Comment Re:Back up already (Score 2) 43
Both mine and my daughters house has no internet connectivity (we are in adjoining cells) through starlink.
my dish is reporting obstructions, even after a reboot
Comment Using AI to generate those patents? (Score 1) 12
That's my guess anyway
Comment Re:Not just software engineers (Score 1) 237
LOL, far from it, network engineer, but jack of all trades in IT.
Comment Not just software engineers (Score 5, Informative) 237
Over my career, I've worked with a lot of different companies and it's the full gambit of people. You always get those that take advantage of the system and do little to know work, usually just enough to get by and not get caught.
Comment nice upgrade from 11 though (Score 1) 96
I went from an iPhone 11 to the 16, it was due. I really do like the additional action button and dedicated camera buttons. I use my camera a lot, so that was a nice addition. Probably a 14 or 15 upgrade to 16 wouldn't be as noticeable.
Submission + - Dr. Ed Stone, Voyager Project Scientist, passes away
hackertourist writes: Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and project scientist of the Voyager mission for 50 years, died on June 9, 2024. He was age 88.
Stone served on nine NASA missions as either principal investigator or a science instrument lead, and on five others as a co-investigator (a key science instrument team member). These roles primarily involved studying energetic ions from the Sun and cosmic rays from the galaxy. He had the distinction of being one of the few scientists involved with both the mission that has come closest to the Sun (NASA’s Parker Solar Probe) and the one that has traveled farthest from it (Voyager).
Stone is best known for his work on NASA’s longest-running mission, Voyager, whose twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are still exploring deep space today. He served as Voyager’s sole project scientist from 1972 until his retirement in 2022. Under Stone’s leadership, the mission took advantage of a celestial alignment that occurs just once every 176 years to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The mission transformed our understanding of the solar system, and is still providing useful data today.
Stone served on nine NASA missions as either principal investigator or a science instrument lead, and on five others as a co-investigator (a key science instrument team member). These roles primarily involved studying energetic ions from the Sun and cosmic rays from the galaxy. He had the distinction of being one of the few scientists involved with both the mission that has come closest to the Sun (NASA’s Parker Solar Probe) and the one that has traveled farthest from it (Voyager).
Stone is best known for his work on NASA’s longest-running mission, Voyager, whose twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are still exploring deep space today. He served as Voyager’s sole project scientist from 1972 until his retirement in 2022. Under Stone’s leadership, the mission took advantage of a celestial alignment that occurs just once every 176 years to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The mission transformed our understanding of the solar system, and is still providing useful data today.
Comment Re:You think they would learn... (Score 4, Informative) 30
Only one very specific version is vulnerable. My guess is that they have the root password hardcoded during dev and they missed the step about changing it when it shipped. 12.5.1su4 is the version. Older and newer versions are fine. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsec.cloudapps.cisco.co...
It's still an attack vector though, and yes, they missed it.
Comment Re:I’m fine with this but (Score 1) 115
Don't forget about the $250 an hour, including travel, for the repair tech to plug in his laptop and authorize the replacement.
Comment Re:Duh! Paid tier? (Score 1) 81
Not defending Zippy at all, just laughing that you are posting on a site that is funded by ads.
I'd gladly pay a subscription for
Comment Re:The solution (Score 1) 207
Agreed with your sentiments on them.
I think I've tried all of the major players, from the original google chromecast, first gen fire-sticks up to a couple of years ago, and many roku's over the years.
I've found the roku's to be more stable with what I use them for, a couple of streaming services, including my own plex server. With the current gen working with airplay, etc, they are pretty great.
Also, I've found that the low end ones are slower, but if you go up to the premiere / premium roku's, the performance is much better.
I can hit the netflix button on the remote and it's at my login screen (user selection) within 2 seconds. The older stick I carry with me in my backpack for hotels takes a few seconds to do the same thing (once you have it on the network of course).
As others have said, you get what you pay for, pay a bit more and get faster startup times.
Also, as someone else mentioned, can you buy a non-smart tv today? especially if you want a bigger screen, better screen, etc? I bought what I'd call a mid-end Sony tv last year, has all of the built in crap, but I like my roku's, so I didn't even configure the on-board stuff, just plugged in the hdmi.and I'm good. Roku remotes can now control the volume/power once programmed.
Comment How is this different than search engines? (Score 4, Interesting) 89
WSJ certainly doesn't mind the search engines using/scraping their data. I know this is over simplifying the concept, but the point stands.
Comment Re:NetDisco (Score 1) 84
NetDisco is definitely something to look at if you have manageable switches. We use it at CompUSA to manage over 2000 switches and routers and to keep track of all ip, mac, host, port, etc info.
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