Posts by davidp231

Re: W. T. F. !

Don't they take it a step further these days and leave the whole laptop on the bus/train?

Re: Floppy disk orchestra...

An excellent choice... I frequent that particular channel often. He's also done the music to E1M1 of DOOM with floppies... sounds pretty good.

Re: Out of interest....

Which one's Will, do you know these people?

The start menu didn't really change much between its inception in Win95 and it's incarnation in XP. Vista brought about the new one, and they updated it in 7.

Re: Not impressed with Barclays

Rename 'su' - they work fine after that. They identify the Android layer on Jolla phones as a rooted device - renaming or deleting su fixes it - and you use something like devel-su to get superuser access anyway on those so it's no biggy.

Re: Windows Phone?

7. Whatsapp that doesn't bother notifying you most of the time because it's not been updated to use the new WP8.1 or 10 APIs and supplies you with a constant hiss from the speaker when it's open

Fixed it for you.

Re: Quirky McQuirkface..... Hopefully not.

Don't you mean NT3.5?

Re: So, UK?

Currently: TNG, DS9 and VOY are on Syfi (sub needed). TOS, DS9* on CBS Action (Freeview, Sky (without subscription to Sky)).

*Second run-through, so it could be VOY up next.

Re: Patches

"IE-only scenarios"....

If someone has IE as their only browser... the Firefox NPAPI plugin is pretty redundant as IE doesn't use it.

Re: Just a small bump in the road...

I had a fun Nvidia card once. Think it was an MSI one, bought from Scan (or Dabs - I can't remember), but for some reason it was deemed ok for it to have the "Pre-release firmware - not for resale" stamped in its BIOS. End result: No full screen acceleration. Software or full-screen window was fine. Outright full screen - it just died and crashed the machine.

Re: maemo

See also: SailfishOS

Re: How exactly does this execute?

I'd be worried if we were still using Java in the 22nd century...

Re: Needs to be saved for posteriority...

Nope.. as of 14:29 it's still there for all to see.

Re: Eh?

And one you can't block people on either.. in fact they catagorically state it's not possible because it "goes against the nature of the site". Good if you want to harass someone you've blocked on Failbook, as I found out the hard way.

Re: "Perfect time to upgrade to one "

Windows installations could also bork the device in the same way.

Problem is, if you use another OS, you have the problem of getting a decent app store going, and employing an Android runtime to get the decent ones - which is what Blackberry tried in BB10 and Jolla did with Sailfish. Both didn't go well - why bother with a phone that has a compatibility layer when you can get one that runs everything native?

Would be much less hassle, and increase greatly uptake if they went with something that runs Android apps natively.

If you can create a new mobile OS, and combine it with an app store that can rival that of iOS and Android, *and* convince devs to port their apps to it, you'd be in business. Which is what MS tried with Windows Phone and that didn't go all too well either.

Re: This just in.....

It's happened on the weather report already so I don't see why not.

Re: Off?

And shouts of "experminate!"?

Re: This is sort of meaningless.

They even managed to port Sim City to the Beeb (though from the C64 version).

Re: @NB - Priorities?

I've never seen that happen... mind you I use rEFInd as my boot loader. The only thing it defaults to is that last OS it booted.

An arm and a leg

Payment taken in advance, of course...

Re: Are we in the end times?

A spellcheck wouldn't pick that up. A grammar check, however.....

Re: Stick a Fork in it

Ice Weasel is just Debian's rebadged version of Firefox. Aside from the icons and name it's functionally identical, so that will go the same way eventually.

Re: Walk *before* you try to run ...

And when you do have to go up to the surgery chemist to collect emergency medication after being told half an hour earlier they're booked solid for the next three weeks - you find the place bereft of patients.