creshal

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by creshal 9y ago
It was sent to all versions of Windows, as long as they weren't part of an Active Directory domain, and that detection was pretty flakey, too. If you had a mixed OS environment with a Samba-based domain (or no domain at all, because th
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by creshal 9y ago
It would be easier to sell automated Windows updates if Microsoft wouldn't use them to randomly shove a whole new OS down your throat. Oh, and if Microsoft actually had a QA department to make sure they don't brick machines.
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by creshal 10y ago
The history isn't entirely clear. Early on, a lot of separators were used, but it seems that in the 18th century, France standardized on the comma, spreading it to the rest of continental Europe, while Britain settled on the decimal
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by creshal 10y ago
One is too many, especially when the fix is basically free.
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by creshal 10y ago
> Could anybody here comment on the differences between spacex's engine, and the engines on the space shuttle? The Space Shuttle's engines were extremely complex beasts that begat the most advanced alloys at the time – very m
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by creshal 10y ago
Which is just wishful thinking brought onto paper. That part isn't going to be legally binding in any way.
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by creshal 10y ago
And that's why I wear glasses.
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by creshal 10y ago
They have a relatively high value and are easily faked (currently no bimetal design like the £2 coin or 1/2 Euro coins) – and nobody looks for counterfeit coins.
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by creshal 10y ago
> I'm not sure what we could get if we designed them for maximal thrust. Probably something with a worse specific impulse than a chemical engine.
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by creshal 10y ago
KSP: 4200s Isp, 2000 N thrust Real life: 2000-20000s Isp, 0.01-2.5 N thrust KSP's ion engines are hilariously overpowered in terms of thrust (and thrust-to-weight ratio) and power efficiency. It's a necessary change, however, sinc
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by creshal 10y ago
Intel's Skylake processors caused kernel panics on earlier Linux versions, but that never affected Windows, and Microsoft still supports Skylake on 7/8. And Kaby Lake is just a rebranded Skylake with higher clocks, with no hardwar
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by creshal 10y ago
I assume they're asking themselves that question now. Probably it seemed cheaper up front.
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by creshal 10y ago
And before that they used pre-Blink Opera. Nintendo really has bad luck with picking their browser vendors…
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by creshal 10y ago
WebKit based browsers tend to include Safari in their user agent.
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by creshal 10y ago
The X220 comes with CompuTrace and Intel Anti-Theft, which provide the same features on Windows. One big feature: They also backdoor any new Windows installations on the same device, so if your hacker wipes or removes your hard disk, his ne
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by creshal 10y ago
The article is a poor source for your argument, because it does at length argue about the health risks of X-Rays emitted by CRTs. It's more helpful to put it into perspective with other radiation sources: https://upload.wiki
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by creshal 10y ago
That still doesn't make sense. Domestic terrorism is a thing and has been for decades.
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by creshal 10y ago
If the bug exposes random uninitialized memory, can't it affect a lot more sites? And if it truly is only ~3000 sites, where's the list?
979.
by creshal 10y ago
Or look at how many websites are still vulnerable to Heartbleed.
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by creshal 10y ago
> I still have that installed on a i386 machine, but not booted since years. Did it even work usefully? While Linux itself retains backwards compatible drivers for a long time, X.org and others aren't quite as diligent. E.g., five y
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by creshal 10y ago
Additional nurses were brought in to spread the workload for the official study, and the general feedback was positive. In the private sector that informally participated, apparently no staff adjustments were made (or at least not mentioned
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by creshal 10y ago
If I may shamelessly self-advertise, our (commercial) team password manager is intended to be fully cross-platform: https://pave.software/ (Mobile OS clients are on the roadmap.)
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by creshal 10y ago
Because tools like this are expensive to do, especially when you want things like mobile clients. I'd love to open source my self-hosted team password manager, but I just don't know how to afford it.
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by creshal 10y ago
Even if the compatibility layer is optional, Apple still has to maintain it and port it to new OS versions.
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by creshal 10y ago
And then there's seafood, which can be perfectly sustainable, as long as there's sensible enforced fishing quotas.
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by creshal 10y ago
Where have you gotten that from? The only numbers I can find for observed Δv changes are some 100m/s for USA-212, which is a third of the OMS' rated 300m/s with a full cargo bay.
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by creshal 10y ago
> The shuttle was also great for anything that required an EVA, and could handle multiple EVAs on a single mission. Gemini, Vokshod, Apollo and Soyuz all demonstrated that ability as well. Apollo especially with multiple lunar EVAs per
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by creshal 10y ago
> From what I've read, Shuttle also did quite a bit of satellite repair (like fixing Hubble) It did, but a capsule can do the job just fine too – for JWST, it is (or was) planned to do repairs using the Orion capsule and a mission m
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by creshal 10y ago
Retrieval of objects in space and bringing them back to Earth is about the only mission where the Space Shuttle was superior to capsule designs. This was also used in a handful of science missions for studying long-term exposure of variou
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by creshal 10y ago
So how do you avoid it?

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