Posts by davidp231

Re: Sarcasm

"A new shade of blue? But that will mean changing the light bulb!"

Or changing the paint from Ocean Blue to Military Blue.

Re: The metaverse can kiss my balls*

I'd rather run with Better Than Life, personally.

Re: Missing options

"Surely it should be Bojo saying, "I take full responsibility"."

He has to say it first.

"Now why can't Windows 11 let their users go back to a Windows 10 or 7 start menu for those who prefer the way it used to work? If they wanted to change the UI after feedback from Windows users that they would prefer it laid out differently, then that is great. But give the option for those who prefer to use the old way the option to do so."

That'll be in Windows 11.1. Remember when they brought back the Start/Windows button and made it default to the desktop?

Awesome. That's my evening reading sorted. There was another one. I think it was programmed to go after the Boss, as the three of them were trapped in a lift at one point.

Re: "crypto mining software is not malware"

"And CPU cycles are energy and energy is money."

So.... Windows Update is malware in that case? I mean that hogs 100% of the CPU and almost all your bandwidth.

Exactly my point... to me, W2K was the last version of Windows aimed at professionals. And grown-ups.

Re: Can someone...

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This is exactly the same reason for recent Windows machines dropping 16-bit support (as the ntvdm relied on VM86 and MS are too poor to pay for the effort to work around it)."

Not too sure about recent.. the x64 editions of XP (both Itanic and x86-64) had zero support for 16 bit stuff and that was getting on for 20 years ago. You weren't even allowed to run the command prompt in full screen.

Glory to you, and your house.....

We need a Gowron icon.

Re: AV "protection"

"So, what protection would you recommend for the average home user or small business?"

Keeping the PC in the box it came in.

Variation of an old fortune cookie: "How do you secure Windows NT? Keep it in the shrinkwrap".

Re: Ah, yes! Warning lights!

"Of course, any mention of "changing the bulb" immediately brings this to mind!"

I think 'brown alert' bulbs should be standard fittings everywhere.

Re: Screenwash?

Cooler... 3 veeks.

Re: where's the new one?

"Looks like the ISS must follow in the footsteps of Mir and the Space Shuttle, living WAY past its (original) project expiration date."

Not forgetting the Voyager probes. They're still (sort of) doing their original job despite the distance.

Re: George Smiley's age

"John le Carre's George Smiley ages very slowly."

What do you expect... he was played by a Jedi Master...

Re: It makes sense...

"also these old cars are Internet and hacker proof, but not being hacked with an axe proof."

A 1987 Toyota Hi-Lux would disagree.

Re: what about 74xx chips?

left over 'waffer thin mints'?

Re: A train, any train, not just the Shinkansen

Don't forget the "wrong kind of snow".

Re: I guess the 6502/68000 aren't part of iApples's history?

"And PowerPC, an IBM chip."

See also: Apple, IBM, Motorola alliance. It was a combined effort.

Re: Hardly only their high-end kit

"HP consumer kit is also notorious for crap."

So.... Hewlet Crappard? (see also: Crappard Bell)

Re: It's not just the names ...

African or European swallows?

Oh dear, how sad, nevermind.

Re: "He runs on carrots"

"Hello horse, I shall call you Tesco."

Re: still unable to uninstall bloatware

Because 95% of the bloatware is sat in the firmware image. Rooting may let you remove it but for the general user - tough.

Re: Literally a legend

"I had a BBC micro but it was a friends ZX80 which introduced me to the world of computing.... which was to be my career."

End of the day, if it weren't for Sir Clive, there may never have been a Beeb to begin with, as Sinclair Radionics is where some key Acorn staff started.

"Any of the regular native mail clients will handle it including Thunderbird and its Seamonkey relative."

Oh they will quite happily. But you have to turn on "insecure access mode" in Gmail preferences to use them. And then suffer with being badgered by Google to turn it off again.

Re: Semantics

"Did you post that from a small village on Mars, just outside the capital city?"

Wibble wibble.

The action of dropping a template file (e.g. a bitmap) creates an empty bitmap image you can open and edit.

Re: Here's my guess

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