Posts by mythicalduck

Re: Might not look scripted, but they've prearranged the interviews and for how long in advance.

Are you sure about that? Back when I used to watch F1 they were often moments they tried to get interviews with people but failed, so they trotted off somewhere else looking for somebody else to grab. Granted that was quite some time ago now

Re: Roulette

I assume the chat number doesn't change? So surely, if you can intercept a device, or go phishing, and find the chat number, it wouldn't be that difficult (I'm thinking state actors, rather than joe hacker).

When you compare that to the WhatsApp which basically notifies everyone when you've joined, my thoughts are that the Signal one is the easier, or at least the more covert.

Disclaimer: I've never used Signal, so no idea how it works

Re: Increased my interest in Vivaldi

I noticed recently that my auto-cookie-deleter kept removing google cookies in Firefox, even if I didn't browse anywhere, so I've just moved to Basilisk (which is based on the early 2017 Firefox), but runs off a Gecko-based rendering engine... So not even using Chromium/Blink.

Google's "Calendar Team" emailed me to say I wasn't using their "official" app, which is odd because I don't know how they knew, as I had ticked the "Don't scan my apps", and I don't link to the Google calendar system (I run my own ownCloud server for calendars)

Anyway, just waiting to find the right phone replacement to drop Android, then I guess the only Google thing I use is YouTube

Re: Pah!

"Except when calling someone "infantile" for making a joke, of course"

Even then he didn't. He referred to "name calling" as infantile, not the poster. There's a difference.

Re: I guess I know what architectures to avoid...

It's probably not the "architecture" that you need to be trusting, rather the chips. I bet the pre-pentium chips are probably trustworthy. After all, the older back the chip design, the less likely that it was designed for "internet" usage.

So really, what you want to look at is dusting off your old retro computers, and see if you can equip with with an Ethernet card :)

Pay for decent food

Whilst I generally agree with the "you get what you pay for", it's not always true either. You can still get inferior food being priced highly because of "brand" labels etc.

comparing a variable to itself isn't a problem?

Sure it is, but it's not "2 errors" like that screenshot suggests. The first is an error, the "second" is a suggested solution.

I don't know if it's intentional, but it certainly makes the "error count" ambiguous IMO

Not only that, but say you configure your "RNG" to force a favourable hand to the house for a percentage of games, a blockchain won't reveal that either.

@AC: Re: @tiggity You had better tell me some valid reasons to vote leave

For the record, I'm not talking permanent working overseas, I'm talking jump on a plane on Monday and fly to a customer site for 1-5 days then fly back home.

If you're not talking permenant, please can you explain why a dual nationality makes the slightest bit of difference?

One global company I worked for sent me to Budapest and Memphis for a week each. Guess what, Memphis isn't in the EU, and I didn't have any issues, nor did I have to become an American citizen or anything.

I, honestly, don't get what you're saying. I could see it possibly making a difference if your office was based in the EU, but just flying over there to do some work and fly back, not so much...

Swap sims? Can't you just get a dual-sim phone, then you don't need to swap phones or sims, and all your contacts will be available to both.

@Doctor Syntax Re: Confused....

"IFAICS what you're saying is that instead of having one set of regulations we could have two? That'll simplify things, take back control, cut red tape and [insert pro-Brexit slogan of your own choosing]."

Yes and no... He's suggesting we have a UK reg, which applies to people flying drones in the UK, and if you want to take your drone abroad to the EU or the US, you then have to follow their regs, which may be different to our own. Sounds pretty sensible to me, just like driving a car abroad, you really need to learn the rules of the road in the country you're driving in, regardless of what you learned here in the UK

Re: Bigger jumps in Version numbers @druck

That's not how Roman numerals work. XP would be 10 before 1 million i.e. 999,990

Ah yes, silly me.. Still, the joke icon should give it away considering P isn't actually a roman numeral :)

Re: From memory...

Is it that bad? On my PC, FF grabs about 300MB at startup and with currently about 60 tabs open is using 1GB

Well, I opened task manager when I saw your comment. And it was at 598M (7 tabs, 2 are shops, 1 is a paused YouTube video, and 4 are The Register). Whilst just looking at task manager (not even using Firefox), it has since breached 600M. Then it's just dropped to 594M and has just surpassed 603M

Why so much is going on when all I'm doing is typing in a text box (or even not using Firefox) is a total mystery to me.

At the end of this post, I'm now over 624M

Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

> It's a lie, because Boris Johnson made it up and it has no basis in fact.

Well, it kind of does...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No._2257/94

Only Extra class bananas have to comply fully with the shape specifications. Class II bananas, for instance are permitted to have "defects of shape"; Class I bananas are permitted only "slight defects of shape"

This regulation requires that bananas of the highest quality classification not have "abnormal curvature"

Re: Consumers..

3.5mm is great but not perfect; a 'snap-off' magnetic connector would be better, and would have saved me money since I have damaged headphone cables be catching them on things.

This! I don't just catch them on things, when I'm at work, and have one connected to the desktop, I sometimes forget how short the cable is (or forget it's connected to the PC and not my MP3 player), and lean to the other side of the desk...

There's also Altera's version in the form of the Cyclone V SE. You can share memory or talk to the CPU via the AMBA interface.

There's even a cheap(ish) Dev board in the form of the DE0 Nano SOC

Hmmm, I spent ages looking at this board, but the block diagram (link below) shows the the RAM is only available on the HPS side and couldn't find any information regarding accessing the RAM from the FPGA side. It was a while ago though.

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=163&No=941&PartNo=2

I've just redownloaded the user manual, and it lists the DDR3 under "Peripherals connected to Hard Processor System", but what I clearly didn't notice last time, is that the table also lists a bunch of FPGA pins, so that might actually be the board I'm looking for. Thanks :)

Re: Looks like it's time to invest in an embedded Linux solution

Even a properly set Winbloat system should be using user accounts not admin accounts

Didn't think Embedded XP had any concepts of "user", least of all User and Admin accounts.

What I'm surprised at is that the ATM system isn't CRC/MD5 checked and/or reimaged upon receipt. Kind of like when I buy a new laptop, I'll wipe the disk and install from a known-good CD/DVD

Re: Ordered to hand over rather more than just IP addresses

(v) Bitcoin

Well, according to the article (I've not checked Mega), you can get 50GB for free - so surely it'd be:

(v) None (Free Account)

I received a dodgy sms from 'HMRevenue'

Thanks for sharing that, because my wife had one of them recently, but I just told her to delete it without following the link, interesting to know where it came from

I'm clearly not Icahn, but if I'd just walked away with $2bn, I probably wouldn't bother investing in anything else, instead, just setting me up in a nice little place, out of the way, and enjoy a nice relaxing lifestyle...

... oh the dream...

(Can we get a desert/tropical island icon?)

Re: Collateral salvage

And very much like what happens if the UK leaves Europe - until it happens, you won't really know "what's left". You never know, it might just be driver and a few front seat passengers getting their comeuppance that take the hit. Then the rest can finally get off the bus like they wanted to all along

Re: The original was better

Original? In 1988? Wrong...

http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=3621&d=18&h=0

(I acknowledge that there might even be one prior to Hover Bovver, but I don't know it)

Re: eh?

Doesn't everyone have a folder they created years/months/weeks ago that contains junk functions like this? One of the first habits I fell into when I started programming was to save every function I wrote because I was under the deluded impression that what I wrote was beautiful and elegant

Well, I never consider mine to be beautiful and elegant, I just never wanted to have to keep writing it... The ultimate irony, in my case, is that from time to time, I actually still ditch it all and rewrite it, trying to standardise things like variable names, and formatting. I then get bored, resurrect the stuff I didn't rewrite and carry on with a horrible mix... Maybe one day I'll get the time and motivation to properly tidy everything, but I doubt it.

Re: I am a Truecaller user

I've just ordered a Wileyfox Swift, but this is going to be the first thing I remove.

It's fine for me to decide to upload my own phone number, but uploading my friends' details is a different matter

Re: Tl;dr: you fidget more when engaged.

I guess you don't fidget much when you've fallen asleep

Re: don’t have the space to accommodate SIMs

Absolutely, and what about when I buy a new phone... At the minute I move the SIM over and carry on with my life. This will mean having to involve people who invariably mess up...

Re: Hahahahahahaha

What if the ad folks become proxies and insert the ads inline, much like how modern product placement can replace sponsored products between runs of a show? Because the ad people are now between you and the content, you can't block them without blocking the content, too.

I could see those sites dying. I certainly wouldn't visit them.

In fact, sites that pop up asking me to subscribe or whatnot before I've even seen any content on their site annoy the crap out of me, and I never go back there

Re: Plus one for not using the edge

Now you see, that confused me when I first saw the device. I found it difficult enough already to hold an android phone without my fingers/thumb interfering with the touchscreen. I wouldn't even know how to hold the Edge. To me it sits in the "Stupid ideas" category of design. However, I've never used one (nor likely too), so I could be wrong about it

You just been watching A Dose of Buckley?

@AC: Re: This is what makes me laugh / cry...

>Really? .Net 4.0 solid?

Sorry to disappoint you, but the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook is not actually part of the .NET framework, it's actually a referenced COM object (as heavily implied by the error of System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException). The interop namespace should give away that it's not part of the framework.