Bah.
I was contemplating upgrading the CPU in my desktop machine (currently a Core i3-540) and chucking a bit more RAM its way. Then I saw the price that LGA1156 CPUs go for these days - if you can find somewhere which still has any! So upgrading the CPU will mean upgrading the motherboard, and while my old DDR3-1333 RAM would "work", it'd probably be enough of a bottleneck to really mean I'd have to change that too. All I'd really be reusing would be the case, PSU, storage and (not-quite-so-ancient-but-still-old) graphics card.
I'm finally convinced that the idea of "futureproofing" a PC is a load of dingo's kidneys - while this stuff is all interchangeable in theory, in practice by the time you actually want to upgrade anything you can't.
I don't suppose any of you know a good source for NOS Intel processors? A cheap LGA1156 Core i5 or i7 would be lovely and would justify me slinging another 4gb of RAM at this thing too.
Bah.
I was contemplating upgrading the CPU in my desktop machine (currently a Core i3-540) and chucking a bit more RAM its way. Then I saw the price that LGA1156 CPUs go for these days - if you can find somewhere which still has any! So upgrading the CPU will mean upgrading the motherboard, and while my old DDR3-1333 RAM would "work", it'd probably be enough of a bottleneck to really mean I'd have to change that too. All I'd really be reusing would be the case, PSU, storage and (not-quite-so-ancient-but-still-old) graphics card.
I'm finally convinced that the idea of "futureproofing" a PC is a load of dingo's kidneys - while this stuff is all interchangeable in theory, in practice by the time you actually want to upgrade anything you can't.
I'm in the same position with the motherboard because I didn't future-proof by getting an 1155 one instead. I was thinking higher number meant it'll be around longer. :facepalm: However, I did get the best CPU I could afford that's still more than good enough...QuoteI don't suppose any of you know a good source for NOS Intel processors? A cheap LGA1156 Core i5 or i7 would be lovely and would justify me slinging another 4gb of RAM at this thing too.
No, but it's worth a risk on a second-hand one, considering you can get an i7 860 for just £70 off eBay. I paid £200 for mine new. 4-core (effectively 8-core) 2.8 GHz that you can typically overclock to 3.2 and more. That's a lot of crunching power for not a lot of real money.
Why does win 7 ultimate keep telling me that I need to upgrade my Intel AMT MEI drivers, but then I don't want to have software that allows remote access. Any one know why I would?
Why does win 7 ultimate keep telling me that I need to upgrade my Intel AMT MEI drivers, but then I don't want to have software that allows remote access. Any one know why I would?
Energy when full: 8.1 Wh
Energy (design): 47.5 Wh
Pretending to do Important Stuffs when you could converse with a Real Person,
Pretending to do Important Stuffs when you could converse with a Real Person,
I've already got a laptop for that ???
[2] I may be mis-remembering here but it had pictures of furry animals with long arms and crazy American jokes in it.
The guy who invented paperclips should be awarded an honorary fellowship of the IEEE.
tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173
I'm having my usual approximately-half-yearly craving for a new computer. Last time, I shut it up with an eBay CPU upgrade and some RAM, but it started with remembering I had an old late-90s iMac gathering dust in mum's loft and now I'm looking longingly and wistfully at the Fruitbook Air.I have its identical twin,festering under the dining room table...
I'm sure it'll pass. I hope.
As an aside, does anyone have any ideas for cool things I can do with a strawberry pink 233mhz G3 iMac?
Error log timestamp Wed. 29/10/2014 16:08:17
Processor healThyself! (no processes ready)
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8353552640/h7326C87A/)
My mobile has turned into a lollipop
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8353552640/h7326C87A/)
But that should read
Product 1: 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, We can do this better with NT but produced Vista anyway
Product 2: NT 3, NT3.5, NT 4, 2000, XP, 7
Now we are really going to confuse you 8, 10
Also, you forgot ME...
I'd like a version of windows that allowed for numpty users, so you could press a 'Revert' button and get the original setup immediately, without erasing data.
Am downloading win8 on a cetrino dual core laptop....direct from microsoft.
What can go wrong? Shall go straight to 8.1?
A tweet from our Uni IT service. "Unlimited file storage for all your work and devices... Coming Soon! The Countdown begins..."I can see it coming, the full DNA sequence of every member of staff, student, plant and lab
Is that a threat, a promise, or a challenge?
Have they ever met bioinformaticians with a point to prove?
A tweet from our Uni IT service. "Unlimited file storage for all your work and devices... Coming Soon! The Countdown begins..."
Is that a threat, a promise, or a challenge?
Have they ever met bioinformaticians with a point to prove?
I just want everything to talk to everything else, is that so much to ask? :facepalm:Yes. Yes it is. All that bollocks about connectivity is just that, bollocks. Companies want to lock you into their particular walled garden so that you'll keep giving them your money rather than giving it to a.n.other company. Some, like Apple, are quite blatent about it. Others, less so.
Not sure why this would be so - I run WEP from an AP for my squeezeboxes and WPA2 from the router.
Bugeration 1 : it seems I need same encryption on router and AP .... oh well, all back to WEP then (to the frustration of family who've just got over change to WPA2)
That is odd behaviour from a device you need to find by IP address!
Buggeration 2: Old router decides it doesnt want a static IP all of it's own and goes off in a huff... and now cannot be accessed from browser.
Research of t'internet reveals the magic incantation needed to restore it's factory default and it can now be accessed.
Bugggertion 3: not only does it not want to save a static IP but it refuses to save any settings when you select Disable on the DHCP
Half a day after reading "Turning an old router into a wireless access point is simple and takes about 15 minutes"....I give up in disgust
I just want everything to talk to everything else, is that so much to ask? :facepalm:Yes. Yes it is. All that bollocks about connectivity is just that, bollocks. Companies want to lock you into their particular walled garden so that you'll keep giving them your money rather than giving it to a.n.other company. Some, like Apple, are quite blatent about it. Others, less so.
Bugger damn and blast !
Changed out a thoroughly prehistoric router that had been giving sterling service since some time in noughties for one that is only slightly less long in the tooth ( I bought as an emergency replacement some time back and then found I was able to resurrect the old one.)
Hoping for slightly better speed & range but no luck, still at least I can go to WPA2 security.
Start thinking about range extenders, decide they are probably a waste of space and far better bet to use the old router as an access point plugges into an ethernet port sited fortuitously at the other of the house.
Bugeration 1 : it seems I need same encryption on router and AP .... oh well, all back to WEP then (to the frustration of family who've just got over change to WPA2)
Buggeration 2: Old router decides it doesnt want a static IP all of it's own and goes off in a huff... and now cannot be accessed from browser.
Research of t'internet reveals the magic incantation needed to restore it's factory default and it can now be accessed.
Bugggertion 3: not only does it not want to save a static IP but it refuses to save any settings when you select Disable on the DHCP
Half a day after reading "Turning an old router into a wireless access point is simple and takes about 15 minutes"....I give up in disgust
My answer to this is always DD-WRT, which does just mostly work.
In the red corner, a Win 8 laptop bought last summer. In the blue corner a Win XP laptop bought in 2009. Guess which one is faster at reading and exporting a metric fuckton of mp3 tags from/to a NAS ???The BeOS box hiding behind them? :)
$mp3sToDownload = @(([xml] (iwr http://foo.bar/podcast/psw.xml).content).rss.channel.item.enclosure | select url)
$myPodcasts = "E:\Podcasts\"
$PodcastsPreviouslyDownloaded = @(Get-ChildItem -Path $myPodcasts)
foreach($mp3ToDownload in $mp3sToDownload)
{
$mp3ToDownloadFileName = $mp3ToDownload.url.Substring($mp3ToDownload.url.LastIndexOf("/")+1)
if (-not $PodcastsPreviouslyDownloaded.Name.Contains($mp3ToDownloadFileName))
{
$outFile = $myPodcasts + "\" + $mp3ToDownloadFileName
Write-Host "Downloading $mp3ToDownloadFileName ..."
iwr $mp3ToDownload.url -OutFile $outFile
write-host "Complete. Waiting 2 minutes..."
Start-Sleep -s 300
}
else
{
Write-Host "Skipping $mp3ToDownloadFileName, already downloaded"
}
}
I'm sure this doesn't warrant its own thread because I suspect I know the answer.
I've got 2 old pcs that seem to have entered a suicide pact. Up until yesterday morning I was happily using one that was dual booted with XP and Ubuntu Studio. It suddenly decides, on a reboot, that it won't work at all. Black screen and processor fan going full blast. I try it a few times with the same result.
The other pc (XP only) has been sitting there, surplus to requirements, since we moved house (18 months ago). Before we moved it was used a lot and didn't seem to have anything wrong with it. So I connect it up. It trundles through the first screen and then the screen saying it's booting into XP and to a BSOD. It didn't like something about the bios apparently. When I go back to it after rummaging around on the internet trying to find someone who could explain the error message and try to start it again it does the same as the other one. Black screen (no signal to it) and fan running constantly.
I presume they're both fubared but it seems odd they should both fail at the same time in the same way.
Before they get binned, has anyone got any ideas?
I'm sure this doesn't warrant its own thread because I suspect I know the answer.
I've got 2 old pcs that seem to have entered a suicide pact. Up until yesterday morning I was happily using one that was dual booted with XP and Ubuntu Studio. It suddenly decides, on a reboot, that it won't work at all. Black screen and processor fan going full blast. I try it a few times with the same result.
The other pc (XP only) has been sitting there, surplus to requirements, since we moved house (18 months ago). Before we moved it was used a lot and didn't seem to have anything wrong with it. So I connect it up. It trundles through the first screen and then the screen saying it's booting into XP and to a BSOD. It didn't like something about the bios apparently. When I go back to it after rummaging around on the internet trying to find someone who could explain the error message and try to start it again it does the same as the other one. Black screen (no signal to it) and fan running constantly.
I presume they're both fubared but it seems odd they should both fail at the same time in the same way.
Before they get binned, has anyone got any ideas?
Do you see any output on the display between switching them on and Windows starting?
I've got a thumb nail :thumbsup: Two, in fact, neatly arranged with one on each hand :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Might have a go at it later.
(Later)
Anyone got a nail file?
Alas I possess neither tubs of ice cream nor cheap-donkey tyre levers. I do have a guitar pick, though I have no idea why as there has never been a guitar in Larrington Towers ???Maybe Larrington Towers is at the other end of the worm hole through which my picks have been escaping.
Get a set of spudgers off eBay.
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060778.m570.l1313.TR7.TRC2.A0.H0.Xspudger+set.TRS0&_nkw=spudger+set&_sacat=0
Oddly enough plusnet called on Monday evening to talk to me about cheaper options, I was busy and asked them to call back in half an hour... still waiting.
Barakta: "I've never actually been in an Apple Store, have you?"
Kim: *thoughtful look*
Kim: "We must troll them immediately!"
Why:
When I plugged a network cable directly from computer to router, only the router end lit up to say it was connected (and it didn't work)
but
When I put a switch in the middle, all four network ports lit up properly, and it worked?
???
Why:
When I plugged a network cable directly from computer to router, only the router end lit up to say it was connected (and it didn't work)
but
When I put a switch in the middle, all four network ports lit up properly, and it worked?
???
Cat5 or fibre cable ?CAT5e
Wrong cable with old hardware at one end, the new switch in middle doesn't care about crossover and translated for the old hardware end?
Mum insists she sent me an email yesterday.
I never received one from her, though had some from other sources.
What's happening?
Mum insists she sent me an email yesterday.
I never received one from her, though had some from other sources.
What's happening?
Very hard to know, if there isn't something detectably broken about your email system. The absence of a bounce would suggest that she either never sent it, it went *somewhere*, or it's still in transit.
We used to have this problem with a Hotmail-using luddite friend of barakta's. For some unknown reason Hotmail took objection to sending email to barakta's domain, which was of course *our* fault. As the problem was at Hotmail's end, there was nothing we could do to fix it. :facepalm:
Trying to clear a malware infestation, that is stopping from malwarebytes anti malware from running. Been at it all night, so far. Running through the chameleons don't seem to work, currently at number 10. Tried rkill and that didn't work either. So adwcleaner next...
Am downloading hirens as we speak, am amazed that I'm in a different country and I'm ITing
Worth a listen, I reckon: Codes That Changed The World (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmpf5). In this 5 part series Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages we've used to talk to the machines. Starts 13:45 Easter Monday, BBC R4; goes on all week. FORTRAN tomorrow and remember, kids, if it can't be done in FORTRAN it's probably not worth doing at all ;)
Been a while since I purchased computer parts, question is, have things moved on so much that it'll be easier just to replace the current system with an osless desktop base unit and transfer hard drive across?
>:( 'Puter related woes!
My old Samsung NC10 Netbook (which is running Xubuntu 14.04.2) is suffering from what I think is a dodgy cable from the motherboard to the screen. Depending on the angle I tilt the screen at, the screen goes all white! Waggle it back and forth, and it comes back again.
Desktop PC (a somewhat oldish hodge podge of bits, Intel Core2 Duo E5200, Socket 775 mobo, 4gb ram, some flavour of nvidia PCI-E Gforce graphics card) is also playing up. High pitched whines (motherboard capacitors on way out? PSU on way out?) from it's innards somewhere, and every 20 minutes or so the machine hangs up completely! Not sure what is at fault, and sounds like it is terminal.
Been a while since I purchased computer parts, question is, have things moved on so much that it'll be easier just to replace the current system with an osless desktop base unit and transfer hard drive across?
>:( 'Puter related woes!
My old Samsung NC10 Netbook (which is running Xubuntu 14.04.2) is suffering from what I think is a dodgy cable from the motherboard to the screen. Depending on the angle I tilt the screen at, the screen goes all white! Waggle it back and forth, and it comes back again.
Desktop PC (a somewhat oldish hodge podge of bits, Intel Core2 Duo E5200, Socket 775 mobo, 4gb ram, some flavour of nvidia PCI-E Gforce graphics card) is also playing up. High pitched whines (motherboard capacitors on way out? PSU on way out?) from it's innards somewhere, and every 20 minutes or so the machine hangs up completely! Not sure what is at fault, and sounds like it is terminal.
Been a while since I purchased computer parts, question is, have things moved on so much that it'll be easier just to replace the current system with an osless desktop base unit and transfer hard drive across?
We've got an old Samsung NC10 going spare.... Works fine, got Winders on it at the mo, but i'm sure you would soon sort that.
>:( 'Puter related woes!
My old Samsung NC10 Netbook (which is running Xubuntu 14.04.2) is suffering from what I think is a dodgy cable from the motherboard to the screen. Depending on the angle I tilt the screen at, the screen goes all white! Waggle it back and forth, and it comes back again.
Desktop PC (a somewhat oldish hodge podge of bits, Intel Core2 Duo E5200, Socket 775 mobo, 4gb ram, some flavour of nvidia PCI-E Gforce graphics card) is also playing up. High pitched whines (motherboard capacitors on way out? PSU on way out?) from it's innards somewhere, and every 20 minutes or so the machine hangs up completely! Not sure what is at fault, and sounds like it is terminal.
Been a while since I purchased computer parts, question is, have things moved on so much that it'll be easier just to replace the current system with an osless desktop base unit and transfer hard drive across?
3. Get a whole new ready-built computer unit.
I have paid for a DVD. With money. I'm told I am "Supporting the movie industry".
All I want to do is watch it on my lappie, perhaps avoiding the titles and/or logos that apparently it's "not permitted" to skip.
But no, some stupid, brain-dead anti-piracy thing means that about half way through watching the film (that I've paid for. With money. Supporting the movie industry) it starts jumping from scene to scene. So fucking clever. Do you really think that will stop someone pirating it? Or will it just piss off people who have paid money thinking they were supporting the movie industry? Perhaps next time I'll just download it.
I have paid for a DVD. With money. I'm told I am "Supporting the movie industry".
All I want to do is watch it on my lappie, perhaps avoiding the titles and/or logos that apparently it's "not permitted" to skip.
But no, some stupid, brain-dead anti-piracy thing means that about half way through watching the film (that I've paid for. With money. Supporting the movie industry) it starts jumping from scene to scene. So fucking clever. Do you really think that will stop someone pirating it? Or will it just piss off people who have paid money thinking they were supporting the movie industry? Perhaps next time I'll just download it.
There's no mechanism that I know of that introduces logic into playback to enable a DVD to randomly switch between titles/chapters based on something that happened earlier during playback. They'll follow the index.
Nothing to be ashamed about (http://www.oneplusone.org.uk/content_topic/sex-and-intimacy/) :demon:
As far as I can tell I have had no spam whatsoever since quarter to one this morning :o
Just a side note : Our local WEEE is outside,
A minor victory at work today, but the little things matter!
Getting tab order correct is in GUI programming 101
So what's the point of a USB lead with magnets built into the plugs?
I don't think this really warrants a thread of its own...
Does this laptop look suitable for a student to do their homework on?
Acer Aspire V3 112P – £170 at PC World (http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-v3-112p-11-6-touchscreen-laptop-silver-10104717-pdt.html)
4 REM ********** MONTY (C) BIGGSY **********
6 INPUT"NUMBER OF GOES: ";N
7 REM ****** WELL, IT CHECKS THE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR ******
8 PRINT:PRINT"**** STICK ****":PRINT
10 FOR I=1 TO N
100 P=INT(RND(1)*3)+1:PRINT"CAR: "P
110 G=INT(RND(1)*3)+1:PRINT"GUESS:"G
120 IF G=P THEN S=S+1:PRINT"WIN":GOTO 140
130 PRINT"LOSE"
140 PRINT:NEXT
150 REM****** AND NOW TO SWITCH EVERY TIME ******
200 PRINT:PRINT"**** SWITCH ****":PRINT
210 FOR I=1 TO N
220 P=INT(RND(1)*3)+1:PRINT"CAR: "P
230 G=INT(RND(1)*3)+1:PRINT"GUESS:"G
240 IF P<>G THEN GOTO 340
250 IF P=1 THEN X=INT(RND(1)*2)+2:GOTO 400
260 IF P=3 THEN X=INT(RND(1)*2)+1:GOTO 400
270 X=INT(RND(1)*2)+1:IF X=2 THEN X=3
280 GOTO 400
340 IF (P=1 AND G=2) OR (P=2 AND G=1) THEN X=3:GOTO 400
350 IF (P=1 AND G=3) OR (P=3 AND G=1) THEN X=2:GOTO 400
360 IF (P=2 AND G=3) OR (P=3 AND G=2) THEN X=1
400 PRINT"GOAT: " X
410 IF (G=1 AND X=2) OR (G=2 AND X=1) THEN G=3:GOTO 500
420 IF (G=1 AND X=3) OR (G=3 AND X=1) THEN G=2:GOTO 500
430 G=1
500 PRINT"SWITCHED GUESS:" G
520 IF G=P THEN SW=SW+1:PRINT"WIN":GOTO 540
530 PRINT"LOSE"
540 PRINT:NEXT
600 PRINT:PRINT"STICK WINS: "S "/"N
610 PRINT"SWITCHED WINS:" SW "/"N
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
So they are suggesting running some code from a Russian programming group that hacks your kernel? No thanks.Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
Hmm, I'm not convinced. How does a 32-bit OS address that additional memory space?
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
Hmm, I'm not convinced. How does a 32-bit OS address that additional memory space?
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
Hmm, I'm not convinced. How does a 32-bit OS address that additional memory space?
Whether or not it's a dodgy hack that will give away your bank details, having a larger physical memory than per-process virtual address space is entirely feasible, and I don't really understand why a 32-bit system should be in principle limited to 4GB of RAM.
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
Hmm, I'm not convinced. How does a 32-bit OS address that additional memory space?
Have an dell inspiron zino htpc with 8gb and dual core athlon. Currently running 32bit version will I gain anything running the 64bit version?What version of Windows? I think most of the 32-bit versions won't let you access more than 4GB. Check System properties to see how much memory it says is usable.
Apparently there's way of hacking 32-bit Windows to access more memory, not tried it myself. eg http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html
Hmm, I'm not convinced. How does a 32-bit OS address that additional memory space?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Because Windows users scream like banshees if Microsoft do anything that stop a 10-year old scanner driver working?
So after a Several of months you've finally got used to all the foibles and idio(t)syncracies of iOS v.N and the the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia introduces iOS v.N+1 and with it a whole new slab of things to get annoyed with. Gits >:(
So after a Several of months you've finally got used to all the foibles and idio(t)syncracies of iOS v.N and the the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia introduces iOS v.N+1 and with it a whole new slab of things to get annoyed with. Gits >:(
Do bear in mind http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/28/ios-9-wifi-assist/
and
http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/iphone-ipad-ios-9-privacy-security-settings-immediately/
El Capitan, I believe, is out today. The OS, not the mountain, that's already out there. The internet will probably slow down later.
That fuss over wifi assist is hilarious. I have stopped connecting to the work wifi network because it's so throttled for guest users as to be beyond useless. I might be tempted to try connecting again in if this wifi assist actually does what it says on the tin.
Anyone know of a safe place to download a 64bit win7?
Copying music, photos and videos from network drive to new PC is taking a Very Long Time. I am not looking forward to the subsequent move of said music, photos and videos from network drive to new network drive. At all.Sometimes it can make a difference to encapsulate all the files in one zip file (no compression), copy that, then unzip.
Also, how the blazes did Chrome end up with Yahoo! as! its! default! search! engine!? Even after I'd gone into the Settings wossname and binned every search engine except that of the Mega-Global Chocolate Manufactury Corporation of Mountain View, USAnia ??? I had to shoot the wretched thing down in flames and reinstall it.
Anyone know of a safe place to download a 64bit win7?
DigitalRiver
Anyone know of a safe place to download a 64bit win7?
Just PM your address if you want it on DVD. It'll be online somewhere though.
Mind you, moving the cursor is even more hit and miss. If the Write app can have left and right arrow keys, Mega-Global Chocolate Manufactury Corporation of Mountain View, USAnia, why can't Chrome?
Plex Media Server has joined the foot-operated dip switch
Because it cannot cope with Popular Beat Combos whose name contains a "/".
Plex Media Server has joined the foot-operated dip switch
/me wonders how on earth you're supposed to operate DIP switches with your foot, then realises she's showing her youth.
Actually, given some of the frustration you had to go through back in the day to make your Epson dot matrix produce a BRITONS '£' character, it would make a certain kind of sense.QuoteBecause it cannot cope with Popular Beat Combos whose name contains a "/".
What's it like with &ersands?
cannot cope with Popular Beat Combos whose name contains a "/"
So, if anyone can recommend something that will go through MP3s ripped at various times using different software/naming conventions, identify them and rename them properly to work with Plex Media Server, I'd be eternally grateful.
Colonel Larrington,
Plex isn't actually renaming your files though is it? It's just the displayed metadata that's incorrect?
Plex creates its own database mashing the metadata with stuff it finds on the web. When it works, it is rather cool. It doesn't always.
Is there any way of telling it to leave the web alone and just use my lovingly hand-crufted metadata? I don't need the last.fm biographical bobbins, especially when it gets completely the wrong artiste.
Reboot number thr...fuck it I'm going for a coffee and then I'm going to poke Maximizer with a cattle prod - worthless heap of shit.
There is also a Mac version of MP3Tag, but I guess you want Linux, Afasoas. I hope you've got at least one Windows PC in your abode, though.
An alternative I've thought of would be to use a good audio converter and do a dummy or double conversion* just for the sake of generating new file names from tags (and even re-arrange the folders as well, if desired).
* eg. Convert existing MP3s to FLAC and then back to MP3, if that doesn't lose quality and MP3 to MP3 isn't possible.
Is it hour own computer or a company supplied one?
I really can't see why an application would be fiddling with the network stack unless it was trying to run a VPN or virtualizing itself.
Is it hour own computer or a company supplied one?I'd guess that it is running some really shitty security process, or a license verification process, that involves constantly bouncing "Are you there, am I allowed to run" messages. When no reply is received it goes into an insane frenzy; "OMG, I'm alone in the universe, is ANYONE out there." and uses 100% of network resources.
I really can't see why an application would be fiddling with the network stack unless it was trying to run a VPN or virtualizing itself.
KANA our software isn't that bad yet but it is slow and laggy - 2-10 seconds to display from one row of contact data to the next... I may insist they develop a DESKTOP application - web inherently slows it down and makes it harder to do accessibly.
KANA our software isn't that bad yet but it is slow and laggy - 2-10 seconds to display from one row of contact data to the next... I may insist they develop a DESKTOP application - web inherently slows it down and makes it harder to do accessibly.
No a web based implementation doesn't make it harder to do either of those thinks. A bad implementation does.If the developers, architects and financiers are not arsed doing it in a web app then they won't be arsed doing it in a desktop app.
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You need a mouse nudger.
So my 2011 MBP died last night - possibly the known issue with GPU failures due to dodgy solder.
Waiting for a call-back from Apple Support. Would quite like the free repair.
That's going to be my joke. Nothing in London or the burbs for the next six days. I just wanted to pop over to Bromley and wave it under someone's nose. Who knew Bromley on a Wednesday afternoon was so busy.
Anyway, I was doing them a favour, I can't be bothered wrestling for an appointment, I think I'll just ask for a replacement.
That's going to be my joke. Nothing in London or the burbs for the next six days. I just wanted to pop over to Bromley and wave it under someone's nose. Who knew Bromley on a Wednesday afternoon was so busy.
Anyway, I was doing them a favour, I can't be bothered wrestling for an appointment, I think I'll just ask for a replacement.
Looking like a new logic board, which would be over £500.
Not sure that's an economic repair for a laptop that's nearly 5 years old.
That's going to be my joke. Nothing in London or the burbs for the next six days. I just wanted to pop over to Bromley and wave it under someone's nose. Who knew Bromley on a Wednesday afternoon was so busy.
Anyway, I was doing them a favour, I can't be bothered wrestling for an appointment, I think I'll just ask for a replacement.
Looking like a new logic board, which would be over £500.
Not sure that's an economic repair for a laptop that's nearly 5 years old.
It isn't. But I'd ask if the expected lifespan for a logic board should be fewer than five years? I'd hazard that that the main component in a modern computer should have a lifespan beyond that. If so, they owe you.
Sound Taxi on my Babbage-Engine has punished iTunes by making it play 12 hours of Morrissey reading his autobiog*, to convert the Audible files, in real time. Bit strange as I don't use iTunes for anything else.
* Heaven knows why I bought this. I've never much liked the man, and I like him slightly less now.
So my 2011 MBP died last night - possibly the known issue with GPU failures due to dodgy solder.Mine has been through that and survived. I am typing this on it now.
Waiting for a call-back from Apple Support. Would quite like the free repair.
Presumably, there are enough podgy bald 50-something year olds in Bracknell to keep them happy.
;DPresumably, there are enough podgy bald 50-something year olds in Bracknell to keep them happy.Isn't there an IRC channel for that? ;)
Just went into the other room to hear an odd chanting:
four-point-one-plus-seven-point-two-minus-ten-point-one etc etc.
It's junior#2, doing maths homework.
Where we might have typed the arithmetic into a calculator, he's talking it to Siri.
Larrers, the 800x600 thing just means the win10 update couldn't find a better video driver.
Is that the nice Kensington one with the lovely scrollwheel collar? I've got one of those, courtesy of barakta who found the mouseclick buttons unsuitable for left-handed operation. I have to do an arcane incantation with xinput every time I boot up in order to emulate the missing middle button (and chording buttons are always a bit hit and miss), but it's wonderful for scrolling.
Barakta, on the other hand, has the Logitech that looks like a crudely drawn vulva. The labia minora function as additional buttons, but it lacks scrolling capability. We've recently set up some USB foot pedals to do page up and down, which sort of works.
What's really needed is a mutant hybrid of the two trackballs.
Not that I know but we could always set on up on freenode or the like :)
Edit: might try to set up a server on my raspberry just for a laugh.
Not that I know but we could always set on up on freenode or the like :)
Edit: might try to set up a server on my raspberry just for a laugh.
cool :) well I'll be in ##yacf in the meantime
People all getting in from work and firing their computers up maybe?
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia not the Messiah but rather a very naughty Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia. (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/08/apple-under-pressure-lawyers-error-53-codes)
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia not the Messiah but rather a very naughty Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia. (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/08/apple-under-pressure-lawyers-error-53-codes)
There's actually a very valid reason (in the final paragraph) – payment mechanisms are authorised by the touch ID system.
Crap article anyway. Some people have been affected and US legal firm eye class action suit. Really.
Why, when viewing yacf on tapatalk, does everyone's avatars show up blank except for Phil W's?
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia not the Messiah but rather a very naughty Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia. (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/08/apple-under-pressure-lawyers-error-53-codes)
There's actually a very valid reason (in the final paragraph) – payment mechanisms are authorised by the touch ID system.
Crap article anyway. Some people have been affected and US legal firm eye class action suit. Really.
A good reason, yes, but a very poor response from Apple. I don't have a problem with Apple locking the touch ID/ApplePay functionality if it suspects the home button has been compromised, but permanently bricking the entire phone seems disproportionately harsh.
I expect at some point their message will change to "if you have this error code please bring your handset to the nearest Genius Bar so we can verify your handset and reset the error code".
It would appear one of my USB disks has died on its arse. "The first NTFS boot sector is unwriteable". followed by "All NTFS boot sectors are unwriteable. Cannot continue. Format failed. Format failed."
So bad they told me twice.
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Does it really require 50-60% network utilisation to update a couple of FLAC tags?
Coo. According to MrsLurker's sea noise generator* today is Friday the 54th of January 2017. Can't wait to see what day it thinks tomorrow is.
*Meditation. For the use of.
Update. 1st of March. And today isn't Tuesday the 1st of March. Nope. It's Saturday the 55th of Jan. 2017.
I would love to know how they're calculating this. I'm assuming it's on the basis of a tickcount or similar and I can't imagine that they're that pushed for space that they couldn't use a standard library for the conversion. *Baffled*.
About two years old, although there's no saying how old the code in it is. It's only a 2 digit display so I'm letting it run on to see what happens at 99.Coo. According to MrsLurker's sea noise generator* today is Friday the 54th of January 2017. Can't wait to see what day it thinks tomorrow is.
*Meditation. For the use of.
Update. 1st of March. And today isn't Tuesday the 1st of March. Nope. It's Saturday the 55th of Jan. 2017.
I would love to know how they're calculating this. I'm assuming it's on the basis of a tickcount or similar and I can't imagine that they're that pushed for space that they couldn't use a standard library for the conversion. *Baffled*.
Fascinating. How old is it? Maybe it's run out of lookup table and it'll just keep adding days to Jan 2017...
Word to the wise, if you decided to use a Pi for something that you don't want to have to log into each time it reboots, to get things working again, bear in mind they have no realtime clock. There is a way around it, use fake-hwclock, which writes the time to a temp file, and reads it on boot up. This stops services like Squid crapping out when they see the clock suddenly jump forward 40+ years!
Have you tried just activating it? Does it actually ask you for a product key?Asks for product key. Out of warranty. I have absolutely no idea what the rest means.
From a command shell you can just try running "slmgr /ato". Is the tablet still in warranty?
Don't – don't – install iOS 9.3 on your iPad 2: Upgrade bricks slabs (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/ios_93_update_bricks_ipad_2s/)
curl http://wttr.in/Blackpool
kim@penelope:~$ curl http://wttr.in/Birmingham
Weather for City: Birmingham, United Kingdom
\ / Partly Cloudy
_ /"".-. 6 – 9 °C
\_( ). ↑ 20 km/h
/(___(__) 10 km
0.0 mm
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 01. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ Cloudy │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain ne…│
│ .--. 6 °C │ _ /"".-. 8 – 10 °C │ _ /"".-. 6 – 10 °C │ ,\_( ). 1 – 8 °C │
│ .-( ). ↑ 20 – 27 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 30 – 33 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 33 – 35 km/h │ /(___(__) ↑ 27 – 39 km/h │
│ (___.__)__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │
│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 72% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sat 02. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain ne…│ .-. Light rain │
│ .-. 6 – 7 °C │ .-. 11 °C │ ,\_( ). 8 – 10 °C │ ( ). 8 – 9 °C │
│ ― ( ) ― ↑ 20 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 22 km/h │ /(___(__) ← 14 – 23 km/h │ (___(__) ↙ 8 – 13 km/h │
│ `-’ 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 9 km │
│ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 35% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 1.3 mm | 82% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sun 03. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ Overcast │ _`/"".-. Light rain sho…│ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Clear │
│ .--. 6 – 9 °C │ ,\_( ). 10 – 12 °C │ _ /"".-. 9 – 11 °C │ .-. 6 – 8 °C │
│ .-( ). ↑ 24 – 30 km/h │ /(___(__) ↑ 26 – 31 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 13 – 22 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 12 – 26 km/h │
│ (___.__)__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │
│ 0.1 mm | 13% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.3 mm | 18% │ 0.0 mm | 18% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
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kim@penelope:~$
Code: [Select]kim@penelope:~$ curl http://wttr.in/Birmingham
Weather for City: Birmingham, United Kingdom
\ / Partly Cloudy
_ /"".-. 6 – 9 °C
\_( ). ↑ 20 km/h
/(___(__) 10 km
0.0 mm
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 01. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ Cloudy │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain ne…│
│ .--. 6 °C │ _ /"".-. 8 – 10 °C │ _ /"".-. 6 – 10 °C │ ,\_( ). 1 – 8 °C │
│ .-( ). ↑ 20 – 27 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 30 – 33 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 33 – 35 km/h │ /(___(__) ↑ 27 – 39 km/h │
│ (___.__)__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │
│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 72% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sat 02. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain ne…│ .-. Light rain │
│ .-. 6 – 7 °C │ .-. 11 °C │ ,\_( ). 8 – 10 °C │ ( ). 8 – 9 °C │
│ ― ( ) ― ↑ 20 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 22 km/h │ /(___(__) ← 14 – 23 km/h │ (___(__) ↙ 8 – 13 km/h │
│ `-’ 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 9 km │
│ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 35% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 1.3 mm | 82% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sun 03. Apr ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ Overcast │ _`/"".-. Light rain sho…│ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Clear │
│ .--. 6 – 9 °C │ ,\_( ). 10 – 12 °C │ _ /"".-. 9 – 11 °C │ .-. 6 – 8 °C │
│ .-( ). ↑ 24 – 30 km/h │ /(___(__) ↑ 26 – 31 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 13 – 22 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 12 – 26 km/h │
│ (___.__)__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │
│ 0.1 mm | 13% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.3 mm | 18% │ 0.0 mm | 18% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
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Cute :thumbsup:
Dr Larrington, the next time you fail to plug back in our Aged Parent's wireless router after using your hairdryer, I will charge you a consultancy fee to cover my l33t remote diagnostic 5k1llz >:(
Dr Larrington, the next time you fail to plug back in our Aged Parent's wireless router after using your hairdryer, I will charge you a consultancy fee to cover my l33t remote diagnostic 5k1llz >:(
Sorry but I find that highly amusing.
A company I deal with has closed all its incoming email addresses, their main means of contact is now twitter DM. As an email user since the time it was JANET, I officially feel like a dinosaur.
About two years old, although there's no saying how old the code in it is. It's only a 2 digit display so I'm letting it run on to see what happens at 99.Coo. According to MrsLurker's sea noise generator* today is Friday the 54th of January 2017. Can't wait to see what day it thinks tomorrow is.
*Meditation. For the use of.
Update. 1st of March. And today isn't Tuesday the 1st of March. Nope. It's Saturday the 55th of Jan. 2017.
I would love to know how they're calculating this. I'm assuming it's on the basis of a tickcount or similar and I can't imagine that they're that pushed for space that they couldn't use a standard library for the conversion. *Baffled*.
Fascinating. How old is it? Maybe it's run out of lookup table and it'll just keep adding days to Jan 2017...
...what brave new day will dawn tomorrow?
A hexadecimal one. Tuesday the A0th of Jan 2017. Interestingly the month is "stuck".
Is it time we came up with a low profile RJ-45 replacement for Cat-5? Surely there's no real need for a cat-5 cable to terminate in anything thicker than a USB port?
Good point, I wasn't awake enough for hexadecimal arithmetic first thing, but I'm not sure I can be bothered hanging on to find out....what brave new day will dawn tomorrow?
A hexadecimal one. Tuesday the A0th of Jan 2017. Interestingly the month is "stuck".
Perhaps the month will increment after the FFth of Jan?
Is it time we came up with a low profile RJ-45 replacement for Cat-5? Surely there's no real need for a cat-5 cable to terminate in anything thicker than a USB port?
Didn't we cover this recently?
A resounding 'no'. Plugging laptops in is an edge-case as far as structured cabling is concerned, and changing all that perfectly good - compatible - infrastructure to facilitate it would be daft.
By all means the next fibre thing can have a ludicrously low-profile connector - that'll come in handy in data centres, I'm sure. But let UTP die out gracefully. The Apple users can have their dongles - they should be used to it by now - and most networking to laptops will surely be wireless.
...what brave new day will dawn tomorrow?
A hexadecimal one. Tuesday the A0th of Jan 2017. Interestingly the month is "stuck".
Perhaps the month will increment after the FFth of Jan?
My relatively slim netbook type thing has an an RJ45 port that physically embiggens when you push the connector into it courtesy of a spring and a hinge.
Good point, I wasn't awake enough for hexadecimal arithmetic first thing, but I'm not sure I can be bothered hanging on to find out....what brave new day will dawn tomorrow?
A hexadecimal one. Tuesday the A0th of Jan 2017. Interestingly the month is "stuck".
Perhaps the month will increment after the FFth of Jan?
The apparent swap to hex is a puzzle. If it had been displaying base 16 since the 29th of Feb (and I'm not convinced that it has) then I'd expect today to be 9A rather than A0. Weird. One to file under, "yet another example of crap software" and forget.
I'm waiting for the 35th of May.I remember that book! Roller skating around the equator? Sharks?*
Is it time we came up with a low profile RJ-45 replacement for Cat-5? Surely there's no real need for a cat-5 cable to terminate in anything thicker than a USB port?
Didn't we cover this recently?
A resounding 'no'. Plugging laptops in is an edge-case as far as structured cabling is concerned, and changing all that perfectly good - compatible - infrastructure to facilitate it would be daft.
By all means the next fibre thing can have a ludicrously low-profile connector - that'll come in handy in data centres, I'm sure. But let UTP die out gracefully. The Apple users can have their dongles - they should be used to it by now - and most networking to laptops will surely be wireless.
I don't like WiFi for anything more than temporary use or sofa surfing, I'd rather have a cable and dedicated bandwidth. However, I'm not advocating a change to existing infrastructure, just a standard for very slim laptops which could be implemented with a new patch lead, or even a female RJ-45 -> Male New slim connector adaptor on an existing patch lead if you prefer. It would still save you a USB port.
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How does linux(debian) boot? What I get to see before I get to the login screen, is totally random.
It is like a manager have just thrown a list at the staff, with stuff to be done before the end of the day, and said when this is done you can clock off down to the pub, first round is on me. Nothing like a run down order with a check list like for TimC before he heads over to the US again.
A surprising number of embedded systems run Windows CE. It's cheap and (mostly) works.
My Airbus had to reboot the other week. Panasonic Avonics runs Redhat apparently. I presume that was just the entertainment system. I never trusted Redhat, back in the day it was a home of dependency hell, hopefully it has got better. Could be worse, I could have found out that Airbus A380s run Windows CE.
Doing an == comparison on a float gives me the creeps, too.
*Possible* compromise of a number of webmail services; username/password combinations published. If you do use one of the allegedly affected webmail services you might want to change your password just to be safe.Note: your email *may* have been compromised *only* if you used insecure websites and signed up with a password identical to the one you use for your email account.
A bit more, but not much more, info here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36204531
Be warned, the article contains examples of appalling business jargon. See the quote from Yahoo.
Try a £10 hdmi to vga converter. Works just fine for me.
Try a £10 hdmi to vga converter. Works just fine for me.
I successfully replaced the microswitch in my mouse when it got like that. Even more shockingly, when one of barakta's rodents (of a completely unrelated molishment) went a bit iffy, it turned out to use the same switches (of which I now had a bag of n-1). It turns out that standardisation is fine when you don't expect people to even think of repairing things.
I've got one working just fine on the Pi Zero.Try a £10 hdmi to vga converter. Works just fine for me.
Cheers. I was looking at DVI converters - the Pi site says to use powered ones, that come in as pricey as a 7" touchscreen.
Just ordered a VGA converter for 7€ on Amazon.
Audio CDs *aren't* mountable, except when there's some trickery going on to pretend to the user that they are. There's no filesystem on them, just an audio stream.
Maybe with the upgrade, your music player is no longer associated with playing music CDs or something like that.
Cat6 will be less flexible than cat5
And are often (but not exclusively) an attractive shade of purple.
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Latest version of Firefox (47.0) doesn't reload the page when you go back/forward, for https sites. It just shows a cached copy.
Which kind of affects the way I read this forum - yes, its quicker to go back/forward, but it doesn't show which threads have new posts, or which have been already read (unless I click refresh).
Fill in the first word that comes to mind: Fit. Bit. [****].
Fill in the first word that comes to mind: Fit. Bit. [****].
And that is how the internet is won.Fill in the first word that comes to mind: Fit. Bit. [****].
Sofa.
Astounded. My new printer has its full designation writ large on a plate right on the front for all to see. I thought this was forbidden by law, that such info had to be carried on a plate somewhere on the back - or better yet, the underside - with the barcode & a bunch of other guff, so that the user would have to be a contortionist dwarf with lite-up eyeballs to read it after installation.
I interviewed someone this morning about cycling tech and had to suppress a few giggles because he kept referring to "open house" software.Open source software with very poor update controls? :)
I've just found out what happens when you VNC into a machine running VNC server to see if it is working ;DAm I missing something, but isn't this what you normally do? ???
Am I missing something, but isn't this what you normally do? ???
For a Sony 13" skinny laptop, I bought this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009X0K40E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
A somewhat lower price point than you were looking at, but its done fine, being carted about all over the place, in the car, on trains, and shoved in boxes of stuff at events.
Just when I could really do with being able to use speech to text my plastered laptop has decided it doesn't have a microphone anymore
Am I missing something, but isn't this what you normally do? ???
You may want to Google recursion
My MacBook Air has travelled to every continent sans case. I once used it in a game of table tennis.
Oh and it was briefly stolen by monkeys.
Check whether you have an account that has been pwned
Sam Wood <samuel.wood@sri.com>
Fri, 2 Sep 2016 07:18:45 +0000
https://haveibeenpwned.com
[As I am typing this, their website shows 129 websites and
1,388,845.883 accounts that have been pwned! PGN]"
My MacBook Air has travelled to every continent sans case. I once used it in a game of table tennis.
I'm sure they're pretty sturdy really, but I prefer to err on the side of caution.QuoteOh and it was briefly stolen by monkeys.
That's no way to talk about US Customs officers!
I am on the interview panel for a maths lectureship (I'm the external rep) and all the CV's and cover letters are beautifully typeset in LaTeX. Some with more craft than others. It's like sinking into a comfy 30 year old armchair..
I know Facebook can identify all 7Bn humans on the planet from blurry mugshots just a few pixels wide, so I shouldn't be surprised that mid-twentyteens OCR with our new printer/scanner works. But it actually does. When did that happen?
I'm looking forward to being the first person to download macOS today just so I can find something that doesn't work and complain about it on the web. It wasn't like this when uber-dick Steve Jobs was in charge, I'll bleat and tweet.
I don't know if I've just missed it, but have we managed to escape headphonejackgate here completely?
TBH, I don't think it's really a big deal.
Didn't it get superseded with SillyExpensiveHeadphonesThatPingfuckitOutOfYourEarsGate?
It's the same with people griping that an iPad doesn't have a SD slot. If it's a big deal, buy one of the many tablets that does.
It's the same with people griping that an iPad doesn't have a SD slot. If it's a big deal, buy one of the many tablets that does.
Not quite, because if you want an IOS tablet, it's got to be an iPad. Whereas if you want a proper computer with access to the filesystem it's going to have to be something else, which means you don't get to have IOS. Which is a bit unfortunate for those who've already made half of that decision, but twas ever thus: Cheap scanners don't always work in Linux. You can't connect your Garmin to your iThing. Nobody can find the hash key on a Mac. You've got to suffer Windows if you want proper Excel.
I bought a Camera Conversion Kit from the fruit people
There's a dongle for that!Not quite as snappy as the original campaign.
I wanted to send a movie to a colleague to play on her fondleslab. Not some pirated thing but a movie I had made, on a Mac. Could we work out how to actually do that?
I don't think it supports USB per se, just cameras and cards. The iOS file system is a minor or non-existent niggle for most people. For the sort of person who wants to manually copy their photos into a nest of folders, it's probably not the device for them.
Not an optionI wanted to send a movie to a colleague to play on her fondleslab. Not some pirated thing but a movie I had made, on a Mac. Could we work out how to actually do that?
Put it on YouTube or similar.
Copy it directly via iTunes.Doesn't work. You have to sync the slab to a PC to which it is synced, you can't use an arbitrary PC to just add to the existing files.
Email it.Too big
Copy it using one the many apps that handles direct transfers, DB, iCloud etc.Would be nice but you can't save it into a playable videos directory on the slab - only playable when online
It's a bit of a non-problem.No, it is actually much harder than you think, or a rather non-obvious solution
There's plenty of iPad apps that let you manage a range of files – I use Documents – supports an effective file system, works with DropBox, iCloud, NAS, etc, or you can write files directly with WebDav. It also lets me choose which app to open a file in.That presumes that you have access to add that app. Again it is not an 'out of the box' option
There's plenty of iPad apps that let you manage a range of files – I use Documents – supports an effective file system, works with DropBox, iCloud, NAS, etc, or you can write files directly with WebDav. It also lets me choose which app to open a file in.That presumes that you have access to add that app. Again it is not an 'out of the box' option
need to transfer photos when I'm stood in a field in Wales
I wanted to send a movie to a colleague to play on her fondleslab. Not some pirated thing but a movie I had made, on a Mac. Could we work out how to actually do that?
Would be nice but you can't save it into a playable videos directory on the slab - only playable when online
No, it is actually much harder than you think, or a rather non-obvious solution
Mr. Shaky Sausage fingers likes the idea of being able to send texts from the Mac using a grown up's keyboard.
Mr. Shaky Sausage fingers likes the idea of being able to send texts from the Mac using a grown up's keyboard.
Mr. Shaky Sausage fingers likes the idea of being able to send texts from the Mac using a grown up's keyboard.
Wasn't that the last release or have I travelled into the future again? Sending texts and taking calls on my computer is actually really useful. Even more so when my phone is otherwhere.
Not sure if I'm missing something but the ability to send texts from a mac has been built-in for as long as I can remember. I seem to remember having to set it up so it would fail-over from iMessage to SMS, and it being obscure enough to have to look it up, but it was a long time ago.Every day, a school day... ;)
Sending messages with a proper keyboard is great, as is taking calls when there's no signal, having put your phone where there is.
Not sure if I'm missing something but the ability to send texts from a mac has been built-in for as long as I can remember. I seem to remember having to set it up so it would fail-over from iMessage to SMS, and it being obscure enough to have to look it up, but it was a long time ago.
Sending messages with a proper keyboard is great, as is taking calls when there's no signal, having put your phone where there is.
It always used to be possible with iMessage, from El Capitan onward you can directly send SMS or take or receive calls on your Mac (it needs recent hardware) provided you are in suitable proximity to your iPhone.
https://toggl.com/programming-princess
All in all, Pascal seems to offer the best alternative.
Whatever became of C++ in all that?
Just realized that I haven't written a line of C++ since 2007. Jeez.
Then I can carry on wrestling with Jenkins.
Then I can carry on wrestling with Jenkins.
I wish Jenkins would bugger off and get me a G+T instead of spamming me that my Unit Tests had failed.
Then I can carry on wrestling with Jenkins.
I wish Jenkins would bugger off and get me a G+T instead of spamming me that my Unit Tests had failed.
The pedant would point out that the unit tests have worked and that it is the code that has failed the Unit Tests. It is when the Unit Tests do not identify issues that they should that one can say they have failed.
Looks like something on my home network tried to participate in yesterdays dDOS on DynDNS name servers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Dyn_cyberattack
With most of the great unwashed being behind NAT, how are these devices exploitable?
Who sets up port forwarding to their toaster?
Many such devices use uPnP to enable port forwarding for you.
Many such devices use uPnP to enable port forwarding for you.
How does that work?
( I've never used uPnP. )
If I have 10 internal webcams, all of which run webservers on port 80...
Obviously, the NAT would need to use different external ports for each.
How does the end user know what external port to connect to?
I didn't mean to ask how are open ports exploitable, but rather how are they meant to be used properly.
How is an end user meant to connect to their home webcams if they have poked holes through NAT using uPnP?
How does the end user know what external port number to connect to?
Having used uPnP to automagically set port forwarding rules, how do external clients know what has been negotiated?
Are the bad guys port scanning and attempting to use compromised HTTP logins on every port that responds in the off-chance it's a port-mapped weak webcam?
My Time Machine backups are failing. I've tried all the usual suggestions, it's looking like I'm going to have to trash it and start with a fresh one. A worrying prospect, of course I have copies of everything important but nowhere convenient to temporarily store a full restore image while I delete the 3 years of backup and re-image. It's a TB so is going to take some time...
WTF? https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/odfb/2016/11/02/onedrive-crash-on-launch/Onedrive is an effing virus.
How can this be a serious effort at a robust system?
My Time Machine backups are failing. I've tried all the usual suggestions, it's looking like I'm going to have to trash it and start with a fresh one. A worrying prospect, of course I have copies of everything important but nowhere convenient to temporarily store a full restore image while I delete the 3 years of backup and re-image. It's a TB so is going to take some time...
One Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. are a nightmare when it comes to keeping data secure.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/dropsmack-using-dropbox-to-steal-files-and-deliver-malware/
My Time Machine backups are failing. I've tried all the usual suggestions, it's looking like I'm going to have to trash it and start with a fresh one. A worrying prospect, of course I have copies of everything important but nowhere convenient to temporarily store a full restore image while I delete the 3 years of backup and re-image. It's a TB so is going to take some time...
USB drives are cheap and capacious these days. I'm not sure why the TM is failing, is it the drive itself? I had one that got inexplicably corrupted, all the old data was there but it just wouldn't write to it any more. Rather than faff around (Google had a million suggestions for fixing it, but life is too short), I just backed up to a new drive and then once I was sure I had everything, deleted the corrupted TM and replaced it with the new one (I don't, tbh, need several years of incremental backups and everything important is copied to my NAS anyway). That drive is still running several months later, so it wasn't a hardware issue.
-x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries
This was due to an NHS Mail user setting up an email distribution list which, because of a bug in the supplier's system, inadvertently included everyone on the NHS Mail list.
QuoteThis was due to an NHS Mail user setting up an email distribution list which, because of a bug in the supplier's system, inadvertently included everyone on the NHS Mail list.
Obviously none of us have ever done anything like that ...
SUMMARY: We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 787 airplanes. This AD requires a repetitive maintenance task for electrical power deactivation on Model 787 airplanes. This AD was prompted by the determination that a Model 787 airplane that has been powered continuously for 248 days can lose all alternating current (AC) electrical power due to the generator control units (GCUs) simultaneously going into failsafe mode. This condition is caused by a software counter internal to the GCUs that will overflow after 248 days of continuous power. We are issuing this AD to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the airplane.
Oh bugger. Lester Haines has died. There's an obit. over on The Register.
I missed it when it was first published. Don't know how.Oh bugger. Lester Haines has died. There's an obit. over on The Register.
Dated 10th June 2016...
Preparing to empty the Trash...
Items to delete: 3,916,537
...and counting. It's been running for hours. A reformat would have been quicker and made more sense. Oh well.
Do you reckon I should confirm that mynamemysurname@gmail.com is the right address to associate with the Twitter account that someone called 祐也 (Japanese for Yuya, according to google) is trying to set up?
Anyone not feeling old? http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/ should solve that...
(I reckon the demise of RS232 is greatly exaggerated, though I did deposit a box full of 9-25pin adaptors, gender changers, null modem cables and the like[1] at the tip last week.)
[1] The Centronix printer cables had been breeding.
young fart - I don't think I've ever used a serial cable
young fart - I don't think I've ever used a serial cable
*thunk*
Of course serial is alive and well.Yebbut, writing a noddy piece of code to talk to something hanging off an RS-232 (or 423 Beeb fans!) port could be done in an afternoon* and didn't need shed loads of arcane knowledge provided the language you were using provided even basic bit twiddling / direct port acccess functions (So MUMPS aka DSM-11 for PDP, pretty much any language on the Beeb that let you get at the OSBYTE calls and even dear old VB on a PC with a DLL / control written in a sensible language. USB on the other hand... well I've looked at it a couple or three times and walked away each time. Not got that much life left to waste.
You are plugging your devices in via your USB ports, aren't you?
My IBM Model M is 27 today! I will have to be very solicitous of its well-being for the next twelvemonth as I don't want it going the way of Messrs Jones, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain, Winehouse ect. ect.Bloody hell! "_Manufactured_ in United Kingdom." There's a phrase you don't see very much these days.
And I understand that is just the product key, you still need the OS - but from where and how?
No, usually the receiving device has to be set to receive data from cast then you can 'cast' from your phone, tablet whatever. So it is probably a neighbour with a smart TV setting their TV to receive chromecast.
Good point. I wasn't thinking very clearly. Unless some smartTVs have a mode where they work as a short-range router for chromecast purposes.No, usually the receiving device has to be set to receive data from cast then you can 'cast' from your phone, tablet whatever. So it is probably a neighbour with a smart TV setting their TV to receive chromecast.
Hang on, how would it be aware of a TV/Chromecast on a separate LAN?
Agreed. Mouse 2 has better features.
I'm questioning the quality of the build. I'll see how I get on with the replacement one.
My wife's Magic Mouse, for instance, has a mildly more satisfying click. File under #firstworldproblems.
My wife's Magic Mouse, for instance, has a mildly more satisfying click. File under #firstworldproblems.Wait!
This afternoon a mistake agent, inspecting the landlord's non-repairs, accused me of trying to hack into NASA. I suggested that NASA have more than enough problems already.
This afternoon a mistake agent, inspecting the landlord's non-repairs, accused me of trying to hack into NASA. I suggested that NASA have more than enough problems already.
What were you hacking, The Gibson?
Has anyone made there own bios back up batteries? http://www.zlectronic.com/crms/bigpic/us/33646_zlectronic_1.jpg
I don't think I've had a BIOS battery go flat in the modern era (I last remember dealing with oneIIRC I've replaced two, both in this millennium. One on a PC I used to own & later gave to charity (wiped, ready for installation of new OS etc. by the charity) at least a decade ago, & one about 5 years ago on an old (even then) PC used by a blind bloke & supported by another charity which I was volunteering for. Both took a bog standard CR2032 in a normal holder on the board. Open case, take out old CR2032, stick in pocket so it doesn't get mixed up with new one, take new one out of blister pack, push in, fire up PC to check it's OK, close down when it's obvious it is, put case back together.on a crusty 386ETA: Ah no, barakta did a PRAM battery on a PowerPC Mac at one point). They tended to out-last the capacitors on noughties motherboards.
I think all our machines have a normal CR2032 holder on the board. That arrangement looks needlessly complicated, but wouldn't be too tricky to reproduce.
Never having noticed any other arrangement on any of the machines I've opened up to repair or upgrade, I assumed that it was universal.
git bisect - such a useful featureSo many to choose from; so little time. :)
git bisect - such a useful featureSo many to choose from; so little time. :)
*sings* I have a little list, they'll none of them be missed...
But can it be performed remotely? ;Dgit bisect - such a useful featureSo many to choose from; so little time. :)
*sings* I have a little list, they'll none of them be missed...
Logged in to microsft store and now the laptop wants those details to log in now. How do I change back to the usual log in.
I wouldn't say I'm a heavy user of the 'tinternet. [...] We clock in at about 250GB a month.
Mrs T's W7 is taking an age to download updates (~3 hours so far). It was suffering from "not genuine windows" even tho' it was properly activated, and hadn't updated itself for the last X months. SLMGR -REARM banished the error message but nowt's happening. Beginning to think it needed something other fix, e.g. uninstalling that update, I forget the number.Blow it away. Reinstall.
I'm very happy now, that after about two days of faffing around, I managed to get the compiler to generate a reasonably sized patch!Swap you for a copy of Visual Studio 2017? :)
Mrs T's W7 is taking an age to download updates (~3 hours so far). It was suffering from "not genuine windows" even tho' it was properly activated, and hadn't updated itself for the last X months. SLMGR -REARM banished the error message but nowt's happening. Beginning to think it needed something other fix, e.g. uninstalling that update, I forget the number.Blow it away. Reinstall.
I'm very happy now, that after about two days of faffing around, I managed to get the compiler to generate a reasonably sized patch!Swap you for a copy of Visual Studio 2017? :)
My holy **** moment in that respect came when I saw a colleague unfold his Macbook, prop up his iPad by the side, instant two monitor system.
I have eight full resolution desktops on my 27 inch iMac and swish merrily between them. Saves the space of a second monitor (and I couldn't find one to replicate the iMac anyway).
I have eight full resolution desktops on my 27 inch iMac and swish merrily between them. Saves the space of a second monitor (and I couldn't find one to replicate the iMac anyway).
Surely you forget where you put stuff?
I've tried using multiple desktops/spaces/workspaces/arenas (whatever we're calling them this week) in the past - it's so doable when you have 32Gb RAM; but I end up forgetting where I've put things.
I really miss having a second monitor when I'm at home. It's comes in beautifully handy at work.
Now, after a few years of using multiple monitors both at home and at work, I find single-monitor systems absolutely horrible to use!
I really miss having a second monitor when I'm at home. It's comes in beautifully handy at work.I don't, at least not for the odd bit of coding I do at home* and I certainly don't need it for arguing on the internets. Now where did I put that flint axe head? :)
I have eight full resolution desktops on my 27 inch iMac and swish merrily between them. Saves the space of a second monitor (and I couldn't find one to replicate the iMac anyway).
Surely you forget where you put stuff?
I've tried using multiple desktops/spaces/workspaces/arenas (whatever we're calling them this week) in the past - it's so doable when you have 32Gb RAM; but I end up forgetting where I've put things.
I quite often have the same issue with virtual machines. I'll often be working with a dozen or more active VMs - running tests, doing RPA - whatever; and I end up forgetting what's running on what VM.
Maybe it's just an age thing.
Looked to replace the cmos battery on Toshiba nb100 and after stripping the laptop down found that it is not a cr2016 or 2032 but a different one that I can make out the number. Arse.
Work's database is acting weird. "select to_date(sysdate, 'dd/mm/yyyy') from dual;" is returning "25/05/0017" whereas "select to_char(sysdate, 'dd/mm/yyyy') from dual;" is returning "25/05/2017".
???
I run Ubuntu Studio on a laptop in my music room with a separate monitor (with several workspaces) perched above it. So I can drag stuff up and down rather than side to side.Now, after a few years of using multiple monitors both at home and at work, I find single-monitor systems absolutely horrible to use!
This. It's like drinking a McDonald's milkshake with one hand tied behind your back or something.
It's why I don't really get on with laptops.
I've got a cisco 2950 sitting on a shelf in the office that I must find a use for at some point (and learn how to configure.)
I'm not sure I followed much of that at all. We might roll it into a lab network switch with authorised MAC addresses only to provide a secure net for our ancient lab kit that we can then bridge to the wider world via an appropriate gateway (possibly a raspi or similar with a script that will upload to a shared folder on Box)
I've got a cisco 2950 sitting on a shelf in the office that I must find a use for at some point (and learn how to configure.)
While exciting new connector standards are a big part of what you sign up for with Apple products, you do start to wonder why they persist with these evidently far too thin power cables...Yeah. Thinner than those for any of our other (all non-Apple) computing devices.
Apple - bah! Fucking rip-off arsewipes!
£19 for a cable to connect an iPad to a charger. :facepalm: And it's only needed because the old one (original one supplied with the iPad, so what the Californian profiteers say is 19 quid's worth) decided to short out where cable meets plug. Cue burning smell, heat which melted the insulation, & an electric shock for Mrs B when she pulled it out. Well-made & worth almost £20? I think not.
Hi-ho, it's off to the nearest vendor of apparently reliable replacements at less than half the price, the Shop Known as Maplin, because Mrs B can't wait for something much cheaper still off the Interwebs & take the chance that it won't work.
She could get one for nothing, in theory, but she'd have to go to Oxford to collect it from her employer's IT base.
£7.99 for a short (but just long enough) one from Maplin. Progressively longer ones £1 more for each step up.Apple - bah! Fucking rip-off arsewipes!
£19 for a cable to connect an iPad to a charger. :facepalm: And it's only needed because the old one (original one supplied with the iPad, so what the Californian profiteers say is 19 quid's worth) decided to short out where cable meets plug. Cue burning smell, heat which melted the insulation, & an electric shock for Mrs B when she pulled it out. Well-made & worth almost £20? I think not.
Hi-ho, it's off to the nearest vendor of apparently reliable replacements at less than half the price, the Shop Known as Maplin, because Mrs B can't wait for something much cheaper still off the Interwebs & take the chance that it won't work.
She could get one for nothing, in theory, but she'd have to go to Oxford to collect it from her employer's IT base.
I got one the other week for a tenner from Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles.
Google cast how does it work? My phone keeps showing the option to cast whatever I'm doing on YouTube and chrome. But I don't own a Google Cast item, so it must be a neighbour.
Following my grumble about (some) Android apps not supporting landscape mode - I've found an app that can force it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
It seems to work with everything, albeit via rather confusing settings for the auto modes.
Following my grumble about (some) Android apps not supporting landscape mode - I've found an app that can force it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
It seems to work with everything, albeit via rather confusing settings for the auto modes.
Ooh, I'll have a play with that later.
Has Bing maps stopped doing OS maps? That was the only reason to use Bing...
I too couldn't see the OS option when trying on my tablet a moment a go, but it's appeared after some random tapping and refreshing.
select decode(column_name, null, null, column_name)
from table_name
select column_name
from table_name
The following faults trigger this state:
• Disk SMART failure
• Data volume does not exist
• System volume does not exist
• System thermal shutdown (75° C)
I've just found a bit of SQL someone's written which stumped me. The code is effectively:Code: [Select]select decode(column_name, null, null, column_name)
from table_name
Why not just useCode: [Select]select column_name
from table_name
?
I've just found a bit of SQL someone's written which stumped me. The code is effectively:Code: [Select]select decode(column_name, null, null, column_name)
from table_name
Why not just useCode: [Select]select column_name
from table_name
?
select decode(column_name, null, 'null', column_name)
from table_name
if (variable == true)
{
do_stuff();
}
I've just found a bit of SQL someone's written which stumped me. The code is effectively:Code: [Select]select decode(column_name, null, null, column_name)
from table_name
Why not just useCode: [Select]select column_name
from table_name
?
Just goggled it, cos it's not any T-SQL I know. It's coracle and I quote "The Oracle/PLSQL DECODE function has the functionality of an IF-THEN-ELSE statement...."
I haven't looked any further than that, but it looks like something like the T-SQL coalesce function which lets you extract the first non-null value from a set of columns*.
*I expect you know that, but just in case you didn't.
I've just found a bit of SQL someone's written which stumped me. The code is effectively:I've seen that sort of construct before. It happens when the simple solution doesn't produce the desire results, where the decode did.Code: [Select]select decode(column_name, null, null, column_name)
from table_name
Why not just useCode: [Select]select column_name
from table_name
?
Unless it is supported in your keyboard (many do) not sure you can without a little hacking ... something like nircmd http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html may do the job. Alternatively, just use the key combo ;)Ha! It is Micky$oft keyboard but is not supported by the Mouse and Keyboard Center. The key opens up calculator, as it did in Linux yet I was able to tell it to mute. I tried nirsoft but got no joy. need more hacking.
If you're new to W10, (or not new but never looked at shortcuts) it is worth having a shufti at https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts although having said that, one of my faves Win-Shft-S for the snipper, doesn't seem to be listed.
ETA - this may help, too https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-gb/support/how-to/keyboard/reassign-keys
Is that a situation where null entries would not be returned unless specifically requested through the decode? Does Oracle return nulls when selecting rows and is it SQL or PLSQL code?
Unless it is supported in your keyboard (many do) not sure you can without a little hacking ... something like nircmd http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html may do the job. Alternatively, just use the key combo ;)
If you're new to W10, (or not new but never looked at shortcuts) it is worth having a shufti at https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts although having said that, one of my faves Win-Shft-S for the snipper, doesn't seem to be listed.
ETA - this may help, too https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-gb/support/how-to/keyboard/reassign-keys
Ha! It is Micky$oft keyboard but is not supported by the Mouse and Keyboard Center. The key opens up calculator, as it did in Linux yet I was able to tell it to mute. I tried nirsoft but got no joy. need more hacking.
So they fooled facial recognition by making a realistic copy of the face? Blimey, who knew.
The new Firefox Quantum seems to be rather fast.
Though the square tabs look ugly. And it seems to have messed up the font sizes on some sites. Especially YACF - everything is rather small. Zooming in works, but it forgets that when I refresh the page.
The new Firefox Quantum seems to be rather fast.
Though the square tabs look ugly. And it seems to have messed up the font sizes on some sites. Especially YACF - everything is rather small. Zooming in works, but it forgets that when I refresh the page.
I've installed it on my Lubuntu box but cant open it as it gives a parsing error, XML Parsing Error: Undefined Entity location: Chrome:// Browser/content/Browser.xul line number 1165, column 7:
Hurrah: DJ Random has played all the musical tunes in my iTunes library :thumbsup:
Trying to jibble an Excel spreadsheet to generate something that can be used to create a Several of text files is giving me a headache.
Trying to jibble an Excel spreadsheet to generate something that can be used to create a Several of text files is giving me a headache.
Gentlemen, if your The Product dishes out so many error messages that notepad++ cannot open the log file, because it is too big, there is probably something very wrong at a fairly fundamental level.
Backup! You normally take abut two hours so why have you been running for ten? Explain yourself!
Just had El Presidente on the blower. His 2-year-old laptop's mother board has gone phut. Apart from a trip to Quebec last summer it had never left his desk. Are they that fragile these days?Usually not. Have multiple laptops around house, belonging to children etc. Not had a motherboard blow on any of them.
Just had El Presidente on the blower. His 2-year-old laptop's mother board has gone phut. Apart from a trip to Quebec last summer it had never left his desk. Are they that fragile these days?Usually not. Have multiple laptops around house, belonging to children etc. Not had a motherboard blow on any of them.
Back from El Prez's. Laptop is totally unresponsive. Well, the power lights come on, but they don't flicker and there are no beeps. We did have a gander under the keyboard, but nothing was apparent - no surprise, given my lack of knowledge. Even a swift anointing with El P's espresso had no effect.I have seen that before when the battery is completely toasted. Taking the battery out and running it just from the mains adaptor made it work.
He's left with a creaky old mini-tower PC. It's a Pentium 4 and the clock resets to 2002 when it's unplugged because etc. It has a mix of RAM card frequencies and capacities to a total of 4 Gb. He has W7 Pro on it, and it crawls. Performance Index is 2.7. It must be paging like buggery at the speed of a dead snail. The motherboard'll probably take 4 Gb but I doubt if that'd make much difference. Heigh ho.
Another one from the "playing with the big boys" box. I just got to poke a finger at an Ethernet network card. One that runs without switches. At speeds greater than 600Gb/s. (yes, that's 60x what you might have thought was the maximum speed)Sheesh. In only 2001 I remember putting in a 20Gb/s WAN in and we only managed that dizzying headline speed by cheating and have two routes[1] between each node. Admittedly the fibre between major nodes was carrying multiples of that by the use of different colours over the fibre
Maplins is circling the plughole https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/20/crunch_time_maplin_in_talks_to_sell_the_business/ :(
Maplins is circling the plughole https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/20/crunch_time_maplin_in_talks_to_sell_the_business/ :(Useful to know, I have some money on one of their cards, might be worth finding something to spend it on while there's still the chance.
Maplins is circling the plughole https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/20/crunch_time_maplin_in_talks_to_sell_the_business/ :(
Many <cough> many years ago, I used to get the Maplins catalogue, for the data that was available in it, and to drool over semiconductors that I couldn't afford !+1 Cheapest pin-out manual on the market. I used to tear out and keep the transistor and IC pages.
Yes, pure IPA[1] if you're going to do that sort of thing. Problem is that the contacts are sandwiched between sheets of flexible plastic, so it may not penetrate without dismantling.Indeed. But the stickiness may be taking place between the outer surface of the membrane and the actuator / key.
[1] Not the beer, that's strictly for slippy Brompton seat posts.
The 'Down' cursor key on my MacBook Air seems dead.
Everything else works OK.
Suggestions?
David thinks there could be dirt in the contacts. I don't really want him to attempt to dismantlethis...
A very good starting point.The 'Down' cursor key on my MacBook Air seems dead.
Everything else works OK.
Suggestions?
David thinks there could be dirt in the contacts. I don't really want him to attempt to dismantlethis...
turn it upside down and knock and shake it. and flick the key.
it is astonishing what laptops try and collect...
You could try saving as rtf or as pure xml before reloading and resaving as docx. Alternatively try loading into libre office writer and saving as docx.
The fact that you have to jump through a few hoops is not his or her problem.
*Let someone like Microsoft keep copies of all my documents on a server not under my control? And edit them with a SAAS programme that I have to renew a licence for every year or lose access forever? Aye. Right.
I moaned to my ISP and they said there was no sign that the internet had been cut near or at me. The little green light saying that it was awake and on the ball was on, the light saying that there was a phone line was also on but the most important green one was sometimes not seen.
After some nagging and tos and fros I was told that the ISP don't check or care about the ping.
Is there an easy way to determine whether a sudden loss of intertubes in the wee small hours was an issue at The Man's end or my router showing signs of droid rot? No unusual blinkenlight activity on the latter, but it swore blind it was connected when ping was unable to find Microsith, Farcebok or Google.
You have asked me to submit sensitive personal information for the purpose of identity validation. Please confirm that you will effectively destroy this information once you have validated my identity and provide me with confirmation that this has been done, thank you.
Hello Ham, this is Glenda from Airbnb. I will be here to assist you with. ID verification is essentail [sic] for security purposes, rest assure that Airbnb has the best security practice with the data we are collecting. Thanks
Thank you for that reply, but you have not answered my question.
Unless you can tell me otherwise, once you have used my personal info to validate my ID (and frankly, I am uncertain why you even have to do that) I can see no reason for you to continue to hold this information.
Please therefore destroy it and confirm to me the process you use to destroy it. Thank you.
You can read everything to our Airbnb Privacy Policy. You can be assured that everything is for safety purposes of all Airbnb users.
I have read your privacy policy, including where you describe the use you put that data to.
However none of the uses quoted indicate why, having validated my ID, you require to continue to hold this data.
Having verified my ID, you have no more need to hold my sensitive personal information on file. You may claim to have effective security in place but you will be aware that the Internet is littered with well secured systems that have been hacked and lost millions of users' data.
Please explain why you need to continue to hold this information on file, as opposed to simply holding the validated status.
I totally understand your concern. I will be escalating this to a team that is better equipped to handle such queries. Thanks
The latest version of Windows 10 that was foisted onto me by Windows Update has hosed my computer.Spent this afternoon fixing my aunts laptop that went West after the latest update too. Completely goosed. Fuck you Bill.
Attempting to start 90% of programs gives a message that "The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."
I can't even check the event log, because guess what error I get when trying to start it.
Thanks a lot microsoft.
The latest version of Windows 10 that was foisted onto me by Windows Update has hosed my computer.Spent this afternoon fixing my aunts laptop that went West after the latest update too. Completely goosed. Fuck you Bill.
Attempting to start 90% of programs gives a message that "The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."
I can't even check the event log, because guess what error I get when trying to start it.
Thanks a lot microsoft.
Posted from my beautiful wee MacBook Pro, swoon emoji.
Does Powerpoint still not handle vectors? Mine doesn't, but I'm still using Office 2011 for Mac. Reminds me that I have to wrestle Office 365 from the mothership. They'll probably make me do battle with procurement 'as we don't support Macs.' This is untrue, our IT people in my experience don't support anything.
Does Powerpoint still not handle vectors? Mine doesn't, but I'm still using Office 2011 for Mac. Reminds me that I have to wrestle Office 365 from the mothership. They'll probably make me do battle with procurement 'as we don't support Macs.' This is untrue, our IT people in my experience don't support anything.
Short answer - No. Longer answer, yes, but only in Micro$hits own drawing format, that limited drawing capability has classically been one of the reasons for using Powerpoint.
Depends. Will you give it back?
Unless it's intended to be an open network for public use, then it's going to be an offence under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act, but so is turning off the washing machine, so whatever.
In the more likely scenario of discovering that a neighbour is a luser with an unsecured network, I'd apply the common sense approach of not doing anything particularly bandwidth intensive (so as not to incur charges or impact the performance of their network), and only if you have a pressing need to do so (need to get online to top up your mobile, moved house and are still waiting for our-favourite-telco to sort your DSL out (https://xkcd.com/466/), that sort of thing). And, it goes without saying, not doing anything dodgy with it.
Also, bear in mind the possibility that the neighbour *isn't* a luser and it may be a honeypot...
I seem to have killed my trusty MacBook Air DEDD with a spilt drink, which only wet the Magsafe port. The charger itself is working OK with this Macbook (I think it's a Pro from 2009).
The drink was a diet squash, so didn't have much sugar.
Initially, the display was blank and the fans were working overtime. The fans stopped when I held the 'on' switch but now the whole machine lacks any hint of life.
The rest escaped dry so nothing went on the keyboard etc.
This is more than a little inconvenient! David's at a concert tonight.
I suggested judicious use of a hairdryer, a suggestion rejected by David.
I'd welcome any suggestions...
We've got to poke it to know it...
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TBH, I reckon Windows 3.1 was the big mistake.DSM-11 FTW. Preferably on a PDP 11-7x or 11-8x. Pictures? Who needs pictures? :)
Microsith uses "Recycle Bin*", which makes a certain amount of sense.
Anbaric Dustbin
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes
You'd think anyone reporting on a hacking convention would have got over the "ZOMG some children know more about computers than some adults" thing about 30 years ago.
You'd think anyone reporting on a hacking convention would have got over the "ZOMG some children know more about computers than some adults" thing about 30 years ago.
The story, as originally filed, had got over it. However, a pesky 11 year old hacked into the newspaper's computer and changed the emphasis. Or perhaps not.
The 'E' key on my MacBook Air is coming adrift. It works if jiggled.
I am not a rough or rapid typist.
At all.
David says he's not seen anything like this on any Mac he has owned.
E is, of course, the letter used most frequently.
Underwhelming. I'm sure we'll live with this and/or fix it.
Apple just works.
Always.
The 'E' key on my MacBook Air is coming adrift. It works if jiggled.
I am not a rough or rapid typist.
At all.
David says he's not seen anything like this on any Mac he has owned.
E is, of course, the letter used most frequently.
Underwhelming. I'm sure we'll live with this and/or fix it.
Apple just works.
Always.
T key is coming adrift now...
T key is coming adrift now...
My printers down again :( I've a cheap HP printer that's about ten years old now that's been getting increasingly temperamental as time passes. Its latest trick is to print but produce blank sheets, I can hear it printing but it doesn't produce anything, I'm sure its done this before but I can't remember what the solution was. Ideally I'd replace it but I do that little printing I can't justify buying another.
My printers down again :( I've a cheap HP printer that's about ten years old now that's been getting increasingly temperamental as time passes. Its latest trick is to print but produce blank sheets, I can hear it printing but it doesn't produce anything, I'm sure its done this before but I can't remember what the solution was. Ideally I'd replace it but I do that little printing I can't justify buying another.
Is it an ink jet printer.
...On some kind of laser printer, given that you go long periods without using it.
... I can hear it printing but it doesn't produce anything...Of course you have checked that the cartridges aren't empty, haven't you? :)
Quote from: dave r... I can hear it printing but it doesn't produce anything...Of course you have checked that the cartridges aren't empty, haven't you? :)
If you're only printing stuff intermittently and the printer has a "clean print heads" cycle you can start manually try that before you kick off a print run. The cartridge print heads may be gumming up where they're sitting idle so no ink is reaching the paper.
If there's no manual clean option, the cartridge is still full and it is just a case of gummed up heads you could try taking
the cartridge out and very, very, very gently cleaning the heads with a damp cotton bud. Bit of a last resort this
though because you run the risk of buggering up the fragile cartridge heads completely and what with cartridges being ridiculously overpriced...
Another possibility that's just flitted through what passes for my mind is that the ink in the cartridge(s) may have dried out/gone sludgy/separated if they're very old cartridges. Worth trying a new cartridge if you've got any to hand?
You could also check that the cartridges' signal contact points are still held securely and cleanly against the printer and perhaps give them a bit of a clean if they look grubby.
After that? Not a clue.
I'm an old fart. Speakers should come in stereo pairs,
I keep the iTunes library on a NAS and pipe sounds via whichever Babbage-Engine is closest to an amplifier and speakers. Except the one in the Chips Room, which has a network cable and ancient FruitCo AirPort Express to connect it to the PC in the Great Hall. You just have to remember not run iTunes on two machines simultaneously, as otherwise it gets confused.
Oh woes, my mid-2011 MacBook Air no longer has enough narwhals under the hood to run MacOS Mojave.Likewise :'(
ETA: I put it on my iMac. It seems to have broken precisely nothing. Adobe CC and Affinity work, even the ancient Office 2011.
I keep the iTunes library on a NAS and pipe sounds via whichever Babbage-Engine is closest to an amplifier and speakers. Except the one in the Chips Room, which has a network cable and ancient FruitCo AirPort Express to connect it to the PC in the Great Hall. You just have to remember not run iTunes on two machines simultaneously, as otherwise it gets confused.
At the moment, I either play the tunes from the NAS or via Spotify through my Mac and bluetooth it to the dongle on the Aiwa or use my phone to play though the TV soundbar or kitchen speakerbox via bluetooth.
The Aiwa is slowly dying, it must be a zillion years old, has crappy bass. The remote control died last year so now when the phone rings I have to scoot across the room on my chair to turn it down and then scoot all the way back, trying hard not to run over a cat or tip myself over on the floor/rug interface. And now the buttons on the front require enhanced pressing. Oh, the suffering. I could just stand up, of course.
Anyway, I'd like to play my tunes louder and it would be nice if I could play both in my mezzanine office and the adjoining living room so I can wander around the ground floor with constant tunage. Voice control isn't that important, but I'm informed it's the future. Light bulb on. Light bulb off. I still dream of hover cars and social acceptability for tight silver lurex. That was the future they promised me, not shouting at a woman in a box.
I hate technology purchases, they just make me feel old. When I were a lad, you could just plump for the one with the most giga-whatevers. Now there's an infinite number of models. You can't even get a single variety of computer cable.
I quite like the Sonos One and John Lewis sell it, so I may meander by and see if I can annoy a sales assistant by turning the volume as loud as it goes and wandering off to see if I can still hear it from outside the building.
Tbh, I'm not convinced by voice control...Ahh, but you have full control of your limbs. For all its current flaws and idiocies I can see it making life very, very much more bearable for someone who hasn't. Don't much like the server based nature of it though. Loss of privacy and all that.
Quote from: ianTbh, I'm not convinced by voice control...Ahh, but you have full control of your limbs. For all its current flaws and idiocies I can see it making life very, very much more bearable for someone who hasn't. Don't much like the server based nature of it though. Loss of privacy and all that.
Using multiple access points doesn't really work in my experience. If you give them both the same SSID, devices will drop the connection as they switch between them, or stay connected to one, even if it is a weaker signal etc. You could give them separate SSIDs, but then you have to tell the devices to change networks.
A whole home wifi system should be better. Though probably much more expensive.
I'm still not sure I'm ready to talk to computers. I don't much like talking to humans. I can apparently talk to my security cameras. Woot.Mrs Pcolbeck has a passive aggressive relationship with our Alexa setup (controls music and lights in main part of the house). I think Alexa may be winning.
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I'm still not sure I'm ready to talk to computers. I don't much like talking to humans. I can apparently talk to my security cameras. Woot.Mrs Pcolbeck has a passive aggressive relationship with our Alexa setup (controls music and lights in main part of the house). I think Alexa may be winning.
That's a Bentley, have you ever read Good Omens?
Yahoo! has hijacked my searching.
Having chosen Google as my default search engine, all my searches now seem to end up with Yahoo! even when I start from google.co.uk.
My ISP is BT and I use their webmail but I don't like Yahoo! for searches.
It's not fair!
Yahoo! has hijacked my searching.
Having chosen Google as my default search engine, all my searches now seem to end up with Yahoo! even when I start from google.co.uk.
My ISP is BT and I use their webmail but I don't like Yahoo! for searches.
It's not fair!
This on the mac?
Yahoo! has hijacked my searching.
Having chosen Google as my default search engine, all my searches now seem to end up with Yahoo! even when I start from google.co.uk.
My ISP is BT and I use their webmail but I don't like Yahoo! for searches.
It's not fair!
This on the mac?
Yup!
I'm still not sure I'm ready to talk to computers. I don't much like talking to humans. I can apparently talk to my security cameras. Woot.Mrs Pcolbeck has a passive aggressive relationship with our Alexa setup (controls music and lights in main part of the house). I think Alexa may be winning.
Ian,
I haven't looked at Sonos' blurb on what you can do with Alexa, lately, but can you give it voice instructions to play a particular album from a particular folder on your music library? Its folder structure is several layers deep. I'm not at all interested in streaming music services, just playing my own music, and accessing internet radio. I don't currently use Sonos speakers, its just the method of getting the music from my NAS to my amp, and the only actual Sonos component is the Connect box. As I'm unimpressed with the Sonos Android app, and its perverse layout (the PC one is far more readable, but why aren't they identical in appearance?) I'd like a less fussy way to play the music I want.
Yahoo! has hijacked my searching.
Having chosen Google as my default search engine, all my searches now seem to end up with Yahoo! even when I start from google.co.uk.
Yahoo! has hijacked my searching.
Having chosen Google as my default search engine, all my searches now seem to end up with Yahoo! even when I start from google.co.uk.
The default search engine option in the Safari Preferences seems to currently be broken and the actual way to change it is to open a new window, click the magnifying glass next to the search box in the toolbar and you get a secret menu of the actual search engine to use.
(Although that doesn’t explain it redirecting if you use the embedded search box within a google.co.uk page... if that’s happening something is *very* wrong)
Helly, smells like you have malware in your browser or the system. Try a different browser to see if it still happens. Also try starting your browsers with addons disabled or in safe mode.
As for Alexa, I am morally obliged to share this youtube clip of Scottish woman getting angry and sweary at Alexa for not understanding her accent until she fakes being English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orD-e_W6PicLaughing out loud.
I think if I revert to my now lost native Glaswegian accent speech recognition is usually slightly better.
Ian,
I haven't looked at Sonos' blurb on what you can do with Alexa, lately, but can you give it voice instructions to play a particular album from a particular folder on your music library? Its folder structure is several layers deep. I'm not at all interested in streaming music services, just playing my own music, and accessing internet radio. I don't currently use Sonos speakers, its just the method of getting the music from my NAS to my amp, and the only actual Sonos component is the Connect box. As I'm unimpressed with the Sonos Android app, and its perverse layout (the PC one is far more readable, but why aren't they identical in appearance?) I'd like a less fussy way to play the music I want.
No, it will only locate tunes by voice via a streaming service (because the magic cloud that processes your commands knows nothing – nor has access to – your NAS). You'd have to use the app. The iOS Sonos app looks fine and will index any music on your NAS. I can also play Spotify, Amazon Music etc. via AirPlay to get around the restriction that ties you a premium service for direct streaming. But again, unless the tunes are online (or you use something like iTunes Match) the voice command won't work other than for skip, volume up and down, etc.
To be honest, that's probably fine for me, I'm still prevaricating over Spotify Premium, a state of indecision that may last for another couple of decades. I mostly bought it for the speakers to replace my ancient stereogram. Far better than faffing about with bluetooth.
It's great for internet radio, I just have to say Alexa, play [station name], and job done. There's probably much more stuff, I'm sure. She certainly doesn't know about train status though, because I just asked her. Southern should give her a job, she's ideally qualified.
Windows 10 Oct 2018 update didn't.https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-halts-distribution-of-windows-10-update-amid-reports-it-deletes-files/
Maybe one day Windows will be ready for the desktop...Not in our lifetimes.
Machine learning in learning from the training dataset shocker!
Because AI sounds banging.
Because AI sounds banging.
Am sorry dave, I can't do that.
Because AI sounds banging.
Am sorry dave, I can't do that.
That's what my students say when I set them an assignment.
Memory Lane: rooting through the cable crypt for something to cannibalize to wire up a CB guitar this morning, I came up with a home-made Laplink cable, the RS232 version. Remember the first time you saw that? I do: the wonder of seeing the contents of both PCs at the same time. And the suspense while you waited to see if the transfer would actually work without crashing.
Didn't use it - wanted multistrand.
When Laplink was running, and it always took quite a long time, it gave the impression that I was hard at work as all those filenames and associated numbers & dates went scrolling by.
When looking at what's my IP, I tend to be either just outside of Manchester or in Bradford, which is ok since I live about 25'ish north of both. Sometimes I get "hooked" up with an IP in London, which is fair enough since so much IT is down that there way.
Various internet services, depending on my security settings, will tell me "you last/just logged in from X location". These will fit to the location above, but twitter over the last few weeks have been a bit lost. As they tell me that I'm in Belfast.
EDIT: Just used a few other what is my IP services and they can't agree - I "live" in either Manchester or Belfast according to the same IP. Oh well I don't think if any of you lot explains I would understand why that is :)
Why can you only buy one pi board at a time in the UK?
In my current job, I have a wireless Apple keyboard. It has just occurred to me that I have not yet had to plug it in to recharge it. That's pretty impressive, considering I have been using it for several hours a day five days a week since 22nd October, with just a few days off for Christmas - much better than the cheap shit Anker wireless keyboard I use at home, which also drops the connection regularly.
I run a public website for aircraft enthusiasts at Heathrow (yes, yes, I know!) and I don't have any problem with visitors with web browsers using the data it displays on arrivals and departures (that's what it's there for), but it's become clear that it's also being accessed by someone running a screen-scraper bot that hoovers up the data at regular intervals (despite the banner on the site saying that no automated scripts or bots are allowed).
You can be much sneakier. I've written a bunch of things to scrape other sites (honouring their robots.txt and other wishes) and what annoyed me most was when the format of the response changes.
If you detect the annoying client then change the format of the page you return, add in new divs, add an extra column, that kind of thing.
So Russia is shutting down their internet for global access. https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-as-part-of-a-planned-test/
James Patrick have talked about this before, that in the case of Brexit no-deal, there would be a DDoS or the other attack in the days right after and 1st of Apr is a good day for it.
I wonder if I need to start to make tinfoil hats and pringles wifi extenders ...
Cloud for getting the data from your camera to your PC or from your thermostat to your boiler is not...
Cloud for getting the data from your camera to your PC or from your thermostat to your boiler is not...
Cloud for getting data from thermostat to boiler is an actual thing? :o
To paraphrase the classic Ian Malcolm quote from Jurassic Park, the people behind the Internet of Things were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Reminds me, only a few months ago I was looking round nearby property for sale where the instructions for turning on the lights (for the estate agent to do the viewing) involved logging on to the wifi and downloading an app.
Although many systems have the thermostat able to talk to the boiler directly, many of the apps that control things talk to the cloud, and the boiler/thermostat receive updates/instructions from the cloud.
Some systems are just broken by design and the thermostat and the boiler won't talk to each other directly but both talk to the cloud.
Reminds me, only a few months ago I was looking round nearby property for sale where the instructions for turning on the lights (for the estate agent to do the viewing) involved logging on to the wifi and downloading an app.
Maybe I'm just a technophobic luddite but I can't see any point in having taps which are in any way electronic, except perhaps for certain disabilities.
Just musing, anyone ever found a way to click on two programs to start them at the same time? (and the workaround is easy - just edit the audio)
Okay, I can see that, but for most people in most circumstances it is overkill. And none of it needs to be connected to the internet.Maybe I'm just a technophobic luddite but I can't see any point in having taps which are in any way electronic, except perhaps for certain disabilities.
The obvious one is that they can turn themselves off when the bath is at the desired level, rather than wasting water or risking floods.
On a basin used for hand-washing there's the advantage that they can be activated by a non-contact sensor, so you don't cover the tap in whatever you're about to wash off your hands. More of a public toilet thing, admittedly.
Like a lot of this tech, I'm in favour of it simply because it means it exists as an affordable mainstream product for the disabled people who benefit from it. (Particularly in the case of taps, because poor memory and hand strength are common in the elderly, who may resist 'disability adaptions'.)
Okay, I can see that, but for most people in most circumstances it is overkill. And none of it needs to be connected to the internet.Maybe I'm just a technophobic luddite but I can't see any point in having taps which are in any way electronic, except perhaps for certain disabilities.
The obvious one is that they can turn themselves off when the bath is at the desired level, rather than wasting water or risking floods.
On a basin used for hand-washing there's the advantage that they can be activated by a non-contact sensor, so you don't cover the tap in whatever you're about to wash off your hands. More of a public toilet thing, admittedly.
Like a lot of this tech, I'm in favour of it simply because it means it exists as an affordable mainstream product for the disabled people who benefit from it. (Particularly in the case of taps, because poor memory and hand strength are common in the elderly, who may resist 'disability adaptions'.)
The only obvious reason I can think of for connecting taps to the internet it to log their use patterns.
The only obvious reason I can think of for connecting taps to the internet it to log their use patterns.
How about running your bath so it's ready when you get in from your ride. :)
My bath, because of contrary plumbing which sends the hot water on a tour of neighbourhood* via a willywonkerish variety of tiny bore pipes before reaching the bath itself, takes about 40 minutes to fill, so I wouldn't mind.
*this has always puzzled me, but I've established that the hot water goes down to the kitchen first, then along the house to the downstairs bathroom and then up into the actual bathroom itself. Which, of course, is next to the hot water cylinder. This means getting actual hot water out of the bathroom sink tap takes about five minutes.
Sounds like it wouldn't be an insurmountable effort to close the loop and circulate the water to provide instant hotness.
To paraphrase the classic Ian Malcolm quote from Jurassic Park, the people behind the Internet of Things were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Partly that, partly because modelling people is more lucrative as a business model than selling good products (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit-vizio-tv-bill-baxter-interview-vergecast-ces-2019).
Sorry if I was being a tad obtuse, it was a Python Lee Jackson reference.That was Rod Stewart, wasn't it?
In other matters, is it just me, but do younger people not know how to search the internet?
Sorry if I was being a tad obtuse, it was a Python Lee Jackson reference.That was Rod Stewart, wasn't it?
In other matters, is it just me, but do younger people not know how to search the internet?
I believe there's SCIENCE[1] demonstrating that so-called "digital natives" aren't actually any better at this sort of thing than stereotypical clueless Baby Boomers, they're just less scared of the user interface. A young person will competently find pages of irrelevant search results, rather than being afraid to click on anything in case the computer explodes, but if you want the job done properly you need the sort of person (irrespective of age) who has actual library skills, or at least understands what "boolean operator" means.
[1] Ask barakta, she's got a degree in this stuff.
Honestly, I don't know what she does to electronics. She emits rays of some sort.
That's related to your IP address and the registration of your ISP, rather than any knowledge of your geolocation.
Do you have a few recording devices ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvQzBnped8
Anyway, the beeping now appears to be happening on the hour. This is probably related to me setting the time on the afore-mentioned stopwatch while fiddling with it last night. We'll find out at 1pm...
With Kim having solved the mystery, the observation that my laptop, when hibernating, emits a series of barely-audible high-pitched"eeeeee" noises is offered solely as anecdata. It should't be making any noise while it's asleep. If I unplug the power cable the noise stops ???
And there was me thinking it was a mouse hopping from foot to foot (feet to feet?) cos it was standing on a hot resistor. :)Quote from: Mr LarringtonWith Kim having solved the mystery, the observation that my laptop, when hibernating, emits a series of barely-audible high-pitched"eeeeee" noises is offered solely as anecdata. {snip}
Probably a whistling (ie. physically vibrating) inductor in a switching power regulator when the power consumption is just so for causing it to resonate. {snip}
Quote from: KimAnd there was me thinking it was a mouse hopping from foot to foot (feet to feet?) cos it was standing on a hot resistor. :)Quote from: Mr LarringtonWith Kim having solved the mystery, the observation that my laptop, when hibernating, emits a series of barely-audible high-pitched"eeeeee" noises is offered solely as anecdata. {snip}
Probably a whistling (ie. physically vibrating) inductor in a switching power regulator when the power consumption is just so for causing it to resonate. {snip}
I did get a cheap charger for my ancient Macbook (I would have bought the Apple one, but they're expensive and it was guess work the computer wasn't just dead, and I'd already sunk £70 into a replacement battery, and it's a mid-2011 vintage) – anyway, the new battery I put in charges again, but now when it's powered by the charger, the trackpad goes increasingly more manic sending the cursor scuttling around the screen. (The mouse is fine.)
I presume this is a 'Chinese earthing' problem.
Sorry, CoreTemp, but I don't believe that the CPU in that box over there ^^^^ is running at 15 deg. C when it's about 30 in here.
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-5 1.8T 1.0T 837.8G 55% /vmfs/volumes/datastore2
VMFS-5 1.8T 1.0T 813.9G 56% /vmfs/volumes/datastore1
VMFS-5 111.8G 39.7G 72.1G 35% /vmfs/volumes/datastore2ssd
VMFS-5 111.8G 37.7G 74.0G 34% /vmfs/volumes/datastore1ssd
Is Yahoo mail working for anyone? Everything else is working fine for me, just not that. Oh well, I'm not working today anyway!Yahoo's server* suffered a more or less world-wide borkage. Details on therregister.co.uk if you're at all interested.
BT's mail server seems to be down also (I think that used to be provided by Yahoo, but I thought wasn't any more). Anyway, it's not there. I will survive, Gloria, I truly will.BT were in the process of migrating all its customers emails to Office 365, but I understand that they stopped for some reason when they got about half way through.
Surfing the internet in 2019 - explained via the medium of 'Airplane!' :demon:Brilliant! ;D
https://twitter.com/HugdiSpencer/status/1171487383008579584
Goddam Apple, eh.... Every time I think about switching they go and do something like that.you pay for the privilege of such customer service, but I’ve always been very pleased the resolution of any product issues I’ve had. I’ve even had an out ow warranty iPhone replaced foc when the problem was a broken screen due to user clumsiness.
Isn't the point in the AB socket that it will accept both A and B plugs? I could be wrong, it's USB, which is far too complicated for us mere mortals to keep track of.Ah Kim that would be a great idea. Guess what, AB socket is just the right shape to not connect to both but enough that you would think that and trying to get the wrong cable in will cause damage.
It may be some proprietary thing. Camera manufacturers liked doing that.
So my android tablet no longer works with BBC iplayer radio changed to bbc sounds so looking to upgrade the android version from android4. Looking at playing with android upgrades to lineage and it was difficult due to locked bits on two different phones.
Wish me luck.
So my android tablet no longer works with BBC iplayer radio changed to bbc sounds so looking to upgrade the android version from android4. Looking at playing with android upgrades to lineage and it was difficult due to locked bits on two different phones.
Wish me luck.
If you can still access t’internet then you can use the bbc sounds website, even tho the app won’t run.
Grrrrr. Devs - stop developing for MS Server and go linux. PLEASE! or the sysadmins will have to plot revenge.We'd love to, but the PHBs have swallowed the
- First 7 days: If you change your mind after you confirm your request to have your account deleted, you have seven days to recover it – log in to your account to restore acceess to your Fitbit data.
- After 7 days: Your account is frozen and can't be recovered.
- Within 30-90 days: Most of your personal account info is deleted within 30 days of you confirming your deletion request. This includes any subscriptions you have, for example Fitbit Coach. It may take up to 90 days to delete all of your personal info, like the data recorded by your Fitbit device and other data stored in our back-up systems. This is due to the size and complexity of the systems we use to store data.
In the Macverse, there's a browser version of Webex and a downloaded app. If you're using the browser version, it may require you modify the browser's privacy settings too.
Same goes with the browser app.
The VM is squirreled away for next time it's needed!
I reverted my iMac 27” to its state when I bought it 10 years ago, including its original operating system (hurrah for software on CD!). This was so I could still run my expensive Adobe Design Collection, as updates over the years had meant that it didn’t work reliably anymore (well, it was 10 year old software) and the whole thing had slowed down too much too.
It works brilliantly, but I don’t allow it anywhere near the Internet. I transfer my work to/from it using a USB stick and my MacBook.
The VM is squirreled away for next time it's needed!
I'd be tempted to keep it disconnect the machine it is running on whenever you spin up that VM. Even a fully patched XP machine is trivial to infect remotely and do you trust *everyone* in your company to be squeaky clean?
Android conspicuously lacks the ability to set the system clock from GPS. Because that would be useful.
I present this absolutely splendid bug: "Open Office won't print on Tuesdays" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28)
I present this absolutely splendid bug: "Open Office won't print on Tuesdays" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28)
Reminds me of the classic: Can't send email more than 500 miles (http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles)
I present this absolutely splendid bug: "Open Office won't print on Tuesdays" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28)
Reminds me of the classic: Can't send email more than 500 miles (http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles)
That's brilliant !
Is it wrong to say SQL as Ess-Queue-Ell and then when corrected to 'sequel' say 'yes, that's what I said' in an exasperated tone? Of course, flip this if they start with Ess-Queue-Ell. Yes, that's what I said.
You know it's a good day when Microsoft Error Reporting tries to report an error with itself.
“The print on the .pcl file attached to your electronic submission is smudged”I present this absolutely splendid bug: "Open Office won't print on Tuesdays" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28)
Reminds me of the classic: Can't send email more than 500 miles (http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles)
That's brilliant !
Ooh - are we doing "My favourite defect report"?
Mine was always "I don't receive any emails unless I bang on the desk"
Just been grappling with mobile billings, Mrs Ham's and my bills are now £16/month total (4Gb since you ask), as part of my overall strategy I needed to sort out the dual sim aspect of my Pixel 4, so I can take advantage of PAYG when travelling to strange countries.If you go via topcashback 3 do unlimited calls and texts and 8Gb of data for £8/month, plus £42 cashback. Roaming to many places included.
The Pixel 4 has eSim and physical sim capability, and EE supports eSIM, so far so good. Easy ordering, again, good. eSim is great, all you need to do is scan in a bar code, so how do you think I'm going to get this new fangled system? Yes, you've got it, in the post.
Just been grappling with mobile billings, Mrs Ham's and my bills are now £16/month total (4Gb since you ask), as part of my overall strategy I needed to sort out the dual sim aspect of my Pixel 4, so I can take advantage of PAYG when travelling to strange countries.
The Pixel 4 has eSim and physical sim capability, and EE supports eSIM, so far so good. Easy ordering, again, good. eSim is great, all you need to do is scan in a bar code, so how do you think I'm going to get this new fangled system? Yes, you've got it, in the post.
I've pre-ordered a Galaxy S20. Phones don't excite me very much but I get the latest Galaxy every 3 years, and it seems to keep up with Android releases without costing as much as some people spend (I do SIM only for the third year). Anyway, the camera is quite an improvement on my current S8.
I wish they'd revert to the rubberised back of the S5. Glass backs and pointless curved screens are slippery and buying a case is just an admission that the design is crap.
What is it with some website password reset systems that never seem to send you an email, even when it says 'look out for email' / 'contact us if not in 30mins'. No not in spam either... :-\Is it bt email ?
What is it with some website password reset systems that never seem to send you an email, even when it says 'look out for email' / 'contact us if not in 30mins'. No not in spam either... :-\Had this last week, an outsourced work system for employee benefits. Put in my work email, get a response screen: your account is <***@work email> we have sent you a password reset email. Nothing. Try again. Nothing. Contact support, get the password reset a few hours later. That evening find a bunch of password reset emails sent to my personal email :facepalm:
Tell me, is it me being dumb?
I have new Devolo powerline doodads, two wifi for the remote locations and a home unit. In the configuration interface for the remote units there are separate and distinct sections for LAN and for WiFi. One of the LAN options I would like to use is to fix the IP address into the range I reserve for infrastructure & networking devices. So I disable DHCP, set the parameters and apply. All good except that none of the WiFi clients can now get an IP address. Re-enable DHCP in LAN and WiFi clients can get an IP. That to me seems dumb.
$ telnet mapscii.me
Arrow keys to move, a/z to zoom, or use the mouse.
Tell me, is it me being dumb?
I have new Devolo powerline doodads, two wifi for the remote locations and a home unit. In the configuration interface for the remote units there are separate and distinct sections for LAN and for WiFi. One of the LAN options I would like to use is to fix the IP address into the range I reserve for infrastructure & networking devices. So I disable DHCP, set the parameters and apply. All good except that none of the WiFi clients can now get an IP address. Re-enable DHCP in LAN and WiFi clients can get an IP. That to me seems dumb.
$ telnet mapscii.me
Arrow keys to move, a/z to zoom, or use the mouse.
[Speaking of 1992 hacker films, would this thing work on a (multi-line, in order to be useful) braille terminal?I've never seen such a thing, but the source https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii describes it as "a Braille & ASCII world map renderer".
Tell me, is it me being dumb?
[snip]
Your not being dumb.
[snip]
Why not leave it all on DHCP and statically reserve IP addresses for the adaptor on your DHCP server ?
...can't find any of the screws./me Hands G. an old, virtual, 35mm film canister for future use. :)
Tell me, is it me being dumb?
[snip]
Your not being dumb.
[snip]
Why not leave it all on DHCP and statically reserve IP addresses for the adaptor on your DHCP server ?
^^^ This ^^^
Friends don’t let friends hard code IP addresses.
Is it being a NAT router (and DHCP server), rather than a bridge?I think, and I'm not exactly red hot on this stuff, it was being a bridge. I base that upon the observation that the clients mac addresses were listed in my routers DHCP client list and as internet traffic sessions in their own right.
Your not being dumb. A power-line Ethernet adaptor even with WiFi should be a layer2 device so it shouldn't matter what you set its IP address to anything connected to it should still be able to DHCP. Of course sometimes logic doesn't come into it with firmware sometimes it just does strange things and you can never find out why unless you have and can read the source code.Tried that too. It worked in that the end points accepted the non-pool assignment and clients got pool addresses but it was very, very flakey. I tried 4 clients, a pi and an elderly Kobo slab could get IP assignments but actual traffic was rare. Big river slab and my phone - just an endless cycle of 'connecting...'.
Why not leave it all on DHCP and statically reserve IP addresses for the adaptor on your DHCP server ?
Quote from: Gattopardo...can't find any of the screws./me Hands G. an old, virtual, 35mm film canister for future use. :)
We could discuss that digital photography downsides....and the lack of film canisters is one of them.
I think my (fully backed up, before you ask) desktop Linux PC is on its way out. When I boot it, the fan sounds for about 10 seconds then stops before it tries again, and it repeats numerous times before eventually the fan goes VERY LOUD - this can only be stopped by unplugging. Eventually it boots more or less OK (I have to set the date each time I boot), and runs reliably all day. Perhaps I should leave it running permanently for the time being.
I bought it 2nd hand, and if I google the model number (https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/GC760AV.htm)returned by a sudo lshw it gives a date of 2007, which matches the date of the BIOS firmware.
Perhaps it's time for a replacement.
Tell me, is it me being dumb?
[snip]
Your not being dumb.
[snip]
Why not leave it all on DHCP and statically reserve IP addresses for the adaptor on your DHCP server ?
^^^ This ^^^
Friends don’t let friends hard code IP addresses.
??? I build HPC clusters for a living. thats how you do it - a DHCP server hands out addresses for each network. But you associate the MAC address of a server with an IP address - hopefully in some sort of meaningful scheme.
You COULD allocate addresses at random but if you have 80 servers in a rack you want some sort of scheme.
Also you can arrange for each server to be connected to a known port in a switch - so when you power them up you do an snmpwalk of the switch and you know what MAC address is what. Or you can read barcode labels.
Sorry if I'm sounding ranty. Need more coffee.
I think my (fully backed up, before you ask) desktop Linux PC is on its way out. When I boot it, the fan sounds for about 10 seconds then stops before it tries again, and it repeats numerous times before eventually the fan goes VERY LOUD - this can only be stopped by unplugging. Eventually it boots more or less OK (I have to set the date each time I boot), and runs reliably all day. Perhaps I should leave it running permanently for the time being.
I bought it 2nd hand, and if I google the model number (https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/GC760AV.htm)returned by a sudo lshw it gives a date of 2007, which matches the date of the BIOS firmware.
Perhaps it's time for a replacement.
I think my (fully backed up, before you ask) desktop Linux PC is on its way out. When I boot it, the fan sounds for about 10 seconds then stops before it tries again, and it repeats numerous times before eventually the fan goes VERY LOUD - this can only be stopped by unplugging. Eventually it boots more or less OK (I have to set the date each time I boot), and runs reliably all day. Perhaps I should leave it running permanently for the time being.
I bought it 2nd hand, and if I google the model number (https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/GC760AV.htm)returned by a sudo lshw it gives a date of 2007, which matches the date of the BIOS firmware.
Perhaps it's time for a replacement.
Resetting the date is normally the coin cell battery, fairly common on machines getting towards 10 years old. Whether thats what is causing the other issues.... its possible, if the machine needs some specific settings in the BIOS, and they are getting lost.
Has the machine been disconnected from the power recently? Thats when issues with the BIOS settings that are normally preserved by the coin cell battery surface.
Fitbit have sold out to GoogleI got a random email ad for a Fitbit Charge 4, advertising 24/7 heart rate and sleep scores.
The random whiny fan noises being emitted by that PC over there ^^^^ are slowly but surely making me Very Cross.
Adding a new Time Machine disk to the Mac. Backing up...approximately 1 day remaining. :-\
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.I have to confess that I'm quite pleased with myself that recently I somehow managed to, remotely, over the phone, navigate my 86 yo mother, who has dementia, to find the house us kids were brought up in on Streetview, using her Windoze fed laptop (I've never owned a Windoze machine - so I haven't a clue as to what goes on on the desktop, nevermind 'under the hood').
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
And honestly, a special place is reserved in Hell for the idiots who still email should be set up by typing in long addresses and making decisions about SSL and ports. It's fucking 2020, not 1994, you clungemagnets.
It takes a while and leaves one with a lingering and persistent thirst for large quantities of gin.
Following a HDD failure, I've just re-installed Win10 Home on a new SSD on Junior's laptop.
Using the latest Win10 Media Creation Tool to make a bootalbe USB.
This all worked fine.
But MS have ratcheted up the pressure to sign in with a Microsoft Account.
Previously, when you got to the Account Setup point, you were strongly guided down the Create / Sign up for MS account.
But there was a small link to 'Skip' this, and to create a normal Local Windows account.
This option is now gone.
You now *must* use an MS account.
There is a workaround.
Ensure there is no Internet connectivity at this point.
So unplug any LAN cable, and at the WiFi setup page which appears earlier, un-check all networks and select the option 'I don't have Internet'.
Then, windows will huffily ask if you wish to continue with a 'limited' install.
Limited my arse. Limited for them, not me.
Then the option to create a local account appears.
Once you get to the desktop, go ahead and connect to the WiFi or LAN as usual.
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.I have to confess that I'm quite pleased with myself that recently I somehow managed to, remotely, over the phone, navigate my 86 yo mother, who has dementia, to find the house us kids were brought up in on Streetview, using her Windoze fed laptop (I've never owned a Windoze machine - so I haven't a clue as to what goes on on the desktop, nevermind 'under the hood').
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
And honestly, a special place is reserved in Hell for the idiots who still email should be set up by typing in long addresses and making decisions about SSL and ports. It's fucking 2020, not 1994, you clungemagnets.
It takes a while and leaves one with a lingering and persistent thirst for large quantities of gin.
Nobody swore, and nobody threatened anyone.
I'm minded to apply for a job as a hostage negotiator.
I think it's a job I would enjoy.
Following a HDD failure, I've just re-installed Win10 Home on a new SSD on Junior's laptop.
Using the latest Win10 Media Creation Tool to make a bootalbe USB.
This all worked fine.
But MS have ratcheted up the pressure to sign in with a Microsoft Account.
Previously, when you got to the Account Setup point, you were strongly guided down the Create / Sign up for MS account.
But there was a small link to 'Skip' this, and to create a normal Local Windows account.
This option is now gone.
You now *must* use an MS account.
There is a workaround.
Ensure there is no Internet connectivity at this point.
So unplug any LAN cable, and at the WiFi setup page which appears earlier, un-check all networks and select the option 'I don't have Internet'.
Then, windows will huffily ask if you wish to continue with a 'limited' install.
Limited my arse. Limited for them, not me.
Then the option to create a local account appears.
Once you get to the desktop, go ahead and connect to the WiFi or LAN as usual.
There is a way to do it while remaining online, but it's squirrelled away deep in the dense forests of non-obviousness, so much so I don't remember the precise breadcrumb trail I was forced to follow while blindfolded and in the dark. But a local admin I became. I'm probably now on a list somewhere at Microsoft.
I'm not that bothered per se, I just have no reason to want a Microsoft account on account that I don't have Windows computer and don't plan on getting one any time this side of the heat death of the universe.
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
My mother got sick (literally, she had to go heave) because I made 'everything rush around.' This, in modern parlance, is I believe something called scrolling.
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
And honestly, a special place is reserved in Hell for the idiots who still email should be set up by typing in long addresses and making decisions about SSL and ports. It's fucking 2020, not 1994, you clungemagnets.
It takes a while and leaves one with a lingering and persistent thirst for large quantities of gin.
...
It was, but it's not any more if you install from a recent build.
In Win10 home now, the only way to complete an install without logging into or setting up an MS account is to force it off-line.
Random Internet link about this change:
https://www.howtogeek.com/442609/confirmed-windows-10-setup-now-prevents-local-account-creation/
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
The rot set in with GUIs, I think. The older generation coped much better when computers were operated by command lines and arcane keypresses, as you could document a given workflow and having a list of "which buttons to press" made intuitive sense. You had to work slightly harder to get into trouble, too.
I think this is perhaps what IOS does so well. It's shiny, it's simple, it does modern graphical stuff and yet it makes sense if your understanding of technology is based on rote-learning specific actions.
(My mum went on several MS Office courses in the late 90s. She could do all sorts of arcane text formatting stuff, and make Excel do something useful and so on. One day, she happened to see me drag a window from one monitor to another, and suddenly the concept of 'windows' clicked for her. I was astounded at how she's been confidently using computers for so long without that seemingly fundamental concept. A couple of years later, I found myself at university surrounded by Social Science types, and eventually realised that the reason they all composed email in tiny windows is because that was $mail_client's last window size when the computing service created the default profile. (These were the same people who objected to APA style because it was annoying having to press enter twice at the end of each line.))
Firefox has gone through a major upgrade. It sucks ass.
(I don't use Chrome because Big Data).
So going through another fixit cycle with my parents, I'm struck that it's (a) difficult not to get frustrated and then (b) feel bad about it because there's no shared lexicon or understanding between those of us from the computerized generation and those before.
It's really hard work. Desktop? No. Taskbars, docks, menus? No. No. No. Download? No. App? No. You're forced into a space where everything has to be described as 'the words at the top of the screen' or 'on the left, the very left, at the bottom corner...'
And honestly, a special place is reserved in Hell for the idiots who still email should be set up by typing in long addresses and making decisions about SSL and ports. It's fucking 2020, not 1994, you clungemagnets.
It takes a while and leaves one with a lingering and persistent thirst for large quantities of gin.
interesting and what a waste of electronic/batteries/rare earth metals - https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392 (one time use pregnancy testers)
No idea how it works...Movement? If it moves salute it. If it doesn't, paint it
Yes.
I've been using these backdrops for months at our daily stand-up meetings, with just my home clutter in the background.
They use some fancy stuffs in software to separate you from the background.
No idea how it works, but it does.
You do get some artefacting around the edges, particularly around headsets, but it's pretty good.
I notice that the BBC have not included the "Jim'll Fix It" big chair set...
Zoom gets confused if you have clothing a similar colour to the virtual background. Which is interesting in itself.Something like the Queen's green screen dress?
(https://i.redd.it/8hqju34jiar41.jpg)
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Yes.
I've been using these backdrops for months at our daily stand-up meetings, with just my home clutter in the background.
They use some fancy stuffs in software to separate you from the background.
No idea how it works, but it does.
You do get some artefacting around the edges, particularly around headsets, but it's pretty good.
I notice that the BBC have not included the "Jim'll Fix It" big chair set...
Probably machine learning that can identify everything that is a person and subtract everything that isn’t. Possibly built on Tensorflow Lite or equiv. If the webcam doesn’t have fixed focus / aperture then depth of field could also be deployed to help find the person. Video compression codecs do a lot of identifying what has changed in a frame so some of that may also be used as part of it.
Zoom gets confused if you have clothing a similar colour to the virtual background. Which is interesting in itself.
Yes.
I've been using these backdrops for months at our daily stand-up meetings, with just my home clutter in the background.
They use some fancy stuffs in software to separate you from the background.
No idea how it works, but it does.
You do get some artefacting around the edges, particularly around headsets, but it's pretty good.
I notice that the BBC have not included the "Jim'll Fix It" big chair set...
Probably machine learning that can identify everything that is a person and subtract everything that isn’t. Possibly built on Tensorflow Lite or equiv. If the webcam doesn’t have fixed focus / aperture then depth of field could also be deployed to help find the person. Video compression codecs do a lot of identifying what has changed in a frame so some of that may also be used as part of it.
Zoom gets confused if you have clothing a similar colour to the virtual background. Which is interesting in itself.
Yes.
I've been using these backdrops for months at our daily stand-up meetings, with just my home clutter in the background.
They use some fancy stuffs in software to separate you from the background.
No idea how it works, but it does.
You do get some artefacting around the edges, particularly around headsets, but it's pretty good.
I notice that the BBC have not included the "Jim'll Fix It" big chair set...
Probably machine learning that can identify everything that is a person and subtract everything that isn’t. Possibly built on Tensorflow Lite or equiv. If the webcam doesn’t have fixed focus / aperture then depth of field could also be deployed to help find the person. Video compression codecs do a lot of identifying what has changed in a frame so some of that may also be used as part of it.
Zoom gets confused if you have clothing a similar colour to the virtual background. Which is interesting in itself.
Any photo app these days will strip background with a click and generally do a decent job of it (what used to be a tortuous task). 'Edge-finding' algorithms are plentiful, so I'd imagine something like that, modern processors make it easy to do in realtime. I'm old enough now to remember that you could get a cup of tea while these things happened.
Gosh. I didn't realize Ian was *that* old. His posts always seem to be* those of much younger person. :)Quote from: ianI'm old enough now to remember that you could get a cup of tea while these things happened.Hah! You mean a cup of tea for breakfast, having set it to run overnight...
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?
No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Strange, why did you bring that up?
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Strange, why did you bring that up?
All part of his innate Charm.
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Strange, why did you bring that up?
All part of his innate Charm.
I knew you'd get to the bottom of it.
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Strange, why did you bring that up?
All part of his innate Charm.
I knew you'd get to the bottom of it.
I'm right up on top of it, actually.
Odo in a wig, I reckon.
Does that make Quark the prime minister?No, it makes him a soft cheese.
Strange, why did you bring that up?
All part of his innate Charm.
I knew you'd get to the bottom of it.
I'm right up on top of it, actually.
Fundamentally, it's down to you then.
OK I will give in to your wireless talk the day you make it so I can walk around my own house with my phone in my pocket and it is charging
That's just mere detailsOK I will give in to your wireless talk the day you make it so I can walk around my own house with my phone in my pocket and it is charging
Alas, unless you'd be happy with either microscopic amounts of charging, microwaving your flesh, deafening your pets or firing thousands of watts into the room, or some exciting combination of all of the above, this isn't a technology that's ever going to exist.
(although plenty of fraudsters have tried)
I'm pondering a replacement PSU to replace my current 3 year old Kolink 500W jobby.
I recently upgraded to a Radeon Rx580 GPU, from a GT1030. Had a strange case of display corruption during full load yesterday. So perhaps the old 500W is a bit on the low side...
Rest of system is a AMD A8-6600K cpu. 16gb of DDR3 ram (4 x 4gb sticks). 1 120gb SSD, two 1tb hard drives.
So replace with a 750W / 850W PSU? Ideally i'll be upgrading the rest of the system within 6 months to a year, so hopefully whatever PSU i buy will be future proof for then.
You'll probably need a side of deoxygenated ethernet cables to go with that.
There's an unsecured WiFi network called "Logan's bedroom speaker". Alas it's bedtime, so I'll have to work out how to rickroll it later.so at what time did you got to bed and what did the owner of said unsecured WiFi say when you cranked it to 11 ? :)
We decided we'd get them at 6am or 8am...
Especially as apparently they had a long and loud fire alarm at 8am this morning! I of course heard nothing, but Kim was kept awake by it.
Just search for [^/] you'll soon find it
Here it is
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you are enough nerds to prolly liking this https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
Resolving the attached footling note says "Except Kevin Rudd, but that was one time and we were kinda going through some stuff."you are enough nerds to prolly liking this https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
"For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites."
;D
What is Virtual ANShttps://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/
Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram (sonogram), without live instruments and performers. It was used by Stanislav Kreichi, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Artemiev and other Soviet composers in their experimental works. You can also hear the sound of the ANS in Andrei Tarkovsky's movies Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker.
Anyone want a cheap iPhone?Pity they didn’t have “find my iPhone” switched on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-54972784
Affinity programs are 30% off today.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/?utm_source=SpotlightEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter
Release yourself from the Adobe tyranny! You know you want to...
It's probably just because it's the end of a long week but I'm having trouble getting my brain round this garbled English on the Affinity website:That's how I'd interpret it.
"As a private individual, you can download, install, use and run for personal use, one copy of the Serif Software directly on each computer running either (depending on your purchased license) Microsoft Windows (“Windows Computer”) or macOS (“Mac Computer”) that you personally own or control."
That means if I have several Macs, I only need one license to install it on all of them, right?
That's how I'd interpret it.
ETA - Besides, being financially punitive just because you have more than one pooter seems a bit wrong.
It's probably just because it's the end of a long week but I'm having trouble getting my brain round this garbled English on the Affinity website:
"As a private individual, you can download, install, use and run for personal use, one copy of the Serif Software directly on each computer running either (depending on your purchased license) Microsoft Windows (“Windows Computer”) or macOS (“Mac Computer”) that you personally own or control."
That means if I have several Macs, I only need one license to install it on all of them, right?
I was trying to work out how I can connect a phone to a Linux desktop via Bluetooth and place calls via the phone from a computer. I've not managed that (yet)
but I have I've discovered kdeconnect / gsconnect.
As long as it hasn't lost it's tail and its squeak :D ;D
As long as it hasn't lost it's tail and its squeak :D ;D
It's tail-less. Hence the battery. I suppose that technically makes it a hamster...
As long as it hasn't lost it's tail and its squeak :D ;D
It's tail-less. Hence the battery. I suppose that technically makes it a hamster...
Given that you’ve been experimenting on it, perhaps guinea pig would be more appropriate?
I successfully managed to email someone today by deducing their email address when all i knew about it was that they complained about xkcd://1279 related issues and a dead journalist... and their first name.
This would be a rant if ICBA, but I can't.
After much swearing my small HP box is now happily(?) running Manjaro (Linux). Everything apart from one thing seems to be fine. The one thing involves video calls either via Zoom or Messenger.
I can hear them but they can't hear me.
There's nothing wrong with the mic on the webcam (it's just cheap and crappy but I can record with it no problem). If I check it with the setup page on Zoom then it says it's working fine. But not when I try to speak to someone. The signal's there but it ain't going anywhere. Obviously it's not muted and volume's way up. Up to a couple of weeks ago it all worked fine but then Ubuntu decided it didn't want to play anymore so I went non-debian.
I've run out of things to try. Anyone got any ideas? Please.
Yes, it is.This would be a rant if ICBA, but I can't.
After much swearing my small HP box is now happily(?) running Manjaro (Linux). Everything apart from one thing seems to be fine. The one thing involves video calls either via Zoom or Messenger.
I can hear them but they can't hear me.
There's nothing wrong with the mic on the webcam (it's just cheap and crappy but I can record with it no problem). If I check it with the setup page on Zoom then it says it's working fine. But not when I try to speak to someone. The signal's there but it ain't going anywhere. Obviously it's not muted and volume's way up. Up to a couple of weeks ago it all worked fine but then Ubuntu decided it didn't want to play anymore so I went non-debian.
I've run out of things to try. Anyone got any ideas? Please.
Do you know if manjaro using pulse audio?
Yes, it is.This would be a rant if ICBA, but I can't.
After much swearing my small HP box is now happily(?) running Manjaro (Linux). Everything apart from one thing seems to be fine. The one thing involves video calls either via Zoom or Messenger.
I can hear them but they can't hear me.
There's nothing wrong with the mic on the webcam (it's just cheap and crappy but I can record with it no problem). If I check it with the setup page on Zoom then it says it's working fine. But not when I try to speak to someone. The signal's there but it ain't going anywhere. Obviously it's not muted and volume's way up. Up to a couple of weeks ago it all worked fine but then Ubuntu decided it didn't want to play anymore so I went non-debian.
I've run out of things to try. Anyone got any ideas? Please.
Do you know if manjaro using pulse audio?
Will do. Thanks.Yes, it is.This would be a rant if ICBA, but I can't.
After much swearing my small HP box is now happily(?) running Manjaro (Linux). Everything apart from one thing seems to be fine. The one thing involves video calls either via Zoom or Messenger.
I can hear them but they can't hear me.
There's nothing wrong with the mic on the webcam (it's just cheap and crappy but I can record with it no problem). If I check it with the setup page on Zoom then it says it's working fine. But not when I try to speak to someone. The signal's there but it ain't going anywhere. Obviously it's not muted and volume's way up. Up to a couple of weeks ago it all worked fine but then Ubuntu decided it didn't want to play anymore so I went non-debian.
I've run out of things to try. Anyone got any ideas? Please.
Do you know if manjaro using pulse audio?
Might I suggest you explain the issue in a seperate thread and include with the first post the output of running pacmd list-sources in the terminal?
BTW I've not had a problem like this before, so I've no idea what the solution is going to be! Could you also say whether you are using Zoom in the browser or the Zoom application.
Does anyone know, if I were to rebuild my MacBook, would I be able to choose Catalina or would it force me to install Big Sur?
Well, I was thinking internet recovery...Does anyone know, if I were to rebuild my MacBook, would I be able to choose Catalina or would it force me to install Big Sur?
How are you rebuilding it? If you're reinstalling from a recovery partition you get whatever's on there, and if you're doing internet recovery onto a blank drive and it can be a bit random what version you're offered.
Google has been contacted for comment, but one spokesperson said they were unable to access their email during the outage.
# echo foo
foo
# echo foo$$bar
foo12121bar
# echo foo$bar123
foo
# echo foo$123bar123
foo23bar123
# echo foo$012bar123
foo-/bin/bash12bar123
On an associated note, I can't believe Ubuntu ships without curl preinstalled. It's really annoying because my single-command-to-configure-everything plan is thus rendered more complicated than it need be.
ETA: Maybe I should push my ansible config, rather than pull it with ansible-pull... hmm....
On an associated note, I can't believe Ubuntu ships without curl preinstalled. It's really annoying because my single-command-to-configure-everything plan is thus rendered more complicated than it need be.
Hmmm. My W10 laptop has caught the (reportedly unfixable) bug whereby the Excel file association appears to have been lost permanently ...
Windows still isn't ready for the desktop, then...
Hmmm. My W10 laptop has caught the (reportedly unfixable) bug whereby the Excel file association appears to have been lost permanently ...
My WIn 8.1 work laptop did something similar. Clicking on an Excel file would load Excel but give some weird error saying it couldn't load the file. leaving Excel open then clicking the file again would load it perfectly. Spent hours trying to fix this, registry hacks, resetting file association etc no joy and I ended up just living with it. A couple of weeks ago it just fixed itself after a Microsoft update. Not sure which one did the job.
Well that all seemed fairly painless. Various bits and bobs installed, including .Net SDK and VS Code, except... Inkscape. The current build can't see the printer. Every *other* application can, just not Inkscape. Not the end of the world, save as PDF and print from {your favourite} PDF viewer saves the day, but ... really. It's a bit poor esp. as V1 of Inkscape is otherwise a huge improvement on v0.48 which is what's on the Win7 box.
BTW. It uses appimage. Static linking? My, how... old fashioned.
I wonder if it is because it is installed using AppImage? I've just tested with the FreeCAD appimage and that seems not see the printer I have installed either. I've just had a quick search of the Interwebs and not turned anything up. Hmmm.
Some of the laptops given out in England to support vulnerable children home-schooling during lockdown contain malware, BBC News has learned.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55749959
Teachers shared details on an online forum about suspicious files found on devices sent to a Bradford school.
The malware, which they said appeared to be contacting Russian servers, is believed to have been found on laptops given to a handful of schools.
Barakta's realised that the reason she keeps being late for meetings is that her ork laptop has a clock that makes the one on our microwave look accurate. For some inexplicable[1] reason, Windows is configured to sync with "Local CMOS clock", rather than one of the myriad time servers on that internet they have now.
[1] I'm betting there are Domains involved.
Surely any electronic device has some form of oscillator it uses as a clock signal for electronic functioning; and as such should also be able to work as a clock?
But I've seen similar: my work laptop at home is off-domain, and time drifts. I've not checked the settings. But I've not got the VPN up, so I'm not attempting to connect directly to Domain resources. I think if I connected to the Domain network by VPN or physical connection, it would sync.
Yeah, but they tend not to be temperature-compensated like (decent) RTC oscillators tend to be.A half-reasonable crystal oscillator will be good to ±50 ppm, or about half a minute a week. Good ones will be 10 times better. That is without temperature compensation.
Yeah, but they tend not to be temperature-compensated like (decent) RTC oscillators tend to be.A half-reasonable crystal oscillator will be good to ±50 ppm, or about half a minute a week. Good ones will be 10 times better. That is without temperature compensation.
I like to think someone at Amazon is currently struggling to heft a 750 GB RAM pack into the back of a server.
My ZX81 had 1k until I bought it a 16k RAM Expansion.
Which wobbled...
I like to think someone at Amazon is currently struggling to heft a 750 GB RAM pack into the back of a server.
It's the size of the lump of blutac needed to stop it wobbling that's the issue...
The calculator that KDE provide (Kcalc) works fine (well it does in Arch). Never had an issue like that.Ta. Not part of this distro, I'll go have a look. For now I'm dropping into command line and using bc -l if I can't be bothered to dig out my calculator out of my desk.
ROBOCOPY “[there]” “[there]” /S /MOVE
nukes them in a satisfactory, if time-munching, manner.
That was reported forever ago- it's hardly news.
Love how the comments eventually get to KEEP tHe LycRA lOUTS oFf teH RoaDS !!!1!1
The calculator that KDE provide (Kcalc) works fine (well it does in Arch). Never had an issue like that.Yeah, that works and does trig in degrees rather than rad. Thankfully.
That's my work laptop getting reimaged for the 3rd time in about 8 weeks after BSODing *again* when trying to install a dongle driver. Wonder when they are going to admit defeat and get me a new one...
A couple of days ago I laughed at barakta for muttering "DesktopDesktopDesktopDesktopDesktopTwat" at something on her computer.
(ETA: She was trying to make a file save to the desktop.)
She just caught me going "FuckoffFuckoffFuckoffFuckoffFuckoffFuckoffFuckoffDone" as I closed a several of reference tabs and an associated editor window.
OneDrive. 5GB free storage to “keeps your photos and files backed up”? That, Billy-Boy, is approximately not even close to being big enough and yet you keep trying to ram it down our throats as the greatest thing since powdered milk.
Stop it.
Am I wrong to think this isn't compatible with GDPR / basic personal data good practice?
At 00:47 on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a fire broke out in a room in one of our 4 datacenters in Strasbourg, SBG2. Please note that the site is not classified as a Seveso site.
Firefighters immediately intervened to protect our teams and prevent the spread of the fire. At 2:54 am they isolated the site and closed off its perimeter.
By 4:09 am, the fire had destroyed SBG2 and continued to present risks to the nearby datacenters until the fire brigade brought the fire under control.
From 5:30 am, the site has been unavailable to our teams for obvious security reasons, under the direction of the prefecture. The fire is now contained.
Rather cool https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/159176/cracking-of-sky-ecc-encrypted-messaging-service-brings-down-organised-crime-lords/which just reenforces the fact that one time encryption pads are the only really secure protocol for message encryption. If a machine encrypts it, then in all likelihood a machine can be used to decrypt it. Eventually.
And the police cracked the secure phone, arrested people, send bill to phone company
Kingston Datatraveller
[...]
Sometimes, things DO just work.
I like to think someone at Amazon is currently struggling to heft a 750 GB RAM pack into the back of a server.I remember rooms with cupboards full of 25 MB disk packs & people being paid to load them into drives that looked a bit like top loading washing machines - & were about the same size - when the data on them was needed. Heavy buggers.
I like to think someone at Amazon is currently struggling to heft a 750 GB RAM pack into the back of a server.I remember rooms with cupboards full of 25 MB disk packs & people being paid to load them into drives that looked a bit like top loading washing machines - & were about the same size - when the data on them was needed. Heavy buggers.
I'd like to see a 750 GB one. ;D
Mrs B's laptop had that last year. Buggered if I can remember what I did, but it fixed it. I think there's a little txt file on the laptop with the destructions . . .Hmmm. My W10 laptop has caught the (reportedly unfixable) bug whereby the Excel file association appears to have been lost permanently ...
My WIn 8.1 work laptop did something similar. Clicking on an Excel file would load Excel but give some weird error saying it couldn't load the file. leaving Excel open then clicking the file again would load it perfectly. Spent hours trying to fix this, registry hacks, resetting file association etc no joy and I ended up just living with it. A couple of weeks ago it just fixed itself after a Microsoft update. Not sure which one did the job.
I remember rooms with cupboards full of 25 MB disk packs & people being paid to load them into drives that looked a bit like top loading washing machinesThe RL02s (10MB?) we used for one or two of the PDP 11-44s were fairly light but the RA60s & RA80s for the 11-84s & (IIRC*) VAXEN were heavy. At least the RA60s & 80s were slightly more shockproof than the RL02s.
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Just checked my monitoring and noticed one of my VPS is unreachable.
That'll be why then:
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49484QuoteAt 00:47 on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a fire broke out in a room in one of our 4 datacenters in Strasbourg, SBG2. Please note that the site is not classified as a Seveso site.
Firefighters immediately intervened to protect our teams and prevent the spread of the fire. At 2:54 am they isolated the site and closed off its perimeter.
By 4:09 am, the fire had destroyed SBG2 and continued to present risks to the nearby datacenters until the fire brigade brought the fire under control.
From 5:30 am, the site has been unavailable to our teams for obvious security reasons, under the direction of the prefecture. The fire is now contained.
It is in SBG1 so I may wait to see how smoke damaged it is.
IIRC RA-80s weren’t removable.Aye, my memory isn't up to snuff, but I did say it was a frighteningly long time ago. :) Ummm, 30 years as near as makes no difference since the last time I got roped into a backup that involved multi-platter disk packs.
Just checked my monitoring and noticed one of my VPS is unreachable.
That'll be why then:
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49484QuoteAt 00:47 on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a fire broke out in a room in one of our 4 datacenters in Strasbourg, SBG2. Please note that the site is not classified as a Seveso site.
Firefighters immediately intervened to protect our teams and prevent the spread of the fire. At 2:54 am they isolated the site and closed off its perimeter.
By 4:09 am, the fire had destroyed SBG2 and continued to present risks to the nearby datacenters until the fire brigade brought the fire under control.
From 5:30 am, the site has been unavailable to our teams for obvious security reasons, under the direction of the prefecture. The fire is now contained.
It is in SBG1 so I may wait to see how smoke damaged it is.
Was that the same place that Rust kept their systems?
I’m worried. I’ve just renewed my driving licence on line. It was a government website. It was sensible and all worked and even the payment was reasonable. I’m sure I must have used a scam site.
As I’ve reported elsewhere, I’ve already received my new driving licence which kind of negates the scam angle. Apart from the inclusion of the Union Jack on the licence and the use of my passport photo with no offers alternative, the whole thing has been efficient and cheap. I’m shocked.I’m worried. I’ve just renewed my driving licence on line. It was a government website. It was sensible and all worked and even the payment was reasonable. I’m sure I must have used a scam site.
It's okay, the process will be thwarted by everyone at the DVLA coming down with coronavirus.
This Unit is currently pondering the "logic" by which someone decides to include 11560 files (occupying 3.8 MB) of type .mat in his game mod, of which precisely one (1) is actually needed :facepalm:
This Unit is currently pondering the "logic" by which someone decides to include 11560 files (occupying 3.8 MB) of type .mat in his game mod, of which precisely one (1) is actually needed :facepalm:
This Unit is now pondering the “logic” by which someone decides to include a couple of hundred files of type .mat in his game mod when a little application of common sense could have cut that number to seven (7) :facepalm: :facepalm:
Somewhere in tens of thousands of files and hundreds of thousands of lines of text is a missing “/“ character.
I will find you…
I ent found it.
Yet.
Bah!
Ohai mystery packet loss. That explains the weird latency problems.
Explaining the mystery packet loss may involve Hardware jibbling, and it's too perilously close to midnight for that.
Somewhere in tens of thousands of files and hundreds of thousands of lines of text is a missing “/“ character.
I will find you…I ent found it.
Yet.
Bah!
I found it. Or rather I didn't, because the error message was being economical with the truth. But I did find the cause of the inaccurate messages and subsequent crashes and have nuked them from orbit. Hurrah!
Mr Zuckerberg has recently decided I'm a blue collar American and now while scrolling through pictures of friends on bikes, adverts for bike products, bicycles for sale and bicycle memes I get a Facebook "suggested post" with a tepid JPEG-artefacty pertrolhead/trucker/motorbiker/offroading meme.
Mr Zuckerberg has recently decided I'm a blue collar American and now while scrolling through pictures of friends on bikes, adverts for bike products, bicycles for sale and bicycle memes I get a Facebook "suggested post" with a tepid JPEG-artefacty pertrolhead/trucker/motorbiker/offroading meme.
Twitter ones are the least appropriate for me. I keep getting quite detailed adverts for farming supplies and equipment. I'm not a farmer, nor do I follow any on Twitter. ???Mr Zuckerberg has recently decided I'm a blue collar American and now while scrolling through pictures of friends on bikes, adverts for bike products, bicycles for sale and bicycle memes I get a Facebook "suggested post" with a tepid JPEG-artefacty pertrolhead/trucker/motorbiker/offroading meme.
FB adverts amuse me. Sometimes they are appropriate. Sometimes they are so wrong...
I've had denture fixative, incontinence products, retirement homes, funeral plans, Kosher food, much Church stuff, quite a lot of music, a £17,000,000 des res on Millionaires' Row and lots of cars...
I really should change my broadband as I'm on lazy prices, because really, who wants to spend their evenings looking at broadband deals. I know it's probably all the same wires, and it's just branding.
I really should change my broadband as I'm on lazy prices, because really, who wants to spend their evenings looking at broadband deals. I know it's probably all the same wires, and it's just branding.
No it's not: It's only the same Openretch product between you and your ISP, or in the case of an LLU provider, between you and your telephone exchange. LLU backhaul, the ISP's connection to the onward internet, and services they provide like DNS and email, are a tangible difference between providers.
None of this makes shopping for deals any more fun. That's why I don't shop for deals and just pay the going rate for a decent internet connection. No point being cheap about that in 2021.
I saw the crushed remains of a trimphone in a pile of flytipping a few weeks back. It wasn't cream, unfortunately.
It's same for all these utilities, where you could – and I'm sure some people do – spend your life searching for and rafting cheap intro deals and griping to the internet when it goes wrong.
... And my parents did, if I recall, try to the cream trimphone when we got our first phone line back in the mid-eighties and, despite the generous half dozen options in the BT catalogue, they got a grey rotary phone because that was all they had.I recall my parents having a trimphone at least 40 years ago. And cream ones can still be bought -
9.6k? Laptop? Fookin' luxury! 2400 and a VT220. Although we did have EDT at the other end of the line.Hah! VT100* and a 300 baud modem and a line editor.
I suspect they've changed their mind on the need for a trimphone in the intervening years. Getting a phone was very exciting for a little me though, though absolutely no one was allowed to use it. You even reached for it and DON'T YOU DARE USE THAT PHONE! would wham right into your ear. Even if my mother was at work, she knew, and boy could her voice travel. Other than me, it's the only thing in my family that has travelled.
I saved up all that non-phone goodwill until I was at university and I had a girlfriend who gone back to the US for the holidays.
Thirty-odd years later my mother is still bringing that bill up. I would mind less, but I paid that bloody bill. All £750ish of it.
It's same for all these utilities, where you could – and I'm sure some people do – spend your life searching for and rafting cheap intro deals and griping to the internet when it goes wrong.
When we had FTTP installed to our remote rural location* in Eryri (Snowdonia), the choice of broadband provider was a no-brainer. Only 5 or 6 companies offered FTTP. BT was the cheapest by far.
Paying £39.99 per month for 150Mbps/30Mbps - it's been faultless :thumbsup:
*no mobile phone coverage either
It's same for all these utilities, where you could – and I'm sure some people do – spend your life searching for and rafting cheap intro deals and griping to the internet when it goes wrong.
When we had FTTP installed to our remote rural location* in Eryri (Snowdonia), the choice of broadband provider was a no-brainer. Only 5 or 6 companies offered FTTP. BT was the cheapest by far.
Paying £39.99 per month for 150Mbps/30Mbps - it's been faultless :thumbsup:
*no mobile phone coverage either
Did they turn up to install it in the same month as the appointment? They missed 8 appointments for us, were generally extremely arsey with us on the phone when we were trying to ask them WTF they were playing at (that's when we could get a mobile signal, stood outside in the snow) and generally lied and cheated their way through the entire debacle, including drastically increasing the price within 6 months, on an 18 month guaranteed fixed price. Utter bastards! We had no choice as to provider, BT illegally refuse to release their fibre network to other providers, claiming its because they financed it, which is untrue, as it was jointly funded by the Welsh Govt and the EU.
Quote from: Mr Larrington9.6k? Laptop? Fookin' luxury! 2400 and a VT220. Although we did have EDT at the other end of the line.Hah! VT100* and a 300 baud modem and a line editor.
https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/Bah the BFG would be more fun
Bah! Humbug! An abacus was good enough for Mrs B's great grandfather. None of this newfangled stuff.Quote from: Mr Larrington9.6k? Laptop? Fookin' luxury! 2400 and a VT220. Although we did have EDT at the other end of the line.Hah! VT100* and a 300 baud modem and a line editor.
Kids today don't know they're born. KSR 33 and a 110 baud acoustic coupler.
Wowbagger will be along in a moment to give us his memories of the difference engine.
Well freenode is having a whale of a time atm. Take over and people running away to other servers.
And some nasty talking and botting https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1397297559777906691
is this the great IRC war of 21 ?
rest assure that you can still lurk/idle in #yacf but now in our nice new and shinny home over here - irc.libera.chat:6697 :)
The new fondleslab has arrived, has been turned on and allowed to speak to my phone and has configured itself to match my old fondleslab. The new one is physically smaller but has greater screenage than the device it is replacing and the technology within is wizzier and bangier. But on the whole it’s a bit underwhelming.I think that is generally true of all IT currently. There is nothing new happening and all the changes are small.
I now need to decide on which case I’m going to get.
Bledlow, spend the money find a known brand and buy direct. That's were I have had best success and use out of a stick. Getting them from a random seller and or cheap you will get a fake/copy/clone. Too many people are flogging these atm and even good and known sellers have been done by scammers. YMMVApart from a brief foray into 7dayshop's own brand (flimsy) I've always bought known brands from reputable sellers. I've never had any that failed suddenly. The latest one to misbehave was USB 2.0, & well-used for longer than I remember. Not really surprising that it started developing funny little ways. Turned out that Mrs B no longer had any use for about 99% of the files on it, & the few she did want all copied perfectly, so no real worries.
What USB sticks does this esteemed forum think best?
Hmm some files on "server" aka shared drive attached to a raspberry pi and sambs'ed up. Shows up as hidden when viewed from win10. All files/drives are same user and rw in the drive.
[vault]
path = /media/vault
comment = vault
read only = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no
create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777
WTF microshit! […] have you sold your soul to the devil?
Apparently all astronauts use Linux.which one is your coat?(click to show/hide)
*ponders evil uses for self-modifying batch files*
static double squareRoot(double value) {
double candidate = value / 10;
while (Math.Abs(value - (candidate * candidate)) > 0.001) {
candidate = (candidate + (value / candidate)) / 2;
}
return candidate;
}
My 2012 iMac bongs a semi-tone higher than my 2015 iMac when they start up.
My 2012 iMac bongs a semi-tone higher than my 2015 iMac when they start up.
You need a larger diameter narghile for earlier models.
My 2019 iMac didn't bong at all until it I hacked it
I don't like it when I've had the volume high the night before and the following morningI have been similarly awoken.
BONG!
The Dutch company ASML has developed a next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machine that can produce microchips with never-before-seen levels of precision, possibly ensuring the continued miniaturization of chips for years to come, according to a press release on the company's website.
If you’re going to go to all the trouble and faff of dangling dongles, wouldn’t it be simpler just to used a wired mouse ???
I think the older models are held together by screws rather than glue [...]
Have a look in Activity Monitor to see if anything’s running constantly. It shouldn’t run hot for no reason.
Also, if you’re adventurous and/or reckless you can take it apart and clean any accumulated dust. I think the older models are held together by screws rather than glue and magnets.
New iPhone preorder day today.
My current iPhone 11 is two years old. I like the look of the iPhone 13.
No, I don’t NEED to replace my existing phone…
I can get a good trade in on the iPhone 11 though.
Decisions decisions.
they’re not very punctual.New iPhone preorder day today.
My current iPhone 11 is two years old. I like the look of the iPhone 13.
No, I don’t NEED to replace my existing phone…
I can get a good trade in on the iPhone 11 though.
Decisions decisions.
I too am waiting for 1:00pm. I am the same with regard to the 2 year old iPhone. I have a small crack in the screen so I am seeing this as a method for screen repair where I am not without a phone! Stupidly expensive though.
My iMac has developed a rather literal bug. At the bottom left corner of the screen, a little dipteran has wedged itself between the glass and the panel, like a tiny museum exhibit. I discovered this when I tried to wipe it off. The internet suggests it might desiccate and crumble away. The most annoying thing is that every time I notice it, I impulsively reach out to try and brush it away.
I managed to get it done and should arrive next Friday!!yeah, I managed to get one ordered for next Friday. It was only the grey one that was on 2/3 weeks delivery.
Currently I'm pondering computer hardware upgrades. Current rig is an AMD A8-6600K CPU, with 16gb ddr3 ram, and an nvidia gtx1600 gpu.Being an Apple household really reduces the complexity of upgrades. Doesn’t save any money though!
Looks like new mobo & ram needed to be able to get a decent new CPU! Although AMD or Intel this time around... ???
Currently I'm pondering computer hardware upgrades. Current rig is an AMD A8-6600K CPU, with 16gb ddr3 ram, and an nvidia gtx1600 gpu.
Looks like new mobo & ram needed to be able to get a decent new CPU! Although AMD or Intel this time around... ???
Currently I'm pondering computer hardware upgrades. Current rig is an AMD A8-6600K CPU, with 16gb ddr3 ram, and an nvidia gtx1600 gpu.
Looks like new mobo & ram needed to be able to get a decent new CPU! Although AMD or Intel this time around... ???
I'd ask if it's on an SSD in it, as that can make an older computer useful for a good while longer.
No, really, Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia, there isn’t actually any very good reason to restart Chrome post-update on this fondleslab in such a way that it forgets which tabs it had open, thereby forcing me to try to remember them. From memory.Perhaps you need to upgrade your memory?
1 x Gigabyte B550M S2H (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £79.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £259.99
1 x be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black CPU Cooler - 120mm= £39.95
1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £124.99
Total: £515.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
Funny how when you have to move large amounts of data by Devil's Radio, it always seems to involve the machine with the WiFi stack that insists on doing obstructive things like stubbornly clinging to the 2.4GHz band or poorly-timed aggressive power manglement.it wouldn’t be the Devil’s Radio if it didn’t have these difficult to manage little quirks.
Funny how when you have to move large amounts of data by Devil's Radio, it always seems to involve the machine with the WiFi stack that insists on doing obstructive things like stubbornly clinging to the 2.4GHz band or poorly-timed aggressive power manglement.
Pixel 6 voice to text
Tried this for the first time this morning. Absolutely amazing. Entered about 200 words without a single error. Commands are intuitive; I didn't even bother reading the help.
Pixel 6 voice to text
Tried this for the first time this morning. Absolutely amazing. Entered about 200 words without a single error. Commands are intuitive; I didn't even bother reading the help.
Does it work with multiple speakers? Would be good in a meeting if it highlighted indivdual speakers.
The function is running locally on the phone, (rather than using google data) which partly accounts for the speed.
Question time - If I have a 6v battery and want to light up an LED, assuming summat like 2v forward voltage for the LED, and 20mA, I make that a 200 ohm resistor needed, or thereabouts, or have I misunderstood how that should work?
Question time - If I have a 6v battery and want to light up an LED, assuming summat like 2v forward voltage for the LED, and 20mA, I make that a 200 ohm resistor needed, or thereabouts, or have I misunderstood how that should work?I don't think that this will add much in this case, but here is my take on LEDs and resistors:-https://www.mtrak.co.uk/led_calculator.html (https://www.mtrak.co.uk/led_calculator.html) *
Question time - If I have a 6v battery and want to light up an LED, assuming summat like 2v forward voltage for the LED, and 20mA, I make that a 200 ohm resistor needed, or thereabouts, or have I misunderstood how that should work?Yep, that's right. 6V-2V gives 4V across the resistor. 4V/20mA = 200R
I used that principle for some diy internal lights on a boat.Question time - If I have a 6v battery and want to light up an LED, assuming summat like 2v forward voltage for the LED, and 20mA, I make that a 200 ohm resistor needed, or thereabouts, or have I misunderstood how that should work?Yep, that's right. 6V-2V gives 4V across the resistor. 4V/20mA = 200R
I would just put 3 LEDs in series, and if that's too much light, cover 2 of them with black tape. ;)
( I used to build bike rear lights using 4 red LEDs in series and a 9V PP3 battery. The first prototypes pre-dated the first Vistalites and were much brighter. The design was often criticised for lacking any kind of ballast resistor but it was reliable and easily long-running enough for 4 nights of a PBP. I later built white versions for the front but these were soon superseded by commercial designs. )
Use a resistor to get the voltage correct and put the LEDs in parallel.It's usually not considered a good idea to put LEDs in parallel. The LED voltage can vary and then the current can be very unevenly distributed between LEDs in parallel.
Seen on one of those electronic message boards next to the motorway:
IS YOUR CAR READY FOR WINTER NULL
at long last, the fad for 16fekkin9 seems to be dying (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/19/22238671/16-9-aspect-ratio-hp-elite-folio-dell-latitude-lenovo-thinkbook-plus-legion-7).
And there was much rejoicing. :thumbsup:Indeed there is and indeed it would. A double FHD width 16:9 (3840x2160) would be a thing of extreme beauty. Also:
16:9 can work, if it's a massive desktop display doing the work of two conventionally-shaped monitors, but at portable sizes it's piss-poor for anything other than watching videos. It's like they've never actually used a computer.
It didn’t work, because the original cable and the 'ole wot it fits into has the springy-tab-cum-grappling-hook wossname on the left while the new one has it in the middle. What kind of gibbering halfwit thought that was a good idea >:(
Snap the offending thing off, and rely on friction / lack-of-anything-pulling-it-out?
I've seen plenty of network RJ45 cables with their wossnames snapped off still in use.
Snap the offending thing off, and rely on friction / lack-of-anything-pulling-it-out?
I've seen plenty of network RJ45 cables with their wossnames snapped off still in use.
By Chesterton's Fence I would start by assuming the tab in the different place means it might be wired differently.
I’ve seen RJxx cables with asymmetrical clipped plugs that are used for power. It seems like a bad idea but it does stop you putting the cables in the wrong sockets.
It's probably a reasonable assumption that the extension lead doesn’t do any fancy crossing over of conductors thobut, otherwise the vendor would have mentioned it. Wouldn’t they…
It's probably a reasonable assumption that the extension lead doesn’t do any fancy crossing over of conductors thobut, otherwise the vendor would have mentioned it. Wouldn’t they…
*passes the multimeter*
...
Trying to hang on until Apple launch a new 27" screened iMac, hopefully in the new year.
! Shirley every lady, most gentlemen and assorted nonbinary persons of the Irish Tockracy should own one. Preferably 5 or so, including at least one that goes BEEEEP!
! Shirley every lady, most gentlemen and assorted nonbinary persons of the Irish Tockracy should own one. Preferably 5 or so, including at least one that goes BEEEEP!
I got a free upgrade for mine. I was looking in the cupboard under the stairs and found another one, much better than mine.
I reckon the electrician who worked on the extension put his down and forgot to pick up again, but as it was more than five years ago I'm sure he will have replaced it by now. Or expired through the sudden application of electrons.
I didn't even need to change the batteries - double win.
My mind is - at least slightly - blown. A TV and a PVR, connected via hdmi. Separate remotes. PVR is Netflix compatible, TV isn't. TV controls work for Netflix on the PVR - select, arrows, pause etc. Wtaf?
Big news on the fly that wriggled into my iMac screen. Its mummified corpse has slipped downwards and now hovers a scant 7mm from the bottom edge. So near to being de-bugged. Come on gravity.Have you considered the application of a vacuum cleaner nozzle to the vents at the base?
Feels under the screen. Blimey, there are vents. I've never looked under there. Maybe that's how it got in.
Great idea, I will give that a try. It's a teeny, tiny fungus fly, but it annoys me.
Feels under the screen. Blimey, there are vents. I've never looked under there. Maybe that's how it got in.Put some tape across the vents you are not using for increased suckage through the one that you are using.
Great idea, I will give that a try. It's a teeny, tiny fungus fly, but it annoys me.
In a moment of supreme divvery when it first happened, I took a screenshot to illustrate the fly problem to someone.It took me a moment.
Oh marvellous: Mrs barakta's-mum clicked on "A thing that said it would make the adverts go away" and now she "can't get into her Nationwide account"
There are other terms that may apply to you. Our Privacy Policy [INSERT A LINK] explains how we may use your personal information.
Oh for goodness' sake, Excel! That spreadsheet only contains a little over 200,000 INDEX/MATCH wossnames! What's taking you so long, eh?Real Excel these days -- since the end of 2018, I think -- has "dynamic arrays" which let you do proper data manipulation with just one formula: UNIQUE, SORT, etc. It can't quite do JOIN natively but it does let you write just one INDEX/MATCH cell which then processes the entire column toot suite. In a bizarre development Excel has suddenly become fit for purpose, just after everybody round here finally learned R and python to avoid it
Have a Toshiba Satellite L70 laptop at least 4 years old and the battery is only lasting about 20 minutes now, though I usually use the power adapter as a matter of course. Have ordered a new battery. My question is, do I need to keep the power adapter plugged in when I change the battery to avoid losing any settings (Windows 10)?
Oh for goodness' sake, Excel! That spreadsheet only contains a little over 200,000 INDEX/MATCH wossnames! What's taking you so long, eh?Real Excel these days -- since the end of 2018, I think -- has "dynamic arrays" which let you do proper data manipulation with just one formula: UNIQUE, SORT, etc. It can't quite do JOIN natively but it does let you write just one INDEX/MATCH cell which then processes the entire column toot suite. In a bizarre development Excel has suddenly become fit for purpose, just after everybody round here finally learned R and python to avoid it
Have a Toshiba Satellite L70 laptop at least 4 years old and the battery is only lasting about 20 minutes now, though I usually use the power adapter as a matter of course. Have ordered a new battery. My question is, do I need to keep the power adapter plugged in when I change the battery to avoid losing any settings (Windows 10)?
No. Windows keeps its settings on disk (which may be flash memory on a modern machine with an SSD, which is equally non-volatile). There may be some BIOS settings (boot device order and the like) in battery-maintained CMOS memory along with the real-time clock, but this will have its own power source (typically a primary lithium cell) which is independent of the main battery and mains adaptor.
We are moving away from writing any code, the machines are doing it.
Don't ask me who writes the code for the machine that write the code. Probably more machines. Say hello to our robot overlords.
We are moving away from writing any code, the machines are doing it.Yeah, but it means that you've got to learn what to tell the machine what you want, and as any developer can tell you, IF the client actually knows what they want, they'll have hanged their minds by tomorrow.
Don't ask me who writes the code for the machine that write the code. Probably more machines. Say hello to our robot overlords.
I think the original error was caused by the virtual machine/W7 throwing a tantrum when I plugged the scanner into a different USB port to that originally defined
...£12,750,000+ for a penthouse flat...hazard a guess that the overlap between it and “people playing a free Solitaire game onna fondleslab at well past midnight” is pretty close to the empty set.Dunno, must be quite a few $BLUE-PENCIL oligarchs with a good deal of time on their hands these days, what with there being nowhere they can travel to in their aeroplanes. :)
I think this fit nicely in here. Slow Mo Guy's letting the gas out of capacitors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUxgmMDts4
Which will be particularly fun for residents of the island of Ireland.
Macs do this OK
Although technically, they're going with the stupider option: Permanent DST, rather than permanent standard time. Having the clocks actually align with what the sun is doing is presumably too difficult for business, or something.
Macs do this OK
Oh yeah? Try going to Abkhazia.
And wonder where your breakfast is. Or why the places clearly visible in Apple Maps are not there when you search for them.
Looks like Twitter is down...
*checks the web and blimey, it is 10 years old.
I felt the standard iPad was best. The minis are £££ and the Pros are bastard heavy and big... I reckon we'd go for something with future-proof storage but no cellular for her purposes (Grandchildren, web browsing, photos).I now have a Mini and a Pro. I always had the standard before that.
A video showing a driverless car being stopped by the police and then attempting to drive away went viral over the weekend. San Francisco police stopped one of Cruise's autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EVs, likely because the car's headlights were not on despite it being night. In the video, first posted to Instagram on April 2, an officer can be heard saying, "There's nobody in it."
But a few seconds later, after the officer walks back to his police car, the autonomous vehicle—perhaps deciding that the traffic stop was over—tries to drive away before pulling over to a stop a few hundred feet away.
Hello,I suspect an automatic system on the free.fr end has classified a number of emails from gmail as spam, leading to one or more of the gmail server being blacklisted at free.fr. This is likely to be temporary, and there is not much you can do other than retry. The spam emails are almost certainly not yours, just other users on gmail.
Have a gmail account that seems to be having issues sending emails to another free.fr email.
The person can email me, and I have replied to their email but cannot seem to email them back. The email mentions that the response from remote server is 451 toomany errors detected from your IP.
Hello,I suspect an automatic system on the free.fr end has classified a number of emails from gmail as spam, leading to one or more of the gmail server being blacklisted at free.fr. This is likely to be temporary, and there is not much you can do other than retry. The spam emails are almost certainly not yours, just other users on gmail.
Have a gmail account that seems to be having issues sending emails to another free.fr email.
The person can email me, and I have replied to their email but cannot seem to email them back. The email mentions that the response from remote server is 451 toomany errors detected from your IP.
Your location is currently in use
Isn't technology marvellous? https://northumbriaggj.github.io/2019/games/tv_aerial_simulator/I have not tried the game, but the demo video shows analog noise rather than digital dropouts - I turned off one of the last 626 PAL analogue transmitters, Burnhope Ch5 in September 2012...
Dear websites that need a login: Please to be working properly.
So I have a login, and have checked the option to 'remember me', so it should log me back in.
Does it fuck.
(AUK, I'm looking at you)
The site is difficult to navigate, and it takes me some time to find the event I want to enter.
(AUK, I'm looking at you)
I finally get to the event I want to enter. But I need to click the 'log in' button at the end of my on-line quest.
Fine. this works, but WHY THE ABSOLUTE FUCK can this login not leave me at the same page I logged in from?
No, after logging in, I'm thrown to the website home page, where I have to start my quest once again.
And breathe.
Dear websites that need a login: Please to be working properly.
So I have a login, and have checked the option to 'remember me', so it should log me back in.
Does it fuck.
(AUK, I'm looking at you)
The site is difficult to navigate, and it takes me some time to find the event I want to enter.
(AUK, I'm looking at you)
I finally get to the event I want to enter. But when I try to enter, I'm not logged in, because the auto-log-in does not work.
I need to click the 'log in' button at the end of my on-line quest.
Fine. this works, but WHY THE ABSOLUTE FUCK can this login not leave me at the same page I logged in from?
No, after logging in, I'm thrown to the website home page, where I have to start my quest once again.
And breathe.
I've got at least four dead SSDs floating around the place, plus another that was DOA. Sizes from 110 GB to 2 TB.MrLarrington is a hitherto unknown particle that attracts cosmic rays.
I've got at least four dead SSDs floating around the place, plus another that was DOA. Sizes from 110 GB to 2 TB.
Styles and formatting in M$ word. Why does it have to be so convoluted and why is the one thing I want nor available.
Grrr.
What you want is God Mode.
Who is best placed to discuss the exact requirements for the delivery team, please? I have heard mention of a software requirement for something called Clitopus, but I’m not sure I can find it anywhere? Can someone tell me what is needed?
I am a Very Bad Man.
On a work project, someone has suggested the use of software called Citopus. I have referred to it in a mail, and added an "L" in the name. And asked if anyone can find it.
ETA. the relevant paragraphQuoteWho is best placed to discuss the exact requirements for the delivery team, please? I have heard mention of a software requirement for something called Clitopus, but I’m not sure I can find it anywhere? Can someone tell me what is needed?
So, mostly for teh lulz, I turned on Spencer The Halfwit — a 13 year old EeePC with Win 10, 1GB RAM and an Intel Atom powered by ants — for the first time in nearly 3 years, just to see how long it’ll take him to do all the updates :demon:
I'll report back tomorrow.
"My left shoe won't even reboot." writes anotherhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/my-left-shoe-wont-even-reboot-faulty-app-bricks-nike-smart-sneakers/
At Hive, we've got big plans to make... homes greener, so we've made the tough decision to discontinue our smart security and leak detection products. As a smart tech brand in the middle of a climate crisis, we know the focus needs to change and will instead be developing smart home tech that'll help get us closer to achieving Net Zero.
No,CD ripping wossname, that CD is not disc 5 of Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces". It is "Sir Henry At Ndidi's Kraal" by Vivian Stanshall. Easy mistake to make, I suppose.Is that to get the maximum digitisation before using your very expensive audiophile cables and speakers?
I moved my data scientists from Dells to M1 machines and they apparently fly. Plus we have a few Mac Studios now set up for remote access. Ironically, it's looking to be more cost-effective to do much of the analysis locally on decent hardware than on Azure/AWS at the moment, unless it's a huge job.Are they working out for them?
Data scientist generally use R rather the x ;D:p
I moved my data scientists from Dells to M1 machines and they apparently fly. Plus we have a few Mac Studios now set up for remote access. Ironically, it's looking to be more cost-effective to do much of the analysis locally on decent hardware than on Azure/AWS at the moment, unless it's a huge job.Are they working out for them?
I’m still hearing just enough “x doesn’t run on m1” to make me cautious. Though, to be fair, the last case of that was an obsolete version of x.
I suggested hitting it with an empty wine bottle.I do hope you offered to empty the wine bottle for them. It would have been the least you could do to help out.
Anyone interested in crypto currency, I recommend the last 4 episodes of Tech Tonic, an FT podcast, compulsive and informative listening
https://www.ft.com/tech-tonic
I wonder what history books will say about crypto-"currencies". Will South Seas be mentioned? Tulips?Anyone interested in crypto currency, I recommend the last 4 episodes of Tech Tonic, an FT podcast, compulsive and informative listening
https://www.ft.com/tech-tonic
That's a long time to say 'pyramid scheme.'
I've been impressed with the FT's data journalism lately (and during the covid era), will have to check this out.
A colleague has just been given a new MS keyboard. It's QWERTY - but oddly has additonal keys for A and O with an umlaut, plus functions for oe and ae dipthongs, plus other keys relocated.
German keyboard is QWERTZ and has extra keys for ä ö ü and ß.A colleague has just been given a new MS keyboard. It's QWERTY - but oddly has additonal keys for A and O with an umlaut, plus functions for oe and ae dipthongs, plus other keys relocated.
IIRC the German one has those, but the Y and Z are swapped. Maybe Swedish or something?
(I spent a few hours typing in Belgian on my UK keyboard last week, because reasons. Passwords are particularly irksome, and it took me far too long to find the '/'.)
I have just discovered that Microsoft Office ".x" files are, in fact, zip files that you can open, look at, and marvel at the proliferation of crap within it (including quite usefully, anything embedded and code)
My. Mind. Is. Blown.
And on a higher circle of hell, it means you can write programs that can input and output excel spreadsheets...
And on a higher circle of hell, it means you can write programs that can input and output excel spreadsheets...
why are computer networks so illogical? Im trying to sort out emails on my own domains for a number of devices and the home WiFi Mesh network has decided to throw at curve ball by by losing connectivity to the internet but without bothering to throw an error message.
it would be grand to see the drive I have shared via samba on a puter that is connected to the same router as this laptop is, in this house.
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
I bought my granddaughter's 13" HP Envy laptop off her for £30 when dad (my son) bought her a new one. It wasn't holding its charge on battery, but worked fine on the charger.
The plan was to use it as a driver for my Amateur Radio digital set-up (FT8 mainly) using Linux. Failing that just put Chrome OS Flex on it. But it's a really nice size and the keyboard is a joy.
So I've done a fresh install of Windows 10 , put a cheap new battery in (£35) and I've got a really nice machine for £65. Sorry son, you could have done that!
(Confession time - I've just installed Railroad Tycoon 3. My most-est favourit-est game of ever. I've not been able to play it in years due to my Windows predjudice)
I've just discovered that Mrs Barakta's-Mum is on Strava. Given the distances she's logging, it seems unlikely that it's what's causing her iPhone to mysteriously slurp through an unspecified number of gigabeans of internets.
Space Karen walks back plan to charge $20/month for a blue tick on that Twitter; now to cost only $8. Stephen King not happy. (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/01/tech/musk-twitter-verification-price/index.html)
I just bought an ex-corporate lease one from Dell. It seems better made than budget consumer kit I've used or looked inside. According to Dell it came with a clean OS (corporate clients don't want to worry about anything lingering on the HDD: no other software), & battery still seems sound, so I just stuck an SSD in. Nice keyboard. ;)I bought my granddaughter's 13" HP Envy laptop off her for £30 when dad (my son) bought her a new one. It wasn't holding its charge on battery, but worked fine on the charger.
The plan was to use it as a driver for my Amateur Radio digital set-up (FT8 mainly) using Linux. Failing that just put Chrome OS Flex on it. But it's a really nice size and the keyboard is a joy.
So I've done a fresh install of Windows 10 , put a cheap new battery in (£35) and I've got a really nice machine for £65. Sorry son, you could have done that!
(Confession time - I've just installed Railroad Tycoon 3. My most-est favourit-est game of ever. I've not been able to play it in years due to my Windows predjudice)
Until the beginning of lockdown when used laptop prices went silly, that's pretty much how I acquired laptops for myself, close friends and family. For the sake of a new battery, SSD and a clean OS install, there are a lot of bargains to be had if you can avoid the planned obsolescence of consumer grade stuff.
And thanks for the reminder, I should go and fix up my HF antenna today.
Apropos of nothing, I noticed that my Macbook contains fabby new desktops and I've not exactly changed my iMac desktop since the time the world was black and white.
Change desktop background, I command, relishing some modern swirly eye candy
Which opens the settings pane, but with nothing to select. Add a new folder. Nothing. A curiously empty preference stubbornly remains. The files are there in /library but it won't connect to any picture folder or let choose any desktop other than the default.
Mysterious yet annoying. Now I have the dullest desktop ever and no power to change it. Bah.
The new owners of our current building (which we are in the process of moving out of) came in at the weekend to do some electrical work, inadvertantely cut through our fibre-optic cable and neglected to tell anyone what they'd done.
Thanks guys.
Over the last few days, when I prod Chrome after waking this 'ere fondleslab from a period of slumber it opens a new tab. Since there ent been any updates from FruitCo for a while the finger is pointing squarely at the Mega-Global Chocolate Manufactury of Mountain View, USAnia. Yes, Google, you. Stop it.
I recall some people with a metered water supply (Aylesbury Canal Society, lessees of Aylesbury canal basin at the time) having a sudden huge increase in their metered usage. Thames Water were not very helpful.The new owners of our current building (which we are in the process of moving out of) came in at the weekend to do some electrical work, inadvertantely cut through our fibre-optic cable and neglected to tell anyone what they'd done.
Thanks guys.
Saw a toot (or possibly a tweet) where they'd done exactly that, and then attempted to reconnect it using a jelly crimp
Yes, really.
Euurrggh! MOAR sub-desk grovelling required to correct Mr Thrustmaster's steering wheel's pronounced list to starboard :(
I think this laptop may be on its last legs. Its got a busticated hinge and the socket for the charger has started playing silly uggbres :(
I think this laptop may be on its last legs. Its got a busticated hinge and the socket for the charger has started playing silly uggbres :(
We have sprung for a new Thinkpad. I thought it was ridiculously expensive but a rootle through the emails suggested it's only x1.5 the price of the one we bought 10 yrs ago, so mustn't grumble I s'pose.
It has arrived. I'm in the process of trying to Pingufy it.
It has arrived. I'm in the process of trying to Pingufy it.
I'm imagining a special PURPLE Linux distribution...
There's usually a way to turn the trackpad off, though exactly where will depend on the drivers. Have a poke around in mousy settings, or devices.
USB meece are a case of plug them in and they just work (if you have multiple pointing devices, the pointer gets the sum of their inputs[1]). Again, the usual settings to adjust speed, button behaviour etc, which should be independent of the trackpad.
[1] For example, on this machine I have a mouse for my left hand and a trackball for my right. If I move them both at once I can wrestle with the position of the pointer.
If only my laptop automagically disabled the trackpad when a meece was plugged in and reënabled it likewise when Idiot Boy left the meece at home over Chrimbly >:(
If only my laptop automagically disabled the trackpad when a meece was plugged in and reënabled it likewise...A long time* ago (in a galaxy ect. ect.) I had a Windoze work lapdog, it may have been a Tosh., that did exactly this thing and it was very heaven. I have looked for the same feature on every lapdog since and it has been conspicuous by its absence.
There's usually a way to turn the trackpad off, though exactly where will depend on the drivers. Have a poke around in mousy settings, or devices.
USB meece are a case of plug them in and they just work (if you have multiple pointing devices, the pointer gets the sum of their inputs[1]). Again, the usual settings to adjust speed, button behaviour etc, which should be independent of the trackpad.
[1] For example, on this machine I have a mouse for my left hand and a trackball for my right. If I move them both at once I can wrestle with the position of the pointer.
For the first time suffered the fate of water splashing the keyboard of my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Problem is the touch pad is now very erratic, if it doesn’t dry out wondering how easy it is to buy an external mouse to bypass it. The windows settings page includes an option for mouse settings. How do I tell the system to use the mouse rather than the touch pad? Thanks in advance.
Related: Did I mention that the previously dust-gathering dedicated 'email' button on my keyboard now toggles the default arseaudio output device between the onboard sound (headphones, for the use of) and the monitor's mediocre but occasionally useful squeakers?
There's usually a way to turn the trackpad off, though exactly where will depend on the drivers. Have a poke around in mousy settings, or devices.
USB meece are a case of plug them in and they just work (if you have multiple pointing devices, the pointer gets the sum of their inputs[1]). Again, the usual settings to adjust speed, button behaviour etc, which should be independent of the trackpad.
[1] For example, on this machine I have a mouse for my left hand and a trackball for my right. If I move them both at once I can wrestle with the position of the pointer.
Thanks Kim!
it's better than the touch pad in that it's "higher geared", so don't have to move my hand as much.
it's better than the touch pad in that it's "higher geared", so don't have to move my hand as much.
FYI the 'gear ratio' of mouse-like devices is usually configurable in the relevant input settings.
...Only problem is no space left to put my coffee next to the laptop, might be forced to do that long overdue tidy up.....
I installed LaTeX for the first time in _years_ today. That felt so clunky and slow.
Obviously the first time failed. I don't expect bleeding edge from Ubuntu packages, but the 2019 version is so old it's broken. But not so broken that I wasn't trying to manually install stuff of ctan before I abandoned.
Did the bear do what bears do in the random forest?I installed LaTeX for the first time in _years_ today. That felt so clunky and slow.
Obviously the first time failed. I don't expect bleeding edge from Ubuntu packages, but the 2019 version is so old it's broken. But not so broken that I wasn't trying to manually install stuff of ctan before I abandoned.
I interviewed someone who wrote LaTeX as per the logo in her CV today. There might have been other reasons for shortlisting her, but I remembered I hated the bloody thing (one of my first jobs was doing something useful with LaTeX formatted documents from astrophysicists, which as combinations go, ought to self-annihilate in a petite mort of excited photon, but who should be so lucky). She also talked about random forests a lot. I fear I may have introduced the stochastic bear. I hope she's got another offer and therapy.
iOS detects when I am writing in German on my phone so maybe there’s a setting issue somewhere for you.
iOS on my fondleslab does the “suggested words” thing above the keyboard but seems not to learn ones it thinks are FOREIGN because they contain “non-BRITISH” characters (such as Reëducation) or look a bit funny (such as Deignan or Prudhomme). It's probably possessed by the vengeful spirit of some demonic Little Englander who died of apoplexy when he couldn’t find a copy of the D**ly M**l while on holiday in Lanzarote.
...mein...
You can use Dropbox, iCloud or OneDrive on an iPad. Alternatively just email the documents to yourself and then save them on the iPad.Thanks. I've actually tried all of those. They all work but transferring, say, 100 GB would take forever.
Is there any reason Apple don't want you to transfer files easily - like any normal OS?
It seems that Logitech Media Server doesn't like the letter Ć
???
Alt-space. Then m to move with arrow keys.
Alt-space. Then m to move with arrow keys.
Bingo! Thanks. :thumbsup:
Alt-space. Then m to move with arrow keys.
Bingo! Thanks. :thumbsup:
Except, of course, this keyboard shortcut doesn't work in Incopy and that's the program I'm most often having this problem with... >:( >:( >:(
Alt-space. Then m to move with arrow keys.
Bingo! Thanks. :thumbsup:
Except, of course, this keyboard shortcut doesn't work in Incopy and that's the program I'm most often having this problem with... >:( >:( >:(
What happens if you use Win+(Left Or Right)Arrow to snap the window to one side of the screen? Or does that not work in Incopy either?
It doesn’t work. Plugging it in immediately b0rks both wired connections and wifi to the main router. Something DHCP-related, which might as well be in Aramaic for all the sense it makes.
Bah!
Alt-space. Then m to move with arrow keys.
Bingo! Thanks. :thumbsup:
Except, of course, this keyboard shortcut doesn't work in Incopy and that's the program I'm most often having this problem with... >:( >:( >:(
What happens if you use Win+(Left Or Right)Arrow to snap the window to one side of the screen? Or does that not work in Incopy either?
Ooh! Another one I didn’t know - I’ll try that next time it happens and report back…
:thumbsup:
What happens if you use Win+(Left Or Right)Arrow to snap the window to one side of the screen? Or does that not work in Incopy either?
Equally Windows Key + Up Arrow should be maximise to screen size and Windows Key + Down Arrow should be return to a smaller floating window.
Hurrah! I haz phones & base station for VOIP and can thus pension off my BT copper string :thumbsup:
Bah! Or rather I can when the immovable object of BT succumbs to the irresistible force of A&A, which could take ages >:(
So-called “Quiet” PC has taken to making an annoying buzzing noise. Which is a tad worrying as it ent got any moving parts inside >:(
So-called “Quiet” PC has taken to making an annoying buzzing noise. Which is a tad worrying as it ent got any moving parts inside >:(
DANGER! BEES!
I wouldn’t mind so much about all this phone malarkey but if I'd known A&A's promise to set up all the hardware before they bunged it in the post was a Big Fat Lie I'd have bought the hardware somewhere else and saved about forty quid >:(
And they didn’t give me a router when I switched to FTTP either :-\
In an idle moment, I was thinking about Chrome, as one does, and how you can access stuff through the internal URL calls, like chrome://extensions and chrome://system. I wondered to myself, was there a list of them? And of course there is, accessible through a URL chrome://about. Gosh what a lot there are are! And look! chrome://dino ..... what's that?The dinosaur game appears when it can't load the page, ie if it doesn't have an internet connection. I often play it on my phone.
Does anyone know what I have done with my old SSD and SO-DIMM ? Failing that if anyone has some old stuff to shift I would be happy to make an offer, trying to breathe life into a 5 year old HP laptop that runs much slower than it should (i5, 2600 4 core) which I am blaming on the 4Gb RAM (and spinning rust, obv). The SSD can be fixed for a reasonable £16, but the RAM would be £32 if I put 16Gb in, I really wanted to try the 4Gb I have somewhere <rummages some more> before spending.
Thrustmaster :o ???
Jul 12, 2023, 03:13 PM vault went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 03:11 PM vault - VNC went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 03:09 PM vault went online
Jul 12, 2023, 03:08 PM vault - VNC went online
Jul 12, 2023, 03:08 PM vault - RDP went online
Jul 12, 2023, 03:08 PM vault - SSH went online
Jul 12, 2023, 03:03 PM vault - SSH went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 03:02 PM vault - RDP went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 03:02 PM vault - VNC went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 03:01 PM vault went offline
Jul 12, 2023, 02:58 PM vault - VNC went online
Jul 12, 2023, 02:58 PM vault - SSH went online
etc etc
OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2, OpenSSL 3.0.9 30 May 2023
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *
debug2: resolving "serverIP" port 22
debug1: Connecting to serverIP [serverIPinnumbers] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1
debug1: compat_banner: match: OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Authenticating to serverIP:22 as 'vault'
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /root/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
So questions is which log file to look at and what to look for.I think the pi uses systemd as standard. To view the sshd log you do the following as root on the pi:
Any recommendations for a similar thing to H2testw for mac and chromebooks.
Would like to test some usb and only have a mac and a chromebook to use as things to run the program.
Any recommendations for a similar thing to H2testw for mac and chromebooks.
Would like to test some usb and only have a mac and a chromebook to use as things to run the program.
I wonder if Disk Utility will do that for you.
Any recommendations for a similar thing to H2testw for mac and chromebooks.
Would like to test some usb and only have a mac and a chromebook to use as things to run the program.
I wonder if Disk Utility will do that for you.
I wondered too but have no idea.
Any recommendations for a similar thing to H2testw for mac and chromebooks.
Would like to test some usb and only have a mac and a chromebook to use as things to run the program.
I wonder if Disk Utility will do that for you.
I wondered too but have no idea.
Plug the USB thing in with Disk Utility open, and as with all disks you should get a Volume and a partition. I’d hope that the capacities of both were very similar, and match the stated capacity of the device?
f3 (fight flash fraud) can be run on a mac, according to the docs.Thank you will look it up.
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html
https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
My 9-year old PC was creaking at the seams and couldn't run Windows 11 because it has no TPM thingy, so I bought a new one and installed Windows 11 on it. It's basically a privacy invader and advertising platform masquerading as an OS. I think I have managed to turn off all the shite now. OneDrive looks like a bit of a scam - it pushes it at you but doesn't mention that you get a paltry 5GB. My music files are 60GB and photos must be twice that.
f3 (fight flash fraud) can be run on a mac, according to the docs.
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html
https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
Looked that up but seems to require linux to run.I'm not a mac user but the docs say it is available in macports and homebrew, or can be compiled from source:
A quick note - windows 7 media player does not access album information when ripping CDs (it used to work, but microshit decided to remove the service for unsupported operating systems).
a 128GB USB pendrive is all you need.
One might choose to use flac for archiving, but when it comes to playing hardly anyone will be able to hear a difference between lossless flac and mp3.The counter argument to this is that storage is so blummin cheap now and the task of ripping is very time consuming and very tedious.
Further, most people don't need a lossless format like flac in the music player, a lossy format such as mp3 or acc will do provided there is not too much compression. Use mp3/acc and 200 CDs will fit on a 32GB usb memory stick, or a modern phone. One might choose to use flac for archiving, but when it comes to playing hardly anyone will be able to hear a difference between lossless flac and mp3.Blind studies have found that no-one can really tell the difference between .wav and 256k MP3. VBR MP3 is now more common and you can use a bit more compression (192k average, for instance).
You can download Catalina for free from Apple.
Win 10 I don't know about.
For free, from MS:
https://www.microsoft.com/eb-gb/software-download/windows10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO
Yeah, but the macbook pro running catalina, doesn't want to. When accessing the app store the mac say needs to be 12 something or above. Hence wanting to download the os. Wipe the hard drive of everything and start again
Yeah, but the macbook pro running catalina, doesn't want to. When accessing the app store the mac say needs to be 12 something or above. Hence wanting to download the os. Wipe the hard drive of everything and start again
You need to boot from the recovery partition (or from Internet Recovery) and do a clean install of whatever OS it offers and then upgrade via the App Store.
If the Mac is too old to run Catalina officially you'll need to create a patched version, which is an entirely separate topic and not to be done casually.
Plusnet appear to be borked.
They didn't, they also used to offer telephone support beyond 20:00. And on that, what kind of *pillock* sets up a call handling system that takes you through a menu that lets you choose the "My Broadband is borken" option and *then* says, "Office is closed, use the website." Too stupid to be adequately described in polite language.Quote from: Mrs PinguPlusnet appear to be borked.
Yep: https://downdetector.co.uk/status/plusnet/
They don't appear to have a status page. What sort of ISP doesn't have a status page? I'm sure they never used to be that rubbish.
They were bought by BT. Perhaps BT are making Plusnet shit to make people swap to BT?
Supposedly BT are going to scrap the Plusnet brand, and make it all EE instead. They have already got rid of Plusnet Mobile.They were bought by BT. Perhaps BT are making Plusnet shit to make people swap to BT?
Or gaining market share by buying a competitor, and then financially squeezing them until they're no longer competitive.
(Although IIRC the great email deletion fiasco pre-dated their acquisition by our-favourite-telco.)
There doesn't have to be a conspiracy; support and service cost money and eat into margins. The broadband market is mostly won on being the cheapest, with reliability some ways behind (no one cares about reliability until they have to care about reliability). It's only a small niche of users who will pay upfront for service, support, and reliability. It's a market based on switching between deals to get to the cheapest.
Kim's had gun licences (we didn't like that).
Kim has on occasion contacted medical orgs in USAnia to say "I know you can't reply to be cos HIPPA etc but your email intended for DoppelGanger is going to a British NotYourPerson, could you contact Numpty by any other methods and tell them to correct their email cos their medical data is coming to me).
Kim's had gun licences (we didn't like that).
It was a receipt for a shotgun and telescopic sight. Which was even more concerning.Quote
Your freelance international assassin identity has been compromised..... :jurek:
Talking with old people today, I realised I've not defragmented a disk since 1998. It seems no one has.
Are we sitting on a defragmentation crisis? Is our storage dangerously fragmented? Is Big Data hiding this from us?
I realise it was quite comforting watching those little blocks move around.
Mostly we started using filesystems that were better at not fragmenting files in the first place. Obviously the *nix world and the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation worked this out a fair bit before Microsoft finally got the hang of it.
And then we started using flash memory instead of rotating storage media, at which point fragmentation stopped mattering (indeed, defragmentation would cause needless wear).
Not really a computing thing, but I've had a telephonic variant of Kim's email confusion. Months ago, I had a text from a number I didn't recognize. It seemed to relate to a meeting. Google found the number easily; a local cello teacher. I'm not learning the cello, but my sister is a musician (not cello) and said she knows this person but hasn't worked with them for years. But the texts were all addressed to me by name. Weird. And today, three more calls; one normal and two on WhatsApp. None of which I was aware of at the time because my phone was on Do Not Disturb while I was in my BSL class. Anyway, thanks to WhatsApp, I now know what this person looks like. But not why they think they know me. (I've already sent them a text, months ago, saying they have the wrong number.)
This sounds like the set up for either:
a) A spy novel
b) Romance
c) Cello lessons
Quote from: KimThis sounds like the set up for either:
a) A spy novel
b) Romance
c) Cello lessons
Ahem. Been done, in a kinematic fashion, already. "The Living Daylights"
I decided to install a banking mobile app today. This app, amonst other things, generates log on codes for accessing the bank's on line banking system. Access to my accounts via the mobile app worked immediately following set up. However, the on line banking system refuses to accept any of the log on access codes generated via the mobile app. After half an hour on the phone with the bank's support I have been unable to resolve this. I am now having to revert to using a new hand held key generator which is being posted to me.
Is it me?
I for one do not wish to use my phone for anything MOAR than the bare minimum because my stubby peasant fingers find it well-nigh impossible to type accurately on the wretched thing and might accidentally donate all my money to the Conservative Party. Or something.And they wouldn't even say thank you, just ask for more!
My personal coder (AKA Pingu)...
My personal coder (AKA Pingu)...
https://xkcd.com/1513/
My personal coder (AKA Pingu) wrote a formula for me to bung in excel...
“Why is program X* so sodding huge?” asked $FORMER_THE_BOSS. Because, Mr Larrington discovered, it had the same twenty-odd lines of code repeated about a hundred times instead of calling a subroutine.
* FORTRAN program, written in FORTRAN
Another hour on the phone today which ended with them raising an IT ticket for my online banking a/c. I eventually sussed what is going on however. Because I had previously installed the mobile app, I am no longer able to use a hard form factor secure key, notwithstanding the support staff sending me a new one and when logging online again being asked to activate it. This confused matters greatly, particularly so as the on line failure message was the same as that for the mobile app.I decided to install a banking mobile app today. This app, amonst other things, generates log on codes for accessing the bank's on line banking system. Access to my accounts via the mobile app worked immediately following set up. However, the on line banking system refuses to accept any of the log on access codes generated via the mobile app. After half an hour on the phone with the bank's support I have been unable to resolve this. I am now having to revert to using a new hand held key generator which is being posted to me.
Is it me?
Probably for the best. I get annoyed whenever I use the mobile banking app to do 2FA for the website, because it feels like they're pushing us to use mobile apps rather than proper computers for banking. Which they are.
Ohnoes! 2D Mr Larrington has gone missing!
Rather too slowly it dawned on me that since 2D Mr Larrington's job is to hold a RFID tag with a readily identifiable EPC number encoded on it (testing, for the purposes of), it should be possible to locate him using RF voodoo SCIENCE.
Alas, after firing up Impinj and sweeping the aerial in random directions, not a 0xDEADBEEF in sight. I assume he got blown into the shrubbery at Gravesend by the 600mph gusting crosswind, along with the LAZER DISPLAY BOARD (which is now b0rked) and half the BHPC.
Is it just me... or are more & more websites using text copy protection. Kinda irritating.
That feeling when your login details aren't accepted and the "we'll send you an email to reset your password" email doesn't arrive.
Is it just me... or are more & more websites using text copy protection. Kinda irritating.
"what do you mean, its not text, I can read it, can't you?" Yes, I can, but anyone using a text reader can't, and as the article was about inclusivity, its rather backfired. Cue a long conversation about PDF documents that were basically the same, and what OCR software can or cannot do for you. Thankfully, our graphics dept had top notch OCR software, and sent it to me as text, so I passed it on to said manager, who re-uploaded it.
"what do you mean, its not text, I can read it, can't you?" Yes, I can, but anyone using a text reader can't, and as the article was about inclusivity, its rather backfired. Cue a long conversation about PDF documents that were basically the same, and what OCR software can or cannot do for you. Thankfully, our graphics dept had top notch OCR software, and sent it to me as text, so I passed it on to said manager, who re-uploaded it.
Half the problem is that now everyone's used to people sharing images of text on social media, because they've no idea how the internet is supposed to work.
About 25% of the CD collection re-ripped to FLAC. Hoping this time I can organise the music library without losing any tracks ...
About 25% of the CD collection re-ripped to FLAC. Hoping this time I can organise the music library without losing any tracks ...
I had an odd issue with one CD...
It had some Bonus Tracks on it which the online database failed to match, and I didn't notice.
So the FLAC was missing some metadata, and when using the SONOS app, the tracks were missing from the album.
But I spotted them hiding way down under 'Unknown Artist'!
Had to go back and manually edit the missing metadata.
Artist -> Album -> Disc Number -> TrackNumber - TrackName.thing
That feeling when your login details aren't accepted and the "we'll send you an email to reset your password" email doesn't arrive.
Tried again this morning, got in via a different route. Serves me right for trying on the wrong side of a bottle of wine.
Wish they'd stop changing how you get into these pension websites.
My problem now, never having learned to touch-type, is that pretty well every non-alphanumeric character, plus some of the numeric keys, has a different legend from previously, even though it will still produce the same character. I did think about simply printing some stickers for the rogue keys, but I'm now trying to summon up the courage to lever off a dozen or so keycaps and replace them with the originals from my failed keyboard - after all, what could possibly go wrong? :)
Arrgghh stupid mickey$oft, I go and tell it do not update, I don't need an update ever, if I do will tell you, capiche, thanks bye.
Main reason is that I don't want to end up downloading loads of bytes when we are on slow and metered SIMs.
What did the little fecker of an OS do today ... arrgghh
The keyboard on my Asus Zenbook has been slowly giving up the ghost for the last few months, and it got to the point where remapping keys with AHK no longer did the trick - it's surprising how many words need the letters C, D, K, Q, etc. :)Keyboards round here randomly re-set to Japanese. Only happens when Mrs B's around. She seems to have no difficulty hitting the right keys, but it always disconcerts me a little when I start typing & kana appear on the screen.
I searched high and low for a replacement keyboard - not as easy as I thought because most of the ones on eBay for my model have a slightly different layout with a rectangular, rather than L-shaped Enter key, so I was preparing to have to do some surgery on the panel to get a replacement to fit. One supplier flat refused to sell me one as he said he didn't want to get the blame if it didn't work.
Eventually, I found a French(!) keyboard, complete with front panel, touchpad, etc at a reasonable price. I've been putting off the actual replacement, because pretty well all the innards of the Asus are screwed to the back of said panel, but I bit the bullet yesterday and managed it without too much trouble, apart from an issue where I refitted the SSD incorrectly and I wouldn't boot past the BIOS screen (eventually resolved).
My problem now, never having learned to touch-type, is that pretty well every non-alphanumeric character, plus some of the numeric keys, has a different legend from previously, even though it will still produce the same character. I did think about simply printing some stickers for the rogue keys, but I'm now trying to summon up the courage to lever off a dozen or so keycaps and replace them with the originals from my failed keyboard - after all, what could possibly go wrong? :)
We just burned a DVD.Yule logs are more traditional at this time of year, but with heating bills going the way they are who can blame you.
I've just discovered that there's an IRC client in Thunderbollocks, and it's about as good as the one that used to be built into Mozilla, which is to say 'not very'. (Credit where it's due for giving the option of displaying messages line-by-line as well as supporting the stupid space-consuming speech-bubble user interface that all IRC-like things have to have these days.)
This TIL sponsored by a "WTF is Matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol))?" rabbit-hole.
A mysterious transparent chip has been found in an HP computer, dating back to 1977. Investigations have concluded that the custom chip was formed on a sapphire substrate, making it a silicon-on-sapphire IC. What was it for? Its function was far more mundane than you might expect: It was a support component on a floppy disk controller.
Silicon-on-sapphire may sound somewhat futuristic, but Shirriff’s blog highlights that ICs made this way have been around since 1963 or earlier. A notable example of a silicon-on-sapphire IC is the RCA 1802 processor used on the Galileo space probe that studied Jupiter and its moons.
I have a Raspberry pi, cordially fielding all the weather station’s data and writing a web page (http://tickfield.co.uk/weewx/index.html) with it.
It has been doing this uncomplainingly for 103 days from the time of writing. Is there anything to be said for rebooting the Raspberry pi periodically, or is it better to leave well alone?
Three IT security researchers from Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) glitched Tesla’s driving assistant into activating a powerful “Elon mode” and were able to access the company’s secrets, Spiegel reported. Allegedly, all Tesla models are vulnerable to this attack.
..
They assume all Tesla vehicles are vulnerable to such an attack as they probably all use the same circuit board, even if the owner did not buy the driving assistance system. Researchers themselves were surprised that it was easy to get into Tesla’s secrets.
“What we showed today is that with the voltage fault injection attack, Tesla's intellectual property could be threatened.”
However, the hack requires physical access to the circuit board, removing and reinstalling it without damage, and soldering skills. Therefore, such an attack would not be very practical outside the laboratory.
https://cybernews.com/tech/berlin-researchers-hacked-tesla-autopilotQuote...the hack requires physical access to the circuit board, removing and reinstalling it without damage, and soldering skills. Therefore, such an attack would not be very practical outsidethe laboratorya reasonably well set up garage or lock-up
One second power glitch. Some stuff went off, like this PC, the router and the printer. Some didn't, like the Great Hall PC and the notwork drives.
Confuzzled...
It looks like there is a mass outage for Plusnet broadband.Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it's back. :)
Too late - I've opened the beer :thumbsup:Quote from: JonBuoyIt looks like there is a mass outage for Plusnet broadband.Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it's back. :)
Yes, big global outage apparently.
Cleaner must have un-plugged the authentication server to use the hoover.
When it first happened, I didn't know about the outage, and thought that it had just 'forgotten' my password so I clicked the password re-set link.
That worked up to a point, where it errored out.
So I was left in a state of quantum superposition where my password was changed and not-changed.
When they fixed it, the wave function collapsed on not-changed.
Opera browser: please to be deciding consistently whether to be adding a new tab to the beginning or the end of a tab group ::-)I have to work in Edge - it randomly opens a new tab at start, middle, end. Complete garbage.