Posts by Bit Brain

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

Re: Bats..

Yeah, except for the fact that they always announce the winners of the WS as "World Champions".

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

I learnt on WordStar 4 Professional back when I was on a YTS course at Basingstoke ITeC. The first time I encountered WordPerfect I was so confused to be met with a blank screen.

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

A:\> Copy CON autoexec.bat

Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

When I saw the title I thought he was just going to run drain.com which would have been much easier

The boss worked in a fishbowl, so office tricks were a treat

Re: Does this count?

And everyone clapped and the manager comped your meal

UK umbrella payroll firm Giant Pay confirms it was hit by 'sophisticated' cyber-attack

For anyone with Giant who need to submit timesheets, I just got an email saying the portal is back up. Text verification codes didn't work for me, but email codes did.

Go to L: A man of the cloth faces keyboard conundrum

Re: Font recommendations

I've always been a fan of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

https://www.dafont.com/bitstream-vera-mono.font

Asus ROG Phone 3: An ugly but refreshing choice – for gaming fans only

"Colours feel a bit washed out and saturated."

Surely these are the opposite of each other?

Baby Yoda stowed away on Crew Dragon, boards International Space Station

It is the way

"Where I go, he goes"

Long-term Linux Mint: 19.3 release unchains the Gimp, adds HiDPI, is kind to your older, less-beefy kit

Re: My old Dell Latitude D630 laptop

Runs nicely on my old ThinkPad T430 (with SSD upgrade) as well.

We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory

Re: TV remake

A few years back a friend came over to visit from Japan and I showed her an episode of Monkey (she'd grown up with the original Japanese version). She thought the English dub was absolutely fantastic. She said that the voice actors really captured the essence of the characters.

The life and times of Surface, Microsoft's odds-defying fondleslab

Re: Couldn't trust OEMs

Or the Lenovo Miix series? Picked one up yesterday and I love it. I was considering a Surface Pro 4 but after trying the stylus I prefer the Wacom AES solution to N-Trig.

Huge flying arse makes successful test flight

I grew up a few miles from Farnborough. When I was little our house had a flat roof and we used to sit on the roof and watch the displays from the air show flying over. The Red Arrows used to fly directly over our house, as did Concorde.

Would have been nice if you'd included some pics of said test flight.

I managed to get a few shots as it passed our house in Bedford.

http://i.imgur.com/xscAj7f.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vNHjSiB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7pHaFbu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QItUkCA.jpg

Linus Torvalds says Linux 4.10 just 'blew up' as rc6 bloats

Re: I'm...

It obviously interested you enough for you to click on the article *and* leave a comment.

After Burner: Sega’s jet-fighting, puke-inducing arcade marvel

Re: I have to disagree on the Amiga version being bad.

"if one arcade machines music could be heard cutting well above the cacophony of all the others it was always Outrun."

Or Tron.

Re: I have to disagree on the Amiga version being bad.

"I have to disagree on the Amiga version being bad.

In fact I will go as far as to say, it was the most faithful recreation of the game,PERIOD!"

No, that honour goes to the Saturn version on Sega Ages.

The Steve Jobs of supercomputers: We remember Seymour Cray

Re: Pretty sure...

3 different companies did the CGI for Tron. According to the "The New Magicians" episode of the old TV series Equinox, one of them used the X-MP.

Want to download free AV software? Don't have a Muslim name

"I just hope they didn't try to download any anti-virus software."

Good point. I wonder how well AV software copes with someone connecting a PowerBook to an alien wireless network and typing "upload virus".

Oh look – Office Mobile apps to go with your shiny Windows 10

Not just viewers

"While the Office Mobile apps are free to download, however, to actually edit documents and create new ones you'll need an Office 365 subscription. Otherwise, the apps are little more than glorified Office document viewers"

Not true. On small tablets you have editing functionality without a subscription.

You’re NOT fired: The story of Amstrad’s amazing CPC 464

I think the large borders were to accommodate the amount of overscan on some cheaper TVs.

Some programmers were able to use nonstandard resolutions though; the Amstrad version of Arkanoid used a full-screen mode for its intro (albeit only displaying a starfield and some scrolly text) and portrait mode for the game.

http://youtu.be/y_aD7gfomQo

El Reg Contraption Confessional No.1: The Dragon 32 micro

Re: I've still got my Dragon32

Never had a Dragon 32 but I did have another short-lived Welsh-made home micro, the MGT Sam Coupé. Still have that one in the loft in its original box. :)

Microsoft bans XXXXBOX gamers for CURSING in online combat

BZZZZZT!

You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

Radioaficionados españoles: Echadnos una mano

Ethethethetheth sminky pinky Chris Waddle.

Reelin' in the years: Tracking the history of magnetic tape

Re: @RobHib - It's not only remanence, remember the Ampex 456 scandal.

There's a good article on Wendy Carlos' site about this problem. Luckily she was able to rescue the master tapes for her Tron soundtrack. :D

Virgin Media signs 3-year telly deal with BT Sport

Not too fussed about the BT Sports channels…

…but I'm so glad to have ESPN back. I was getting withdrawals after ESPN America closed down. Luckily I have an Apple TV and a subscription to MLB.tv but missed shows like Baseball Tonight.

Webcam stripper strikes back at vicious 4Chan trolls after year of bullying

Re: Go girl ......

I think you mis-typed the URL for the Daily Mail website.

Virgin Media blames scruffy students for HUGE drop in cable subscribers

They're going to notice another large drop now that they've fucked up getting BT Sports on cable.

Mozilla to Apple: we don't care about iOS

Setting default apps

"> Any link in email or another app therefore opens in Safari, even when Chrome is present.

The Android approach is to present the user a choice every time a relevant link or file is tapped... ie, click a link, and asked which browser to use. Is there any way to set a 'default action' in Android?"

Either click the checkbox for "always use" or click the "always use" or "this time only" button, depending on how old a verzion of Android you're using. IIRC the latter method is valid for ICS and later.

Kirk to beam up chat with ISS astronaut on Thursday

Re: Look, lets sort this out...

Now that's a reality show I'd actually watch.

Little spider makes big-spider-puppet CLONE of itself out of dirt

4/1?

"Agreed - 4/1 come late this year? It's not like we've never seen boffins pulling our collective legs before after all..."

What does the 4th of January have to do with anything?

Google to devs: Fragmenting Android is AGAINST THE RULES

Re: RAM issue

Jelly Bean (in the form of CyanogenMod 10) runs quite nicely on my creaky old Galaxy S.

Sony turned off by CEA's 'Ultra HD' TV label

How about Retina TV. Oh, wait…

iPad Mini vs Nexus 7: inch makes all the difference, says Apple CEO

Re: Dear Tim Cook,

Anyone who's been using Apple kit for any length of time knows that you never buy any 1st gen Apple device anyway; you always wait for rev.2 kit.

Iffy image said to signify incoming 10in Google tablet

Re: hope it's true

No need to queue overnight if Ebuyer send them out a week early again like they did with the N7.

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

Re: Optional @John 104

Last time I checked he's not a US citizen, so how the fuck can he be a traitor?

HTML5 isn't Facebook's 'biggest mistake'

Re: HTML5 is actually a mistake

Good grief! Do you actually talk like that?

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

Re: Preaching to the wrong crowd...

“Print is dead!”

Thank you, Dr Spengler.

“…their two penneth worth…”

Brought to you by the Department for Redundancy Department.

Are you 12 years old or something?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Re: Buy an old N64 just for this? Naah

“I’d buy an N64 just for Goldeneye, so if i can grab this game for 15 quid too, massive bonus.”

You spelled “Perfect Dark” incorrectly. ;-)

BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans

Re: "Soon" ?

Flash may be back, but it’s not available for devices running Jelly Bean.

Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case

Re: google groupies, hankies to the ready!

Didn’t have the balls to post under your username then?

Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power

Re: I'm beginning to like the BOFH solution

"We take representatives from Apple and Samsung, and while we're at it, representatives from the Patent office and other litigious patent holders. We lock them in a room with a half brick each and declare the last man standing as the winner…”

…and then engage the halon system.

Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids

Re: Got mine last friday (13th)

Got mine from Ebuyer last week as well. There are 162 left when I ordered mine.

Cockfighting Reg hack cursed with cancer

I'll take the chihuahuas please

My pet rats could do with a light snack.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail

Oh fuck off, Apple!

(posted from my MacBook)

Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes

Wow! A whole 5 days' training?

That should prevent any mistakes, right?

Head over Heels

One of my favourite games on the Amstrad CPC

I loved this game, although I never managed to complete it.

Auto-correct cock-up sends schools into lockdown

Takes "damn you, autocorrect!" to a whole new level.