Posts by Robert Carnegie

Re: Full names please.......

* sees nothing odd in the name "Susan Flay". For quite a long time. *

Oh!

Re: Full names please.......

I worked under a George Prescott. Nothing remarkable about that, and I think we didn't actually send out spell checked letters that called him Garage Prosecute. And that isn't offensive, just very odd and slightly alarming.

Re: Love "Duh!" moments! It's the techie life that chose me!

That, or you type in the program data bytes and also the checksum byte, line by line.

Data on old media is probably "known unto God" if that's your belief. I've got loads... that won't, even if I was going to try.

Re: Closest I've seen...

It didn't say "Do not unplug", did it? ;-)

Re: his mouse would occasionally move erratically across the screen

I wondered where your story was going. https://www.snopes.com/ap/2021/03/18/tv-anchors-storms-video/ is a now-abbreviated copy of a news report of a TV studio whose weather presenter got to report that a storm with tornado flavoring was about to hit THEM. Or to come way too close, anyway.

You "just" had a giant arrow flying across the sky. :-)

For a while, BBC1 television had idents where a hot air balloon with a world globe design flew over various parts of the country, including the famous Forth Bridge. So any other time that I saw the bridge, I had the urge to look around for the balloon.

Re: Closest I've seen...

But, wireless? And useless.

I thought it rang a bell. Including "each small device on the wafer self tests at power up and disables itself if faulty".

Windows speech recognition has been "standard" since Windows XP Tablet Edition, which wasn't quite standard, and was built-in in Windows Vista and ever since. You could also get it with Microsoft Office. Windows XP Tablets weren't especially powerful, though.

You do have to find it, activate it, and train it, and avoid being steered into using the cloud-processing version if you prefer not to. The first part is "key Win+U then select Speech" as of Windows 10.

Re: Seems ok

I was waiting for that to come up.

Re: Long - but a good read

I think fraud legally would be if GBG profited from the forgery or if the company demonstrably lost by it. Evidently someone else got the job, and presumably that wasn't GBG himself... It's ditty work anyway, but maybe not unusual in business or not something that the company would fuss over.

Re: Profanity galore

David Brent? Douglas Reynholm? Donald Trump? Or do you mean rather rude expletives...

Re: I started writing assembler ... and remember this quote.

I think I learned by sad experience that doing the clever thing in program code now, would look not so clever when I reviewed the same program later - let alone anyone else wrestling with it.

Re: Not code, but ...

Now it's quite difficult not to visualise that.

I suppose that most of the James Bond films titles, "Tales of the Unexpected" titles, and some "The Two Ronnies" episodes, possibly the one where Ronnie Barker is got up as eccentric television astronomer Patrick Moore for instance, prepared me to do so.

Re: 'self-taught Visual Basic programmer'

The world isn't round, it is pear shaped (true) (a bit)

Re: Crap Credit?

"Credit rating a problem" you can say, except then it should be if Crap() = true. But you can get around that.

Re: Been In The Same Boat

It sounds like they should re-hire the former admin so as to sack them all over again.

I wonder how often the phone call to a recently let go employee saying "Er, can we trouble you for the Very Important Password, that we can't seem to find" is not from (an appropriate person at) the business that let you go at all, which does know the Very Important Password but may have been not sufficiently cognisant that in such a situation it also is Very Important to change it.

Re: Stupid

I like to use meaningful text, the first time. The fifth or sixth, it's harder to be original - generating log or e-mail notifications, for instance, to see which one has worked. I think I resort to lists, such as the phonetic alphabet.

Likewise, I wouldn't want to write a "test" message on a public forum that only says "test", but I wouldn't invest a lot of effort that is likely to go straight down the drain.

Re: Password generator turns sweary

Seems safe. No one in the Galaxy would dare to utter it... except for those ignorant people who don't even know what it means. (...which I've forgotten... actually I don't think it's anything, but I thought it might be related to cricket, and you may see why.)

But it does hash to 5318008. :-)

Re: Non-Techy tries too hard

So if I set my laptop MAC address to be the address of your PC that I just unplugged...?

Re: 20 year old calculator still running

One piece of spreadsheet programming I wrote was never used at all. I'm still proud of it. No user complaints! (No users!)

Re: Evil Books!

Pianola music and Hollerith cards are pretty much digital, but I don't say I could find any.

Re: Imperrfect

How to prove it's you writing... spell idiosnycractially? ;-)

Re: firewall

Suppose that Russia demanded that Britain stops lighting up its public buildings blue and yellow, or London is nuked.

I think the freedom and the message of having famous landmarks thousands of miles away from Ukraine look temporarily as though they're not, while being a freedom that I love, is not the hill to die on. Literally.

We'd still do Edinburgh Castle of course. I'm in Scotland and we're thrawn.