Posts by Martin J Hooper

SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon cleared to hoist real live American astronauts into space

Thanks!!

Was going to ask what time it was BST... Cheers for that!

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

Re: And this is why I don't do cloud based access.

Synology has a camera system for their NAS's as well.

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/surveillance

Not sure if they are cloudy or not though

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution

That sounds like you would need Latex.

That's a system of taking a text file with all the text and formatting information and running through a typesetter. No matter what operating system or printer you use it will generate a pdf that is the same no matter what you use to generate it.

Microsoft pushes out fresh version of '90s throwback PowerToys suite with plenty of fixes – and one nasty bug

Re: "Make it look like Windows 7"

Directory Opus (Pro Version) is the one I use - https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source

Re: Happily using Linux for 20 years

Just going to leave this here for all those people who are saying GIMP doesn't use layers...

https://www.guidingtech.com/use-layers-gimp/

This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station

Is it me does anyone else think Starliner is just a scaled up Apollo?

Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad!

Re: Isn't this also usually followed by...

Press Escape then :q!

That's not saving the file.

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Re: Javascript

Hamburger - Customize menu item, there is a option to turn on the standard menu bar, if that's what your looking for...

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

Re: Ah the good old days

Don't remember doing thing like that but I do remember using a Ceefax/teletext emulator on Econet.

In fact I can still remember how to login on an Econet BBC...

* I AM <UserID>

Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software

Re: Oracle so often reminds me of an Arthur Dent quote

Isn't that Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz?

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims

For more info on the Spamhaus DDOS - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/inside-the-attack-that-almost-broke-the-internet/

More info on this raid - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/german-cops-raid-cyberbunker-2-0-arrest-7-in-child-porn-dark-web-market-sting/

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

Re: That's your problem right there

Then there is the Econet Login:

*i am <user>

One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego

Re: Radiation Leak

The Russians had a nuclear plane too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95LAL

THe US one was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H

Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned

Re: About two billion years ago ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlRZxHeTFU - At the Computer Museum in the US...

They have a complete working 1960's IBM Computer to go with it... :D

Wanted: Big iron geeks to help restore IBM 360 mainframe rescued from defunct German factory by other big iron geeks

Here is an IBM 1401 demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQueCt114Gk

Not sure whether these were after or before the 360's but just as interesting...

Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register

Re: plain black, or maybe 18% gray,

You might want to look at Fences by Stardock - Makes areas of your desktop you can put icons in. They can all shrink up to just the title bar of the Fence.

Nice way to keep clutter of your desktop even though there are tons of icons on my desktop you wouldn't know it by looking!

Is that a stiffy disk in your drive... or something else entirely?

Re: Back in the days

Here's what most likely happened to your CD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc

Slo Mo high speed CD shattering...

Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?

Re: Reliability

I remember the 380Z as being the big black box shaped server in one corner of the room with a load of 480Z's attached to it.

Slow af when the whole class wanted to save at the end of the lesson...

Also remember Econet the BBC Micro network too - Still can remember how to login to that network!

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon

> Therefore, we can strip mine the absolute buggery out of it, and no-one gives a toss

What would happen to the tides and other earth based things based on having a moon up there if we strip mined it so it changed its mass?

The first ZX Spectrum prototype laid bare... (What? It was acceptable in the '80s)

Re: I think what suprised me most...

If you watch the video the wire wrap is mostly on the underside of the board.

Re: Just use emulation

There is an up to date version of Elite now with all the graphical bells and whistles...

https://www.elitedangerous.com/

Brazil bested by hackers, Virgin plugs hub bugs, and France surrenders… records

Re: Could have been useful

I want to be able to add other DNS Servers so I could run a Pi-Hole for blocking ads and such like...

Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics

A video funny that you lot would enjoy I'm sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7hYnMyxyY

Technical Support funny video... You guys I think would like this.

Clunk, bang, rattle: Is that a ghost inside your machine?

Re: Library of Doom

I was hoping someone would mention the Librarian from the Unseen University!

Ook Indeed!

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

Preston Lancashire area fine and working all day....

Russian rocket goes BOOM again – this time with a crew on it

Read on other sites that its the propellant for the thrusters that degrades to water in 200 days. I forget what the scientific name is for the propellant. Could be the seals and washers as well of course.

Using Python in Visual Studio Code? Microsoft has new toys for you

Re: PyCharm

There is a free Community edition now so you get the full on VS experience for free...

Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’

Re: It's about time

You can display the menu...

Goto the customize page and on the bottom of the screen you can get FF to display a menu for you.

It's under the toolbars drop down.

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

Re: 30 per cent faster

Thats what I've found too at loading pages - Most of the legacy extensions I had I could either ditch as I wasn't really using them or they had compatible versions.

Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours

Re: Fight club

Same here - Only streaming plugin I have is Youtube... All the other things I watch are streamed of my other Pi file server

White House 'deeply disappointed' by Europe outlawing Silicon Valley

Re: Tantrum coming in 3, 2, 1...

Not to mention IBM helping the Nazis round up the Jews - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Synology slings patch at buggy NAS boxens

Re: Photo Station isn't limited to Synology

I think the QNAP Photo Station is a totally different one to the one on Synology...

SpaceX signs off on another successful mission with Pacific splashdown

Re: Worm form?

Same here - love reading about the ISS and SpaceX... Hope I'm still around when the Dragon goes up with people on board...

Turbocharged quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed, global geekgasm likely

Nice - Run Kodi Media Centre on one of my Pi's and a more faster one would be nice for the more powerful skins!

Might have to get one of these... As long as I can just swop the SD card out of my Model B....

Authorities swoop on illicit Wolverhampton SPAM FARM

Re: Can we apply this to printed bollocks as well as electronic bollocks?

I agree - I am a Virgin subscriber and I still get the spam thorough the post asking so I want to join up...

Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'

Re: What prevents Linux from conquering the consumer PC market?

CDE Is now open source - Hopefully you can get it working... :D

Antique Nimrod subhunters scrapped – THANK GOODNESS!

Sally-B

Vladimir Sally-B is still flying - Saw her last year...

http://martinjh.homelinux.com/zenphoto/flying-legends/p1000623.jpg.php

http://martinjh.homelinux.com/zenphoto/flying-legends/p1000671.jpg.php

I agree though that some of that Nimrod money could have been put to keeping her flying and all the other WW2 planes still flying!

Virgin Media in talks to trial three strikes regime against P2P

Linux?

Will it effect non pirate p2p? When Fedora and Ubuntu release their latest guess how I'm going to get them...