Re: "Star Trek is better than Star Wars"
Yes it is.
Sorry I grew up with Star Trek and we had a first generation transistor colour TV in 73 or 74.
Pretty sure my dad bought it for the opening of colour at our local TX
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EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service
Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device
Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans
Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks
AMD really, really wants you to know its chips are doing OK without any help from Intel and its supply issues
Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard
Tuesday 28th January 2020 12:04 GMT 
Re: We should just all use SCART
Since I have had DVD always used SCART RGB, even works with NTSC on a PAL only TV.
Decided on newer TV to do multi way tests, and I tested DVD via RGB SCART, Component, and then DVD in the PS3.
TV upscaling and PS3 upscaling were indistinguishable.
SCART provided WS switching and the colour balance appeared better than component.
So I still use an old DVD player for DVD on a HDTV.
Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!
Monday 27th January 2020 12:51 GMT
About this time we were still installing
Netware 5 and friends.
Customers were not allowed Windows servers until.
1) Our database could run on it.
2) Our customers had hardware support.
3) Server 2003.
4) They accepted the performance decrease.
We did have one NT family to Netware upgrade as they were hammering the server too hard.
Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 15:37 GMT
Re: Sonos grasped the wrong end of the stick
Get good service from a company they get repeat custom.
Get good life you look at same brand to replace.
Get good performance, the same.
Had 4 TVs same make, 3 Video cameras same make, gone from heavy separates to an all in one with HD tapes.
I am prepared to spend more occasionally to spend less overall. Known people buy a TV every 3 years. I spent £1200 on one, less money than 3x£500.
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 15:33 GMT
Tellies
New one every ten years or so, does me.
First because wanted to see TV
Second because first was portable
Third because it was DVB-T, widescreen and flatscreen
Fourth because HD and HDMI and big
Fifth will be higher resolution, HDR and more HDMI, will probably go same make.
So I had a really good 14" portable from about 1980 or so. An expensive 32" IDTV, now a big LCD which upscales rather well.
Same make as my video recorder from early 80s and my last few games consoles.
Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations
Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned
Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally
Tuesday 14th January 2020 09:38 GMT
Upgrade to - nothing there!
Let's think
Got 7 at home, was previously XP.
So what can I use?
Mint, nice but unfortunately WIN32 needed (already have a boot).
8 or 8.1 they are both horrid, had to use a 8 PC for a week recently, the centred titles screwed me over.
10 I have great difficulty with it, I cannot find some screens such as the scren design tools, XP and 7 were fine, 10 cannot see them. No easy way of working out which screen is which.
So stuck on 7, unless I go XP.
Train-knackering software design blunder discovered after lightning sparked Thameslink megadelay
Having trouble finding a job in your 40s? Study shows some bosses like job applicants... up until they see dates of birth
Smart speaker maker Sonos takes heat for deliberately bricking older kit with 'Trade Up' plan
Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K
Thursday 2nd January 2020 12:40 GMT
Re: Clipper
Clipper was a great product, I used it for quite a few years.
You may be thinking of Visual Objects, a native compiler for WIN32, I am competent with it.
So why did these two languages last for so long?
1) Quick to write in.
2) Native data handling.
3) Scalable.
4) Flexible.
5) Extendable.
I know of 50+ seat VO systems running 24/7 with high reliability and performance, handling GB of data.
I bet DBase would not last a day without issues.
Fire up an XP PC and Clipper executables can join in the fun as well, Vista started the removal of DOS modes and the essential WIN16 mode for data handling for IP.
Thursday 2nd January 2020 12:29 GMT
Re: DBase IV 'databases' (use this term as loosely as possible)
It was out of date in the 1980s. Well DBase 3 was.
Why?
The better products from mainly Nantucket and also a bit Fox.
I used Clipper (Nantucket) for years, later on Client Server, and yes there is recent software out there still compatible. Clipper was a PCode compiler but introduced lots of features into the XBase world.
Fox never hit the same heights. But its main legacy is DBF CDX FPT file format.
XBase is only dying now as the programmers retire and .NET programmers appear to be filling the gap.
Comparing Dbase to say Visual Objects would be weird but they are the same code family (VO was from the same team as Clipper).
So it is possible to take an old database and make it run client server with no data changes. And with the right compiler even compile the old code into a WIN32 console proggy.
Crossing the platforms: The Register checks in with Canonical's WSL alternative – Multipass
Thursday 19th December 2019 09:21 GMT
Re: Multipass
I have had 4 copies.
I sold my DVD to CEX of it to make some room at home, that replaced a tape copy recorded from a faultly layer change DVD.
I now of course have the BluRay.
1) Original faulty DVD.
2) Copy on video tape, actually looked very good, used top end Sony VCR,and I mean really top end.
3) Replacement DVD from publishers with working layer change.
4) The Blu Ray
Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands
Wednesday 18th December 2019 16:57 GMT
Re: Elon Musk
People need to be more ressiliant, and to understand that the internet isn't the real world. I'd never shoot somebody in the head, repeatedly teabag their corpse, and intimate that I'd had close physical relations with their, mother in real life. But I priobably did it in Fortnight at least 3 times last night. One would be considered a criminal offence, the other would be conisdered a normal night in for a 12 year old.
I need to try this next time I game with a son and see if I get the yuk factor from them.
Wednesday 18th December 2019 16:51 GMT
Re: Clever people
I see so I get downvoted, I was bullied for years, eventually I had enough so dealt with them using my brains.
Have YOU ever been bullied?
It is absolutely shit being bullied, horrible.
My advice for any victims, if you have brains use them.
At least one bully ended up with a Police record, they already had one, just had another added.
Things I have learnt
Bullying is not mutual piss taking.
Bullies generally are a bit thick and do it to try to impress people.
Sometimes you have to take up a notch with them.
You are better than them.
Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC
And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy
123-Reg is at it again: Registrar charges chap for domains he didn’t order – and didn't want
Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi
Tory chancellor pledges to review IR35 rollout in UK private sector – just like all the other parties
BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters
We strained our eyes with Lenovo's monster monitor: 43.4 inches for price of five 24" screens
Microsoft takes us to 2004 with new Windows 10 so you don't mistake it for Server 2003
Uni of London loses attempt to block mobe mast surveyors from Paddington rooftop
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