Posts by J.G.Harston

Re: "Get used to the modern"

What you do in that case is have a *new* API that takes the parameters the "correct" way.

setcolour(int a) // do not use in new code, translates to a call to rgb()

setrgb(long r,g,b) // new API

Probably something like:

ISR:

IN A,(serStatus)

BIT RxRDY,A

RET Z

IN A,(SerData)

LD HL,(bufin)

LD (HL),A

INC HL

LD (bufin),HL ; NB! FIXME: no over-run check

RET

Wait a mo, they want UNPAID volunteers? Where does it say that? "Volunteer" isn't the opposite of "paid", *UNPAID* is the opposite of "paid", *CONSCRIPT* is the opposite of "volunteer".

I get that on lots of forums. If the speed drops while fetching a page you can see who's got avatar pictures where they've just uploaded a mega-giga-pixel image and the forum simply serves it with img width="64" tags.

Re: Excel hate?

"Just make sure the first line (preceding the data) contains "sep=<desired separator>", like "sep=;" or "sep=,""

That just results in every other data manipulation program I use complain that the number of fields in the first line doesn't match the rest of the file, or make the title of column zero "sep=". It's a COMMA seperated file, the seperator is a COMMA.

Re: O tempora, o mores!

I bought my nephews Asterix In Britain ... in Chinese. :) From their giggles the translation must have stood well.

Re: It's the same everywhere

I once got home to find a card saying "we've put your parcel in the bin".

WTF???? What right is it of them to decide to throw away my parcel???

I look in the bin. No parcel.

I look in next door's bin. No parcel.

On the way back to the kitchen I notice the lid on the water butt askew. Yep. Ruined parcel of books bobbing about in the water butt.

Re: What logic is this?

Gawd, don't tell me.

"Where's the tree icon? I always clicked on the tree icon."

"It's a blue swan in flight now. Can't you just look for the words?"

Re: Imagine a user...

You've got that upside-down. Data doesn't change programs, programs change data.

That was Simon Jones.

Simon Jones = Arthur Dent

Peter Jones = The Book

Re: Tricks of the trade.

Oh good god. I've just spent a week working in an office where the radiator is on full blast and they control the temperature by opening the window.

Re: Road maintenance in Shropshire.

The government taxes your vehicle, not the owner.

Re: We really need Firefox alive

and a transport company called Arriva.

Re: About time

AAArrrrggghhh!!!!! I'd forgotten that existed!

My last job would've been IT-pizza delivery boy, except that the PCs had already been delivered by somebody else the previous day. All I did was take it out of the box, put it on the desk, and plug it into the power and network. So... I arrive at your house after your pizza has been delivered, and take it out of the box and put it on a plate for you. And my name badge claimed "IT Engineer".

Re: 0845 anyone?

Which was an additional mind-crunching idiocy, as in the numbering changes, 08x was ****EXPLICITY***(*** specificed to be *****DISCOUNT**** rates.

Re: Errr

Yes, you have to trust that the people you trust are trust-worthy enough to source their supposedly-trustworthyness from trustworthy sources, and them also, and so on to the first electron flipped with a pin.

True, I do depend on NHS IT ensuring that what they supply to us at the coal face is properly vetted, but that's true of everything in life.

The 32-bit ARM OS I'm running uses a time API that won't go bnag until 2248.