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[jedidia]

Freefall bringing it to the point yet again:

I love this guy's writing...

 

[jedidia]

Huh, it looks like Microsoft fixed a bug that had the keyboard layout reset to default after entering a wrong password. I wonder how bored they must be for something like that not being irrecoverably burried under megatons of backlog. Probably just a side effect of something else they fixed...

 

[Linguofreak]

Huh, it looks like Microsoft fixed a bug that had the keyboard layout reset to default after entering a wrong password. I wonder how bored they must be for something like that not being irrecoverably burried under megatons of backlog. Probably just a side effect of something else they fixed...

I imagine you had a few people that were submitting a lot of bugs about how their password was only being accepted intermittently.

Although actually I wonder: was it really a bug? What layout do you want to use in that situation? What if the user has forgotten which layout they were using?

 

[jedidia]

Although actually I wonder: was it really a bug? What layout do you want to use in that situation? What if the user has forgotten which layout they were using?

It looks like they actually fixed something different. My regional settings are all UK, while my keyboard layout is Swiss. But windows always booted with the regional default layout, so before entering my password, I had to switch the layout. If I got it wrong, the layout would be back to UK again. It now looks like the default keyboard layout is loaded immiediately, no matter the regional setting (I just didn't notice it the first time around, only that it stayed on swiss german after I accidentally entered my linux password). That might have gotten a little higher on the priority list...

 

[Artlav]

Given that a large fraction of their customer base got keyboards that look like this, and that switching layout determines which letters are active, i would expect them to have quite a pile of bug reports.

 

[Matias Saibene]

I'm not sure I'm posting this question here, but I didn't want to disturb the G42-200 development thread.

Can fuel consumption be disabled on the G42-200 completely? Or is it a compilation/programming thing?
I mean disable APU fuel, oxygen, RCS fuel, and main engine fuel. I know this is a silly question, but I like to fly on minimal fuel and fuel consumption turned off (low weight + infinite fuel = incredible speed and range).

Thanks in advance, and thank you Moach and Abdullah Radwan for developing the G42-200, it is a beautiful spaceplane.

 

[Linguofreak]

Given that a large fraction of their customer base got keyboards that look like this, and that switching layout determines which letters are active, i would expect them to have quite a pile of bug reports.

It's very likely that an even larger fraction of their userbase has keyboards only marked for one layout, but uses multiple layouts.

Switching between German and English yaps zou with some verz, verz sneakz gotchas

 

[Notebook]

Why didn't they just keep quiet? It will all be true someday.

Radio France Internationale publishes obituaries of people still alive

Public radio station RFI says a "technical problem" meant the obituaries were published prematurely.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Marijn]

German pilot crash site Hoonhorst (Dalfsen, NL) identified

Thanks to a recognition plate, the identity of the fallen German pilot has been revealed. It is the 20-year-old Unteroffizier Otto Tillack. His Messerschmitt Bf 109 G6 fighter plane was salvaged last week.

Tillack took off from Volkel air base on January 30 1944 with his Messerschmitt with code 'Schwarze 10'. The aircraft disappeared during fierce dogfights with Allied aircraft in the vicinity of Zwolle. He was reported missing in action.

The aircraft crashed around 1:30 pm in a meadow near Dalfsen. Due to the high speed, the aircraft bore deep into the ground. Only part of the tail was still sticking out. This part was removed by German troops shortly after the crash.

Dorus, the oldest resident of Hoonhorst, aged 100 now but 24 back then, saw it crash. His eyesight isn't very good anymore but his memory is still clear. While holding a piece of the propellor blade, he tells the story: 'It was a cloudy and rainy day. I was at the back of the house because there were many American planes overhead. You did hear the planes. Then I did hear the guns firing. Then a shrieking howl. Suddenly it appeared out of the clouds. But not very steep. It did somewhat glide. But it didn't look like control inputs were given. I think the pilot was dead already'.

Tracing next of kin

The German authorities have been informed. When the investigations have been completed, the remains will be brought to the German military cemetery Ysselsteyn in Limburg. This is done in collaboration with the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräber Fürsorge. To this end, an attempt is made to trace Tillack's relatives.

Otto Tillack:

https://www.defensie.nl/binaries/medium/content/gallery/defensie/content-afbeeldingen/actueel/nieuws/2020/11/11/uffz.-otto-tillack-8.jg-1.jpg

National program salvage aircraft wrecks

There are about 30 to 50 aircraft wrecks from WOII in the Dutch soil, likely with human remains still on board. The National Aircraft Wreck Salvage Program was launched in 2019. The purpose of this program is to give a grave to missing pilots and to give their relatives certainty about their fate. Some allied aircraft with human remains have already been recovered. Tillack's aircraft is the 1st German plane addressed by the program.

 

[Fabri91]

So, while upgrading from my trusty system I decided to go the SFF route, since it turns out that PCs don't need to be giant monoliths straight out of 2001, with the goal of keeping as many parts from my previous build as possible, so that I can continue to claim to have been using the same PC for 15 years, much like Gimli’s axe or the ship belonging to some guy named Theseus.


In the end I wanted to keep the following components:

• Corsair HX620 ATX PSU
• Optical drive for the odd Blu-Ray rip
• 2.5-ish slot ASUS RTX 2060 Super
• Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm tower cooler
• Storage devices

In the end, the only case I really liked that fit the bill was Silverstone’s recently announced SUGO 14: especially the requirement for a 5.25" drive bay really slimmed down the available selection.


The final build comprises these components (in bold new additions specifically for this build):

• Case: Silversone SUGO 14
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
• GPU: ASUS RTX 2060 Super Dual OC
• MB: ASUS Strix B550-I Gaming
• RAM: 32GB (2x 16GB) 3600MHz Corsair
• Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2
• Fans: 2x Noctua NF-A12-15 low-profile PWM fans
• Boot SSD: Samsung 850 Evo M.2 SATA
• SSD: Crucial MX500 500GB SATA
• SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250GB SATA
• HDD: WD Green 3TB SATA
• ODD: LG Blu-Ray reader-writer

Old and new:




Regarding the low-profile fans, the one in the rear (exhaust) was needed only due to Noctua’s metal clips extending slightly further out compared to the cooler width, which by itself fit juuuust right (1-1.5mm space) with a standard-width 25mm rear fan, while the side-intake fan is required to with any tower cooler.


Additionally, while the case’s manual mentions a low height limit for the cooler if a 3.5" drive is to be installed in the rear-most position, a “proper” tower cooler can fit, if it’s rotated 90°, as can be seen here:

 

[Artlav]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Ohhh, you can get the unobtanium already?

 

[Fabri91]

I got lucky and snagged one on the 6th (one day after launch) at a a German retailer for close-enough to list price.

There doesn't seem to be stock anywhere right now.

 

[Artlav]

Nice.

I do like the idea of having a compact PC, and built one several years ago.
Initially i just wanted something i could put into a backpack since i was moving around between places often, but then stayed around for the neatness of it.

Core i7-8700K, 32Gb of RAM, GTX 1070 Ti, 512Gb 960 EVO SSD, Noctua HN-L9i

I got a better case for it since then (A4-SFX v3), but the guts haven't changed and so far i'm yet to get into a game it would struggle with.

 

[GLS]

There is always the alternative to go "full Russia"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1330785043657187328

 

[Linguofreak]

But monoliths from 2001 have soooooo much space inside (it's full of stars!) that working inside them is pure joy. The only thing I regret with mine is going for a case with a black interior, which turned out to have more of an influence on how easy it was to see what I was doing than I expected.

EDIT: I very nearly named my machine "monolith", but decided to go for
a Tolkien theme and chose "orthanc" instead (big black tower). A few years later, I ran across someone on the web that had the same case and did go for monolith. My two retrogaming machines are "methuselah" (old) and "cirdan" (ancient). Two emulated PDP-11s on my PiDP-11 are "sirion" and "anduin". My GPS timeserver is "cuckooclock".

 

[Artlav]

Hm, i wonder why some people name their systems while other people number them.

 

[Urwumpe]

Hm, i wonder why some people name their systems while other people number them.

Maybe because the number of sensible names is smaller than the number of possible natural numbers?

 

[Linguofreak]

Hm, i wonder why some people name their systems while other people number them.

For small numbers of machines, names are easier to remember. For large numbers, it's hard to think up a unique name for every system.

 

[Notebook]

"It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.

Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert - BBC News

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Does it look as if it were deliberately buried?