Posts by Will Godfrey

Dead Parrot

Each time Gnome 'Updated' one of their apps I had to go an find an alternative. As far as I'm concerned, Gnome's dumbing down obsession makes them unusable. In fact I don't think there is anything left on any of my systems now.

And so it starts.

Apparently France want to have us maintaining our own channel tunnel border now - what a surprise.

Terry pratchett quote

Granny Weatherwax:

" I aint ded"

I must be getting old

I read the article, scratched my head and read it again... several times.

I still can't seem to get any meaning out of it.

Fun Factor

That's what all the competition seems to miss. They take the whole thing too seriously - as if it's a life & death struggle.

Shirley?

Utterly stupid - and highly dangerous. The entire add industry has become a completely hostile entity.

I've noticed some petrol stations do adds now at the pump. I also noticed a tiny camera, so as soon as the fill starts I make a point of turning my back on the pump (I always fill the tank) with just a quick glance at the total before I go and pay.

I've also learned to ignore programmable motorway signs now unless the lights are flashing.

Sandbox?

Having read a more detailed report on this from Another Respected Source I see a problem with this forced containerisation. Doing high quality video and audio generation requires a lot of inter-app communication and near direct access to hardware - especially for low latency - yet a lot of this work is currently done on just modified 'standard' distros. This move could knock out a lot of semi-pro and amateur creatives.

Wot?

Is the BOFH losing it? Actually admitting to a... a... weakness :o

Stunned

Greatly enjoyed all his shenanigans, so I'll raise one of these to his memory ->

Simples

Just ask Donald Trump. He has an answer for everything.

Bye Bye

I've been wondering for some time why I subscribed to linkedin. I guess it's time to linkout.

Fear indeed

But it's the corrupt politicians and law enforcement agencies that are afraid.

There has always been corruption, and doubtless always will be, but up to now it has been relatively easy to hide it, and if anyone did find out they were quickly disposed of - and that fact itself could be easily covered up.

Now however, not only do ordinary people have extensive means of immediate communication, but it is easy to hide what information is being shared and where it came from.

That's what scares them. Us lot can find out what them lot are up to and are starting to shove big fat spokes in their wheels.

Size matters

The small engineering company I do occasional work for has it pretty tightly under control. There is only one person handling payments, and she absolutely will not pay out anything without a purchase order number and payment/account details that exactly match her records.

However, the company is remarkably lacking in Jags, Yachts & golf courses.

swift?

Presumably this is a meme for how quickly you can be defrauded

Hmm

So feature creep continues. Why am I not surprised.

I think this thing should be renamed 'Mold'. No matter what you do, it slowly expands degrading every thing it touches.

Yay!

Well? What else can you say?

What really gets me fuming

is engineering websites, where I know exactly what I want to look at, and want to do so quickly, only to have to wade through page after page of heavy duty advertising, only to find the actual content link is broken - while I've got a customer who's downtime is losing them thousands of pounds a minute.

In case you didn't know

The land registry currently makes a modest profit that goes into government funds, so is not a 'cost' at all. If it is sold off for a (quick windfall - and favours for 'friends') it will then become a cost, as the government will still have to maintain oversight to ensure no dodgy deals are done - not that anyone would consider such an idea of course.

Oh, and if you didn't see the 'consultation' paper, you won't know whether to laugh or cry. Designed for maximum confusion - not that recent governments pay any attention to such things anyway.

Gah!

This nationalistic pride in technology is stupid. All 'new' developments are based on earlier 'new' developments back through the mists of time. Therefore, those who should be honoured for setting the ball rolling were the early humans who discovered how to make fire.

I understand they were in Africa at the time.

Fun Times

This is just priceless!

On the other hand

I get about 16M on ordinary copper and it would probably actually degrade if I opted for fibre (to the cabinet). This is because the main exchange is in sight of my house, but the nearest (active) cabinet is around 2 miles away.

P.S. That rate is more than enough for my Internet use.

And another thing...

I'm sure that (not being terrywrists) they don't encrypt these USB sticks either - nothing to hide, as they say.

What a sorry, impoverished little island we have become.

Dunno Wot The Fuss Is

Nothing special happening, as fas as I know

Oi!

Can we cut the political crap. I come here for techie info, not personal political (or religious) rantings.

Oh I like this one.

It would appear that this boss' demise will be a well documented catalogue of 'accidents'. Something that will keep HSE fully occupied for months (hence off the BOFHs back)

Britain V Europe

As a born and bred Brit, and fairly regular visitor to various European countries, I find Europe as a whole getting progressively more attractive, and Britain steadily less alluring.

Another missed point

I have one Arduino board... but dozens of atmega 328s that were all programmed in that board, then popped out, connected to a 16MHz resonator and a handful of relevant bits to do specific jobs. Total cost is about £6 per 'unit'. Intel aren't even in the same country, let alone ball-park.

If we were meant to fly

Oh. Never mind.

Reminds me of something

A flightless bird perhaps?

Rather large..

.. and there's something about head and sand.