected to different ports on multiscreen setups. So, swap left and right screen and half of your MIDI resources are gone without having connected a single MIDI device or fired up a DAW.
Which is as pointless as hard to understand. CDs are actually containing the same data as digital releases. They even are digital releases - on a physical medium. A request to a music database should return the same results for a physical CD or a "digital release", so MS must have deliberately removed lookups for physical media.
They should have stayed with IPv4 - and even have reserved a few address ranges more for special purposes. Just to have them off the net where they do no good. People would think twice before dumping AI slob or demented "challenges" into the internet if there were only, say, 4096 addresses. These young people don't know the value of numbers anymore.
That was token ring. BNC based ethernet just needed to be terminated with 50Ω resistors on both ends, no ring required (or allowed). The BNC connector and coax cable just was the state of the art connection for high frequencies. It still is, btw, in many cases as BNC still is quite alive everywhere where you're dealing with word clocks (digital audio) oscilloscopes etc.
Make that 25 years plus. Back then the only alternative on Linux was an alpha version of abiword, IIRC. In 2005 there already was a Linux port of Star Office 5, distributed, IIRC, by SUN. Star Office then mutated to OpenOffice and when SUN got bought by Orkle, LibreOffice was created as a fork.
Aluminium parts are usually produced where cheap energy is to be found. That is somewhere you can run your own hydroelectric plant. Manudfactoring like end assembly is usually positioned where you've got lots of space, good transportation facilities and not as many resources. These facilities aren'r just positioned willy-nilly or for strictly political reasons. Not everything is a conspiration or caused by stupidity.
Neither Word nor Excel are layout applications. Sure, people use them for layout all the time. That doesn't change the fact that Word and Excel are the completely wrong tools for the job. But millions of users can't be wrong, wasting hours and hours of their lifetime layouting documents using Office and inevitably producing abolutely terrible documents? Someone certainly would tell them - not Microsoft, maybe, but somebody would. And they'd certainly believe that person and... Uh, oh...
Because unlike ext4 it can't shrink existent filesystems? For me, relying massively on LVM, that's a knock-out point. Unfortunately, since I had been running XFS since the days of IRIX, but with linited sparse capacity and the need to replace drives plus the resulting need to resize partitions ext4 clearly beats XFS despite its' reliability and performance.
What does "UTC-5 malware upload time" even mean? Time zone of the uploader? If the server where the upload happened actually knows the timezone where the uploader was located why doesn't it seem to know the uploader's IP? Attribution -which used to be next to impossible back in the old, non post-factual days- seems to be a standard procediure, nowadays because pretty much every threat, malware or attack is immediately attributed on disclosure - usually to asia where the state-backed evil lives. Might have to do with investors, shareholders and the general public happily accepting sloppy security as long as scary-state-backed hackers did it.
The wasps became radioactive from the ionizating radiation from the nuclear waste, not from the nuclear waste itself. So everything is fine there's, no danger from nucleat waste. We should focus instead on the real hazards like these bird eating, environment destroying wind mills in Europe, before it's too late. Think of the children!
Steel will expand 1/1000*K. That one millimeter per K and meter. For a backplane, maybe 20cm at the longest side, room temperature to assumed -10°C for a not unusually cold winter morning we've got about 30K difference. 30*0.2m makes an interesting difference of 6mm. Should be enough to disconnect something that should remain connected.
No, they're just so used to distorting reality in a way that turns anything they don't like into a disaster for everyone else that they are completely failing to see that they'll lose any credibility overdoing it. Still, people enough will believe them on face value because even an absolute minimum of critical thinking is hard.
Yes. Good old eight bit machines, all of them even in the early 2000s. If you had programmed just one of them -some odd student's jobs for the tedious and technically skilled came from that- you'd never have to look up an ASCII table in your life. Burned into your grey matter EPROM for ever.
Now I get the idea why the newly elected German chancellor was phantasizing about an "operating system" that would allow the police to basically stop crime once and forever, keep terrorists out of the country, pick cats from trees and guarantee sunny wheather every day after they closed an expensive deal with Palantir. I was quite amazed to hear the term "operating system" out of the mout of someone unable to tell the difference between an OS, open source and an operation amplifier in suspiciouis context. Guess I know who put that flea in his ear...
In defense of the design, let's assume that changes in the construction plans, which usually come from a central office, had to be available on site ASAP. This is the only good reason to deploy a client-server solution over ~500km I could think of without knowing further details. So engineers are obvlously limited to on screen views which is highly unpleasant - but have you ever seen an industry grade A0 laser plotter, even by today's standards? These things are double wardrobe sized monsters and due to the paper size (A0) they're not going to shrink - and they're just as expensive as they're huge. I've spent enough time in the projects department of a very big firm selling devices that require their own buildings to know about these problems. OTOH I was more than once travelling with a cradle of construction plans in order to "for heaven's sake be on site with the *correct* version, before..."
Filling hydroflouric acid in a lightbulb (or trying to do so) is quite an ugly way of killing yourself. Basically anything meddling with HF is. The good news is that you won't feel any pain because the HF will dissolve your nerve cells first when it washes the tissue from your bones. (bones take a few seconds longer to dissolve).
Mercury isn't that dangerous and eyegoggles or breathing mask would make no sense if you're handling mercury one single time. Mercury is dangerous if it sinks for example into cracks in the floor of a room that is permanently inhabited because the very little bit of it that will vaporize will accumulate in the air and finally in the bodies of it's inhabitants over the years.
Pure mercury doesn't chemically react with anything in your metabolism so you could swallow a teaspoon (if you manage to get that heavy mass down) it would go out in the same condition as it got in. The toxic stuff are mecury phosphates or other organic compounds that will accumulate in maritime life in mercury-contaminated water. These metallo-organic compounds are dangerous as fuck but are a very different matter as pure elemenal Me-metal in the way that pure oxygen or hydrogen are different from water.
If you don't have a unified fornat or set of formats for your graphics as well as a consistent layout to integrate text and graphics (usually in form of a set of page templates) you'll never end up with a consistent or even acceptable layout. This is one of the iron rules of layout. The other one is always to set readability as the first priotity.
