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  1. Re:Laser printers can sit a long time on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    Don't know I would recommend taking a USB stick anywhere. If you have a service like that burn a CD/DVD.

  2. Re:What is the solution to printing rarely? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    At which point you just buy a maintenance kit. That's assuming you brought a suitable laser printer in the first place. My old LaserJet 5L is still doing sterling service at the local sailing club some 21 years later. Sure it needed the rollers and pickup replacing but that was about 13 years ago, and at one point fairly early on I did buy the 4MB RAM upgrade and these days it is hooked up via a USB to parallel lead, but every week it reliably prints out a few sheets.

  3. Re: What is the solution to printing rarely? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    So get on eBay and get a JetDirect card for it. A quick look shows one going for $5. Oh and while your at it some extra RAM and you will be fine for even complex pages. These printers are good for at least one million pages.

  4. Re:A politician lied? on Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK a defense barrister must excuse themselves from the case if they know the party they are defending to be guilty.

  5. Re: We've already got PuTTY on Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 (servethehome.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my thought too. I was particularly keen on being able to do queries against AD. I was mightily disappointed to find the Linux version of Powershell does not do all the cool AD stuff, then was even more disappointed to find it didn't do the WMI stuff either, and then gave up when the remoting didn't work without messing about on the Windows machine.

  6. Re:"doesn't use the OpenSSL library." on Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 (servethehome.com) · · Score: 1

    No almost certainly using the Windows platform cryptography libraries, which is the sane thing to do on a Windows platform. It's also the state goal from back in 2015 when Microsoft announced the plan to port OpenSSH to Windows had been approved since Balmer had left and was no longer able to veto it.

  7. Re:Lights Out Management Engine on Can Intel's 'Management Engine' Be Repurposed? · · Score: 1

    So which LOM on a server does *NOT* use some bastardization of VNC wrapped up in some god dam awful Java plugin, that if you are lucky and the vendor has update will run in a modern web browser with a modern version of Java.

    Basically though the easiest way to defeat the Intel ME is stick a PCI/PCIe network card in the machine that it knows nothing about and ignore the onboard ethernet.

    It would however be cool to hack the ME with a vanilla Minix :-)

  8. The risk from high voltage transmissions lines is as I understand it believed to be due to the concentration of pollutants due to the low level magnetic fields that they produce. That is it's not the power lines themselves that are the problem, because the idea the power lines directly cause cancer is as laughable as the idea that mobile phones do.

    The basics are there is *NEVER* been in the history of the world a *REPEATABLE* scientific experiment that shows a link between non ionizing radiation and cancer. If there was it would be the physics/medicine discovery of the century and get you a fricking Noble prize.

  9. Re:No RSA key recovery on Old Crypto Vulnerability Hits Major Tech Firms (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    However that is still a huge fricking deal, because any TLS connection to an effected server can be man in the middled.

  10. Re:In other news... on Someone Used Wet String To Get a Broadband Connection (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. Every socket in the UK has to have the live and neutral pins shielded. The original mechanism is for the slightly longer earth pin to open a spring loaded shutter. There are also two alternatives now. One requires the live and neutral pins to be inserted at exactly the same time with more or less the same force. The other requires all three pins on the plug to be presented at the same time. Further note that UK plugs that are less than 30 years old also have sleeved live and neutral pins that prevent contact with live parts with partially inserted plugs.

    The UK plug and socket designs are by any objective measure electrically the safest in the world by some considerable margin.

  11. Re:Revealing != open source on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean something like oh I don't know copyright!

  12. Re:500 charges is not enough on Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    My Sony ZX1 compact has something called battery care. I plug it in at night and it tells me that it will reach 100% charge just before I wake up. Further as I understand it the 100% displayed charge is actually only 90% of the capacity of the battery.

  13. Re:500 charges is not enough on Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thing is the EU wised up and mandated that everything now comes with a two year warranty in an attempt to stop landfill, filling up with cheaply manufactured junk that fails after a just over a year. A market of 500 million first worlder's is generally too big to miss out on.

  14. Someone else's electric car potentially improves my life (mostly dependant on it being near me) by improving air quality.

  15. Re: Justifying being a sick fuck, are we? on Brands Pull YouTube Ads Over Images of Children (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I was reading just the other week on the BBC that the world leader in child brides is in fact the USA, where marriage under 16 is still common place.

  16. Re:Catch 22 for small companies on EU Agrees To End Country-Specific Limits For Online Retailers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct.

  17. Re:More expensive than Apple? That's unpossible! on Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, what makes you think it uses USB-C for charging? It like all the other recent Surface devices uses a Surface Connect connector for charging. You can charge it via the USB-C port but Microsoft don't supply such a power adaptor.

    My biggest beef with the Surface power supply is that it comes with a USB-A connector for charging stuff up. It would have been super nice if they had also but a couple extra connectors on the Surface Connect plug and run two wires back to the power supply so that port was also an actual USB port connected to the computer. Would have cost all of say a dollar to do, and would have been so handy because a standard PSU could have been used as a dock for a lot less money than the proper dock with the proviso that you could not use the screen. Would have worked really well for me.

  18. Re: only imperial tons matter... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Nope updates to British weights and measures came around *before* the revolutionary war. But keep kidding yourself why not.

  19. Re:only imperial tons matter... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    So is that a UK long ton or a USA short ton?

    Or perhaps I will just take a metric tonne which is somewhere in the middle and easy to visualize at being almost exactly one cubic metre of water. Any errors will be due to temperature and purity fluctuations :-)

    The joys of a consistent set of units. Unlike the Imperial system the USA seems wedded to, though oddly they call them English, which is really odd because their wacko take on the Imperial system has not been used in England since well, before the revolutionary wars, which in itself is long after England ceased to exist as a political entity anyway.

  20. Re: Just 11 light years away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope nuclear pulse propulsion achieves more like ~0.1c

  21. A 100 year old light switch is likely to have safety issues to be honest. When a 40 year socket when puff with a bang and smoke a couple of years ago in my mothers house, we decided better to replace the lot for a modest sum. As an added bonus they now all match

  22. Re:Step 0 on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, you seem to have it back to front there I am afraid. Leaving aside that Maxwell did more that just those EM equations. Tesla stood directly on Maxwell's shoulders. That is Maxwell provided the unification of electricity and magnetism that the likes of Tesla relied upon in their work.

    The other massive thing Maxwell did was to deduced the RGB nature of vision. So basically anything you see in colour on a screen down to him.

    But lets go with Einstein's thoughts who described Maxwell's work as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton".

    Tesla is not remotely in the same league as Maxwell, he is so far removed it is not even funny.

  23. Re:Linux with systemd --- bleak future ahead on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Though I think you will find that the vast majority are running some mainstream Linux distribution on the nodes. Whether that is a RHEL derivative (CentOS/Scientific Linux) or a LTS version of Ubuntu etc. if it's latest its systemd.

  24. Re:That's what the Linux community never got. on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Accounting package? Who the hell runs an accounting package on their desktop in 2017 in a business with 50 people? Either outsource it and run it in a web browser or run it locally and access it in a web browser.

  25. Re:25th anniversary ThinkPad on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Still got a shitty 16:9 wide screen though. Now if they had put in a 3:2 screen from a Surface Book then we would be talking a great laptop.