Posts by MJI

My fortnight eating Blighty's own human fart-powder

Re: Ginsters

I take it then that you have never tried Pork Farms or Walls.

Ginsters are not great but they are better than a lot of similar packeted foods.

We can't all live in Cornwall.

Ginsters 5/10, Pork Farms 2/10, Rowes 9/10, my Mums were 10/10

Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware'd Google Smart TVs

Re: If I wanted my bloody TV to be smart...

I do the same, but got a PS4 as well.

A boy has also worked out how to avoid malware sites, he goes there first on his Vita and looks for web page errors.

Re: I'll stick to...

Seen those and wondered, now I know why they are so cheap.

I paid a lot for top end picture processing, good upscaling and good build quality.

Oh and mine runs a form of Linux and the network is not plugged into it.

Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable

If I was a PC seller

I just would not bother selling there

Murdoch's 21st Century Fox agrees £18.5bn Sky takeover deal

Don't blame me!

Don't get his TV, nor his papers, definately did not vote for him in June.

And most newspapers now are getting a pain to read with their partisanship

Easier just to find another interest

I gave up when BBC stopped showing all races live, now I just do not care.

The rush to pay TV is killing the sport

168 year old paper

So nearly as old as Murdoch then.

Rogue One: This is the Star Wars back story you've been looking for

Re: Alistair Reynolds

A very good writer, answers readers, some very clever ideas.

And some horror, especially with the captured pilot in a cylinder.

Re: Now if someone were to film Ian Banks culture novels

Iain M Banks

OpenStreetView? You are no longer hostage to Google's car-driven vision

Confusing header in article

OS Map fan

Yes many of us are fans of OS maps

From Ordnance Survey

I spent ages looking for the bit about Ordnance Survey!

EU dings Sony, Panasonic over rechargeable battery cartel

One quick question

Do Sony, Panasonic, and Sanyo batteries explode anything like Samsung batteries?

Higher tech prices ARE here to stay. It's Mr Farage's new Britain

Re: In the dark ages

That is not the Transit engine, two completely different engines, only thing in common is capacity and maker.

Re: Brexit means brexit.

Gove did mean well, but he failed. He is not evil, few are. Actually 95% of politicians are there to try to improve the world, 90% fail.

5% are there for reasons of power, not public service.

A few are idiots (Thornberry, Abbot)

Quite a few are lead by religious views (May, Farron, Owen Thingy)

There are a few dinosaurs (Corbyn)

A lot try and fail (Cameron, Clegg)

A small number are power hungry (Blair)

And a very small number are worth listening to (Clarke, Field)

Education, well it has been messed around with for years, a lot of it political dogma overcoming common sense.

I was at a streamed comprehensive, worked pretty well, my daughter a grammar (very good), boys an academy (OK). Now the left hate streaming and helping those of ability, the right support it.

Re: In the dark ages

Not nice, petrol engines as well, they would have been better off with resonance intakes than swirl flaps.

All the issues modern engines are getting is scary.

Then add in dual mass flywheels, the rush to fewer cylinders will also increase drive train shocks.Then the extended service intervals (this killed quite a few GM V6s).

Beancounters are also a serious threat with their penny pinching costing future owners hundreds of pounds. (GM valve seals, save pence, need replacing), my pet hate is plastic head dowels.

I also reckon dual clutch gearboxes will be a time bomb in a few years.

Re: In the dark ages

Known Ford engine troubles

2.7 V6 Diesel is unreliable (cranks ect). (In D3)

3.0 V6 Petrol eats little ends (in X Type, owner traded on quickly aftter being told it was common)

2.2 and 2.4 Transit Diseasels are unpleasant and not very long lasting. (In Defender, even TD5 more reliable and definately a nicer engine). Yes done LR experience.

As to BMW

BMW Diesels eat swirl control flaps, But smooth and quiet

That Cologne V6 BTW is underpowered, and not as nice as what GM used in their cars (Senator 3.0 6). - and the DOHC was not as nice as the 2.0 Family 2 either.

I would put GM way ahead on engines over Ford

Re: Today's Brexit news

@ codejunky

From chats among people I know, no UKIP support I know of, but there is definate interest in LD from both Lab and Con sides.

Re: Brexit means brexit. Mail & Express

Hopefully Express will shut down soon, I do not know of any purchasers (only ex readers)

I try to avoid both papers commentards as I do not want high blood pressure. (Nor to be lynched)

Best avoided by avoiding both sites.

Re: Brexit means brexit. Mail & Express

Well his mouth must be pretty foul.

Re: In the dark ages

Hmm cars

Mine was designed under UK ownership, released under German ownership, sold under US ownership, and the company is now Indian.

At least the engine compartment was too short for a BMW engine, and the Ford engines too unreliable to use.

What a palava.

Re: Today's Brexit news

It is really bad for the more centrist Conservative supporting Remainers, there is a large number of them, I reckon many on here are as well.

UKIP to them is an extremist party, I expect many are looking at the Lib Dems now with interest.

Re: Brexit means brexit. Mail & Express

Interesting to see these two

Mail used to be a case of joking about it, not much changed there. Still a joke, obsessed with celebrities. Irrelevant I suppose.

But the Express, used to be an OK paper, a bit better than Mail and a bit obsessed with Princess Diana, but now, it is nothing but a hate rag, I feel dirty just seeing the headlines, same feeling as you get from a bad copy of the Sun. You get the feeling they want to line any non hard exit from EU people up against the wall and shoot them. What the hell went on there to turn it from OK (not good, not shit), straight past gutter and right into sewer press.

Kentucky pried chicken: Fried grease chain's loyalty club hacked

Make McDonalds look like quality food

Greasy fatty chicken which has died of old age.

I don't understand why it is so popular

Was not in military

So call him Mr

Pluck-over-success underdog hires Olympic ski jumper as Xmas bash speaker

Are you sure?

He was not there to plaster the place?

Good plasterer I have heard and loves not being recognised.

Oh and Cheltenham based.

Was a local hero

Busted Windows 8, 10 update blamed for breaking Brits' DHCP

BT Home hub here

Works fine here on XP, 7, Mint, Orbis OS, Cell OS, and what ever is on a Vita

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

Re: This website has ruined my life

errr

isn't it railway station?

Brits think broadband more important than mobes, cars or savings

Re: "Great" Britain and the USA have so much in common

>> Where do you get your porn?

The hedge?

Fewer young people learning to drive

But use their internet all the time.

This will skew the figures over time as well.

90 per cent of the UK's NHS is STILL relying on Windows XP

Blame MS for writing a working OS with XP

They produce an operating system which runs programs.

A program I ran on my XP machine produces

Unsupported 16-Bit Application

then too much blurb for me to type in.

The language was extrememly popular in the 90s for database applications, I know of at least one large hospital system written in it (I knew the head programmer).

DOS 6.22

MUDOS fine

Real/32 fine*

WFW fine*

95 fine*

98 fine*

NT4 with some issues*

2000 fine*

XP fine*

Vista 32 with some major issues*

W7 32 with showstopping issues (NETBIOS)

W7 64 no hope

* running client server as well!

W7 32 was killed off due to killing off IP support for the program which provides client server access.

We do factory software.

So what did we do in the real world?

Vista - upgrade to XP, or run in a low resolution mode

W7 - tough, we tried, at first use your XP PCs, later test our new Windows software.

Huge DOS system, it took over 5 years to get into a viable WIN32 version. MS does not understand the software industry, you buy software to do a job, not because it is written in X.

It did not help that.

MS broke a lot of compatalitiy with Vista onwards.

Our old system runs on DOS based systems, 2000 and XP, our current system XP and on.

XP can run more software than almost any other OS.

This is why it refuses to go away

Take that, creationists: Boffins witness birth of new species in the lab

Some organisations who understand evolution.

Church of England

Catholic Church

CofE is interesting as they split religion and science.

And this is an interesting link

http://episcopalscience.org/creation-science/

What's in Hammond's box? Autumn fallout for Britain's tech SMBs

I was hoping it may have been about

Richard

With his annoying car.

Plastic fiver: 28 years' work, saves acres of cotton... may have killed less than ONE cow*

Re: Is there a petition to insist that we DON'T change the new £5 note?

signed

parts per million

So why are they moaning?

Do they eat the money?

Windows 10 market share growth just barely has a pulse

I wonder where XP is currently

Especially as it refuses to die

Brexit means Brexit: What the heck does that mean...

Re: Goldsmith lost in Richmond because of it. Apparently.

Yes it was a full 4% for her to be the MP until the end of time.

get it tight a referendum <> vote for an MP

One is a permanent change the other a 5 year term

Tobacco giant predicts the end of smoking. Panic ensues

I just do not trust tobacco companies at all

Completely not trusted, they are only in it for themselves and no one else.

As to enclosed spaces, smoking is bad, but when it comes to obnoxious smells not enough exposure to vapers to know yet, but no one mentions the strong perfume/aftershave, the egg sandwich addict, these are pretty horrible in an enclosed room.

So you have a few groups.

The anti tobacco people

The anti smoking AND vaping people

The anti air pollution people

If someone is anti vaping AND trapped with egg sandwiches OK, but if they hate vaping and accept those sandwiches, they are being anti the people.

UK Parliament waves through 'porn-blocking' Digital Economy Bill

They wanted to go even further

With their databases, ID cards, and 28 day detention

Re: Stazi

Various politicians listed.

So who can we trust our country to?

I do like the Nut(al) reference, covers a few.

Re: Stazi

I have commented about the centre disappearing before.

Cons are lurching toward Authortarian, Lab never really left it (ID cards and such). Lab also heading left with Comrade Corbyn, and Cons are still more or less where they were.

Lib Dems are more Liberal but not sure about their other policies.

Just who can we vote for?

Stazi

They would have loved this.

Why are we becoming a Police state?

Vegans furious as Bank of England admits ‘trace’ of animal fat in £5 notes

Re: Fighting your way to the top of the food chain?

Humans cannot digest grass, sheep and cows can.

Grass can grow on hill farms when very little else will.

Loyalty card? Really? Why data-slurping store cards need a reboot

Re: Nope

The One Ronnie was an actual programme

Re: Nectar

Erm I do not buy it, I buy decent British Ciders

Nectar

I once got £90 back on ONE Ebuyer transaction!

Also Homebase, Ebay, BP and Sainsburies.

Not too bad.

So what if they know I buy certain things, just do not use a card for anything embarrasing like US Lager.

100k+ petition: MPs must consider debating Snoopers' Charter again

Re: Oh dear

Oooooops

That is me on the list!

However email tracking is also mentioned, how will this be done?

Passengers ride free on SF Muni subway after ransomware infects network, demands $73k

Spam them?

They give an email address, fill their inbox with spam

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

Very bad for the libertarian centre right

You know, the sort of people who believe in small government and personal freedom.

There is now no one to vote for, possibly Lib Dems but their new leader is not great on personal freedoms, and they are still a little left.

The Conservatives are travelling down an authortarian route they should never take, are they trying to out UKIP, UKIP?

To the left supporting people, do not assume all right wing people are the same, the idea of voting UKIP to many is as abhorrent as voting for any extremist party.

The natural politics of this country is the centre ground, with the parties now competing on how much they can control us.

Why can they not let us just get on and live our lives?

Deliver-oops! Takeaway pusher's customers burger-ed by hijackers

Re: Only just saw proof they are bunch of cowboys

If I wanted something similar we have a local company who does similar, but then most companies deliver anyway

I expect bike food users got a cold meal.

Reg man 0: Japanese electronic toilet 1

Re: Toilet dreams

Not less cheese but less water