Re: To be fair
I had a lot of welding done on my car last year so needed radio code.
I could not find it, nor remember it then suddely about 1 hour later a number burst into my mind.
I entered it and got the radio.
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That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2
Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus
Friday 27th March 2020 14:12 GMT 
Borris
I hope he is OK despite being useless.
He is a bit of an idiot but better than the twat the US are lumbered with.
But more importantly his stand in is a moron.
There are a few, Grayling, Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab.
We don't want Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab in charge.
London court tells Julian Assange: No, coronavirus is not a good reason for you to be let out of prison
Cops charge prankster who 'corona-coughed' on aged officer and had it filmed
Eight-core 3.8 GHz CPU. 12 TFLOPS GPU. 1TB NVME SSD. 16GB RAM. Not a half-decent workstation, it's the new Xbox
Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean
The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP
Wednesday 11th March 2020 16:40 GMT
Re: Maybe don't use Windows?
Upper case because the APIs are done like that
Customers insist on certain environments, otherwise they go to your competitors who do.
In the real world of software your write what people want, since we were late to Windows we lost a few sales despite having better software.
And with big systems running multi million pound industries, and software always treated as the minor party there is not the money to employ vast teams of programmers.
This is just the real world.
Wednesday 11th March 2020 11:11 GMT
Re: Is this as ususal software related?
Big software systems can take a decade to rebuild, I have been here nearly 30 years and each software version environment has a life of around 15 years.
I am still doing daily development on our WIN32 system which was started quite a long time ago, the DOS16 system was developed from mid 90s to mid 2000s, and used up to about 2010. WIN32 version started when we were running on XP.
I started when the current system was CP/M.
I had to write a majority of both the DOS16 and WIN32 systems
Wednesday 11th March 2020 09:59 GMT
Is this as ususal software related?
If it won't run on newer, newer is useless.
XP was the last OS SOME of our software could run on, everything newer broke something.
Luckily Vista was so unloved that XP held on lopng enough for the WIN32 rewrite.
But we still find the odd XP and a module from our old DOS software running somewhere in the dark corners of a factory.
(Our DOS16 and WIN32 use same database server)
Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift
Thursday 5th March 2020 15:14 GMT
And a few thoughts from above comments.
Old railway lines and canals, I used to love finding them and examining them, seen such as the Coombe Hill canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Hill_Canal
https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/nature-reserves/coombe-hill-canal-and-meadows
Droitwich canal pre reopening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Canal
Always had an interest in Thames and Severn Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_and_Severn_Canal
Small streams off the Thames when I was young, explored some with a cheap old canoe (parents had a cabin cruiser) from where we moored.
Old railway lines, like Forest of Dean, managed to get my bike on a couple, but rather too bumpy for a road bike so did not do much, didn't have a traily.
As to unpaved roads, same sort of thing, I just love to be off the beaten track, still finding them, but many are not obvious, and others blocked from traffic, but I now have a 4x4 for ones I am allowed on.
Cornwall, about 25 years ago my parents won some first class train tickets and gave them to us, we went to St Ives. Managed to get to Penzance, Falmouth, Truro, Looe, by train, Newquay was closed so still need to do that branch.
Helston was really really annoying as some idiot closed the line so could not go there.
We travelled down behind a 47, through Cornwall in 158s and branches were ran by a right mix, Looe was the GWR150 117 set. Home by HST.
As Australia is gripped by bog roll shortage, tabloid says: Here, fill your dunny with us
Thursday 5th March 2020 14:55 GMT
Re: Am I missing something ?
I have started abusing them, calling them dirty bastards, they look very sheepish.
If security say anything.
"That dirty bastard didn't wash his hands after using the toilet, and now he is going to walk around the supermarket touching food people eat. People are going to eat his pee or poo."
If they tried to hit me I would not hesitate to break their kneecaps. (Stamp on them).
Microsoft's Cortana turns its back on consumers as skills are stripped from Windows 10
Surprise! Plans for a Brexit version of the EU's Galileo have been delayed
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 09:52 GMT
Re: Good
Airbus & Boeing - after the 737 Debacle?
Cars - I prefer British cars to Yank cars. I own an early 2000s British made 4x4. My previous cars have been Scottish and pan European (German French and British in one car).
Want to see horrible look at German basic level cars, I had a nice car a big saloon, large EFI engine, lots of nice stuff and it was bottom of range but did not feel it.
German version, no rev counter, small carb engine and no power steering!
If you're serious about browser privacy, you should probably pass on Edge or Yandex, claims Dublin professor
Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia
Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?
25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill
Monday 17th February 2020 15:23 GMT
Funny how so many of the Clipper tool writers went to Dephi.
I have had exposure to most of the various databases, found bugs in some, I could crash some on demand.
Was a tester for an AS400 database engine, best described as slow.
Just had three different tools up using our data.
Advantage Data Architect (part of server software in Dephi)
My own DBU (multi RDD version recompiled with Alaska XBase++into WIN32 Console)
Our own software in Visual Objects.
If I wanted I could go to an XP PC and load up our last gen software.
All playing nicely.
Sunday 16th February 2020 23:30 GMT
Re: OT
Clippers great tricks were, very basic OOP in places. Replacable Database Drivers (If you didn't use Advantage your software was born to corrupt indexes.)
I used to like the VGA mode in 5,3B and managed to make a DOS application pretty usable and good looking even in XP days.
Oh and EVERYONE had Blinker
Friday 14th February 2020 14:22 GMT
Re: not Cool
Actually it was something completely different.
MANY Delphi programmers came from the Clipper world, a big selling MSDOS database handling compiler which could handle a number of databases.
As to the replacement environment there were many.
Number one rules was - can my new development environment use the same database?
In most cases yes, but Delphi not straight away.
A large number of Clipper applications used the data formats DBF CDX FPT.
This was supported in a few other environments including Visual Objects and Alaska XBase++, Delphi used Paradox.
HOWEVER serious systems using Clipper used client server systems with Advantage XBase Server, this was a server based NLM handling the data, later on a Windows service and even more recent a Linux versions were added.
When the Advantage wrappers for Delphi appeared it took off. It was one of the bigger DOS escape routes.
I would put its escapee market share as similar to Visual Objects but with more non Clipper programmers on top.
The writers of AXS later ADS also used Delphi themselves.
But with the improvement in hardware specifications making SQL more usable for medium sized systems the need for fast client server ISAM is dropping, also we do not trust SAP with Advantage, SYBASE were fine.
Also all us older Clipper programmers are either retired, or within a decade of retiring, so systems are now moving to more main stream stuff like C.
We are currently benchmarking tools for our post WIN32 world. We took one choice to WIN32, Delphi users took another.
Oh and in the DOS days it was almost open warfare between Clipper and F*x developers.
Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations
Friday 14th February 2020 11:12 GMT
Re: It was the end of history....
B5, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly.
Lots mentioned.
Seen bits of all, but still favourite is Trek.
I liked Firefly but the film ending upset me (Wash).
Wars, prequels, and the latest films seem odd.
Now when will ElReg channel a few other series?
And what will they be?
Aw, look. The UK is still trying really hard to be the 'safest place to be online in the world'
It's a Bing thing: Microsoft drops plans to shove unloved search engine down throats of unsuspecting enterprises
Hear, hear: The first to invent idiot-cancelling headphones gets my cash
Friday 7th February 2020 14:09 GMT
Re: Selective attention
My hearing is a bit duff.
I cannot bear being interrupted, it starts me stuttering (and I don't stutter) and breaks train of thought.
Two people talking at once, I do not even TRY to work out as to me it is a wall of noise.
I actually have to concentrate to listen to people.
EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service
Thursday 6th February 2020 11:47 GMT
Re: foot, shot.
Imperial and Metric
I use both
Miles for distance, HP for car power, but NM for torque, fuel in litres but quick conv to gallons for consumption.
DIY all mm and m, none of this cm or inch nonsense.
Use kg most for weight except people weight when stones, converting stones to pounds is easy
10 stone x 6.35 = 63.5kg, 63.5 x 2.2 = 140 pound, I do not know how many pounds in a stone, some even teen number I think.
Fed-up air safety bods ban A350 pilots from enjoying cockpit coffees
Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it
Thursday 6th February 2020 11:36 GMT
Used it once WTF, never again
I never knew because I do not use it, nor the menu, they are too weird. I wanted to reboot new PC, no obvious button, so added one.
Windows Key R is all you need.
mspaint
notepad
regedit
services.msc
shutdown /r
these work
Most importantly
CMD
Now I can use it
Find a file C: DIR name.ext /s /p
How easy is that?
Still trying to get open with working properly though, keeps on about a store.
Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device
Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans
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