But climate change targets are mostly ignored this far. I guess a few country will respect climate change targets like Iceland, North Korea and the Maldives, respectively from free geological energy, starvation and disappearance.
Bio fuels is maybe good in very limited quantity such as for running farm equipment but I would favor it banned elsewhere. We might as well to back to clearing all forests to burn the wood (trucks and cars can be run on wood) till there's nothing much left.
Thanks (though, it is a 48 bit address I was proposing here).
I now somehow understand why an interface on a desktop has a fe80: address even though there's nothing ipv6 compatible to talk to it. I suppose one useful use case is between a VM guest and its host.
Really, the concept of a 192.168.0.x was useful to a Joe Blow I believe. Had a home network in the early 00s with one modem (first dialup, then ethernet DSL modem which you would use from one PC by faking dialup), no DHCP. Knowledge of 192.168.x.x IP was useful for setting up the network, then for multiplayer games, then to reach Windows shares when the discovery did not work (and using ping to troubleshoot it). Sure, real Joe Blows plug cable in or enter the "wifi key" and never do anything else but there was a time for "mid range users" (those that install and tweak Windows drivers, etc.) to know about local IPs.
Depends : in that power range (about 15 watts) i7 is the same thing as i5 but with a few more megahertz. Both are dual core / quad threads and a fair bit slower that desktop i3 (yet again about the same chip but with a much higher power range)
yea maybe it is a ton better that way, but no one can understand it. It would have been that much simpler if the protocol and addresses stayed the same but you went from four decimal numbers to six, i.e. an IP that looks like 252.167.24.8.112
It's the first time I just heard of "link local address", though I can sort of work up what that means, and also first time I learn that one NIC has multiple addresses though I read some many stuff about ipv6 mainly on slashdot.
So the laptop is full of ridiculously advanced tech, even in the graphics department but the keyboard looks cheap and really to me the more travel there is, the better. Won't somebody make a laptop with thick keys?, or at least some "high end keyboard" option. Seems like there's $5 worth of keyboard there, on a one-piece computer that's closer to $1000. What if there were $50 worth of keyboard, I wonder. Providing a right ctrl key is nice I guess, but I wonder when we'll see a genius including a right Fn key so we can do single-handed page up, page down, end and home.
These days you can download an.iso straight from Microsoft and "burn" it to a USB stick. Hopefully the OEM license key that comes with the laptop works with it, I'm not too sure. (silly thing is the tool to transfer the.iso to USB runs on Windows, so you need Windows to install Windows)
In older, simpler times it was a good thing to install XP Pro corporate over a legit Windows XP that came with the machine, even if the machine was brand new and functioning lol. "Recovery partition" also a nice place to install linux, crappy "recovery" be damned.
And a poor automated system ("alright, let's put that tiny script I've written in the cron") might overwrite the backup storage with invalid data the day you precisely have a problem and need that backup.
The timetable and agreements for the US departure from Iraq were done by the Bush administration too. (not that I want to introduce some "partisanship" here, I believe there was a great continuity between the two administrations. Or maybe there were more important changes in policy following the 2006 US elections rather than the 2008 ones)
Sadly the "job" was never taken up properly, and Iraq was already a disaster in 2003, more so the following year with the battle of Fallujah and other events. Had the US sent 300,000 troops and not disbanded the Iraqi army immediately after "victory" things might have looked very different (even though I agree it'd have been even simpler to not invade)
How does the client decide how to do the decorations? Does that mean you'll see a KDE application use a KDE theme with minimize/maximize/close buttons, and a GTK3 application will have a Gnome-like theme with only the close button and not "minimize"?
A random Realtek NIC still is better than wifi anyway, sometimes hugely (no inconsistent latency, dropped packets and susceptibility to weather or time of day.) 100 BaseT even is mostly enough.
Rule of buying a motherboard : get a Realtek NIC actually, because the Atheros one advertised as "killer NIC" is worse (same NIC is sold without the "killer" name too). Yes, an Intel one will be better still.
What I recently learned about is how asian temples at least in Korea are teared down and rebuilt every 20 years to 40 years (I don't remember and I don't know if it varies). Wooden parts fit together (no nails, bolts etc.) There is not the western obsession with preserving extremely old buildings and parts of building in their original state for as long as possible, but instead cyclical continuity like the fable of the hammer whose head and handle were replaced mutiple times each.
But it will be fine with a very high bitrate like the proverbial 320 Kbps. Video analogy : the MPEG2 codec is antiquated but it looks fine on a DVD movie, with so many bytes thrown at it.
No, this may depend on juridictions but buying, acquiring a counterfeit good or even owning it may be a liable offense just like doing the same with stolen goods.
That is true, yet I don't have a SD reader on my PC nor everyone has one. I would need to buy and carry a tiny SD reader (and/or micro SD to SD adapter), which is a bit inconvenient. Then on this sort of phone, removing the battery to get at the SD slot means you lose date and time.
With a USB cable, I booted my PC from the dumbphone! that's awesome, but the bandwith was too slow for running a desktop live CD and installer (after hitting enter in Grub I decided I had waited long enough at a blank screen and ctrl-alt-del the hell of it). I actually wanted to do that lol.
But that's bigger, has a low battery life, doesn't have a keypad and the OS is outdated, thus possibly insecure.
A data plan is also like $300 a year in case you really want to rely on internet access. Random shit smartphone is not a replacement for a modern dumbphone. With the dumbphone you can go on a week-long vacation without even bothering to take the charger with you : it has enough power, and these days it has micro USB like everything so in an emergency you wouldn't have trouble feeding it for an hour or less to get signicant juice in it.
An option though is to carry the dumbphone as your real phone (it does SMS and FM radio fine) and have a random shit smartphone as a toy that does music player, video player etc. with wifi access when available, disposable battery life and not even a SIM card in it.
I suspect the 8MB RAM is integrated right into the CPU and SoC, micro-controller style. That way you don't need an external memory chip or package-on-package, and the phone gets that much cheaper and simpler.
The $30 Firefox phone is a failure. It needed twice the RAM to function somewhat properly. Buying it would be a mistake, like cheap ass ARM netbooks with Windows CE that were available a few years ago.
I have a similar phone but without internet access (I like it that way), it does take SD too but sadly this is rendered useless by the USB 1.1 support. I will not wait for gigabytes of stuff to copy at 900KB/s. So, check for USB 2.0 support before buying a phone with SD support.
It was awesome to learn that dd if=/dev/zero is actually enough. I have no idea if the "secure erase" function does anything else than that.
If you used that drive with encryption, and then zero it out or overwrite with innocuous content I guess the bad clusters's contents look like useless garbage.
Touchscreens are great. I don't know wtf will happen if I touch a playing full screen youtube video on someone's huge 4" phone. Will it pause instantly?, or offer controls? How do you get out of full screen? Basic "DJ ethics" forbid from interrupting the music so I refuse to try out. I'm no longer "the computer guy" when people are playing with their computer-phones around. I jokingly ask where is the keyboard and/or tell I don't know how to use it without the Escape key.
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But climate change targets are mostly ignored this far. I guess a few country will respect climate change targets like Iceland, North Korea and the Maldives, respectively from free geological energy, starvation and disappearance.
Bio fuels is maybe good in very limited quantity such as for running farm equipment but I would favor it banned elsewhere. We might as well to back to clearing all forests to burn the wood (trucks and cars can be run on wood) till there's nothing much left.
Do we really want a computer program to learn from its mistakes at running a nuclear power plant?
Thanks (though, it is a 48 bit address I was proposing here).
I now somehow understand why an interface on a desktop has a fe80: address even though there's nothing ipv6 compatible to talk to it. I suppose one useful use case is between a VM guest and its host.
Really, the concept of a 192.168.0.x was useful to a Joe Blow I believe. Had a home network in the early 00s with one modem (first dialup, then ethernet DSL modem which you would use from one PC by faking dialup), no DHCP. Knowledge of 192.168.x.x IP was useful for setting up the network, then for multiplayer games, then to reach Windows shares when the discovery did not work (and using ping to troubleshoot it).
Sure, real Joe Blows plug cable in or enter the "wifi key" and never do anything else but there was a time for "mid range users" (those that install and tweak Windows drivers, etc.) to know about local IPs.
Setting up higher priority for your media player would be cheaper (even Windows XP could do it)
Depends : in that power range (about 15 watts) i7 is the same thing as i5 but with a few more megahertz. Both are dual core / quad threads and a fair bit slower that desktop i3 (yet again about the same chip but with a much higher power range)
yea maybe it is a ton better that way, but no one can understand it. It would have been that much simpler if the protocol and addresses stayed the same but you went from four decimal numbers to six, i.e. an IP that looks like 252.167.24.8.112
It's the first time I just heard of "link local address", though I can sort of work up what that means, and also first time I learn that one NIC has multiple addresses though I read some many stuff about ipv6 mainly on slashdot.
So the laptop is full of ridiculously advanced tech, even in the graphics department but the keyboard looks cheap and really to me the more travel there is, the better. Won't somebody make a laptop with thick keys?, or at least some "high end keyboard" option. Seems like there's $5 worth of keyboard there, on a one-piece computer that's closer to $1000. What if there were $50 worth of keyboard, I wonder.
Providing a right ctrl key is nice I guess, but I wonder when we'll see a genius including a right Fn key so we can do single-handed page up, page down, end and home.
These days you can download an .iso straight from Microsoft and "burn" it to a USB stick. Hopefully the OEM license key that comes with the laptop works with it, I'm not too sure. (silly thing is the tool to transfer the .iso to USB runs on Windows, so you need Windows to install Windows)
In older, simpler times it was a good thing to install XP Pro corporate over a legit Windows XP that came with the machine, even if the machine was brand new and functioning lol. "Recovery partition" also a nice place to install linux, crappy "recovery" be damned.
And a poor automated system ("alright, let's put that tiny script I've written in the cron") might overwrite the backup storage with invalid data the day you precisely have a problem and need that backup.
The timetable and agreements for the US departure from Iraq were done by the Bush administration too. (not that I want to introduce some "partisanship" here, I believe there was a great continuity between the two administrations. Or maybe there were more important changes in policy following the 2006 US elections rather than the 2008 ones)
Sadly the "job" was never taken up properly, and Iraq was already a disaster in 2003, more so the following year with the battle of Fallujah and other events.
Had the US sent 300,000 troops and not disbanded the Iraqi army immediately after "victory" things might have looked very different (even though I agree it'd have been even simpler to not invade)
How does the client decide how to do the decorations? Does that mean you'll see a KDE application use a KDE theme with minimize/maximize/close buttons, and a GTK3 application will have a Gnome-like theme with only the close button and not "minimize"?
Memory-mapped I/O is already a thing. Of course, it is a way to read and write from/to a file with less overhead.
A random Realtek NIC still is better than wifi anyway, sometimes hugely (no inconsistent latency, dropped packets and susceptibility to weather or time of day.)
100 BaseT even is mostly enough.
Rule of buying a motherboard : get a Realtek NIC actually, because the Atheros one advertised as "killer NIC" is worse (same NIC is sold without the "killer" name too). Yes, an Intel one will be better still.
What I recently learned about is how asian temples at least in Korea are teared down and rebuilt every 20 years to 40 years (I don't remember and I don't know if it varies). Wooden parts fit together (no nails, bolts etc.)
There is not the western obsession with preserving extremely old buildings and parts of building in their original state for as long as possible, but instead cyclical continuity like the fable of the hammer whose head and handle were replaced mutiple times each.
But it will be fine with a very high bitrate like the proverbial 320 Kbps. Video analogy : the MPEG2 codec is antiquated but it looks fine on a DVD movie, with so many bytes thrown at it.
No, this may depend on juridictions but buying, acquiring a counterfeit good or even owning it may be a liable offense just like doing the same with stolen goods.
That is true, yet I don't have a SD reader on my PC nor everyone has one. I would need to buy and carry a tiny SD reader (and/or micro SD to SD adapter), which is a bit inconvenient. Then on this sort of phone, removing the battery to get at the SD slot means you lose date and time.
With a USB cable, I booted my PC from the dumbphone! that's awesome, but the bandwith was too slow for running a desktop live CD and installer (after hitting enter in Grub I decided I had waited long enough at a blank screen and ctrl-alt-del the hell of it). I actually wanted to do that lol.
But that's bigger, has a low battery life, doesn't have a keypad and the OS is outdated, thus possibly insecure.
A data plan is also like $300 a year in case you really want to rely on internet access. Random shit smartphone is not a replacement for a modern dumbphone. With the dumbphone you can go on a week-long vacation without even bothering to take the charger with you : it has enough power, and these days it has micro USB like everything so in an emergency you wouldn't have trouble feeding it for an hour or less to get signicant juice in it.
An option though is to carry the dumbphone as your real phone (it does SMS and FM radio fine) and have a random shit smartphone as a toy that does music player, video player etc. with wifi access when available, disposable battery life and not even a SIM card in it.
I suspect the 8MB RAM is integrated right into the CPU and SoC, micro-controller style. That way you don't need an external memory chip or package-on-package, and the phone gets that much cheaper and simpler.
The $30 Firefox phone is a failure. It needed twice the RAM to function somewhat properly. Buying it would be a mistake, like cheap ass ARM netbooks with Windows CE that were available a few years ago.
I have a similar phone but without internet access (I like it that way), it does take SD too but sadly this is rendered useless by the USB 1.1 support. I will not wait for gigabytes of stuff to copy at 900KB/s. So, check for USB 2.0 support before buying a phone with SD support.
It was awesome to learn that dd if=/dev/zero is actually enough. I have no idea if the "secure erase" function does anything else than that.
If you used that drive with encryption, and then zero it out or overwrite with innocuous content I guess the bad clusters's contents look like useless garbage.
Touchscreens are great. I don't know wtf will happen if I touch a playing full screen youtube video on someone's huge 4" phone. Will it pause instantly?, or offer controls? How do you get out of full screen? Basic "DJ ethics" forbid from interrupting the music so I refuse to try out. I'm no longer "the computer guy" when people are playing with their computer-phones around. I jokingly ask where is the keyboard and/or tell I don't know how to use it without the Escape key.