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Posts by StuartMcL
67 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2009
Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise
Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
Re: Replace "Beginner" with "casual programmer" and I am 100% on board
@Bsquared "I would love to have a clean, intuitive programming language like BASIC that would run on my Windows workstations and let me hack quick, simple programs together with simple GUIs.."
I do that frequently with PowerBASIC :)
(Sadly no longer available for purchase)
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify
Tiny solid-state battery promises to pack a punch in pocket gadgets
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script
Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?
Boffins fool AI chatbot into revealing harmful content – with 98 percent success rate
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author
Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries
> f you need to do gigs on a mobile, then you are a far bigger loser than the money it costs.
In many parts of the world , including mine, mobile data is the only internet access that the vast majority of the population has access to.
In fact it's the only internet access that many businesses have as well.
(Guess ththat makes me a loser.)
Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault
With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo
Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars
SO which is it?
"and immediately realized they had stumbled on something unique when they looked closer."
Just how did they determine that it was "one of a kind" in the entire Universe?
"Now, the team is on a lookout to find more of these newborn star streaks in space."
If it's unique, there's no point in looking for more.
Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead
Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12
Take the morning off because Outlook has already
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam
Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too
Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms
Mozilla drags Microsoft, Google, Apple for obliterating any form of browser choice
Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch
Microsoft warns of bugs after nation pushes back DST switchover
Re: Hard Coding Ahoy
It's just a set of Registry values in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\<ZOne name>
The full zone info is stored in a 44 byte TZI structure in each zone's entry
The problem is that Chile doesn't have its own zone entry, it is considered to be under "Pacific SA Standard Time."
It's probably time that MS created a separate Zone entry for Chile considering the number of times they have changed. That's easy enough to roll out with the next update, but every machine in Chile would need to have it's regional settings changed to the new zone.
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry
Re: Is 500°C (932°F) hot enough?
Don't worry about the lizard people. They've already answered that question:
https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-drilling-questions/
Could this unleash the lizard people that inhabit the inner sphere?
How do we know they did not already drill up using this technology and are already amongst us?
Tesla to disable 'self-driving' feature that allowed vehicles to roll past stop signs at junctions
Time to party like it's 2002: Acura and Honda car clocks knocked back 20 years by bug
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log
Australian government in talks to buy Pacific Islands' top telco
Re: Byzantine?
"If there is a buyout, the Pacific nations will have to revert to cheaper, faster, more reliable HF telephones"
Not in the largest market (PNG). They'll just switch back to Telikom as many former Digicel subscribers have done over the last year or two.
As an aside, the fact that Digicel currently uses Huawei equipment is going to make it an expensive exercise giving the Aus antipathy to it.
It's about time! NASA's orbital atomic clock a boon for deep space navigation – if they can get it working for long enough
10 million year test?
> " NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock loses one second every 10 million years, as proven in controlled tests on Earth."
Proven? You mean it's been running for 10 million years? It will still be running in 5 million years time and will have lost 1/2 a second?
I suspect they mean "lost time at a rate ot one second per 10 million years over a trial period" which is a very different matter..
Calendly’s new logo perceived as either bog-standard or kind of crappy
Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code
Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling
FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateur math and software codebreakers
BCC is hard, OK? Quite a lot of orgs blurted your email addresses in GDPR mailouts
In Pegasus Mail:
Options - Sending Mail - Checkbox 'Suppress BCC listings when sending mail" should be checked!
To quote David Harris:
"Suppress BCC field listings in outgoing mail BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) is a useful, but poorly-standardized feature. There are at least four ways a BCC field could be written into a message:
It could be omitted altogether
It could be present, but contain no addresses at all
It could contain only each individual recipient's address
It could contain the addresses of all people receiving the BCC
All of these methods have adherents and detractors. By default, Pegasus Mail lists all the BCC recipients in the BCC field of mail it sends: if you would prefer that no addresses were shown in the field, then check this control. When this option is turned on, the BCC field will simply contain the text "(Suppressed)", without any addresses."