Just me?
Is it just me that read the headline as: Cisco has closed down a business it had acquired for $28 billion!
There have been some enormous write downs in recent years.
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For comparison:
Voyager 1 i 15,134,324,455 mi, 162.81208868 AU, 22:34:04 Light hh:mm:ssi from Earth, moving AWAY from the Earth at a Velocity of 38,026.77 mph
Elon's Telsa Roadster. is: 58,606,261 miles, 0.630 AU, 5.24 light minutes) from Earth, moving TOWARD Earth at a speed of 7,719 mi/h (12,422 km/h, 3.45 km/s).
"IBM announced the TS1170 tape drive with 50 TB cartridges, which are capable of storing up to 150 TB through 3:1 compression." I suspect the 3:1 compression statement must have been heavily qualified. With many large files JPEG, MPEG etc having inherent compression I doubt a 3:1 average is possible on the files on my hard drive!
Yes after reading "At a top level, the recommendations identify actions EU member states should take, also including any necessary improvements to the security of seabed cables" I wondered what the recommendations were but don't see anything mentioned and struggle to think of any realistic physical protection that can be done. Maybe they are keeping that secret but I doubt it. Disaster planning and redundancy are I think the only options.
There are two camps: Power Cycling fixes everything AND Power Cycling is a waste of time you have to find out why it crashed.
with fuses it is:
Replacing a blown fuse will fix it AND you have to find out why the fuse went, dismissing a faulty fuse as the cause.
My philosophy is for none critical equipment: the first time it is necessary to power cycle / replace fuse make a note. If it happens again investigate.
Can anyone explain what the costs are being referred to here are: "But as ICANN's proposal for the idea noted: "Operators who choose to use private namespaces of the kind proposed in this document should understand the potential for that decision to have corresponding costs, and that those costs might well be avoided by choosing instead to use a sub-domain of their own publicly registered domain name."
They look brown to me, maybe they are the missing poo.
"ASTRONAUT Tim Peake was warned about a poo on the loose in the zero-gravity International Space Station.
He was part of a crew ordered to “keep an eye out” for the missing floater."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/24689062/brit-astronaut-tim-peake-poo-international-space-station/
"At the moment it's only telco contracts doing that - it's banned for every other consumer market."
I don't think it is banned, though my only other regular contract I have is Energy and that is currently highly regulated. A friend has a flat rent contract of Inflation + 3%. I can't think of any other common long term consumer agreements.
Whilst Ofcom may not be able ban quantified in contract rises, the government could!
"All of those tabs are important. I just can't really remember what's open anywhere any more – only that it's open. Somewhere."
For me I know the tab I'm looking for, is open in Firefox on my laptop but even when I remember part of the URL or title, Firefox's 'search tabs' frequently doesn't find it. I really should report it as a bug.
Does numbering starting from 0 or 1 in a particular system?
This I suspect is most frequent single cause of wiring errors as well just a few in programming!
Fortunately on most occasions systems with this error will fail on even limited testing and hopefully without a cloud of smoke.
Reading the comments has given me Goosebumps and brought a tear to my eye. I fondly remember going to Heathrow with a friend who helped design Concorde on 24th October 2003 to watch the three Concordes land.
A few years before that I was in the grounds of Windsor Castle when it flew over, after looking at it I happened to look down and noticed that everyone in the grounds had stopped walking to look up at it.
I've always thought it is the only aircraft that looks like it should fly! I regret not flying in it.
"If it's not addressed to you, you're not supposed to open it, either."
It's normally illegal but I think suspecting fraud would be classed as 'reasonable excuse'. Having said that companies and the police don't make it easy to report this sort of thing or seem to take it serious.
The Act reads: "A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."
"Amazon ranks in the top 15 largest UK taxpayers for taxes borne and collected" I deduce this is referring to their collecting VAT on their sales and on all the thousands of sellers selling on Amazon. I call that extremely misleading. I do wonder why anyone buys from Amazon, I don't have to try hard to find what I want cheaper than on Amazon.
A similar (Manufacturers) error (Mains colour coded cable used for a DC cable) cost me about £500 about 40 years ago. I ran an Acorn dealership and a customer brought us a BBC Micro for repair. The reported fault was a few dodgy keys on the keyboard. (The key switches are individually soldered in). My engineer though reported the computer as dead along with the Torch Z80 coprocessor that was inside. Investigations showed every chip we tested was dead. The customer was adamant that it was all working fine when he gave it to wife to drop into us and we must have blown it up. We replaced the motherboard & Z80 card (Nearly £1000 worth) and the customer reluctantly paid half the cost. About a month later his wife came popped in for a printer ribbon and told us the full story. On her way to bring us the computer she'd popped into a friends who's husband offered to fix the computer, he spotted that the power input lead was non standard so fitted a UK mains plug and tried the computer which showed no signs of life. Hence it was brought into us. The non standard power plug was part of a Torch Z80 co-processor & floppy drive disc pack. The PSU Acorn fitted to very early BBCs was linear and didn't output enough to support the Z80 Co-Pro so Torch supplied a PSU in their disk pack which had a three pin DC output. The DC plug looked like a three pin miniature round pin UK mains plug! It supplied the +5V and -5V that the BBCs motherboard used, that was bad enough but Torch used mains colour coded cable! Thus 240V AC was applied to the BBCs 5V rail!
The friends husband was partially to blame but I think Torch's choice of mains cable for a DC lead was the main culprit. The wife did say her husband hadn't spoken to her for several days after she mentioned about the friends husbands repair attempt. I should then have gone back and asked for full payment but I chickened out, we had after all supplied the Torch Z80 upgrade.
Unfortunately there are still no standards for DC cables. DC 2.1 & 2.5mm connectors are common but they are used for many voltages! Multiple voltage DC plugs are very rarely the same, even sometimes from the same manufacturer. Later USB C specs allow for a single voltage up to 48V but that requires intelligent devices to negotiate it, so only a solution for currently a very small proportion of devices.
Can you private message someone on theregister?
I'd like to contact karlkarl re his big box of mice
I know the sites Ts&Cs say no "solicitations of business" but hope posting that I'd be interested in buying from karlkarl is o.k.
I'm also not sure if I'm allowed to post my email address in a comment, I'm not worried about generating spam as my address is out there in many places and fortunately doesn't get too much spam.
Depending on replies I'll probably post my email address here slightly obfuscated.
I recently read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
the parallels are uncanny!
Motorola had the expensive (and complex for its time) 6800 the designers wanted to design a simpler CPU but management said no, so they left and designed the 6502. Acorns knowledge of the 6502 in the BBC Micro was key to their designing of the ARM CPU.
Very informative and well explained.
I recall someone writing that despite the internet often giving wrong information the truth will eventually come to the fore. These LLM will I fear significantly increase the dissemination of wrong information and I have no idea how realistically it can be stopped.
On a related topic there was a Radio4 report this week about the fake Hitler diaries going on public view. An expert told the reporter there was no chance a far right group could use the diaries to aid their cause as they were so obviously wrong! Given the last few years with Covid deniers and 'Trump won the election' he is so wrong.
Over a month later and they are still in disarray. If they had to wipe every hard disc and reinstall everything: OS, programs and datafiles surely it should not take this long!
My local Post Office says by the end of the month they will be able to process parcels BUT they will have to enter everything that is on the CN22 customs form at the till for each parcel.
They have also made a pigs ear out communicating the situation, with the Royal Mail & Post Office websites not saying the same, counter staff saying something else and an email from their customer service department with yet another version of what can be sent.
They still don't say if they have processed all the parcels that were sent before they stopped accepting them. Also they don't say if stamped Large Letters/small parcels with CN22's can be sent or not. I presume not, but the poor communication seams to be par for the course. With the news of the situation on the Post Office website lagging behind Royal Mail's by several days I guess the update from RM to PO was posted 2nd class!
I keep meaning to investigate password lockers, this news doesn't fill me with confidence. I currently use a system that means I have unique passwords for all sites and I can remember them.
W@rd1234*56an#ther
Where the @ is the third letter of the website domain and # is the first letter
The words and actual number are ones I've memorised.
So a unique password for every website that can easily be remembered. The system I actually use has some of elements of the above and more.
If a human was trying to crack it they probably could, especially if they had my password for two websites
I couldn't see anything on the links you gave.
There is going to be an awful lot of data to shift. Given the sites remoteness a satellite link would often be used but wouldn't that interfere with what they are trying to record?
Thinking about it nearly all the data will be going off site so that would help.
We used to sell the Penman Plotter (It was designed and made in Worthing by part of Eurotherm where our shop was)
It was aTurtle Plotter relying on dead reckoning so any wheel slip ruined a plot, the one advantage was as it it had quite a long tether so could do quite large plots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0qeGYjzxw
The question that immediately popped into my head was how long in time is the backlog of "4,277 Boeing 737s. Airbus' combined A220 and A320 backlog was reported at 6,772"
Boeing production rate is put at 31 a month so at that rate over 11 years!
Airbus production rate as far as I can make out about 85 a month combined for A220 and A320 so nearly 7 years!