Posts by Jou (Mxyzptlk) 1078 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2018
That may have existed back then too for really expensive storage. But for more than ten years the standard cheapo fileserver offers classification by extension, and simply deny write access. The better ones can look at the "magic" too to get the renamed versions.
> Ethernet is transformer coupled, so ground loops should not be a problem.
The problem is that your equipment is still of different ground. If there is a change it will wack onto the coupling as well. And with a distance of about 70 meters you have enough signal loss and induction from electrical fields. It may have worked with shielded cable, but with the shield unconnected on both sides or connected with a 100k resistor instead of direct metal. But it would still have been a long cable buried in the ground - changing to fibre would have been the end anyway on the long run, those tricks would have only delayed it.
> now we have 32GB we're at liberty to make any 8GB system unable to keep up.
True. I noticed it at work yesterday, and I work in IT. The 8 GB Laptop is with AV, Teams, Outlook, Browser and Citrix at 80% RAM load, after a little while close to 90%. Note how I complain about the programs (marketing speech APPS). I forgot about it and wanted to test something in a virtual machine. Had to give it up after I looked in the task manager. I used one of those left-over ~9 years old Hyper-V clusters which are still running, even though 95% of VMs have been migrated away. Which, in hindsight, I should have done in first place.
As for Windows 10 itself: 4 GB RAM is enough, it just depends on the applications you run. But don't try with less than 4 GB, neither OS or current applications work well with hacks. Better use Server 2022 for machines with 2 GB RAM or older/other OS.
Do you mean: "Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series" from 1998?
If yes: You made me curious, so I tried it on Windows 11. It works, even the setup works. Though I had to select an 8.3 path on C: to install, but once installed you can copy it somewhere else. Even works in 4k, though with some graphical glitches. 2048x1536 is the highest resolution without glitches. Setting a frame limiter via GFX-card control panel recommended. DGVoodoo: Not tried (yet). xbox360 controller works too.
> fusion only works up to Iron
This is correct. All heavier elements are made when the outer hull of the sun, during going nova, expands and then collapses. The collapse literally crushes the atoms together with such an amount of energy heavier elements than iron are created by fusion. And you are right, you don't get energy back with that type of fusion. This blow-up-collapse cycle happens several times while doing the nova thing.
> So you really want to suggest that, say, mac OS isn't a 64bit OS in a way Vista 64bit was simply because it's only sold with specific hardware?
For the Windows world: My point is the "out of the box", a box that is on the shelf for everyone to buy openly without restrictions. Not bundled with hardware. That came with Vista.
Why switch to Mac world for comparison here?
You only mention 2000/XP versions made for OEM with specific machines. No other way to get them. I wouldn't call that "out of the box" support for 64-bit, like it is with Vista when you buy it. It is like saying "Windows Storage Server 2003 was officially widely available" while it was actually bundled with hardware.
Back ports are usually mounted directly to the mainboard and work more reliable since their routing the the USB chip is, usually, very short and well tested. Front ports have cables going to the mainboard, and those extra contacts cause reflections of signals with USB 3.0 and higher. Hence the reason why those USB 3.x mainboard-to-front connectors are so small with short pins which cannot hold the plug reliable: Only with those short pins the reflections cause less problems. Not the wording "less problems" here :D.
Extra fun: Quite some boards have extra USB ports in the back, connected via whatever chips instead of the CPU. Some of them are picky what they like.
In virtual environments both AMD (minimum ZEN2) and Intel on vmware, linux-hypervisors and hyper-v, you can easily overbook the number of vCPUs twice the SMT-core count. Even three times is usually no problem with no noticeable slowdowns if you have at least 24 CPU cores (aka 48 SMT-Cores) - unless you run heavy CPU load on ALL VMs of course.
So it should be possible to run over 400 vCPUs easily on that Ampere CPU, but what is the real world result there? I don't know, does anyone?
Office 97 works with Windows 11 too - except or Access due to missing ODBC. Office 2000 works too except for outlook requiring some old IE 4.x-components - which I probably could have delivered, but was too lazy. Deltaforce 1, from CD, works too. A surprisingly long list of 32 bit software still works.
That can be improved: A server hidden behind DNAT or somewhere in a VNET, or a local NAT most hypervisors offer, so you don't even have a MAC address you can follow. And traceroute (including tracetcp and traceudp) won't help too 'cause half of the hops don't even respond. That can take some time to trace it down, believe me. And don't get me started on nested-virtualization which is slowly becoming standard.
Quite a few manufacturers offer "optimized defaults", which don't hint clearly that these are the high overclocking defaults. Which result in weird instabilities far too often. ASUS started that nonsense, and some other, like MSI, jumped on that bandwagon.
A purely mainboard manufacturer f-up. AMD just plays along nicely for PR reasons, they wouldn't have to since it is not AMDs fault for ASUS/MSI etc frying up the CPUs with bad settings.
That sentence with such a perfect timing...
Simple things true. I still use shell script, in my case .CMD, when it is good enough. For anything beyond a simple command-order I expect powershell 5.1, which is WAY beyond. Offering structured objects, being able to directly use .xml or .json as structured objects instead of insane text-parsing by hand and so on. And if the need rises I can use .net objects directly, or .net code inline, call c++ dll functions, or still call .cmd for things which work better there (like piping a videostream from ffmpeg-decode into the av1 encoder).
The problem is missing throttling. Even my powershell scripts, at least those which need it, watch CPU usage and RAM usage to avoid running into a race condition.
The solution would be hacking the script. The most simple would be if ([int]($counter/8)*8 -eq $counter) {sleep 5} add a five or ten second delay. Enough to keep the system alive, but will finish the job within three or six hours. Another variant: Only start jobs when the second digit of the local time is "5", but that is less controlled.
If you are evil you insert a 30 second delay or only execute when the seconds are "30", so it will be noticed since it takes too long. And don't forget to NOT document your change, you need a chance to be the hero to fix the fix :D, and blame it on "race contition".
> Having worked for a German company, with Germans everyday, I can say that their culture is profoundly different from ours.
There is a liiiiitttle problem with this: I am German. We Germans are direct. Only beaten by Danish, tough not much. Way to rude for american standards to be this direct, and all Germans should be taught this before going there. We Germans don't beat around the bush like "Oh, such a nice dress, awesome, looking great, but..." (I don't even know the american-don't-offend-way here), we go directly "Aw no, doesn't look good on you, we should try something else" skipping all that "cushion the blow" nonsense normal for Americans.
In our view this directness is preferred, 'cause we hate nothing more than wasting time and beating around the bush (the latter is even interpreted as offending deception).
When a friend likes a movie and I say "ou, that war horrible movie", and that is fine, it is about the movie. I USA you say at worst "It was Okay", trying not to offend, since "it was horrible" is seen as a great offense since they take it so personal.
A story from "LebenUSA" youtube channel: One coworker constantly failed to fill up excel sheets correctly. He went to her "Please be more careful, or there will be a problem.". He was called to HR, where he discovered that this sentence is "woahhhh don't say this", 'cause it usually interpreted this way: A James Bond Villain or Mafia Boss with a cat on his lap saying "we have a problem". She was really afraid of losing her job or worse.
I know, from the same channel, how this "never offend the slighted little bit" came to, and why it is indeed recommended to behave this way in USA.
If I am wrong, correct me!
As I already mentioned (in this news message comments): Archive.org.
And on top of that I script-downloaded all of them from 16-th April 1989 up to 13th of March 2023 until the typical USA overreaction took place on his side after those other's typical USA overreacting screaming at him.
Americans are really getting overly sensitive, and this is not new. Remember the Nippelgate of Janet Jackson? Would be news, but not even close to a scandal, in Germany - and most of Europe too. And it is getting worse.
Or are you referring with "decent stuff" to something else than his comics?
Last working archive.org snapshot. So he posted 14 comics which I missed before hitting the nuke button. Overreacting seems to be the current USA state more than ever. Have fun browsing all snapshots!
"Chatbots are a sign for 'We don't care sh* for our customers' "
"Chatbots are a sign for 'We hate our customers' "
"I f* hate chatting with a bot, a bot never gets the topic."
"Connect me to a human."
"Shibboleet"
"You are wrong"
"No, not the topic"
"Not helpful"
....
There is absolutely NO typical chatbot out there that ever was able to solve anything, only citing incomplete FAQs which are outdated.
(ChatGPT was the first somewhat helpful in two coding questions, but only proving that my way is either not working or too slow, so a different approach was needed and programmed by me.)
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