You can leave some of the system reserved and some of the RAM reserved just for this sort of thing. What you can't really do is try to recover. Well, you can try but you can't really trust what's in memory or anything.
Yup. It's not like we can't spare a few Hz and a couple of Kb of RAM to make a pretty QR code - it might even (emphasis on might) turn out to be valuable. I could see this actually being a good thing. It's not like you need a dedicated device to read QR codes. It's not like the vast majority of admins don't have a "special QR code reader" right in 'em - called a camera.
Best of both worlds might be that it'd scan a *local* database and feed you information from that. I'm thinking enterprise use. Then they could keep their data internal and not rely on any third party networks/data sets. I could actually see this having some benefit. The question is, will it? The answer is, probably not. But... It could be useful. It could even be mostly privacy respecting! I kind of doubt that last part but, hey... It could happen.
Theoretically, MS could even collect this information across systems and say, "Lots of other people with the same version of the driver have experienced similar crashes, but the problem appears to be fixed in there new driver, which can be downloaded here:" and then link to it.
Except you turned that service off at Thanksgiving because you didn't want Microsoft spying on your mother.
You use the event ID and the error number (gleaned from the event viewer that you opened up from the run dialog) and see what happened just prior to the crash and you search for those if you can't figure it out. There's actually a really need service that will aid with that research - they used to give a copy to the MVPs (third party gift to get us to recommend them) back in the day. I've not participated in the program (or even used Windows) in quite a while so I've forgotten the name.
Truth is, Windows isn't all that bad - if you know what you're doing or actually follow directions. It's even possible to use Windows without *any* resident anti-malware scanning - and to be functional while doing so. However, I'm not gonna recommend that people do that - but it is possible. It's really just a matter of knowing a bit about what you're doing and looking before you leap. If you don't know what the button does, don't click it. That's not an easy thing for some of us - so I recommend researching because someone has *always* pressed the button before you got to it. Well, almost always. If they haven't then it's up to you to be the sacrificial lamb and to push the button - I'm pretty sure that's in the rules, somewhere.
Windows is even stable - if you follow best practices. An example would be that I used to get months of uptime (not kidding) on a Windows ME (!) box that ran both an OpenNap server and an OpenNap hub. It really only got reboots to update - they didn't have "Patch Tuesday" back then, it was more sporadic. It should be noted that that particular PC was actually one that came with ME certified hardware. Hardware was undergoing some major changes at the time and if you didn't have appropriate hardware then ME was a shitty, shitty operating system. It was also actually a fairly cheap system from Acer and was my first exposure to AMD - it was the AMD K6-2 350 and I'd OCed it to about 500 MHz.
As for security? Well... The last time I used Windows, I'd not used even a software firewall nor a resident AV in years. (I do have a hardware firewall at the house.) It was fine. Security is a process and not an application. Practice safe hex and you're generally good to go. Always, always keep backups and plenty of them. Storage is cheap and connectivity is near-ubiquitous, back that stuff up.
'Snot popular to say (and I'm a very content Linux user) but Windows isn't that bad and you can get it fixed quickly and easily when there's a problem. It's even not all that difficult to keep it reasonably secure so long as the operator isn't an idiot. Even a stupid person in the chair can figure out apt-get, dpkg, or make install. By the way, I learned to use a computer because I had to. They didn't do anything useful when I first bumped into them. You had to make them do something useful. I hated 'em, quite passionately hated them, at first. Nah, Windows isn't that bad and I've only one real complaint with Windows 10.
Why crash their PC? Just make it look like it crashed and then you can change the QR code to new targets. Joe Average is just gonna hit reboot afterwards anyhow. Hell, after you've sent 'em through enough pages and borrows a short amount of GPU time for some mining, send 'em to a nice formal-looking page that tells them to reboot but warns them that the problem may happen again and to check back often - and trigger it at random intervals. I bet you can get away with that for months.
Tesla went public years ago. Not many years but, still, years.
In other words, shares were once $24 each. Well, they were when I got 'em. You might wanna get in now and just not be too greedy and bail before it goes bad. Then again, it might not go bad. Either way, there's a number that will be crossed and that's when I'll sell. It has gotten pretty close to that number but it hasn't crossed it just yet. I expect that number to be crossed when the release date for the Model 3 hits. Actually, I expect it to happen just before that. And that's when I'll be bailing and no longer invested in Tesla. There are a few events that could make me sell sooner but they're unlikely to happen, so it's a dollar amount.
I stopped and thought about this one for a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that it's actually really ironic that this post was made by an AC. I wonder if they think we should make an exception for them and see the insight and brilliance of their post - just this one time, and act on it or if we should just disregard it because they're an AC.
I'm reminded of the posts (from an AC) that deride other ACs for posting as AC, not having an account, and even suggesting that/. should do away with the AC system. And, if one is curious, they seem to not actually be saying it with their tongue in their cheek. They seem to not notice the disconnect. Of course, they're an exception or, amusingly, have an account but are posting as an AC.
And the same logic for the Trooper, the Tundra, and a few other hundred (thousand?) models by every manufacturer on the planet. But no, it's different this time!
You're just a whisker too young. It wasn't until about '82 that Japanese cars got to be good. They started to really improve around '78 and by '82 they were pretty good. There are actually books on the subject. One of them is from Honda himself, though I think it was ghostwritten. Prior to that? Oh, my... He wasn't kidding about the 70's Mazda. They were made out of trash. Literally... They were poorly recycled and very low-end materials as they didn't have a whole lot of money behind them.
It wasn't until the boom and the oil crunch that they got some money behind them. They did the smart thing and didn't use that increased wealth to pay a few rich fucks at the top. They invested in making better cars. Arguably, they make some of the best cars today. In the 80s, that was certainly true - even into the mid-90's it was true. The US has upped their game but I don't buy many American cars, not as a general rule. My RV and trucks are all from the US but I've owned (and own one still) foreign-made trucks. Hell, I invented a game with a 1986 Nissan. It was just a "Pickup." That's was its name, as I recall. It was 2WD and fairly skinny. I used to take it out with my 4WD friends and go everywhere that they went - and further. Oh, I couldn't pull them out if they got stuck... But, I could keep going, forever. It was fun.
Anyhow, no... No. You're just a whisker too young but it was easy to catch as you indicated when you started driving. Go back about 10 year before that. Then we had a couple of events that changed the oil market and a lot of people figured that those cars with 20 and 30 MPG were pretty good - compared to 8 and 12 MPG. An oddity that I noticed... It was during the oil embargo that I noticed the disposable lighter and we increased our use of plastics. I've never really figured out the why of that.
No, they were horribly built. They were awful. I do mean awful.
What they were, was cheap to run and replace. There was an oil crisis, you probably don't know this because you're too young. However, no... In fact, Subaru had a commercial that showed they were finally good enough that you could kick the tires and that the vehicle wouldn't fall apart. Yeah, that bad. They made their quality improvements *after* they had the money to do so - money that they got from being dirt cheap. Note: They're no longer dirt cheap. Why? Because they're actually good vehicles now. This started en masse in about 1982, if you're curious. Some, like Datsun (Nissan), actually had some tough drive trains but were likely to fall apart. Rust was a few years away from the purchase date (Remember Z-bart? Probably not.) They were cheap to buy and cheap to use. Quality was something added later.
Take your revisionist history to share with the rest of the kids. Some of us old people are still here, you know. I suppose you'll next try to tell me about all the old reliable German automobiles? Or how US cars were reliable back in the day? Nope. They all kind of sucked, in all sorts of ways. That's what makes them special and why you buy them and restore them - so you can make them suck less than they did or enjoy their quirks again.
Seriously... No... Just, no. They were *worse* than American cars until about 1982 - with a few exceptions. Germany started really making good stuff in the 70s. Sweden? Well, not for a while longer, actually - and I'm a huge fan of both Volvo and Saab. England... Well, that depends on what you want to spend and what you want to rate for the quality metric. They usually did have some qualities, albeit not always in the same package. Italian? Well... That depends on what you want to spend. French? Surely you jest... The 80s brought about things like the K-car, from Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler. I don't suppose that you're old enough to remember stuff like the Dodge Aries K... Let's just say that that was considered the top-end of the model and it was probably one of the worst automobiles you could buy.
Do you really believe what you wrote to be true or are you shitting me? 'Cause, umm... Yeah, that's not accurate - not even remotely.
A friend of mine uses a bunch of old cell phones and a "universal" car mount to hold them in place. They work reasonably well for him. I bought my system and did my own installation but they were significantly more than $40 each. I get to view my own streams. In fact, unless the data request comes from a specific IP address, the streams can't be viewed by anyone else.
> when the music stops and everybody's looking for chairs
If I may mix metaphors, nobody expects the music to stop and to have to pay the piper. If they did, we'd have fewer stupid people doing stupid things and that includes abusive people doing abusive things.
They all think the ride won't end while they're on it. They all believe themselves immune or simply don't think of it - it's impossible, this is going to be the way things are - forever.. For the most part, humans are pretty stupid.
Where do you live? Lying to a cop is not a crime, in and of itself. How you lie and what the lies is pertaining to may make it a crime. Lying to a *federal* official is a crime, however.
What you described is what you'll find in parts of the US. The bit about it being varied by jurisdiction is key. Other than the Federal Courts there is no "US court system." They are individual States with individual courts and individual processes and they are not universal nor nearly universal. There's a lot of variation (per jurisdiction, even). Google will help you out here, assuming you're interesting in fixing the hole in your knowledge.
Ah yes... The selective processing of history and stopping where it suits you most. How about we try this, then? (Maybe you'l be a wee less stupid in a minute.)
No, the fault for ISIS lies squarely with the Europeans who colonized, abused, and the left the place in shambles with new borders drawn by the countries that were the League of Nations (which the US was not a part of).
That applies to Osama, the Taliban, as well...
So no, the US was cleaning up the mess that the Europeans created. History didn't start in the 1990s, after all.
Now, you can be less stupid than you were a minute ago or you can display an unwillingness to learn. Which do you prefer?
Meanwhile, people like you never seem to notice when Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson talk about issues within the black community, and try to harp on the subject as if they should speak out, but the thing is, you aren't even part of the conversation enough to notice when they do.
I presume you're retarded. There's little other choice but to reach that conclusion at this point. If you read my posts then you'd not say stupid things like that. If you haven't read my posts then you know shit about me and "people like" me. Holy shit... Just, holy shit. Who are these people like me? No, never mind. I really don't have the patience today.
Spelling and grammar issues aside, the AC's post is more salient than one might think. More often than not, in this area, standards are made from things that have demonstrated value and have been incorporated already. They just formalize what exists.
Probably not. He's been dead for quite a while now. It was sometime not long after I sold and retired, IIRC. Either that or I was more inebriated than I thought... 'Cause I stomped around bemoaning the fact that Moses had died - and that now they could enter the promised land. I'm pretty sure I was a bit coked up at the time.
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By Windows XP... Automatic restart was enabled by default in XP.
You can leave some of the system reserved and some of the RAM reserved just for this sort of thing. What you can't really do is try to recover. Well, you can try but you can't really trust what's in memory or anything.
Yup. It's not like we can't spare a few Hz and a couple of Kb of RAM to make a pretty QR code - it might even (emphasis on might) turn out to be valuable. I could see this actually being a good thing. It's not like you need a dedicated device to read QR codes. It's not like the vast majority of admins don't have a "special QR code reader" right in 'em - called a camera.
Best of both worlds might be that it'd scan a *local* database and feed you information from that. I'm thinking enterprise use. Then they could keep their data internal and not rely on any third party networks/data sets. I could actually see this having some benefit. The question is, will it? The answer is, probably not. But... It could be useful. It could even be mostly privacy respecting! I kind of doubt that last part but, hey... It could happen.
Theoretically, MS could even collect this information across systems and say, "Lots of other people with the same version of the driver have experienced similar crashes, but the problem appears to be fixed in there new driver, which can be downloaded here:" and then link to it.
Except you turned that service off at Thanksgiving because you didn't want Microsoft spying on your mother.
You use the event ID and the error number (gleaned from the event viewer that you opened up from the run dialog) and see what happened just prior to the crash and you search for those if you can't figure it out. There's actually a really need service that will aid with that research - they used to give a copy to the MVPs (third party gift to get us to recommend them) back in the day. I've not participated in the program (or even used Windows) in quite a while so I've forgotten the name.
Truth is, Windows isn't all that bad - if you know what you're doing or actually follow directions. It's even possible to use Windows without *any* resident anti-malware scanning - and to be functional while doing so. However, I'm not gonna recommend that people do that - but it is possible. It's really just a matter of knowing a bit about what you're doing and looking before you leap. If you don't know what the button does, don't click it. That's not an easy thing for some of us - so I recommend researching because someone has *always* pressed the button before you got to it. Well, almost always. If they haven't then it's up to you to be the sacrificial lamb and to push the button - I'm pretty sure that's in the rules, somewhere.
Windows is even stable - if you follow best practices. An example would be that I used to get months of uptime (not kidding) on a Windows ME (!) box that ran both an OpenNap server and an OpenNap hub. It really only got reboots to update - they didn't have "Patch Tuesday" back then, it was more sporadic. It should be noted that that particular PC was actually one that came with ME certified hardware. Hardware was undergoing some major changes at the time and if you didn't have appropriate hardware then ME was a shitty, shitty operating system. It was also actually a fairly cheap system from Acer and was my first exposure to AMD - it was the AMD K6-2 350 and I'd OCed it to about 500 MHz.
As for security? Well... The last time I used Windows, I'd not used even a software firewall nor a resident AV in years. (I do have a hardware firewall at the house.) It was fine. Security is a process and not an application. Practice safe hex and you're generally good to go. Always, always keep backups and plenty of them. Storage is cheap and connectivity is near-ubiquitous, back that stuff up.
'Snot popular to say (and I'm a very content Linux user) but Windows isn't that bad and you can get it fixed quickly and easily when there's a problem. It's even not all that difficult to keep it reasonably secure so long as the operator isn't an idiot. Even a stupid person in the chair can figure out apt-get, dpkg, or make install. By the way, I learned to use a computer because I had to. They didn't do anything useful when I first bumped into them. You had to make them do something useful. I hated 'em, quite passionately hated them, at first. Nah, Windows isn't that bad and I've only one real complaint with Windows 10.
Why crash their PC? Just make it look like it crashed and then you can change the QR code to new targets. Joe Average is just gonna hit reboot afterwards anyhow. Hell, after you've sent 'em through enough pages and borrows a short amount of GPU time for some mining, send 'em to a nice formal-looking page that tells them to reboot but warns them that the problem may happen again and to check back often - and trigger it at random intervals. I bet you can get away with that for months.
Both are from the NW USA. Sheesh! Isn't it obvious how they're related!
(I've long since learned to ignore that part of the page.)
Tesla went public years ago. Not many years but, still, years.
In other words, shares were once $24 each. Well, they were when I got 'em. You might wanna get in now and just not be too greedy and bail before it goes bad. Then again, it might not go bad. Either way, there's a number that will be crossed and that's when I'll sell. It has gotten pretty close to that number but it hasn't crossed it just yet. I expect that number to be crossed when the release date for the Model 3 hits. Actually, I expect it to happen just before that. And that's when I'll be bailing and no longer invested in Tesla. There are a few events that could make me sell sooner but they're unlikely to happen, so it's a dollar amount.
You say that like it's a bad thing. That, my good sir, depends on when you invested in shares.
I stopped and thought about this one for a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that it's actually really ironic that this post was made by an AC. I wonder if they think we should make an exception for them and see the insight and brilliance of their post - just this one time, and act on it or if we should just disregard it because they're an AC.
I'm reminded of the posts (from an AC) that deride other ACs for posting as AC, not having an account, and even suggesting that /. should do away with the AC system. And, if one is curious, they seem to not actually be saying it with their tongue in their cheek. They seem to not notice the disconnect. Of course, they're an exception or, amusingly, have an account but are posting as an AC.
Life... It's funny like that.
And the same logic for the Trooper, the Tundra, and a few other hundred (thousand?) models by every manufacturer on the planet. But no, it's different this time!
Full disclosure: I'm quite invested in Tesla.
You're just a whisker too young. It wasn't until about '82 that Japanese cars got to be good. They started to really improve around '78 and by '82 they were pretty good. There are actually books on the subject. One of them is from Honda himself, though I think it was ghostwritten. Prior to that? Oh, my... He wasn't kidding about the 70's Mazda. They were made out of trash. Literally... They were poorly recycled and very low-end materials as they didn't have a whole lot of money behind them.
It wasn't until the boom and the oil crunch that they got some money behind them. They did the smart thing and didn't use that increased wealth to pay a few rich fucks at the top. They invested in making better cars. Arguably, they make some of the best cars today. In the 80s, that was certainly true - even into the mid-90's it was true. The US has upped their game but I don't buy many American cars, not as a general rule. My RV and trucks are all from the US but I've owned (and own one still) foreign-made trucks. Hell, I invented a game with a 1986 Nissan. It was just a "Pickup." That's was its name, as I recall. It was 2WD and fairly skinny. I used to take it out with my 4WD friends and go everywhere that they went - and further. Oh, I couldn't pull them out if they got stuck... But, I could keep going, forever. It was fun.
Anyhow, no... No. You're just a whisker too young but it was easy to catch as you indicated when you started driving. Go back about 10 year before that. Then we had a couple of events that changed the oil market and a lot of people figured that those cars with 20 and 30 MPG were pretty good - compared to 8 and 12 MPG. An oddity that I noticed... It was during the oil embargo that I noticed the disposable lighter and we increased our use of plastics. I've never really figured out the why of that.
No, they were horribly built. They were awful. I do mean awful.
What they were, was cheap to run and replace. There was an oil crisis, you probably don't know this because you're too young. However, no... In fact, Subaru had a commercial that showed they were finally good enough that you could kick the tires and that the vehicle wouldn't fall apart. Yeah, that bad. They made their quality improvements *after* they had the money to do so - money that they got from being dirt cheap. Note: They're no longer dirt cheap. Why? Because they're actually good vehicles now. This started en masse in about 1982, if you're curious. Some, like Datsun (Nissan), actually had some tough drive trains but were likely to fall apart. Rust was a few years away from the purchase date (Remember Z-bart? Probably not.) They were cheap to buy and cheap to use. Quality was something added later.
Take your revisionist history to share with the rest of the kids. Some of us old people are still here, you know. I suppose you'll next try to tell me about all the old reliable German automobiles? Or how US cars were reliable back in the day? Nope. They all kind of sucked, in all sorts of ways. That's what makes them special and why you buy them and restore them - so you can make them suck less than they did or enjoy their quirks again.
Seriously... No... Just, no. They were *worse* than American cars until about 1982 - with a few exceptions. Germany started really making good stuff in the 70s. Sweden? Well, not for a while longer, actually - and I'm a huge fan of both Volvo and Saab. England... Well, that depends on what you want to spend and what you want to rate for the quality metric. They usually did have some qualities, albeit not always in the same package. Italian? Well... That depends on what you want to spend. French? Surely you jest... The 80s brought about things like the K-car, from Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler. I don't suppose that you're old enough to remember stuff like the Dodge Aries K... Let's just say that that was considered the top-end of the model and it was probably one of the worst automobiles you could buy.
Do you really believe what you wrote to be true or are you shitting me? 'Cause, umm... Yeah, that's not accurate - not even remotely.
What do you call the myriad forms of welfare if not bailouts?
Hmm... What do you think Libertarians are, anyhow?
It's always amusing when you see the Internet Tough Guys. It really is. Oh, they *know* they can kill. Heh... They've played too many video games.
> SpaceX saves the government money by doing launches under fixed price per service contracts.
I love me some SpaceX but, unless I'm missing something, you can't actually say that. Why? Because it's not true. SpaceX has done no such thing.
Now, ideally, they *might* do so in the *future* but, as of yet and unless I'm missing something, nothing even remotely like that is true.
Am I missing something?
A friend of mine uses a bunch of old cell phones and a "universal" car mount to hold them in place. They work reasonably well for him. I bought my system and did my own installation but they were significantly more than $40 each. I get to view my own streams. In fact, unless the data request comes from a specific IP address, the streams can't be viewed by anyone else.
> when the music stops and everybody's looking for chairs
If I may mix metaphors, nobody expects the music to stop and to have to pay the piper. If they did, we'd have fewer stupid people doing stupid things and that includes abusive people doing abusive things.
They all think the ride won't end while they're on it. They all believe themselves immune or simply don't think of it - it's impossible, this is going to be the way things are - forever.. For the most part, humans are pretty stupid.
Where do you live? Lying to a cop is not a crime, in and of itself. How you lie and what the lies is pertaining to may make it a crime. Lying to a *federal* official is a crime, however.
What you described is what you'll find in parts of the US. The bit about it being varied by jurisdiction is key. Other than the Federal Courts there is no "US court system." They are individual States with individual courts and individual processes and they are not universal nor nearly universal. There's a lot of variation (per jurisdiction, even). Google will help you out here, assuming you're interesting in fixing the hole in your knowledge.
Ah yes... The selective processing of history and stopping where it suits you most. How about we try this, then? (Maybe you'l be a wee less stupid in a minute.)
No, the fault for ISIS lies squarely with the Europeans who colonized, abused, and the left the place in shambles with new borders drawn by the countries that were the League of Nations (which the US was not a part of).
That applies to Osama, the Taliban, as well...
So no, the US was cleaning up the mess that the Europeans created. History didn't start in the 1990s, after all.
Now, you can be less stupid than you were a minute ago or you can display an unwillingness to learn. Which do you prefer?
Meanwhile, people like you never seem to notice when Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson talk about issues within the black community, and try to harp on the subject as if they should speak out, but the thing is, you aren't even part of the conversation enough to notice when they do.
I presume you're retarded. There's little other choice but to reach that conclusion at this point. If you read my posts then you'd not say stupid things like that. If you haven't read my posts then you know shit about me and "people like" me. Holy shit... Just, holy shit. Who are these people like me? No, never mind. I really don't have the patience today.
Spelling and grammar issues aside, the AC's post is more salient than one might think. More often than not, in this area, standards are made from things that have demonstrated value and have been incorporated already. They just formalize what exists.
Probably not. He's been dead for quite a while now. It was sometime not long after I sold and retired, IIRC. Either that or I was more inebriated than I thought... 'Cause I stomped around bemoaning the fact that Moses had died - and that now they could enter the promised land. I'm pretty sure I was a bit coked up at the time.