Posts by J.G.Harston

Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.

No, there are jobs you *can't afford* to do.

Cost of staying alive = 500 zarbles per fortnight

Income from working = 250 zarbles per fortnight

Result = starvation

Re: Biased A.I models written by white men

The fewmets hit the windmill.

Bored of the Rings, not Pratchett.

Re: Unsurprising

This mass resignation...

How do the resignees afford to stay alive?

Re: I don't understand why they can't give an accurate install time

The installer know how many files it's going to copy, and how big they are because it's the installer. So just a simple "Installing file nn of mmm, zzz bytes of xxxx remaining" would do.

Re: A certain engineer of my acquaintence

I did exactly that for my Spectrum! :)

At one place I worked we had that. vistor came in, unplugged somebody's network cable, plugged his laptop in.

* Why can't I get a connection?

# In the popup your have to enter your payroll number and password to verify your work here, after your machine ID has been verified that verifies the laptop is one of our computers.

Some people really do think that networks points are just like power sockets.

Re: XP should die

I have one machine that I keep XP on for my PDP11 emulation, as later versions refuse to go full-screen with the correct number of lines and columns. Post-XP Windows in full-screen fills with as many columns and rows as will fit, instead of the number I tell it to use. Computers are supposed to be there to do what ****I**** tell them to do, not for them to tell me what they think I should be doing. I specify 80x25 full screen, you shall *****ing well give me 80x25 full screen.

Re: How are these going rates?

Because the UK sneers at technical skills and pays us dirt, sadly.

I've just been emailed this job:

"Senior Business Support Officer, playing a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations and providing exceptional support to our clients and internal teams. Your dedication, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills will be vital in maintaining the high standards we set for ourselves.

£10.90 per hour"

This is 45p more than minimum wage.

Re: ARM Comparison?

I've examined the ARM64 archetecture in the context of writing an assembler for it, and I can't say that ARM64 is simplified compared to ARM32.

Re: Maybe not Linux but Office maybe ditchable

Gets CD backup out...

accuRx - a prescription lookup system

barcode scanner - scans barcodes

cardiolink - connects to sensors that measure heart "stuff"

cardioview - views the data collected by cardiolink

crescendo - dunno

digiscript - transmitting presciptions electronically

dssplayer - dunno

dymolabel - driver for dymo printer to print labels on sample tubes

easylog - logs something

EMIS - patient records system

fujiscan - driver for fujitsu scanner for scanning barcodes

ib4w - can't remember

iMail driver - a printer driver that sends the "printout" as email

inrstar - again, can't remember

JayExDisplay - controls those big dot-matrix signs that say "Mrs Jones, see Dr. Smith"

LogTag Analyser - analyses logtags?

microlife - you tell me

numed intelligent interface - errrr

ecgviewer - views ecgs

scriptswitch - alternative to accuRx, prescription lookup system

SecaCario - alternative to cardiolink

spacelab - errr...

spriometry - errr....

SSV Radar - errr....

icg endpoint - ....

lexacom - dicatation software

sophos - virus control

systmone - the other patient record system

I have some USB hardware where one version will not recognise hubs, so devices must be plugged directly into it. The other version recognises hubs, but as soon as something is plugged in the hub it collapses itself under continuous interupts. It's a documented problem, and the recommended fix is "don't use hubs".

Ah, so it's if you *build* a house, it must have x, y, z. That's very different to what the OP said.

Re: Keyboard issues

Nope, not Win-SPACE here. Win-SPACE ;'# Win-SPACE ;'# no change.

we may even get a chance to vote the numpties, who think the crap is OK, out of office

But the other two parties also think this crap is OK.

Re: *EVERY* form of communication

The first printers were idealistic dreamers dreaming of making information free. (as in free speech)

Re: Not quite the same

I once worked in a 1970s council ziggurat where every morning the cleaners had to spray the carpets with water after vacuuming them to get rid of the static buildup.

Re: How many times?

Steve Radford.

Re: Buying time

One of my teaching jobs involved clipping round the ears kids attempting to destroy the computers they were on by flipping the power switch as fast as possible. There is ABSOLUTETLY *NO* other reason for flipping a switch as fast as possible other than attempted destruction.

Re: How secure *IS* your system

Six characters isn't Econet, that's Level 1 and Level 2 *Fileserver*. Econet is agnostic of what you send over it, as is the NetFS filing system that talks over the network.

Level 3 and SJ fileservers uses 10-character passwords, and SJ introduced NetFS_Op 66 GetEncryptionKey which allowed you to use encrypted passwords bound to the requesting client.

Re: Payroll, not automation...

That's a long queue.