Uncle Roger says super conductor like Gordon Ramseys cooking ... soo weak
Posts by fwadman
30 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Apr 2016
Scientists strangely unable to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
Chinese officials declare intention to become network superpower, tout glorious 5G rollout that's smaller than local carriers' claims
Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing
Wednesday 31st March 2021 10:02 GMT
Re: The thought presents itself...
I assume there is a lot of complex sensors which are detecting where the ground is and the readings of these are going to be effected by the interaction between the rocket jet and the ground - so I suspect simulating this X meters off the ground won't help that much
Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'
Monday 6th July 2020 23:15 GMT
Completely missing the point
You know what's good about a massive project run over the internet? No-one has a clue what colour most of the contributors are. No one sees them in real life, a few (men) I know actually use female names in there online aliases. You are judged by your code and not by your speech issues, lack of personal hygiene, bad teeth, dodgy hair cut, spotty skin, too short, too fat, too week. I find online coding communities the most unbiased and open places (until you start talking about code :) )
And they want to ruin this with politics????
Monday 6th July 2020 23:02 GMT
Re: Thin end of the wedge?
I assume this came from normal numbers written in black ink and negative (bad) numbers written in red so they stand out, but thank you for a most excellent point. When people say "This companies is in the black" there is nothing at all racist about this and until just now it didn't even register with me that someone trying to be offended might object to it
Macs, iPhones, iPads to get encrypted DNS – how'd you like them Apples?
Saturday 27th June 2020 11:01 GMT
Re: Better late than bleeding edge?
The trouble with the increased encryption is that it makes life for everyone a lot harder than it needs to be and most people get very little benefit from it. People have confused the need to know content is not tampered with the need to hid what you are doing. The ill informed mass move to HTTPS makes everything slower because it kills proxies.
Exactly the same issue with DNS and HTTPS - it's a completely stupid idea and what's worse - it's very hard to block. What this does mean is that going forwards my own top level cert will be installed on machines in my local network and all web traffic will be going via active man-in-the-middle proxying (i.e. my web proxy generates fake SSL certs on the fly and decrypts and re-encrypts traffic). This will allow me to block this mess - however I'm now actively breaking the entire SSL security model.
Kids these days - havne't got a clue :(
1) When I'm browsing the BBC new website - I care that the content I get is from them - but it's public content
UK contractors planning 'mass exodus' ahead of IR35 tax clampdown – survey
Thursday 13th February 2020 06:32 GMT
Re: HMRC doesn't care either way
Most contractors I've worked with aren't contracting but are disgised perms. The only difference is that have decided to sell their rights (holidays, sick pay etc) in return for more money.
This is fine, but when they get ill they still use the NHS (which they opted out of by not paying there tax), still expect to send there kids to school etc. I'm very happy for the current process to continue as long as they really lose what they have opted out of .... but they dont.
This clampdown on tax evasion cant come soon enough.
Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec, now supports popping it in the Linux kernel
Thursday 29th August 2019 05:50 GMT
Re: Bring compatibility problems to Window, not the other way around
Because you don't need EXT4 on a memory stick. On a memory stick you want the smallest possible overhead file system and no permissioning. exFAT suits this very well. Why do you want to waste space on my memory stick with another partition with drivers (which will be both out of date .. and also a virus writers delight)
Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?
Saturday 30th March 2019 08:13 GMT
Re: Reliability
There were double density and high density disks. In theory the only difference was the quality of the magnetic material on the disk (older double density had iron oxide … newer and high density moved to Colbalt) and the high density disks had another hole in the casing so the drive could detect it.
The 880K / 720K etc difference was due to the different disk formats used (on double density disks) by Amiga and PC. The physical disk was the same.
Just like people used to turn over single sided 5 1/4 floppies and write on the other side - with newer double density disks you could just drill a hole in the casing and use as high density
NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit
Prank 'Give me a raise!' email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal
Cancelled in Crawley? At least your train has free Wi-Fi now, right?
Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win
Tuesday 27th March 2018 20:13 GMT
So many mistakes in the article
1) Vettel was leading the race when he came into the pits .. not in second place
2) Hamilton had already pitted (when he was leading) and it the VSC had not been activated would have taken the lead when Vettel pitted
3) The sector time when under a VSC is fixed so it's not like Hamilton could have done anything about this once the VSC came out
4) The teams would have been running calculations telling Hamilton how close he needed to be to Vettel to ensure he came out ahead when Vettel made a pit stop
5) This calculations had wrong inputs for the time of a pitstop under a VSC
6) If they had the correct inputs Hamilton could have been told to push harder to close up the gap in the laps before the VSC came out
7) Even with this Hamilton might not have been able to do this
If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck
Saturday 23rd September 2017 22:48 GMT
Ah .. good old Renault.
To replace the air filter you need to remove the battery.
To replace the headlights you need to either remove the bumper, remove the front suspension or employ a 6 year old child
The replace the glow plugs - 3 of them are (relatively easy), the 4th you need to get the 6 year old child again or remove the engine
The replace the fuel filter you need to remove the front tyres
The list goes on and on ...
Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'
Corbyn lied, Virgin Trains lied, Harambe died
Sunday 6th November 2016 22:42 GMT
Re: if he had a researved seat and missed his train he didnot have a valid ticket
Not always. The cheapest advance tickets are typically for an extra train. Miss the train and you need to pay extra to upgrade your ticket to go on any train (at least that's the theory).
The couple of times this has happened to me I've found the guard and been straight up with him and he's said not to worry about it. As with most things in life - if your nice and polite to people they tend to be good to you in return.
Living with the Pixel XL – Google's attempt at a high-end phone
Sunday 6th November 2016 22:26 GMT
Re: Wanna buy a Pixel?
erm .. no. IMEI is on the phone, not the SIM. This is why operators block IMEI numbers from stolen phones.
Technically the phone never needs to know it's own phone number - there is space in the SIM card for this to be stored - but this is for information only - it can be anything you like.
Google doesn’t care who makes Android phones. Or who it pisses off
Monday 13th June 2016 09:59 GMT
I don't think so. Most users say they care about security - but then happily disable the virus scanner because some website said they needed to in order to get some (pirated) game to work. Of course because the user "researched" this by looking on the internet they know what they are doing and it's perfectly safe.
Samsung: Don't install Windows 10. REALLY
Database man flown to Hong Kong to install forgotten patch spends week in pub
Friday 6th May 2016 20:18 GMT
One of my first jobs included going to Paris every monday for client meetings. As a youngest I thought the first few times were great. This was when passport controls weren't that strong on eurostar. After a few months I discovered my passport on the kitchen counter under a pile of papers I hadn't touched for months
Biting the hand that feeds IT
