Posts by DJV
345 posts • joined Tuesday 4th August 2009 12:24 GMT
Re: I really hope...
After being made redundant for the 4th time in my life in 2005 I decided life was trying to tell me something about working for other people. So, I went self-employed and now often have more work than I can handle!
Re: What?
Well, for a start, anything by Commodore from the Vic-20 onwards! They designed the VIC and VIC-II chips themselves. Initially, of course, they bought MOS Technology where Chuck Peddle had designed the 6502 from which all CBM's 8-bit CPUs (like the 6509 and 6510 descended).
Ah, the old "Blue Building of Death" syndrome...
Re: easy to change suppliers?
Clue: see the "uk.gov" bit in the title....
Degenerate dwarfs
I blame Snow White...
You were lucky
I saw the other side of them and it wasn't a pretty sight (or site!). They are going to have to give us more than 2 years of a good track record before I would ever think of using them again.
Re: How?
Not only that, but this site is (supposedly) being run directly from a C64!
http://www.c64web.com/
Someone tried it with a 1987 Mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tqKj7aNtc
Two words
Two words that strike fear into me are "Theresa May"
--- shudder ---
Yes, it is
Follow the Reddit link on the original article and they admit it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1c2kde/found_on_google_street_view_south_australia_xpost/
Posted in The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
Re: you forgot!
Pic here for those who don't know it:
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbpets.html
Case design was based on the ealier 700/B series:
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/cbm_b_prototypes.cfm
Change the law and apply it retrospectively?
At least that could never happen here, could it?
Oh wait...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland
Windows Explorer
It will only be a "decent file manager" when it manages to stop occasionally crashing for no apparent reason (as it has done since Windows 95) and they give us the option to turn off the stupid "jump down the screen 2 seconds later*" that they added in Windows 7. Classic Shell can sometimes fix the latter but often only after you call up the CS settings and OK them again.
* this is what I mean: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-explorer-expands-folders-inappropriately/50a81b05-da98-4d55-821d-55ffbbd0e998
Re: Anything?
And it will need the wireless connection and voice processing to contact Ikea and ask where there missing parts are.
Re: Was I the only one...?
Nope!
Re: two doors between a kitchen and toilet
Hasn't been a requirement in the UK since at least the early 1980s. See item 4.10 here:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/100312_app_doc_G_2010.pdf
Re: Reason for an older couple?
I nominate David Cameron and Nick Clegg... or aren't they old enough yet?
You beat me to it - though I was going to say the first 3 words...
Raspberry Pi?
Damn you, you young whippersnappers! So that's why trying to entice sweet young things back with my "do you want to come and play at my abacus and difference engine" is no longer the draw it was in times past! Hrmph!
Re: Considering the mess we've made of this planet...
Yes, we've got to keep trying until we manage not to fuck one up!
Russia
It's a bit like alien spaceships always landing in the USA. Oh wait, it was real life and not Hollywood this time around.
50 Fun Raspberry Pi Recipes?
Or even "50 Shades of Pi"
OMG!
We're all descended from Larry Ellison weaselly lookalikes - the shame!
Re: Hmm...
Your wish/wonder has been granted - see right below
57 patches?
Wow, this must be the Heinz special soup edition!
Oracle will never learn
It's OpenOffice all over again.
I'm hoping someone will fork VirtualBox as well soon to get it out of their clutches.
Re: Random Poking
There's some nice killer POKEs here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
The Commdore PET one was the first one I ever heard of that would destroy hardware.
Re: 50% Java - This SUCKS!
How many more times do people need to be told that Java is NOT JavaScript - aargh!
Wall, head, hit.
Re: My top tip for Microsoft:
Excellent idea!
We would be able to to laugh again to Bill Gates' 2004 announcement that spam will be dead in 2 years - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3426367.stm - and look forward to them releasing the Zune all over again!
Bollocks
I am getting on and have no intention of kicking the bu----
Re: Cringe
Don't insult Neanderthals - apparently, they were quite intelligent!
Re: 2002
He may not be current but he is certainly adding to the continuous story of how Microsoft has been mismanaged over the years. More tales can be found here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer
and in the book Barbarians Led By Bill Gates - another "not current" book, but well worth a read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_Led_by_Bill_Gates
What?
No mention of Ballmer? Shock horror!
Cavorite!
Yay! Spiky punk versions of "First Men in the Moon" Cavorite sphere!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jparvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/cavorite.jpg
Re: Stop the Presses! New Research!
Yes, but enquiring minds would like to know which of you was imposing the nekkidness on the dolls, you or your sister?
A*
I got A* in the exam for my Astronomy GCSE evening class - seemed appropriate - can't think of any other reason for it though!
Obviously...
...it's the Medusa Cascade!
Feck!
Well, at least Doogle is still around!
www.doogle.org
Posted in Shh! Proxima Centauri can hear us!
I'm just hoping that...
...someone/thing around 49 light years away is getting ready to set up their video recorders and will post the missing Dr Who episodes back to us at some point.
Re: The Real Story here...
Try Inkscape - price = free!
http://inkscape.org/
Seemed to work for what I wanted (but my drawing needs are small so YMMV)
Re: I wrote to him once...
Likewise! I wrote to him after reading his autobiography "80 Not Out" to not only say how much I had enjoyed it but to also point out a bunch of typos and mistakes. He replied saying he knew all about the mistakes and had sent a list of them to the printers who had then lost the corrections and printed it as is anyway! He sounded quite annoyed!
Re: Two Jobs films
But eveyone forgets the best one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhmWkRfyAI
Terry Pratchett was right
(from 'The Last Continent')
'Why did he have to go to prison?'
'We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?'
'Why?'
'It saves time.'
Re: Nasties from beyond
Mmm, Popplers!
Posted in BOFH: The Great Patch Mismatch
Updates
Yeah, I never update Ubuntu servers any more. Have been bitten once too many times (i.e. twice). Far safer to install a new version from scratch!
@Uncle Slacky
Not quite! Goes upstairs, pulls out 20th Anniversary May 1998 edition of PCW (RIP). Page count (including covers) = 750 - and all for £1.99 (special price, normally £2.95). I've also got a copy of the first edition from 1978, slightly smaller at 68 pages and cost 50p. Those were the days!
Re: Must...buy...iPad...
But don't buy an iPad 4 to run it until they bring out a model of the foosball with a lightning connector!
Re: "has been observed 420 million years after the Big Bang"
By you and the rest of us looking at the photo?
80186
In the 1980s I worked as a Pascal/C programmer in a company that was using the Burroughs/Unisys B20 series of computers (designed by Convergent Technologies, a company that Unisys eventually bought). The B25 was powered by that rare beast, the 80186. Most PC makers skipped that one completely.
