Posts by Dave 15

We should ditch SLL US dhit

All operating systems, machines, compilers, silicon, everything, the USA is not just unreliable it is actively hostile

Spiteful

The yanks ban on it was out of spite because their own supersonic passenger plane failed totally. The spiteful nature of the USA clearly hasn't changed

Symbian

Symbian was a successful operating system born from Psion and perfect for low powered and embedded devices. Many built in features making it safer as well as lower cost in terms of processor and battery requirements. It would not be impossible to reopen this, the code still exists and documentation as well.

Most importantly it isn't full of half hidden back doors for the USA to use when they want to stop the European military defending itself (or allies like Canada) against Putin's puppet. Even better it has far less unbelievable security holes than windoze

Move away from toxic USA

The USA has shown itself without any doubt at all to be an unreliable and aggressive pile of arseholes. Buying their software, their computers, their cloud and their weapons is clearly a total and utter mistake. FFKS north Korea at least shows consistency. Resserect Symbian, it's not hard to do, get arm back I to European ownership, build factories and steel mills etc and to hell with the global climate change warming disaster myth and let's protect ourselves against the triple threat, china, Russia and the USA, all 3 should be considered real enemies.

Too much

C++ seems to have become a melting pot for every idea from every other software language in the known universe. Every year yet another update e arrives with yet another idea or ten. You can't efficiently shield programmers from making mistakes, sometimes serious ones. The extra code required to shield someone from using freed memory is non trivial and just makes software slower. The use of static analysis should be top of the list for serious engineers, work out whether your code is right at the time of writing don't try and prevent it going wrong when running .. at best it will cause an error for the user when you haven't tested the flow through the broken part, God knows what will happen when it is caught. The language is far too complex now

Rot

C++ is not a extension to C, sadly it has become a jack of all trades trying to include everything from every language ever created. Yes you can screw up memory management in C, you can even use pointers badly and trample things. However it is a very efficient language and when I started my 6mhz computer would start in under a minute to something I could actually use, my current upteen GHz laptop running Linux takes 5 minutes, windows is half a year. If you can't do your job properly and deal with pointers and memory then go and find a job shovelling shit which is where you should be. There are a myriad of static analysis and related tools to help if you occasionally make mistakes.

What about

What about the explosion reported briefly by some in a USA ammo works and the one in the UK, both clearly russian but no o e seems to acknowledge we are in world war 3 and should be worrying about buying planes, guns, ships, tanks shells and bullets not compensating women apparently too stupid to read the news as I, a male, did when I knew all about the women's pension age increase

iBrowsers or webpages?

I am pretty sure the fact those pathetic block the whole screen with a bit accept button and allow a 3400 click system to say no to cookies is a feature of the website not the browser you use because its the same on all browsers. The companies with websites like it should be fined hugely, banned until they have fixed ti

its all bullshit

Several things make it bullshit

First the country is not rife with billions of kiddy fiddlers all chatting via social media apps about what they are doing to someones kids.

Second when there is evidence of grooming and other unpleasant behaviours it is ignored - plenty of cases of that with media celebrities, politicians, rich and famous, members of the church and it seems maybe even royalty, sort those out with the evidence that is there rather than taking a tilt at imagined windmills

Third the security services are there to protect the UK, they would be better off sorting out what is going on in russia and china and making it clear to our bone headed politicians that while china and russia are both massively rearming and invading other countries it is not a good idea to further cut our puny military, not a good idea to make us more and more dependent on imported technology and equipment - particularly from china, taiwan, usa. It is also not a good idea to be exporting kit to russia that is directly used in their drones to destroy kit we have sent to ukraine.

These people are there to protect us, until they are seen to do that job with the information that is freely to hand then giving them more ability to snoop on the innocent is just not required.

very sad

Its come to pass that 'da management' want cheap people making mistakes the rest of us learnt to avoid 20 or more years ago rather than paying for experience.

shock eh

Then of course there are russian 'members of parliament' (or put another way paid sham merchants) who have stated publicly on video that Ukraine should cease to exist, Ukrainians should cease to exist and it should be expunged from history (I guess including the part where russia tried to starve the entire population to death after ww2)

Having been banned from linked in and quora for pointing this out and even for them pointing to the video on youtube I wonder how long before I am banned here.

district heating?

How many megawatts of energy are being wasted here? Surely we can use it to heat homes, or factories, or any number of things

Got to be good

Mind, I upgraded my old windows machines to linux last year, great success, they all now work!

Need to upgrade my wifes old window laptop as well... Microsoft inflicted an update on it and now it takes at least 20 minutes to boot and another 30 to load youtube... the only use for it anyway given that it only has 32gm ram.

I will upgrade that to mint and it will suddenly become useful as a computer, not the doorstop Microsofts updates made it.

Time for Microsoft to quite the PC software space as they have clearly lost the plot.

When I used to work for them they actually used their own shit... I guess they dont any more.

inept county council... what a shock

Bet the supplier isnt even a UK based one

If the supplier has agreed to produce functionality A by time B and failed why the hell is extra money being paid? The council should (if the contract was properly negotiated) be getting a compensation payment. If the council cant make up its mind about functionality then it is reasonable to accept an increased cost for your lack of clarity but again that is piss poor management starting with clearly failing to get the requirements right.

If this is a t&m contract then again we are in the realms of what richard cranium at the council thought this was ok?

Check out

Check out on youtube the interview by NBC of Putin, the interviewer way out of his depth, also look into John Mearsheimer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4) and Potsnam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ) all of which give a somewhat different slant on what is happening. Basically it appears the USA has been throwing its weight around, breaking promises and keeping quiet about a lot that is wrong on its side. For example how well has it published exercises taking place in Alaska, right on the Russian border? What about the USA behaviour when a country (Cuba) wanted some Russian presence on ts soil? Compare that with the current state when the USA wants an excuse to put troops and missiles actually on the border of Russia. What would the USA do if Canada or Mexico formed a military alliance with Russia? Or even Brazil?

Lets stop messing around shall we?

Every person must have a government approved and employed political commissar sitting on their shoulder at ALL times (awake, asleep, on the loo, having sex, where ever and when ever) to ensure they do not say or do anything that isnt government approved. Any misbehaviour will first result in a severe beating followed by a long period in room 101 to adjust back to behaving.

The government will control all sources of information - news, internet, and even speech - to ensure you get only he information that is government approved as correct.

What they really mean

Is that there have been a number of accidents created by badly written and designed systems at least as embarrassing as the mess Tesla is using and they dont want the humiliation to be out there

Even if he is as guilty as hell..

We should stop sending people to the yanks, they have no idea of justice and their citizens are allowed to slaughter people on our roads and run away to avoid justice here. So what if a few yanks lost some cash, it was stolen from the British empire in the last two wars anyway. Stop thinking the yanks are our friends, look at steel tariffs, look at the way they refused to share the nnuclear stuff with the people that helped them create it, look at the IRA, Suez and all the rest, the yanks hate us except when they need our help to spread their poison around the world

The UK is failing

We have people that design chips the world uses then we outsource making them. How totally stupid. We rely on chips in everything so it is a strategic blunder to outsource, same as it is a strategic blunder not to be able to produce steel, aluminium, nylon and all manner of other useful materials on UK soil. That we dont have to would be a relief, but that we cant is a danger.

Last update wrecked so much

I am down to one windows machine largely because it's so fatally wounded by the last update it's now in use as a door wedge. Others were converted to Linux of different flavours so they work

Austin Cambridge

Lovely cars, would have had a dynamo though. Only ever had one car short-circuit and that was my own fault for having wired the radio in without having bolted it properly in place...

Mind at least the Cambridge probably had negative earth making fitting radios easier than in my older less rusty positive earth Morris cars