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by Zenst 6y ago
I still lament the phasing out of the UK 1/2p coin, loved those as could use them to tighten up screws and adjust the brakes upon my bicycle of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfpenny_(British_decimal_coi
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by Zenst 6y ago
"The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 18kg CO2, travelling by train and car. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view." Kinda nice they include that, makes you th
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by Zenst 6y ago
Good retro console emulation like the N64 alone may make this a go to for many.
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by Zenst 6y ago
> There is nothing about contracts which require that you can only have one active at the same time, or that that current one must be open ended. Agreed and yet for many systems, that flexability still eludes. One example I personally e
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TDOA Transmitter Localization with RTL-SDRs(panoradio-sdr.de)
2 points by Zenst 6y ago|0 comments
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by Zenst 6y ago
I was thinking HEPA filtration may already cater for virus's, but with HEPA certification being .3 microns and the COVID-19 virus 0.12 microns, then it gets down to individual air conditioning systems. Some may use ionising in combin
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by Zenst 6y ago
I lived in a tower block in the UK few decades back (was built in the 60's) and it had a shoot system comparable to this. Was bad as you would get people putting oversized rubbish down it so would get stuck in the shaft. Would also c
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by Zenst 6y ago
and that's a recent visit, imagine the gems that have been `salvaged` over the decades of disuse. Kinda makes you cry seeing such legacy abandoned like that.
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by Zenst 6y ago
Egads, business and morals sure are in different beds. I wonder how many people that they are evicting are also `gig` workers or zero-hour contract employee's who couldn't pay their rent as the company they work for just dropped t
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by Zenst 6y ago
When most people see the word `string` in science, `string theory` comes to mind and maybe best to think of them as Space dendrites.
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Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app(bbc.co.uk)
146 points by Zenst 6y ago|88 comments
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by Zenst 6y ago
I doubt you will be able to re-enact Star Wars scenes with this, and it will probably just appear as a large star in the sky to many - which a few thousand years ago had a different sort of fan base than today's mindsets.
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by Zenst 6y ago
Depends upon how you define Personal Computer and what time-frame you look at. So if you define a personal computer as a computer people use for personal tasks as a tool, then a mobile phone fits that. In that definition and if you look at
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by Zenst 6y ago
The distinctive sound of a walkie talkie chirp is also a good sound to play, had it as my message alert on my phone - the number of people who suddenly think your a cop and get spooked. Though any music works best as shows somebody in and m
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by Zenst 6y ago
Still unsure how they got that suffix, does cover prefix's. The only explanation I can work out would be that the EX is the manufactures code, though I can't find any association of EX with Boeing.
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by Zenst 6y ago
How do they name such aircraft? Asking as it would seems that somebody is either having a good chuckle somewhere or a misfortunate naming convention given " F-15EX" will bring out the schoolboys in many. Is the EX extension meanin
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by Zenst 6y ago
Ah yes, interleaving of the sectors. More prominant with early HD's and using tools like spinwrite to optimise the interleaving. Today it's all 1:1 as processing from the heads just been fast enough for decades to handle the spe
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by Zenst 6y ago
The initial release of Atari's has single sided drives, I think the 1040ST had Double sided though, they did upgrade that shortly afterwards I believe to enable the marketing bods to show a larger number they could compare to the Amiga
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by Zenst 6y ago
There was, can't recall the one that was popular prior to Microsoft adding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace MSDOS 6.0
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by Zenst 6y ago
One of my favourite outages was my TV cable - I was sat in a government NOC and called them during lunch. Was lucky I had a phone that had a loudspeaker (was late 90's) and was able to share the excuse for poor intermittent reception
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by Zenst 6y ago
Most discs were rated to format to 80 tracks but some you could format with 81 or 82 and IIRC even 84 on some. Then there was sectors, which was common to have 8, though again you could with better quality discs (quality did get better ahea
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by Zenst 6y ago
FAT afaik is also known as FAT12 - nice explanation in the wiki over the differences and some history aspects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system
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by Zenst 6y ago
I vaguely recall that people used to get their atari floppies and format in a MSDOS machine as it would yield a slightly bigger capacity - something to do with default format on DOS using more tracks. That was until alternative floppy form
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by Zenst 6y ago
They replaced cables so would seem the DSL signal.
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by Zenst 6y ago
I had an OpenBSD firewall at the start of the century and set-up my SSH with port-knocking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking I used an skey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY por
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by Zenst 6y ago
Oh this sounds like Facebook might be going for the Epic Fortnite play-book approach, or at least mooting it for social and political peer-pressure.
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by Zenst 6y ago
One plus-side for them logging into Netgears cloud when they boot up - IF they get stolen. In that instance, would Netgear be able to assist in there recovery and law enforcement? Certainly would add to the old saying "every cloud has
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by Zenst 6y ago
I worked with a few contractors who had what I thought was a great solution. They would work IT contracting 8-9 months a year and during the other months, would do another job. One case, the chap was a waters-king instructor and did that i
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by Zenst 6y ago
I ran 5 USB drivers (4x USB3 and 1x USB2) of a powered USB3 hub attached to a RPi4 a few weeks back as was clearing up some drives and data juggling between them. Had that running for few days with no issues at all and was thrashed a few t
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by Zenst 6y ago
I'd expect the compute flavour to expose the PCIe bus, so SATA or NVMe would be easily added as no USB3 chip hogging it. Indeed I'd say that is not only a given avenue, but the angle Mr Upton was hinting towards given the I&#x2F

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