Posts by that one in the corner 5065 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2021
Love the way that you are complaining about broken examples at the same time as demanding a change that will break even more examples.
And then consider someone asking the question "Is it my version of Perl?" - yes, it would be, if you had your way.
It is a shame if there are broken examples - but having found them, you have opened a ticket, haven't you? Or maybe even attached to the ticket a corrected version?
> IMO, a good user interface should enable you to do what you want with minimal interference, and leave you alone unless it's needed
But then you won't get the full User Experience!
Just think of all the time, maybe even whole minutes, that their highly paid UX specialists put into the memo that forced the devs to code all those popups.
Paint me confused: you are concerned over ID theft and urge the use of extra layers of router to protect your encrypted NAS, but are also looking forwards to the day when you can just gleefully hand everything over to sit on someone else's computer? Just as soon as you get a fast enough upload speed so you don't keep them waiting in suspense.
If we'd realised that the blasted things would actually become popular enough that people are learning to speak the way their smart dooodads expect, we could have had a concerted push for Blighty AI.
By now, we could've had Alexa users speaking RP, given Siri users purest Devonian and, of course, Cortana would only understand Brummy.
Starting to thing that you are trying to say that reviews should only compare two machines when they have the same CPU? What about if they have different amounts of RAM or different drive technologies?
Perhaps the only unbiased review is one where you refuse to compare two laptops because one has a dark grey shell and the other is more of a bluey grey?
The article compared the machine under review with another machine and pointed out that there is a distinct difference between their ability to cope with the sort of task that someone reading The Register is likely to be interested in.
That is pretty much a text-book example of telling your audience something relevant.
This is only a short End-User review of a commodity laptop, not a complete technical breakdown, so the precise reason *why* the difference in performance exists isn't really important.
Come off it.
The only point you tried to make was to claim that the article author was being a shill and to do that you deliberately removed the context from the quote by removing the first part of the sentence.
Where or why or how Huawei gained that reputation is utterly irrelevant to the article so not something that I need to address.
You are, of course, free to babble on about it to you heart's content.
"Roll your own crypto" refers to inventing your own crypto algorithm, which Bruce Schneier makes very clear in his books, of course.
Reading the book, selecting an appropriate algorithm, finding a trusted implementation (ok, there are issues there), compiling it (at least the exe won't be *trivially* backdoored 'cos you read the code a bit?) and adding it to a comms program for you and for your friends to share isn't "rolling your own crypto".
Although doing all that is a bit OTT (but if you don't trust ssh etc, then go ahead).
Thanks for starting off the Internet Adventure for us.
Along with a work colleague, I jumped straight onto the tenner-a-month group pretty much the day it appeared on CIX. Evenings hacking away to tweak KA9Q, especially when Tony decided to give it a text-based windowing UI, for PC-DOS: we posted that to the CIX group. (I can't recall if my Amiga port was ever posted; it was a bit embarasssing, a text-based app on the Amiga, especially as it already had support for PPP, if only it'd work for me!). Having a 'Net connection allowed us to learn and apply otherwise theoretical network programming skills.
I hung onto a Demon account until the bitter end when email accounts were shut down (email address nostalgia over common sense, to be honest).
I remember reading TV21 comic and being continually amazed at the idea of the spy (I forget the character's name) who opened his briefcase and switched on the screen in the lid. "How can you make a telly like that, it must be less than an inch thick and 18 inches across! Nah, impossible."
When we moved house I had a happy week dropping cables from the loft into various wall cavities behind the plasterboard (most of the time spent probing to find whether there even was a cavity, bleeping cheap building practices mutter mutter). Felt very proud that I'd put coloured bands of tape evey few metres as each stretch was unrolled from the reel of dull grey. Even remembered to put bits of paper with the colour code into the little window on the wall panel above each socket. All very neat and tidy (well, except for the squid tentacles reaching into the back of the Ikea cupboard containing the patch panels).
Now, two spectacle prescriptions later, really wish that I'd written the codes onto HUGE labels and sod the teeny, tiny little window on the wall panels. Especially as, over the years, furniture and shelves slowly grew in front of the sockets in every room, leaving them in permanent shadow!
is not a thing in the iOS world?
Not having an iOS device I have no idea how much it changes between releases (and my Android device hasn't updated for years, so don't know much about that either) but I had the impression that Apple frowned upon apps not following the published rules or they wouldn't get into the store. So I'm assuming that this game wasn't poking bits of memory it oughtn't, which would have been *the* reason to not be surprised it didn't just continue working.
Naively assuming that, just because a PC exe I've not bothered recompiling since 1999 still runs as well today as it did back then (doing its rather dull task), 'phone apps might have a decent longevity as well.
Whatever the case, Very Well Done Indeed to the bods at Hello Games.
There are plenty of medical procedures you can perform without needing to be GMC registered - everything in the First Aider's course for starters - and including sticking people with needles.
What counts as First Aid level for security? Something easy that anyone can learn that will help patch up a simple hole, such as running a port scan? Somehow, that doesn't seem likely.
The comparison to the GMC is ridiculous. My wife, the doctor, was not impressed.
> computer security is nowhere near as complicated as the human body
At least the human body isn't changing every few months and you can generally rely on finding the same parts at the same locations (maybe some bits missing) all made of the same materials as in the next patient. Version changes are quite predictable over time (puberty).
> It won't fix it
Well, you can access the files there, so if you have a fix for one of them you can apply it.
> You can't copy it
File-by-file? It is just a mounted drive, file copy (from an admin command line) works, except for a couple that appear to be "busy" (/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/BCD and BCD.LOG). gzip'ing works.
Entire partition? dd has just created an image of the EFI partition for me and ImDisk happily mounted that.
> or rebuild it from scratch
I'm not going to verify this by doing it today, but when I was setting this PC up late last year dd'ing the image back to the partition seemed to work; hopefully it really did and there won't be any surprises coming my way.
> or resize it
is anyone really surprised about that? If you are doing anything that requires resizing the EFI then you are surely way beyond just settng up a simple Windows box (there is still space left after Windows and a couple of other OSes) and would expect to use something external to Windows to manipulate partitions (after all, Disk Management is bleep all help with the UFS or ext4 partitions a well).
Anyway, fiddling with the EFI partition from within the OS that you just booted from said partition always feels rather precarious (especially with Windows keeping those "BCD" files in use all the time!) so thanks for pointing us towards SystemResue 9, another arrow in the old quiver.
Maybe I'm missing something (in which case some kind soul will correct me, I'm sure) but if you want to get at the EFI partition from Windows 10, at least, don't you just use mountvol?
mountvol Z: /S
(run as Administrator) seems to do the job. Not sure about fixing it, but you can certainly make a mess of things by just by blindly fiddling with the contents of the newly mounted Z drive...
I stopped using Calibre because it insisted on copying and renaming the ebooks, except when it decided not to because there was already a copy in another format and it decided that it would be better to let Calibre repeat the conversion from the first copy it came across rather than, say, ask or find out which copy had the best quality.
I have the ebooks already sorted into directories that group them by purchase - a lot of Humble Bundles, for example - and it makes it nice and easy then to check things like "are there any items I've not yet downloaded from Humble?" when even the really lazy way works (kick off the downloads but click "no" when told the file already exists and do I want to overwrite it).
Other files have names that were changed when downloaded, usually to keep the numeric file id from the original source (downloaded hardware manuals, research papers, LEGO build instructions etc) but tack on some more meaningful info as well (LEGO set number - not the same as the file id - set name, booklet number x of y; or subject matter, main authors, year published, which proceedings). All really useful info when the file is sitting on an SD card to go into one of the ereaders. Most of which is lost when you let Calibre get its hands on the file. Or some weirdness means every paper is renamed "1980 Proceedings on Ferret Wrangling" so they are all copies of the same thing and only one need be kept.
I can see Calibre working well if you are happy to let it take over your files or you are happy to just keep two copies of everything. Maybe I'll just buy enough file server drives that the duplication seems acceptable.
Or, best of all, you will all chime in and point out that Calibre has had a "leave my files alone" flag for years now.
+ an assistant with a phone means more man-power per examination
+ if the patient is in a confused state of mind, it can be frightening to be examined; having someone wearing ugly glasses trying to get a look at the bit that hurts is far more natural and easier to understanding, and comply with, than trying to get a good view with a phone
Relatively unobtrusive head-mounted cameras and displays have been around, in small numbers, for decades and these sorts of applications have been tried before; no need to believe that Hololens is any more special than just being the one that is currently available. Except that maybe, finally, some of these use-cases may be practical, even if only for a small subset of the care sector.
The military have had their own designs for decades as well, they have no need to think about Hololens except in that it may be cheaper and available in greater numbers. The military ones I've, briefly, tried - decades ago - were definitely not unobtrusive!
> The RTC format is determined by the actual chip used, generally it will be some representation of time in a wall clock-style format, i.e. separate fields for year, month ... minutes, seconds.
True.
> Regardless it gets converted to some other representation after being read.
Oh, if only that were universally true. Having worked on an embedded system that is still in use, timestamping every 40ms using the RTC format plus an extra centisecs field. Then they continue using that format to do temporal arithmetic and comparisons against user-defined durations. Some very weird times were reported from that lot (not least data collected in 1720, 1820, 1920 ...).
Only dealing with shifting the epoch to push back the 2038 End Of Time would have been a pipedream.
