I run Windows on my laptop. Shocking around here, I know.
But there are some tasks that work out better on Linux. Ubuntu is brutal in VirtualBox, or at least it was, when I first went down the Mint path. I think I was following a tutorial for Ubuntu, so I ended up trying Mint.
I still have that VM around and fire it up a few times a year for whatever. Also works pretty well on an ancient laptop I keep around.
They also allegedly dragged tricked a bank with US operations (HSBC related) into violating the Iran embargo by financing the sales into Iran. Apparently that's classed as fraud.
Everyone should try https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (no affiliation). It's scary how your old password that you used on some random website a decade ago has been leaked. Hopefully most "big" sites have moved to individually salted passwords so future password leaks will be less common or severe...
I'm not sure if it was Facebook or Google or both, you don't technically match on email address. They technically match on hashes of email addresses to protect your "privacy". Look out for that doublespeak when it comes to advertisers online...
I bought a web security cam for $15 on sale over the holidays. I can't figure out how they can retail for so cheap. It has a HiSilicon "camera" SoC. From what I saw with a quick web search, this SoC does everything in the device. Basic image capture stuff, handles whatever API the vendor app to connect to it needs, full recording to the SD card, etc. Apparently if I felt like jerry-rigging a cable, I could telnet (or SSH?) and get a (busybox?) shell. I'm sure there's enough processing in it to handle all kinds of stuff..
I was a light user of Evernote for years - IIRC, it's what I moved to after leaving my old Palm Pilot. I only used maybe a dozen plain text files. Eventually I started using Google Docs for larger documents that were shared and all that, and it just made sense to consolidate away from Evernote. Plus, I think they tried to start charging?
The electric moving platforms eliminates car exhaust, and therefore, greatly reduces the ventilation requirements of the tunnels. Which, helps allow them to be smaller in diameter. And it all feeds into a cheaper tunnel. Or so goes the theory.
My thought: Even if the ORIGINAL buyer doesn't upgrade, having the bigger battery would be useful for resale. In fact, if it was a lease from Tesla, they could unlock the full capacity for "free" and resell the car at the higher capacity.
I gave up on Dropbox after multiple times it would lock a new newly downloaded file from Chrome and I'd lose the file. Chrome (at least at the time) would download files to a temporary name, and then rename. Silly hair trigger Dropbox would lock the temp file before Chrome could rename it and then I'd end up with a zero byte file.
Additionally, Dropbox would have this incessant inability to properly detect changed files - I still have a multitude of "conflicted" files in my folders. I had ONE computer connected to this Dropbox account. There were no other updates to conflict.
Don't even get me started on the stupid plugin thing they shoved into Office and I couldn't permanently turn off.
They've been at this for 10 years? I don't get it.
Hmmm. I haven't looked at this... but it sounds like it'll break any host names I've set up locally (for development) and not published to global DNS...
Alkaline cells are 1.5v. Neither NiMH or previous generation NiCad cells are that high... NiMH is around 1.2V under load. For some devices this matters. There's one device that I have to coach people on using at work, with NiMH cells, the battery charge indicator always looks half-used which freaks the users out... even though it will work longer at about "half-used" than the original alkaline cells would starting from "full".
Some things don't work at all at the lower voltage.
They did NOT lose money on the endeavor. They made extremely large profits for a couple years... and now it's drifted down a lot as the most financially capable potential customers have now been cured. Plus a couple competitive drugs have launched.
But... yeah, they would have done financially much better selling a $20K a year drug to keep Hep-C at bay for these same customers for the rest of their lives.
Of course, not everything is about profit maximization.... it is kind of a nice thing to save thousands of lives. (Unless you are Goldman Sachs, apparently.)
How close is the minimum setting on a Tesla? I.e. what is reasonable to use in that part of the world?
My only modern adaptive cruise control experience was on a rented late model Ford on a road trip. IIRC the default setting was about right for me, but I moved one settings lower in heavier traffic closer to the cities.
when 911 half-angrily called me back after a butt dial to 112. That was the last non-flip phone I would ever own, or so I thought, until phones became nothing but screen...
This makes a lot of sense, in hindsight. For Boring to be useful to vehicles, you'd need to start with a minimum 10KM track (hand-waving) for the large cities that would even consider this - and that would get you a single direction in and out of the centre of a city, if you need to go south instead of north, your SOL. For this to be useful for pedestrians though, 4KM of tunnels would get you a few different paths in the core part of town where it's just a bit too far away from a subway station. Much easier for permits, much lower initial start up costs, and much easier politically.
All the Q4 2017 vs Q4 2016 are messy this year - there was an extra week in 2016. Most journalists are oblivious to it... Gartner being Gartner.... who knows...
I dunno what the hate is, I replaced the battery on my iPhone 5S a couple times. It was relatively doable for something that you'd only do once a year at most. Are Androids even worse?
My biggest grief is trying to find a battery that I had confidence in... unfortunately, in Canada, the options are even more limited than in the US. I would have gladly paid $15 for an Energizer or Duracell branded replacement battery than the random $8 generic I got from eBay.
I understand Intel wanting a GPU to pair efficiently with their CPUs for the smallest form factors... but I don't see why AMD and not NVidia. Did NVidia turn them down? Or does Intel really consider NVidia, who doesn't make AMD64 chips, to be a bigger threat than AMD? Or is there something inherent in the GPU platforms that makes AMD possible but not NVidia?
I suspect that SpaceX will somehow find a way to use excess launch capacity on customer launches to squeeze in a few free LEO internet sats for themselves. (Having said that, I have no idea if that's physically possible with the different orbits that customers need vs what they need.)
People click stuff. Using non administrative accounts for day to day use is the best advice I can give anyone. (Though, I actually do use an administrative one... ). The Windows UAC prompt system is actually pretty good, but only if people actually understand them, and most people don't.
I'm leaning towards anti-malware oriented DNS servers too, e.g. OpenDNS, but that's not a Windows specific thing.
I think their costs will be a lot lower than people expect. What fraction of paid launches use 100% of max lift? Probably very few. If there's a bit of space left, especially on a Falcon Heavy, how much is the launch of their ISP satellites really costing?
Up here in Canada, it's increasingly common for the ISP to provide all-in-one router and modem units. And... what end user even has a clue what putting a modem into "bridge" mode means... other than more work?
At some point, it's just more confusing for Apple to sell routers. I suspect they'll launch some sort of AP-only in the future to support various proprietary stuff.
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I run Windows on my laptop. Shocking around here, I know.
But there are some tasks that work out better on Linux. Ubuntu is brutal in VirtualBox, or at least it was, when I first went down the Mint path. I think I was following a tutorial for Ubuntu, so I ended up trying Mint.
I still have that VM around and fire it up a few times a year for whatever. Also works pretty well on an ancient laptop I keep around.
They also allegedly dragged tricked a bank with US operations (HSBC related) into violating the Iran embargo by financing the sales into Iran. Apparently that's classed as fraud.
Everyone should try https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (no affiliation). It's scary how your old password that you used on some random website a decade ago has been leaked. Hopefully most "big" sites have moved to individually salted passwords so future password leaks will be less common or severe...
I'm not sure if it was Facebook or Google or both, you don't technically match on email address. They technically match on hashes of email addresses to protect your "privacy". Look out for that doublespeak when it comes to advertisers online...
I bought a web security cam for $15 on sale over the holidays. I can't figure out how they can retail for so cheap. It has a HiSilicon "camera" SoC. From what I saw with a quick web search, this SoC does everything in the device. Basic image capture stuff, handles whatever API the vendor app to connect to it needs, full recording to the SD card, etc. Apparently if I felt like jerry-rigging a cable, I could telnet (or SSH?) and get a (busybox?) shell. I'm sure there's enough processing in it to handle all kinds of stuff..
I was a light user of Evernote for years - IIRC, it's what I moved to after leaving my old Palm Pilot. I only used maybe a dozen plain text files. Eventually I started using Google Docs for larger documents that were shared and all that, and it just made sense to consolidate away from Evernote. Plus, I think they tried to start charging?
Not sure how foreign TD is for Americans - they have more branches in the US than Canada now! Not sure how metrics other than branch counts compare...
The electric moving platforms eliminates car exhaust, and therefore, greatly reduces the ventilation requirements of the tunnels. Which, helps allow them to be smaller in diameter. And it all feeds into a cheaper tunnel. Or so goes the theory.
My thought: Even if the ORIGINAL buyer doesn't upgrade, having the bigger battery would be useful for resale. In fact, if it was a lease from Tesla, they could unlock the full capacity for "free" and resell the car at the higher capacity.
I gave up on Dropbox after multiple times it would lock a new newly downloaded file from Chrome and I'd lose the file. Chrome (at least at the time) would download files to a temporary name, and then rename. Silly hair trigger Dropbox would lock the temp file before Chrome could rename it and then I'd end up with a zero byte file.
Additionally, Dropbox would have this incessant inability to properly detect changed files - I still have a multitude of "conflicted" files in my folders. I had ONE computer connected to this Dropbox account. There were no other updates to conflict.
Don't even get me started on the stupid plugin thing they shoved into Office and I couldn't permanently turn off.
They've been at this for 10 years? I don't get it.
Hmmm. I haven't looked at this... but it sounds like it'll break any host names I've set up locally (for development) and not published to global DNS...
Alkaline cells are 1.5v. Neither NiMH or previous generation NiCad cells are that high... NiMH is around 1.2V under load. For some devices this matters. There's one device that I have to coach people on using at work, with NiMH cells, the battery charge indicator always looks half-used which freaks the users out... even though it will work longer at about "half-used" than the original alkaline cells would starting from "full".
Some things don't work at all at the lower voltage.
They did NOT lose money on the endeavor. They made extremely large profits for a couple years... and now it's drifted down a lot as the most financially capable potential customers have now been cured. Plus a couple competitive drugs have launched.
But... yeah, they would have done financially much better selling a $20K a year drug to keep Hep-C at bay for these same customers for the rest of their lives.
Of course, not everything is about profit maximization.... it is kind of a nice thing to save thousands of lives. (Unless you are Goldman Sachs, apparently.)
How close is the minimum setting on a Tesla? I.e. what is reasonable to use in that part of the world?
My only modern adaptive cruise control experience was on a rented late model Ford on a road trip. IIRC the default setting was about right for me, but I moved one settings lower in heavier traffic closer to the cities.
when 911 half-angrily called me back after a butt dial to 112. That was the last non-flip phone I would ever own, or so I thought, until phones became nothing but screen...
This makes a lot of sense, in hindsight. For Boring to be useful to vehicles, you'd need to start with a minimum 10KM track (hand-waving) for the large cities that would even consider this - and that would get you a single direction in and out of the centre of a city, if you need to go south instead of north, your SOL. For this to be useful for pedestrians though, 4KM of tunnels would get you a few different paths in the core part of town where it's just a bit too far away from a subway station. Much easier for permits, much lower initial start up costs, and much easier politically.
All the Q4 2017 vs Q4 2016 are messy this year - there was an extra week in 2016. Most journalists are oblivious to it... Gartner being Gartner.... who knows...
I dunno what the hate is, I replaced the battery on my iPhone 5S a couple times. It was relatively doable for something that you'd only do once a year at most. Are Androids even worse?
My biggest grief is trying to find a battery that I had confidence in... unfortunately, in Canada, the options are even more limited than in the US. I would have gladly paid $15 for an Energizer or Duracell branded replacement battery than the random $8 generic I got from eBay.
I understand Intel wanting a GPU to pair efficiently with their CPUs for the smallest form factors... but I don't see why AMD and not NVidia. Did NVidia turn them down? Or does Intel really consider NVidia, who doesn't make AMD64 chips, to be a bigger threat than AMD? Or is there something inherent in the GPU platforms that makes AMD possible but not NVidia?
I suspect that SpaceX will somehow find a way to use excess launch capacity on customer launches to squeeze in a few free LEO internet sats for themselves. (Having said that, I have no idea if that's physically possible with the different orbits that customers need vs what they need.)
IIRC, extended to 60 years, but only after a major refit and re-licensing process.
People click stuff. Using non administrative accounts for day to day use is the best advice I can give anyone. (Though, I actually do use an administrative one... ). The Windows UAC prompt system is actually pretty good, but only if people actually understand them, and most people don't.
I'm leaning towards anti-malware oriented DNS servers too, e.g. OpenDNS, but that's not a Windows specific thing.
I think their costs will be a lot lower than people expect. What fraction of paid launches use 100% of max lift? Probably very few. If there's a bit of space left, especially on a Falcon Heavy, how much is the launch of their ISP satellites really costing?
Yeah, anecdotally I think I get the full recaptcha test when I happen to be in an incognito window. Pretty rarely in the regular browser windows.
Up here in Canada, it's increasingly common for the ISP to provide all-in-one router and modem units. And... what end user even has a clue what putting a modem into "bridge" mode means... other than more work?
At some point, it's just more confusing for Apple to sell routers. I suspect they'll launch some sort of AP-only in the future to support various proprietary stuff.