Posts by Adrian 4

Re: How green?

He's mellowing.

That post was hardly bombastic at all. It even had only one word capitalised, and that was appropriate.

I think his shift key may have got worn out.

> Which is great for the ... what, 0.1%? 0.5% ... of users who need to plough through terabytes of data.

If 0.1% or 0.5% of users buy one, Apple will be very, very happy. And will probably put the price up.

Re: Yuck.

I recall being told that a payroll system has all the attributes of a real time system, though the actual schedule is relatively slow.

Re: Business as usual

The only really good managers I've had (they're rare, but when you find them they show the others up) did exactly that.

Re: It's not us, it's them!

Littering offence

Re: The joys of modifying windows sounds...

The last expansion here :

PIng

Re: 15% minimum tax rate ? Great idea.

T is for Troll

Relying on a phone that may be compromised, discharged or out of signal is asinine. I have no confidence in vendors that use it for 2FA. I have the same expectation of security and usabilty in phone-based systems as reused passwords.

Re: Rap "music"

That reminds me of the definition of a gentleman as someone who can play a ukulele, but doesn't.

Re: Concepts are hard to understand

I worry when I see such detailed bugs and workarounds. Imagine going to all that trouble for a microsoft product. Just bin it already.

Re: There should only be Retry and Fail, the other two aren't needed

For failure conditions where you wanted to kill the program, you needed Abort : MS-DOS had no proper interrupt as ctrl-C was processed by the keyboard handler and ctrl-alt-del killed things a lot lower down.

Re: ..popular?

Another common way to measure 'popularity' is by numbers of questions on stack overflow etc. A measurement not directly of popularity, but of how often people need help with it.

It seems the boss had taken a backup, which rightly refused to run. So the deletion or not of the running code is pretty moot - they still had it, and it refused to run the unlicensed shareware.

TBH, in this case I'd have probably paid the £10 myself. Not something I'd usually do, but for £10 ...

Re: Not always

"I still regularly encounter mice where the scroll wheel isn't clicky."

And even if it is, clicking iut can induce some scrolling. However some multibutton mice allow it to be assigned elsewhere such as a thumb button.

Re: I think this is too bleak - especially for Tech

"and on LinkedIn of course."

'Of couirse' ?

Why would you be stamped with the mark of that bunch of spammers and desperationals 'of course' ?

Re: Surely...

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he ?

As regards a resistor going short-circuit - pretty unlikely, they're far more likely to go open circuit.

And I would think the MTBF of the complex voltage-field-sensing system of some modern meters is far worse than a simple neon and resistor.

Re: Is it going to end up like windows 8?

> What life changing features will I be getting by switching to W11?

Continued "support"

Re: HAZMAT suit please, nurse, gloves please!

Maybe they didn't want it to recover, especially partially ?

Re: A judge suggested checking with the milkman?

Wsn't it Associated Dairies ? Or was Asquith an earlier incarnation ?

Re: HSBC France

For the same reason, I always avoid pressing any buttons or make any voice response. In most cases, this is the quickest way to get a near-human operator. In a few cases, it just leads to an indefinite loop.

What you need is to log the logging events so you can investigate why they weren't logged.

Re: Trains and Planes

Prime cost-cutting territory for governments, then ?

Re: Windows NT 4 SP2

> What does it show when you can even still remember what XPLT, XPCK etc. did?

You are a vampire and icmfp

Re: Falling out of bed

You could also argue that if cover does not apply because of such a clause, then it is not another cover that applies. So he could be covered by both.

A race condition.

Re: Wait for Windows 12, I guess

Have they improved, then ? It used to be that only every third version was usable.

There should be a cliff nearby with 'we apologise for the inconvenience' in letters of fire.

Re: Bond! Bond?

Film fashion. It's all about stern looks and dramatic poses. Blame Marvel.