That's great news, thanks for the update.
I found when in Germany recently that wireless network operators still seemed to want you to register and provide a password, but that may be a holdover from the old situation, or just the German love of registering things.
This article summarizes the situation: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
So it's not a crime to operate an open Wifi network, but the network operator becomes liable for anything a user does. (Whereas the postal service, for example, is not liable for slanderous letters that may be posted.)
I believe that in some countries like Germany it is illegal to run an open wireless network. (Crazy but true!) Would this proposed new standard address that, since the network would now be encrypted and no longer 'open'?
Or does the law define an open network as one where users don't have to register for a username first? In that case, open Wifi would sadly remain illegal in Germany.
Today's lightbulbs use a lot less energy than those when you were young. And a smartphone uses only a tiny amount of energy too (otherwise it would get too hot to hold). So while you may be right that kids these days are too hooked on their phones, it's not because the phones are a significant user of energy. The bus they are sitting on uses vastly more.
You're quite right -- what I mean is that a squarer shape would be more useful than a letterbox one. In terms of raw pixels, the top-end displays today beat those of a decade ago (though it has taken a long time).
In a device that you can rotate to portrait or landscape, it's kinda useful to make it wider, since then you are also making it taller if used in portrait mode. But a laptop screen can't be rotated, it has to be one shape all the time, so for a "work" device taller is better.
Still I have to admit that the market has tended not to agree with those who want a squarer shape, whether in desktop monitors, laptops, tablets, or phones. Blackberry's Passport (with its square screen at 1440x1440, I believe) was a flop. Though that might be for reasons other than the screen...
Ten years ago I had a laptop with a 1600x1200 screen. (And IBM had a 2048x1536 Thinkpad). It's hard to get that amount of vertical space now. I guess in the count of pixels it's beaten by a 'retina' or 4k display, but that's still not quite as useful as a taller screen.
Well, Mac laptops usually have a 16:10 ratio not the letterbox 16:9 seen on most PC laptops. Google's Pixelbook is 3:2, as is Microsoft's Surface Book. So it is possible (at the high end of the market) to have a screen shape designed for work rather than watching videos. You'd think Lenovo would come up with something similar to preserve the price premium Thinkpads have usually had over other laptop brands.
Unicomp still make trackpoint Model Ms I believe. Unfortunately they don't have the patents to the original IBM trackpoint so they have an inferior implementation (so I've heard).
You are right - the first generation Trackpoint was great on a 640x480 display but struggles a bit with high resolution monitors. Still, if you are mostly a keyboard worker with the occasional mouse click, it can be worth the space saving.
The trackpoint is cool -- did you know you can get it on desktop keyboards too? Could I shamelessly plug this ebay auction for an IBM Model M4-1 keyboard: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253185...
(It's a charity auction, I do not make any money from the sale, so I hope this avoids the accusation of spamming.)
The M4-1 is also part of the "Model M" family, although it does not use buckling springs.
For me the main use of UnMHT is not to save MHT files, but to read them. On my work desktop, using Microsoft Outlook to read mail, you can use Firefox with UnMHT as a workaround for Outlook's horribly slow HTML renderer.
Outlook shows 'click here to display this message in a web browser'; by installing UnMHT you can associate Firefox with.mht files so this action opens the message in Firefox. Otherwise you're stuck with Internet Explorer or possibly Microsoft Edge.
(There is a trick you can use in your HTML messages to make sure Outlook always shows that prompt to display in a browser. So at work, when generating HTML to spam out, I always include that. Then messages which render too slowly in Outlook, because of large tables for example, can be viewed in Firefox with a right-click.)
Back in the eighties "16-bit" was a big deal for marketing, and then "32-bit" after that (Windows 95). After all it's a bigger number so it must be better. I think it's more that to the average desktop user there is no immediately apparent difference in speed or capability between a 32-bit and a 64-bit computer.
Yes, Windows 10 (and this has changed a little bit with the latest version of Windows 10) tends to let older programs think they are running on a low-res screen and then scale up the resulting bitmap. This works OK, if a bit blocky, for a 2x scaling factor, but will probably be terrible for non-integer scaling.
Sometimes the older program actually works fine with scaled text, if only Windows would let it. (Different font sizes and scalings have been there since Windows 3.0 at least, so all programs *ought* to support it, but of course many of them never tested it and are buggy.) You can right-click on the executable and set the scaling mode to 'application does the scaling' and that often fixes it.
I've found Fedora a bit unstable on a 4k display. It looks good enough if you set the 2x scaling (although Libreoffice requires some additional mucking around with X server dpi settings, and I think Firefox needs its own config tweak too). However, with Noveau drivers and an NVS 510 card, the machine would hang after a while, particularly when using Firefox. In the end I had to go back to 1920x1080 resolution to make the system stable.
That's just one anecdote, but it shows there is some work to be done.
Half of the daytime load is still "lots of energy" which is what the grandparent post said was needed at night.
I agree that importing power is not a sign of failure (nor is exporting it a sign of national virility).
I think it's like horoscopes or Chinese birth years or other kinds of cold reading. There's enough general stuff in there that you can always recognize something of yourself. But then as a Scorpio I am always going to be sceptical of such things.
I believe that the Spectrum hardware was very similar to the ZX81, with the (rather horrible) colour support and more RAM the only big differences. I say this because, decades later, someone managed to port the Spectrum ROM image to the ZX81, giving compatibility with at least some Spectrum software: https://groups.google.com/foru...
I think it's a flaw in some XML or XSLT libraries that DTD expansion and external entity resolution is either on by default, or in some cases, cannot be turned off. It also opens up attack vectors for XML injection using xsl:include, where if an attacker can provide the XSLT he can also read arbitrary file contents. It would make more sense for the default XML mode to not allow fetching any external content, and you have to set a 'trusted' flag in the API to turn on the magic.
Our codebase is written in hand-optimized SHA-1 assembly language so we don't want to go to the effort of porting it to the SHA-3. There's some guy down the hall who says we could write the kernel in C instead, but nobody listens to him.
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I still remember being asked for my passport to go ice skating.
That's great news, thanks for the update. I found when in Germany recently that wireless network operators still seemed to want you to register and provide a password, but that may be a holdover from the old situation, or just the German love of registering things.
This article summarizes the situation: http://www.spiegel.de/internat... So it's not a crime to operate an open Wifi network, but the network operator becomes liable for anything a user does. (Whereas the postal service, for example, is not liable for slanderous letters that may be posted.)
I believe that in some countries like Germany it is illegal to run an open wireless network. (Crazy but true!) Would this proposed new standard address that, since the network would now be encrypted and no longer 'open'? Or does the law define an open network as one where users don't have to register for a username first? In that case, open Wifi would sadly remain illegal in Germany.
You can get Netflix and Amazon Video in 4k now, if you pay for it. It does chew up bandwidth though.
Today's lightbulbs use a lot less energy than those when you were young. And a smartphone uses only a tiny amount of energy too (otherwise it would get too hot to hold). So while you may be right that kids these days are too hooked on their phones, it's not because the phones are a significant user of energy. The bus they are sitting on uses vastly more.
You're quite right -- what I mean is that a squarer shape would be more useful than a letterbox one. In terms of raw pixels, the top-end displays today beat those of a decade ago (though it has taken a long time). In a device that you can rotate to portrait or landscape, it's kinda useful to make it wider, since then you are also making it taller if used in portrait mode. But a laptop screen can't be rotated, it has to be one shape all the time, so for a "work" device taller is better. Still I have to admit that the market has tended not to agree with those who want a squarer shape, whether in desktop monitors, laptops, tablets, or phones. Blackberry's Passport (with its square screen at 1440x1440, I believe) was a flop. Though that might be for reasons other than the screen...
Ten years ago I had a laptop with a 1600x1200 screen. (And IBM had a 2048x1536 Thinkpad). It's hard to get that amount of vertical space now. I guess in the count of pixels it's beaten by a 'retina' or 4k display, but that's still not quite as useful as a taller screen.
I think PayPal now has "pay after delivery" on most eBay purchases, so you might be OK to buy now and pay later.
Well, Mac laptops usually have a 16:10 ratio not the letterbox 16:9 seen on most PC laptops. Google's Pixelbook is 3:2, as is Microsoft's Surface Book. So it is possible (at the high end of the market) to have a screen shape designed for work rather than watching videos. You'd think Lenovo would come up with something similar to preserve the price premium Thinkpads have usually had over other laptop brands.
Unicomp still make trackpoint Model Ms I believe. Unfortunately they don't have the patents to the original IBM trackpoint so they have an inferior implementation (so I've heard).
You are right - the first generation Trackpoint was great on a 640x480 display but struggles a bit with high resolution monitors. Still, if you are mostly a keyboard worker with the occasional mouse click, it can be worth the space saving.
The trackpoint is cool -- did you know you can get it on desktop keyboards too? Could I shamelessly plug this ebay auction for an IBM Model M4-1 keyboard: http://www.ebay.com/itm/253185...
(It's a charity auction, I do not make any money from the sale, so I hope this avoids the accusation of spamming.)
The M4-1 is also part of the "Model M" family, although it does not use buckling springs.
For me the main use of UnMHT is not to save MHT files, but to read them. On my work desktop, using Microsoft Outlook to read mail, you can use Firefox with UnMHT as a workaround for Outlook's horribly slow HTML renderer. Outlook shows 'click here to display this message in a web browser'; by installing UnMHT you can associate Firefox with .mht files so this action opens the message in Firefox. Otherwise you're stuck with Internet Explorer or possibly Microsoft Edge.
(There is a trick you can use in your HTML messages to make sure Outlook always shows that prompt to display in a browser. So at work, when generating HTML to spam out, I always include that. Then messages which render too slowly in Outlook, because of large tables for example, can be viewed in Firefox with a right-click.)
Back in the eighties "16-bit" was a big deal for marketing, and then "32-bit" after that (Windows 95). After all it's a bigger number so it must be better. I think it's more that to the average desktop user there is no immediately apparent difference in speed or capability between a 32-bit and a 64-bit computer.
Pokey, is that you? (Pokey confirms to me that he does use mspaint)
I remember when hamsters meant this...
Yes, Windows 10 (and this has changed a little bit with the latest version of Windows 10) tends to let older programs think they are running on a low-res screen and then scale up the resulting bitmap. This works OK, if a bit blocky, for a 2x scaling factor, but will probably be terrible for non-integer scaling. Sometimes the older program actually works fine with scaled text, if only Windows would let it. (Different font sizes and scalings have been there since Windows 3.0 at least, so all programs *ought* to support it, but of course many of them never tested it and are buggy.) You can right-click on the executable and set the scaling mode to 'application does the scaling' and that often fixes it.
I've found Fedora a bit unstable on a 4k display. It looks good enough if you set the 2x scaling (although Libreoffice requires some additional mucking around with X server dpi settings, and I think Firefox needs its own config tweak too). However, with Noveau drivers and an NVS 510 card, the machine would hang after a while, particularly when using Firefox. In the end I had to go back to 1920x1080 resolution to make the system stable. That's just one anecdote, but it shows there is some work to be done.
Half of the daytime load is still "lots of energy" which is what the grandparent post said was needed at night. I agree that importing power is not a sign of failure (nor is exporting it a sign of national virility).
I think it's like horoscopes or Chinese birth years or other kinds of cold reading. There's enough general stuff in there that you can always recognize something of yourself. But then as a Scorpio I am always going to be sceptical of such things.
Perhaps they are hoping that in their dotage they will marry a big-breasted Ukranian woman? http://marinalewycka.com/tract...
I believe that the Spectrum hardware was very similar to the ZX81, with the (rather horrible) colour support and more RAM the only big differences. I say this because, decades later, someone managed to port the Spectrum ROM image to the ZX81, giving compatibility with at least some Spectrum software: https://groups.google.com/foru...
I think it's a flaw in some XML or XSLT libraries that DTD expansion and external entity resolution is either on by default, or in some cases, cannot be turned off. It also opens up attack vectors for XML injection using xsl:include, where if an attacker can provide the XSLT he can also read arbitrary file contents. It would make more sense for the default XML mode to not allow fetching any external content, and you have to set a 'trusted' flag in the API to turn on the magic.
Our codebase is written in hand-optimized SHA-1 assembly language so we don't want to go to the effort of porting it to the SHA-3. There's some guy down the hall who says we could write the kernel in C instead, but nobody listens to him.