Re: "Of all the many and varied stupid things in the world"
YYYY-MM-DD is the other sensible way to do dates and the only indexible way.
MDY is just stupid
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Friday is Pi Day
Tony Benn, daddy of Brit IT biz ICL and pro-tech politician, dies at 88
Friday 14th March 2014 16:11 GMT 
RIP
Lived a long life, stuck to his convictions, one of the last true great politicians.
Not many left now, if any.
Not a fan of his politics but I can respect him for them.
Seen a few digs other here (not ElReg) and there, this is not time for that.
But look at the late politicians now gone recently Thatcher, & Benn, compared to todays pigmies of Cameron, Clegg & Millipedeband.
Will Yelp help 'Yahoo!' compete with Google? Search us...
NZ bloke's drunken poker bet ends in 99-letter name
Boffins demo FIVE MICRON internal combustion engine
Q. Can your Linux PC run Crysis? OK, it can. But will it run natively? A. Soon, very soon
Sony can't wait to flash you its enormous disc ... a 1TB Blu-ray spinner
Neil Young touts MP3 player that's no Piece of Crap
Monday 10th March 2014 10:41 GMT
Re: CAPS LOCK MUSIC
I just look to see what is best on price versus robustness,
As long as it is chunky and copper I would use it and I do biwire, simply brcause I can.
With cables the important things are.
1) Is it copper, copper is good.
2) Is it nice and beefy, this equals less resistance.
3) Is the covering good, we don't want it letting the cable get damaged.
Microsoft to get in XP users' faces with one last warning
Thursday 6th March 2014 09:24 GMT
Re: Ancient hardware
Is this the hardware we spent a fortune on 10 years ago? The hardware which has done its job with no issues, which has gained bigger HDDs, more RAM?
The hardware which when my work PC failed ended up in the office for 1 year, and was the fasted machine in the office despite being built so long ago.
If old hardware is fast enough why scrap it?
The killer for me as a home PC was MPEG2 encoding was slow, now a second PC at home.
Microsoft to push out penultimate XP patch on March Patch Tuesday
Friday 7th March 2014 21:16 GMT
My PC is quite new but had to have XP at the time
I built it before 7 and used a XP Pro licence as there was nothing else I could easily install at the time.
No easy update to any other OS.
I suppose I will have to watch the XP embedded PC at a customers and copy things off that
The other PC is 10 years old and already boots into Mint as well.
Boston court confirms Peeping Tom's right to upskirt
Roll up, roll up for the Reg Readers' Ball
Putin to battle Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize
Massive new AIRSHIP to enter commercial service at British dirigible base
Wednesday 5th March 2014 11:30 GMT
Re: "there're plenty of people who'd prefer to take the "cruise" approach" @h4rm0ny
Trains are often packed, when they are the quickest 100-200 mile or so means of transport they tend to be busy.
GWML is something else, people are commuting 100 miles or so in about an hour.
Luxury cruises, well airship sounds civilised.
Labour calls for BIG OVERHAUL of UK super-snoop powers in 'new digital world'
CD... in DOS/CMD ect
It's a BLOCKBUSTER: Minecraft heads to the silver screen
Two in five Brits cough up for CryptoLocker ransomware's demands
Friday 28th February 2014 11:31 GMT
Cheapest option sometimes
This happened at a customer and it buggered the database big time.
It was a few days before the idiot responsible mentioned it, by then hardware checks had been carried out the database server writers involved, no faults found,
In this case they took the strategic decision to restore what was restorable and to suffer data loss for what was not.
I hope they sacked the moron responsible.
Cost-slashing Sony axes 1,000 workers and 20 stores in US
Thursday 27th February 2014 13:38 GMT
Ours is the only place I have seen their new mid range surround sound receivers. But then we have lost all three of our home cinema / HiFi shops locally.
But then the previous SC franchise holder went bump and they were a well respected local company with multiple home electronic shops.
Hard market these days, and nowhere to test what you want to buy. How do I compare between the receivers in this price range, I now cannot.
RIP all of the home cinema specialists. And strangely we lost our last model shop due to the downstairs HC / HiFi / Photographic place shutting.
So if our SC shuts down we would have a city with no HiFi or Home Cinema shop at all.
They wonder why our town centre is so quiet, well where are all the shops?
Microsoft shunts top exec Julie Larson-Green sideways to make way for Stephen Elop
Thursday 27th February 2014 09:43 GMT
Re: Don't need no stinkin' ribbon
Actually leaving Wordstar behind was one of the saddest things in computing. One of the first MS-DOS packages I had come across and used it for years.
Looking at the fallen software is so sad. Wordstar, Netware, Clipper, the high featured text editors, all things I miss.
Of course everyone will have their own list, my wife was a Word Perfect user.
Wednesday 26th February 2014 09:40 GMT
Re: So it's her fault - Ribbon
Because I don;t want to spend ages learning to use something I use rarely. I can use most File Edit menued software to a standard I need just by playing.
Why do ribbon apologists forget about occasional users, the letter a week people?
The only software I have been trained in are the tools I use for developing software.
Cable thieves hang up on BT, cause MAJOR outage
'G-WIZ like' object doing 40,000 MPH CRASHES on the MOON
Enterprising French chap cranks up €100k 'flying car'
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