Posts by Steve Davies 3 7151 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
I can run (emulated) OS-8 (PDP-8) and soon RSX11M (PDP-11) on a Raspberry Pi.
A Model 3 runs OS-8 around twenty times as fast as the original.
Lots of other Obsolete kit can be run as well.
It is really nice that people are taking the time and effort and making old systems live again.
Intel X86 is not the only game in town these days.
{Waiting for the RPi to emulate Z/OS. Imagine a Beowolf cluster of them all running Z/OS!!!! IBM wouldn't like it though :) :) }
They (MS) seem to be taking the 'Walled Garden' approach to levels that Apple can only dream of and in contract seem like rank amateurs when compared to Microsoft.
IMHO (and I could be very wrong...) this is all a prelude to moving to a perpetual subscription model for their Operating System.
"Roll up folks. For only £9.99/month you can get full support from us. Just let us install patches when we want to and to hell with what you are doing with the computer at the time. All in the interests of your personal safety and security you understand."
Sorry Redmond, I stopped playing your tune in 2016 and I'm not going back.
Because (sic) 5G is the promised land of free milk and honey, roads paved with gold and Gov Ministers will be able to walk on water.
Well, that's what the kit makers are telling governments all over the world.
Then it will be 6G, 7G etg
sceptic? you bet.
As you say, it would be better to get proper 4G everywhere and with enough capacity to handle the load.
Next election vote a party who will reapply to the EU and sign up to the full package.
Which one might that me then?
Tories? Nope
Labor? Not with Jeremy "I have a bottomless pit of money for everyone" Corbyn as its head.
That leaves
Lib Dems and the SNP....
Good luck electing either of them.
We are doomed I tell ye, doomed.
For a mega company that has more people wanting to work for it than there are jobs. Some parts of the organisation seem to think that if you can't take it, then walk as there are plenty more wanting your job.
No one should suffer sexual harrasment no matter how big or small the company is but it does seem that the bigger they are, the more ********** ********* they employ.
He seems to have forgotten that we have legs.
With Robo-taxi's taking us from door to door and with no parking charges his idea of the world sees human legs as being redundant.
He'll probably 'invent' something to allow us to have them surgically removed at birth (/sarcasm)
When Rutland Partners acquired Maplin in 2014 it funded the purchase with debt.
I wonder if there are any stats on how many takeovers that were 100% funded with debt failed and importantly how many actually got out of that load of debt and became profitable.
My guess that out of 100 the figures are 99(failed) and 1(succeded). Perhaps I am being generous with the '1'.
These companies are nowt more than Vultures.
T.B.H. I really don't care much about mobile data speeds while in the USA. Being able to use my UK Minutes for phone calls is far more important. In most places there is plenty of free WiFi available for data.
If I could tether while in the USA then it might be different.
It should be more like
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has speculated in an analyst note that Apple will enter the high-end market with Apple-branded over-the-ear, noise-cancelling headphones.
Now does that not sound more likely?
IMHO, Mr Gurman has decided to compete with Ming Kuo Cho in the ''guess what Apple will do next" race.
It is entertaining... up to a point. After a while these guesses get somewhat boring.
Perhaps the site should keep a detailed record of who has sued Apple this week. That will be far more entertaining. /s
Never understood why HyperV and also Azure are restricting the choice of OS guest it accepts.
Perhaps they have the hooks inside their hypervisor that allows them to snoop on what you are doing from day 1 and that these don't exist for other OS's?
Naturally, they'll say it is for support reasons but... {engage conspiracy theory engine}
websites can be prosecuted if they engage in the "promotion or facilitation of prostitution."
That's the end of Craigslist and a whole slew of sites. The likes of Tinder and even Match might find themselves skating close to the edge as well.
Laws of unintended consequences and all that.
Ah, B&Q with a bit of extra ££££ added.
I wanted something and the Screwfix a few miles away had it. So did the B&Q that I had to drive right past to get to Screwfix. Same thing but for 10% less. So I put up with the sheer delight of going to B&Q.
I'd expect that many B&Q sites will close in the next year or so as the Screwfix sites are much smaller AND hold a lot less stock. They are clearly moving towards a delivery only model.
He wants to get re-elected in 2020. Which may well have the same effect on the world but 'old comb-over' won't see it like that.
Putin does not play Golf. That's why El Trumpo won't deal with him. Taking Putin to Mar-el-Lago is a waste of his precious tee time.
I'm not sure why you got a downvote. All I can hope is that the person/bot that did that does not get old.
My 95 year old Mother had one of these systems and it worked. The people on the other end of the phone did not mind the odd false alarm. You actually gave them one every month when you tested the system.
These things allow people who should otherwise be in ca care home to live independantly.
My Mum got one of these (you have to pay a rental fee btw) about 10 years ago after she had her second knee replaced. That meant that she could not kneel and if she fell over, she could not get up again without help.
She's now in a care home and will celebrate her 96th next week. I am firmly of the opinion that these things work and there is no need to complicate it with any more technology. They can't be hacked either.
the iPhone X was one that either works wonderfully/fails miserably [delete as appropriate]. I'm talking about 'Face ID'.
It seems that for once Samsung has defined the critics (who usually called it Samesung) and not copied Apple in this area. At least the Galaxy does not have that wonderful/awful, stupid [again, delete as appropriate] notch which will please many people.
Personally, I think this is a 'meh' release and may not sell in the gazillions that Samsung want it to. As has been said, it really does not offer much over the S8 for the average user.
Oh well, good luck selling them in the USA with all the bad press about Chinese Govt Spyware.
As it runs Windows which is regarded as Spyware with all that data slurping then perhaps your life goes not only to Redmond but Bejing as well. Nothing like data sharing eh...
My first question has already been asked...
Will it be Linux compatible? You can keep the touch crap though.
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I believe the British had a lot of trouble with the Gurkhas,
Yes, they did but a long time ago. Now the Ghurkas serve with pride in the British Army. They may be short (as in height) but you really don't want to get on the wrong side of them. My next door neighbour is a former Sgt Major in the Ghurkas. He retired and now lives in the UK with his family.
That is a great idea except...
This 'numbskull' would simply sue the people who :-
- owned the bulldozer
- drove the bulldozer
- built any part of the bulldozer
- transported the bulldozer to site
- the city
- the county
- the state
+ anyone watching including the Police
Into oblivion. He has more than enough money to bankrupt the lot of them and/or tie them up in legal cases that would give them all such a bad credit score that... well you can guess the rest.
He simply does not care about anyone but himself. SOP for American Rich IMHO.
He would be right at home with old wrinkly (Rupert M).
Perhaps another billionaire could buy the road leading to his home and put a gate on it. :) :)
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