Posts by paulc

Updates should be split into the absolute core underneath and the manufacturer's overlays... that way, the core OS can be easily updated without the manufacturer having to do a thing...

Re: Kaolin and Morphine anyone ?

you can still buy it, just you have to ask the pharmacist for it as it's kept back in the locked cupboards... Can't get it over the shelf...

Re: Give Microsoft a break

My nana had an Anderson shelter in her front garden... I wouldn't be here today otherwise, a parachute mine came down nearby and wiped out most of the street...

Re: Ok

"And one in several thousand people are using a password longer than 50 characters? Who the hell wants to type that every time they login?"

ever heard of password managers? Use your shorter password to open that up and let it complete your password field when needed.

Re: One crime one warrant

"Theresa May signs off on warrant to obtain Microsoft emails for purpose of terrorism investigation X."

the real problem is that she doesn't even read them... if she were to actually read every one that lands on her desk and asked questions, she'd be tied up completely... she just signs them en-mass, probably with a rubber stamp...

https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/665

|In 2014, the home secretary authorised 2,345 interception warrants. As pointed out by her Conservative colleague David Davis MP: "If she is having to sign off 10 warrants a day, she can't possibly do it with the proper scrutiny needed."|

it's actually worse, that 10 a day assumes she isn't taking holidays or other absences...

Re: Common sense

forgot to type 'outside' ... as in not to leave them locked up outside overnight...

anyway, my expensive bikes are in my storage unit... ride my cheapo to it and back when I go out for a training ride.

Re: 80286

back in them days, when testing the chips, if the co-processor was wonky, it was disabled and the chip was sold as an SX chip, if the main processor was wonky, the main processor was disabled and the chip sold as a co-processor... only if both bits worked was the chip sold as a fully functioning unit at correspondingly higher price...

Re: Interesting, Comrade

your big mistake was doing ANY browsing using a browser on windows... the only safe way to browse when running windows is to run Linux in a VM and browse from inside that...

"At least then you can knock-together a receiver that tells you when a police car is outside your house!"

won't work, they're using your wi-fi to track you with.

Re: That's not nice, but...

"Just one small problem with that. MH17 was flying at 33,000 feet and from that distance you would not be able to see the aircraft, let alone see what type it was. Unless that is whoever shot it down possesses some super optics."

they do have optical telescopes built into the launcher and tracker units...

"Did your mother never teach you that "I want doesn't get"?"

Actually it's "I want never gets", but if you ask nicely which he is doing...

Re: OTA updates DIRECT from Google to Branded phones

the OS needs splitting into core (which automatically gets updates from Google) and manufacturer overlay

Re: I still remember the

transferred it all onto a C90 cassette... and then could play it on my hi-fi and have it auto repeat... now it's much easier with an MP3 player...

Also saved wear and tear on the album which is still in 'mint' condition

Re: liability....

"Washington Post recently started tripping over my content blockers such as Privacy Badger, never fully loading and causing the tab to hang."

report it as a broken site then...

Re: Here it comes?

I remember doing that and wondering if my monitor was going to get fried...

Re: Anyone have a clue about...

I've got a patch for that KB3068708 issue, it's called wipe the MS carp and put Debian 8 on instead...

Re: Ok here

Just wish there was a proper official download of Jessie on the Raspberry Pi website...

I'm not exactly enamored of forum postings that give instructions for doing it yourself but loads of posts from people who've had nothing but trouble trying it...

Re: Permissions?

I am the phone's 'owner', my device was bought with no contract and is not tied to an network...

Re: IMAP + multiple machines = headache

A Tornado GR1 wrecked it's nose and radome when the thrust reverse deployed after the wheels touched down but the aircraft had already started rising again. The thrust reverse needs weight on wheels, but it could be pre-armed by rocking the throttles outboard... no-one considered what could happen if the aircraft made a heavy landing and bounced back up into the air...

What did happen is that the buckets carried on deploying and the aircraft then came down nose first wrecking the nose gear and making such a mess of the fuselage that the pilots, if they had tried to eject, couldn't as the seats were jammed on the rails.

I was catching a fresh air break out the back of the avionics bay when I witnessed it all happen.

Leocad runs on Raspberry Pi... even better on the Pi 2

and just what was the 'root cause' that required them to perform a forced landing?

Re: Yawn!

Cherry 2000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_55

Re: More reasons to go to PaleMoon or other alternatives

"a forked version of Firefox can be done to take the output from Adobe's DRM plug-in and stream it to disk."

which is all very well until the plugin checks the version of firefox and other magic indicators to check it's running on genuine firefox before decrypting...

Re: Was Zuck just a intelligence implanted zombie?

Just google who his Grandpa was... that's all you need to know, he's one of them...

Re: Everything that's new is crap

windows 8.1 is fine if you use a decent replacement shell and default it to the desktop interface rather than the craptastic tiles...

Re: illegal software...

I think you forgot buggy whip makers... ;)

Re: Shh..

only the bits they like...

Re: Smart Phones?

http://diydrones.com/group/andropilot-users-group

Re: New laws?

you can blame the mass increase in the use of PCSOs for that...

Real Policemen are thin on the ground... and the new laws are being written as ticketable offences that PCSOs can issues tickets for without having to go to the trouble of amassing evidence and taking it to court... they just write up the ticket and it's up to the recipient to have to go to the trouble of taking time off work and turning up in court to challenge it or just accepting it and paying the 'tax'...

Dangerous driving is difficult to take through court and get a guilty verdict on, but a fixed penalty ticket for using a mobile phone is easy... it's binary, either you had the phone in your hand or you didn't... before hand they had to go to the trouble of having to prove that your phone use was actually dangerous.