Posts by Blue Shirt Guy

Re: Metric units courtesy of GNU units

300000 gallons is 1363827 litres.

Re: Lessons ?

"Birmingham City Council's computer system"

I hear they have the best money IT can buy.

Re: I have one major worry about IPv6

I'm not sure how many times it needs to be said but NAT is not a firewall, it just breaks a lot of things. If you don't have a firewall for IPv6 then you don't have one for IPv4. Worse, with IPv4 you may think you have something you don't, while having to impliment bodges that make things even less secure. IPv6 generally makes it simpler to be secure as there's no hidden port translation.

It's working well enough at present that that one "big" operator (EE) only currently has less than 1/3 of the total customers in the UK. Removing one of their competitors and making another bigger isn't going to help anyone other than the shareholders as there's even less reason to compete, while everyone else gets to pay more for the same!

As for O2, they're not even using the spectrum they have in many places and EE have mast sharing with 3.

Re: Windows Server... Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time...

I've seen it used recently as a desktop OS for some old but critical legacy Windows software. It seems "server" to Microsoft just means "not actually designed to reboot at random times" unlike their otherwise pretty much idential "desktop" versions.

Re: No idea

Indeed. VHS hifi stereo sound was so good we used the machines in the recording industry as loggers and for sending out audio demos for people to play at home. It was as close to CD sound as any analogue consumer format ever got and I doubt many people could tell the difference. It was also reliable, with domestic machines recording and playing 24/7 for months without issues.

The picture was far from perfect compared to broadcast TV but fine on TVs of the time. The early linear audio recorders (mono and stereo) did have bad sound but that was fixed in the 80s when they added the hifi stereo track. SVHS also vastly improved the picture for camcorders, though Hi8 was better.

Re: NAT should be enough for everything

Tell me you don't understand end to end connectivity without telling me?

The problem is you can't do that, as NAT only works with a middle man. Even with every consumer device behind NAT and no ability for end users to host anything themselves, that still does not leave enough IPs as GCNAT at scale still requires an IP per 100-1000 users to avoid running out of ports.

You then also need more servers to move traffic between those users, which then use more real IPs, create more latency and higher bandwidth costs.

Re: So? Suggestions please…

I'm pretty sure Microsoft are not "the church of linux". Nobody is pushing to get rid of Windows 10 other than Microsoft.

Re: Unrequested comma surplus

It appears so. The example above is particularly jarring as the comma implies there's a section of the quote that's been omitted after the comma, but I googled and it seems that was the end of his sentence! I'd have thought even in American that would mean a full stop rather than a comma. As written it's read as "I think it'd be impossible not to conclude that, ..." and leaves the reader hanging wondering what conclusion was omitted.

I guess it's too much to hope that what is (or I guess was if it's been taken over) a British site writing about a British story and quoting someone in the UK could actual use the appropriate gamma. Can anyone recommend a site like The Register that's written in English? :-)

Re: Expensive

Yes but this is the supermarket charging £50 for a stake I could get at the Ritz for £5.

"My Fairphone 3 is on it's third battery and second USB port at the moment"

The Fairphone 3 was only released 5 years ago. I'm not sure that's as impressive as you might think it is. :-)

Re: MS seems to have lost it... big time

Did they ever have "it" or have they changed what "it" is? Because the last time Microsoft came even close to being "it" was the launch of Windows 95.

"I'm the inventor of the hovercraft too"

That's incredible, I invented the eel!

Re: So they've probably got one device to read it?

'how to read this' instructions...

I wonder what language they'll use.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pwODwwgE6rA

Re: A powerhouse of dis-service

It was a meger of the UK's worst mobile network (last to get VoLTE and the only one still dependent on 3G in many places etc) and most dishonest (the one that first called copper wire "fibre") broadband network. The results are exactly as expected.

Re: Manufacturing fake research?

"It's quite interesting. First up, I am British and voted remained. Center group type of person. I don't like leftists or the right."

Not only are you clearly NOT British, you're also clearly a liar.

Re: Replace the phone?

Surely you've heard of Silicon Heaven?

Re: Girlfriend

Mmmm SATAlicious.

Re: Lack of due care

The issue with not having Carplay or Android Auto is it actually creates danger. The UK driving test covers using a satnav now, so would you rather drivers had a standard interface they knew across multiple vehicles, or had to prod and poke unnecessarily at the screen of some random and probably out of date interface (or at their phone in a holder, which is legal but even worse) to find the option to re-route past roadworks or whatever, rather than use one of the two industry standard interfaces via buttons on the steering wheel or whatever.