Posts by D@v3

Re: SonicStage

I think part of the reason i have never been too bothered by the 'awfulness' of iTunes, is because i am aware first hand of how atrocious SonicStage was.

VAIO

Sony used to make some wonderfully unusual computers didn't they. Does anyone still make 'interesting' laptops, or are they all just focused on making MacBook Air clones?

overnight

I tend not to charge mine overnight as it only takes an hour or so from near dead, and i could be wrong, but i feel that leaving a fully charged phone, on charge for several hours is likely to do it less good than just charging it for half an hour or so in the car to and from work.

Re: Huge updates...and how much free disk space it expects when installing those updates.

quite a problem with updates for watchOS. Capacity on my series 3 is 4.8 GB, apparently, i have 0 bytes free. New update is 135 MB, so that is going to mean taking all the music off which takes ages, don't have any apps installed that i can remove, install the update and then put some of the music back on, which again, takes ages.

Her indoors has just brought a series 5 which has considerably more storage, but has an original SE, so faces similar problems any time an iOS update turns up.

Re: stability

Really?

We have gone up from about 20 a day, to around 60 users a day with all this lockdown nonsense, and apart from spinning up a couple of extra VM's to cope with the load, haven't seen any problems.

Black Mesa

Are a bunch of hacks.

Give me Aperture Science, or give me death. (or most likely both)

Re: EasyJet password policy

also limits certain 'special' characters

Re: X Æ A-12

Or

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

Re: 'Pointless' is OK,...

something tells me you'd be a fan of Only Connect.

Re: Zoom

We use zoom at work in the conference rooms, it's really not that bad at all.

It's been quite nice when friends have been moaning about Skype and Teams, being able to say to them, 'yeah, have you tried Zoom?'

Deep fried Creme Egg

Had one once, never again. It was amazing.

Re: location

and perhaps a W3W address?

Re: vtcoder

because glancing at information on a display, or looking in a mirror is not the same as playing angry birds, or sending a text or whatever.

Re: I hope he wins ...

Something tells me, if he is the kind of person that has (had) BTC 24m, that he probably has a lawyer or two at his disposal as well.

That's not to say that The Big Guys won't win in the end, just that it might be a slightly more 'balanced' fight than it would be if it were you or I.

Re: 7110

Had a spring loaded slide, was great fun, til it stopped working.

There was also one of the smaller nokias that had a button on each side, that when pressed the main body of the phone would 'rise' out of the lower part of the phone, slowly.

Re: Incorrect Data

But surely in those situations, the Data itself is still correct, just within very specific and undesired conditions.

(yes i'm serious, sorry i called you Shirley)

Re: How to silence the idiots...

I love the smell of burning idiots in the morning, smells like...victory

changing font

How about a font that changes dynamically, like Rorschach's mask?

@Giles

While i don't disagree with the approach, i hate to break it to you, but removing something from the box won't have any impact on the price

Re: Options

Thanks to both for suggestions. I will check 'em out

Re: Americans are so polite

Looking at the map on that link, i'm having a hard time trying to work out which bit he has blocked.

There seem to be a fair number of buildings down, very close to the beach, on what appears to be a public road.

If it was the house, up by the 'Martins Beach Parking Lot', and then that road led directly to the beach, i could see how their might be a problem. I just can't work out how any one of those many beach front properties would be able to block public access.

Forced re-boot

I have an option that says "Restart this device as soon as possible when a restart is required to install an update...." which is switched off. I still come into work once or twice a month to find my PC has restarted over night due to updates.

You can set 'Active hours' during which "...we wont automatically restart..." but that can't be more than 18 hours. Funny that.

(i guess maybe the answer is to set your active hours as between when you usually leave work, and usually arrive, in the hopes that while you are actually present and using it, it wont restart.....)

Re: What more could Apple do?

The way that i see it, in this case, there is no more that Apple can do, because (as you say) they DONT have the keys.

However, (again, just the way that i see it) what is happening here is the Feds are laying groundwork so that they can say

'This keeps happening, and you try to help, but CANT, so, how about, when you release iOS14, you slip in a little bit of code which will allow you to help, WHEN this happens again, which we both know it will'

Re: The problem with wireless charging

is that you have the same number of wires as you had before, just permanently attached to another gadget

Re: Consumer hardware

I get routinely freaked out by the fact that i have a number of 'spare' 128gb USB sticks. The other day I had to carry 8tb of HDD from our small onsite fire safe, to our considerably larger offsite filing cabinet. It made me a little uncomfortable. And don't even get me started on MicroSD cards.

Re: " 'desktop-level' performance"

I had an idea, probably some 20 odd years ago when i was barely out of short trousers and not long after i had just started using computers at school. This idea, seemed very sensible and inevitable and it was that in the future, you would be able to carry an item with you, about the size of a deck of cards, that you could plug into any 'computer' to make it 'your' computer (files, applications settings etc..)

Now, we have phones that are easily as powerful as computers were ' a few years ago' with more than enough storage, and inputs/outputs like USBC that would happily allow you to connect it to a KVM, but despite it being done (what ever the windows phone and android efforts were called), it hasn't really taken off.

Re: SimonC

it's like being a vegan, but on the internet.

@stoneshop

If you collect one of the robots from the store, will you have to assemble it when you get home? If so, do you think there will be a robot available to help?

Re: "Star Wars" films

My understanding is that is true, in as much as Rogue One and Solo were not "Star Wars" films.

Re: On-call???

@big_D

My approach has generally been a 1/2 day toil call out fee, then a 1.5:1 toil:worked hours. Usually works out as more than a few hours of work (and travel) gives a day off. Might not be official, but things are generally relaxed enough around here for it not to have been flagged. (helps everyone involved that it is not a regular occurrence).

Re: John Robson

In my case, my 10 mile commute becomes an hours cycle (I've done it), down national speed limit roads, or through a forest, (with a predominantly sharp flint floor and very few paths), both routes have lots of hills up and down.

Public transport would be at least 2 trains, (1 into London, change lines one back out) half hour walk to the nearest station, through said forest, and then another half hour from the station nearest to work, which buses do not go from - to the town in which i work.

I am considering an e-bike when the weather improves, but at the moment it's either half an hour in the car, or a couple of hours by public transport.

I would be quite happy with an electric car, having recently acquired a private parking space next to my house. It would handle most of the driving i do with no issue, and have no real problem with stopping for half an hour when making longer journeys. They thing that is putting me off at the moment is the initial outlay.

Re: Baldrickk

Reminds me of someone trying to describe a touch screen 'press' as a 'zero length swipe'

(I believe it was Apple, trying to patent swipes (or something like that) and arguing that presses were included because .....)

Re: They call that smart ?

how about a sensor that tells you when you have left a scrunched up piece of paper in a pocket when you try to put something in the wash.

@AC. You got in there before i had a chance to submit.