Posts by Solviva 62 posts • joined 8 Dec 2017
All the time, I suspect in the case you're referring to they didn't close the forward curtain.
Also only well-intentioned pax are allowed to use the loo by going beyond said curtain. Not sure what magic filter is contained within said curtain but it's been keeping pax safe since 1994!
Single use credit cards? Won't somebody think of the fish with all that plastic? Just saw on the Beeb today all those face masks ending up as fish fodder I mean people why do you insist on travelling to your nearest ocean just to throw your mask in, surely your rubbish bin is more convenient. If your rubbish bin then ends up in the ocean then that's hardly your problem.
Oddly I had a Faceache ad today proclaiming an eID you can use at the local gambling outlet to save you needing a plastic card that lasts 5 or 10 years. Yeah I can see all that plastic wasted on ID cards is a really big problem! This is Sweden where the Green (4%) party have convinced the rest of the government that renewable energy is sufficient for the country. Which is why in the middle of the summer they needed to fire up an Oil powered power station to meet demand... Meanwhile they're shutting down the last nuke reactors because they're less green than oil hmm.
They seem to be tweeking it, earlier this week:
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forums.theregister.com has address 104.18.5.22
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forums.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:516
forums.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:416
Right now:
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forums.theregister.com has address 104.18.5.22
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So they've overwritten their IPv6 records with some MX records :)
host www.theregister.com
www.theregister.com has address 104.18.4.22
www.theregister.com has address 104.18.5.22
www.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:416
www.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:516
host forums.theregister.com
forums.theregister.com has address 104.18.5.22
forums.theregister.com has address 104.18.4.22
forums.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:516
forums.theregister.com has IPv6 address 2606:4700::6812:416
They've finally gone IPv6 by moving to a .com address?
" If some idiot stops a service for a quick config change without disabling it and forgets to bring it back, then it will come back on it's own."
So how does systemd know when said idiot is finished making the 'quick change' and decide to restart the service all by itself (which may or may not be before the idiot has finished)?
Is there no physical address associated with the account? Buy a stamp and send a letter to said address saying you have their paypal email address (obviously don't include the email address or at least show just a few characters) and ask them to reply to the email address which is associated to the paypal account. If it's a fake address then whoever gets the letter won't be able to email their reply.
Give it a few months for them to reply, and if no reply appears then change the email address associated with the paypal account to a disposable address and remove the original address.
Wrong, the S5 was that... although you won't' get your $10 with it.
Mine finally 'died' after it accidentally accelerated towards a stone floor at somewhat more than 1G in August. Screen completely shattered but it limped on for the next week whereupon the screen gradually developed more and more issues till it was completely dead.
Ordered a cheap replacement display for £20 which was fine when I tested it just plugging it in to the phone but when putting it in the case to stick it down permanently it seems it was far too feeble to take any pressure and self destructed.
Upside is I'm not forking out for another screen and learning how to get remote access to the phone via adb. Authorised my laptop via adb in recovery mode. Got the display streaming to my laptop, can manually enter clicks at any location and swipes. Just need to cobble together a gui to combine the two...
In Gothenburg, Sweden they introduced their app a few years ago. At the time you could buy (rent with refundable deposit) a reloadable travel card. You had the option to top it up in a shop or have it auto refill. Worked great, you just pop your card against the machine when you go on for most journeys, travelling further afield you just needed to pop it on a machine to check out.
Journeys by this card were discounted compared to buying a cash ticket as you might expect. What you might not expect is journeys purchased in the app were the same as a cash ticket (not sure but I think they were actually more than a cash ticket=. Hence very low uptake on the app - plus you needed an active network connection for your whole journey as the ticket magically hides itself after a couple of minutes without connection.
Solution? Bring the price of the app down to the price of the prepaid cards! Oh no, that would be too sensible, they actually brought the prepaid card journeys up to the price of the app. And removed the auto-refill ability.
Before the app you could get SMS tickets where the format was fairly simple to deduce and the drivers had no way to verify the code was genuine, so quite easy to forge those if you were so inclined.
These days you can freely get on without showing a ticket and the random controls are so rare it's not difficult to be a freeloader. I take the bike if I need to go in to town, infinitely faster and cheaper anyway.
Our Supermicro supplier up to magbe a year ago used to ship boxes with the default login and dhcp enabled... So the minute it found power and an ethernet connection it was wide open - you didn't even need to hit the power button.
Machines destined for me got fixed pronto (so I could install an OS from my desk),but I realised for other machines, their 'owners' perhaps didn't even know they had IPMI!
In the Win95 days, knocked up my own little back door for the fledgling school network (anyone remember back orifice? No that wasn't mine...). Offered amongst other things, pop up a message box (similar to "net send" which also worked well), get the cd drive to do a merry in-out jiggle, launch some program e.g. solitaire just as the teacher was walking past... Fun times :)
"However I'm struggling to imagine how expansion with temp can make everything seal up nicely."
Imagine placing a fairly loose fitting washer around say a flaccid body part, then perhaps introduce some images of scantily clad humans. Then you'll see how expansion can seal things, although 'nicely' might not be appropriate...
Two of the screens had the anti-reflective coating self destruct after about a year and a half, which they had a recall program for. The second replacement had a bright spot which got immediately sent back for the third screen... This one seems to be lasting though, touch silicon.
7 years, 3 screens (all replaced under warranty), 1 battery (+ 'free' keyboard, touchpad, upper chassis), 2 speakers and an upgraded SSD later, my 2012 MBP retina is stil going strong.
Company policy is we can get a new laptop every 3 years so I'm well overdue a refresh, but there's nothing I would touch from Apple currently and unlikely in the near future unless they change direction and realise there's more to a laptop than thinness and aesthetics. I'm perfectly happy to go back to a non Apple with the caveat I don't wont a 'widescreen' a.k.a. short screen, which narrows done choices somewhat.
If you really want the notch, just get some black electrical tape and put it there et voila notched phone!
Otherwise are you pointing out there's a piece of display which is currently unused and hence not needed (except for times when it is used unlike in said photo)?
That's starting to sound like those folks that used to moan at 16:10 displays having black bars above and below when watching 1080p content, resulting in the near-disappearance of 16:10 displays in favour of 16:9. Which still have black (or whatever colour the bezel is) bars above, below, and either side of the picture.
"I'm onto my second S5 (both second hand), why change from such a fantastic device?"
I agree, the only thing I could wish for is more RAM at times.
"The screen burn-in sounds like hardware failure that should be covered by the 2-year EU warranty. I've not heard of it from anyone I know with an S7 or S8 but it is known to happen with some OLED screens."
I suspect it's partly a case of user-error (at least for an Iphone that's what it would be), but what can you do if you need to type. As well she gets rather upset when I hint at that :P
Does the S9 still come with free keyboard burn-in?
My partner had an S7 for less than a year, she begged and pleaded for an S8 so I reluctantly splashed £550 for it, on the premise I would replace my ageing but perfectly good S5 with the S7.
The S5 has been so good, the S7 has sat in a drawer for the best part of a year, coupled with the fact there's a permanent shadow of a keyboard on the screen. I tried leaving one of these OLED un-burn tools alternating the whole screen between red/green/blue/yellow/white running for a week. No change.
Caught a glimpse of the S8 last week and was stunned to see it also had the keyboard burned in as well as the top status bar... Sigh.
"The secondary is that it requires a sleepover in either Paris or Amsterdam on the way out. The flight is too early to get there and connect. As a result the whole thing becomes astronomical in price for a family of 4."
KL789 leaves at 12.25.
Depending where you are but most of the EU can get a KL flight in the morning to AMS to connect with that. Could be you live in the sticks and can't get to your airport early enough?
My partner is non EU with UK vist Visa. Im UK, living in Europe.
Drove back to the UK for Christmas a couple of years back, first time using her visa so no idea what to expect. Was surprisingly simples... French exit policeman looks at passports, gives her an exit stamp. Drive on to the the British control, he looks at the passports, no questions, no stamp, wishes us a nice trip.
Leaving the UK, nobody at all in the UK border post at Dover, the following French point was occupied, so I stopped there, they waved us on, I shouted non-EU to the dude who wasn't the least bit interested and still insisted on waving us, so we proceeded.
Entered the UK again via Stansted a couple of weeks before the Visa expired. Immigration dude asks why we've changed plans, to which we look rather confused. So he makes it a bit clearer and asks why we haven't used the visa until it's about to expire. Turns out partner was supposed to get a stamp when she entered the UK last time, but immigration officer failed to do that and who were we to tell him how to do his job :)
So in her passport she has proof she left France in December, and the next stamp was leaving again the EU in January, having magically re-entered without any proof.
Last Christmas they stopped us at both the UK & French posts in Dover so she got her French entrance stamp, still no UK exit stamp...
"Switzerland and France are both in Schengen, the UK is not."
Doesn't feel like that. In Nice (FR, schengen?) airport yesterday, travelling to Amsterdam (NL, schengen), went to the Schengen airport lounge where they said I'm in the wrong place, I need to go to the non-Schengen area for my lounge and flight :)
France have introduced random annoying ID checks on arriving/departing flights of late. Anybody thinking of slipping under the radar surely knows you just need to cross the border by road... You might have to anonymise your vehicle first if you were really wanting to hide.
"Most countries where you have to get a visa or a stamp in your passport won't let you out unless you're showing them the visa or the entry stamp, so switching passports is not an option."
I tried in Macedonia, on leaving the passport checking dude looked at me a bit funny and asked if I had another passport (the one I entered on :P).
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