Posts by Colin Bull 1 274 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Apr 2010
You missed one of the classic games of the era - Leisure Suit Larry. The age verification was a hoot.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/917513-leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards/faqs/36594/age-questions
I have always been a fan of Mint. But time and time again I have tried to install programs and start them on boot up but have NEVER been able to understand systemd. In a previous life I would install fault tolerant systems with failover and would not been possible with systemd obsfucation. Using MX Linux now but that is riddled with systemd commands.
Wish there was a easy Rpi OS without sytemd.
When I first bought my ebike with bosch system the app was pretty good. Every 3 months or so it has an upgrade.
Every time it upgrades it reduces the benefit of the app. UNLESS you upgrade to a subscription.
I user it to monitor heart rate and physical effort.
It had an upgrade available during a ride 2 days ago. That ride and the subsequent one did not register the details. Will find out tomorrow if it works after the upgrade.
In the UK there is a complete lack of controls or enforcement of communications.
The supine telecomms regulatoriis in thrall to the telecomms industry. VOIP has been coming for over 20 years and have just tested fall back for disadvaged groups, a year after BT was supposed to phase out all landlines.
The no way of reporting attempted frauds, only actual frauds after the horse has bolted. Action fraud is only interested in gathering staticists NOT reduceing the scams and frauds.
Oftcom will wait until hundreds of thousands or millions of offences have happened before getting off the fat arses to prosecute perpetrators.
If there was a iota of interest the authorities COULD enagage and stop and discourage the bad guys but they have not got any clue about the miserly these calls are making.
I have spent a few hours with old and new versions of imager. The old one has a VERY ANNOYING nag screen multiple times to the new version. I used the old one a lot, mainly to the ease of setting up headless systems.
The new version seemed to change things for the sake of change. But ..
I came across this, that seems to answer all my prayers. https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/tree/master
Sadly I find it hard to find my way round new features
Reading the report on Vertical Bifacial panels, it is light on cost and blinds everybody on the extra efficienciest. But my O level maths work it out that the 11% to 15% extra gain is at the cost of an extra 30% in purchase price.
I could not see other extra gains but the option of sheep grazing under them that were not quantified. But I could have been bored of the graphs that could have been better summarised in a few sentences. Sometimes a picture(s) is NOT worth a thousand words.
JLR are victims of a crime? They have NO disaster backup options. Why should a manufacturing system be down for a moth or more? Replace images on a couple of hundred PCS -surely a couple of days.
No plans - no hopers.
The local Coops had empty shelves for a month. Why could they not have their suppliers repeat orders for previous months and catch up with paperwork later. The cows could not postpone their milk for a few weeks. So what happened there.
There is some confusion of this location.
If it is next to the A1 road it could be near Potters Bar. BUT if Broxbourne Council are involved it must be very close to Waltham Cross and the road adjacent is the A10 ( London to Cambridge ) not A1 (London to t'North). Only a factor of 10 out.
If only the article writer could have used Google Maps - POWERED BY AI or the better A10 RAID version.
I cannot see why it needs AI to create a query for anything in a range of 100 metres when all data is available in the GIS database.
But I am biased because I subscribe to the OS mobile app, and every time it is updated the user interface gets worse. With a 100MB connection the very small maps take an eternity to come up. Even when there is a downloaded area. When downloaded maps overlap the area is greyed out so it is almost impossible to read. Organic maps based on OSM is free is far less frustrating.
This reads like a mash up of bullshit bingo to lure the naive investors in.
Why do they need to do this?
I have a problem at the moment with multiple logins with Kobo/Rackuten where I cannot login. "A technical error". Almost a week, JUST got a support ticket number.
Cannot buy books, cannot download books. I can get in with a new login and they will transfer my 500 approx books to new login. BUT, that probably needs Adobe Digition Editions programme. I am on Linux. The programme is not available on Linux or Chromebooks. I think a few million people will get a surprise if the move over to Linux/Chromebooks.
Why is it not available for Linux when it is on MacOS? Why cannot be a browser version be available?
Doubly frustrating when all the E-readers are based ln Linux.
Their support tell me -
"But don't worry, you can still access all your purchased books on any Kobo platform without using ADE, as long as you don't need to transfer any DRM protected books". As far as I am aware ALL their purchased books are DRMed."
"We sincerely appreciate your graciousness, exceptional patience, and profound understanding."
What patience and understanding. The only understanding I have is that they have trouble with a simple login. Looks at the logs for fsake. My only saving grace is that most of my books have been Calibrated. :-)
I purchased hearing aids from Specsavers just over 4 years ago. Their franchise / parnership model is for their benefit. It hinders customer service. You cannot order consummables - if if you want pay with out a new hearing test . NO ONLINE ORDERING. Even in the pandemic. Got to go a branch. 6 weeks to get an appointment.
Their hearing aids or locked in to them. No one else can adjust them.
You are right. But in a new world where sanctions are a reaity the Europeans can squeeze the russian economy by imposing tariffs on the BRICS. It would hurt, but only for 18 months. But doing this would be have be done properly not the half arsed sanctions that have had little effect so far.
Not true.
I am fairly tech savvy. I needed to get a new laptop because the old one has a screen faulty about 3 years.
I wanted to get a fairly recent AMD processor to stop by balls burning. I hunted high and low for a laptop WITHOUT Windows. I could not get one. Dell was supposed to sell non windows machine for I spend hours on their web site and could not find one.
There IS NO way the general public can get anything BUT WINDOWS. I got a Lenovo that has soldered RAM and soldered SSD even though I did want them AND windows.
I was involved in customer support for a UK LED "manufacturer" that had problems with their off the shelf stock control system that no one foresaw because of 4 byte integers. I was once taken to task for complaining that a customer only had 12 invoices on their system for the whole year. I soon learned that they made assembly lines for car manufacturers and each invoice was for multi millions.
I understand VERY WELL the problems of CLID, that was why I was suggesting traceroute could be used instead as a definitive list of hops a call has gone through and the ability for the authorities to see where a call has be originated from. If a switchboard is originating a spoofed CLID ( that they were not untitled to) they could be taken to task and dealt with.
The present system where anyone can make voice calls with impunity has gone on too long. In my naivete I think it should be possible to chain together the hops and have some verification of the links in the chain of a VOIP call.
I also am "even though it is way WAY over my head" reader.
But i fantalise that traceroute be mandated for VOIP calls to allow a network of trusted sites ( similar to SPK DKIM for email ) to allow authorities to seek and destroy the spammers out of existence.
Please tell me it is possible.
I know the things can be fudged but that is the point of TRUSTED network nodes.
It 2020 I needed to replace the Intel lap warmer / jet engine with an AMD and non Windows laptop.
I best I could do was a Lenovo with Windows and a soldered SSD. None of the niche suppliers could get the latest AMD chips.
Still running cool, but I am worried if the SSD gives up the ghost.
Mint Cinammon or Mate is first
Ubuntu is my next choice
I have now moved to MX Linux to escape systemd - but growing up on Unix 35 years ago I feel it should be easy to add a start script but systemd is beyond me.
I have rarely to use the command line mainly to use awk.
I find a web search is easiest for most things - you get to know best sites after a while.
Trying to report a phisting scam to [email protected] today. Immediately get a error back saying the email could be a spam.
WHAT FUCKWIT DECIDED TO PUT THAT TRANSPORT RULE IN PLACE.
So I decide to try point their errors of the ways, after a dozen a so links to FAQ that are not a relevant, I get to a web page to voice my concerns that is a Microshit Report form what ever that is its. Type in my concerns, then I THAT I HAVE TO LOGIN TO A MICROSHIT account.
Is the total UK security services managed my Microshit?
Three weeks ago I attended a talk to 100 old age pensioners from the U3A from the local plod that that stated that reporting phishing scam to [email protected] wiull help stop them. If I have trouble reporting them what chance have these people got.
If there are any ACs out there that can enlighten me please do so.
Apologies for disjointed grammar after 8 weeks from a stroke, hopefully will get better after therapy next week :-)
Please, are there any ACs out there that enlighten me on what I missing.
Trying to report a phisting scam to [email protected] today. Immediately get a error back saying the email could be a spam.
WHAT FUCKWIT DECIDED TO PUT THAT TRANSPORT RULE IN PLACE.
So I decide to try point their errors of the ways, after a dozen a so links to FAQ that are not a relevant, I get to a web page to voice my concerns that is a Microshit Report form what ever that is its. Type in my concerns, then I THAT I HAVE TO LOGIN TO A MICROSHIT account.
Is the total UK security services managed my Microshit?
Three weeks ago I attended a talk to 100 old age pensioners from the U3A from the local plod that that stated that reporting phishing scam to [email protected] wiull help stop them. If I have trouble reporting them what chance have these people got.
If there are any ACs out there that can enlighten me please do so.
Apologies for disjointed grammar after 8 weeks from a stroke, hopefully will get better after therapy next week :-)
Please, are there any ACs out there that enlighten me on what I missing.
I have be trying to reduced my monthly directly debits to Octopus for about a year. They keep raising them every 6 months or so even where I have a credit about 2 months average of bill. You can change your monthly amount, but only by an amount. I have to monitor every 2 months to change amount to keep to stupid a credit limit.
There was an excellent web site called BARFFF.org I think. That discussed the merits of all the RAID offerings. Summarised RAID Five, RAID Four and RAID Fhree were bad choices.
RAID 10 is the only RAID to use.
I saw a site 25 years using RAID 5 using 4 drives and a parity drive. Every day for a week every drive fail in turn and on the 5 day the last one went and they lost all their data.
'CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE Vulnerability with a 9.8 CVSS rating.'
How can a printer daemon have a 9.8 rating. It listens, gets a bunch of data and sends it to a port. It perhaps has permissions to write to its own temp files. If it has data out of bounds it can just write an error log and abort the job.
Am i being naive?
If we had any regulators in the UK the problem could be reduced considerably.
There are systems in place to control energy brokers, but this is completly bypassed by sub-brokers from India.
TPS is beyond a joke. They have a boiler plate reply to ANY complaint that the company complained about says 'it is not us guv' and TPS says sorry to trouble you. EVEN if you have DKIM and SPF proof by email AND voice recordings, that the the scamming bastards have sent. EVEN if they have given you some one elses meter AND bank details!
And do not get me started on the private sector. Part of Trustpilot's guidlines is you must not slag any one off EVEN if they are breaking the law. If they complain about a review Trustpilot will withdraw it.
My blood pressure is to high to even contemplate the waste of space that is Ofcom.
If the ERP systems of 20 years or more ago could run on dumb terminals or web applications I do not see why the like of Delta airlines cannot move to a web based 'app' on a bog standard linux machine. And by using several flavours of linux avoid the crowdstrike syndrome of SPOF.
Most of these ERP endpoints are focused on a handful of screens. If a VT100 terminal can do it a low spec PC can too.
Here in the UK we have one of the densest population number in Europe. The last net immigration figures I have seen was 700k in a year. I calculate this to be approx 1% growth in a year. I do not think this is sustainable. We cannot build houses fast enough for this growth. I do not condone the recent violence that has been aided and abetted by the social media in the UK. But am I a racist because feel we need to resist population growth by allowing mass immigration.
The greatest single factor in the world's use of energy is population growth. This is not going to be countered by expensive smart meters that do nothing to reduce our consumption.
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