Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

Not a clue. Have I mentioned I hate VMs? Sometimes they're good for a laugh. Some sites with high availability systems respond to Linux like a vampire to garlic. What they don't know is under all those Server 20xx VMs, Redhat and kvm is holding the whole mess together.

Excellent movie but relevant how?

I use them to be able to run Linux s*it on my grown up Windows systems.

That feature may go away; they'll have to get more creative. Currently some bodycam systems vendors turn the camera on when the officer gets within a specified distance from the incident. That, of course, also implies the body camera is a radio collar for the cop.

There have been times when I've thought giving the source code to a competitor could set them back a few years.

That's the purpose of trade shows. You skulk around seeing what everyone is doing and if it looks good you steal it. You need to be careful though. A few years back cloud based solutions were all the rage. Then AWS very visibly went t*ts up at inopportune moments. Twitter taking a dump is one thing but the emergency services people are a little less enthused by their system going down.

When I first started working I was involved in the machine tool sector. The Asians were cute. Of course they all had cameras and they would subtly position one of their guys in the photos so they could go home and scale everything.

Then the Japanese ate the US machine tool business and I moved on.

Oh, we have trains but they're hauling coal to BC to ship to China.

The closest passenger terminal is 133 miles north. You might want to think twice about setting up a computer on the Empire Builder:

Do you have 10 or 11? I am running wsl with Ubuntu on one machine and Kali on another. wsl has come a long way and there now is a X server included that integrates nicely. I've got a dedicate Linux box too but for some things wsl works well.

I did have problems on the laptop where the system would crash when the display went to sleep. I don't think HyperV played well with the Acer drivers. One or the other may have been fixed by now but I didn't reinstall wsl after removing it.

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:01:49 -0600) it happened rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:

No, never used DragonOS. I have several RTL_SDR sticks now in the raspis, some are 1 ppm One reads my outside weather station :-) One reads airplane data using dump1090 and logs and displays it:

One reads ship AIS data and logs and displays it:

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:08:22 -0600) it happened rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:

Have dot doen wirewrap in ages...

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:24:58 +0100) it happened "Commander Kinsey" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@ryzen.lan:

Yes, huge, but encoded, soem run at lower frame-rate, yes I keep several weeks. Been playing with the Pimoroni IR camera module on Raspberry, low resolution but detects body heat. That has now passed the 'several weeks 24/7 on' test.

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:55:50 +0100) it happened "Commander Kinsey" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@ryzen.lan:

Indeed

There is a problem with AMD. Their implementation of VT-D (virtualization to use two OSes on one CPU) sux. It slows the system right down and it's hard to interact with it.

The film shows how people gradually became stupider. The same is happening with programmers because they don't have to fit their programs into tight RAM allocations any more.

I thought they could be turned off out of respect for something, eg. they're talking about a deceased relative.

Of course your arm could always get in the way.

There's a coal hauling train goes past me as there's a power station 10 miles down the road. The rails can't handle the weight, they're constantly repairing them.

Someone has put a rude comment under there!

Do you guys have to put a f****ng flag everywhere?

Yeah we have one of those. Nice smooth tarmac. I often startle people by going for a run barefoot along it. It's perfect for toughening the soles, hard but no sharp things. I also took a Scarlet Macaw with me one time (on a lead long enough for her to fly around), that amused everyone.

Funny, we had a courier service called Amtrak. They went bust.

Russia has loads of stuff to sell, buy that. They'll give you a good price.

Apparently HyperV is an even bigger piece of s**te than VT-X and Oracle Virtualbox.

Isn't wirewrap what amateurs do that can't solder?

That's not stupider, that's doing things more efficiently, not having to waste your time hand optimising low level code.

And plenty still do that anyway with single chip micros.

Still huge. Unencoded would be ridiculous.

Mine appear to be limited by the CPU speed, one core is all the program will allocate per camera, so I only get 15 fps max. Usually 7 fps as the computer is very busy running Boinc.

I got some cheap s*it from China. It's never the resolution advertised, but that means they'll panic and give you 50% off the already low price.