Re: I heard that everything in Australia will kill you.
Your comment confused me for a moment there until I realized you were talking about Bruce, not Bruce, Bruce or Bruce...
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A bridge too far: Passengers on Sydney's new ferries would get 'their heads knocked off' on upper deck, say politicos
We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can go wrong
Bunch of mugs keep risking life and limb to 'crockery bomb' sad little roundabout
Putting the d'oh! in Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update
You *bang* will never *smash* humiliate me *whack* in front of *clang* the teen computer whizz *crunch* EVER AGAIN
We've come to wish you an unhappy birthday: Microsoft to yank services from Internet Explorer, kill off Legacy Edge by 2021
Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour
Tuesday 18th August 2020 18:46 GMT 
Re: That's settled, then.
eg TPMS (Tyre Pressure sensors) - they cant operate via a wire - they are in the tyre.
Incorrect. They operate via a long, long spool of wire held in each wheel hub. As the car drives forward the wire unwinds. At the appointed scheduled service, most of the garage’s time is taken up with spinning the wheel backwards for the appropriate “distance” to re-spool the wire.
That’s why it’s so vital to observe the 10,000 mile (or whatever) service interval.
And also why modern cars’ wheels seem to be getting larger and larger - you didn’t think those 20” wheels on your Audi were for ride quality or tyre longevity did you? It’s just so they can fit more TPMS wire in the hub.
Icon, just in case anyone thinks I am serious —->
Farewell to notches and hole-punches? ZTE expected to announce mobe with under-display camera next month
Sun welcomes vampire dating website company: Arrgh! No! It burns! It buuurrrrnsss!
Tuesday 18th August 2020 01:23 GMT
If you’re talking about the company I think you are that has a multiplicity of sites around the Portland area, yep, no-one but the Sales team wears ties, let alone jackets. You’d get really funny looks if you turned up dressed like that.
I do remember one of my old (male) managers once turning up in a pink ballerina tutu (complete with stubble and hiking boots), but that was for some charity thing.
Want to hear our beloved David Attenborough narrate your life? Thanks to the power of machine learning, you can
ZX Spectrum reboot promising – steady now – 28MHz of sizzling Speccy speed now boasts improved Wi-Fi
Friday 14th August 2020 22:51 GMT
Re: An exercise in ‘what if?’
TBH, I do occasionally wonder what would happen if someone borrowed the TARDIS and dropped off some modern programming techniques.
“You’re telling me that in the future it will take 20 GIGABYTES just for an operating system? And a simple word processor will consume GIGABYTES of memory? But at least you have flying cars and a moonbase, right??”
Thursday 13th August 2020 09:05 GMT 
Backed. My first ever kickstarter.
This sounds awesome. Based on their track record I'm confident that it'll be delivered. So much so that I've just created a kickstarter account and backed a project for the first time in my life.
So many happy memories of my Spectrum+ 48K (£179.99, booting it up Christmas morning 1985 and seeing what it could do) and watching Henrique's video for this project gave me a frisson of that old feeling. Fingers crossed. $425 well spent... I hope...!
Well, what are we waiting for? Three weeks later, Windows Embedded Standard 7 still didn't have the answer
Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there
Thursday 13th August 2020 06:07 GMT
Re: Why?
I'm typing this on one of their Internet Pro keyboards - non ergo, but with all the necessary media/browser keys, both USB and PS/2 connectors, and a (USB1, unpowered) hub built in. Still ticking along nicely with nary a fault after about 20 years. And I hold their mice - most of them - in pretty high regard. Credit where it's due.
Nothing will change my opinion that their software's shite, however.
Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running
Thursday 13th August 2020 06:07 GMT
Re: Numbers game
@HildyJ I didn't downvote you either, but I am a little confused. You imply that frame-rate is important to gamers but not refresh rate. Surely the latter needs to be at least equal (or a whole fraction of) the former? No use the GPU redrawing the frame buffer 120 times a second, if the LCD display is only refreshing at half that or less.
Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website
Wednesday 12th August 2020 18:58 GMT
Re: The MP3 codec ruins his music?
I can tell the difference between bit-rates. That's why when I tape-record a song off Dial-a-Disc or long-wave radio, I always encode it to MP3 at 320Kbps or higher. Just sounds awful at anything less.
The only problem I still have is that for the longer songs, my arm gets tired holding the cassette player's speaker next to my laptop's microphone for the duration.
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
Monday 10th August 2020 19:30 GMT
Re: I wonder if...
Well you'd like to think tat, wouldn't you.
If I were cynical though, I'd say that what they'll do instead is restore the data, (maybe) update the antivirus on the PCs and retire their remaining Windows 2000/XP machines, and bumble along exactly as before, while congratulating themselves on their IT smarts.
I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault
Monday 10th August 2020 09:07 GMT
Re: Correlation does not equal cause
Not just IT. It's well-known in the world of automotive repair, too... "Ever since you X, my car Y.
"Ever since you changed my oil, my radio won't pick up Radio 2"
"Ever since you patched my tyre, there's a rattling sound from the door pocket. All I have in there is my collection of pebbles..."
So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk
Monday 10th August 2020 08:54 GMT
Re: Detecting
This is why I like to scan my home system from a different PC, to ensure it looks at every file.
Not if you're scanning the home PC's drive via SMB, surely? Because if there's a rootkit on there, there's no difference as far as the malware is concerned between a local user saying "show me all files in C:\windows", and a remote SMB client saying "please show me all files in \\home-pc\c$\windows".
The only way to be "sure" is to scan the drive offline, mounted in a USB caddy. And yes, I'm aware there's ways malware can sneak past that, too.
Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative
Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC
Chinese ambassador to UK threatens to withdraw Huawei, £3bn investment if comms giant banned from building 5G
Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)
It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?
Two large flightless birds walk into a bar... The pub's owner was not emused *ba-dum tsh*
It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why
Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
Did you see that ludicrous display last night? Bork pays a visit to London's Silicon Roundabout
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