Comment Re:Yet another name for 800mg Motrin? (Score 1) 248
Well Played
Comment Re:Hopefully this is to fund Metal support (Score 1) 51
You act like I didn't RTFA before posting!! Well I had not!!
But seriously, this is great news.
Comment Hopefully this is to fund Metal support (Score 1) 51
Most of Blender works just great on Mac OS, what doesn't work well is rendering. It will do it, but not efficiently. Hopefully this is a move to fund development for Metal rendering support.
Submission + - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Experiencing Major Outage (office.com)
TorinEdge writes: Microsoft appears to have botched an internal Office365 cloud services rollout today, with outages confirmed up and down the West Coast of North America. Confirmed roll backs were good early omens, but in the end did not appear to be successful. Outage now moving in to its third or fourth hour, 2 hours by confirmation from Microsoft's status page (https://status.office.com/) and official Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status). Symptoms may include: All 365-related services flaking out, borking, alternately approving logins and confirming they definitely do not exist.
Submission + - Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said he’s been impressed by employees’ ability to operate remotely and predicted that some new work habits will remain after the pandemic. During an interview at The Atlantic Festival on Monday, Cook said Apple created products including new Apple Watches and iPads that are launching on time this year, despite the need for most employees to work away from the office due to Covid-19.
Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.” Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s new campus in Silicon Valley sometime next year. The CEO said he goes into the office at different points during the week and he noted that remote work is “not like being together physically.” Working in the office sparks creativity such as during impromptu meetings, he added.
Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.” Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s new campus in Silicon Valley sometime next year. The CEO said he goes into the office at different points during the week and he noted that remote work is “not like being together physically.” Working in the office sparks creativity such as during impromptu meetings, he added.
Submission + - Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months (bbc.co.uk)
seoras writes: The mystery of why an entire village lost its broadband every morning at 7am was solved when engineers discovered an old television was to blame.
An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband.
After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.
The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again.
The village now has a stable broadband signal.
An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband.
After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.
The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again.
The village now has a stable broadband signal.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 466
Dax? Certainly non-binary, arguably transgender.
Comment Better information links (Score 2) 39
TFA is paywalled.
Better and more direct info is available from:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.c...
https://statusgator.com/servic...
Comment Why do you need a separate box? (Score 1) 194
Many IP cameras already have a micro SD card slot and can record video to the SD card in addition to streaming it offsite. A quick search on Amazon found one that is IP67 rated and has temperature ratings from -40c to +60c for $86, Dahua IPC-HDBW4431R-ZS. Iâ(TM)ve used Dahua cameras before and their optics and image sensors are great but their network security is lousy. Keep them on an isolated VLAN and donâ(TM)t let them connect outbound to the Internet.
Comment Re:open up mac os X to more systems if just HP / D (Score 1) 99
I agree with this. I work as a "creative" (commercial photography) and I keep nothing but the specific software I need on my machine's. All work files are kept on SSD's while in the field and dumped onto a RAID at the office. The computers themselves are kept clean free of anything that might degrade performance.
Comment Just fix the kernel (Score 1) 36
FFS, what on earth is this good for? Just fix the damn vulnerability in the kernel and be done with it.
Comment Re:Your Macbook model can run El Capitan 10.11 (Score 1) 248
I recently sent an old Mac Book 7,1 to my mother-in-law. Ram upgraded to 6gb, solid state drive and OS X 10.10. It works great for light browsing, email and FaceTime.
Comment Re:Problems with Linux that should have been solve (Score 1) 751
Um, you know, this sounds an awful lot like OpenBSD...
Coming from someone who uses several flavors of Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD on a regular basis.
NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half (bloomberg.com) 234
An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg Businessweek article: For almost a half-century there's been a clear speed limit on most commercial air travel: 660 miles per hour, the rate at which a typical-size plane traveling at 30,000 feet breaks the sound barrier and creates a 30-mile-wide, continuous sonic boom. That may be changing. In August, NASA says, it will begin taking bids for construction of a demo model of a plane able to reduce the sonic boom to something like the hum you'd hear inside a Mercedes-Benz on the interstate. The agency's researchers say their design, a smaller-scale model of which was successfully tested in a wind tunnel at the end of June, should cut the six-hour flight time from New York to Los Angeles in half. NASA proposes spending $390 million over five years to build the demo plane and test it over populated areas. The first year of funding is included in President Trump's 2018 budget proposal. Over the next decade, growth in air transportation and distances flown "will drive the demand for broadly available faster air travel," says Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's commercial supersonic research team. "That's going to make it possible for companies to offer competitive products in the future." NASA plans to share the technology resulting from the tests with U.S. plane makers, meaning a head start for the likes of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and startups such as Boom Technology and billionaire Robert Bass's Aerion. [...] NASA is targeting a sound level of 60 to 65 A-weighted decibels (dBa), Coen says. That's about as loud as that luxury car on the highway or the background conversation in a busy restaurant. Iosifidis says that Lockheed's research shows the design can maintain that sound level at commercial size and his team's planned demo will be 94 feet long, have room for one pilot, fly as high as 55,000 feet, and run on one of the twin General Electric engines that power Boeing Co.'s F/A-18 fighter jet.
Comment The flip side -- why they're asked (Score 1) 1001
Having been on both sides, I can tell you why companies ask these questions -- they're looking for basic technical knowledge and competence. All too many times we've seen candidates who can talk a good fight and who can (given lots of time and access to Stack Overflow) write a program that succeeds using copy-paste. However, these are not the people we want to hire. Once we're past the basic knowledge and competence we can look at fit, people skills, etc., but I for one have been burned by new hires who bamboozled a non-technical manager.
