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by zh3 4y ago
Even if you don't do skiddy tricks (but do a lot of miles) knowing the arithmetic leads into all sorts of interesting thinking about prime numbers - and, indeed, figuring out optimum gears ratios for (personal perference for) particula
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by zh3 4y ago
On-One bikes made - and still make [0]- a bike called the ScandAl. Clever name, orignally marketed as Scandium and a cute logo with atomic number of the elements in it. Mine cracked just like the one in the article picture (to be fair, afte
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by zh3 4y ago
For MSDOS (I've dabbled with FreeDOS) the MSNET client works fine with Samba (with more recent versions, I understand backward compatibility needs to be explicity turned on - same as on Windows). It's a pretty nice way of running
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by zh3 4y ago
I do recall being at a dinner back in the '80s, where someone starting going on about how evil a MUG player was because he killed so many personae (particularly his own) and what he'd do if he ever met said person in RL. At which
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by zh3 4y ago
As a Bauhaus fan, reading the article was "Eh? It was Peter Murphy" - and then I found it was a different ad in the UK.
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by zh3 5y ago
Yes, I should have said Redhat - apols. I assume that if this change is in Fedora then it'll go to RHEL.
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by zh3 5y ago
I know that feeling; people projecting what they like onto you, assuming therefore you will like it too and then getting upset when you don't. It's horrible because it feels like it's your problem - but it's really not.
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by zh3 5y ago
Fortunately we moved off Fedora some time ago, for exactly this sort of reason - when you're working with industrial stuff where minimum timescale is a decade and reliability is a must, low-tech FB interfaces are de rigeur. Once upon a
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by zh3 5y ago
Must admit I'm surprised there don't seem to be more users out there doing exactly this. Makes installing a new program for everyone instant (put it in /usr, now available to all) while allowing personal customisations with t
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by zh3 5y ago
I've always liked the /usr distinction, with systems set up so they will at least boot without /usr mounted (at an absolutely minimum, a statically linked /bin/sh is enough to get a command prompt). This is particul
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by zh3 5y ago
In a 'loopstick' antenna, all that's going on is that one side of the coil is receiving the signal before the other. This is what there's a strong null when the coil points towards the source. A little surprised by one p
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by zh3 5y ago
Could be just that this kind of thing lives on the boundary of electronics, software and precision timing (e.g. for PAL it's necessary to either clock a deterministic MCU at a precise multiple of the colour subcarrier, or use a pile of
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by zh3 5y ago
Surprised to see this as a barrier, it's not hard to generate composite video in hardware/software and there's plenty of composite to VGA/HDMI converters out there (e.g. search Amazon for "composite to HDMI").
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by zh3 5y ago
It's the new Hotmail ;)
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by zh3 5y ago
I'm pro-nuclear, but having been following this for a long time and it's not exactly a model that's leading the way. Especially as I'm in the UK, and we decided to build a copy of it (Hinckley Point) even after all the f
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by zh3 5y ago
Along the same lines, there's a Crowdfunder [0] to serve ads carrying the news to Russians. [0] https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/give-russians-real-news-abou...
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by zh3 5y ago
>....taking advantage of the supposed benefits of SPAs: there are no snazzy animations between states.... If that's the main benefit, let's hear it for MPAs. I want a website that's fast, responsive, clicky, sharp and to t
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by zh3 5y ago
Let's not lose sight of the points being made.
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by zh3 5y ago
Icecast driven by mpd on the server; 'mpd' output is also captured as raw PCM and sent over the network to anything that wants to play it back (playback software is just a hack that reads the data and dumps into the soundcard, bas
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by zh3 5y ago
I've been netbooting Pi's since the very early days and have been running networked sound since then (replacing earlier PC-based setup). Still running on the same old Pi 2's with Wolfson/Cirrus cards. SD cards are write-
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by zh3 5y ago
One of the most fun ways to see how 'simple' it all is, is to add 'init=/bin/sh' to the kernel command line. The kernel starts, you get a shell. It's then possible to do a lot just with shell built-ins (e.
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by zh3 5y ago
...and (commenting on my own submission) no, it's not April 1st.
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UK Government proposal to return to Imperial Units(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by zh3 5y ago|4 comments
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by zh3 5y ago
Thanks, that was the link I meant to post (the BBC should add a fixed link that points to the latest, as well the daily links).
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by zh3 5y ago
A great way to quickly catch up is to use something like the BBCs "What's the papers say" page [0] or similar alternatives. It gives both a broad overview and also an opportunity to see different perspectives on the same news
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by zh3 5y ago
What sort of things broke for you? My experience has been that maintenance has been little other that adding the features designed to penalise spammers.
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by zh3 5y ago
Dovecot works so well, I've almost forgotten it's there for the many years I've been using it for local mail handling.
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by zh3 5y ago
Similar to many others, I've been self-hosting for years (around 20, across multiple domains) and it's really been a non-issue. Having a dedicated IP probably helps, but it's been generally more reliable than Gmail (who have
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by zh3 5y ago
Of course. But one of the great things about C is that as a rule nothing breaks with compiler changes (as long as appropriate care has been taken) which this appears to violate.
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by zh3 5y ago
Very much with you on this one. Even with 50k+ LoC a 'make clean;make' takes less than a second (with help from ccache and a RAM disk). It effectively gets the compiler out of the way and keeps the thought processes continuous. On

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