Posts by A.P. Veening

Re: Anyone worth their salt

As long as those firmware updates only go sideways, there is no real problem. The real problems start when those firmware updates go on a rollercoaster ride.

Re: give me some numbers?

Everybody knows the correct answer to that is 42.

You would not believe how angry people can get over a thin bit of bread covered in cheese and tomato.

I can, especially when the discussion about toppings goes into pineapple territory.

Re: Low energy to high orbit?

use the solar panels as solar cells to boost

Pray tell how you plan to use electricity to boost. Solar panels/cells don't provide reaction mass and massless propulsion in vacuum isn't possible (with the exception of solar sails, which are impractical for the ISS).

Re: BS

Interesting though.

For the right kind of mind, everything that goes "BOOM" is interesting.

And some things that don't go "BOOM" can also be very interesting with FOOF being a rather extreme example.

Re: Thunderbird for the win

Damn thing even gets confused and starts showing e-mails in the wrong order from time to time. It's the only client I've experienced this with.

That is you messing with the sorting by clicking on the headers. In over 20 years of using Thunderbird I never experienced the problem you are describing, at least not without user error (and it is easily correctable).

Thunderbird may not be a good e-mail client, but it is the least bad I've found so far.

Re: Good Times…

And the reason there were no plane crashes is that all planes were grounded. I don't know about other airports but Schiphol (Amsterdam Airport) had several runways converted to airplane parking lots and it was maxed out.

Re: These folks really grind my gears.

Damn, you are right, saw the cartoon and didn't look further. That also explains the down votes.

Can't edit it anymore unfortunately, will leave it as it is for others (and myself) as a warning.

Re: Shop floor automation

So that "manager" managed to seriously inconvenience somebody but couldn't be bothered to request somebody else to read the message over the phone? Being illiterate can happen and is unfortunate (and people are understandably sensitive about it), but this takes incompetence to a whole new level.

Here's hoping that "high priority" wasn't linked to "increased permissions".

On the AS/400 (and its successors), there is no link whatsoever between priority and permissions with the exception that you need permission for the higher priorities themselves.

Re: Sneaky remote access

and most importantly, lawyers didn't get a cent.

That in and of itself is a positive point (the only one though).

No. the PA got laid, the wife got screwed without getting laid.

And answering emails isn't their money producing job.

Microsoft usually gets past that point by bypassing it completely.

And you are sure you didn't have idiots working for you.

Doesn't matter as he is the chief idiot.

Re: Or just use the backup data?

The problem isn't really in the level of taxes (though there is something as a too high level) but in the complexity of the tax legislation. A lot of international companies like to have their HQ in the Netherlands because the tax legislation is relatively uncomplicated and the tax authorities are open to agreements, not because the taxes are especially low.

Every serious programmer has experienced something like that at least once (the first time usually happens before becoming a serious programmer).

Re: Oh really ?

Only vaguely?

Re: Microsoft can't complain it is increasing their costs

Dave Plummer made a YouTube video about it a couple of weeks ago (search for Dave's Garage).

Re: Never delete the old web site, only rename it

Just slowly move them to an archive folder. If nothing breaks in a thirteen month period, it is safe to move them to off-line storage.

Re: Hows that!

Doesn't work anymore with the current computers.

Re: You should do this

If anyone is supposed to MUST give clarity, it's them.

FTFY

Re: Why not explain the issue?

O, you sweet summer child.

Re: met by a military office

Removing anything from site with data storage capability is usually forbidden.

Good luck with that with people having photographic memory.

Re: Blame the dates

I've heard it said that some manufacturers (reportedly) voluntarily add best before dates because it shortens the shelf-life and increases sales.

As far as I know, it is mandatory as even packaged salt has a use by date. Everybody with a basic understanding of things like this considers it bureaucratic madness gone wild and manufacturers really wouldn't go to the expensive of putting it on if it weren't mandatory.

Re: More than once

A BOFH-style user termination will do even better.

No need to make it so explicit, it was already implied.

No, you're wrong. Linus can't stop someone or, as posited by the OP, a corporation, from spinning their own kernel variant.

While you are technically correct, the one serious variant there was (Android) returned to the fold. And that was partly because Linus just kept the whole rest together.

Re: "at least he didn't drop the F-bomb"

And he can probably swear in three languages.

Definitely fluently in at least three different languages and probably more.

Re: Getting stung by a radioactive wasp...

The literary reference is a medical one.