Posts by jms222 298 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2016
So that’s half a million to pay lawyers when there was no actual damage to anyone or anything in the first place.
The GPL is madness.
Please remember Linux is just a mediocre UNIX family kernel and there are several perfectly good alternatives. Hell even Windows 10 is a good base these days.
I don't doubt Dropbox know what they're doing and that decision may be right for _them_.
But Kotlin is eight years old. Swift is five.
Does anybody _really_ want to invest their time in getting to grips with such young languages ? Are they really going to be around in another ten years ?
Now imagine you're a bank and you'd like to have a bit of continuity. It's a bit wordy yes but what's really wrong with COBOL ?
> BA also provided a 12 month subscription to one of the credit reference agencies for free as well
and paid you for the privilege I hope since they now get to grab even more of your data. What happens if somebody you want to borrow from happens to use only the _other_ credit reference shits instead ?
I have seen Ubuntu screw up grub (which it seems to update every few days) and also entirely remove the kernel before so don't think you're safe for a minute. There is also no concept of last known good kernel as initrd gets rebuilt at the drop of a hat too. In fact things are so screwed up the initrd even gets rebuilt during removal of the associated kernel image.
HT has never performed well though somehow defended by so many people when benchmarks come out.
At absolute best a hyper core is worth 15% of a proper one before security mitigations came in. I remember Intel themselves saying HT used a few% more silicon such that it didn't sound worth it then.
Wasn't Intel HT permanently disabled on some devices anyway because of a nasty lockup bug ?
If you compare otherwise similar i5 and i7 with HT you'l find the latter typically has a larger cache and is clocked faster to make HT look good. So remove the HT crap and let's have the larger cache.
I updated to 2.19.134 on Android this morning which is good according to https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568 .
I'd like to understand what is meant by buffer overflow given that it's surely under a JVM (or Google's equivalent) at least for Android.
When NVDIMM really goes mainstream Optane will simply be a proprietary incompatible and ultimately more expensive system. So yes they'd like you to invest in Optane before that happens.
Strangely enough as things stand one good way to make use of Optane is with Ryzen and the storage product StoreMI motherboards come with.
My advice is
For desktops and laptops use Windows unless you're a Mac fan in which case go ahead. Because you want proper device drivers, power management with working suspend and hibernate etc.
For servers use FreeBSD or a Solaris or similar as you need an operating system rather than a gaffer tape bundle of kernel and userland from different developers. Also a robust filesystem for your data and there is ZFS. You don't need things like snapd . For some applications maybe even go IBM.
The problem with Linux is that it does neither job well though does a reasonable job pretending.
> tsx is disabled through microcode and sgx support is being dropped entirely.
No TSX was disabled on Haswell as the newly-implemented feature screwed up occasionally creating lock inconsistencies. (Disabled in this case meaning fall back to older slower but safe behaviour.) But in principle it's a good idea. Other architectures have had something similar for a while but Intel is playing catch-up again. But Intel isn't as far behind as with NX. You'll find writable non-executable sections in other architectures decades ago.
Regardless of your definition of core the statement that it can't execute n FLOPS in parallel is false simply because of MMX/SSE that can execute 2^n of them.
Even when you can execute 2^n it's very easy for that to be throttled by cache/memory bandwidth because that is of course shared (beyond L1).
And all this stuff has been documented for years and one should always test performance before investing etc etc.
Thousands of people at the airport with cameras. Has anybody seen them ?
How come one has never landed to swap or recharge and been followed ?
Will we find out that the real problem was an embarrassing baggage handling bug or nasty substance leak ? Of course they can support their story by actually flying drones.
Now that drive mapping has come up I wonder if the problem my W7 virtual machine has gained this autumn is related. It comes up asking something about restoring drive letters in the background and no matter what I do it shuts down or reboots again.
No network drives or anything like that in use on the VM.
I have reverted to a good September snapshot several times but can not successfully apply newer updates.
when the non-volatile DDR5 variants appear. Then memory volatility really will become fuzzy.
SATA common though it has become is a terrible interface. A parallel bus protocol moved to serial forgetting that it should have become full-duplex at the same time. In contrast with SAS, PCIe and friends.
(Yes SATA is electrically full-duplex but the protocol forgets this.)
I have told a local company https://www.cambridgefibre.uk to proceed and claim my business £3k government voucher. The service uses G.PON and they claim weeks not months. But the point is it's a small local no-nonsense company (Netservers) and my house is in just about the right position on their main trunk and I have a BT pole in my front garden they can apparently piggyback.
We've had the same argument with PCs for years.
Criticise them for the ease of having bootloader malware then when they do secure boot stuff to guard against it criticise them again.
Consistency anybody ?
You simply can't have both the ability to boot any OS that changes from week to week and security against bootloader malware.
In common with many small businesses they have decided to close my business account soon. They're trying to be seen to distance themselves from laundering of except
* If I really wanted to launder money I'd possibly use HSBC as they're pretty good at it
* I get some of my income from HSBC (specialist network equipment)
* Depending on what you measure my track record with the Midland back goes back more than thirty years and the businesses's twenty something
Good riddance to them.
> If I had a phone that took a day to charge
Overnight rather than a day.
Well if I can charge my car while I sleep and it can do enough miles the next day before I need to sleep again and can do this every day for a few years without significant degradation that is sufficient. Also doesn't cost as much as a Tesla. (Ignoring drive-sharing case.) We're just about there (60kWh Leaf and a few other models) which is great.
Give me a few minutes with a screwdriver and a tube of glue and I'll show you how far you can get at least with USB and optical drives.
There are also ways to disable USB and USB storage in operating systems which assuming you prevent booting from other stuff goes a long way.
> He was an auditor. He needed access to the full payroll data to do his job.
and should have been able to view what he needed in summary and record by record sitting at a terminal on the company's premises. He never needed the ability to insert a USB device and bulk export to it.
For that reason I think Morrison's are at least partially to blame.
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