Posts by Missing Semicolon

Re: pwgen (1) ?

To improve the word field for my battery staple generator, I downloaded a couple of books from Project Gutenberg. By using old books, the vocabulary is wider.

Re: Heh, nothing technical like news that Google has screwed itself to make me smile

I wonder of the effect is to make ad-blocking more detectable. You don't win if sites just cover up the content with an ad-blocker whinge psnel.

Re: yes ... 1000000000000000000000%

All parties. The State collectively lost it's mind.

Labour are seeing to it that self-sufficiency in food is a distant dream.

Re: Thinking about corruption

And future PMs and Chancellors getting nice clothes and holidays.

Re: Honest question

Init needed sorting out. Something like systemd v1 might have been a candidate for the representation of the init requirement. It was seen as an improvement. But now it's in, the requirements of a small set of users is driving the development, so that the rest of us keep finding stuff is surprising.

Re: "we never loaned any of our tools to any of the non-IT staff ever again"

I did rent a chainsaw once to cut down a tree. Bonus marks for the hire shop that lifted a holdall of safety gear onto the table and said "you are also hiring this".

Not being a complete numpty, i carefully examined all of the kit (gauntlets, chaps etc) and looked like a complete prune wearing it all whilst I did the job. The tree was felled onto the road, well away from our house!

Aside from the less than 100% reliability record, they had two important attributes:

• They were buttons-cheap
• Almost every computer had a slot for them

Have you noticed how hard it is to get data from one machine to another nowadays if you aren't a nerd? 2 Choices - 1) an online service that needs signups or 2) USB keys.

1) Fails the too-much faff test, and

2) Fails as you need to have one handy and you need it back as it cost you several pounds, and you have only one on you, instead of a box of 10 or a drawerful of floppies.

Re: Can it improve the Harry Potter books?

Plus books 3 onwards really needed editing. Book 1, for all it's faults, rollicked along and carried you with it. It had benefited from years of rejections, and had been honed and polished.

Subsequent books were allowed to spread to airport-novel dimensions. And the titles were a swizz! "Goblet Of Fire" was just a name-choosing machine.

Re: Hold on - something wrong here

I'm kind of liking KDE Neon. It can be set to have proper title bars WINDOW BORDERS! and stuff. If Mate has to die, this will do.

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 is Curved

Curved is the way to go! It really helps with larger screens, if your accomodation is not what it was.

Re: "Worst prank ever"?

Sign over the entrance to security at O'Hare airport. "No jokes".

Re: In the same vein.

Shops have LCD display panels to advertise their stuff. The whole thing is subscription based, so if you don't pay, the adverts for your products in your store won't appear.

Re: Lawless

The EU executive makes policy. The "parliament" merely rubber-stamps it. Who do you think has more power: Ursula, or whoever is the EU Parliament president this week?

Re: Balance? No...Do It Yourself!

You can figure it out yourself, from your Police holding cell.

Re: Interesting bit on the BBC 2 months ago

Remarkable that the Met actually followed it up. I thought they generally ignore tracking information, and just issue a crime number.

Re: Spelling errors were 1.76x more common in human PRs

But there are still symbol names. "complience", "complaince", "compliance". All in the same repo.

Re: Bear in mind. . .

But unrestricted 24 hour TV is harmful!

All those people zombied in front of the box, instead of going out and doing something, or (gasp) reading a book.