Posts by Will Godfrey

As usual

Nice unexpected twist at the end

Fascinating

I remember first hearing about superconductors when I was a teenager, and the boffins seem to be slowly but steadily chipping away at the limits,

P.S. This is also the sort of topic I most like to see on El Reg.

Good News!

Maybe...

The waters are becoming so muddied, that the only real way to find out what students know is to revert to one-to-one discussions - something that's been missing for a long time. Also, I can remember group discussions on a given theme where misconceptions quickly surfaced and could be corrected. That never seems to happen any more either.

Nice to see

I always like to hear news about those who think they are better/smarter than everyone else being publicly pulled up.

Proof if needed

There's nothing so simple that it can't be screwed up by HR.

Bollocks

The project I work with littered with these (apparently offensive) words. None of the devs have commented on their use, nor have any of the more advanced users who compile from source (and often give useful bug reports). There is no reason anyone else would even see the code and all the user text is fully clean, fluffy, and er... white :P

Not been caught so far.

But it's very difficult to avoid. If they did manage to catch me I'd immediately cancel the credit card.

It was great for a while

But the Internet is being destroyed by the likes of Google, Facebook, et al.

Just on search alone, I've noticed a steady decline in relevance of results to my queries.

I'm trying to be surprised

... but failing completely.

Well that'll do a lot of good

Everyone will find out about all the details except those impacted by it.

Stupid

The cops will just mount 24hr 'public safety' missions.

On the other hand...

We had some code that was checking the wrong variable, yet seemed to work perfectly on dozens of machines. That was until someone updated their OS at which point the program crashed immediately it was started - much head scratching ensued.

No Thanks

I'm on Economy7. I know exactly when the cheaper rate is active (and if I wasn't sure, there's an indicator on the meter). I fit all the power hungry usage into that time slot.

Never actually owned a ZX81...

However it was this that started me on the slippery slope (for which there is no cure).

A friend had one that died for no apparent reason, and asked me to fix it as "You know transistor things". It was actually a very simple repair. There's a primitive switch-mode 5V regulator with the drive transistor sweating at the limit of it's rating. It had failed, so I replaced it with a slightly beefier one, and fitted a minimal heatsink for it (not a lot of room in there).

My friend had gone on holiday so I had about two weeks to play with it.

P.S. The first computer I owned was a BBC model B

Another devuan user here

... and not seeing any problems.

I'm surprised that debian is installing pipewire by default - even the developer says it's not ready.

A very special type of people.

The amount of dedication for this sort of thing would exhaust most of us in weeks. But then, these people are literally fighing for their country.

Not so fast!

It was a deliberate ploy to lull the crims into a false sense of security and all pile into the area. They were then going to round them all up and export them to Rwanda

... or sommatt

In days gone past

In the 405line analog TV days, a small farm in Wales lost all TV every summer, until the the next farm along changed hands, and the new owner was quite happy to have the copse 'pruned' - at the other guys expense.

Guys, Please use more paragraphs!

Trying to read the previous two posts was nearly driving me cross-eyed

Hmmm (ploink!)

How about a Pi Zero as a 'proper' teletext decoder alongside something like a Teensy or Arduino driving a (rather big) 2D array of tri-colour LEDs :)

That's a nice NHS you've got there.

Shame if anything were to happen to it.

(icon depicting decades of good service being burned to the ground)

Upside Down

The entire business world is these days.

Instead of a business telling a supplier what they want, we have these huge corporations telling companies what they can have and how much they must pay for it. - no negotiation.

Numpty

The twit calling for the EU to be "abolished".

Personally I'd much prefer that to happen to twitter.

Hmmm

Sounds rather like an opportunistic power grab to me.

Not bad, not bad at all.

Mind you, on the email side, I've been using Claws ever since it was forked from sylpheed, so with a lot of stuff held on it I'm not likely to change in a hurry.

Oh the pain!

Who here hasn't suffered from trying to get a sensible answer from one of these people?

And if that's not bad enough, how about websites with 'help' options - none of which remotely deal with the problem in hand.

Commiserations

Unfortunately this seems more and more common - right across the board.

Dastardly!

Us in the west would never do such a thing.

No not ev...

Oh.

Something, something, centrifuge.

Pot meet kettle

Nuff sed!

Security

We know what that word means. Unfortunately so do the baddies (or rather it's absence).

Microsoft? Doesn't look like it.

Why?

Floppy disks actually banned?

What on earth for? Are they regarded as some form of lethal weapon?

Ah! Just followed the link. Not a generic ban then, just for official stuff.

That sort of boss doesn't squirm, and such an act could have been literally suicidal

Universal... what?

USB has become a rather good? demonstration that you can do one thing well, or everything badly.

I would like to say I was surprised

But I prefer to tell the truth (unlike Crapita).

Shame really

I lost interest when you mentioned Gnome

Not all gifts in kind are a bad deal.

Every year the company I worked for gave me a large bottle of Bailes for Christmas

The still do, and I've been retired a few years now :)

More popcorn please

This will run and run. My only worry is that Microsoft will probably try to keep the case alive in order to run their opponents out of money.

Won't somebody think of the Ch^h^h Investors?

See title.