Did someone get to claim the $5,000 bounty on that one?
Wish he'd do the same for boardview file formats. I've already reverse-engineered a few like xzz and teboview but for some reason he's now somewhat oblivious to it ( I suppose since he doesn't repair any more he's not "in the game" as such ).
Helping the less fortunate is a form of human decency.
The people of the United States are exceedingly generous in giving their money to charities, foreign and domestic. Americans sent almost 30 billion dollars abroad to foreign recipients in 2023. Americans pretty much have decency covered. But this isn't about decency. It's about responsibility.
I think it's more about diplomacy and soft power. If the US was instrumental in ensuring your survival, you're more likely to have a favorable view of the US when you're an adult and can affect your nation's policies.
Same goes for allowing foreign students to attend US universities.
People used to manage...paper maps...while driving, back in the 1970's and earlier, without wrecking into people
Maybe they did, nobody noticed, news was different back then and crash stats were harder to put together.
Plus there were a lot fewer cars on the road back then.
Most airline reservation systems require a saved booking (PNR = Passenger Name Record) before they can issue a ticket. So, the booking class and seats are locked in before you can make a payment. Once that's done, they can't really change the price, and you can pick which card you use. So, I would suspect that they aren't trying to identify a corporate card as part of their segmentation strategy.
About the only thing outpacing higher education costs is healthcare costs. I've been awarded a few degrees, I've worked with several universities as an outsider to sponsor research, and I've spent years on an advisory board. May I suggest a few problems that need to be fixed?
- Tenured professors that teach maybe one or two classes a year
- Layers of administration that don't teach or really add to the value
- Buillshit jobs in administration. My pet peeve is the graduate school troll who has to measure the headings in every thesis to make sure they're exactly centered
Anyone care to add to the list?
I wonder how much of this is driven by developers wanting to play with new technologies and add buzzwords to their resume / LinkedIn profile?
Yes, CrowdStrike would have affected Windows machines running as front-end terminals for any airline that has that. It may also affect a lot of the operational systems that often run on Windows (flight planning & dispatch, gate planning, etc)
Southwest does not use TPF any more, they're hosted by Amadeus and they're completely off the mainframes these days. SWA's previous system was running TPF, it was originally based on a clone of Braniff's system years ago, but this system was shut down about 8-10 years ago. Amadeus runs reservations for 150+ airlines around the world.
For the other US majors - AA runs on Sabre's system, AFAIK the core is still TPF but they're working on migrating everything to Google's cloud. DL runs their own mainframe system and UA runs on SHARES, which is the TPF system that Continental used.
That's because the schematics are basically under heavy NDA. Designing a motherboard is basically impossible without heavy help from Intel or AMD and that is provided under NDA only.
That's why boardviews are so nice - they don't reveal *anything* about the actual PCB fabrication other than position of the parts and the logical connections between the parts (ie, which pins are on the same net); they are not *design* files, likewise schematics aren't truly revealing a lot either, certainly not enough that you could implement a clone for exactly the reasons you cite, there's simply too many other things such as firmware, routing and actual timing/impedence-control of the signals that go well beyond what can be deduced from the schematic and/or boardview alone.
If you look at common boardview files for things like Macbooks, all they contain is a long list of the following data tuple
{ position, side, part#, pin#, network name }
I had hoped that Framework would be a real change in the market but we're still locked out from really repairing those boards because there's no boardview access.
Sure, you can fix some things without the schematic and/or boardview ( they're two separate things btw ), but if you really want to be able to service machines that have been damaged you do need both in this day & age.
I've approached Framework a few times and it keeps ending up with a dead end when it comes to the boardview ( even through the conduit of Louis Rossmann to assist ). Basically, the whole repairability marketing tilt is little more than skin deep; they don't even have the rights to the designs to distribute the boardviews, of which I will point out are NOT the same as design files.
I suspect that most VMware applications could be replaced by Xen / Docker / etc - unless they want to run old versions of DOS, OS/2, Windows, etc. I mucked around with VMware years ago, but never found a true need for it. Pretty much all my coding is for Linux and Docker containers did most everything we needed.
That's really interesting, thanks. Probably explains some of the weirdass trace routing I've observed on older boards, sometimes going the long way around.
Back a few years I was wondering why Mint, being glorified Ubuntu, ran so much better than Ubuntu. Turns out Mint was running (by actual count) 1/4th as many processes. Gee, I wonder how that could impact performance...
I didn't much like Devuan until they borrowed the PCLOS desktop and general way of doing things... now it's a lot slicker.
348 square feet per person.
To power all of India, 20,000 square miles (if I didn't slip a digit).
If any of we peons proposed such mass environmental destruction, even of the middle of nothing and nowhere, we'd be jailed.
One has to look out for engineers -- they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. -- Marcel Pagnol
