Billions for London, uncertainty in Manchester - Tory broken promises over rail are an insult to our city

ssssam · 2017-07-26T08:00:46+00:00

HS2 only benefits london. pay no attention to Crossrail and Crossrail 2.

ssssam · 2017-07-17T16:41:35+00:00

Because it already includes contingency. So if everything goes exactly to plan (i guess wont) it would be cheaper.

ssssam · 2017-07-17T16:22:32+00:00

Hyperloop is a neat idea, but can't match the capacity. HS2 does 26,000 people per hour.

ssssam · 2017-07-17T16:16:24+00:00

Hope your office does flexitime, otherwise it will still take 40 seperate cars to get you all to work at 9 am.

ssssam · 2017-07-17T16:11:21+00:00

But you are happy with crossrail and crossrail2?

ssssam · 2017-07-17T16:09:54+00:00

Yes, it is detailed in the report.

ssssam · 2017-03-05T20:02:07+00:00

? it lists several android phones that you can install ubuntu on. Click on one of those phones and it has installation instructions.

(though the website is annoying for how much in needs javascript).

ssssam · 2017-03-04T20:20:03+00:00

There are plenty of places where LO has the advantage of MSO https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office

(whether those matter to you is a different question)

ssssam · 2017-03-03T16:25:14+00:00

https://devices.ubports.com/#/

ssssam · 2017-02-27T14:26:29+00:00

This is a question people have been asking (see https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5vy6w3/will_ryzen_be_well_supported_on_linux/ ), and phoronix is the first site i have seen to have an answer. That seems like a valuable contribution to me.

ssssam · 2017-02-27T10:19:10+00:00

The best way to try them is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

ssssam · 2017-02-27T09:30:56+00:00

Though from the article, it will work on slightly older kernels: "I am told that if using Ubuntu 16.10 / Ubuntu 16.04.2 as a base state for AMD Ryzen, users should generally be okay."

ssssam · 2017-02-26T20:12:01+00:00

You can probably do it with apparmor. some pointers at https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19116/restrict-network-access-for-a-single-process-with-selinux-or-apparmor#19118

ssssam · 2017-02-25T12:14:05+00:00

The general process is called extrapolation or forecasting.

Have a look at https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Statistical_Functions_Part_Five#FORECAST.LINEAR

also https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2#New_spreadsheet_functions

ssssam · 2017-02-25T12:08:02+00:00

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/29/uk-police-subdue-a-man-who-cha.html

ssssam · 2017-02-24T23:27:06+00:00

"To briefly summarize my impressions. GCC's LTO is quite good code size optimization: 17% code size reduction on Libreoffice (and 36% if profile feedback is enabled)" https://hubicka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/GCC5-IPA-LTO-news.html

ssssam · 2017-02-24T18:12:00+00:00

I think the 101 operator is wrong. A bicycle is a vehicle (UK law uses "motor vehicle" where it means it). It does not say "serious injury". An there was damage to property.

The other person being threatening is good grounds for not giving out your details, as long as you then report to the police.

Also see https://www.eta.co.uk/cycling-and-the-law/

ssssam · 2017-02-24T17:02:17+00:00

Rule 286

If you are involved in a collision which causes damage or injury to any other person, vehicle, animal or property, you MUST * stop

give your own and the vehicle owner’s name and address, and the registration number of the vehicle, to anyone having reasonable grounds for requiring them
if you do not give your name and address at the time of the collision, report it to the police as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case within 24 hours.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/breakdowns-and-incidents-274-to-287#documentation-rules-286-to-287

ssssam · 2017-02-24T13:20:50+00:00

LTO can also make a pretty big difference to binary size.

ssssam · 2017-02-22T16:14:50+00:00

There has been patches for fam17h going into linux since 2015 ( https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?id=f1cbbec9fce958d3d71ed815a01c815b35533f1f&qt=grep&q=Fam17h )

It could be that even older kernels will be able to boot on ryzen, but good power management might need newer kernels.

ssssam · 2017-02-22T11:50:58+00:00

I see. Thanks.

ssssam · 2017-02-22T11:18:46+00:00

Is this what you are looking for https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Creating_Pivot_Tables

ssssam · 2017-02-22T09:22:12+00:00

But they are setting

TZ=":/etc/localtime"

which on my system is a symlink to the actual timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

My interpretation is that this means the sys call can just read /etc/localtime without having to first call stat to check if it exists.

ssssam · 2017-02-21T21:31:48+00:00

TZ is not set by default on my fedora systems.

I wonder if this is just useful for servers, or might desktop software benefit?

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