Posts by Dan 55

Re: This whole industry is a self-licking ice cream cone

You checked a while back then because creating a local account on first run is non-obvious now.

You are not going to be able to run Sonoma on it though.

Is that the OS where they took Snow Leopard and scribbled over it with their crayon set for about 15 years?

Re: What happens when

That's a very spicy take, it's been retroactively unsupported two and a half years after release.

Re: What happens when

Why do you have KB5001716 installed?

The clue is it has its own entry in Add/Remove Programs. It's not a security update or a feature update.

Is it?

My 2007 iMac is still perfectly fine and there's no need to throw it out. In three years time it'll be 20 years old.

Come now Khapitan, you know as well as I do that the best chance Musk has of making money on Twitter now that he's run it into the ground is by appealing to the worst of humanity and hosting snuff videos. This is why he wants to fight it in court, no other reason.

Well, it'll work until advertisers realise their adverts are appearing next to people getting gunned down.

Re: Coincidentally...

We're all curmudgeons at heart no matter our age here.

Re: 8-Bit Wars Redux

I imagine the Z80's 16 bit arithmetic also helps with Freescape. You can also turn the CPU speed up on a Spectrum Next or an emulator so the game renders faster and unlike many games the clock countdown still works properly.

Re: Not fade away...

Shame. I know the eZ80 is more like a SOC, but I thought perhaps the Z180 or Z280 could be persuaded to work even if the pins going to RAM > 64K are connected to nothing.

Re: Not fade away...

Maybe some adaptor board can be made to convert a DIL socket to a square socket for a Z180 or Z280.

Re: "Windows 95" design?

... Tragically you couldn't patent software at that point. So this was the one I invented, I came up with the idea of the icon bar across the bottom. In case anyone ever asked where it came from, we were sat in a room thinking 'how do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have to go across the bottom – and we can't use text, so we'll have to use icons.' That's why it's like that," Fellows continued.

"There was a guy at Colton Software with us… who joined Microsoft in Seattle, and it was shortly after that that Windows acquired an icon bar. I know how that idea got there."

So... MS took the same approach and Windows took the Apple menu and upside-downed it (but you could drag it to the top again if you wanted) and smashed it together with the task bar from RISC OS?

Re: Remind me

The TikTok video linked in the article (probably best to open in private mode) is also fun, the guy walks up to his Cybertruck holding half the accelerator pedal and you can see the body starting to rust.

What a heap of junk.

I think we'll see Half Life 3 finished before Star Citizen is finished.

I've no problem with those keys, after all they were they same keys on other computers. But pressing what is usually the copy hotkey to stop it pasting into an MS-DOS window (which IIRC was done by injecting each keypress) is not an obvious choice. Or I never found it. It might have even exited your program if you accidently did it twice (once to stop pasting, another time to exit). Esc would have been better.

I don't know... First why was Ctrl-C chosen to abort an active paste session in MS-DOS if it's the copy hotkey?

And secondly shouldn't full-screen software be able have a way of saying to the OS that it's not interested in hotkeys being messed about with in the first place?

You can see the cruft piling up in Windows in the mid-90s...

Visual Studio Express or Visual Studio Community Edition or MinGW on Windows: Total cost £0.00.

gcc on RHEL 9 with Individual Developer Subscription: Total cost £0.00.

Re: If people want to side load crap onto their phone, they can buy an Android

It's not penalising success, it's about ensuring market leaders don't lock out competitors so that they too can succeed and therefore ensuring customers have a choice.

Saying that Apple only has 28% of the market therefore shouldn't be regulated as the other poster argued is missing the point. Obviously coming first will get you gatekeeper status, that doesn't mean everyone else will not get gatekeeper status, it applies to any corporation which is big enough to meet the gatekeeper definition and is therefore potentially big enough to use their market position to lock out competitors.

Re: If people want to side load crap onto their phone, they can buy an Android

It does make you a gatekeeper though.

Re: If people want to side load crap onto their phone, they can buy an Android

It's entirely relevant as they are first. But I think you can Google it for yourself just like I did.

Re: If people want to side load crap onto their phone, they can buy an Android

In less than the time it takes for you to spend the rest of day trying to make some kind of contrarian libertarian point, you could have summoned up a ranked table of market share by smartphone manufacturer and seen the answer for yourself.

Plus the Core Technology Danegeld.

There's no way a app "store" like F-Droid could exist on iPhone, the fees prohibit it.

Re: If people want to side load crap onto their phone, they can buy an Android

Apple's share of the mobile phone market as of Mar 24, is 28.46%

Now compare against other manufacturers.

Re: Bad timing for Musk...

Isn't Tesla still at the "putting someone in a suit" stage of Optimus or have they managed to progress to moving it around with strings?

Re: Good old Boston Dynamics

Their robot dogs sort of have a friggin' head, and can even talk. Who wouldn't want a robot dog which talks like KITT?

All they need to do now is put eyes on it so when they change colour to red we know when they've switched to evil mode.

Re: Unconnected streaming devices

People never connect their smart TV to the Internet, which is different. The streaming device is connected to the HDMI port.