Posts by Thecowking

That's how I feel about most new editors.

Half my office is vim, the other half sublime. Vim's fine when I'm sshed into a machine but most of the time I'd much rather have sublime with its rather less demanding addon installation with package control and its nice visuals.

I gave this "Code" a go, but it failed to auto-indent Python, which means it's not much cop for me as all I do these days is Python.

It might be better if I was writing C#, but the gods have been kind and I've not had to do that yet.

@m0rt

No more Page or Worstall.

Their hooks got slung

Re: Again?

Motorola do that.

Got my moto x play, put it on the same wifi as my Nexus 4, installed the moto transfer app on the nexus 4, away it went. An hour later my new phone was set up exactly like my old phone, photos, apps, SMS etc. intact.

Though I did have to sign into my apps again, but that's fair enough, I'd rather random apps not be able to copy that data.

Re: Inexplicable

Elinks has tabs, if you want to stay in the command line.

This message sent from elinks.

Re: Single exploit gives total pwnage.

I think we just did.

Re: No issues here... Honest!

Yes, yes I have

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/product_id-19997/Google-Android.html

Here's a list for you.

Re: Bait and switch

I stuck with the unlimited tethering, though it _isn't_ covered when abroad using their feel at home thing iirc. But I do get the free data abroad, which is fantastic for using google maps when on a business trip.

I just wish there was a way to not get the thousands of texts and minutes of calls I pay for but never use. I'll be honest, my phone is a pocket internet terminal that people try and call me on sometimes. I am not a fan of phone calls.

Though the unlimited is pretty good on three, I discovered prodcasts about a decade after the rest of humanity and pullded down about 20 gigs of them last month. It's nice not to have to care about the download limits.

Re: It's as if they have never seen Robot Wars

You're saying they need a SRiMech?

And probably a flame thrower.

Or we can repurpose Sir Killalot as a delivery boy. No one's going to get in his way, or at least not for long.

Re: Work like a ninja"

My favourite part about working like a Ninja is the uncertainty if I really existed in Tokogawa Era Japan at all.

I mean I might've only been born only 30 or so years ago... or that could just be what I _want_ you to think.

Which is really useful come pay review time.

"You can't prove I wasn't working on this project about a century and a bit ago, so give me a pay rise."

*smoke bomb*

Re: this lad

That's exceptionally harsh for a minor.

Teenagers can be amazingly stupid in some ways, what he needs is not punishment for retribution's sake. If he is indeed some mastermind expert blackhat then he needs corralling and training up as a white hat. There needs to be some element of punishment to deter him, but ideally you'd harness such a talent rather than waste it.

The point of the justice system should be rehabilitiation where possible, not retribution. If some kids did trash my place, it'd be much better that they were put to work fixing it than costing me money in prison on top of the cost of putting my gaff right.

Re: Remember though....

...Of gravity.

Re: I apologise if I missing an important nugget of information but .....

Did we ever make a full analytical engine? I know they recreated the difference engine, but the analytical engine was orders of magnitude larger.

We can probably simulate one though, they could test on that.

Re: Collateral damage?

If the debris is that small, then they're not much of a problem, as they will abrade rapidly and just make some pretty shooting stars.

Larger ones are more likely (I'm guessing they've done the maths on this and the various momentum calculations, NASA know their stuff) to not get the energy from the impact to deviate from their orbit enough to hit the Earth.

All this is just extrapolation from first principles, I've not actually looked into the proposal, but I did do astroboffinery at university some decade and change ago. So read into it what you will.

Re: Tantrum coming in 3, 2, 1...

JoeUser, as a long time troll and agitator, can I congratulate you on a frankly beautifully crafted move.

It's one line and it's... well it's beautiful. You even put the troll face on and still it went and went.

You mad, beautiful, crazy, magnificent person you. I doff my hat. I doff it and I bow.

Re: Completeness of the Standard Model

the Higgs bosun was in the fo'c'sle all along.

Arr, that be no mystery nor conundrum.

Re: Yeah - no ...

I'm all about the Mate on Ubuntu.

Mainly because our office uses Ubuntu as our default Linux image, and I still hate Unity, espceially it's Alt-Tab behaviour where it groups multiple windows of the same program.

Oh and pinned programs, I can't stand those either. I don't want to see programs I'm not running on the task bar, because I'm not running them. I especially don't want them masquerading as a running program.

I have tried to get used to Unity, but it's just so full of little things like that that grate on me.

Re: I know it's not cool

Is it really worth it?

Traditionally Flickr's own upload function has been made of spit and bale wire and liable to fall apart if you looked at the web page wrong. I've been using jUploadr for years for Flickr (and not noticing any problems recently for what it's worth), but is the new one actually worth it?

Flickr has been getting steadily worse in the interface for the last couple of years. (because loading a page and then deciding that you really meant to load a page twice the size isn't annoying at all, oh no. Also hiding things like view in original size, putting a "back to photostream" link in one corner because the piles of javascript have broken the back button and providing a jpeg editing tool, but nothing for RAWs so why bother having editing at all? Oh wait, you actually want me to upload the crap snaps I take on my phone instead of the photos I care about that I use a proper camera for?)

I've been a paying customer of Flickr for years, but I'm so close to cancelling. It's a nice way to show people certain albums, but it doesn't offer me anything more with "Pro" than I'd get on the free plan any more, and I find myself using Google photos more and more anyway, because its sharing tools are better.

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Re: Yawn...

Yes, I have used chrome to cast exactly once since I got a Chromecast last year and I've used my Chromecast most days. It's a Netflix and iPlayer stick for me.

Sometimes I cast my tablet screen (because the flickr app doesn't cast), but generally it just makes my dumb panel Bravia from before the dawn of time smart enough for a bit of Stargate or University Challenge on demand.

Joerg: what was nonsense that I wrote?

If I have something wrong with the licensing terms and verifiability of the tools I use, I'd like to know. So if you can enlighten me as to the error, I'd be grateful.

Re: Pain point

Yeah I'm on a grandfathered all you can eat plan which includes tethering, I just got a new phone and it works with 4G. No upgrade required, except the obvious hardware one.

If you're producing stools that can survive re-entry, see a doctor immediately.

Re: I found some Google glasses in my bosses backpack...

You mustn't have been Wukong hard enough.

Re: MaxiPad?

Tennis?

Re: Can't keep growing by adding more territories

They do keep adding new things, my to watch list is growing faster than I can watch it.

They've been especially good in adding 70s kung fu films and anime recently, which has appealed to my interests at least. I don't check the other things they add, but I would be surprised if they weren't adding more things to other categories.

Your post made me google to see if anyone missed clippy, and then I found clippyjs, a javascript implementation of clippy.

Awesome.

Re: GitHub is the spawn of the devil.

Because you want a repo for an open source project.

My GPU isn't discreet, it's sodding massive and has leds all over it. Plus my case has a perspex cut out so you can see it glowing.

It is discrete though.

Re: Exactly.

If it's a one time pad, that's exactly true.

The logistics of using a one time pad for every communication are... hard. Especially with the requirement that the pad be of greater length than the data it encodes and the recipient having an idential copy of said pad.

But a one time pad is simple enough to use by hand and unbreakable if used correctly

Re: not so keen on your chapatis

Roti chani is the breakfast of kings.

Bah! I miss Malaysian food so much, it's high time I looked for a telecommuting job here in the UK and moved to Penang.

That way my pension will go to my wife after I die from terminal food overdose after a couple of years.

Seaquest DSV, my word, that's a blast from the past.

Re: Google.... software updates... really?

It'd be the same as the Nexus range in that respect. So not an issue really.

It's the manufacturers and networks that are the gatekeepers on most Android phone upgrades.

Yahoo own Flickr

Which is the only reason I still have a Yahoo account, because Flickr's not a terrible service, though I suspect it will soon succumb to the general malaise at Yahoo with the random changes they keep making to try and make it into a social network.

Re: (Some joke about code Nazis)

So Ubuntu, based in London, is what?

Two of my team are away this week, one's hiking in the Alps and the other is saling in Poland, but you don't see me coming here with my facts and so on to spoil a perfectly good stereotype. Do you? No.

On that note, I hope they have a good pizza place nearby.

Re: Why?

Offline caching of articles for those of us who commute through the unlinked wilderness.

Or El reg could make 3g 100% coverage in the UK, I'd settle for that too :P