Re: What on earth...?
"came into the operatory"
Obviously, a Tory who likes sex whilst at the opera!
Posts by DJV
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US court rules: Just because you can extract teeth while riding a hoverboard doesn't mean you should
Tuesday 21st January 2020 14:19 GMT 
I was once about to have a filling done...
...and the idiot dentist* managed to inject the anesthetic into the back of his hand instead of my mouth.
The way he managed to do that was that he was holding the syringe in his right hand and his left hand was resting on my chin, holding my mouth open. However, before doing the injection he was more interested in yakking about water skiing with the nurse. So, while he was waffling, he was gesticulating with the syringe holding hand and the back of his left hand happened to get in the way. At least he didn't poke the needle in me! Well, not until he'd replaced the bent needle and injected me in the correct place, anyway.
* He left the practice not long after - well, I was certainly going to let him treat me ever again. I suspect I wasn't the only victim who refused to be seen by him again!
Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor
Saturday 18th January 2020 10:45 GMT
@boltar
No, you twat. Read what I wrote.
Here's a longer explanation for boltar and anyone else in the "hard of thinking" camp: My MAIN PC that I use for work updated itself from 1903 to 1909 which broke the File Explorer search so I reverted back to 1903 (and have set it to NOT upgrade for as long as possible). I also have a TEST PC which I use to test the latest Insider install in order to make sure that software I write still works on the latest version and also to report errors to MS when things break. The File Explorer search has been broken since the 1909 update and, despite MS having been informed about this since last September has completely failed to do anything about it. Don't believe me? Try this search and see how many hits it gets:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=1909+File+Explorer+search+broken
Friday 17th January 2020 16:13 GMT
new "improved" search functionality
Yeah, I "downgraded" from 1909 back to 1903 on my main PC because that complete pile of crap. I have a test PC running the latest insider and fire of feedback every so often about the crappiness of File Explorer search. I wish, whenever MS introduce something new/improved, that's give us a tick box that enabled us to put the old (and often still working) version back in. Any feedback from people's use of that switch would be worth keeping the telemetry switched on for!
Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption
Friday 17th January 2020 16:02 GMT
@Teiwaz
A cat my family had in the 1960s* used to sit on an outside window sill and continuously scrape his claws down the window when he wanted to be let in. The sound it made was almost as bad as chalk on a blackboard - you just HAD to let him in to make the noise go away.
(* and long before installing catflaps was a "thing" in the UK)
Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?
Spanking the pirates of corporate security? Try a Plimsoll
Thursday 16th January 2020 10:34 GMT
Absolutely.
And make it something that needs to be regularly reported on to make sure it's up to date - e.g. a bit like updating regular company accounting to Companies House in the UK. If the report is missing/late then alarm bells should start ringing.
Maybe someone (maybe yourself, Rupert?) with access to an intelligent politician (there must be at least ONE around, Shirley!) should attempt to get something moving on having this implemented.
AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace
Wednesday 15th January 2020 16:26 GMT
Re: This is an application!
Oh yes, I remember reading about "The Last One" - some people called it "The Fast One" as "pulling a fast one".
Its notoriety can still be seen around the web in places:
https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic-1981/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
Apple calls BS on FBI, AG: We're totally not dragging our feet in murder probe iPhone decryption. PS: No backdoors
Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls
It's your walkie-talkie Teams mate, over. 'You don't have to say Over, over'. Copy that. Stop making the static noise, over and out
Tea tipplers are more likely to live longer, healthier lives than you triple venti pumpkin-syrup soy-milk latte-swilling fiends
Is it a make-up mirror? Is it a tiny frisbee? No, it's the bonkers Cyrcle Phone, with its TWO headphone jacks
Friday 10th January 2020 23:04 GMT
"Roll"
Yep, I bet it will roll fantastically.
Now, instead of the age-old tedium of dropping your phone onto the pavement/sidewalk and instantly smashing the screen, you will now have the delightful choice of outcomes where you drop it and watch it continue to roll:
a) into the road, where it will miraculously escape all the thundering traffic wheels - though you, chasing it in a panic, won't.
b) into the road and straight down a drain - I wonder if those dual headphone sockets are waterproof...
c) into the road where it will come to rest (wedged more like) in some tram tracks totally unharmed, though you, of course, will be unable to unwedge it before the oncoming tram reduces it (and possibly you as well) to its (and your) component molecules.
d) off the pathway in the local park and onto the grass in front of the man driving the motorised mowing machine. The man is, of course, oblivious to your shouting as he is wearing headphones and listening to a very old Genesis song, yum de dum de dum.
e) off the pathway in the local park and onto the grass before coming to an abrupt halt in a fresh and only partially concealed doggie "present" that the dog's owner couldn't be arsed to bag up and dispose of properly.
f) after its sharper than expected edge has sliced off at least one of your toes as you were stupid enough to wear sandals.
Shhh! It's us, Microsoft. Yes, it's 2020. We're here with a new build of Windows 10
Thursday 9th January 2020 17:08 GMT
Re: XP Home Edition!
Telemetry, broken File Explorer search (since 1909 and insider releases, and MS totally failing to do anything about even though they've known about it since at least September 2019), forced updates (pausing is NO substitute for full control), more telemetry, complete lack of testing by MS (1809 and other problems), an uncustomisable Start Menu (thank goodness for OpenShell!), Explorer random crashes (ok, so that one's been around for ages but THEY STILL HAVEN'T FUCKING WELL FIXED IT!), updates that reset various things I've set up...
...shall I go on?
Dixons fined £500,000 by ICO for crap security that exposed 5.6 million customers' payment cards
Thursday 9th January 2020 18:29 GMT
Appeal
"Baldock added that the company is “disappointed” in some of the ICO’s “key findings” it had previously challenged and “continue to dispute”. He didn’t specify particular areas but is “considering our ground for appeal”."
Yep, let's see them appeal and then get hit with a even bigger fine for being complete twats when they lose!
Eggheads have crunched the numbers and the results are in: It's not just your dignity you lose with e-scooters, life and limb are in peril, too
Xerox grabs $24bn from banking titans to fund hostile takeover of HP Ink
A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable
From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on
SanDisk's iXpand Wireless Charger is the unholy lovechild of a Qi mat and a flash drive
This page is currency unavailable... Travelex scrubs UK homepage, kills services, knackers other sites amid 'software virus' infection
Smart speaker maker Sonos takes heat for deliberately bricking older kit with 'Trade Up' plan
Remembering Y2K call-outs and the joy of the hourly contractor rate
No Motorola Razr comeback orders in 2019: Costly foldy nostalgia mobe pulled back
Monday 30th December 2019 13:30 GMT
Re: Peddle has hit the metal
Sad to hear he has passed on. His spats with Jack Tramiel were quite legendary back in the day.
I loved the story about him having his wife sell the 6501 chips from a jar - apparently, the ones at the bottom were all duff!
https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-legendary-chuck-peddle-inventor-of-the-personal-computer/
A user's magnetic charm makes for a special call-out for our hapless hero
Sunday 29th December 2019 16:51 GMT
Paper tape corruption
Indeed, but, back in the 1970s, I heard a story directly from someone who experienced data corruption on a system that relied on punched paper tapes for program input. After several tapes became corrupt they finally pinned it down to a bored halfwit poking the occasional random extra hole into the tape with a sharp pointy implement.
Five years in the clink for super-crook who scammed Google, Facebook out of $120m with fake tech invoices
'Supporting Internet Explorer is hell': Web developers identify top needs – new survey
Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn
Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?
We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room
Don't pay off Ryuk ransomware, warn infoseccers: Its creators borked the decryptor
Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent
Monday 9th December 2019 13:38 GMT
Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...
One of my previous PCs was an HP with a slightly recessed power button right on one of the top corners. No problem as I wasn't likely to hit it accidentally. However, HP had never reckoned on one of my cats one day deciding the top of the PC looked like a good place for a kip and, with a carefully placed back foot when jumping up, powering off the entire machine while I was working. A thick computer manual resided on top of that PC which was enough to thereafter put the cat off thinking of it as a suitable bed.
Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad!
Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru
Former Oracle product manager says he was forced out for refusing to deceive customers. Now he's suing the biz
Google fell for a real Looker, but now Brit competition watchdog's probing data biz slurp
Explain yourself, mister: Fresh efforts at Google to understand why an AI system says yes or no
Saturday 30th November 2019 15:22 GMT
Re: debuggability
James Nicoll summed it up nicely (or not, depending on your point of view): The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.