Posts by Z80

Re: User problem: needed to be escalated.

The quality is definitely diminishing so I think much like the workers in the basement I'll take flight.

Re: If DAB is faster than FM

I've got an original white Bug which I bought soon after they came out in (I think) 2004 and use it every day. The audio outputs at virtually the same time as my other DAB radios - it just sounds like there's a slight echo when you listen to two together.

The only problem I experience is that sometimes when you use the sleep timer it freezes when it turns off meaning the alarm won't come on in the morning. I've got a separate travel alarm clock to save me in case this happens.

I've updated mine with the v2.2 software (Menu > General Setup > Software version) which gives you the EPG function. The way it stops you turning on or off, changing volume or stations while saving EPG data to the SD card is a bit annoying but I found the smaller the SD card, the quicker it completes this so I bought an old 16MB one from eBay. BBC Sounds renders the recording function redundant for me so I haven't needed the SD card capacity for recordings for many years.

Re: PlusNet Billing

Something seems to have gone wrong since renewing my Plusnet contract. The portal shows the next billing date is 4 weeks ago.

Re: $50 per GB for data

Data roaming in Japan using a Three SIM costs approximately 76 times as much.

Re: Most powerful wifi?

Beyond a certain power level, the ability of the access point to receive a signal from the client is going the be the limiting factor isn't it?

Unicode not showing up until the 90's can't have helped.

There are established sorting orders in Japanese though - how could they have dictionaries otherwise?. There's gojūon which orders words based on the pronunciation of the word. It literally means 50 sounds but modern Japanese only uses 46 of them. It starts with the 5 vowel sounds a, i, u, e, o then has rows of corresponding sounds (where they exist) in a set order with ka, ki, ku, ke, ko coming next so for example you'd find ao (meaning blue, but also green, but let's not get into that...) shortly before aka (red) in a dictionary sorted this way.

Kanji can have different readings so they can be sorted into I think as many as 214 groups based on their radical - a common element a group contains, and then they're sorted by increasing number of strokes within their groups.

Re: Well..

Sounds like the TOCs weren't the bogie man this time.

I wonder if it was some sort of buffer overrun?

Re: I call BS on Waymo

https://xkcd.com/1897/

Re: Moto E second generation

My 2nd gen. Moto E 4G (XT1524) received Android 6.0 and shows the Android security patch level as 1st Dec 2016. It was purchased in the UK SIM-free if that makes a difference.

Re: Anything for the Z80 yet?

I wouldn't like to speculate.

Re: Even the question is stupid

This.

The other day I called Barclaycard Merchant Services to find out how to perform some tests on a PDQ terminal that was intermittently failing to connect when processing transactions and I got put through to an automated survey at the end of the call asking how likely I was to recommend their services. To be fair they did ask during the call if i didn't mind that happening.

Given my job role there's no scenario I can imagine where my view of payment processing providers would be sought or need to be offered. They honest answer would be 0 - it's never going to happen.

I played along though and gave them a 6 because they guided me through the testing procedure efficiently (it worked this time) but offered no suggestions as to why it was sometimes failing.

This was classed as dissatisfaction on their scale and they then wanted me to put into words why I felt this way. I suppose that's a way of obtaining more meaningful feedback but I wasn't prepared to offer any more brain power than that required to think of a number and press a button so I hung up.

Re: Mini - not really

"In Durham legend has it that some engineers once suspended the VC's car from Kingsgate bridge"

That it was the VC's car sounds like a recent embellishment to me, but, a car, hanging from Kingsgate bridge? It would appear so.

https://community.dur.ac.uk/j.d.little/kingsgate/viewtopichtml_files/414.jpg

Re: They should do the opposite

You can pay good money to kind of do that yourself - search online for AkibaKart.

Real-world traffic laws apply.

Re: Caveat Emptor! (In UK and EU at least)

Caveat Venditor then?

Re: True Image?

@Pen-y-gors

See True Image 2017 New Generation

@circusmole

You took the words out of my mouth. When I jumped from 2013 to 2017 I thought to myself have I just turned into an idiot or is it this new interface that's idiotic. I've settled on it being the latter.

Re: Regardless of anything else ...

https://xkcd.com/1443/

Re: How does it work?

There's a web site that'll work with a Chromium-based browser and a Mac and Windows app. The Windows one installs to AppData\Local so shouldn't need admin rights.

Amazing what you can find out within about 1 minute of doing a Google search for T-Mobile Digits.

Re: Melted Printers

I think the reason LaserJet IIIs stuck around for so long was that whenever anyone tried to move one to make room for something newer, they thought better of it for the sake of their health.

Not the biggest printer ever made, but possibly the densest?

Re: How many jaz drives would that take???

Too many. That's why they use REV drives.

Re: administrivial..??

Mailing list manager Majordomo has used the term "administrivia" for one of its list configuration options since the 1990s.

Re: KB3201845 needs more than 1GB of free space to install. Glitchy, best to defer.

I'm still OK after KB3201845 has gone on. I don't use fast-start up either as I found my portable USB hard drive and I think also mouse were still receiving power after 'shutting down' my self-built PC with that option turned on.

I figured that the time spent working out why would never be repaid by the imperceptibly faster start-up times so I just switched it off.

Re: Bah!

RAID array - what's wrong with that? Everyone where I work (Department of Redundancy Department) calls them that.

Re: PCMCIA

I had an A1200 but never used the PCMCIA slot.

I know there were external hard drives available with cases that matched the profile of the computer. My mate at school had one and it sounded like he had no end of Guru Meditation crashes with it. I stuck to internal IDE drives.

There was also a PCMCIA SCSI adapter branded Squirrel I think.

Re: @Bruce

KLM and Air France do 3-4-3 on 777s.

I haven't been to Tiree but I've been to Mull. One of the reasons I'd like to go back someday is to drive the B8035 alongside Loca na Keal again. In places the single track road is the only thing between the sea and the foot of the cliffs. Magic.