* Posts by David Linsley

4 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2012

Audio tech upstart DTS takes on Wi-Fi speaker juggernaut Sonos

David Linsley

Sonos is lossless too

"DTS also says the signal going to the speakers is lossless – again, unlike Sonos "

Sonos is also lossless (provided the source is lossless of course, such as FLAC). You can actually play a DTS encoded CD (remember those?) over Sonos and via its digital out decode it without errors in your surround sound processor/receiver. You just get digital noise if it was lossy.

IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot

David Linsley

Re: Floppy drives

360k per side were 80 track drives (double density) with 40 track being 180k per side. Didn't everyone have Cumana drives with a 40/80 switch at school?

Woz: Microsoft's innovation lead 'worries me greatly'

David Linsley

Re: Microsoft doesn't have a history of great innovation...

On the Start screen type "uninstall" or "system restore" and on the right hand side next to "Settings" you'll see a non-zero number. Click Settings and it'll show you all the matches. Basically it only shows you apps by default, but all matches can be seen on the right.

The Dragon 32 is 30

David Linsley
Happy

My parents bought me a Dragon 64 for Christmas '84 because they were on fire sale in June since Dragon Data had closed, and I used that incessantly until I headed off for uni in '93 (and bought an Amiga A1200). I have fond memories of meeting the likes of CairanA (from above, plus Graham Kinns, Mike Stott, the PSE guys, and Stuart from the PD Library who unfortunately passed away) at the last few Osset shows in the early '90s, and still have my copy of the Dragon WIMP system - thanks for creating that Eddie! I remember writing a B-spline editor in that, and it was so slow doing the math in Basic!

If anyone from the North East Dragon Users Group (Chris, Fred, David, Les, John etc) reads this, I hope you are doing well!