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IIRC, humans have been adding honey to booze for several thousand years now. (Pottery from Europe dated back to ~2500BC have traces of Mead w/honey used as the sugar have been found. Samples from China date from over 7000BC - IIRC this was a rice wine with honey).

Picked up a 4 pack of Bee Mead the other day... Quite a tasty, yet sweet mead... Went well with the baked fish and mash potatoes.

Thanks for the heads up... The reason for a lot of these new nonsensical company and/or product names, is that most if not all other common names are already trademarked or are unable to be trademarked for being too common. Similar with registration of Company/Business names internationally...

Personally, currently none. I know work uses Melbourne IT, due to needing *.au addresses. Edit: Forgot to add, MelbourneIT are not cheap...

Our autumn and winter this year has been so mild, most of our local birds have continued mating and raising offspring in winter. Most of our flowering trees (we have quite a few bottle-brushes) have continued to flower as well...

And.... you're correct... And no mention of what he/she went with either?

@sd, I think LM was implying he was installing the hidden cams there for his own use...

My only recommendation would be either the Dell Optiplex 3070 mini with 5yr onsite warranty, or the HP EliteDesk 800 with 3yr onsite warranty... Note, both Dell and HP offer all-in-one variants, and small form factor variants of the above as well. The reason I point these models out, is the...

Oh the old days of having to tinker to make things work... Not as bad as having to set IRQ/DMA settings via jumpers on ISA cards and ensuring you had no conflicts... And then setting a whole stack of environment variables to let the various drivers/libraries know where the devices were...

IIRC WinNT4 could be really picky about UDMA modes for controllers and drives, you could try limiting the SD/IDE adaptor to PIO4 mode? (My system at the time would hang 95% of the time during boot when UDMA33 was enabled in NT4, otherwise UDMA worked fine with Linux, so I know it wasn't...

The problem with those "cheap" licenses, is that you may not be sure exactly what license you are getting? Is it OEM (digital), retail (digital), a volume license key, a technet/MSDN key... Further reading: https://www.howtogeek.com/392080/cheap-windows-10-keys-do-they-work/

Not at all, just the situation is not very clear for the consumer. As @time pointed out, a lot of motherboards and cheap video cards lack HDMI 2.0 needed for 4K@60Hz. To get 4K@60Hz working via HDMI, you need to pay close attention to exactly what is being offered on the motherboard and video...

I remember doing this (back in the day when I was still running my P233MMX based system with NT4**), a lot of that games had weird checks for OS version and would fail to run despite having everything that was needed. Most complained about not being WIn98... Also note, you'll also need gfx...

I think the point is, that 4K displays are now an option for most users, but the lack of support for them (esp when using HDMI) is disappointing. (Prices are now becoming reasonable for 4K, multiple options for under AU$400, or 4K TVs for less than AU$600 in the 50-60" size).

@time, cheap in the US... As you and I know, expensive in the land of Oz... (The cheapest I could find was AU$149 for Windows 10 Home x64 OEM DVD, MS official pricing is AU$225.) I did find cheaper licenses, but all appeared "too cheap"...

I just had a quick look as well, and it really does appear to be bit of a sh*t show when using the IGP. From what I can gather, Intel and motherboard manufacturers simple skimped on their HDMI implementations, relying on add-in GPUs to provide 4K@60Hz support... The only saving grace on the...

Those that don't learn history are doomed to repeat it... or something like that...

Seagate has had a history of using multiple heads at once (Barracuda 2HP). One could look at recent patents filed by / awarded to Seagate to see if there is anything publicly available about how they are handling it. Source: https://redhill.net.au/d/d-o.html

I have seen this myself on some systems... My understanding is that MS changed some of the rules of when feature updates are pushed, for example they are not pushed if the users relies on the automatic updates feature and never goes into the control panel and manually checks for updates. Also...

I would assume a sandwich? https://www.yelp.com.au/menu/ikes-place-san-diego/item/tony-soprano

Early commentary:

I assume most people have seen the new Mac Pro announcement? Certainly impressive machine (and it's reported to come in at a tidy $50K fully specced out). However, digging through the announcement you see a lot about CPU performance (using Intel Xeon), memory capacity (up to 1.5TB RAM)...

IIRC, most Spectre variants will work even on single core systems lacking HyperThreading... It's all about speculative execution engine having faults reading memory into cache when it shouldn't. IIRC, the last Intel CPU that was immune to both Meltdown/Spectre were the Atom N5x0 series (these...

RAW is handled via the ufraw plugin for GIMP. http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html

Same stats for Australian Market share: (Apr-2019) Apple: 56.33% Samsung: 22.81% Huawei: 6.4% Oppo: 3.6% Google: 1.75% Xiaomi: 1.47% Sony: 0.81% (SonyEricsson + Sony) Nokia: 0.63% Motorola: 0.59% HTC: 0.56% LG: 0.49% ZTE: 0.42% (often rebranded as carrier phone). Approx 17M handsets on the...

Discounts have already started... People are already dumping stock on ebay, Gumtree, etc.

From the consumer side, effectively all Huawei phones and devices are EOL. (No updates, other than those offered by the playstore, warranties will consist of purchase refunds/credits rather than device replacement), etc. From the infrastructure side, a lot of telco's and operators were using...

Unfortunately Huawei managed to grab some notable marketshare here in Oz, so there are going to be a lot of people burnt by this... (High end phones on sale are generally either Apple, Samsung or Hauwei handsets, with 1-2 models from Nokia, LG and Oppo making up the upper-mid range stuff).

@LM, how the liquid feels on the tongue/mouth. Does it gone down smooth (water like), or rough (like some moonshine).

Picked up a 6pack of Scape Goat Pear Cider a few days ago, (normally buy Koppaberg Hard Pear Cider) to try out... The Pros: No preservatives. (I have mild intolerance to common preservatives (E220) used in wines/ciders). Decent but not overly sweet taste. The Cons: Very wine like in texture...

FYI: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1SP0NB As for cases, Spigen Rugged Armor or Slim Armor? Anything in the Otterbox range? Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a big range for them (lot's of cheap silicon or plastic tho).

@LM Those temps are pretty typical of most NVMe from what I've seen. There are some third party heat sinks for NVMe devices available as well if it's a concern? (eg https://www.amazon.com.au/EKWB-EK-M-2-NVMe-Heatsink-Black/dp/B073RHHYCM not endorsing this one, just showing one example).

@LM, the X99 chipset supports most NVMe devices, however you will need to check with your motherboard manufacturer if your particular board supports them and in what configuration. (IIRC, some boards will disable some the SATA ports to enable NVMe support, and some boards only support NVMe...

Those results look about right for a typical NVMe setup. (without knowing the exact make/model and setup).

Android update with hotfix was 2 days ago (7-May).

Necro thread... Backblaze reliability for Q1 - 2019. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/

I think this one was a simple case of Hanlon's Razor. ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"). For mobile devices, just need to wait for it to be pushed through the normal vetting process for the applicable app store. (shouldn't be too long).

Oh, in case anyone missed it, the mozilla KB article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-disabled-or-fail-to-install-firefox

FF 66.0.4 is now out correcting this issue: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/66.0.4/ or just via the main page...

Just came across this site and had to share: http://shieldheadwear.com/ (note: I do not endorse any product on this site, and IMHO it's nothing more than snake oil salesmanship at its finest).

IIRC, the current state of affairs are: AMD Ryzen CPUs have firmware + software based mitigation for Spectre (Meltdown only effects Intel). Upcoming CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture (expected Q3 this year) is expected to have hardware mitigation for all known Spectre and Spectre-like...

And today is the 2nd of May... Where has the year gone?

The first part or the second?

I am... Happy Easter for tomorrow as well...

And the sad thing is, infosec is so low priority that most modern cars can be car jacked remotely... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes While this is older article, things don't seem to have improved...

Just like to wish all those a happy and safe Easter.

Most of the Zero bikes are limited to 102mph, except the top one which is limited to 124mph. (These are artificial limits to assist in battery life and are not limits of the drive train). Whilst it's common for most sports bikes to easily beat any car (seen footage of a tuned ZX-10R whip a...

So who's left making spinning disks anymore? WDC, Seagate, Toshiba?

Mustang 5.0 vs Zero SR (electric motorbike)...

Hi guys, Just a short PSA re the free email (s/mime) X509 Certificates that Sectigo (formally known as Comodo CA**) are now only 1 month, and not 12 months in duration. For the last 7-8 years, I've been using Comodo CA's issued certificates for message integrity and encryption. (Comodo CA...