Re: Big credit
Doh! way, way before the mouse was the trackball invented in the UK and patented in 1947 and before the trackball was the joystick.
Posts by Dagg
699 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2010
Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?
BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage
Lotus Notes refuses to die, again, as HCL debuts Domino 12
Wednesday 9th June 2021 05:26 GMT 
It worked and did what was needed
When I first used Notes in the 90s it was a one stop shop. Email, database and project workflow etc.
I'm now using outlook, slack, Atlassian JIRA and Confluence to provide the same level of functionality.
The once other feature that notes had that was extremely useful in the days of dialup and Slooow links was it could replicate.
Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet
New Zealand hospitals infected by ransomware, cancel some surgeries
Thursday 20th May 2021 04:16 GMT
Re: detach attachments?
You are making an assumption that is was a nurse...
Could be a Doctor, cleaner, admin person. It could have been a MANAGER! Some of those are the the worst, they are an excellent example of the peter principle!
Remember "Those who can do, those who can't teach and those who have no bloody idea manage."
Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway – report
Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET
Friday 7th May 2021 05:18 GMT
Hell I'm still using MFC
I'm maintaining a legacy system using VS 2017 and MFC. It runs under W10.
It is written using MFC and does exactly what the clients want. Is not sexy but it is a form fits function type of application. To rewrite in something newer and sexier would take considerable cost, time and effort.
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose
The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout
Monday 18th January 2021 04:22 GMT
Re: Modern problems
"interference free" recommended bulb
That is not actually that wrong. I've had problems with a no name cheap mains powered LED bulbs causing RF interference. Mate had problems with loss of signal on a digital TV that only occurred at night. It turns out it was the bulb in the upstairs hall.
Replaced it with a better brand name and no more interference.
Japan sticks the landing: Asteroid sample recovered from Hayabusa2 probe
Considering the colonisation of Mars? Werner Herzog would like a word
Thursday 26th November 2020 04:44 GMT
Re: There’s hope yet!
EV you don't get the advantage of heating as byproduct
The whole process is NOT 100% efficient, the waste is heat and that could be used to heat the passenger compartment.
The big issue is in the hot climates you will need to use energy for cooling. It is not fun in a car with no cooling at 40c plus.
Ho-ho-heave ho! IBM warns Global Business Services staffers of that most festive of things: A 45-day redundancy programme
When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube
Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs
She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 07:12 GMT
Re: What the Hell Has Happened to IBM?
I left ibm 10 years ago while they were busy outsourcing all of my team to a certain country. I was totally sick of herding cats, cleaning up baby sick and trying to keep customers happy and on side.
Best thing I did, stress levels dropped and I was actually respected for what I did in my new job.
Nothing that I have seen or heard since has changed my mind...
0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'
'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport
Digital pregnancy testing sticks turn out to have very analogue internals when it comes to getting results
This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over
Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'
How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites
Belief in 5G conspiracy theories goes hand-in-hand with small explosions of rage, paranoia and violence, researchers claim
Tuesday 23rd June 2020 05:38 GMT
Nah, the lower frequencies are worse
Just look at the damage caused by AM radio. In Australia all the talk back radio and shock jocks are on AM and the amount of hate and damage that is caused is considerably worse than any thing 5G can come up with.
And then consider the ELF band! Able to bring down aircraft especially around the Harold E Holt naval communications centre.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/navy-base-may-have-caused-qantas-mishap-20081114-66mi.html
Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault
Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology
Australian contact-tracing app sent no data to contact-tracers for at least ten days after hurried launch
We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump
Elevating cost-cutting to a whole new level with million-dollar bar bills
US govt 'told Germany that Chinese spies bug' Huawei 5G kit. It also told the world Iraq had WMDs ready to deploy...
What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction
Wednesday 29th January 2020 01:45 GMT
Re: Dummies guide:
Maybe play about with it before you comment?
So it will support all of my MFC UI code, my ProC Oracle database access code and other such UI and DAL interfaces?
Over the last 30 years very little of the C/C++ code I have written has been 'pure', for it to work under WebAssembly it would have to have the UI and the DAL rewritten.
Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!
Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls
BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret
Tuesday 14th January 2020 04:29 GMT
Re: 'You brought nothing to the party but a six pack of regret?'
"Country Music is just sittin' on the floor drinkin' a bottle of Jack Daniels with the big, lonely, salty tears pourin' down your cheeks -"
Its like when you play a country music record backwards.
* Your Truck starts
* Your dog comes back from the dead
* And your Wife / Girl friend comes back to you
Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?
Friday 10th January 2020 02:34 GMT
>Seriously what could you possibly have a problem with after all this time?
Consumer applications that only only run on Windows such as retail POS, warehouse, pharmacy, doctors surgery management software etc.
It might be possible to move these to the cloud, but the costs involved are high especially for specialist applications with a small installed user base such that it would not be currently economic.
Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader
Tuesday 31st December 2019 04:40 GMT
Yes In Australia it ended up being a non event because people like me did things like working bloody hard for 18 months replacing a banking package fly in fly out for a regional bank.
I ended up with an absolutely obscene awesome level of frequent flier points. Me and the misses spent the next year on several holidays including the UK.
Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station
Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA
Wednesday 11th December 2019 02:12 GMT
Re: I Can't Stop Myself
being employed is literally a get out of jail free card for any type of driving offense including running people down and killing them
Only if you need your drivers licence for employment.
As it is compared to many other countries your normal aussie drivers are crap. Can't keep left, always on the mobile phone, no idea what an indicator is, etc...
Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery
Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators
'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad
Are you coming to the party dressed as an IMP? ARPANET @ 50
MAMR Mia! Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave-energy hard drives out soon
Full of beans? Sadly not as fellow cracks open tin at dinner to find just one
Friday 6th September 2019 01:45 GMT
believed that any food was acceptable as long as it didn't actually trigger the gag reflex
Coming from a commonwealth country with an abundant supply of nature food where butter was cheaper than margarine. I was stunned by the quality of British food in places like the works canteen.
I just could not believe that my work mates considered that this was quality. It was then explained to me the concept of a "school" dinner. Whoa, my immediate thought was child abuse.
I ended up married to an English lady and returning to said commonwealth country and English lady if I'm not careful will revert to type with an evening meal of cheap baked beans on toast or a salad using something called "salad cream" which appears to be a by product of some unknown industrial chemical process making soap or something.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
