Posts by jeffdyer

Re: Offline environment doesn't work well either

I've been using daily for the last 7 years. It's never "blown up" or anything.

Re: Happily, I pragmatically stuck with C, assembler, Cobol and Fortran :-)

It only takes someone to accidentally get the bulb in the "live" part of the circuit i.e. the switch works on the neutral not the live wire for that to go badly wrong. Agreed. Always turn it off!

Re: Good.

I bought an Amiga midi adaptor with cables a few years ago on eBay because it was actually cheaper than buying cables themselves ... still have it in the attic somewhere. The PiStormed A500 is under the bed...

Re: University 1987

MicroVAXes were still popular in about 1990 when I joined this firm that were phasing out their PDP/11s - sort of died out by the late '90s though as PCs and PS networks became ubiquitous

Re: Where does the time go?

In South Wales Concorde would fly overhead every morning at about 11:07 IIRC? I still miss looking up to see that delta shape

Re: Good times

9 months later and I logged on to say the same thing

Re: It does suck

"Just sitting with a few browser tabs open"

Yes My Win11 does that on some things - but yes, it's the browsers not the OS

Agree, the 2.0.4 release on my Amiga 500plus had no amiga basic so bought hisoft assembler and acquired lattice c instead. Both good moves!

Re: The only people putting this edge prefix on urls will be microsoft.

"Malware purveyors will use it to circumvent normal channels to make sure their content gets put front of screen for unwitting people to click on it."

How exactly?

Re: > PHP really is an awful language.

Presumably you code nothing but web pages, in which case I guess that's OK.

Re: Marmite

I don't think Marmite is niche...

Re: Who is responsible

The fact that gas pipes were run through "public" spaces is a right no brainer.

Re: Fear mongering

So process B can read memory written by Process A. Unless B knows exactly what is stored there, it is of no use whatsoever.

Re: Retired JIT

Why are you bothering reading this then? I'd be down the pub.

Re: not Cool

No, C# WinForms is still not quite as good as Delphi, except when you want to link to the latest MS technologies like Outlook 365 EWS, which I couldn't do with Delphi 7 but did in minutes with C# VS2017

Delphi's killer trick is the live database links, where you can see your sample at design time.

Reminds me of a time my firm was looking at taking over a struggling competitor, and their directors came down to sell the deal to us. While running through the back end procedures they showed us a shortcut they just ran to update the database with external data. I asked him to open it just to see what it did, only to find that is was a bomb intended to shut down the database server, rename all the database files and restart the database server, all the while displaying various fragmentation and reconfiguration messages.

They'd not been paying their developer who decided to get his own back. Needless to say, they deal fell through, and they went bust.

Re: Low Expectations

"eventual June 1991 release of MS-DOS 5.0"

About thirty years ago was 1990, pre MS-DOS 5.0, so was this machine a time traveller, which had been running for years in the past?

Re: I love .NET

I've used FORTRAN, FileTab-D, RPL, C, Delphi, C# ASP.Net, now mainly using C# on Unity. Visual Studio just works for me.

Re: Stopping working

That happened to me with my Onkyo Network CD Receiver, one day it just stopped connecting to Spotify, then I found out that Spotify were consolidating their APIs into one (Connect), my recevier was a few years old and didn't get updated. "Fortunarely" not long after the network connection failed, I took it back to Richers' and they gave me a nive new Yamaha with Spotify Connect etc built in. Sadly no digital input though, but with internet radio built in instead.

Re: Pedo-guy?

You're thinking of Mark Zuckerberg surely.

You ask whether you will be prosecuted for "sharing the content with a number of world wide networks distributing the information that I receive"

While stating "Legal to listen to off air signals, illegal to rebroadcast or otherwise distribute the content"

Answered your own question really.

Re: An exceptional mind

Not quite an "entire industry". Maybe a branch.

Re: Quick question

I would say none. It's hard enough to write your own multi threaded application and synchronize data between threads. But even if you can read someone else's bytes, actually knowing what that data represents (in someone else's application) is impossible.

Re: Re. Terminal

I had one connected to the serial port of my Amiga 500plus, I could actually run eMacs and code SAS/C on the terminal and run the programs on my 14" TV.