Re: 800MB
Or the 48k available 'cause 16k were ROM... Because CP/M wasn't available until Spectrum 3+ for pedestrians like me... and by the time it was available in my corner of the world, the world moved to 16 bits...
Posts by The Dark Side Of The Mind (TDSOTM)
45 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2012
Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop
GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry
Wednesday 31st January 2024 02:17 GMT
Old proven ways with modern approaches
Smarter persons than me already mentioned inertial and celestial systems, as well as known ground references (optical and/or radio based). Adding signal analysis (polarization, power, timed variation and directionality) would be feasible with modern computational means.
I remember that gravimetric maps were considered "strategic and restricted data" on grounds that they were used to at least help ICBMs (and other flying contraptions) to get a reasonable "fix" on the map/path*.
With enough motivation, the industries will find solutions. Politics might interfere a while, for better or for the worse, but with proper incentives, education and training, it's achievable.
I'm an old fart that remembers the time before Internet was available to mere mortals and GPS electronics was carried in a pick-up truck, so I might have an optimistic bias here.
Top Linux distros drop fresh beats
Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe
Monday 23rd January 2023 04:03 GMT
Re: Working from Home might have a big advantage
The advantage might be less than one expects, as office buildings often have more efficient HVAC and lighting than average household can afford these days. Also, a lot of trades involve expensive specialized equipment that can't be easily and/or securely lugged to employee's home.
Sure, for plain administrative tasks, working from home *can* be an option, but the reduction on emissions argument must factor in the impact of energy consumption and utilities at the residential level. That would make an interesting study.
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name
To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess
Friday 21st October 2022 22:48 GMT
Re: cattle-prod category
Cattle-prod category: users that went through lecture, visual and practical training and still miss-report what they actually did when complaining that the product/system doesn't work.
Sadly, you have cattle-prod category users almost everywhere, with slightly elevated chances to find them in middle to upper manglement.
Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint
Zero-day vuln in Microsoft Office: 'Follina' will work even when macros are disabled
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data
Supercomputer to train 176-billion-parameter open-source AI language model
Sunday 27th March 2022 22:10 GMT
Re: I reckon the first 40 years are the worst.
Only the years from 5th to 20th are to be feared. First 5 are giggles and obsessive care, then after 20 they usually get more or less independent... and less of a nuisance. Also, everything that you do (or don't do) in the 5-20 interval will be used at least once against you at some point more than once (if they survive the first time).
I'm a terrible parent, probably. Time will tell. The same goes with all training models (time and telling), albeit seemingly a bit faster.
Cisco inferno: Networking giant reveals three 10/10 rated critical router bugs
Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
In space, no one can hear cyber security professionals scream
Windows 11 will roll out from October 5 as Microsoft hypes new hardware
Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right
Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?
Is it broken yet? Is it? Is it? Ooh that means I can buy a sparkly, new but otherwise hard-to-justify replacement!
Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment
Boffins improve on tech that extracts DC power from ambient Wi-Fi
Your private data has been nabbed: Please update your life as soon as possible while we deflect responsibility
Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus
That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2
Tinfoil hat brigade switches brand allegiance to bog paper
Saturday 14th March 2020 13:57 GMT
Re: DIY bidet installation kits
Yeah, plenty of those in my area, at ~40 EUR and change. Made in China, obviously.
The major drawback is they have to be powered somehow from the wall socket and their User Manual is mostly useless. They can vary the pressure, the temperature and the spread of the jets trhough a control panel akin to the remote control of a small toy helicopter.
Installin such a device in a household with kids can provide endless joy...
Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'
Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
Doogee Wowser: The S40's a terrible smartphone, but a passable projectile
The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?
Sunday 17th November 2019 17:50 GMT
Re: The big red button
I once had an "internal" UPS on ISA bus with a lead-acid battery (industry standard by then) stuck inside the mid-tower PC case and secured with 2-sided adhesive tape... It ran flawlessly for almost 6 years until the electrolyte dried a few weeks before a power outage... And it had almost no monitoring capabilities (more than 20 years ago)... That piece got to rest a while in a "spare" equipment for 2 more years before some beancounter decided that the residual value was NIL.
Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers
Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks
Microsoft explains self-serve Power platform's bypassing of Office 365 admins to cries of 'are you completely insane?'
Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?
Thursday 7th November 2019 05:09 GMT
Off topic
I just used the full-sized GPT-2 from https://talktotransformer.com/ on the opening paragraph... the result made me chuckle a bit.
"Buying a house is a major ordeal. You go from door to door, months zip past and something's never quite right... then you find it, "the one". A five-bedroom home in Pinner, Harrow, northwest London. It's exactly the size you had hoped and dreamt it would be. The price? £1,395,000. You're a good man - you've made it.
Or is it? The only way to find out is to buy it.
The first thing you see when you knock on the front door is a man holding a broom handle in one hand.
This is the house's "landlady", and she greets you with a smile as you step inside. But that smile is broken when you realise she's wearing a wig and a dress and you're wondering why she's so happy.
Inside, everything is perfectly normal. It's a family home, but the children are not. In fact, they're probably all dead.
And the family has left their home in a different part of London - the one you live in now.
This is one of the most incredible real estate deals."
Daaa-aaad. She took my coding robot. No, I had it first
You're flowing it wrong: Bad network route between Microsoft, Apple blamed for Azure, O365 MFA outage
Sunday 27th October 2019 21:07 GMT
Re: Design, we've heard of it
Microsoft is pretty adept at ignoring trends. MSFT ignored the commercial Internet and spun out their own dubious and vague Microsoft Network that almost nobody used, only to rush to patch up a lot later in the game and doing a mess in the process. MSFT also ignored the clear and open standards for the web and birthed the most despised lineage of browsers ever. They also missed the start on mobile connected devices (even though their WinCE worked surprisingly well in many cases) only to shoot themselves in the foot with Windows 8/RT and enslavement of Nokia to the Evil Empire. They mocked the Open Source movement and achievements for decades only to embrace them towards the end of the second decade of this century...
They are changing their coats those years, but the nasty habbits are still there. They have enough glamour and business prowess to attract some brilliant people from time to time, though (Sysinternals comes to mind first, but for sure there are many unsung heroes in the pot).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
