Posts by Paul 129

Re: Amiga days.....

Win10 is just so Microsoft. In dos 5 I couldn't believe that you could have a dir listing that iterated forever. Crank forward a few decades. Nothing has changed.

Re: Power hungry, low coverage, and heavier.

With a recharge time of under a minute its not an issue. Flip the back off swap the battery, replace the back and power on (Love my V20)

Sadly, it's not likely to be repeated.

Re: Not since 1998...

I'd have to second the idea that something is seriously wrong.. The app store packaging structure seems more sound that the old windows installations, but of course there is a cost. Winsxs. All those identically named dlls that once we the bane of your existence are all lovingly and separately registered in winsxs each with a truncated guid, like signature. File corruptions can be identified and fixed automagicly with sfc, but god help you if somehow the sxs registrations go awol, or you think you can simply copy a file in to replace a corrupt one.

The OS is strong. (The failure rate of updates, given how they do the feature updates, is way lower than I would have expected ) I'd guess you've got some corruption in your sxs manifests. Wipe and reinstall i'm afraid.

Stop error codes are still viable and the crash logs are better than ever.

Unabashed linux fan. Windows is stuffed, but not in the way you describe. Its surprisingly durable.

Re: wanting the run box back

One of the last vestiges of windows3. You can STILL drop files into the run box, and their filename appears. Dammed handy to find file locations at times.

Byzantine is the result of so many layers of hack, and band aid patches over the years.

Re: Diode or Storage

To me the article reads as more efficient systems with a replacement for a diode. One in which a magnetic field controls the flow of current and is thus much more efficient than a standard diode junction.

So something like a FET then?

Slippery footing! Beware the snake Oil!

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

html is not just for online browsing. Write it once for both on and offline.

You can even, if your feeling masochistic, write it for printing

Re: Zzzzzzz

"Ah... El Reg's resident Microsoft shill J J Carter couldn't resist opining on 'hate speech' against MSFT."

Microsoft shills? Send em to the Hell Desk! Nothing like real world experience to reform a shill!

Re: VNC

X2go was another interesting system (did have issues with apps using opengl, but could just about watch movies over it). I find myself using xrdp at the moment though.

Also note there are a number of interesting python libraries to automate actions within vnc sessions.

Each solution, good in a number of ways, but no single one can do it all.

Re: The IP of where the attack comes from...

So when you find a data breech linked back to an attacking ip address, who do you report it to.

That machine is most likely compromised. True, but without any stats or other details, your deliberately

But locally at least, the feds(Australia) had up on their website about 12 months ago, that they were not interested in receiving information unless the attack originated within Australia.

So when I find an attack that has done damage to a business, cause its a small business, no one is interested in the last hop? No one wants to know? Just file insurance claims and move on....

head meet hole in sand.

Re: Hmmm...

Endangering a flight. Locally its a 20 year sentence. Absolute liability, so you can't cry I didn't mean to.

I'd expect it to be the similar in other jurisdictions, especially given various international agreements.

Murderers can get less. So get the police to really investigate, charge and jail the people involved.

Theres a good chance that the person has a mobile phone, so there's only so many people in the cell zone.

Postal rediection services?

Are these not available in the US somehow? I would have though them common.

Re: The pace of change accelerates => the fourth derivative of the state is positive

The fourth derivative of the state is positive! I have not hear that used before. You made my day!

How many people wont realise that your talking about an ever increasing quantity of jerk!

LOL!

A beer for you!

Re: Nano

Actually quite a number have. The Russians even had a flying tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40.

Practicality of competing requirements (airworthiness, weight, power, safety, suspension, armor, not chopping up people with a great big propeller) seem to be why these never, really get off the ground.

Re: Obviously the solution is....

"Anyone who's ever looked after a horse will be lolling right now. They are time and money pits :D"

A bike is faster over a prolonged distance.

As well as not having the disposition to try and throw you off, tread on your toes, or walk under low branches, cause its feeling a little lazy/moody/mischievous.

Watch out for low stuff. I swear they're mostly mischievous, with the occasional horsing around.

Re: Down with this sort of thing...

"Code review? insert jaundiced cackle..."

No. Classic Wizard of Oz, wicked witch of the west cackle. FTW!

Re: so this is one of a series of gummints that

Denarius: Has lots of ideas. The problem is simpler than that unfortunately.

The problem is that the parties are designed to get people elected. They are not designed to get good, skilled people elected. As a result the political staffer with no real life experience, is the one who knows all the shortcuts, already has the key contact details within the party, and looks young youthful, an energetic go getter.

Truth is, they're an inexperienced know nothing who have watched any number of shady backroom deals and backstabbings. These are the people we empower to run our government!

The only way to change things, is to get involved. Doesn't matter which party. They've all rotted away to their poisoned cores. Get more people involved and take government back for the average majority. This left right divide is simply b@ll$hit to keep the masses occupied, thinking there is a difference, rather than demanding good leadership.

Re: You couldn't make this stuff up.

It certainly tries to push itself down your throat. +1 to the irony meter.

Re: Woah

"You must have learned on very early versions. It hasn't really changed in over 20 years other than moving buttons to more accessible places."

I'll bite. Early versions the Mac was where it was at, but you had to withe down the full version of office on the disks. Cause each one was different 6.05 6.05a 6.05z etc kinda like windows builds. Most were unstable on mass, the select few you could install in a lab and not have problems. The macro language looked great until you tried to do anything complex. Then it became bizarre. (a find function operating slower than matching every cell in the column looking for the presence or otherwise of a value in a column iteratively)

PC versions were next, it worked better on windows, but limited. Through the 90's and 00's the fun was large documents. Oh and the roughly 12 years of manually putting a registry entry to fix the Australian English dictionary. (Gave up on ever expecting that to be fixed, err recognized as a fault) Locking up machines and crashing, only to be fixed by a cut and paste of all text into a new document. Haven't had to deal too much with it since the ribbon, I know the functions are there, just have to find them, same sort of stuff. Help became more useful (don't mention clippy) Oh and of course each damned version formatting documents subtly differently.

But the bane of my existence in recent years. Outlook and imap..... (the first microsoft mail with the exchange backend or pop was actually quite good).

Linux may be a right royal pain in the arse with a few things, when you try something new or get away from the mainstream. But once you have it working, its rock solid.

Office hasn't really changed all that much over the years, its still has delusions of adequacy.