Posts by onefang

Re: Windows

So that after hours the station staff can play Candy Crush.

Re: "Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop"

"/me can't find 'poo' icon..."

I'm sure it's in Unicode somewhere, though YMMV when it comes to rendering that properly. U+1F4A9 or 💩 if that helps.

Edit: El Reg says "The post contains some characters we can’t support", so I deleted the actual poop character.

Re: Could be worse

"ISTR that there was some effort towards a film version of some sort, but don't know what came of it."

The books where a trilogy, but someone thought it would be best to make a trilogy out of each book, then someone pointed out that to be true to the source, things should be done in threes, so each trilogy had it's own set of sequels. Then they noticed the other three books. At this point the projected cost of making the films got so astronomical even the first Rama spaceships couldn't keep up. So they canned the entire deal.

Somewhere deep in Hollywierd, there are people thinking of trying a second time, then a third time, just to be consistent.

Re: I thought it was illegal...

"I should imagine cosmic plod will hove into view sharpish and cuff the crims (i.e. us)"

At least we get a response out of them, and answered some big questions, though obviously creating more questions. Like what should we do when big alien Bubba drops the soap with a grin?

Re: As always, marketing say release it yesterday

"Yeh but, is it yesterday still?"

I live in Australia, it's (almost) always yesterday somewhere.

Re: just mewling quims.

"I'm curious what most people might find more "offensive" if they were given a choice"

I'd not be offended by either. Then again, I'm not easy to offend.

Re: So not, Google

"You can use locally hosted Matomo instead of Google Analprobe,"

Other software for counting users is also available. It may even be built into whatever you used to build your website.

Re: So how is an eSIM better

I think you'll find the Vodaphone shop at an Australian airport is gonna charge you in AU$, not £.

"The devs have been hard at work reducing the memory footprint recently, and it's surprisingly lightweight now."

Some day I intend to sit down and benchmark a bunch of desktops. That should include the perceived heavy weights as well as the perceived light weights.

Re: Eco credentials?

A recent report I read said that there's been more heat held in the oceans than previously suspected. Wish I could recall the details, like where that was. El Reg? Aussie ABC news site? Maybe somewhere else?

So dumping excess heat into the ocean vs the air may or may not be a good idea.

Microsoft dumping the slurp is a great idea though, they should do so, then we might stop laughing at them. Well, not so much laughter at least.

Perhaps they can compromise? Stop slurping, stick all the stuff they have slurped so far into one of those underwater data centers, and toss the thing into the deepest part of the ocean, never to be seen or heard from again.

Re: Hmm, usually when a company does that...

"But has Linus accepted into the mainstream kernel?"

As I mentioned above, at least some of it had been accepted into mainstream Linux kernel, years ago.

"If you want a powerful server that you can stick in your rucksack or airline carry-on bag,"

I've regularly carried a desktop system, complete with monitor, keyboard, mouse, couple of network switches, WiFi AP, and assorted cables in my backpack. Then again, my pack is likely a litle bigger than your rucksack or airline carry-on bag.

Re: Dear God,

"As I understand Catholic doctrine, there are no such things as ghosts."

The father, the son, and the holy ghost might disagree.

Re: Drive-by robbery with a megaphone

A whole new form of wardriving.

"...which really shouldn't be as close to the speakers as that."

Why, do you think it will go off?

Re: !Celebrated !Mac !Malware !Still !Requires !Manual !Installation

I tried to get Kaspersky's, but the download button refused to work. Clicked it several times, it flashed, nothing else happened. I went with Malwarebytes, I use it on Android and Windows. Meh.

Re: Close but no cigar

"Unfortunately Hacker's Keyboard was recently pulled from the Play Store."

F-Droid has it. That's where I installed it from.

https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard/issues/668

Which mentions a few places you can get it, including F-Droid, and obviously Github.

"Funny thing is I had been using Hacker's Keyboard up until a few months ago, but the English completion dictionary disappeared from the store."

Those should be "available from the website" according to F-Droid. Which means Github I think.