Posts by AlGodet

Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes

Reminds me of my old Zenith Z89

5"1/4, 100Ko hard sectored. I at that time feared I was the only one in the world to need to use these…

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

The farce started…

… with Brexit, one mustn't forget :)

Eurozone death spiral forces Microsoft to ease UK licensing price hike

Death spiral ????

Where have you seen a death spiral ???? The euro is still 30% higher than its lowest rate, and does not significantly lose anything… You'll need better glasses, or stop listening to some propagandists…

Binary dinosaur drive found alive and breathing fire

Indeed...

... I've got plenty of Harvard Draw, Pagemaker 3/4 and Supercalc files which are plainly readable, but I do not have anymore the software to run them. Well, I have them, but I'd need to install everything back on a Windows 3 virtual machine, which is tedious to do...

iPad's biggest rival? Microsoft's dead Courier

Unable to type on iPad ?

I own an iPad since last June and I type in at about 80% of my speed on a normal keyboard, which is largely sufficient for note typing : there really is no problem with using the virtual keyboard of an iPad, as long as it is in horizontal mode. Oh, and by the way, my job is with using heavily keyboards, as I am a journalist ;)

Well, there is just one thing which is wrong with the iPad (and iPhone with it) : accentuated letters. But as a British/US writer, that is an unknown problem for you...

Fanboi primer: How to move your iTunes from PC to Mac

How come did you get any problem ????

I had the same "issue" about 3 years ago and did the move without a single hitch. I just moved the whole iTunes data folder from Windows to the correct folder (/user/Music/iTunes) on my Mac. Without any single problem. It was never even an issue for me : how have you been unable to do that ????

Even better : I got from my switch all my Google Earth bookmarks and my whole Firefox and Thunderbird environments (including all my mails, of course).

Maybe you should have stayed on Windows :)

Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme

UK and US

It is interesting to see that the countries behind the campaign are :

- UK : which did not use SI until quite recently (about 20 years)

- US : which DOES NOT use SI

Come on guys, get back to bed ! And wake up again when you own backyard is cleaned...

The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline

And what about other countries

It would be nice to have exactly the same charts for other countries like France, Germany, Spain, US or Japan. Then it would be possible to see if UK had lost some of its manufacturing capabilities or not ;)

Personaly, I do think so : where are the (real) British cars, planes, trains (LOL - don't shoot at the ambulance), etc. ?