Posts by Steve Aubrey

Real programmers can change the value of 4. In FORTRAN. Unfortunately, not a joke.

Veni, vidi, visa. I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.

Re: Doh..

Clicking that twice gives you the Australian version of the software.

Re: What we really <chirp> need........

That happened once in my apartment - soon after I left for the weekend. I was the recipient of significant grumpiness from fellow apartment dwellers for the next week or so . . .

Re: Every office has one.

Borrowed:

"Every time you correct my grammar, I love you a little bit fewer"

New name for a bug

"Unintended Feature Experience" - UFE.

Pronounced "oooof"'

Oooooh, nice. I sadly sold my OSI C1P (with the upgrade to 8K). Still miss it, but prolly wouldn't use it if I had it.

Buuuuut - who do they resign to ?

Re: Erm

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Re: Really??

But whatever includes the name is atomic. The *list* of names is not atomic.

The PNG from the original problem is atomic.

Re: Google issued a fix for CVE-2023-24033 affecting Pixel devices in its March security update.

If you have a supported Pixel phone, they are supposed to give it to you when you ask. Settings | System | System update | Check for update. Now I did hear that the 6/6a updates were running late, so, as always, YMMV.

Re: Ouch

"old Ethernet cables" - man, are we living on internet time or what? So token-ring will be pre-history? Reminds me of:

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network all those centuries ago.

Not to be outdone by the French, English scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters and shortly after headlines in the U.K. newspapers read: "English archeologists have found traces of 2,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the French."

One week later, Israeli newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 50 meters in a Jerusalem marketplace, scientists had found absolutely nothing. They, therefore, concluded that 5,000 years ago Jews were already using wireless technology."

Re: Trust wallet think they know how it happened now

From the comments to the 17-part tweet: "With all due respect, you did not explain what happened but repeated the narrative."

And I'd agree.

Re: Existing Computerized System (Subcontracted?) Already Error-filled

Oh, AC, I think you had the wrong part changed. You should have had the inspector transform the sedan into a Z-car. Worst case, you could have sold it (after a little speed run somewhere) and had some petrol money for the sedan you subsequently purchased.

Re: Are you ok?

Possibly extracted from https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbons-isyoursonacomputerhacker.html - from 2001.

Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

"Shakespeare wasn't written by Shakespeare. It was written by somebody else named Shakespeare."

Re: Fired...

I heard of a company who staged a fire drill. Once everybody was in the parking lot, the sheep were separated from the goats. Those being dismissed were escorted in to pick up their belongings.

That's evil.

Re: Semantic alert

"The cigars were destroyed in a series of small fires"

Re: Step outside

Because they're blind?

Re: Nobody told me I wasn't allowed to do it.

Absolute gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baY3SaIhfl0 (one minute)

Selective archiving

"tossing my old Creative Computing magazines"

When I last moved, I downsized my PC Magazine collection, keeping only the January issue of each year, for just this reason. Can't justify keeping everything, can't stand losing everything.

Re: "first read the fine forum thread until the end"

Stolen - thanks!

Re: Temporary hacks aren't.

Jake's contribution was a fact, not a denial. 8 years ain't nothing to a time traveler. Just sayin' . . .

Re: For the non-programmers amongst us...

"You can write Fortran in any language . . ."