Re: Murky
Well, that's them on my "Do not use. Do not recommend. In fact recommend to avoid" list then.
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For example, 1-methoxyheptafluoropropane is Non-flammable, non-ozone-depleting, Non-corrosive, High electrical resistivity of about 10^11 Ω·m (roughly the same as glass). Boiling Point (@ 1 atm) 34°C (93.2°F). Freeze Point. -122°C (-187.6°F). Typically sold as 3M Novec 7000 Engineered Fluid.
The Engineered Fluid are more like a solvent though I thought. I'd rather use 3M's Fluorinert (which incidentally is what Cray used to use too although current ones tend to be clear rather than coloured) if i was looking at immersion cooling.
The problem, according to Bloomberg, is that an NYSE employee failed to shut down a disaster recovery system at the exchange's secondary Chicago data center. Because the system was left running overnight, the market software at the NYSE acted as if trading had already begun and prevented opening auction prices from being set correctly.
Doesn't sound very well designed DR system. Surely it would (should) know which system is primary and which is not and act accordingly.
Fuel or propellant?
Anyway, the article was short on details but the news bit at DARPA emits this:
Nuclear thermal rockets have been built before, so DRACO has a head start. About 50 years ago, the technology was tested on the ground. DRACO is now leveraging lessons learned from past NTR reactor technology, but instead of using highly-enriched uranium, DRACO is using high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel to have fewer logistical hurdles on its ambitious timeline. As an added safety precaution, DARPA plans to engineer the system so that the DRACO engine’s fission reaction will turn on only once it reaches space.
Fission, the same process used for nuclear power, is the splitting of atoms. It creates high levels of heat that can turn rocket propellant such as hydrogen from a liquid to a gas phase. In the NTR, that gaseous propellant is accelerated out a converging/diverging nozzle in the exact same way as a conventional chemical rocket engine. The high performance of an NTR is enabled by the reactor passing its heat along to its rocket propellant. DRACO’s proposed solid core NTR temperatures could reach almost 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, requiring use of advanced materials.
Certainly think carefully before touching any of their "Cisco Small Business"/RV line kit. Some of that kit was unbelievably buggy and cisco had no interest in fixing any if the issues even whilst it was still current/supported.
At least they support (somewhat at least) the normal enterprise kit.
At $JOB-1, the office network jack for your PC or laptop was literally the daisy-chain port on your office phone. Can't remember the vendor.
True for many (most?) vendors. Generally the phone and the PC ports will be on different VLANs (assuming things are even vaguely properly configured).
The 3 was just right for pocketability. The keyboard on 5 was fantastic and screen was nicer too. Many colleagues went for Palm Pilots but I preferred the Psions. Should still have Psions in boxes somewhere. may have to hunt, although i seem to recall display cable issue on some.
OPL was great for passing time, especially on airports and planes and trains. Later i used pretty much just Nokia Communicator instead of 3/5.
Thank you for the link. I recall the demo very well. Had BeOS on one machine for a while and loved it. Sadly at the time software availability (whether free or paid for) was just too limiting. They definitely had multimedia handling done right and nothing like the battles with Windows and Hauppauge cards.
I will have to give it another whirl now.
Hear hear. The Wall Street induced chase for eternal growth and ever increasing profits in insane.
I remember when companies used to look after their employees, there was loyalty both ways and it was sufficient to be enough in black that in addition to normal business operations there was bit in the kitty for investment/improvement and for rainy day.
Yeah the lineup is a bit convoluted. Still that could work in AMD's favour.... no having to choose between different ratios of P vs E cores. About the only benefit Intel has in the higher end is larger cache (at least based on recently available products (laptops in this case)). A buyer could quite easily, when presented various intel options, just go "feck it that's confusing I'll just take that AMD instead...".
I, in my own view, disagree. I have no issue potentially going into office for a meeting if there truly is a need to do it in person. It is not rocket science to schedule it so that people are present. As for team meetings, that depends on your team, ours is geographically diverse so that would be the most ridiculous reason to traipse into the office.
Quite often the bonuses are tied to company / department performance as well as one's own performance. To top it off, they tend to insist on following the bell curve and even if everyone exhibits truly exemplary performance only one or two is allowed to be rated as such and receive maximum bonus. it is all smoke and mirrors. You'd be insane to budget including you bonus (even if you budgeted with less than 100% bonus).
It is just a way for companies to claim your total earnings/reward is higher than it generally is.
A V8 cast iron block clunker that does 15mpg? :-)
That's not even difficult. For example the cast iron 305 TBI on one of mine does easily 20mpg+ (imp. gallons). Ok perhaps not in city but certainly on motorway. Even in city it won't drop much under 20.
Those who haven't yet installed the update can use the KIR or update the device drivers. Microsoft also recommends that anyone using advanced audio applications backs up all their settings before installing KB5015878.
How is that going to work then with the bloody automatic updates that happen when you turn your back?
Sun SPARC escapes to PROM monitor on receipt of BREAK.
Break on serial connection is holding TxD positive for a period of time. On a SPARC 9600bps console connection 4ms is enough for it to think a break was sent and drop to the PROM. This was almost guaranteed to happen if plugged into serial terminal that was then turned off or on (with most terminals if not necessarily all).
I second the opinion on old Latitudes, I'm writing this on E7240 that is on its second screen. Replacement batteries are aplenty, just as well as they tend to have lot shorter lifespan than originals. Want to carry a spare anyway as run time is not always that brilliant. Nice 12.5" FHD screen (sadly the FHD version is glossy touch screen), fairly lite. Has built-in 3G etc so perfect for on the go.
Also at least so far Dell is nice enough to keep drivers and their own additional bits downloadable for probably all the way back (haven't looked past D620/625 as those are the oldest I have in use at the moment.
I've yet to see a wireless keyboard that takes batteries.
Really? I don't think I have had any wireless keyboards that did not take batteries. Most have been Logitech, some some random cheapies, none have been rechargeable (unless you buy rechargeable batteries yourself). Mice on the other hand I've had both ones that take batteries and ones that have built-in rechargeable.
A very good point. Also SSD tends to fail irrevocably, whereas if you have the dosh you can get spinning platters read in a cleanroom supposing the drive electronics have failed.
No need for clean room. I recall recovering customer's data from "dead" drives by swapping in PCB from a working drive.
Granted, these were old Seagate MFM/RLL drives and I also tried to use same/similar revision board if possible.
Here in the UK a noticeable minority have ditched DSL / Cable etc for unlimited data plans with their mobile phone acting as a hotspot.
At least there still is DSL option. In some places (Finland for example) copper phone lines have been mostly ripped out so if you live bit more rural your only telephony/intenet option is mobile.
My Kaypro 2X had character map in a ROM, I dumped the ROM, crafted the bitmaps for {}[]/|, then burned into a EPROM, soldered it piggy back over (a copy of (just in case)) the original character map ROM and fitted a toggle switch to CS line. Worked a treat (even without a fancy debounce on the switch).
Sounds like someone had the same approach for those ADM-3As.
I think that may have been the point the author was trying to make.
If systemd, rather than being the cancer it is, had truly been FOSS implementation of SMF, I don't think anyone would've objected. I run a lot of Solaris boxen and for any homecooked stuff, I pick either simple init script or SMF with its manifests if I really need the contracts and milestones.
Back in the day (when all phones still had (easily) removable batteries) the standard was to remove battery and leave next to the phone on hte desk., Repeate offenders had some all all parts dropped in their bin.
Of couse now that (nearly) everything has a sealed battery, your suggestion...
Alternatively take the phone and smash it with a hammer.
is a good alternative. or if you want to give them some hope dump it in a pint/mug of water (especially if not a waterpoof model).
You forgot (unless it has changes again) that in non-enterprise versions you will have to have MS account to install/activate, no more local accounts.
Perhaps you can afterwards create and use local account but i'm not interested enough to even find out.
When time runs out on W10 then I suppose any game that doesn't run under Wine/Proton will lose out.
It's come a long way from it's origin, but browsers were meant to handle largely static, mainly one-way communication. Extending that into an application display framework always seemed like an ugly fudge to me, and I think the bloat and inefficiency in our modern web browsers, which are now probably the biggest resource hog in any workstation just shows how poor a decision that was.
I wholeheartedly agree. Dynamic content in the form of CGI was far enough. This current fad of "web apps" is infuriating. They're not exactly "just run in the browser" anyway, as many require downloading additional crud/plugins to work.
"I am fascinated by the serverless thing," said Walker, "I think it should be called Infrastructureless, eventually, I think that's really what this thing becomes… what we're doing it is we're preparing it so that it can actually work for huge massive applications."
This irks me. Without some server and infrastructure, there is nothing to run the stuff on. Yes it might be somewhat opaque to the end user, but there has to be server and networking somewhere.
Not a fan of Realtek. Some RTL interfaces hang when you actually push any data through them, so I'd like to see intel network card option (even if only at !Gbit/s). I would also like to see 3G/4G WWAN option. Otherwise it is quite tempting proposition to consider replacing my 12.5" latitude E7240 (the 1rst gen "slower" would do fine). EIA-232C expansion would be really nice too to avoid yet another dongle off of USB port.
I have also backed this. I have Turing Pi version 1 (which for those who don't know, supports 7 nodes on the board) which is bloody brilliant. I think theyv'e done a cracking job in having just enough integration/management built in that (for me at least) it is worth paying a bit rather than doing from scratch. Sadly CM3+ modules are bit difficult to obtain at the moment.
I am stil wondering if I should've pledged for 2 to have a fail over cluster.
Myself, I went with nas4free (think they rebranded as XigmaNAS some time ago) for reasons that I can't even recall (sometime afrer the fork from FreeNAS happened) and the upgrade worked flawlessly. Slightly different approache between iXsystems and Xigma as they each went in slightly different direction.
Touch wood, has worked flawlessly without any issues on HP MicroServer (old N36L IIRC) booting off of internal USB stick. I did add intel dual port gigabit card to the MicroServer which improved network throughput and reliability.
Channel aggregation and increased bandwidth is all very fine, but not much help in urban areas. Finding, a reasonably, free channel let alone one supporting 160MHz bandwtdth is nearly impossible in most urban areas let alone 320MHz. Admittedly 5GHz/6GHz helps a little bit but still leaks enough that you're sharing with nearby neighbours.
We had someone (or someones) pointing Access to Sybase backend and it caused no end of havoc as it locked whole tables. Not sure if that was fault of Access or ODBC drivers, but the end result wasn't pretty. it is possible that it does something stupid (while thinking it would improve things0 causing lock escalation from page level locks to table locks.
Cluebat was swiftly administered for the guilty for doing that without even asking if that was allowed/good idea.