Posts by Uncle Slacky

Re: Choose a Linux distro wisely...

There's already a project established to help: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu

I'd recommend LXLE at the moment, and maybe AntiX for really old machines for which any Ubuntu variant is too much to handle.

Re: Android.. on x86?

It can be compiled for x86 - it's open source, remember: http://www.android-x86.org/

Re: I have better idea

The only free method is to create a "ribbon" that looks exactly like the old menu - this company has done just that: http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/

Re: I'm not the pheasant plucker ...

I think the godbotherer on "Thought^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPlatitude of the Day" on Radio 4 gave it a go the other day...

Re: Hastening French Revolution 2.0, I see

It should lead to the introduction of a universal basic income - the Swiss are due to have a vote on it soon, and it would lead to large savings in admin costs as everyone would be eligible.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Alternatively, wealth is concentrated to the 0.001% who own the robots, and everyone else gets put in camps or worse.

See http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Re: Someone Else's Nostalgia in my basement

My attic currently contains (among other things - in desperate need of a clearout):

1 x ZX81 (not working - might be the power supply)

1 x Amstrad CPC6128 (w/colour monitor) - worked last time I tried it (about 20 years ago)

1 x Mac IIsi & Imagewriter II (worked last time I tried it about 10 years ago)

1 x IBM N33SX (16 Mhz 386SX) laptop (pre-Thinkpad) - worked 8 years ago but backlight was dying

1 x Blueberry iMac (350 MHz PowerPC, 64Mb RAM) - still works (have run both MintPPC and MacOS 9.2.2 on it)

1 x Amiga 600 (bought at local dump^H^H^H^Hrecycling centre for £5) - worked last time I tried it 7 years ago

There's also a Compaq Contura 486SX colour laptop on permanent loan (as in, I don't expect to get it back) running Win95C (installed from floppies!).

I had a (broken) Issue 2 Spectrum, complete with box, manuals, cables, Horizons tape etc., but gave it away in the days before Ebay...still kicking myself...

More like "YES I am a disgusting perv who is not to be trusted around decent citizens!"

Re: Sadly modern porn is crap

"pulled out all its members"

I think you mean "refusing entry to all members", shirley? (Assuming AC is of the male persuasion)

Re: You missed the Dalek

" there is nothing wrong with having the Tardis on the inside of the Tardis, since it's bigger inside…"

IIRC it does create one of those paradox thingies though - liable to set off the Cloister Bell if you're not careful.

Re: Unmentionable?

He played a human called "Doctor Who". There is an entertaining speculation that he might be an aged Tennant-Hand (10.5 version), though...

Re: Motive

So, what you're saying is that it was too frigid?

Re: Not just assistants that suffered...

That pretty much marked the point where I gave up on the classic series...

Re: Just a thought.

That's what quantitative easing (aka money printing) is for, silly! See how the markets react when they threaten to taper QE - they don't need consumers, just compliant governments willing to print all the money they need.

Re: Re. Slider remote

"I have yet to publish because its 40 pages and physics journals don't like accepting papers from non PhDs."

You can always put it up on vixra.org in the meantime (a sort of "free access" alternative to arXiv).

Simple...

...call it "Floating Point".

Re: Dirk gently

Dunno about "City", but certainly a lot of "Shada" was recycled into the first Dirk Gently novel.