Posts by DJV

Multiplan, probably...

Re: Proxy

Yeah, but it's STILL WordPress!

"The better alternative is to keep the politicians away from this stuff"

I'm increasingly of the opinion that it would be best to keep politicians away from a breathable atmosphere for the sake of the rest of us.

Re: Every single time

Oh god, yes! I used to work in IT support back in the 1990s - the number of times we had to remove all those damned "useful" (sic) toolbars from people's computers. We'd tell them NOT to reinstall them knowing we'd have to go back a week or two later to do exactly the same thing once again...

Re: Hm, I'd say..

Yes, and also, delete that data after an agreed time period.

Re: Guess what I'm using to read this

Your eyes?

Re: I love the fact that...

Duh, yes! Whoosh!

Re: Apparently Baldrick is now running Microsoft

Yeah, that accounts for every release looking more and more like a turnip.

Re: Ask the dinosaurs

I did but he was too busy digging for worms in my back garden to answer.

Dunno about brown...

...but mauve has more RAM.

Re: Gmail's spam filtering is really good

With 'good' meaning 'way too overenthusiastic' - it puts almost everything into the spam folder, even when you've told it that it's NOT spam!

holes

This sort of reminds me of an aunt who was so bad at knitting that her attempt to knit a jumper ended up looking like a string vest. NPM is (or hopefully, now, was) the software version of her jumper.

Re: Once you're a Google Play developer, you always will be.

Same here - the hoops Google want me to jump through just to satisfy their stupid updates are not worth the effort. Yet, it's impossible to actually engage with the idiots to tell them what the situation is! I've tried sending messages to various places as I've come across them but absolutely NEVER get a reply. Google are pathetic, greedy and useless.

Also, as a web developer who has made use of the Google maps API many times in the past on various sites, now, when updating those sites I am moving all mapping to OpenStreetMap because their interface is now simpler than Google's and they don't also demand credit card details up front in order to use the maps.

Re: UEA?

Yes, he was still there in 1993-6 when I did my computing degree there. I only took one course that he taught (known as 1D10 - and, yes, of course we added a final "T" to it!) the coursework of which was to program a CPU simulator.

Re: Netscape chewed up memory and Windows' memory management was woeful

IE3 also chewed up memory and tended to crash Windows somewhere around the twentieth web page (and that was on mid-1990's lightweight* web pages). We advised people to go back to using Netscape until we'd managed to upgrade everyone to Windows 95/8.

* in comparison with today's CDN/crap overladen stuff.

Re: "just as dumb as the rest of the staff"

You're lucky - they are usually dumber!

@ac

Yep, the old drug-dealer methodology.

Re: driving license

"would have done better with a driving license ... as these have the photo on as well"

My driving license doesn't - it's still the old fold-up paper type, which is still perfectly legal (I checked with the DVLA).

Re: some overenthusiastic hole punch work

I heard a similar second-hand story about that - programs and data loaded from paper tape kept being corrupted. It took them a while but the problem was eventually tracked down to a clueless newbie in charge of occasional paper tape loading - he was getting bored and poking the occasional extra hole in the tape with the point of a pencil.

Re: It is interesting to see the moves to unionise

I fully agree.

Unions are good when they are trying to raise workers from the hell of "minimum wage" employment with uncaring, greedy, money-first companies. So, I am fully supportive of the workers at Apple and Amazon trying to unionize.

However, those of us in the UK with long memories may remember the "closed shop" proposals of the 1970s when it seemed that the boot was very much on the other foot and militaristic unions ruled the country instead of the government (not that the current bunch do much ruling, preferring instead to party and line their own pockets at everyone else's expense). The very small family-run company I worked for at the time, who tried their best to pay a decent wage, lived in fear that, if closed shop was imposed, it would effectively mean they would run at a loss, which would kill the company.

So, unions are good in moderation - the other extreme is just as bad.

Re: They could at least test this mess properly

No, that's what users are for...

Re: "The icing on the cake was that the colleague in question worked for our IT department"

I'm surprised you didn't add "but not for much longer" to that sentence!

Re: The registry is much more than a cron table

And that's one of the problems right there!

Re: Well, at least they disappeared in later versions!

Upvoted - I recognised that quote immediately. Younger readers might want to go here.

Re: "reliably shoot a projectile every 30 seconds"

Just put a red-shirt in the target area and make sure that there are none of Vader's Stormtroopers anywhere around the shooting end. Should hit the target every time!

Re: Good report

Yeah, and if Gartner also suddenly come up with feasible predictions that end up coming true then we're definitely all doomed!