Posts by davidp231

Re: Auto Wastebasket purging based on date?

"Wastebasket"

Have you been loitering on UK installs of MacOS up to 8.6? Everyone else (and 9.0.4 and beyond) got 'Trash', and Win95 gave us Recycle Bin. Oh and OS/2 had 'Shredder'.

As for auto-purging... System 6 and below did that every time an application was opened or was restarted. I think things stayed if Multifinder was running, can't easily check.

I think 'Wastebacket' was the bst out of all of them though, but then System 6 was the first GUI that I used.

Re: Try the next Debian

Well Mint is just Ubuntu with the cack taken out, and Ubuntu is a more user friendly derivative of Debian. And LMDE is Mint on Debian, with no Ubuntu at all.

Re: OneDrive isn't the only thing MS does tricks with for linux

Secureboot-aware ones *should* play well with UEFI with the aforementioned option turned on (eg Ubuntu, OpenSUSE). Personally I don't bother with it so I can use an alternate EFI bootloader*, which needs faffing around to get signed so it plays nice with secure boot. Also, Windows EFI mode I believe requires a GPT partitioning scheme over the traditional MBR method or it refuses to play ball.

*rEFInd is the one in question - gives you a loader more akin to what Macs have and it autodetects removable media as well. I use it to boot Linux direct without having grub as an intermediary. I've got it set to boot Win10 (edu edition), LMDE2, and the recent Fedora and OpenSUSE releases.

You could always pin it on the DVLA for not vetting people before dishing out their driving license.

Re: And just to add to the confusion...

Later becoming Star Wars: Falcon to get viewer numbers back up, then fail miserably.

Re: Spare us all from a toaster that talks...

Lister: "Crap."

Toilet: "Hello, how can I help?"

Lister: "I wasn't talking to you"

Toilet: "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

And here it is: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/l3dge/tools/l3dgeworld_2.3/

El Reg article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/l3dgeworld/

Browse their FTP archive. I personally sit on 37.0.2 purely for the fact it's the last version with an actual preferences window, instead of dumping it as a web page.

Re: Sailfish (Jolla)

But with Sailfish's Android layer you would lose easy access to some useful apps (eg Barclays bank app - refuses to run on what it deems as rooted devices, unless you rename/remove 'su')

Lotus Organiser, in paper form.

Ace was pretty good too.

Re: Non-Intel processors in the Mac? Erm, yes.

And if you want to really split hairs you could mention the Star Trek project - where they got System 7 running on a very specific set of parts running on an i486.

Re: Dead, but only temporarily?

I recall them using an RSOD in the dev versions of Vista?

Re: Bit light on for technical details I thought

You could probably fit one inside a Deltic.

Re: Major Technical Mistake!

That's because it's a C64C - the later revision that was designed to look more like the 128, and had few other tweaks under the hood. And the C128 had a numeric keypad.

Re: No other place to put this

"Out of curiosity, how? Posted from Chrome on Android."

How? Simple, it's not Chrome.

Chrome has only one use in my eyes, and that's for watching Netflix under Linux. First thing I do when setting up a droid phone is disable all the bloatware - Chrome included.

Is this the same ESN that EE has won the contract to operate?

Re: You must change to one of our new packages

That's how Skodafone did it anyways... removed line rental, bumped up the other prices.

Re: Machine Operating System

The Model B startup was as follows:

BBC Computer 32K

Acorn DFS (or 1770 DFS with appropriate controller and ROM)

BASIC

The B+64 and B+128 changed it to Acorn OS 64K (128K), with Acorn 1770 DFS

The Master series was Acorn Mos (for version 3.20) and MOS for 3.50) and DFS as above - and had a CMOS battery, in the shape of 3x AA batteries.

The Master Compact was:

Acorn Mos

Acorn ADFS

BASIC

Regarding the SD card, look up "Retroclinic".

Re: Surface Phone?

Indeed.. the original Communicator was a 386 SX/20.

Looks like they have woken up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37198445

Just keep away from Despair Squids... unless you have a compliment of limpet mines.

Re: Also my first thought...

Perhaps it's pining for the fjords?