Posts by ABehrens

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

Spanish formerly treated CH as a separate letter, alphabetized between C and D: CZ < CH < D. (It's still a separate letter, but now officially collates as if it were C followed by H: CG < CH <CI...).

When I lived in San Juan (Puerto Rico), the city had a moderately large number of people with English surnames. In the phone book, Spanish names were alphabetized using the old Spanish collating rules, BUT English names used English rules. So you had Cabrera, Calderón, Cervantes, CHAMBERLAIN, CHRISTIE, Colón, Costa, Cruz, Cuellar, CHACÓN, CHÁVEZ, Dávila, Díaz.

Re: point of order

Must have been the USDOD

Re: film plots

I was impressed by Marcel Marceau's speeches..

Re: No doubt it's easy to do if you know how...

Using a grave accent to type the word café — now that's a cute trick.

Re: Next time

I've never been to an estate sale where livestock needed to be deterred. I suppose it might occasionally be necessary if the Dear Departed had been a farmer.

Re: Honesty kills

Allllgh, matey! Shivel my timbels!

Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

Go home, Stallman, you're drunk again.

Re: Haynes Manuals

* Remove engine

See "Replace starter motor"

Re: SNAFU

Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour PM, studied science, botany, agriculture, mathematics, and physics at Birkbeck College.

Re: There's a problem with the app...

Ask a friend with a smartphone to download the app and visit your house. When they run the test manually, it'll detect that your network is Comcast and report those speeds.

Re: Blessed are the cheesemakers

What a friend we have in Cheeses.

Re: Wheeled office chairs Alsace-Lorraine

That's not a left-pond spelling. It's simply wrong, on both sides of the water.

Sid Marshall — is that you?

Re: The Xenon-verse

You meant "odder than we thought".

Re: Old certs surely?

Topbulb.com got one of the last Symantec certificates (issued Nov 2017), and it won't expire until Jan 2021. They haven't yet noticed that the number of customers dropped off sharply last month.

Re: Dangerous

Think of the possibilities: you could open a tattoo parlor for people who are needle-phobic.

Re: Translating Czech

The Czech Republic shares a long border with Germany and Austria. People who often deal with tourists are likely to understand German also.

Re: The 'quality' of its printers was enough to do that

> it's clearly better than most of the shitty printers being pedalled these days!

You must be referring to the ones that use re-cycled ink cartridges.

Re: @Emmeran: Maybe...

If you write mean spirited folk, you're taking about people who are mean and also spirited. If you meant "people who are mean of spirit", that's a compound adjective and needs to be hyphenated; mean-spirited folk.

I've got better things to do

I always leave the toilet after using it. You think I want to sit there all afternoon reading my email?

Re: Thank You

That's worth repeating: "Zero redundancy doesn't necessarily make for good writing/journalism".

Congressman Ted Lieu has a degree in computer science from Stanford. He certainly would understand the utter stupidity of this bill.

Re: And your point is?

There seems to be some confusion between key fobs (which attach to the key ring) and key transponders (which are built into the key).

Fobs transmit a signal to lock or unlock the doors. They certainly require a battery, which can go for years before it needs to be replaced.

Key transponders do not have a battery. They are powered by induction, and transmit a code while they are near (within a few cm) of the ignition lock. When away from the car, they have no power and don't transmit anything.

Re: Too much information?

Specifically, if's the postal code for the Zhuhai Science & Technology Industrial Park.

Re: no heating needed

Did your electrician forget to install fuses or circuit breakers on this circuit?

Re: "Is there another internet?" @Dropbear

Nope, it was Solaris, which had been released a year or two before the the SPARCstation 5 came out. (And then some marketing genius decided that they didn't like the name SunOS, so they retroactively called SunOS 4.1 "Solaris 1" and Solaris "Solaris 2". Fortunately nobody paid attention to that idea).