Posts by onefang

Re: No one has ever been killed by a nipple

"That sounds like a challenge I could enjoy trying to prove or disprove!!"

You'll dive into a mosh pit with razor sharp pasties, and see what sort of damage you can do?

Re: del *.*

"It was a short but sharp brown underpants stuff and I don't think that my friend really twigged how serious it was."

She didn't notice the bad smell coming from your suddenly colour changed undies?

"There's no such thing as a development machine, they're all "production" to somebody."

Not true at all, the little test PC on my desk has always been a development / test box from the day I bought it, and likely always will be.

"The US hasn't had a currency called the pound for about 240 years."

And USA has been officially metric since the 1860s, but no one told the people. Too hard to learn a new system or some such excuse.

"'sharp' as in C#, the computer language."

That was borrowed from the musical symbol # for a sharp, so C# could refer to a particular musical note.

Re: Just to mudddy the waters a trifle ...

So what you are saying is that the UK should all take LSD after Brexit? I suspect some Remainers think that's how Brexit got voted for in the first place.

Re: #2 Pencil?

"Am I the only one who remembers it being the 'number' sign?"

Not the only one. Perhaps we could just start calling it "The symbol previously known as (insert what you usually call it here)", though then Triple J DJs will start calling it Dave.

Re: "the default being a hashtag #."

"Someone needs to get control of the octothorpes!"

So that would be Ian Thorpe the well known Aussie swimmer, Billy Thorpe the well known Aussie rock star, and six other people called Thorpe? I suppose that technically our head of state is the Queen of England, so the UK already has control of us Aussies?

"DTMF had (as the name implies) two tones. Each tone had four frequencies for a total number of combinations of 16. 12 (3x4) were used in the telephone keypad and the other four (ABCD?) did "other things" if you could generate them..."

ABCD is correct, you can buy keypads at electronics shops that have all twelve keys. There's likely apps for that.

'I think removable batteries are a thing of the past. Probably better to invest in an external "power bank" if you find the power running low'

I want both though. I use a solar powered battery to charge my phones, and I want to be able to remove the phones battery when things inevitably go wrong. Though I'll admit that part of the reason for that is my last smartphone's proximity sensor died, it would keep the screen blank during phone calls, so the only way to hang up was to pull the battery.

"Same. And not just on Android. There is desktop software like Geosetter which works with it just fine..."

I wrote a module for OpenSim that drags in OpenStreetMaps data and other stuff to build a portion of the real world in the virtual world, all you do is feed it lat/long of one corner.

Or you can just point a web browser at https://www.openstreetmap.org/

"and openstreetmaps (is that still about, I lose track)"

Yep, it's still around. I use it instead of Google Maps.

Re: Apple

"Nobody would buy Android phones if they didn't contain Google apps!"

I would. Though I would have some trouble with the lack of an open source Google Daydream replacement, at least until I can get around to writing one.

Re: it is only fair that we fine some of theirs back!

"So why didn't they just wait until the GDPR took effect so they could take advantage?"

Coz GDPR was not in force when the bad things happened. They could only punish Facebook for things that where considered bad at the time, no backdating law.

Re: Geolocating options to turn it off?

'US, AU, and "GB/Rest of World"'

Ah, so Aussies like me, how are in Oz, but use the web via a European proxy, will get "GB/Rest of World" stories. Might explain why I tend to see more GB and less AU stories.

Re: Setting cookie already takes JavaScript

'Second, the needless "expand comment..." - if you are paging/scrolling through the comments, it breaks the flow to have to click "expand comment" . It's not necessary - vertical scrolling is inevitable! If you do want an easy way to skip long comments, a 'skip comment' anchor href is all that is needed.'

Agreed, that's a pet hate of mine. All those "Expand comments", "Read more", "Load more comments" links are very annoying.

Re: How about...

"shut-up, loser, I was going to say that."

Well played sir and/or madam.

Re: Ridiculous

"I wouldn’t want a bed which doubled up as a bath and a dining table."

I guess you have never lived in a caravan, or even the tiny houses that are becoming popular. Where a bed that converts into a dining table is a great idea. Coz you don't usually use both at the same time, and you don't have enough space for both bits of furniture.

But then your rampant football supporter is stuck when they are all out of red, blue, green, or yellow Chromebooks.

Re: Still need that "killer app" ?

"Young people today (the lucky bastards!) no longer wear normal watches."

Some of us old farts also don't wear watches either. It's been almost two decades since I last wore one.

Re: Our generation

It become a catch cry for hippies during the '60s. The ironic thing is that any that survived are now well over 30, and a lot of them seem to be trying to fulfill that prophecy.

Re: This is worth waiting for...

I'm in tune with this plucky series of puns. Chordn't of done it better myself.

Re: any grad born after '66

"Cheap yes men that will do what management ask of them - even if its fucking stupid."

Ah, that's what I'm doing wrong. Born in '61, but spent my entire career in computers, starting at school, I would class myself as a digital native. I'm dirt cheap. I'm no yes man though.

Re: Us old fogeys

If you can afford it, do volunteer work IT for a local charity or three."

That's what I've been doing for the last year and a half. Ironically at a seniors place, where all the clients and half of the staff are older than me. Sometimes greybeard me is the youngest person in the building.

Re: Experience?

I've used somewhere between 66 and 100 programming languages in my career, depending on how you count. In my early career I would often learn the language on the job, it doesn't take me long to become expert. A lot of those languages were "We got this ancient system written in an obscure language no one has ever heard of, point onefang at it, he'll sort it out". My party trick amongst geeks is to learn a programming language in an hour. Did that for an exam once, with the blessing of the IT department head, first cracked the textbook open an hour before the exam started, got top marks.

Re: I hope....

I was gonna make some pun about being denied Sun and surf, but couldn't think of one. Have an upvote for both of you.