Posts by theModge

Re: So it begins..

You're going to force all router manufacturers to stay in business for as long as their product exists?

Re: Carl sounds a bit passive

also, simple age and experiance. I made any number of silly mistakes with my first employer, but I had no real idea what I was worth to them.

Re: @Ceiling Cat

TomTom Maps updates can be 6gb on there own. Add a film to it. I don't have the luxary of unlimited data, which means I need to be very careful to do such things on WiFi.

Re: uBlock Origin

I actually made the switch for effiancy - I'd turned off whitelisted ads anyway, but the adblock Plus was notably slowing things down.

Re: Hello! Battersea Dogs' Home! (was: Hello, Bank of England)

If you're going to be Battersea Dogs home you should go the whole hog:

"Hello! Battersea Dogs' Home! Jack Russel speaking"

Re: uBlock Origin

I've gone with uBlock Origin as well, it performs a good deal better than adBlock. Previously I used adBlock Edge, the open source fork of adBlock, which didn't do white-listing. If nothing else the fragmentation makes it hard to buy white listing in all the adblockers...

Curiosity caused me to go find the difference between uBlock and uBlock origin: it's described here: https://www.ublock.org/faq/ for the nosey.

Re: Surely their competitors knew about this?

Indeed, I thought most cars had flat spots at least at the revs at which UK emissions tests were carried out, this is just taking it to the next level.

Re: No, its not them crying ..

I've found all payment processing types to thieving sons of gunns, it could just be they're trying to fit in with the existing players....

Re: You must hate the Frenchman as you hate the Devil himself.

Also the railway would for many different reasons benefit from continuous coverage as well, GSM-R doesn't offer much in that regard.

Re: People should eat steak any way they like

To be fair, I entirely agree, there is certainly room for preference here. It's more a generalised terror of pink meat that I take issue with.

Re: inside out

There's a PA company (mackie?bose? someone odd) who used to use a bulb for speaker protection. If you drove it too hard the bulb lit up, increasing in resistance as it got hotter. The bulb would then finally blow, saving the drivers, with which it was in series.

Re: Hrrmm....

These people only aspire to be FIFA. Give them 70 years of this game and they'll achieve similar results to FIFA I suspect.

Piracy \ Privateering could be a historical precedent for this

The British were more than willing for anyone who could rob the Spanish to get out to sea and do so ASAP, so long as they promised not to attack our vessels. A similar principle could apply.

Also, I'm pretty sure the Chechens are fighting very hard to AVOID being Russian.

Timeliness

I would argue it was somewhat pedantic to complain about two days delay myself, regardless of your feelings as to the success of any given operating system. The article does repeat Microsoft's statement as to having fixed the issue. The issue being discussed is not the relative merits of Windows 10, but rather the risks of enforced updates, which could yet be removed from Windows 10.

I had the self same thought

Originally 1950s slang from the London gay community meaning "Not Available For Fucking" apparently. Then uttered by princess Ann* when it was a popular colloquialism the origin of which was less well known.

*possibly. One of the princesses. I loose track.

It'll finished first as well...

Stack overflow

I find stack overflow to be very varied actually. Certainly there are some questions on there to which the answer is read MSDN, but I've seen useful comparisons of different techniques on there as well as real world experience of using poorly documented libraries.

Re: Cruise Control

The answer is cruise control :)

For those lucky bar stewards who have it. I've recently had hire vehicles (vans and cars) that have cruise control and I concur, it's great. It also makes it really obvious that many people don't have it, as they over take you only to drive slower than you \ need over taking until you get alongside when they speed up etc.

Sadly my own car (an elderly focus) lacks this luxury and it'll be staying that way until I finish the PhD....

Gaint blue cock

1. The giant blue cock has gone.

2. What was wrong with it? How reverential do we need to be of our public spaces? It's only a sculpture, it's not like they painted all surrounding buildings red, white and blue.

Actually on the topic of the Queen's Vagina I confess the picture leaves me unconvinced,l but then it's only a picture - I suppose it could be better in person.

I would however argue that if you were sensitive on the topic of having your work vandalised, public sculpture design is not the job for you! People have been forever adding hats to, chopping noses off, otherwise miss treating (improving?) public art...

DogPile

It was indeed dogpile, and until google came along it was my prefence of search engine as well.

"we do not require much in the way of stability."

Which I believe is one of things that set us apart and led to our being here today - as we went to higher latitudes we started using cloths for example, though normal disclaimers, IANAA* etc. apply.

*I am not an anthropologist

Re: rewriting history

I tend to agreed, but the issue is then moved: who's court gets to decide something is libellous? Different people have very different standards for this and no one will of course agree to use anyone else's....

re: merrits of gimp

Gimp is pretty good, considering it's free. I wouldn't use it for pro-level graphic design, but, seemingly uniquely on the internet, I'm not actually a graphic designer for a living. My work does need me to chop things out of images occasionally, and it can do that competently.

Also note worthy in this line is UFRraw. Again, it's no lightroom, but I have a camera that's about 5 generations out of data (450D) and no one wants to pay me for my photos.

I'm well with those who wonder what purpose source forge fulfils in this day and age of github.

Re: While the salary is attractive

Also, £28k for a fresh graduate is very different to £28k for a person who has done a few years work and has some marketable skills

Re: Kettles

...actually, I assume it's because in Brussels they don't fully understand the importance of a decent cup of tea. It's coffee or nothing there, if you are English.

(and no, I did not vote kipper)

Re: Who is Kidding Who?

It is nationalised now: the EU said we had to stop giving Network Rail £11bn a year and pretending it was a separate company. After much sucking of teeth and realising that passengers weren't going to find and extra £11bn between them (nor were the Operating Companies) it was renationalised. Quietly without announcement I grant you, because that would be to admit privation had been less than a complete success, but none the less, network rail is once again part of the ministry of transport. The operating companies (and those they lease the trains from) remain private, but all the infrastructure is now public again.

Re: Maps

Indeed. It'd be good to see a non-fiction version though, the operator provided ones seem to be a figment of their imagination.

Re: Trust

I've gone for that approach, via lastpass, as such all my new passwords are now the maximum allowed length and support the maximum allowed range of characters. I let it import my old passwords and I'm changing them piecemeal.

Re: Well that took a long time...

This leaves the interesting question of what happens when IoT companies go bust as well: do you have to bin your fridge if you got it from a company that goes bust? What about smaller companies? When the only software engineer leaves, the new guy takes over, can't do anything with the abysmal documentation left to him (don't pretend that's never happened, even if it shouldn't) he starts the new products from scratch, are they really going to keep patching old products though don't understand?

For that matter I've been involved in projects where by I've built something, then left and it's just been left working again in the smaller business sector. Do I get kept on retainer for the rest of my life? What happens if I left on bad terms? Don't have time? Changed industry completely?

Things that need patches for the rest of there working lives open the industry up to a entirely new range of interesting and exciting problems....

Skirun access

Can definitely confirm that winter tyres will get you down snowy mountain roads from hotel to ski run.

Went skiing with a local in Italy and that is precisely what we did.

Re: ten centimeters

Upvoted purely for being interesting...

Re: Why has the seller not commented on the review?

That would seem to be the obvious course of action wouldn't it?

Re: And should Cameron win...

The policeman with the sledge hammer will be better paid, briefly, until he's deemed to expensive and sacked?

(For clarity I'm firmly of view that the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions was guy fawkes and have no idea which particular bunch of bastards I'm going to vote for this time round, but I'm sure I'll feel soiled for having voted for them)

Re: So.....

The problem is that the public at large have an IQ slightly lower than the square root of the dumbest person in the group. Given "the public" is a very large group with some very dumb people, so they may very well be right to treat them as complete half-wits, if not a little over generous.

Re: 2560x1440

<quote> Z3 compact </quote>

Have one and love the thing. I get 2 days of *my* average use out of the battery, 3 of very light 1 if I accidentally leave google maps open all day and the brightness on full (because I'm on holiday some where sunny. Rarely need to use that brightness here...)

Personal opinion and all that, but I quite like the thing.

Re: Indeed!

It is something adblock can do you will be pleased to learn.

If youtube do move to block adblock then I'll cheerfully stop using them - I don't watch much on there in any case. El reg on the other hand I always feel slightly guilty about adblocking, but there's no subscription here.

Re: Unwanted ad injectors aren't part of a healthy ads ecosystem

You have pretty much described my TV watching as it stands...

I do listen to commercial radio(kerarrang replacement services, what ever it calls it self), right until the first ad break, then it's time for radio 4 (or a CD, if the archers is on). News papers could be financed by an old fashioned method where by you give them money and they give you news.

</grumpy old man>

Re: UK

What do you mean "Look Like"?

Scarcely before has there been a better definition of the phrase "Doesn't know socket from sodomy" than either of the party leaders. Nor it would seem any of the advisers such as they actually listen to - some one did let Cameron announce that he'd ban encryption after all....