Re: vi/emacs
Let them fight among themselves then TECO can move in and mop up the spoils!
Posts by PhilBuk
364 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2012
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science
Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11
Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
Monday 29th September 2025 17:10 GMT
Worked for me too thanks to massgrave.dev. I was a bit worried about the LTSC IOT version being US-only but the activation tool, HWID, provided on the massgrave,dev website switched the locale to US, coverted LTSC to LTSC IOT and then switched the locale back to GB! Done this on a desktop, a laptop and two VMs. The in-place upgrade did not work on an old laptop on which Windows Update had never worked. Best to make a copy of the system disk first - just in case.
I now have support that will last for about ten years.
Phil.
Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1
Monday 29th September 2025 16:45 GMT 
Get The Source
A lot of this info about the early days of Windows came from an interview of Raymond Chen by Dave Plummer, an ex-DEC and early Microsoft engineer. His youtube channel is well worth a look - https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage - there is also a long interview with Dave Cutler, the architect of VMS and Windows NT.
Dave Plummer has also admitted to setting the size limits for Fat32 drives.
Phil.
Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit
Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo
Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport
Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance
Friday 14th March 2025 22:53 GMT
As an ex-Cave Dive (UK), I can assure that trying to use a mini-sub in a cave sump is a very bad idea. Most fatalities in cave diving are due to the diver losing their way and running out of air. Visibility in quite a lot of caves is quite poor to start with and a sudden wrong movement could stir up silt and mud reducing visibility to the point that you feel you are swimming in tomato soup. We usually followed guide lines that had already been laid or, if exploring, reeled out as we swam along.
The main rescuer of the Thai cave rescue produced a book which described the rescue. One section of cave that they had to travese with the children was one person wide - about a foot - something a sub would not fit through. In addition to size problems, there is the guidance issue - a sub would have difficulty following a guide line. So the whole idea was a waste of time and not worth considering.
Phil.
p.s. Open water diving scared the shit out of me - I got agoraphobic!
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'
Microsoft revives Windows 10 Beta Channel even though OS doesn't have long left
Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry
Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout
IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform
What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?
Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time
To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots
Friday 14th April 2023 15:44 GMT
Re: Pilot Error
I'll second this. The presenter is a training pilot for his airline and provides detailed explanantions of incidents along with simulations (from FS2020) to illustrate them. He also has a related channel, Mentour Now, which discusses industry issues and technology - there is are a number of videos concerning Boeing's past and current woes.
Phil.
Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars
Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing'
Friday 31st March 2023 15:57 GMT
Re: Meta and creative disruption
I can't see a change of direction coming from Mark SugarMountain any time soon. He has one idea, and one idea only - a Meta walled garden - with Meta users wearing Meta VR systems logging into Meta servers and interacting with Meta's marketplace. Did I mention fun? No, I didn't. He's very stubborn and will just keep pushing this idea until he runs out of money or users, sorry, product.
Phil.
Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles
Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws
Meta now involved in making metalevel standards for the metaverse
Thursday 23rd June 2022 21:48 GMT
Re: Seeking education here...
I wear glasses all the time in VR (Steam Index). I'm 67 and have astigmatism, different prescriptions in each eye and the usual age-related long-sightedness. I normally wear varifocals but find them a bit strange in VR. What I did was to get my optician to make up a pair of glasses with my vanilla prescription without any sort of magnification for reading, VDUs, etc.. To keep the cost down, I just got two new lenses in an old frame.
The glasses work fine, the picture is clear except at the edges where the frames can be seen (vaguely). The frames fit in the Index with no problem. Prior to the Index, I had a HTC Vive Pro which was also OK, in fact, it had more room than the Index.
Summary: glasses are OK as long as the frames are not to large.
Phil.
France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words
Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment
Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop
Photographer seeks $12m in copyright damages over claims Capcom ripped off her snaps in Resident Evil 4 art
Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp
Nvidia cripples Ethereum mining on GeForce RTX 3060 to deter crypto bods from nabbing all the kit at launch
Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news
Linus Torvalds labels Super Bowl 'violent version of egg-and-spoon race'
No amount of Glasgow handshaking will revive this borked kiosk
What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?
Saturday 12th December 2020 23:07 GMT
Re: most unreliable motor vehicles since the Austin Allegro
Was involved in a Cave Rescue once where the patient, a young girl who had fallen 30 feet and injured herself, was asked by the first contact team leader if she wanted her parents informed. She replied in the negative because "her parents were quite old, in their 50's, and it would be quite a shock."
The members of the rescue team exchanged surreptitious glances among themselves. The youngest person on the team was 49.
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm
UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal
Microsoft Notepad: If it ain't broke, shove it in the Store, then break it?
Monday 19th August 2019 17:13 GMT
Re: Leave the 'pads alone
Copy the XP version into Win 7 - it still works. It doesn't have the 'improvements' that made the Win 7 version useless such as 1.5 line spacing that would revert every time it was restarted. Always use it for those text files from *nix systems that don't have terminating line feeds like DOS.
Phil.
Oh. And no fecking ribbon.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
