Posts by Dan 55

Re: Distractions...

In my experience, Do Not Disturb is just yet another status colour, for people who will try and get hold of you anyway and for Teams which doesn't stop people contacting you (at least Skype for Business' Do Not Disturb actually did something). The best that will happen is that notifications will stop but the desktop badge in the taskbar still flashes.

I've found the most effective way of stopping interruptions is setting it to appear away, that way nobody sure if you're away or not.

Re: Really?

If you switch to the Daily Data tab it shows they are not publishing lab capacity any more.

Re: @Dan

Everyone is being forced to put their trust in a centralised opaque testing regime, even local authorities and health agencies. Wales decided to set up its own testing in parallel to the UK's testing and as a result they were able to quickly react to hotspots, whereas England was unable to.

With the data the public had, the testing was found to be wanting but instead of improving the testing and data, the government's reaction is to remove public access to it. Scrapping public access is a prelude to scrapping testing or reducing it to such an extent it becomes meaningless.

Re: For something one must have.... or for something some think no one should really have?

Perhaps they decided on a different way to funnel money to Branson instead of saving his airline.

Branson-backed OneWeb to raise $1bn for its satellite internet mega-constellation

Re: It Could Be Made to Work ???

Expert on Twitter says it won't work. If we believe experts.

Re: Thank U UK

Well, your nation has a chance to put an end to its long national nightmare in November. The UK, not so much.

Well, the British press are saying it was due to good luck, but the good luck seems to have come from French and Dutch police and intelligence services cracking it and passing the information on to the UK.

Re: CSV=poor understanding --> CSQDV correct

Excel itself didn't put string fields in quotes until later versions. If a string field is surrounded by quotes then an escaped quote is two quote characters (""), otherwise a quote is just a single quote character. So that makes decoding more fun.

Re: CSV?

Then import from Excel localised to a European language and watch it blow up. Decimal points become commas and commas become semicolons, but the extension is the same.

The poster who said throw it all out and use TSVs was right.

Re: CSV?

Count the cells in the line, if it's less than expected then take the linefeed to be a continuation of the previous line.

Re: Input of accents on mac

To be honest on a UK keyboard the accent deadkeys are pretty nonsensical on both Mac and Windows. I ended up using Ukelele and Keyboard Layout Creator to put the deadkeys on the accent keys so it's more like a compose key.

The popup you get on later macOSes when you long-press a vowel is pretty useful for finding an accent you don't use much.

FT says this:

"The prime minister appears to have been won over by proposals from the Satellite Applications Catapult this year to develop an innovative positioning technology that could be installed on OneWeb’s low-earth-orbiting satellites, several people with knowledge of the discussions said."

Now either this is now being backpeddled into rural broadband (with a very different model to what they're presently doing) or they really are ploughing ahead with some kind of navigational service with no compatibility with any present device.

Re: Full-blown kakistocracy

I am assuming that Cummings can a) get on the blower and get some preliminary findings or b) the report, like the Russia one, is not available to plebs or c) he just blundered on with this nonsense as he thought he knew all about satellites, as he thinks he knews about everything else (exhibit A, his blog). Either way, it was 92* million wasted.

* Sorry, not 96 million.

The article does say, they're LEO comms satellites, not MEO navigational satellites.

This quote from TFA suggests yes, it will be locked down:

"But we're not direct-booting an alternate operating system. Purely virtualization is the root. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct-boot shouldn't really be the concern."

Re: Really?

Yes, the iOSification of macOS continues, the only real difference now with the hardware is the form factor. Not sure why Apple think Windows 8 will be a good idea.

Maybe they'll go with Nvidia as they have more experience with ARM GPUs (Shield TV, Switch).

So you're forced to go back to Adobe and pay the Danegeld because your boxed non-cloud x86 CS6 will crawl under Rosetta? People are looking to leave Adobe, Apple just brought them more customers.

Re: An idea for allowing hands on action...

This is already done in many countries, but presumably Johnny Virus hasn't reckoned on the Blitz spirit in the UK yet. By not letting this strand of RNA in a protein shell know we're afraid and carrying on as normal as if it wasn't a pandemic, we'll bally well beat it.

And just to make sure, we'll fiddle the figures.