Posts by Dan 55

I don't recall seeing a conditional access module in every receiver or TV I've come across and there isn't one in my Freesat box either.

The CI+ slot in the back of your TV. Unless it's a small TV it'll have it.

Re: ...prevelent and popular

Amstrad seemed convinced there was a new untapped market of people willing to use a Spectrum for business if only the right computer was launched, in addition to those that already used it for that with Microdrives and the Disciple/Plus D, so the +3 (odd 3" discs Sugar bought from the back of a lorry, CP/M support, and incompatibilities with previous models) came out.

Then he put the Sinclair badge on generic PCs, ensuring that absolutely nobody would buy them either.

Re: praise?

It might be my eyes but I can't see any praise at all.

I'm waiting for the day when he goes full Linus on Poettering. It's not as if there haven't been enough reasons to do that already.

Re: Outlook still turns invisible for me

The whole Office suite did that with me and the problem (mostly) went away when I updated the video driver.

Turn phone off, stick in diplomatic bag, go through border, job done.

Not only do they not use C++, but they insist on an object orientated-like toolkit in C.

This is possible, but they decided not to use types, only void *s. This makes development slow and bug prone. It's pretty much the worst way you could choose to implement a toolkit.

You might complain about Qt but it's lightyears ahead of ETL.

Other posts on the same site say that Samsung management ignore non-Koreans and they use Excel spreadsheets to diff source code. Their working culture is pretty bad.

Re: Signed Integer

Presumably many moons ago (invalid unit of measurement under Unix by the way) whatever version of libc you were using was in worse shape than now.

I'm pretty sure if you recompiled it now, difftime() and so on would work.

Re: I don't know about stock Android

Seems to be yet another thing inspired by Cyanogen.

Not surprised Cyanogen had problems differentiating themselves from stock Android.

Re: Wishful Oxford PPE & Classics + Crapita thinking

Obligatory link.

There won't be much to salvage from this wreck...

Re: Just another attempt

There's not much difference between News and Search apart from the presentation. Imagine the squeals if Google removes newspapers from Search too.

Re: Will The UK Follow Their Lead ???

Does the Chinese government realise there are such things as VPNs which carry server to server connections?

You can't just rip them out.

1) He was also walking past reserved spaces in 2nd class.

2) You are allowed to use a reserved seat for the non-reserved part of the journey.

Re: Flogged the rubbish to schools

Keep hold of them just in case, hopefully sometime soon a version of Linux will be available for it.

Re: new fangled Windows Subsystem for Linux

I don't think Nokia's Store ever prevented you from installing your own stuff from elsewhere. They were very aware that a lot of people wanted that.

Re: broken by design?

I think JavaScript strings are UTF-16 internally. I don't think it could be done any other way.

Re: "range"?

The only way you can understand that sentence to mean that you can get that phone subsidised on a contract from O2 and EE is ignoring the word "range" and replacing it with another, like "subsidise".

Re: biometrics target?

If I could go off on a tangent for a moment, it seems to me that Indian bureaucracy, descended as it is from British bureaucracy, is only doing what British bureaucracy would do if it thought it could get a way with it.

However British bureaucracy is having a go at it with the proposed ID cards for EU citizens database and your story serves as a warning as to how it could go wrong.

It'd be interesting to know how many in the upper echelons of the Indian civil service are Oxford PPE educated or similar.

And now, back to your scheduled programme...

Re: Could've been something...

The only Google apps I've got on my phone are Play Store, Play Services, and Translate. In those three, settings are set to the most private possible (not very much I know, this is Google) and the fewest notifications possible. I use a dedicated Google account for that one phone.

So I don't get nagged to review businesses or upload photos or whatever they want to crowdsource today.

I bet it there's still LAN Manager code buried in there somewhere...

Re: Could it be a box ticking exercise?

“The PRA expects firms to adopt a proportionate approach when assessing their non-affirmative exposures. The firm’s underwriting and risk management functions should play a key role in leading this effort,” it said.

More of a key role than the IT dept?

Seems like box ticking to me.

The software could not let the call centre drone get to do things if the customer doesn't get the password right.

If the customer's forgotten the password it could go on to other security questions, again not letting the drone go on to later screens unless the customer gets most or all of them right.

And it should certainly not allow repeated spamming of the call centre.

If there is some doubt about the customer then the drone should be able to play back previous calls to the call centre to compare voices, check if the caller is calling from their own home or mobile, and so on.

There are certainly ways to tighten up things.

Re: Why on Gahd's Green Earth....

Of course he doesn't like them, they compete with GM, Ford, and Boeing, Lockheed, and oil.

Re: A G20 spokesman explains the groups position.

Wasn't it more like...

We don't want the precious. That would not be free and democratic.

Silicon Valley must collaborate with us and show us the precious or else.

But we don't want the precious. That would not be free and democratic.

... and similar cognitive dissidence?

12k is great, so is 24k. Doesn't matter if they don't let you have the money, show no interest in letting you have it, and fire you because you couldn't use it.

This story just confirms my prejudice that Oracle is a viper's nest.

That would never happen.

Insert coin to continue.

Re: Mass market?

It's aimed at the mass market and when it is widely available at that price it will be.