Posts by Steve Davies 3 7147 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
It was not only RT-11 could support custom hardware.
I wrote many device drivers to allow custom hardware to work with RSX11-D/M/S/M-Plus when I worked at DEC.
The problem child was RSTS/E but that was a time sharing system which is not ideal in any shape or form for running real time programmes.
Apple suffered for years with 'investor' Carl Ichan meddling with their affairs so perhaps it is a tad ironinc that another 'vulture' is taking aim at Samsung when they are reeling from the smartphone battery and exploding washing machines.
From my understanding of Korean economics getting Samsung to sell even one broker brick from a demolished building is virtualy impossible.
This will be worth watching but I fully expect it to fall flat on its head.
Try your local Pawn/Cash converters shop. You'd be surprised what bargains you can get and you don't pay the Apple premium.
Got an iPhone 5s for £90 a month or so back. Runs IOS 10 as well.
Ye, sI know this is an Android thread. You can get decent deals on Android (mostly Samsung) phablets and real tablets as well but make sure you understand what software updates are available (if any) for the device before parting with cash. Apple make it easy (relatively) to check what software will run on any device. You just put the serial number into a webpage and they tell you.
I'm just pointing out a place where tier 1 devices can be legally obtained at a fraction of the original cost.
While I agree with your premise there is one thing wrong about iDevices
You don't have to use iCloud to back up your device. you can do it using iTunes.
Yes I know that iTunes is the sign of the devil but it can be used (provided you scatter the runes in the right way) to backup your iDevice. This saved my other half when her iPhone went through the washer. She backed it up to iTunes the day befofe.
As for Google, don't they want to collect everything you do right down to the smallest detail inorder to feed the insatiable appetite of their AI?
We all know about Slurp (aka Microsoft) sending data to all sorts of MS Owned IP addresses even if the IP is blocked in the hosts file, has Google followed suit with their latest OS?
It would be interesting to know.
If Alphabet has not done this the they could get a lot of Kudos by telling the world.
Just say no to IoT until at least 75% of vendors have done something wrt. security.
At the moment the whole schebang seems to be an open door to the hackers.
If I were a CEO I'd be keeping an eye on development but at the moment it is far too risky. At least that is what I'd hope my lawyers are telling me wrt. Liability Insurance.
melt away today reminds me of how secure Clouds (off premise type) are. i.e. Not.
One minute they are there and the next poof, they are gone.
Be it that you have been hacked or that the cloud provider has seen a JCB slice through their main Fibre Cable, clouds come and clouds go.
Off premise Clouds should be banned for any data that is critical to the running of your company. End of story.
Be it financial or customer details these should not be on an off premise cloud. They are your key assets. If they go, then you business can go TITSUP and you don't want that to happen.
So put them in a cloud but for heavens sake heep it close to your chest.
I am sure that it won't be long before a very well know business shuts up shop because their 'cloud' got hacked and the details released to the big, bad world.
MOD Procurement Executive (or Pisses Everywhere) are the jerks responsible for the jamming gun, boots and every other bit of kit used by the Services.
They could not organise a piss up in a brewery. All they are interested in is screwing suppliers out of all profit. I've overheard to MOD PE people discussing how they could screw down the price of a bit of kit costing £2000 so that the suppliers only made £10 per unit.
Don't need to say more here.
I walked past a VM shop earlier today and they were advertising a deal that was for BB only. No phone line.
In my mind, No phone line means no line rental.
I didn't go in and ask as I was pushing a wheelchair at the time.
It might be worth someone finding out if this is the case.
Ah ha. I see your mistake
What kind of CONTROL does Micro-shaft INSIST on having over our computers?
This is where you are wrong. you might have actually shelled out hard earned £££ for the hardware but the moment you put Windows on it, it is then owned by Microsoft, lock stock and spyware.
They can (and do) what they want to your kit and you have no recourse especially in the USA where the EULA prohibits you from taking legal action against MS.
Get used to it. It will only get worse.
Back in the day, authors used to do 'readings' of their works.
If he did nothing but hosted readings where spoke all the words of his work to an audience then IMHO the 1st Ammendment will cover him from prosecution.
Then he could publish the words (and the audio) he spoke (and only the words he spoke). Again, the 1st Ammendment will cover him because it is a verbatum record of what he spoke.
Well, thats my IANAL view of things.
I'm sure the DMCA supporters will be thinking differently.
Be careful what I wish for?
Can the 'Big One' [1] strike today or tomorrow?
The huge Earthquake that is well overdue. That will focus the minds of bosses on survival rather than the management merry-go-round where they decimate a company, move on to another and rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat. They only seem to know how to run a business into the ground and don't even try to grow them.
Top down culling?
So you have never has a PHB as your boss?
Never has a CEO talk absolute crap to the workers about 'your job is safe' because you know full well that the company taking your employer over only wants the IP and will move the jobs offshore ASAP?
etc
etc
etc
A bad boss (As evidenced by what is happening to HP) can drive a company into the dust yet all the time, the CEO (and 'C' level execs) are spouting forth total rubbish about the way forward for the company.
OTOH, there are a lot of Americans who are Republican through and through who are not going to vote for DT simply because it is DT and they regard him as unsutable to be President.
His rants about a woman who my have appeard in a porn film and dared to speak up against him are pitiful but large parts of (Sad to say this) 'Trailer Trash American' will lap it up. Many of them won't vote for Hillary because she is a woman and they still think that a woman's place is in the home.
Sad to say, I think he will win and that won't be good for anyone but Trump and his pal Putin.
Just watch Dr Strangelove for my opinion of him.
A High tide of 01:00 on the West side of the UK will not be the same state of tide on the east.
Go look at tide tables and see what I mean if you don't believe me.
Find High tide Times for say Liverpool and Dover.
IMHO, more river powered generators (especially on the Severn) would provide a very distributed set of power generation. Sure not many MW but they will run day in day out and cost very little once installed.
The Thames alone had more than 20 water mills upstream of Teddington.
I does not take a genious to imagine bringing the head of water (ie weirs) that exist to this day and generating power from it.
Renewable Yes
Works 24/7 Yes and even when the wind does not blow.
There are other places to stay apart from 'resort hotels'.
Small hotels where they speak little or no English are great places to stay and even (Shudder) converse with the locals.
Besides, who really wants to go abroad and meet the same people you ignore on the tube for 200+ days a year.
Well said. you are spot on about London.
I have managed to avoid having to work in London (viz City/West End) for my whole working life despite living less then 40 miles from Bank.
No one has ever wanted to talk to each other. Now with every other person wearing (usually white) ear buds there is even less incentive to open your gob.
to us, the end users. For them it will end up being cost neutral.
My guess that we will all pay at least £1.00/month more.
My gripe is that these cost differences (fibre vs non fibre) will further push back the day when we might (yes I'm dreaming) get FTTH instead of FTTC.
There is just no incentive, actually a disincentive to put Fibre in now.
If you ain't got it now then my guess is that you ain't gonna get it.
All we need is for a Starbucks barrista to pour hot coffee in Theresa May's lap for their tax affairs to get properly investigated.
You are assuming that said barrista actually makes enough money to get the HMRC interested.
Oh wait, the barrista does not have a political influence (i.e. donor to Labour or Conservative) so is fair game.
Just remenber the change in the $/£ exchange rate after that little episode in June this year.
Remember BREXIT? The pound took a hammering.
Two year ago it was around $1.65/£1 now it is around $1.30/£1.00
The £/yen price alsot took a hit. My new Camera was suddenly 12% more expensive.
The reason I know is that my company iPhone (5s) goes back on Friday when I leave that job and was looking around for a new phone. I ended up getting a second hand iPhone 6 from a pawn shop.
are from supposedly IT Literate people (El Reg commentards).
Please spare a thought for those who aren't like us and got W10 forced upon them and they didn't have the skills (or the gumption) to realised they could back out.
These are the unfortunate victims of Microsoft in 2016.
Make it you good deed for the day/week/month and resuce them from the prison sentence that is Windows 1.0.
you know it makes sense.
Didn't you get the message? We are all supposed to use BT/Wireless devices in our ears now.
I'll stick with my pair of Stenn studio cans (1/4 jack) for use at home. For some reason they plug straight into my Amp.
Vinyl sounds great through them.
I picked up a 1st press copy of 'Sticky Fingers' at a car boot last month for £0.50. Hardly ever been played.
He might be as you say 'retarded' but people are gonig to vote for him in their millions.
his rhetoric has made them beleive that there is indeed a 'terrorist under every bed, on every sttreet corner etc' and that the 'Mexicans are going to invade next week'.
Repuplican voting friends of mine are going to go into the pollings station in november and vote for Hillary. They don't like her but at least they have the sense to know that DT will be bad for the USA.
Now if Hillary does get elected, one or two are expecting that the GOP controlled Senate and Congress to start impeachment proceedings before next April.
There truly is something rotten in the colonies.
so you want all those farmers who sell direct to the public to move into the Cities? (ok, so I'm being simplistic)
What happens to your organic lavender rub then?
I know some small businesses that work perfectly well running their business from out in the sticks. They adapt and eveolve their methods to cater for slow BB speeds.
One of these has been managing very well since that days of Dial-up/ Remember them? He never got more than 19.2Kbits from his home. That didn't stop him and not having 20Mbits now is not stopping him from making shed loads of money.
It can be done. People can adapt and innovate.
Well said. People want to use their computers to do stuff.
IMHO, the OS is a tool that just needs to facilitate that operation. It does not need to be a nanny and try to help/get in the way. Oh how did we ever manage with good old Dos eh?
I have to conclude that your downvote was probably due to the fact that you mentioned Apple and didn't slag them off which seems to be the norm aroyund here these days. It does not matter that the news item we are discussing is about Microsoft. I know that this will gather even more downvotes for trying to inject a modicum of reason but that's life ain't it....
In my Computer Museum
I have the stack of cards that I wrote my first big program on sitting in my display cabinet. All 1467 punched cards plus the George III JCL.
Next to them is the punched tape that contains the source to me 1975 Degree project.
Finally there is a flyer for the rather special 32bit Mini that I worked on in the mid 1980's.
My grandkids shake their heads in disbelief when they hear about how we loaded a bootstrap into a PDP-11 through the front panel.
Things have come a long way in the past 45 years.
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