Posts by David Nash

Re: Perhaps block the directors from having access too

Re. Station car parks. I don't know how to tell whether it's private or not. It's certainly administered by a private company, not the railway, but I assume that was a contract.

Re: “...to setup and operate a community cyber cafés.”

"setup" is already past tense!

Re: Pass out at twice the legal limit ?

Maybe he didn't "pass out" but just "went to sleep".

getting photos off an iPhone

Can you not just email them to yourself?

Boris Johnson

Boris gave up his US citizenship for this very reason:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/boris-johnson-renounces-us-citizenship-record-2016-uk-foreign-secretary

Compare the market should sue?

Why, because only they can use the word "Meerkats"? D. Attenborough better watch out!

Re: Anyone seen a single line C program ?

Why would you even do that? Was he desperate for that client never to offer him a contract again?

Re: Why can't...

Eben Upton posted a good explanation of how it all works on his blog while explaining that the RPi is not vulnerable:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/

Re: What? Again? Really?

What are you talking about?

Clearly it's a bug because a password is requested and then ignored.

"Can the Author or any reader (who can read), name a single technological/digital item that is 100% unlockable when it’s unlocked?"

What does that even mean?

Re: It's an OS not an Ecosystem

"However MS continue to think that people want an entire ecosystem of apps and other cr*p."

It's not that they think people want it, they are desperate to convince people that they want it, otherwise there's no reason to keep bringing out new versions of Windows.

Re: I'm disappointed

Disproportionate share of luddites?

Not Luddites, merely those who are familiar with technology, know the limitations and therefore are not dazzled by the hype of the latest shiny objects. Whereas the target market are those who want apparent convenience, or are enthusiastic about tech for tech's sake (or fashion's) but take it all at face value and don't know what questions to ask.

Re: Don't Panic, All is Not Lost

" extra delivery charges that unlike eBay aren't explicit at the time you add them to your basket."

They always say "fulfilled by Amazon" (which means Amazon delivery charges) or "Free Delivery" if they offer it. Otherwise just assume you pay. I usually won't choose suppliers who don't offer either of these.

"And at the checkout screen they don't give you a button or link to go back and amend your purchases to get a better deal (why would they!). Instead you need to type in the amazon.com URL and from there go to your basket to update it"

I thought you could click the Amazon home page logo at the top of the screen. Or at least just use "back" to a previous page.

Re: Barcelona, Spain

"At the risk of starting a shitstorm of downvotes from Spanish fans of proto-fascism, I would point out that the government of Catalunya declared the country independent."

Is there a reason why you spelled every word in that sentence the English way (including "Spanish") except "Catalonia"?

Re: My keyboard stupidity.

'fn' had to be pressed to use them as F1-F12.

That seems to be the latest trend. I guess the old Alt-F4 to close, F5 to refresh, F1 for help (only pressed by accident!) are not so much used these days and people are more likely to want to adjust the brightness, volume etc.

But I hate that trend, and wherever possible switch it back.

Re: Techdrone

Surely it's not the only modern country that is made up of others, or bits of others? Doesn't mean you should sneer at them.

"Ahh the good old days, when real engineers had beards, spent hours tweaking things by hand, companies paid real money for skill and hands on experience. Now they pay peanuts for monkeys with paper qualifications and no real experience ;)"

But the beards are back in fashion!

Re: Farking FTP!

"Yuo are obviously not 'on message'. Cloud is where it is at. All the young hipsters (not all iPhone owning) think that the only storage is 'Cloud' based. Local Storage is so uncool and like.... so 1990's. Man didn't you know that went out with the ark (or the 8-bit CPU)."

It's true, you even see posts on here from (presumably) youngsters or millennials or something who ridicule you for wanting removable storage in a phone for the same reason.

Re: YouTube, not an essential service

"The rest of it seems to be "Hold my beer while I catapult a squirrel into a lake", shaky videos from iPhone users that film everything in portrait because of the Selfie Reflex and some inexplicable bloke called PeedoPie."

There is so much on YT. I would pretty much guarantee that, whatever you use YouTube for, you will find someone else watching something that makes you say, "I didn't know you could get that on YouTube".

Sure, there's a lot of crap. There is also a lot of good stuff. Everyone's definition of crap and good is different.

Re: I dunno

It's analogous to writing your address on a (snail mail) envelope before you pop it in the letter box for the post office. That is trivial to spoof and impossible to enforce.

Re: Close but no cigar .....

Who needs a crappy SD Card when you have a 128GBs of built in storage

It's 2017 and people still make this kind of comment? I am old enough to remember 640K being enough for anyone.

You can *never* have enough storage, it seems.

Also, Bluetooth is an option but not always what you want, plus has its own battery charging demands so wired headphones should always be there.

Re: If BT can lower their prices........

I remember the days...

Those bad experiences may not be because it was nationalised. The technology was different, the environment was different.

IIRC when the government was running the East Coast Main Line railway franchise relatively recently it was better than any of the private operators who have done that. Yet people still moan about the bad old days of BR.

Re: Something doesn't add up..

55/60=91.666...%

Rounded up. Wouldn't you have quoted it as 92%?

"Your employer explains that you can get your bonus if you achieve 70 per cent Promoters, 20 per cent Neutrals and 10 per cent Detractors (70P,20N,10D)."

Maybe I don't understand statistics but how does that state that the chance of any one customer being a promoter is 70%? It merely states what you will get as a result of customers being a Promoter or not.