Posts by Blane Bramble

Re: Not surprised

Settings -> Audio -> Microphone

Works for me without being in a meeting.

Re: Well I'm glad it's not just me

It's uniform but not washed out. You could also change all the element colours individually to customise the look. Try to do that with Win10.

Re: 16KB

"Jupiter Ace had 1 K RAM and could run Pacman written in Forth on that. I had one and even got a 2nd for work to control some test gear."

You are confusing your ROM and RAM.

Re: Forget the 'Osborne Effect':focus on the "Upton Effect".

And yet the R-Pi is hugely successful.

Maybe it's not about you.

Re: Anonymity?

"Why would that ever be needed in a true democracy? Oh..."

If the vote is completely anonymous, you cannot verify or audit it, making it vulnerable to fixing.

Re: Did they change the meaning of an acronym again?

"Soon the acronym will be so long it may as just have a "-" to say who isn't in the club"

You might be on to something there. Perhaps we should just refer to the "!S" community.

Re: File Transfer Potocol

"One of the biggest drawbacks with FTPS is that encrypting the control channel prevents firewalls from eavesdropping on data port commands, which breaks dynamic ACL/NAT logic for those secondary connections."

The usage of data port is one of the biggest flaws in FTP, why you would want to encourage the use is beyond me. The concept was used back when there was a serious limit on the number of socket connections to a specific port, often limited by the size of the bit mask for the select call. This is no longer a restriction. When a web server can handle thousands of connections over a single destination port, why does a file transfer protocol need to change ports on the fly, just use the well-known port like a sensible protocol.

Re: AI with worker drones

"Preferably tarmacced rather than a rolling collection of patched patches."

Good luck with that!

Re: Seen in the wild

IBM PS/2

10483 error

'nuff said

Re: Re-branding exercise

Cherry Max

Max Lite

Max Max?

Re: Buyer's remorse?

I think they did, but the problem is they did receive the goods, so now they're trying to complain it wasn't as described.

Re: Point defense?

Carefully

Re: Selective deafness

"I use Apple computers; they work fine for me and I'm reminded every time I have to fight with my son's plasticky Dell"

You should have bought him a better Dell then. Apple are not the only people who make slim, light laptops, and they did not invent them.

Re: AWS=Amazon WEB Services

"AWS is pretty much Apache Server stitched badly onto a basement-teenager-coded middleware layer ... while Azure is an IBM Mainframe Class of Operating System and Networking infrastructure"

And you call yourself an expert?

Re: 445 – bikinis – rather than the bicycles in 444

Prepare for MAD

Mutually Assured De-clothing

Re: TV ownership fine

You can own a TV without paying the license fee.

There, does that help?

Re: Employer...

"the boss between 10 and 11 and he worked through until 6 or 7 in the evening. Anybody, especially management, leaving before him was a slacker"

Seen it, but it's a sign of poor management. The response is "my guys have been here since 8. You arrived at 10. Of course they're leaving before you".

Re: As for ghosts (holy or otherwise) ...

So are UFOs real then?

Yes. UFO ...

Unidentified

Flying

Object

It doesn't mean "alien spaceship" you know?

"BT should have point blank refused to allow other companies into its exchanges back in the 'mercury' days. "

We'd still be waiting for ADSL to be given the green light while BT protected their leased line and ISDN business.

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

"Coders should have sound proofed booths."

You'll never cope with having kids if you have that attitude to disturbances. Learn to focus.

Re: Doing this in parts of the US too

Having studied the USA for many years, I believe your solution is "moar gunz".

Re: Well that ruling has a timespan of about 30 days in the UK

"Threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership, and saying that if they don't sell you the car you'll steal it and torch it."

No, threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership and saying if you can't agree a price you'll walk away. A relatively strong bargaining position.

Removing "No Deal" from the table is going to a car dealership and telling them you have to leave with a car, no matter what. A very weak bargaining position.

It is clear a lot of people have never tried to negotiate anything in their life.

Re: "In The Box"?

Ahh, but that isn't latency introduced by the network (those wires and switches and routers and stuff).

Hence. no "network" latency.

You appear to have "patented" things that other people were doing 10-20 years before you.

Well done.

"This will add a free extra 25 miles driving or so on electric"

It won't be free for long, currently it's subsidised by fuel duty. Once a significant proportion of vehicles are electric the government will need to reclaim that money elsewhere. You will be paying for charging, and probably also a tax per mile travelled.

This sounds like EBS failed and wasn't even locally redundant though. That is a much bigger problem if true.

Re: Brilliant?

"Top Gear does still have some of that amazing photography that Grand Tour was completely unable to match."

You might want to go back and watch a bit more of Grand Tour then, you clearly didn't see the same camera work I did.

@Julz

They provide a very nice and flexible tool kit that you can use to build lots of amazing things, and just like any set of tools, if you know how to use them they're great. If you don't know how to use them, you'll need to pay someone who does, or take the risk that your DIY job might turn out more expensive than you thought and still require a professional to sort it out.

Re: As much as I love bashing Apple...

There is a time and plaice for that sort of humour

Re: I like proper cash

You HAVE to accept cash in England, and in Scotland, you have to accept certain coins.

Not true. You have to accept legal tender for a debt, and cash is legal tender.

You don't have to accept cash for a sale.

Of course your (V32) 9600bps modem operated at 2400 baud.

Re: Estimating Software Projects

Sounds a bit like a Z80 assembler course I was on, already knowing how to use it. So tasks like "write a sub routine to beep the console 3 times" became "use the most esoteric instructions and logic to beep the console 3 times" - jumps by pushing addresses on the stack and returning to them, using the index registers, that sort of thing.

Re: Changed the (IT) world

Or the joys of F15 Strike Eagle on the ZX Spectrum, so much engine power that you could get your wings blown off and fly back to base just by keeping the nose up.

Re: Two day delivery?

It's two days in the USA I believe - it's quite a big place.

Re: Lol arcane knowledge of memory management

@Zilla "Nobody ever taught memory management to anyone."

Maybe not to your generation.

"that we can't even launch without getting permission from the White House?"

Because that last bit is wrong.

Re: A thin line

But you previously stated: "No doubt put in there as a result of poor management. ... unfortunately nobody thought of replacing said management."

I take it they don't do sarcasm where you're from.

Re: 44 allegations

@Loyal Commenter

But as a student your details are present on two different lists in two different polling stations.

Now do you understand the potential issue?