Posts by BongoJoe

Re: Prepare for...

It's the publisher not the reader.

So it depends on where the site is.

Re: Actually back in the 1990s I was at a company...

When doing long print jobs, they would start to loose letters.

So if you printed out your message then your extra 'o' could be dropped out...

Re: So...

I would simply ask "You know that questions that people ask on Amazon such as 'Do these curtain hangers require batteries?' or 'What size is this one foot square tile?'. How many of them have you written? Or, how many would you have liked to have written if you could work out how to turn on your computer?"

Re: Big red ball?

I was watching that fire not too long ago. We had heaved to in our motorhome to a farm site for a few days and we were watching the fire approach those towers with great interest. And the key in the ignition...

Re: American Beer

Alas it's still a little fizzy for my taste. I was in some microbrewery on Manhattan Beach some time ago and whilst the beer was fundamentally brewed fine it was still killed off and then revived with the biggest greasiest bubbles I've ever seen in a beer.

Re: Why? Just why?

It's handy when some forums, email clients, messaging systems break the VeryLong URL into bits to fit on each line and only the first bit is given the anchor tag which borks the whole URL business.

I don't use URL shorteners and I never click on them anyway. If I can't see and know where they are pointing at I won't "engage the user experience" </MarketingMode>

Re: I wonder....

Assuming that they can tell that Account A's funds were transferred by someone logging in on Account B.

If they can do that, then why were Account A's details shown in real time?

In the 90's golden age of SIMM chip replacements and static-inducing carpets in offices I used to regularly carry a box of Anti Static Adjustable Grounding Straps

Or just wash one's hands, don't dry them but shake them loose of droplets.

Damp hands won't discharge static. A boffinry trick my dad told me during his Strange Days at the Ministry of Good.

Re: "therefore the only one that developers will use is Win32."

If it's not in my ancient copy of Petzold, then I'm not interested.

Re: Tablets and STEM

>Mike16. Upvote from me for the obvious comparison of being waterboarded and working in IT.

Yours, who has moved into a new county and have told the neighbours that I know nothing about computers and, thus, can't fix anything.

Re: Well at least

Sure, out in the sticks, you don't have it. But then you're probably miles from a Maplins anyway. But if you're in a Prime Now area, there is almost no point in going near a retail store for... well... most stuff really.

When we were living in our motorhome we ended up in a Prime Now area.

This was our first order

Re: As a practicing[0] guitarist ...

Alas, most amateur guitarists seem to believe 'if it doesn't sound good acoustic, I need to add more distortion pedals'.

Come now. I wouldn't call The Edge an amateur.

On, the other hand...

Guns don't kill people, rappers Kinder Eggs do .

Re: Price of Admission

On my (Windows 7) desktop I don't have a single icon. Not one.

All I look at is one of a random number of photographs on my desktop and if i want an application it's not too far away under the start button.

That's how I like it. Clean and my shui fenged out to the max.

This screenshot that you refer to is, I agree, utterly bewildering and completely unnecessary.

Remember the desktop picture as supplied by MS which was a grassy field which was being blown in a gentle breeze. That's the sort of thing that I would like to imagine that I can hear when I look at a computer screen not this tiled nonsense which convinces me that I can hear industrial sounds and white noise.

I'm off to rake some sand or something.

Re: Not half-way good enough.

I run a popular website. I do have a few static advertising links on my blog in the middle of a well written article. That's fine as far as I am concerned as I am the one making sure that link is simply a static link to a page.

Then I get these large advertising giants who want me to put my site inside a massive wall of JavaScript. And I mean massive. The script has no line feeds, useless variable names and is clearly designed not to debugged and analysed.

When I get these JavaScript samples from these advertising agencies I always ask for an version of the code that is human readable and with documentation.

I have never once had my request granted. I have no intention of letting these JavaScript walls onto my site: I don't even have a Google Analytics script running as I feel that the only JavaScript on a site should be a single line of code to put the cursor into the first text input box.

Anyway, if these agencies refuse to let us know what they are wanting us to put on our websites then there's no way that I will have them on my website. And if I don't trust them not to put them onto my website then there's no way that I am going to trust them as a visitor to the site.

So, it's adblockers, HOSTS files and subscription sites all the way for me.

Re: how long ago was this?

It may be the lack of caffeine here but I couldn't see any indication of when this stuff happened.

The gentleman may have been trying to communicate with Microsoft for months, perhaps years, and after getting shoved from pillar to post has decided to recourse to this action.

I would imagine that at far as he is concerned he started off with a working computer and then an update broke it. That, in his mind, puts the fault firmly and squarely at Microsoft's door.

Furthermore, the massive tag on the law suit isn't to get $600m but to make Microsoft sit up, take notice and give him what he bought in the first place: a functioning version of Windows 7.

Re: Not on IDENT1

Privacy is only wanted bu the rich,police,politicians and terrorist/criminals. Which one are you

None of the above. But at least I am not posting as an AC. So, which of the above are you?

Wouldn't it contain only half a worm?

Re: Pics, or it didn't happen!

I tried the black velvet jacket, denim shirt and neckerchief approach but couldn't manage the mustache.

I thought that I looked like Jon Lord. Jon Lord perhaps would have thought that I looked like a knob.

Thankfully one can now get it online.

Ah, but sometimes some of these 'macros' or, shall we say, VBA are very useful in these applications.

I look around at the Excel documents that I use daily and wonder how I would get the job done without VBA at all. It's not just middle managers who use this stuff but people who, well, use the stuff and use it well.

Don't get me wrong. I am not a MS luvvie. I would happily ditch everything MS tomorrow if I could, if only someone were to port all my Visual Studio code, all of my Office stuff and everything Microsofty to something else. Truly I would, and I speak as a coder who has been suffering since the first days of Visual Basic.

But I accept that I am locked in and it's quicker for me to await personal retirement (I don't work for anyone else but make money from the various markets) than to recode everything. But that's not my point is: the point is that it's not all middle managers who use VBA. They have other ways to make your life hell.

Re: Wait...

I once sent a memo around where I worked on Durham Prison headed notepaper.

The bosses were less than impressed.

Re: Bought one a while back, returned it almost immediately

That was very reminiscent of our Amazon Fire Stick. It would continually download screensaver pictures and block our broadband.

Re: Small bands

I know people who fly to overseas venues, stay in a hotel and it works out cheaper than watching the band in the local UK arena.

Re: So?

...and getting knighthoods for just Reading Out Aloud!

select count(*) from applicants where date_of_application >= <this years recruitment start date>

or did someone forget to add the date of application into the table.

Or the Code assumed the date to be in British Format whereas the date format internally within the database was in American Format. And some developers catered for this difference and some didn't.

I've seen that before. Which is why on anything to do with dates I always start from the base date of 1/1/1970 (either format, of course) and then do anything with dates as Integers based on this. A pain but, oddly enough, everything that I have touched never got that wrong.

Re: Recycle platters from modern hard disks

But if you get your disk from landfill, make sure it's not the one with £180m of bitcoin on it.

Re: Techdrone

One of the health and safety notices that I have saved came with my drumstool: "Do not use in earthquakes"