Posts by Paul Herber

Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Re: If systems are having problems adding one to 99...

Al who? Al Capone? Al di Meola? Al Murray?

For real programmers the next version after 99 is 9A.

Notepad Dark Mode and Android apps arrive on Windows 11

Re: Sarcasm

A new shade of blue? But that will mean changing the light bulb!

You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual

Re: Some people find themselves in hell... and build ladders

Well bite my shiny metal ... oh ... wait, Blender, not Bender. Sorry.

Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?

Re: Occasionally, you get a straight answer

This sounds like a Spike Milligoon script.

This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars

Re: There goes the business case

Maybe this is why my idea for an interactive game where you can make a nice hot cup of tea, do the ironing and then watch some TV went nowhere.

I bet Zuck never does the ironing!

No, I've not read the screen. Your software must be rubbish

Re: Simples...

This is "On Call". It's all about who you can blame.

Comcast fixes broadband cables 'peppered' with holes after Oakland drive-by shooting

Re: Wow.

Spend $200 on groceries, get a free gun. It's the law.

Re: Argument in favour of gun ownership in the UK?

I saw someone the other day *blatantly* refusing to step on the cracks in the pavement. His shirt was too loud as well.

BOFH: On Wednesdays, we wear gloves

Re: Beyond 2000

but it's all over now.

Re: RE: What's a cement pond?

That was just the plain old original "Wilt".

Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement

So that's what own GOLE means!

Re: Well, that's one for the history books

That's one for the money, ...

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

That's Mr Jackson to you!

Re: Money for old rope

No, I did not!

Re: Money for old rope

HMS Floaty-Sinky-Bang-Bang

or two ...

Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them

Re: You can pry the ethernet cable out of my cold dead hands!

They'll be telling us next that we can throw away all those RS-232 and Centronics cables!

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

Re: Pounds ( No Stones)

You've heard of CGS, MKS as systems of units. Welcome to FFS. Furlong-Fortnight-Stone.

Re: One word..... Gregg Wallace.

Crackin' telescope, Gromit.

He is no longer a user of this forum.

Re: One word.....

Craig Revel Horwood? Is that you? Didn't think this site would be your thing!

Re: SO TRASHY

How many paperclips are there in a standard Welsh Brontosaur's Olympic-sized swimming pool?

12.5mm?

Does NASA employ someone by the name of Arthur Ninch?

Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings

Re: Jinx?

and two satellites around Jinx called Pixie and Dixie.

Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes

Re: I should sue Canon

It wasn't counterfeit, it was genuine faux!

Never mind the Panic button – there's a key to Compose yourself

Mine is a totally different paradigm. (There, I've used that word in anger for the first time in my life. That's another box ticked.)

I'll risk the inevitable down-voters and mention my own software for this:

https://www.paulherber.co.uk/diacrit/

Feeling virtuous with a good old paperback? Well, don't. Switching to traditional media does not improve mood

I've actually got my wife to do some reading during lockdown. Previously she looked down her nose at my book collection but she has now read a selection of Tom Sharpe, some Orwell, the entire Clan of the Cave Bear series and is now working her way though the Narnian cornucopia. And enjoying them but not happy to admit it. LOTR next or Dune? Flying pig squadron are ready and waiting ...

The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel

Re: I started getting notifications offering to show me highlights of stuff

'strangulate the program's developer'

Some gimboid in marketing.

'Windows 11 design cues'

Windows 11 design curse

FTFY

You wood not believe what a Japanese logging company and university want to use to build a small satellite

At 15,000mph I don't think it'll matter one jot whether an item of space debris is made of wood or metal!

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

This is just a subset of Kill All Humans.

Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

Re: Pronouncing...

Urdu?

Re: Pronouncing...

CIF = Common Interchange Format

OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA

Re: What?

That's what you get when you find the brakes have failed when you are doing multi kilo-mega parsecs per hour!

Re: What?

15 kilo-mega-parsecs per hour? Weeeeeee!

Microsoft gives Notepad a minimalist makeover to match Windows 11 style

Re: FFS. How slapdash can Microsoft get? It's Notepad one of the simplest Apps ever written.

No bugs? Pah! That's the Linux way!!

Notepad is a text editor and doesn't need bugs. That's what Word is for.

Virgin Media fined £50,000 after spamming 451,000 who didn't want marketing emails

Dear Reg,

Dear Reg, many thanks for your communication. The subject of your text does not match anything in any of our scripts so we'll just assume that you are interested in all of our products. To this end we have subscribed you to all of our mailing lists.

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

You could use your fax machine to order an Uber to take a messenger boy to the bank to pay in the cheques.

I'll patent that idea. (mutters - do we rounded corners on the fax machines ...)

ok, clever clogs, you tell us how they can send out the cheques without a FAX machine!

And they can get a free backup of the cheque!

Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites

It works just fine. Haven't you noticed the number of migrants using it to cross the Channel?

China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

Just a local shop. Nothing for you here.

Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Re: Put More And More On Our Cloud

Local cloud for local people.

Re: continuous integration / continuous delivery

Continuous Unwanted Notifications

Embrace Inevitable Flooding Of Random Messages

Re: NaaSty

Notifications as a service to you.

A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly

I have a new earworm ...

Berlin's Take My Breathe Away

Now you have too.

You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

< interesting chats aboard the ISS over dinner.>

Fancy a postprandial peregrination?

Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat

Re: Terminology

Honey?