Posts by Richard 31

I used to know a guy that would run a scam thusly:

1) pop out a drive on a raid array

2) reseat it

3) wait for the compaq (yes this was ages ago) engineer to turn up, replace the drive and leave the old one in the rack because of the disk retention policy.

4) swipe the 'faulty' drive

No idea if they got flogged on fleabay though

My oppo phone has its camera and torch on a pizza wedge that pops out the top. It auto retracts if the phone is dropped. It's actually the easiest way to switch off the torch if the screen has timed out...

I would assume that Apple don't really care, and that part of the strategy has been just to see just how high they can set prices before profits are hit. I am quite sure it can stand the "hit" of not making as many billions of profit on this set of phones, and just set them more sensibly next time.

Does this imply that they manged to get a spec, build, test, go through UAT etc all from 10-31st of one month?

Almost willing to call bullshit on that basis alone.

20/20

Amused they they would call thier tech conf "Tintri Tech 20/20"

20/20 vision being the average persons vision, not high visual acuity. An average product for the middle of the market at best. Pity they price themselves like they are a premium storage vendor.

So that's the language they use when the whole thing is on fire and they are trying to shut the whole thing down as fast as possible.

Shame, i rather liked Windows Mobile. Pity they had to mess everyone around so much with it.

If you have bought a sex-bot, you probably don't have a real person to screw anyway.

Anyone seem my order?

Richard Burton

Who care about fry, when you can have everything read out by Richard Burtons baritone voice?

Orville will be safe...

Or at least the twonk he sits on.

Already happened!

Given the size of the Milky Way and the likely distance of any star that will go supernova, it is more probable that the star has already gone supernova, but the light from it won't arrive until sometime in the next 50 years.

Hash DB

With only 18420000 possible password in the default dictionary, you would think that you could just compile a DB of all the hashes and refer to that. It wouldn't even be all that huge.

Always on, and ending

What always concerns me about this always on bollocks is not necessasarily the being online part.

What happens when they decide supporting the console once it is no longer economically viable? You can bet they will drop the Xbox One the second that is true.

Some of us like playing ancient games, i still occasionally dig out old stuff for a quick blast about. I don't want to be dicking about with any fake auth servers or anything like that.

Cleaning products

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Does this mean that over time its name will change to CIF to be in line with European cleaning products?

Backwards compatibiliy

A lot of the reason machines and servers end up with old versions of Java is the lack of proper backwards compatibility. All to often there are programs that will only work with a particular version of one particular JVM. As someone who has to deal with this, i do get rather frustrated with Java. My arse is more backwards compatible than this.

Microswitches

You cannot beat a proper microswitch keyboard. It is worth all the comments from people about how loud you are typing to actually be able to tell when you are pressing the keys properly. And they seem to last forever, My Dell keyboard has been going strong for at least 12 years, which is odd because the company i work for never had any Dell servers or desktops. I will be keeping it when i move to another computer. I expect i will have to buy an adapter for it as noone seems to make new computers with PS/2 connectors anymore.

waah waah waah..

.. i'm a big girls blouse is what i heard from the Apache guy here.

He has found an angle to have a go at MS and big up his own software. Are we surprised?

Bored now.

Doubt it....

If you are going to be using "the cloud" as storage, the disk makers are still going to be selling plenty of drives. To the cloud providers.

I am more or less assuming that disk usage in the cloud will even out between being able to store more than one users data on one disk, and the need for RAID and data duplication to keep everyones data.

Also i am not sure we are going to see any significant alterations in network speeds at the user level, plus with the general unreliability of the wireless networks.

Hackers

When i see stats like 779,816 infected machines like in this article, i am reminded of the film Hackers when Zero Cool hacked a pitiful 1706 or whatever machines and got black-ops guys bursting though the door.

Would an infection of 1706 machines even make the radar these days?

Ford Granada

I would make an offer on that Ford Granada :) . Better than the Cortina.