Posts by cyberelf 45 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2014
@Mark 85: "It's real pity that there's no copy of the Saturn V engine prints"
"One urban legend holds that key "plans" or "blueprints" were disposed of long ago through carelessness or bureaucratic oversight. Nothing could be further from the truth; every scrap of documentation produced during Project Apollo, including the design documents for the Saturn V and the F-1 engines, remains on file" ref
"The update strategy is defined in cloud-config ..The number of machines allowed to reboot simultaneously is configurable via a command line utility"
"the emergence of the bug is a reminder of how developers build on 'trusted' systems like LZO. That trust turns out to have been misplaced"
I don't follow your thought-processes, unless a company is prepared to have its own programmers go through the code, then you have no other option but to accept the code as relatively bug free.
@DerekCurrie: "Left out of the article .. is the collaboration between Quantum Computer Services and Apple that resulted in the lineage of AppleLink to AOL to eWorld."
Wasn't aware of the collaboration, according to Wikipedia, Quantum Computer Services originally ran Apples online consumer services, only to fall out and a renamed Quantum Computer Services went on to become AOL. Sounds like an ever bigger lost opportunity for Apple, than losing the walled-garden war.
"Nearly half of the unionised techies at the UK's Ministry of Justice have voted to strike over proposals that could shift IT service work into the private sector."
As a potential customer of HM Ministry of Justice, I feel entitled to forward an opinion here. Look, once privatised, the outsourcing companies will make three times the money and provide one-third the service. That'll be followed by a report that calls for the wholesale selling off of the inefficient Justice IT department to the private sector. What could go wrong, I mean look at the current state of the NHS.
* Notalota people know this but the UK Justice system is run under Admiralty law, hence you appearing in the "Dock" ..
@lucki bstard: "What a load of romantic twaddle of a supposed viewpoint of life in rural Lincolnshire. have you ever been to Lincolnshire?"
Did you even read the linked-to article, it's a fully accurate criticism of Granthamism, not praise for some idyllic rural past ..
"in other words, severe cold spells like the ones Americans and Canadians have just suffered through are not increasing in frequency and shouldn't be expected to", theRegister
"This study shows, however, that subseasonal cold-season temperature variability has significantly decreased over the mid- to high-latitude Northern Hemisphere in recent decades. This is partly because northerly winds and associated cold days are warming more rapidly than southerly winds and warm days, and so Arctic amplification acts to reduce subseasonal temperature variance", the article
"What we need is a combo updater, which allows the installation of all patches, from clean install to today."
Isn't this called SlipStream .. apart from which .. isn't there something seriously defective in software land ..
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: "God Hates You. Hate Him Back makes the ultimate case for the claim that the God of the Bible is the most wicked character in the pages of history. With a wit as dry as a martini, and the cross-examination techniques of a seasoned lawyer, CJ Werleman lays out all sixty-six chapters of the Bible to present an irrefutable argument that indeed God hates us all. ..
"as was explicitly stated several times in both the article and various posts here in the comments, we did have a versionning system in place" .. "So long as you never close the word processor you’ll just keep saving corrupted versions of the file with more and more data after the corruption point."
A versionning system that repeatidly saves a corrupt file without telling you isn't of much use now - is it ?
You could have tried opening the file in the Microsoft Word Viewer. A built-in recovery mechanism in msOffice for such corupt files would also come in handy.
"The class of XML error described above is absolutely insidious. If you are the type of writer who obsessively saves documents you are only digging your own grave."
I normally save as version001, version002 etc., so I always have a working version to go back to. Something the current crop of 'computers' can't manage. Something that's been around since at least VAX/VMS.
"What happens when you combine two political celebrities, one tech billionaire, powerful unions, and a municipal school district long considered a failure? The resulting mix of often indiscernible successes and failures are cataloged in The New Yorker's new examination of Newark school reform."
How else are you knowing it's in the future. That and an under-lit foreground and lots of flashing lights in the background ..
"On the subject of lens flares, let's see if he can top his previous best of 826 in Star Trek Into Darkness..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIF14mwaSKI
Thanks for the response .. I'll take a look at those links you provided ..
> Anyway, using disks is not THAT expensive...
The manager want's to eliminate disks to prevent viruses, hacking and clients installing their own software and storing prohibited images on the machines. The machines are used by grown-ups in the daytime and children in the evening.
> I don't understand why you want to deliver a windows image to a local PC.
I don't, the manager wants Windows and there's nothing can persuade him otherwise.
> where do you want to store a windows image if you don't have a hard drive?
http://www.ccboot.com/
According to this, they store the windows image and persistent client data on two partitions on the server. I presume the image runs totally in memory, and a home folder is mapped to the client user. I've been bitten before by software that don't perform as advertised. The spec sheet is more aspirational that real. The only way to really know if it'll work is to suck-it-and-see.
From personal experience, any thin-client solution I've ever seen, has been slow to boot and sluggish in operation. Rubber-band effect on the mouse and a noticeable delay when typing before anything appears on screen.
"Why are the GoT books getting thicker but the contents getting suckier?"
Because the publishers can charge more money. Generally I've noticed in these kind of huge tomes, if you skip every second chapter, the story doesn't suffer much. GoT strikes me as similar to LotR as written by a lesser hand. In such books there's about one hundred pages of good story, the rest is just filler.The mark of a good author is how good he makes the filler ...
"WordStar and DOS come from a time in which PCs were brutal and digital technology was clunky and unreliable, but Macintoshes were in limited use"
I can recall running DR DOS on a diskless workstation over Novell Netware that ran a word processer, an email client and a browser, all perfectly usable and without the dangers of "Internet" malware.
"The CVE number was allocated last December, and that timing roughly corresponds with a public discussion about potential race conditions in the relevant code:"
How has this been around since 2009?
'Pseudo-terminal buffer bug from 2009 discovered', theregister
"I discovered that kernel 3.12 has broken terminal handling"
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1610783
re: "Needed: Obama-Putin Summit on Ukraine -- Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, May 04, 2014"
The US gave an undertaking that NATO wouldn't expand eastwards, as such the Russian Federation is right to be peeved. The Neocons seem intent on provoking Russia into a new cold war. They should be careful they don't get what they wish for. The real red line will be when NATO puts missiles into Poland. That will almost certainly lead to Russia reactivating their mobile nuclear missile systems. As is evident, the US woud very much like to fight its wars in other peoples countries.
One wonders where Hagens Berman found the time and money to engage in such public service on behalf of the consumer.
"Steve Berman .. was lead counsel for Microsoft during part of its defense against antitrust claims .. In 2006 he sued Apple Computer, alleging that iPod music players could cause hearing loss if the volume were too high"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Berman_(lawyer)
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