Posts by Soruk

Re: Proof reader

Why would you be allowing Delete? Surely the high water mark should be 0x7E?

Re: I think you 2 have stumbled onto something there

There is a reason it is sometimes known as "autocorrupt" - even offered by my phone as soon as I've typed "autoc".

My reading of that is SSH keys will continue to work including for new setups and are not being deprecated.

Re: I'm going to be called a Fanboi but...

I am no fanboy, but Apple have been part-owners of ARM since the Acorn days, thus most likely had more close involvement in it than pretty other manufacturer (maybe aside from Broadcom, who acquired Element 14, which was previously known as.... yup, Acorn.)

My ex-wife's Blu phone kept turning the mobile data on by itself, so I installed a profile action thingy that has the action of disabling mobile data when the phone was unlocked. No such misbehaviour on any HTC, Huawei(!), Samsung or Motorola device I've had.

As for scanning WiFi when switched off, that is switchable under Location Settings (on my Moto One Hyper).

Re: Unloved?

The South-Western mainline runs through Wimbledon...

Re: As I always say

Service in the agricultural sense. As in how a bull services a cow.

Re: A sad day

Not everyone, I went to PlusNet (FTTC) in December 2014 when I moved house.

Re: CentOS is not a Redhat distribution

This hasn't been true for a while. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces

Re: Makes a change

Network over Mains kit tends to annoy them quite a lot too.

Re: Class action suit in 3... 2... 1...

Would the (UK) Computer Misuse Act come into play, as they have actively put out software which has destroyed data on users' devices? It could come under malicious software as this feature wasn't disclosed to users before they installed the software.

Re: I would be happy with a no camera phone

I've not tried it with a ruggedised case as I have no need for that. However, a case designed for that phone will most certainly take it into account.

One other thing for Motorola, they provide a rubber case with their phones, and to date I haven't lost a screen yet from accidentally dropping the things.

About 10 years ago I used the Paragon driver on evaluation for a project I was working on for my then employer. The USB disc I was using to test it with happened to have a bad sector, and I got quite the surprise when the NTFS driver triggered a kernel panic when it hit it. It wasn't so much that it was faster, they wanted a driver that had commercial support. However, when we raised the issue of a kernel panic on a bad sector we were completely ignored. We weren't a small company either, only a multi-national that has graced these pages several times in the past. I successfully steered the powers that be in the direction of the NTFS-3G drivers that were not only free, but far more stable.

Re: Magic?

I did this last year to retrieve data from a failed Acorn Risc PC hard disc. In this instance I used a USB to IDE adapter, so ran the disc in the freezer! The image was then transferred to an SD card, and with a suitable adapter the Risc PC now uses that as its hard disc - and it now runs faster than ever.

Re: Adding a comment sometimes caused compile failure

Back in the day, some BASICs were zero-based, so DIM a(10) had subscripts that went from 0 to 9, others went from 1 to 10. As an aid to portability, BBC BASIC went full Spinal Tap and the above statement allowed subscripts 0 to 10, thus allowing 11 members.

Re: Memories

Never heard them called that before!

Re: New leopard...

This sounds like something out of that old film, Antitrust.

WHILE/ENDWHILE only appeared in BBC BASIC V for the Archimedes and later.

BBC BASIC is still being developed in three branches - firstly RISC OS continues to be developed and is now open source, BBC BASIC for Windows has branched to BBC BASIC for SDL2 and is now cross-platform, and the open-source Brandy BASIC still sees development on the Matrix Brandy fork.

Re: A long time ago

My bodge was a hacked straight Ethernet cable modified to work as a cross-over E1. It looked ugly as hell and was complained about by our data centre manager every time he visited the place. We did try to replace it with a properly crimped E1 cross-over cable, which was met by our call centre going offline. The bodge was reinstated and the call centre came back.

It was finally retired when we changed call centre operators to one which received calls via SIP.

Re: My Risc PC still gets powered up every day

A RiscPC610 is also my mum's daily driver, and after a recent HDD failure it runs off an SD card, blisteringly fast. It's mainly used for PMS, a music typesetting program that was later released as PMW for Unix/Linux and open-sourced.

And there's the lady of the night who hangs around the diesel pumps - the Whore DERV.

Re: Sad to see it go

My first ISP too, 1998-2014. eridani.demon.co.uk, 194.222.240.191 and later 62.49.18.88 on ADSL. Sadly even by 2014 they were just a shadow of their former selves so when I moved house in 2014 I got VDSL with PlusNet, paying their one-off fee for a static IP. In 1999 I bought my own .co.uk based on my Demon domain, originally it forwarded to my Demon email but later on ADSL I self-hosted and continue to do that to this day. I even wrote a couple of tools targeting their systems, including pop3clean which made use of their *ENV extension to the protocol to delete spam from the mailbox prior to downloading (which I deprecated and removed when they moved to a Microsoft platform as the facility was gone).

So long, Demon, it's been a hell of a ride.

My Epson inkjet decided to stop working this week, so I've also ordered a Canon. Though I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly as I bought the thing at the end of 2000 and it has worked brilliantly until this week.

I also have a Brother colour laser printer that was being disposed of by my office. It prints B&W very well but colour prints aren't great and have a smear of magenta all over the page.

Re: Technical management tips

My manager did very similar during a major outage scenario. I was getting stressed while trying to bring back all the servers and services, while loads of people were demanding their particular service brought back first, to the point he sent a company-wide email requesting ALL requests for our team were to go via him. Then he asked us if we wanted some coffee. We all said Definitely! or similar, simultaneously. "Well, go on then!" was his reply. Took us a moment or two to realise what he was suggesting, but by getting us to get our own coffee gave us a much-needed break from the screen, even for a few minutes, that got the stress levels down, and arguably we got the systems back quicker than had we not stopped for five minutes.

Great manager, it really is a pleasure to work for him.

Re: Vax keeps sucking

It would probably be the first thing to come from a Microsoft stable that doesn't suck.

Re: It's getting the 1% as well

No eggs in my local Tesco this afternoon.

Re: – a tiny window of opportunity –

It's not his, he stole it.

Re: Surprisingly ...

My wife does that!

Then again, as a user of a Chinese IME that takes the tap of Shift to mean "change input language" between English and Chinese, I can understand why. I've seen other Chinese people where I work do the same thing.

Re: Hot to the touch...

I used this technique to recover data from a dying hard disc from an Acorn RiscPC. Drive attached to a USB adapter and a long-ish lead, I had it in a couple of zip-lock bags, let it cool down then just dd'ed the thing to my Linux machine. It ran long enough to get an error-free image of the entire disc, now that image lives on with an SD card and an IDE adapter, and the RiscPC has never run so fast! It's also much easier to back the thing up now as the SD card is easily accessible to be imaged.

Re: apps ?

Unless you grew up with Acorn systems then discs were discs, even in the face of the dreaded Disc Fault 18. As far as I am concerned, they will always be discs.