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by martyvis 9y ago
Anyone seen the Digital Networking Product catalogues from the late 80's. With thin Ethernet and DELNIs and DECSTAs the in thing and lots of solution drawings using cool graphic icons, it made it all look like Knex. Would love to see t
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by martyvis 9y ago
I commissioned and programmed pdp11/83 based systems used for process control and operator interface systems in a steelworks as "recently" as 1989. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still running...
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by martyvis 9y ago
And ultimately it leads you back to targeting the IT operations centre for the business where they provision equally to say both AWS and Azure for redundancy. At that point you can knock all of the biz cloud capacity off.
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by martyvis 9y ago
The thing is the dispatch system for those security guards may well be running on AWS or other cloud - once they become uberized, even more likely.
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by martyvis 9y ago
It's probably because it's 5 in the morning here :-) But looking at Amazon's own references to the appliances, they always capitalise the name. I guess what I can only assume was intentional obscuring what are probably tradem
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by martyvis 9y ago
It took me three reads of the first couple of paragraphs to realise that "snowball" and "snowmobile" were actually hardware products that you can touch. Tech news publishers need to do a jargon check and use appropriate
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by martyvis 9y ago
"Somebody got into the fish tank and ... sent 10GB of data to a device in Finland". I see what they did there. :-)
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by martyvis 9y ago
Yes. I don't get this. If the 512 bits that are generated every minute are publicly known then they certainly aren't useful for any function where the seed is meant to be some sort of secret.
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by martyvis 9y ago
"Play it cool" https://youtu.be/BHIo6qwJarI Go! by Public Service Broadcasting. (Sorry just discovered this song a few days ago)
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by martyvis 9y ago
For my own amusement, when ever I get a new OS build on my machine, I'd open up a task manager and watch CPU load just by wiggling the mouse a lot or maybe simply pressing page up and down. I'm pretty sure it's always pretty
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by martyvis 9y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the demonyn for those from Sydney, Australia. It is Sydneysider - I have heard Sydneyite maybe once or twice. Of course the state we reside in is New South Wales - that mouthful leads to New South Wel
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by martyvis 9y ago
The Australian Defence Department will terminate its relationship with a Sydney data centre in 2020 and move its secret files back into a government-owned hub, because a Chinese consortium bought half of the centre's parent company. Ke
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Australian Defence to move secret files out of data hub after Chinese buy-in(ab.co)
1 points by martyvis 9y ago|1 comments
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by martyvis 9y ago
Actually as soon as I saw the headline, and knowing that SoftBank is Japanese, I was thinking of Gigantor and Astro Boy!!
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by martyvis 9y ago
Also the fact that it seems no one from his work (bosses or colleagues) phoned him or made contact in his absence to enquire about his or his mother's wellbeing to empathise with him on his resignation (which would have therefore eli
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by martyvis 9y ago
I stumbled across an interesting IoT enabled solution for monitoring the state of power poles (which in much of Australia are basically dead trees). By sensing movement via accelerometers (and possibly other sensors) you can detect movement
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Using Accelerometers to Protect Power Pole Networks(iotaustralia.org.au)
1 points by martyvis 9y ago|1 comments
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by martyvis 9y ago
LOL. I just finished putting up a pergola with a clear polycarbonate roof. The recommendation is to apply a foam adhesive tape to the purlins (battens) to prevent noise caused by movement of the sheets from thermal expansion. I https:&#x2F
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by martyvis 10y ago
I've always been fearful of correcting my -7 short-sighted vision with anything other than spectacles. Probably started while I was working as an electrical engineer at a steelworks and being told of the risks of watching a high intens
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by martyvis 10y ago
That isn't what the story said. I think the issue is that your gut and digestive system may cope with parasites, bacteria and the amoeba that causes AK - the eyes defence mechanism will be different
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by martyvis 10y ago
From the introduction "Microplastics might be of health concern since they have been shown to carry hazardous chemicals and microorganisms.". So it is still a might whether it is a concern. We all eat, drink and breathe "chem
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by martyvis 10y ago
"A bulge" is brilliant! Pinch-zooming on a phone and lining up the square lines against the screen edge is mind blowing.
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by martyvis 10y ago
My wife asks if you are male or female? (I understand if you'd rather not say.We have read that female often have this type of gradual heart attack - my mother-in-law being one)
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by martyvis 10y ago
Interestingly this article on HN last week addressed the finding that while stents are often prescribed for chest pain symptoms it is doubtful they have a more favorable outcome than other treatments https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by martyvis 10y ago
Space elevator, here we come!
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by martyvis 10y ago
111MB for the setup download (at least on Windows)?! What's in it apart from a chat app and encryption library?
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by martyvis 10y ago
The Australian of the Year (just announced yesterday, January 26th being our national day), was Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-26/the-amazing-work-of-pr... He performed pione
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Scientists accidentally turn carbon dioxide into ethanol(ab.co)
1 points by martyvis 10y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 10y ago
The PAUSE frame is meant to be sent by a station (host) to the switch (or vice versa) as a flow control mechanism, only for that port. Assuming the switch has at least some egress buffering, it shouldn’t result in propagation away from that
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by martyvis 10y ago
Pretty much the great data viz graphs produced by D3.js are built on SVG - https://d3js.org/

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