Posts by Sam Liddicott

Re: The SFC can kiss my taint...

So that those who care about copyright and/or respect the law can also have nice things.

(A license is permission).

Re: 100% honesty 90% of the time

and modulate it

Re: Proppa language bruv

Where do you place ASCII with C?

Re: A Matter of Trust

True dat!

Too many people feel the need to come to a premature conclusion, and get very choppy with Occam's razor to help them do it.

They consider that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and then chop away, not thinking of the extraordinary value that they might be chopping away for want of a little patience.

Re: They're all the same speed

speed means data rate in this conversation.

The DSL data rate need not be related to the peering data rate, and on a badly managed ISP may be much less

In a similar way, a 5 lane driveway between the front door and road won't reduce your journey time to the Sainsbury's even though the 5 line driveway is in your control.

Re: What we need

> And only putting three registers on the 6502 was just dumbfuckery of the highest order.

> Shame on Peddle!

Once we decide something is not worth knowing about, we lose the opportunity to find out we are wrong.

I used to have that view, but years later found out that 6502 page zero access was treated specially and very fast, effectively giving another 256 registers.

Re: Never!

> NAT is *not* a security feature!

and yet it successfully prevents unwanted external access for so many users, while permitting desired external access through uPNP and NAT helpers.

Have you tried pushing an unexpected connection through a NAT router?

Re: Groupwise

Despite the Precedence: junk

header that Unix systems had been using for years.

At one point British Telecom called # "gate" much to the bafflement of every single one of their customers.

Re: Paranoia and hot pockets

I hope you start writing for el Reg -- I mean not just in the comments section

Re: Wouldn't it be nice ..

the case -- that makes your phone really thick again but without increasing the battery life.

Why don't they attach a flip front cover to the battery case which is thicker because it has more battery?

Re: What do people want in a smartwatch?

"tells the time" <-- wooden bobbins, I tells ya!

My list is:

* time-travels you to whatever time you want it to be -- never be late again!

* charges "Instantly" by time-travelling after charging back to the point at which it need charging

* split-time heirloom mode where on the death of the first heir it time-travels back to be inherited by the second heir (using the diagonal slash rule to cope with any number of heirs and sub-heirs).

* time travel shopping - buy a holographic anti-gravity translator combination from etsy-bay in future end-of-line close-out sales at bargain prices

Re: Storm in a teacup

Devuan is here, get over it.

Re: "Don't talk to the ATM..."

"Perform a U-turn where possible"

Not unless you say please

Re: Qi Charging

I haven't found a better value phone since my Elephone P9000.

As you say it's usually wireless charging missing, and it's a must.

Re: Well...

For those who want to try it: Lazarus-ide using FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Re: No Google?

Is it a phone, though?

Re: 21st century update of an old saying ...

such warnings by you and/or others influenced me to stay my hand.

Thanks

Re: Too many dependencies.

For your boss, and your replacement, your code is someone else's code, and they worry about it.

Re: Could this explain why

If you want to date yourself you need time travel.

Or a mirror.

Re: deja vu

I've tried to return "NFF" hardare before.

I've been successful with the demand: If you think it works, then sell it to someone else, but give me a different one.

I need to apologise to the someone else.

Sorry.

Re: This is a genuine question to all software devlopers...

Supply and demand. People install software with known bugs.

There is no value in being more picky than your users. Give them the choice.

I guess the users that care will consider if the way in which the known bug might affect them is worse than the benefits (and fixes) in the new release.

I guess my server doesn't care if there is a V4Linux regression.

Re: Izal

When we ran out of tracing paper, I offered to fetch some as I knew were it was.

My teacher was very pleased with the supply I brought, until he heard I got it from the toilets.

Obviously they had high-class tissue in the staff toilets.

The pupil toilets were old stables or milking stalls or something like that.

Re: zx80

"sinclair wanted to make the computer really cheap"

Also likely true of those who bought it over more expensive options like the PET Commodore which didn't flicker like that.

Re: We passed the infinite monkey stage a long while ago

Only for very very long keys. As the key is re-used, it is unlikely to keep generating normal-looking text unless it was the right key. But sure, for a block the size of the key length you can come up with a key to generate any text you want.

So maybe, for an alibi for the innocent, make sure your message is longer than the key length.

On the other hand, for an alibi for the guilty, make sure your message is shorter than the key length and after the key length pad out with gibberish.

Maybe even have a "wrong" key which reveals the right message + gibberish and the right key reveals an entire other message and no gibberish.

Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about

Apart from LOTR which 4K streamed TV movies were shot at more than 24 fps?

Why insist on repeating 24fps frames to the TV 60hz?

Re: it means you can't code against some library without permission from the copyright holder

It's how the GPL is intended to work, but plenty of lawyers and GPL fans think that it has no force there.

Just because some hopefuls intend it to work that way doesn't mean it does work that way.

Re: (de-)Training ...

The co-op bank did this to me.

They could not comprehend that repeatedly re-assuring me that they were from the bank was as useless as it was easy.

I called them back, on a published number, got through to the extension of the person calling me, only to be told:

We just wanted you to know that know we have merged

with CIS we have a wider range of financial products available...

aggghhh

Re: RIP Hotomi! We hardly knew ye.

What are 3/8 shifts?

Just less than half a shift?

Three eight hour shifts?

Three days on, five days off?

Re: null output

Real life is indistinguishable from satire.

Re: Init freedom

I also regularly give a pittance to Devuan. It all adds up to the cost of a Windows DVD, so I'm glad they are succeeding.

Re: Could we fucking kill it already?

or buy yourself an SLA

Re: Priorities?

"systemd will have it's own word processor soon"

Systemd could well be the decent text editor that the Emacs operating system has been waiting for

Re: Open/Closed

agreement of a lunatic is not a condition of use

Re: Great looking but...

As long as everyone doesn't buy an electric car on the same day, they might have time to convert