Posts by Dan 55

Re: too short to reach the post box

So you object to single market standards existing even if the UK is part of making them, not the incorrect reporting of them.

You seem to prefer the fact that in the event of Brexit the UK won't be part of the process for creating single market standards, yet if it is to sell to the EU after Brexit it would have to meet them anyway.

I can see no logical rational reason for your stance on this subject.

But if it makes you feel happier, I admit single market standards on jams, bananas, and low power electrical appliances exist, the UK was part of making them, and British newspapers misreported them, and you fell for the Sun, the Express, and the Mail's propaganda on behalf of their non-dom billionaire owners.

By the way, Dyson's buggeted off today. Another one who believes so much in Brexit he's relocated his company HQ out of the chaos that it'll bring and, this is funny, will take advantage of the free trade agreement Singapore has with the EU.

Ever had the feeling you've been had?

Re: This is a joke right?

Nearly a month of unattended government IT. China and Russia must be filling their boots.

Re: Rinse and repeat

Apple said computers should be made for the end user (whether they know what they want or not).

I think since 2012, Apple computers are made for Apple. They look nice to pull in the punters (designers, marketing) but are unexpandable so it requires replacement and unrepairable without a load of cash (accountants).

And yes that led to clashes between Jobs and engineers.

I think even Jobs knew when to stop, especially since he got fired over making the original Mac unexpandable and black and white, until it became antiquated compared to other computers of the time.

Many people just accepted (and still accept) the "that can't be done" of engineers. Apple and Jobs say – "well go away and work out how it can be done".

But in Apple's case, they don't actually do it very well.

So there you go. A plague on everyone's houses down at Apple.

I bet they will represent an unacceptable terror threat now it looks like the Troubles are kicking off again.

If we have a second referendum it could threaten social cohesion says the Maybot. But don't think about the last 2.5 years of toxic political discourse.

Re: Multi-tasking

Perhaps because QuickDraw supported colour, but only for the printer and limited to a few applications and The Mac II was the first colour Macintosh and it came out in 1987. They may have been some Frankenstein's monster consisting of a Mac 128K and external colour monitors set up before the release of the Mac II but if it existed it hardly had a commercial impact.

The Mac II was late because as Jobs believed in the purity of a black and white screen as he thought it best reflected the printed page, and because he wouldn't budge on this subject Apple had to fire Jobs to get a colour Macintosh out (see From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years), two whole years after the Amiga and ST.

Re: Looking for the MS Phone replacement.

One thing on my to-do list is to try Sailfish on a Sony Xperia X/XA. You can try it for free and if you like it, buy it for 50 euros.

There's also a community version which may be ported to other phone hardware but I haven't looked into that very much.

Re: re: There is no Refuse option available.

Sure there is, it is that little "X" in the corner of the browser window.

Sometimes that is the best way to refuse the terms of service -- by not using the site/company and going elsewhere.

So tell me, how does that work for Google Analytics?

Re: Apologies

After Brexit the UK will be an empire once again, so there'll be no more imperial hangovers, only racist imperial drunks.

Re: Es file explorer

Try Explorer or Ghost Commander with the SMB plugin.

I think the local HTTP server for ES File Explorer would be for transferring files over LAN or WiFi Direct, but in an effort to make it tap-and-drool they opened up a honking great backdoor.

Re: Windows Phone 8

If I update a Nokia to Pie, change to dark UI, set icons to squircle shape, and squint it's almost like Symbian Belle. Especially the task switcher.

You've dodged a bullet there. Now mark the connection as metered.

Re: OTT

Why, do you think always-on listening devices and a huge database behind it building up a profile of what goes on in your house both controlled by flimsy/non-existent US privacy laws nothing to worry about?

Should have asked Woody...

Re: Thought Outlook Mobile was cloudy and uses Azure even for on-premises Exchange accounts

No AC, you remember where MS first bought Acompli, it used an AWS instance to talk to the Exchange server and the app talked to the AWS instance. Then MS changed the backend to Azure but apart from that the architecture remained unchanged, it was still a cloud backend talking to the Exchange server and the app talking to the cloud backend.

And here is a diagram from MS themselves.

As it's unnecessary I would have thought approval would not have been forthcoming, but it seems they don't care that much.

Re: Is it easier to start with a walled garden

You know Google's heavy handed review process will be coming up with a really complicated regex to parse the reason developers give...

Re: Top tip: obliterate the CV2

After taking a copy of it for Internet purchases as it should be never used for customer present purchases? Or perhaps you mean people shouldn't ever buy over the Internet either?

To me, the real issue is that car manufacturers all want to be Apple, lock you into their walled garden

I'd say the car manufacturers got there first with walled gardens and if Apple did look around for inspiration instead of getting there on their own they would have copied it from them.

Re: "MS screwed it up in a way which requires manual intervention"

Nobody cripples their own Windows 7 machine, the Windows Update process does it all by itself.

If you install SP1 on a newly formatted hard drive and then run Windows Update once to get up to date, it can end up in a useless state where it can take days to check for updates. You cannot blame this on the user, this entirely MS' fault.

The solution as given in the link above is to force feed it a certain list of manually-downloaded KBs in a certain order while it is not connected to the Internet and then, lo and behold, it works again.

So that was hours of my time wasted because MS doesn't do basic QA any more.

Well, KA9Q was always where it was at.

Re: Too late

If you can post a link, please do it. You clearly have been following Mr. Rossmann’s work.

Here's the usual "go to" video from Louis Rossman but his channel is a treasure trove of bad Apple design. I you follow it and you'll learn a couple of new things every week.

Re: Tech/Syntax question

For a no-root firewall try NetGuard. You can download it from F-Droid as well as the Play Store.

Re: It's an age thing...

Machine code-like crashes for a supposedly BASIC program were also jarring. As were error messages being incorrectly presented, the key click being slightly the wrong tone, and RUN [enter] not clearing the screen...

They obvioisly made the wrong choice in not hiring me as a consultant.

Re: Imagine anything as efficient

I didn't say UNIX based but UNIX inspired, the guy who did Exec himself said so in the Bedrooms to Billions Amiga Years documentary (well worth watching). When the bottom dropped out of the videogame market in the US and they decided they wanted to repurpose it as a computer, they of course decided they wanted to do a proper computer and as they'd previously seen a highly expensive UNIX system they decided that they would do the same at a cheaper price point.

Thanks for the other info. Not going for an 010 if it was so compatible does seem like a mistake, perhaps there was some slight incompatibility with the custom hardware or OS or they had so little time to release they didn't want to chance it without testing thoroughly.

Re: Google Maps

Why not just dump Maps? It's constantly sucking data up and spamming notifications at you to get you to crowdsource for Google.

You wouldn't really want to get too close to a herd of cows if a mother decides you're a threat to its calf.

Cows officially the most deadly large animals in Britain

Farmers continue to be advised not to put calves and their mothers in fields accessible to the public