Posts by Dan 55

Perhaps the official sky fairy apps will get an update with a QR code generator?

Re: "The kid went on to work for IBM"

He must have be fired, he's flogging off the family silver at auctions.

Yes, well, I imagine that would be the reaction from the country which still hasn't got round to phasing out incandescent lightbulbs.

They will supply schematics to repair shops on request. I guess they're under NDAs and frame.work had to limit circulation. Louis Rossmann: Frame.work isn't virtue signalling; they genuinely support Right to Repair. I wish them success.

They're currently available chips. That might change but if this design is modularised and standardised then someone else can make modules for it anyway. As it's mostly based on USB3 you worry less about the exact chips in the module than you do about the overall function of the module.

It would be such a good thing if frame.work's laptops and modules became a de facto modularised laptop standard.

Coincidentally companies stopped including schematics once China started copying everything, so no schematics at least delayed appearance of clones by some time.

China started copying everything or China started making everything?

When it gets to the point where the 10 different companies go to the same white label manufacturer in China and get the same product only with 10 different names on it, withholding schematics as a way to prevent the product being copied makes no difference. It does make things harder for their customers though.

Re: I want a C5

According to the website it's still on pre-order... and on the same website you can find you can find Raspberry Pi gaming cases.

So, still the the same crazy mix of products in the family tradition.

Re: Sinclair pocket calculator

I tried the emulator mentioned in a post above and followed page 23 in the manual which explains how to get square roots, it's linked to in the grey boxout on the emulator page:

36 E 1 ▲ x (log)

2 ÷

▼ × (antilog)

And got 6.0004.

Maybe there were different ROM versions with with slightly different accuracies. Whatever the reason, Scientific seems like the wrong name for this thing.

The Democrats are only slightly to the left of Attila the Hun, but if that's called left-wing to scare people then so be it.

There is a problem with that, as the French government has only belatedly noticed. Legally only the police and gendarmerie are allowed to ask for ID in connection with a health check, the library has no power to do so.

Presumably they have the power to ask for their library card or if you don't have one only let you get as far as reception to get a library card, where the name can be checked with other ID?

Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager?

Re: I'm not sure

If you care to read it, you'll see that vaccines protect both yourself and others and once there is a high enough level of immunity across the population, wipes the disease out.

Re: I'm not sure

Eradication of infectious diseases

Re: Justifying The Rent?

If it were purely a decision based on rent, nobody would be talking about returning to the office.

People are starting to look at their priorities after spending a year working stupid hours from home doing what is very often essentially pointless work. Businesses that make overtime a regular occurrence and can't offer fulfilling work are losing their staff and want to get their employees back at the office drinking the kool aid as soon as possible.

Re: Miles ahead of the ZX Spectrum

The one I linked to was also by Tim Follin well, oddly enough. There's a video going through all his work here.

Re: fond memories of laboriously typing in lists of SOUND statements ...

The BBC had ? instead of PEEK and POKE because, erm, it did.