Posts by Robert Carnegie

For efficient business communication, make sure you use the right sword?

Re: There's two more rules, actually...

An explanation offered to me was on lines that it's more complicated with actors. An actor typically isn't a gun expert and therefore isn't given any responsibility or freedom to check whether the thing in their hand may go bang. They have to trust the specialist, and the specialist, of course, must not trust the actor. A corollary is that almost always, the thing in an actor's hand must not be an actual go bang thing.

Re: "... because of all the sand which is there"

I would suggest a Roomba or twenty built by the people who make the robot carts that are sent to Mars. They do okay on sand.

Some comics by John Byrne in a "near future" setting appeared to have standard male formal dress with a "tie", a broad vertical line anyway, printed on your shirt front.

Or the style here. http://majorspoilers.com/2018/01/14/retro-review-danger-unlimited-1-february-1994/

Re: Shared printers

They had that in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - the film - IIRC the eccentric father has invented a candy whistle and there is a jolly song about "Toot Sweets".

Re: unauthorized SPI ROM modification.

I've not got straight how this works - whether it is EEPROM (a bug in your CPU can be permanently patched) or RAM (the OS has to load a patch into RAM on the CPU to replace ROM, every boot time). This report should help, but it doesn't?

Evidently, the situation is an exam room where you use the college or company's own PC and it does not allow a different browser or a command prompt. Running "Windows 10 S" probably. ;-)

Re: Zelazny

I'm not sure if I really appreciate the work of Roger Zelazny, because I gather that pieces he was proudest of are ones that I don't like so much. I enjoyed "Coils" and his "Nine Princes in Amber" series about the curious cosmic city Amber, and I believe he wrote the Amber books strictly for money. That said, "all the Sounds of Fear" and "Repent, Harlequin" are by Harlan Ellison, aren't they?

"The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" obviously is a fishing story set on and in the mighty oceans on Venus. ...Okay.

Re: Fail

I expect a lot of people aren't really testing the "don't let in the wrong person" part.

Historically, consumer products have been casual in this area, you hear of car manufacturers that produced hundreds of different models, millions of cars sold, ten different keys if you're lucky.

Half of the work force that built it have subsequently died.

It says here LXQt is now at version 1.0. What will they do when it gets to 0?

Re: Doomsday

I mean, it puzzles me somewhat that the NHS, the hospitals and doctors, are speaking authoritatively about vegetables in cans that could be but apparently aren't poisonous.

Re: What's The Password?

Excuse me looking up the supposed academic paper example that went something like:

A complicated mathematical paper.[1]

[1] Thanks to Colleague X for translating this paper.[2]

[2] Thanks to Colleague X for translating the previous footnote.[3]

[3] Thanks to Colleague X for translating the previous footnote.

And it stops there, but shouldn't it go on? And on and :-)

If it's true, I think it won't apply to taking existing "open source software" or other third party software and modifying it to meet NASA's requirement. Exactly how it won't apply, may be tricky. Open source software is copyrighted by all the authors, I suppose, the catch being that any contribution into an OSS project also is licensed for anyone to use. Being copyrighted means that users do have to abide by the licence conditions.

And presumably, U.S. government data can be legally secret. That may be not relevant, but I would assume that the Hubble Space Telescope for instance has a secret password so you can't just remote control it for fun.

Re: Xscreensaver

Well, screen savers are pretty but basically useless today such as for protecting your screen... and given the rich variety of pranks discussed here to play on a work colleague five seconds after they leave their keyboard unlocked, relying on a screen saver to protect you is imprudent.

Re: I was there...

"BASICODE" was an "agnostic" format. A very limited dialect of BASIC to run on many home computers. The BASICODE 2 "tape" sounded like BBC data without the (?) 256 byte chunks, and I could save a listing from BBC Micro, but ZX Spectrum would only load from the tape - and of course you had to load a BASICODE loader first.

Re: It's a trap !

I just use paper labels and transparent tape on plugs. It should work on switches too.

I've never really worked out the light switch upstairs at my sister's. One switch is hall light, one is bathroom light, one I have no clue, I just randomly switch until I do what I wanted to do. Then I wash my hands. ;-)

Re: Niche?

Some DAB is mono. BBC radio does music, properly. Commercial radio does advertisements. But if you're happy with "internet radio", that's fine.

"Open source" and "We've decided" does not fit well together. But literally, "Open source" just means "You can read the source code". Not to, you know, use it.

Re: Pining for the old school

Essentially not, if I tell it to "move" D:\Robert into D:\Robert\Carnegie ... I don't want it to COPY files and fill the disk. Arguably, I haven't given it a legal instruction at all: if Carnegie is a sub folder of Robert, and then I move Robert inside Carnegie ... now where is Carnegie?

The "best" outcome would be that D:\Robert remains, and D:\Robert\Carnegie remains, and the rest of it is in D\Robert\Carnegie\Robert including in D:\Robert\Carnegie\Robert\Carnegie .

But it sounds like D:\Robert\Carnegie\Robert\Carnegie\Robert\Carnegie\Robert\Carnegie is happening?

Re: I think the numbers speak for themselves...

You want to install application software and have it working. Snap simplifies this process. That looks all right to me.

Re: is this new?

Not my expertise, but I'd guess that an Android app doesn't know what Windows Hello is. Probably it will work with a Windows password management program though. And it would be for a bank to decide to publish its Android software through Amazon as well as through Google, it is mainly just a different file server providing the same files, but if they don't then I don't know why... is it inconsistent with other activities of Amazon? Amazon does do a credit card, or one that says Amazon on it.

Or, you could use the bank's web site.

Re: Fax

I understand there's an ITU standard (if you've got it at both ends) that allows the sender to set a password on a fax. The receiving machine evidently holds the fax in memory until an authorised person inputs the password, then it is printed or whatever. I hope that if the receiver doesn't do passwords then the fax isn't sent, but I didn't get that deep into it.

Or I think someone mentioned a method that I've used with sensitive information by fax - phone the authorised recipient and agree that in, say, five minutes from now, or in sixty seconds, I will be sending the fax and they should be at their machine to watch it come out.