Stierlitz

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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> It's been a long, strange trip but it's always driven by two motives: Making good products and money. Actually, they are going after Android handset makers. Who are paying Microsoft for each handset sold didn't you know
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> It's been a long, strange trip but it's always driven by two motives: Making good products .. Really, really .. more like shifting it out the door if it compiles sucessfully!
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of [microsoft windows] computers and is used to spread ransomware.” There, corrected for accuracy.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Droid: Origin 1950s shortening of android. https://www.lexico.com/definition/droid
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
I recall reading somewhere, the reason the Arab world turned away from science was when a particular Caliph came to power and gave the order to destroy any material that wasn't mentioned in the Quran.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
That's an interesting read. I recall reading about some airline communication system that used to freeze when a 32 bit counter in Windows overflowed. Would the way windows implements timer interrupts have anything to do with this.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
What does the back-end run on? Whatever happened to the distributed in distributed systems? Just how difficult is it for text typed up on my computer to appear on your computer.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. It just too easy to make mistakes. As in that World Bank accountant who entered '25' under the impression he was entering a percentage (0.25). The spreadsheet duly c
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> If you don't regularly test your failover, chances are it will not kick in when the primary fails .. What happens if the failover fails as well?
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
‘Upgraded Version of Tokyo Stock Exchange's "arrowhead" Trading System’ https://archive.is/kkuxu
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@acqq: "On August 24, 2015, a 21-year-old British hacker named TriCk stepped out of .." That story, and that's what it is, has to be put in the form of a bad movie, considering the intellectual level of the target audience.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Really Hackernews, do you have to repost this neocon BS on a respectable technology forum. https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/isis-iraq-war-islamic-st...
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@megous: “.. Shenkman was sent a 180 page evidence bundle from the prosecution on the morning of his testimony ..” No doubt this bundle was deposited in the hallway and came without an envelope, with all the pages out of order, tied up with
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Long ago when I used to do maintenence on video consoles and pin-ball machines. The pin-ball machine was built with a standard desktop motherboard with additional circuits for the display and sound. If you wetted you finger and ran it along
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@systemvoltage: “I often wonder what if we decide to build a completely new, well thought out computing system (including network) that is totally separate from any legacy system and 100% backwards incompatible.” Good idea, and then run leg
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> I think when commodity PCs became wide spread Amstrad ran out of corners to cut to get an edge and became uncompetitive. It was when Amstrad dropped their own OS in favour of DOS that they became just another commodity PC maker. Actual
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“At the sight, it is only distinguished by the screen printing of the case, where the «64» is replaced by a «72»” I recall reading somewhere that, to give an artificial boost to the home grown market. The French introduce a law to ban the i
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
‘The personal data of millions of South Africans, "stolen" in one of SA's biggest data breaches earlier this year, has been discovered on the internet, despite assurances that the information had been recovered.’ Technically
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“Are the social sciences merely dressed up pseudoscience?” https://www.quora.com/Are-the-social-sciences-merely-dressed...
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“The point is that it takes some time to get all of these things running again after a reboot.” I too would like my desktop restored to its last setting on reboot.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> back then we used to call it slashdotting, what do we call it now? That was back when slashdot was a real tech site.
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
“How to change Direction for Hebrew/English” https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/166141/how-to-change...
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
The obvious solution is for Jatan to have his correspondents install a local copy of LibreOffice. There's even a Windows version. https://www.libreoffice.org/ “I’m a science writer who uses Linux because it just functi
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@sumtechguy: “Former WincCE 2.x/3.x dev here. I had to work in this platform for a few years due the hardware my company wanted to ship. MS really could have owned that market” WincCE, WinCE, you cannot be serious. WinCE was produced a
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
@ocdtrekkie: “Pretty sure the user is wrong about what caused this dialog. It was the recent Firefox update.” Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;]
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We don't have any privacy, we gave it away in exchange for the promise of safety: “.. the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where onc
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
Why the problem with C++, it was designed by a committee.
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isolation.site Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from isolation.site (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). Learn more NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> .. as a person stands next to or beneath the panel, the body heat radiates towards the chilled panels to create a cooling sensation .. I'm not sure that is an accurate description of the physics. Maybe the air next to the panel is
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by Stierlitz 6y ago
> INJX_Pure .. runs a self-crafted HTTP server web interface for its purpose .. Don't run your ATM under Windows and connected to the Internet. I recall reading an instructional manual that required the visit of two technicians, tha

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