Posts by Dan 55

Re: Dad wanted a PC

To be able to take it somewhere if the hardware went wrong and badger them until it's fixed. I guess there's still a lot to be said for that.

Re: My Dad...

When you see grandads prodding at a touchscreen, it's for a reason. When you get older your fingers become less conductive.

Rubbish touch pads on cheap laptops cause all sorts of strife and user confusion. Some parts of the unmarked pad result in scrolling, some selecting. In these cases, it is not the user's fault if they want to throw the machine out of the window.

Fixed by uninstalling the proprietary touchpad driver/control panel bollocks.

If I came across one which translated Morse to text I wouldn't be surprised.

Nobody in the UK would have found out if UK sports rag "journos" had refrained from shaking their fists at someone from the other side of the continent who couldn't give two fucks about their precious embargoed quote.

The last link is doubly funny considering who they both work for.

Re: I hope that HMRC...

The only party who had all this organised and ready to go was UKIP.

That's why before the referendum he was talking the UK being like Norway and Switzerland and afterwards he wasn't.

There was and still is no plan, by anyone, apart from foot stamping.

Re: Server management?

Was that before or after Azure and Office 365 had a wobbly for most of the day?

Re: Project Honolulu Because?

Indeed. MS Licensing is like Judge Dread.

Re: Project Honolulu Because?

Because it'll have a terrible confusing UI like everything MS has done after Windows 7, I would have thought.

Re: @ codejunky

If all you can see is black and white extremes you can never understand as the importance is in the degrees.

Was this a sudden attack of lucidity after your first contribution to this thread?

Exactly. We people dont like it and the US is actually powerful militarily, economically and politically. I dont think much comparison can really be made with the EU.

The EU doesn't need to invade ICANN (or Google, or Facebook) to get it to take data protection seriously.

Re: @ codejunky

Data protection is a fanciful whim because EU.

Yep, makes about as much sense as your other posts.

Re: "Jagex did not say exactly how Brexit will up its costs"

The decision has been taken

On an advisory vote, so badly drawn up as to threaten to split the UK up, and has been interpreted not to mean "Leave the European Union" (EU referendum ballot paper) but to "taking the opportunity of this great moment of national change to step back and ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be" (Mayhem, Lancaster House speech).

"Oh, you want to leave? Well, we're not going to, forget I asked".

Well it was called to stop the Tory party splitting and to keep their voters from defecting to UKIP. A referendum advises policy, government puts a bill before the house based on that policy, but Parliament always has the last word and has to balance the referendum with stuff like the national interest. They're not supposed to be nodding dogs.

What does that mean, and how were such people omitted? Everyone on the electoral register was entitled to vote.

Commonwealth residents were allowed to vote even if they can't. EU residents weren't allowed even though they can vote (local elections). A whole load of expats were excluded from the vote.

No, the issue was a simple yes/no, stay or leave.

If the question's as simple and as literal as on the ballot paper then we leave the EU but stay in the EEA, single market, and customs union.

"Ah, but that doesn't mean that..."

Re: "Jagex did not say exactly how Brexit will up its costs"

Don't like democracy? Best to move somewhere else, then.

I like democracy, I don't like idiocracy.

That's a very selective single data point. Let's look at the actual history:

Dec 2008 1.023

Er, yeah. Just after the crash. Very non-selective. Let's look at the actual history:

Jan 2007: 1.506984

Apr 2007: 1.471493

Jul 2007: 1.482623

Oct 2007: 1.436291

Jan 2008: 1.339853

Apr 2008: 1.114106

Jul 2008: 1.262073

Oct 2008 1.274994

Dec 2008: 1.104133 - Look here, it's always been low! We're doing better than ever!

So what does this mean. We see two great troughs.

1. 2008 financial crash

2. Referendum vote (AKA Brexit).

Link

But I guess it's all in the presentation, as you were awarded 7 upvotes for your rubbish.

Thanking you, AC.

Re: What a load of old cock

Alternative Facts?

It has never recovered from £1/€1.31 (at the moment it's at £1/€1.14) and as for $ it's only just managed to crawl back up to level it was on Mass Stupidity Day. A graph would be instructive and xe.com has them.

Re: Strangely, reminds me of an Eric Idle joke

What does it stand for? Making money by mass surveillance and brazenly lying when the mask slips to ride out the shitstorm.

Re: Call me a cynic....

Yes, but apps that call Play Services have problems. It seems only Amazon has a drop in replacement for Play Services, and it's more limited.

Re: Suggestions?

Wrong Skype. This is Skype for Business, AKA The Client Formally Known As Lync. They have nothing to do with each other except the name which confuses people.

But if you want suggestions, try Wire.com.

Re: End of Life

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Re: Reasons?

So what?

Presumably an agile Web 3.0 node jquery Frankenstein-like monstrosity of a website won't be serving stuff from ftp, but there are sites that do.

The point of the web was to make data accessible, not try to heroically re-create desktop software, fail, and prompt browser manufacturers to throw out everything to achieve that dubious aim. As long as a page served with an 's' protocol doesn't pull in stuff with non-'s' protocols and a remote page doesn't pull in stuff from local hard drive, what's the problem?

A marketing one.

Yes, I'm more disappointed that this wasn't picked up by an automated test suite than the fact that it might take a few days to patch.

Surely someone, somewhere is at least creating daily snapshots of the code and putting it through fuzzers and stress-tests and simulated disk-full situations? If not, why not? This is filesystem code we're talking about, not the backend of some casual game.

There was a .ksh in the commit specifically to test this feature, but it looks a bit spartan for what could be a huge data loss bug (as practically any filesystem bug is).