Posts by John Brown (no body)

Re: Its not Huawei we need to worry about

It would certainly demonstrate just how much various Amazon so-called subsidiaries depend on the US mothership if the .com went dark, eg tracking links, telemetry etc.

Re: Eh...

One that fits in your pocket, or something else?

Nah, SuperASCIIanimation!!

Re: Boo-hoo what a shame

"One less useless piece of "street furniture" spewing adverts at your face as you try to make your way down an already busy pavement."

On the other hand, one of the primary objections seems to be that nefarious souls could make anonymous calls for nefarious reasons. But that also applies to existing phone boxes, so is this a new reason for BT to remove the remaining ones?

Re: Planning

A PIII Xeon at 933MHz. Or, if it was late 2000, a P4 at 1.5GHz for bleeding edge, which is unlikely for a local Council.

Re: What Ails you?

There's also an instance of Saunders-Roe almost immediately followed by an instance of Sanders-Row. But the Tips and Corrections doesn't work on this laptop. I don't have an email client on it.

MENU.BAT

A home brewed batch file to copy over the relevant CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT then reboot for the relevant needs of the moment.

Eventually, DOS and/or various addons caught up and allowed menu choices within the CONFIG.SYS file itself.

Re: 7 what?

Out of curiosity, which 10+ year old version of Linux are you using that still gets security patches?

Speaking as a FreeBSD user here, currently on 11, looking at upgrading to 12, having started on 4.3R.

If you mean an orbit to orbit vehicle, then yes. But they still need to launch fuel tankers

Re: To be fair

"but it does smell nicer than it tastes "

That does seem to be true of supermarket "every day" bacon, especially the unsmoked variety. If you go for the higher priced better stuff, or better yet go to a decent butcher, then bacon usually tastes as good as it smells.

I'll not mention the argument about red or brown sauce though. Oops!

Re: Appearance of impropriety

Oh, ok. I'd best go back to using UK of GB & NI then :-)

I recently did compulsory survey from my employer about desks, chairs, screens, keyboards etc. There was no "not applicable" option and I'm not office based so pretty much no questions applied to me. But then these sorts of things are created by office based people and since they never see us remote people, we don't exist but are still on the mailing lists.

Re: Canada!

There's still a court case to come, and if found guilty, an actual sentence,

Re: Spaceway-1

Maybe when it was launched the fuel reserve might have been calculated to last significantly longer than it's initial intended life span, but since then, new regulations on moving "dead" sats out of orbit mean it must be moved now while there enough fuel to move it to a safe orbit. It was launched 15 years ago and probably designed and specified at least 5 years prior to that when there was probably a lot less concern about what happens to expired sats.

Although I agree with your sentiment, because like most readers here I have at least a basic understanding of statistics and a reasonable understanding of the state of facial recognition technology, I suspect the majority of the population have little idea about either and thing what they see in TV crime shows is all true and therefore this is a "good" thing "because it'll help catch criminals, innit"

Re: We should just all use SCART

"what of the manufacturer who makes a properly sealed, fully waterproof device"

Why do you assume that having an external connection socket stops a device from being fully waterproof?

Re: Landlord's daughter didn't believe in protection

Nah, protection is vital or it could end up in some very expensive maintenance!!

Re: We have "hero" CEOs, executives, marketdroids, sport players, singers, etc.

"The thought seems to be that you need to become a manager to get that noticeable rise in pay."

And yet in the sports and entrainment industries, the "stars" almost always earn more than their managers.

Re: No beer on the train?

"I've occasionally boarded a Friday evening train at Kings Cross and arrived ready to party in Newcastle a few hours later."

Really? You must travel very often if that occasionally happens to you. For most people, getting from Kings Cross to Newcastle in only a few hours by train is a once in a lifetime experience and very much worth celebrating!

Re: Phew!

You evil nasty person! :-)

Re: Has this ever worked?

In this case, I can't see it ending well. The so-called synergies never materialise and Xerox are funding the buy-out with debt. Loading up your purchase with debt never seems to work.

"there should be away to use a computer and not be exposed to ads."

There is. I don't really need to mention it here through. We already know.

Re: This fails to surprise me...

Not sure about anal, or if it's standard practice today, but back in the days of MS-DOS PCs and Netware servers, that was pretty much the standard practice in most places, at least from small to medium businesses that I had dealings with. Smaller one might have rolled around each month simply for cost reasons rather than keeping three months worth of backups. Either way, companys with Newtware/MSDOS networks were generaly companies who had computerised properly for the first time so usually were set up by someone who knew what they were doing and a proper backup regime was set up as part of the installation/service. Likely that 3rd party would also be doing their support and there was no one on site who understood enough to make decisions over-riding the process. Things were done because the installers had told them that's how it should be done.

Re: Energy

In a few more years, 1999 will be further back in time than they were looking forward when they made the show. And we still don't have a moonbase or Eagles.

Re: Will they replace the start-up sound as well?

I thought they did that many years ago. Evidence: Clippy.