Posts by Robert Carnegie 4557 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
I think the article describes using Clonezilla and then using gparted from the other distro called "System Rescue CD" to make your 125 GB partition bigger, but I haven't touched this stuff for a while. And when I looked last, Windows apparently wanted to put dozens of partitions onto any disk drive for no reason I could understand. Like, you want three partitions to use, you get I don't know fifteen so that they have plenty of friends.
Like the story that George Stephenson was asked by a Parliamentary committee in 1825, "Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yes," replied the witness, with a twinkle in his eye, "very awkward -for the cow."
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Lives_of_George_and_Robert_Stephenson_by_Samuel_Smiles:_Part_2:_Chapter_10
I stick to random lower case letters, and spaces, which I can input without substitution. I suspect, I don't know, that some of our past or present systems translate one password differently from different input interfaces.
I don't escape your point that if the outcome is setting your password to "nrealy egnilsh wrods" then your fingers are still going to not want to type it correctly.
...and recently I had so much trouble finding a recording device (or a colleague) that I could make read out a list of place names to check against the version that I'd typed. My PC has one but it doesn't work. Then I tried to leave a voice message to myself on Microsoft Teams. Nope.
It's only just occurred to me that I could have got a machine to read out what I'd typed, to compare to what I should have typed. But I'm in Scotland, so that would be something of an auchtermuchty for me and for the computer.
I wondered where your story was going. https://www.snopes.com/ap/2021/03/18/tv-anchors-storms-video/ is a now-abbreviated copy of a news report of a TV studio whose weather presenter got to report that a storm with tornado flavoring was about to hit THEM. Or to come way too close, anyway.
You "just" had a giant arrow flying across the sky. :-)
For a while, BBC1 television had idents where a hot air balloon with a world globe design flew over various parts of the country, including the famous Forth Bridge. So any other time that I saw the bridge, I had the urge to look around for the balloon.
US correspondents tell me that in most states you can be fired instantly because your boss has indigestion and you have no remedy. (For the firing, I don't mean the indigestion.) Some are pleased to see the faction that legislated this principle copping it themselves. A few are oddly proud of it.
You just can't be legally fired for reason of what they call race, but there would be proving it.
Windows speech recognition has been "standard" since Windows XP Tablet Edition, which wasn't quite standard, and was built-in in Windows Vista and ever since. You could also get it with Microsoft Office. Windows XP Tablets weren't especially powerful, though.
You do have to find it, activate it, and train it, and avoid being steered into using the cloud-processing version if you prefer not to. The first part is "key Win+U then select Speech" as of Windows 10.
Thank you, actually Jeremy Hardy did it once on BBC's "News Quiz", but he's dead alas and won't be drinking. Cheers!
It was one of the misprints and odd stories that they used to include - listeners sent them and the team could bring or, it's been alleged, write their own. And I used to write them down, but I lost the file... all I think I remember is that local people or police were worried about rug pushers showing up in their neighbourhood peddling their evil wares. Maybe with a "think of the children" angle.
As a genuine mistake, there are a few other cases online. Along with some who do it deliberately.
Perhaps the comments were good but cunningly displaced from where they should be.
Or perhaps Dick had s peculiar comment style that he thought was normal.
For instance, say what a line of assembler does... a space and a line below the actual code. That would confuse me.
I think fraud legally would be if GBG profited from the forgery or if the company demonstrably lost by it. Evidently someone else got the job, and presumably that wasn't GBG himself... It's ditty work anyway, but maybe not unusual in business or not something that the company would fuss over.
Now it's quite difficult not to visualise that.
I suppose that most of the James Bond films titles, "Tales of the Unexpected" titles, and some "The Two Ronnies" episodes, possibly the one where Ronnie Barker is got up as eccentric television astronomer Patrick Moore for instance, prepared me to do so.
I wonder how often the phone call to a recently let go employee saying "Er, can we trouble you for the Very Important Password, that we can't seem to find" is not from (an appropriate person at) the business that let you go at all, which does know the Very Important Password but may have been not sufficiently cognisant that in such a situation it also is Very Important to change it.
I didn't have those computers but GIF came later than most of the "TRS" branded machines anyway.
It seems to me that a very determined and clever programmer might manage to decode GIF data and display it monochrome at least. But they'd have to want to, a lot.
They might have caught https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#/media/File:Mandel.png
which is from 1978 and printed with asterisks.
I like to use meaningful text, the first time. The fifth or sixth, it's harder to be original - generating log or e-mail notifications, for instance, to see which one has worked. I think I resort to lists, such as the phonetic alphabet.
Likewise, I wouldn't want to write a "test" message on a public forum that only says "test", but I wouldn't invest a lot of effort that is likely to go straight down the drain.
Seems safe. No one in the Galaxy would dare to utter it... except for those ignorant people who don't even know what it means. (...which I've forgotten... actually I don't think it's anything, but I thought it might be related to cricket, and you may see why.)
But it does hash to 5318008. :-)
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