Posts by Extra spicey vindaloo

So which antivirus is the best for Android

I constantly get popup adds on my cheap android phone, I'm suspecting this is the cause of it, how can I check / reflash the phone?

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https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.a2ueb47d6

A good chuckle if you know anything about javascript.

Ihope that this new series will be ok.

No real StarTrek since Enterprise was aired, it's been too a long time without ST.

* I don't count the Lens Flare Abuser's disregard for my childhood, by pissing on the back story of both ST and SW.

Cortana can't help you.

I'm in France using an English configured Windows 10 pc and my work Windows Phone.

Cortana refuses to run, because it can't do English when I am in France. But when it sees my GPS location as in England all works correctly. Very very short sighted Microsoft, at least Siri works here even when giving directions you have to think twice as to how she mangled the French words in English.

Windows 10 isn't that bad to be honest but I'll wait for the first service pack before upgrading my home machines.

My first day in a full time job, it sorts of fits with this.

I had spent two weeks training and this morning, I was being let onto the phones.

Telephone: Beep, service call.

Me: Good morning, British Gas Services, Dave speaking how can I help you?

Old woman: Hello, I'm waiting for an engineer to give me a service.

Me: I can see on the screen that he is due to see you this morning, between 9 and 12.

Old woman: Oh I do hope so deary, it's been a long time since I've had a good servicing, and I'm getting desperate.

I hit the mute button, the person sitting on the call with me is in tears and can't speak frantically waving for a supervisor. John, comes over..

John: Hello, I am David's supervisor, how can I help you?

Old woman: I'm waiting for an engineer to give me a servicing, It's been a long time since anyone took a look at it, and I'm getting desperate that he comes. I have to go out and do the shopping.

John hits the mute button and joins my colleague in tears trying not to laugh.

Taking a deep breath I reply : Well he is due to come before mid day, 1pm at the latest. I'm sorry we can't be more precise that that.

Old Woman: Ok thanks, I'll just have to wait for it then.

Me: Ok thank you for calling us and have a good day.

Old woman: bye.

Me: bye..

If you are carrying an USB key for authentication.

Why couldn't you just carry a big USB key to store your data on?

I think it's more important to educate people that if you turn the AC up (lower the temperature) it takes an hour or so of freezing air to get the room down to that temperature. I have to fight with my co-workers to leave it alone and not constantly mess with it.

My first thought was.

Radio triangulation, it's a two way signal so I'm sure they would be able to triangulate the person trying to hide. This seems to be a silly bit of kit.

I've just read.

A 10 book series, back to back twice,

Does that mean the author gets twice the payout?

When I reread books, and I do lots of times. Do the authors get paid again?

35,000-40,000 BCE (Before Common Era, or AD).

Don't you mean BCE (Before Common Era or BC)

35,000 AD - 40,000 AD is a long way in the future, I hope we are off this rock and exploring the stars before then.

I always thought

That there was a type of african frog, that during drought years where food and water is scarce started reproducing asexually, but when the rains came they got busy down the pond with anything that walks.

A lot of the keywords I'm trying to find on google are not allowed at work, so I'm expecting an email from the BOFH about now.

Java's only impact.

Was the workarounds that were performed to get around the failings of the JVM. These became so well known and thanks to the GoF were implemented in every language whether they needed them or not.

Factory pattern,

Singleton pattern,

Facade, etc etc etc.

If you know the language that you writing in, and understand why the patterns came about it's pretty obvious that you don't need them.

"Commands and paths had to be typed in full in the MS-DOS days, there was no fancy time-saving command-line auto completion. This feature popped up much later in the picture, when the command prompt had almost become a forgotten artifact of the pre-GUI era."

DOSKEY was available from MSDOS 5.0 and later.

Powershell is powerful but, I use it maybe once a month, and then mostly for Chocolatey.

But I have a command window open on my machine nearly all day. At the moment there are 3 of them.

Dir *.txt is a hell of a lot faster to find a file than trying to find it in a window.

Back in the Vietnam war, the F4's didn't have guns because Missiles were all you needed.

Unless these drones can be completely automated, cyberdyne style, someone will figure out how to jam the comms and make them completely useless.

"No plan survives contact with the enemy"

I live in France,

Amazon.com -> Most will not ship to europe, and you inccur huge tax.

Amazon.co.uk -> Most will not ship to europe, when they do it's by royal mail and that takes 5 - 6 weeks if it ever gets here.

Amazon.fr -> 2 -3 days, sent via la poste, pick it up from the post office if on Prime, if not they try to deliver then you pick it up from the post office the following day.

Amazon.de -> 3 - 4days same as .fr

At christmas I bought 4 boxes of lego for my child.

2 from amazon France and 2 from Amazon.co.uk

Amazon France delivered locally one parcel in 2 days, the second one came after 4 days with a Amazon.jp label on it and a nice Origami thankyou message.

1 box of Lego from the UK, arrived 4th of Jan, ordered mid October.

The last box never got to me, and was refunded.

Christmas presents sent from my Mother in the UK via Royal mail, again in october, arrived in mid Feb, the tracking number from La Poste said they took charge of the package 2 days before it was delivered.

I'm not pointing fingers here, but I think it's pretty clear where the problem lies.

So..

The helium escapes, as helium does.

The gas in the drive becomes less and less dense, and less and less conductive to heat.

I'm not convinced filling a drive with He is a good idea(tm)

I read that as.

Users don't want a cloud, neither do businesses. It brings no more benefit than our existing infrastructure.

Soak the ... over night!

I thought that this series was about food that you could knock up after comming back from the pub!

When it took off.

Pluto was a planet with a single moon.

Now it's not a planet and has at least 5 moons. They should be more worried about getting new horizons through Pluto's system safely.