Posts by MiguelC 2245 publicly visible posts • joined 22 May 2014
Fortunately that's illegal in civilised countries. Filming you in the loo, I mean, not hanging a coat over the camera filming you in the loo. Because the camera can not be there in the first place. So you have to hang the coat somewhere else. But I digress now, it seems. Must be from the liquid medication.
Today I found that Google enshitified its search a little bit more. When trying to find results not in English, using words in the specific language I want used to work well as a filter. Today I tried and it gave me sites auto-translated from English. I know I can still use advanced search, but it forces extra steps on the user for the same effect.
Not Russia, if only because Russia is not a "nation-state" but a federation of states.
Maybe it was Japan, or Portugal, or Tanzania, or Argentina, they're are all nation-states, as most countries in the world are.
Seeing the term nation-state used as meaning something it doesn't really gets under my skin!
And what the police have to show is that they arrested a man whom they knew was a registered sex offender and who was subsequently sentenced to two years in prison in May for breaching a sexual harm prevention order and making indecent images of children. No actual connection between the crime and passing in front of the face-recognition cameras. Couldn't/shouldn't they have just gone to his address?
During the Y2K project I was in, my team was correcting an application consisting of almost 100 programs chained together (just as COBOL likes) and we were made aware that that particular batch chain would break every single night, meaning an hefty on-call bill. And is had been going like that for years.
So I analysed the failure point and it was seemingly simple to correct. IIRC there were numeric conversions that would fail under certain conditions, conditions that would almost certainly be met once or twice per run.
That correction was deemed out-of-scope by our client rep, who, curiously, was also that application's IT boss.
During a PC intro course I was giving, one of the trainees thought of the cord as the little bugger's tail and had it under her wrist. After showing the correct way to use the device, no more problems. That's the important thing, that once taught, people shouldn't need to be schooled again on the same subject!
You're forgetting that the project time is a one-off. Users needing extra HW to properly run the unoptimized SW will probably be a large number, meaning that the little extra HW will be multiplied so many times that it will dwarf the added project cost.
I told this recently, as a kid I coded a game for the ZX Spectrum in Assembler and won a prize from a magazine. They then put me in contact with a professional coder to help reduce my code for 16Kb as it was not even 1 Kb over it and together we made it just that bit smaller so the magazine could publish it to be played in both the 48Kb and the 16Kb models. So I got some free coding lessons along the winning prize, and learned lots of tricks to reduce memory like using alternative instructions that used less bytes (usually just 1, but doing that many time times saves as many bytes) or re-purposing functions, making them more generic in order to allow reuse.
The one thing I have to praise AliExpress is their refund policy. Whenever I've had disputes with sellers that hat to be escalated I always received refunds from AliExpress. And recently it was AliExpress themselves that contacted me about a non compliant product I had bough I received a refund without even having to return the item.
To be honest, both countries argue they're the true China.
Taiwan's official name is not Republic of China for no reason.
Although Prof. Youtube has excellent examples of why masks are optional for firefighters fighting drug house fires, and reporters reporting about burning drug stashes.
A friend went to [Redacted] with a team to set up their first electronic stock market for which his company provided all the software and hardware. When he got there, all servers and assorted networking gear were already waiting to be cleared by customs for several weeks, and for 3 more weeks he was there daily, every day a different problem arising - he and the customs' officials seemed to be unable to reach any king of understanding on how (much) to clear it.
Until one day an armed party burst into customs and took the crates by force. My friend was sage enough to stay quietly in his corner while it happened, and only got the news it wasn't a robbery when a colleague called informing him the gear had arrived at the future stock exchange's facilities, brought by an army general very close to power... someone eventually got fed up with all the waiting.
Hey, Jude (sorry).
It has been happening since the site change took place. And no, it's not always 60 minutes, sometimes it's 30 minutes and some other times the articles have been like that for 2 hours before having their forum enabled.
This being the first time I see a Reg insider responding to the myriad of complaints, I hope it has got your attention and will soon be solved.
And, while you're looking into this, could you also do something about the read stories hyperlink colour? It's not rocket science to clearly differentiate them from the unread ones.
Re: "If you have a use-case that needs Windows (gaming, most likely) then you’ll be buying a chunkier PC. If you’re in the market for a cheap device then Windows is no longer your best option. Linux. Chrome. And now, shock horror, macos. But not Windows."
In userland, Windows is "computer", Apple is "fancy computer", Linux is "what?"
As a kid I coded a game for the ZX Spectrum in Assembler and won a prize from a magazine. They then put me in contact with a professional coder to help reduce my code for 16Kb as it was not even 1 Kb over it and together we made it just that bit smaller so the magazine could publish it to be played in both the 48Kb and the 16Kb models. A lesson I learned then was that efficient ways to do some things are generally (but not always) the simplest and using the least instructions :)
At a previous job users used to share games using a network folder, although they'd been warned not to run any unapproved software.
After several attempts to stop them, deleting multiple folders only for them to re share the games, someone in IT decided to play a different game and started replacing the little .exe files for something that would make the culprit really conspicuous.
The one got the most red-faces was one that turned the volume to the max and played "Hey! I'm watching porn over here!" It also drew a lot of laughter :)
I own a LaserJet and I quite like it. It's networked but behind a firewall and not allowed to see beyond it. The only lost functionalities, not possible to use under my setup, are the email to print one and automatic updates from HP. But why would I ever let HP mess with it?
Some years ago I did some consulting work for a client. Two years later I returned for another stint and they gave me a new account but the muscle memory lead me to log in using the old one. It was still available, I couldn't log in because of the expired password, but I could just have asked the helpdesk to reset it...
