* Posts by MJI

6857 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview

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Re: Yet another Windows 10 annoyance

RS232 4

Actually it doesn't

type in del *,bak in CMD nothing PS everything goes.

VERY easy mistake

I was saved by the backup

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Re: Yet another Windows 10 annoyance

Some simple commnads go odd in poweshell such as delete, but work fine in CMD.

I LIKE CMD.EXE

Removing it would be dangerous.

Here's how the missile-free Royal Navy can sink enemy ships after 2018

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Hmmm

Buccaneer, just ram them and carry on.

Mosquito, nice.

How about one resident of Cosford and another of Duxford?

THE TSR2s

However do they need the missiles if they have an Astute following them.

Searching for 'Fatty Kim the Third' banned on Chinese social media

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How about

Mr Blobby?

British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen

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Working from home

My wife does some homeworking, including categorising web pages as safe and so on.

That will really mess up the logging.

Firefox hits version 50

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I like GUIs to be obvious

The idea of a browser with nothing but an address bar to me is horrible, so I hate Google Chrome.

I run FF with classic theme restorer so I can have it looking like any Windows program.

Search box, square tabs, a menu, stuff you expect.

But it takes a while to start now because of the GUI restoration

Britain must send its F-35s to Italy for heavy overhauls, decrees US

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Can't we just DIY service?

We have some good aircraft mechanics in the UK, we have Airbus and BAE so they can repair them.

As to engines, how long for RR to make a suitable one? Well at least RR engineers could service the F35 ones.

But bring back Harrier!

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

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I despair

Everything is going to sh1t now.

I think we need to keep away from the US for 4 years, then see what happens after their first chimp has finished his term, that is if he does.

I think we need a strong Europe as well now

Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet

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Re: @ AC wrong democratic result: Saying it with Sir Terry...

Look like they needed a Vetinary

UK spying law delayed while Lords demand Leveson amendments

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Re: Am I alone in....

last 50 years

I see what you mean, lots of disappointment

But do you know who was one of the least damaging, and now a pretty well respected person?

The forgotton man John Major

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Re: Am I alone in....

I saw their short list of 5 and thought oh is that the best they have.

BoJo

Irritating loathsom woman

Mrs Bossy

Mr funny looking Bichon owner with viscious wife

Mr I can't even remember who

Labour has Citizen Clown, UKIP have a funny looking bloke with a foreign name.

I can see a huge Lib Dem upsurge in the near future

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Am I alone in....

missing Cameron?

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

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Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go? @ Codejunky

Our cleaner killed 2 sockets by unplugging the vacuum cleaner without turning the cleaner off.

I really cringe when she does it.

I make sure there are plugs in everyone of my sockets.

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Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

@codejunkie

Leave voters acting like toddlers with ice creams.

Ollius has a point, try reading anything from the news sites of the tabloids and try to find anything not doing it.

Most common thing I have read is the insultive "you lost get over it". Then the term "Remoaner". And they have to cheek to moan about being compared to toddlers, if they want to be treated as an adult, act like an adult.

We're going to have to start making changes or the adults will do it for us

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Non compiling contractor code

He decided to use very long variable names, and kept getting errors.

So long they were not unique withing the languages variable name maximum length.

I reduced them to 9 or 10 and it compiled and worked fine.

Am I rare in liking shortish descriptive variable names?

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Worst for style

Anyone ever had to use that POC VB6?

Horrific

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Re: Ok, so...

My personal rules.

The older system using text files was 2 spaces

Current system with IDE a tab of 4 spaces

Both are start at the left rather than indented, use mixed case for legibility

And most importantly EVERYTHING IS COLUMNISED.

If the := are not lined up there will be hell to pay.

Facebook chokes off car insurance slurp because – get this – it has privacy concerns

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Re: I presume it has more to do

Shopping around

Mine is not too high, pay monthly, sorted by brokers. I cannot be bothered to do all of the legwork to find a better quote on the off chance of saving £10, then all the forms, I just let the brokers sort it, more time for me and it is worth more than the savings.

Would cost me more than I would save.

More movie and TV binge-streaming sites join UK banned list

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Re: Fix content availability and usability, and "piracy" will mostly disappear

Not noticed that with C4 but the TV is connected to a couple of games consoles and a PVR so no PCTV source, just a Linux and two BSD boxes.

The PVR was disconnected from the network as its online was rubbish, and the two consoles are used for anything online TV based and watching Blu Rays. However no ITV client so like the above posts I never get into any of their stuff.

I have noticed that installing the Amazon client is trivial so later this month I will install.

I tried for ITV on the PC and gave up, used STV instead, wife watched that, after I deleted a few elements trying to stop it from being used.

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Re: Fix content availability and usability, and "piracy" will mostly disappear

shITV do not care about viewers, they do not want them. They HATE us

They remove the console client. The Iplayer alike shows TV style adverts but block you because you have an internet adblocker installed, and tell you AFTER you have watched the advert.

They do not repeat anything but the real rubbish they think we want to watch, (reality crap, soaps and shitty quizes).

In the end my wife decided it was too much like hard work so ignored the series instead.

Oh and if UKTV are reading this.

Because DAVE is not on Freesat, our Freeview PVR failed due to rubbish firmware (manufacturing defect), and there is no DAVE client on any of our consoles, I am going to have to torrent the latest Red Dwarf series.

Put DAVE in the Freesat EPG and I will watch it broadcast, failing that contact me and send me a nice shiny Humax Freeview HD PVR.

Personally I just gave up on non BBC TV, they make it easy for me to watch, it is not a fight to view them.

So why do broadcasters not want us to watch their programmes?

Poor internet offerings (shITV)

No online console clients (shITV again)

Really bad programmes (many channels)

Missing on some platforms (DAVE)

Overblown logos (lots of channels now)

Paywalls (so we torrent it)

Enhanced XP7 plumps up flash while slimming dedupe

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I thought MS OS as well

Their last two decent ones.

Got both (and Mint) on my home PC

Could Heather from EastEnders turn on Kettering if Lohan is no-show?

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Re: FAA strikes again?

Fleet Air Arm?

Mercedes answers autonomous car moral dilemma: Yeah, we'll just run over pedestrians

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Re: Do not be so mean to merc drivers

last week driving home.

Got dazzled by the sun for 2 seconds, hit shade just in time to see a car 6 foot in front of me who had just pulled out.

If I had been going faster I would have written their car off.

First look at Windows Server 2016: 'Cloud for the masses'? We'll be the judge of that

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Too scary for small companies

All a lot of them want is a simple server easy to administrate and can run their important stuff.

It got messy about the time start menu was removed.

My favourite BTW is still Netware 5.x

Queen Lizzie awarded good behaviour medal

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Philip

If her father had not died so young I wonder how high in rank Philip would have gone?

Could he have got to the top?

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Re: Ah yes. More confirmed kills than anyone else

But we are not mocking.

Don't panic, but a 'computer error' cut the brakes on a San Francisco bus this week

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Brakes should be failsafe

Just like railway ones, when they fail they operate

'Please label things so I can tell the difference between a mouse and a microphone'

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Want to be cruel

Swap N and M over.

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Re: When we get to the stage where we have to label everything...

Or when Teamviewer and Outlook have very similar taskbar icons

Y'know that ridiculously expensive Oculus Rift? Yeah, it just got worse

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Re: Everything they're doing would be fine

My Vita is quite good.

Move though a wasted opportunity.

Was brilliant fun for shooters, but a lot did not support it.

Was quote annoyed PS4 shooters ignored it as well.

Made Portal 2 more fun, made aiming very quick and accurate without aim assist in Killzone 3.

But definately a wasted opportunity (but it saved me money on shooter games)

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Oculus will lose the market at this rate.

Current minuses are Facebox ownership, Trump support, expensive custom accessories.

High end will go Vive.

Low end mobile phone.

Middle will dabble with PSVR.

My grunty PC (for 2008) could not run one, yet my £350 games console will be offered an affordable one.

You're fired (into space)! Trump tops Martian ejaculation poll

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Re: Piers Moron

The first well know person to be thumped by Clarkson

BT Yahoo! customers: Why! can't! we! grrr! delete! our! webmail! accounts!?

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Re: Own mail server

I use ISP email and what happens?

The bl00dy NSA spy them and the accounts get hacked.

Own mail server, got mail on my 123reg based website

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I have BT and

It was best of a bad bunch at the time

Citizens don't trust UK.GOV with their data

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And I trust the US even less

NSA back door with UK ISP emails via Yahoo

Windows 10 market share fell in September

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Re: Alternate stats

Highest ever XP 76.1%

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This weekend I am moving to Win 7

I am putting Windows 7 on our 8 year old home PC. I have just got HDD no 4 for the OS, and it will be triple boot.

Currently starts up into GRUB and a choice of Linux Mint, Windows XP Pro appears.

7 will be added to GRUB.

1) fit all HDD properly (Mint is parked on top of D:)

2) Unplug C: D: Mint

3) Install 7

4) Replug C: D: Mint and do GRUB

5) Move all emails to Thunderbird and use same data location for all 3 boots.

Early indications show UK favouring 'hard Brexit', says expert

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Car companies

I can see a few moving from the UK, and even some UK based setting up satellite factories in the EU.

My UK designed and built car includes parts from all over the world, technology from other countries too.

The company has already said exiting the EU will harm it, despite it moving to be a premium manufacturer. (mine is not a premium one).

Oh and just had a look, new factory in Slovakia

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Re: "how we label our food"

I upset quite a few relatives who were ardent out voters and all in 70s by calling them coffin dodgers leaving the country in a mess for the young people.

And what did it matter for them as when it was all gone through they would either be too old to care or 6 feet under?

They mentioned general elections. I said so we vote every 5 years if we are part of the EU or not?

Then the ONE major thing to keep us in is being ignored, City of London

Yahoo! tries!, fails! to! shoot! down! email! backdoor! claim!

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Re: BT customers locked into BTYahoo email service

Still nothing on BBC about this.

Why are the media so disinterested in US "intelligence" spying on UK email users?

Snoop! stooge! Yahoo! handed! all! your! email! to! Uncle! Sam! – and! any! passing! hacker!

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Looks like BT can be done for this

Linked from BT website

https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/topics/safeharbor/index.htm

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Re: What about BT?

BT

ICO have no option for this

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I just emailed BBC

To have a look.

They MIGHT look at the BT connection.

Might as well cause them hassle for outsourcing emails.

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Re: What about BT?

Got my complaint in.

Will escalate and see what happens.

Need to let BT customers know they are being spied on.

Google may just have silently snuffed the tablet computer

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Actually I am considering a tablet

Not had one before but I can see a use.

Download OS maps onto one, takes up a lot less room than my paper ones.

Quick web surfing away from PC.

Any recommendations?

My idea of a premium brand may be different to yours. Don't really want Apple.

Lenovo exec: Nope, not building Windows Phones

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Well I liked...........

Symbian phones

X6 was good, N8 after I found I could hide the social sh1te.

Premier League Sky card crims ordered to cough up nearly £1m

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Who are the victims?

Are there any?

Again "crimes" like this are punished more harshly than kicking someone in the head.

Brit telcos plead with Ofcom: No one should own more than 30% of available spectrum

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Give it to BBC

They could use it well

User couldn't open documents or turn on PC, still asked for reference as IT expert

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Re: Schools Defaults

We have a build for that country, everyone else gets mm

Mozilla tells Firefox OS devs to fork off if they want to chase open web apps vision

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Re: Doubtful that someone running an old unsupported OS is keeping their browser up-to-date

XP at home here, because it was built with it as Vista was a disaster and I am not spending money replacing a working OS.

Yes I did the registry hack for support and yes FF is the main browser.

But since PCs have now really been fast enough for the last decade and newer versions of windows are removing things I use, why should I change?