Posts by A.P. Veening

That would have worked.

Re: Greedy giants

corrupt our political class

Impossible, politicians come pre-corrupted.

Re: If you can do it, just do it

If you REALLY can't do it, teach management, or manage teachers. Your choice!

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, manage.

Those who can't manage, audit.

Re: Evolution of electronic circuit construction technology

Later, there were CPU chips with internal programme ROM. The ROM tended to come in two varieties: EEPROM that could be reprogrammed after UV erasing, and one time programmed (OTP).

You are confusing EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), for which you need UV with EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), no UV needed.

Yes, I have tried the real thing in Seoul and Inchon. Several times actually as initially I could not believe people would sell stuff like that as food but clearly they can and do

That they sell it is one, that others actually buy (and supposedly eat) it is much harder for me to believe.

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A teacher of English, usually dealing with Japanese housewives, got a new class with four Korean housewives, the ladies Kim, Kim, Kim and Park. He told them he would, for reasons of clear communication, call them Kim One, Kim Two and Kim Chee. Four Korean housewives left in a huff.

Re: Don’t know about you

I would've gone for a dumpster full of broken glass and full nappies.

Waste of the glass, after that it won't be usable for recycling.

Re: Alpine is one of the better ones

pricing out current laptops for family it looks like 32GB is recommended for Windows 11

While true, Windows 11 itself is <understatement>not recommended</understatement>.

Re: Things would be a lot simpler ...

Things would be simpler if the government abolished IR35, abolished National Insurance and equalised taxation so that everyone pays the same rate of tax on income regardless of source.

True, but that would require something as coarse as common sense, something made from unobtainium where governments are concerned.

Re: screen scrubbing

Unfortunately, the domain name was taken over by a porn site.

I would qualify that as business as usual. Whenever the registration of a website with a decent amount of traffic lapses or it otherwise becomes available, it will be taken over by a porn site.

Not heard the expression "double Dutch"?

That is Greek to me ;)

and hit me with adverts for products I didn't know I wanted.

If only we were so lucky, we might discover something new. Unfortunately, they are going to hit us with adverts for products we just bought.

Re: almost whoops

Apart from new-builds are there any raised floors that don't have more cables than can possibly be needed and mostly of unknown provenance but might still be in use under them?

That depends a bit on the definition of "new-builds".

Re: Error messages have sometimes improved a bit

All are WOT issues (waste of time, for the uninitiated)

Also knows as ID-ten-T errors ;)

Re: Not recommended?

This is not recommended. It will be unstable and it will have bugs.

There you go, fixed it for you.

Still to optimistic I think.

Re: it takes time for an object to travel through physical space.

That same courier driver was once stopped by a police motorcyclist. For speeding, of course. "So, can I please see your flying license?" Which was offered. After which the plod had the good grace to reply "Next time, please file a flight plan first."

I've heard a very similar story about a airline pilot on his way to Schiphol when called at the last minute to fill in as replacement.

Re: Confused

With the speed the EU moves, we'll all be on USB-D by the time C is forced.

I admire your optimism, by that time USB-E will be EOL.

Re: No software can be trusted

Unless you wrote it yourself.

And even then you still have to trust the compiler/interpreter. See also this link, which has been posted before about trusting trust.

Re: Just for consistency

Turns out the extended quote is actually from "A Deepness in the Sky" - the second book in the universe of AFotD.

And another superb book.

Re: Full names please.......

Isobel is the Scottish form of Isabel. I wouldn't be surprised if it is the preferred spelling in other languages too.

Didn't know that, only know it for Spanish, Portugese, French, English, Dutch and German.

Re: That's a new one.

I claim my god given right to spend 2 minutes with the inventor of *that* phrase in a think tank and an overcharged cattle prod..

Are you really sure about that? What about if/when said inventor gets his (or her) hands on that cattle prod first?

Re: Resistance is useless ???

but what if people accidentally/actively (take your pick) started to pollute the data being collected, thereby rendering it increasngly worthless.

A friend and I used to have pretty long international telephone calls (when he lived abroad) about 20 years ago. We used to start off discussing explosives and various alphabet agencies before starting on the more important stuff.

Re: Just one jump?

Well, it is a Hopper.

But neither an admiral nor gracious.

Re: "[Borkzilla] said this week that Windows 11 adoption is going well"

At this rate, by 2100 you just might equal XP.

And even that will be mostly due to the diminishing usage of XP.

Re: POP!_OS

And as this is UNIX, why not count from 0?

Good question, but I just continued in the same way you started with the first London that came to your mind.

Re: Hey Microsoft ...

...and when world+dog can see Micros~1's source code, I suspect more than one security hole will be found.

I respectfully have to disagree with you, it is one giant security hole.

Re: Pitchforks

I've been searching for years for a working scythe. Good luck with that.

It's also been a good many years since I last saw one and even longer since I last swung one. It is a skill.

Fourth Prize

A lifetime in Siberia.

Re: Hokkaido

Yes but is it scalable?

No, eels don't have scales ;)

Re: Such memories...

When I ran out of floppies and cash I used to punch extra index holes and notches in the sleeve and insert them in the drive upside down - I was able to convert many single sided floppies to double that way.

On the Apple ][ there was no need for an extra index hole, just that extra notch was sufficient.

My NAS is not exposed to the internet so why bother?

Because your home network is?

Once somebody gets access to your home network, that NAS is an easy target.

Re: Virtual Friday BOFH

Will we get a bonus episode tomorrow??!!

That will truly make it a Good Friday.

The secret service was originally a branch of the treasury, it was founded to combat currency counterfeiters.

Still officially is. And the FBI is an off-shoot from the SS.