Posts by Sam Liddicott

Re: The glory days of UK IT

Protecting the cartel?

Re: Bosses shouldn't touch stuff...

Probably your BIOS didn't recognise all of the tracks or heads or sectors.

In the early days there were certain number of hard disk configurations that the BIOS could recognise.

You had to look for a convenient subset of a disc you actually had.

Re: My God break down and buy a new printer...

we found the shareholder, with golden curly-haired children

Re: DLP?

It's likely encrypted anyway, is it's a Microsoft server

In a civil case you are going to court with a claim for damages.

if they offer to settle for your demanded claim, how will you still go to court? By rejecting their offer and then demanding the same amount?

Re: Not the only one...

I remember the QNX bootable floppy with web browser and nerworking.

Amazing

Re: I'm curious

Simply paying the $200 won't help if you don't understand what the problem is that he was talking about

Re: Just a quick question.

The difficulty with the process you describe is that the non-expert can't tell when they have put enough work in to not embarrass themselves and others.

Responding with "if you had just put more work in then you would have a got a good result" is just hand-waving.

Re: I will NEVER use this rubbish voluntarily

not that you were in any doubt, you just wanted to enjoy the party

Re: Ask other users in our forums...

> I was amazed they left that one in.

After snorting coffee all over the keyboard they probably hadn't the facilities left to remove it

Re: Sumption is wrong

Farage wasn't parliament though, was he?

And parliament didn't take his advice so they voted through other voting rules.

I bet they aren't using calloc

Re: BBC News 24 talking to a medical researcher last night

Too many think that other people can be used as a "means" to their "end" on the grounds that someone is suffering

Re: How is this possible?

Stop using C, peeps!

It's too hard to get right enough everywhere, as we are seeing.

Re: Should we care ?

"The best players get to make the rules, and they became the best players by having what you need to survive. This is reality. Uncomfortable, but not incorrect"

True, but from the article we see that you are describing politics, not capitalism, I quote:

"relaxed legislation and the liberal dangling of subsidies and incentives"

^^^ That's what it takes to make up for India not being "the best player", not even being good enough to otherwise be considered.

What we are seeing is a bad player, playing badly.

Re: Blockchain

That could describe what they did, but how about a replay attack?

Perhaps you meant challenge-response using a private key.

Ooops that could also be a known-plaintext attack to reveal the private key.

So while it could be done, even by depending on a private key, you also accidentally also specified a failing system

Another server configuration that PHP runs on termed WIMP for good reason, and it DOES have windows in it.

Re: Sad to see it go

I believe the spelling is:

wubble-wubble-wubble

I have it on good authority

Re: JS lib house of cards - you ARE the weakest link!

I remember this being a problem for Microsoft just over 20 years ago with an exploitable libtiff having been statically linked into their apps.

worse than an Acorn electron

Worse than an acorn electron - an 8 bit CPU on a 4 bit data bus -- which pretty much ruined it.

Re: Pascal has always been great

I wrote a device drivers in turbo pascal to work with a windows Delphi app.

Its job was to pre-register client handles with windows csmapper so that apps could regisster with card services (pcmcia) *after* windows had started (csmapper was intednded only for clients that loaded before windows started).

There was quite a bit of dpmi stuff going on to ensure that callbacks occured in the correct virtual machine (if there were dosbox clients running under windows).

Turbo pascal didn't lack anything C could do.

Re: For extra fun ...

And how many men are you?

Re: It's all in the 'title'

I was taught that a "professional" is one in whom gross misconduct or dishonesty could of itself bar them from effective participation in their profession.

That is, their integrity is gone, not merely that a registration board has de-listed them.

Who would hire a software engineer found guilty of inserting back doors without their employers knowledge? Or who would lie on a passport form? If you can't trust their word, you can't trust their work.

Hence, a professional being trusted to sign a passport form because of what they have to lose if they lie.

Re: writing a variable twice.

Until you learned (which I didn't until decades later) that you could treat page 0 as being an array of 256 registers.

Re: "Twitter [...] have broken GDPR rules"

That sounds like an argument for partial revocation of human rights.

Madame guillotine also waits for you, citizen Robespierre, by your own argument.

Re: Beautiful

It was possible even in DOS well before Windows 95 with the "join" command.

Re: Fixing the symptom…

Really?

How many OS do you know of that sort the results of readdir?

That would require the OS to either read all of the filenames before returning any of them, or that the FS maintain an order, and most FS do not.

Re: Brexit

To be fair, we should have had a vote on joining the EU in 1992.

if the voters who have lamentably aged 27 years in the intervening period could have voted then, we would have to be in this mess now.

Re: "Palmer believes Oracle is billing the wrong entity"

The anger is because the minimum licence quantity is 500

Re: At werdsmith.

I see what you did there.

Nice demonstration!