Also hard drives, from about the last fifteen years, have calibration data for the specific individual heads that read and write the data to/from the platter. Some, not all, harddrives have an eeprom that can be…
'Ask your grandparents' would be more accurate. Sales of models of hard drive that could be low level formatted had almost entirely ended by the year 1992. Primitive PC's that only ran DOS and had 20MB or 40MB hard…
The linked article seems to have been deleted.
I have an HMD global flip phone, branded "Nokia". It is usable but the software is mediocre. The volume buttons on the side are not disabled when the keylock is on so the ring volume goes up and down when you move…
The content of the file remains accessible to the process that has it open and continues to take up disk space. ... and a new file with the same name (and path) and different content can be created that exists at the…
Amusing. So, in the year 2001, NZ telecom provided most of the telephone lines and a much smaller company called Clear sold phone service in some areas. When a customer of one phone company called a line provided by the…
The "internet explorer" browser-in-browser on the website somewhat works, but it is connecting to websites from an Alibaba cloud datacenter in China, user-agent claims to be an Apple computer and it is using many…
From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.
Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound off, I would like to watch less.
It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.
Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.
"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses."
I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating number of driver-related BSODs. To me, it…
see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"
I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.
Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer
Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413 I'v…
Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?
There is also Hack::Soho
CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting…
Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?".…
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on…
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...
Also hard drives, from about the last fifteen years, have calibration data for the specific individual heads that read and write the data to/from the platter. Some, not all, harddrives have an eeprom that can be…
'Ask your grandparents' would be more accurate. Sales of models of hard drive that could be low level formatted had almost entirely ended by the year 1992. Primitive PC's that only ran DOS and had 20MB or 40MB hard…
The linked article seems to have been deleted.
I have an HMD global flip phone, branded "Nokia". It is usable but the software is mediocre. The volume buttons on the side are not disabled when the keylock is on so the ring volume goes up and down when you move…
The content of the file remains accessible to the process that has it open and continues to take up disk space. ... and a new file with the same name (and path) and different content can be created that exists at the…
Amusing. So, in the year 2001, NZ telecom provided most of the telephone lines and a much smaller company called Clear sold phone service in some areas. When a customer of one phone company called a line provided by the…
The "internet explorer" browser-in-browser on the website somewhat works, but it is connecting to websites from an Alibaba cloud datacenter in China, user-agent claims to be an Apple computer and it is using many…
From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.
Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound off, I would like to watch less.
It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.
Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.
"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses."
I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating number of driver-related BSODs. To me, it…
see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"
I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.
Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer
Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413 I'v…
Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?
There is also Hack::Soho
CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting…
Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?".…
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on…
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...