Posts by MrT

Kernel drivers...

... are the reason that even Cyanogen can't develop their newest for the original HTC Desire - if the manufacturer doesn't release them there's not much to do except hope that your chef of choice still keeps cooking up Gingerbread in the ROM kitchen.

OTOH this kernel fault is hitting millions so if Samsung fix it on one handset there's a good chance it'll work across them all (providing it's low-level enough) - Galaxy S2 and up with their own CPU (as opposed to Qualcomm like in US S3s). They've rolled out kernel patches before without needing to fuss with Network kludge, so I wouldn't give up hope. I reckon if they've rolled 4.x out for the handset it'll likely be covered.

Then again, my record on winning bets is jot good - might as well bet against me just to be sure... ;-)

Re: IIIIII II I III I III

Woodstock? Is that you??

But I can see...

... Pat Butcher's house, so it can't be the Nile.

Pat - Titan, and proof that drinking hydrocarbons is not good for the skin.

Re: What about other models?

944...

But it'll only work on Vertos handsets. On regular Nokias it's 356.

Good stuff...

... but why not also give him an unused first name beginning with 'L'...?

That's what happens...

...when you try to use magic to make the cables tidy themselves up. You are the apprentice, the sorcerer is the Unix guru in the basement office (no windows of any sort, obviously).

Mind you, whilst the cables magically replicate, SCSI termination blocks disappear into dust without any help whatsoever.

Too small...

... to park your pint on the edge. Unless they're selling it with tiny glasses and a spill-proof screen guard.

BlackBerry fanbois...

... still a bit of a mouthful though - how about "Bramblers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramble

Saw it used...

...on The Big Bang Theory (s4 ep17 or so). That one ended in the "I can see right up your nose" thing. Never seen it used IRL outside of an office - network manager used it a couple of times to contact techs. The novelty soon wore off because it just isn't as convenient to try to hold the device and aim a camera as it is to just use an earpiece and drop back to voice leaving hands free to work. On these odd occasions they used it for troubleshooting physical things, up to the point where a network connection was established and remote desktop took over. It's got a place in the grand scheme of things, but won't be any where near first choice in many folk's lists.

Only if...

... you're using degrees. File a good few hundred more for turn angles in radians and gradians... :-/

QL SuperBASIC...

...was about as developed as it got - and iirc there was a backwards ports of it to the Speccy that featured on one of the magazine cover tapes. I used to program in both and QL SB was fully procedurised, which was a good basis to learn for things like VisualBASIC and Delphi, both of which I had back when they were v1, stack of 3.5" floppy disks to install. My QL shareware releases were always left in SB so that others could modify and update as required, but the commercial stuff got compiled with Toolkit II and a bunch of other add-ons before release.

Has...

..."twunt" made it into the OED yet? Might be defined as a contraction of the words "Velvin" and ... sorry, my memory for names is in an omnishambolic state.

Tick follows tock...

... follows tick follows tock - itjust keeps doing what it has always done. And the clock is pretty methodical too.

Sadly, Apple don't hold exclusive rights to that business model.

Internal Cisco newsletter: Ex-CIA man...

...imposes new staff canteen menu. Boiled, in cheese sauce, or finely sliced and fried in butter. ;-)

That's quite a trick piece of code...

...considering they wanted 14 days just to alter the visible text of the statement.

NoScript here too - it's the first thing I install on Firefox, even before setting hte homepage.

You wait for ages...

...then three turn up at once - I haven't laughed this much at news site articles in a loooong time. Brilliant stuff - beats that bloody talking cat by a country mile.

Not often I laugh out loud at a news article...

... but that got me.

Dear ElReg:

You know all those green shoots of invites to Apple events that you started to get recently...?

That's just poured a big bucket of Agent Orange over them.

;-)

... and Swedish

... allegedly.

Re: Gaps

I was issued with a slide rule in my first engineering job, mid 80's, but only ever used it out of curiosity because we were just getting issued with one PC and the new-fangled HevaCAD software, about 6 grand or so.

BYOD then meant calculators. Still have the slide rule, but the old calculator is no more - IIRC a big clicky-keyed TI with red LED numerals. It took so many batteries that it was cheaper to wire in a 9v PP3 and stick it on top of the case with insulation tape. Replaced it with a Casio FX82, which I do still have. My attic is getting full.

We still dropped back to using log tables in our O-level maths exam even though we were using calculators for part of the course work.

Re: True...

... and more embarrassingly the entirely wrong movie, but I realised it after ObSolutions Inc had posted... I probably cross read it with the "look on the bright side" post further down about Richard Hammond... :-/

Lezyne...

...Powerdrive light things up off-road nicely on my bike...

Actually, I read the headline and thought that the Vulture Bureau of Reconstruction had invested in some of that snazzy new solar-powered Playmobil Future Planet stuff. Not that I'm disappointed or anything...

Yeah...

...phones fall out of pockets etc a lot.

I've only claimed once, but it was for driving over my own handset. I explained to the insurance company that I was trying to bump-start one of my cars, but that the phone popped out or my pocket as I jumped into the driver's seat, to feel the back of the car bump over it as the car rolled forward.

There was a pause, before the insurance guy did his best Victor Meldrew, checked with someone further up the line and then came back to say they would accept the claim, especially since it was only a cracked screen and it was working well enough for me to ring in on it to talk to him...

Re: Audi 100...

... IIRC that was the one that had it's Cd figure in a badge on the rear three-quarter glass (0.30 or so).

My "most intesting cars" garage would include a SAAB, but probably a 99 Turbo, or maybe one of the very last 9-5s which were starting to look good after the 'spectacle' phase.

But then again I'd also have a Citroen DS23 (or SM if I had plenty of spare change), but also a Xantia Activa. To keep with the old/new theme I'd also buy the best Firenza I could (Droopsnoot would be perfect - saw one go for 13k last year, fond memories of my own non-DS '75 model) and also an Astra 888 Coupe. Plus a Golf Mk1 cabrio and Corrado G60.

The list could go on... Of course everyone has their own opinion of what they'd include. And they'd all be right for one reason or another :-)