Posts by justincormack

Re: No cursor keys

My (many many years old) happy hacking keyboard does have cursor keys, tucked under the right shift.

Re: It's the future given the eagerness of TLA's to spy on people.

If it was fast enough you would use this everywhere. Your own premises are not secure either.

Also there is a plan to make stubdoms for qemu standard not exceptional, which would mitigate all the issues, as you just get access to another domain you cant do anything in, rather than qemu running in dom0.

Re: Yes please but with................

You can buy more x201s pretty cheaply. I might get another if this new one doesnt arrive. Or as well, even though mine seems ok at present, other than needing a clean.

Actually its not their food they steal, its their nesting holes in trees, they kick the native birds out and live in them. Bloody immigrants coming over here and stealing our housing...

Re: It's time

Both NetBSD and OpenBSD have already, on 32 bit platforms. I think FreeBSD will soon. Linux is the laggard.

Re: But was FOSDEM useful?

It is primarily a developers conference, ie you are supposed to start helping out on that code which might be useful in twp years to ensure it is, and meet up with those people you work with on irc, and people working on similar stuff to you. Just listening to some talks and thats it is not the most productive thing, although every now and again there will be a really exciting one.

Re: Well,

I dont think they can claim this tax as a credit, as the money then goes to an untaxed Luxembourg partnership, not the parent company. This little bit of the tax evasion puzzle is only a little part. The partnership is owned by some individuals who are not based in Luxembourg, so no tax liability. They are probably based in another tax haven at a guess, its quite a complex scam.

Re: gov.uk

So you already knew how to get a license to operate a space object under the Outer Space Act of 1986? https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-a-license-under-the-outer-space-act-1986

Making them runny involves not hard boiling the eggs, just soft boiling. Then you try to peel them, without breaking them, a 50% failure rate is normal. But they are very tasty.

Re: 20 .au IPv6 domains

Well no, 20 .au domains - 1 with ipv6. There are no registrations at top level in au, so it is a bit misleading, they need to dig down to next level.

Re: they do PCs and services?

They claim to be spending a billion on "The Machine" but there is very little sign, eg try to find anyone working on it.

surely?

As far as I could find, the previous Samsung NVMe never shipped. I still haven't managed to buy an Intel one either, availability date still seems to get pushed out, all though I am inclined to believe they will ship one day.

Re: They are making profits of over £100m...

People also seem to want some advice as to which network and contract to choose from someone they think is a bit independent, though the level of advice from these establishments is pretty poor.

Re: Glad I Jumped...

You still have to pay BT extra for your landline though. Which sucks. They still basically have a monopoly.

surely?

You could read the article, he says nothing about outsource and offsite. Software. You know, that stuff you run on your servers. He is suggesting you get servers with storage and run software on them rather than buy hardware and software packaged up togerther.

Re: FEC

Lots of people have tried it and it rarely does. TCP is nicely tuned from years of experience.

However you could use this new process without changing TCP - just change the stack not to ask for retransmissions if it can reconstruct the lost data.

"The actual value of a Bitcoin is the amount of 'leccy used to obtain it. any value above that is Hot Air" hey will you pay me for these digits of pi I generated with some leccy then? No? Maybe turning leccy into computation does not create value...

surely?

Basically when the shares get bought back they get cancelled.

"An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached" http://czechingin.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/saatchi.jpg

Most of these people are talking about ARM64 which is actually a brand new Risc architecture with little connection to ARM as we no it, it is even a separate Linux port, not part of the ARM tree, although Linus did want them to merge it.

Especially

If you only pitch at the Fortune 2000, hardly a hotbed of innovation.

Re: @Unlimited - if ipv4 addresses are so rare

Because they are not (yet) rationing them by price. That may happen, but for now small quantities are still cheap. If you want lots you cant have them at all.

At some point Amazon EC2 won't be able to get addresses then you will have to switch... Google already went to ipv6 internally.

Re: NetGarbage

Some of their stuff is ok if you install openwrt on it - which they support, which is nice.

That's NP-annoying not NP-hard.

surely?

My computer does not need to measure the rotation of the earth. It does however need to agree what the time is with other computers for security reasons. It might also have to tell humans to do stuff at particular times, but that need not be that precise.

Re: Nice

There are fine desktop distros for Power eg Fedora. Now finding decent desktop hardware is harder though. There hasn't been much since Apple stopped making it.

Re: Killer App suggestion

Isn't that what everyone does when moving and waitin for adsl? I used giffgaff, real unlimited data for £12 a month. With HSPA+ you can stream video if you want.