Posts by oldfartuk

Re: Broken NFS

Those were the days. I remeber rebuilding the MBR on an IBM PC using a hex editor, you cant do stuff like that anymore.

Re: The search for aliens is suspended?

I also believe there are alien civilizations, but after we produced the Clintons, they concluded all crooked lawyers must be married to sex pests, and decided to move onto the next Galaxy

Space Clinton - "I did not have electromagnetic interactions with that galaxy".

Re: Remember when there was talk of Windows in cars?

Or the Self Checkouts in supermarkets

"Unexpected horse in bagging area"

Re: Colleges vs. Real world.

i learned COBOL66 on Manchester Universities Dec 11/750. I loved COBOL. and were were taught the new fangled "Michael Jackson Structured Program Design Methodology"

However, for some reason I never fathomed the lecturer assigned to teach us COBOL was a Canadian Chemistry professor.

I went into the first lecture and came out knowing less than I started. After a second lecture, and my knowledge reduced even further, i decided I could do better on my own. I handed in every assignment o time and scored 90% i the final exam. I loved COBOL. I even wrote a batch non interactive pacman game on it, you put your (up to 10) moves as a NSEW in a text file then ran the program, then it printed out the screen on the 132 col A3 lineprinter. It took days to play one game.

Re: Great Article, Thanks

Its absolutely true in all computing. The more time you spend making the algorithms and UI utterly foolproof, the more it pays off in less support calls from the great unwashed. Its also why you dont let programmers design UI's unsupervised.

or collapses back down to the original Calabi Yau manifold, returning the initial quantum fluctuation energy back to the 2-Brane it came from, thus cancelling both sides of the equation and creating a zero nett energy event.

Re: Light years

Most modern washing machines are designed to last 100 cycles, ie one wash a week for two years, or 3.5 days operation. After that you just lucky.

Re: Alternative ending:

Eventually arriving FINALLY at the Chemists.

Re: Life Imitating Art

I hate three other people, that makes me a a Trigot.

1. We know exactly what we wil have at the end. A free soverign nation not ruled by unaccountable forigners.

2. and we know whos fault all the bickering and uncertaintity lies with:

a) Theresa 'BRINO' May and her UE lapdogs Olly Robbins

b) 20 traitorous Tory MP's in the pay of the Eu intent on thwarting the will of the people

c) 16.4 million remainers who cant accept they lost FOUR democratic votes on the subject

d) The Soros Stooge Gina Miller (whos attempts to thwart Brexit backfired and instead got the Leave date fixed in law. Stupid woman)

e) The UK news Media for aiding and abetting the distribution of a three year long campaign of fake news, alarmism, disinformation and plain old lies, and conducting highly partisan and bigoted news coverage and reporting

And lets not forget the Mentioned in Dispatches:

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, the Alpha Global Elite Stooges

Heseline, Clark, Hammond, Carney et al, for conducting negotiations with a foriegn power with the intent to usurp the British Parliament, democracy and the Crown, and undertaking wrecking missions in parliament.

Re: Can someone explain?

Anyone that takes a job laying cables in Somalia shouldn't be surprised if it a terminal job. Make sure you are life insured up to your eyeballs.

Re: Yeah, sure.

If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One.

Re: BTW: How did that work out?

The UK has welcomed people of all colours for centuries. Why would we do that if we were a 'racist ' country. Its brainless figment of the imagination by a bunch of marxist agitators, whos true intent is the destruction of capitalism and the instigation of world Marxism. Groups like Momentum openly admit it, as does Extenction Rebellion. And whats even more absurd is to judge a philanthropist from the 18th century, who gave away a fortune and built Guys Hospital, which has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people of all colour, to then judge him on the values of a totally different world 200 years later is absurd, and is not done seriously to combat racism but as an excuse to riot and destroy English cultural icons. What it IS is a cultural war against the English. A Race war, instigated by black racists and middle class marxists.

Re: ....does not require the infrastructure needed by vertically launched rockets

and an ocean to drop the rocket in with in 10 seconds run time of the launch point.....

Re: radio interferences

it was all in the diode you used, and the length of copper wire you used as aerial. Back in the 1960's the first radio I built was one valve, a solid state glass diode (type not recalled) headphones and i had 200 yards of 24 gauge enameled copper wire running out the bedroom window and out over the fields as aerial. I recall i could get about ten stations on long wave. More interestingly, i made a Gold leaf electroscope (actually an aluminium foil electroscope), out of a 200ml glass beaker, which when connected to the aerial was fantastically sensitive when black clouds passed overhead. The possibility of lightning actually striking the aerial never occurred to me............

Re: Juipter's water is already contaminated by human waste

""7.8 kilograms of Plutonium"

i.e. of the order of 1x10^-26 the Jovian mass."

or the equivalent of one atom of plutonium in a litre of water.

Re: Switch provider, and refuse payment

There was a small booklet you could buy back in the 1970's that gave yo udetailed information on how to bamboozle and waste the time of various government departments. For example, many forms back then contained areas marked DO NOT WRITE HERE or FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY, the booklet advised going over these areas with a candle to make them unwriteable with a ball point pen or pencil. It also pointed out (at the time) there was no compulsion to fill in forms in english (it recommended russian ), nor to perform maths or numerics in english (latin numerals were sufficient).

Re: Proper lash up

The small village i grew up in, in the 1960's, had a family who lived at one end who were always creferred to as "The New Family". Apparantly they had moved to the village just before WW1.

Re: Sounds like they are using old GeForce 3D Vision kit

i had VIP tickets and all area passes to that until the virus lockdown came along...

Re: Sensible idea

in 1/6g you could whack a golf ball about 2 km with a decent driver.

Re: can't travel

pish, you're all IT pansies . The first sysadmin job i got was no interview, you just had to RRTY your CV to an IP adddress, coded in EBDIC. That sorted out the men from the boys.

Re: Dwarfs or dwarves?

OK, but Walt Disney was american, and despite the denials, aamericans speak English, which is the native language of the English peoples, so we get to choose how to spell it :-D . Tolkien was an englishman, so his spelling rules. We have the same problem with arabic speakers trying to tell us how to spell 'Moslem' or 'Koran' in our native language (do we tell Arabic speakers how to spell 'technology' or 'Roast Beef' in Arabic?)