Posts by agurney 155 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2015
I think the Regoniser did rather well with Bernie, a pint for Mr Powell -->
That's too generous for simply changing the character's name from Harry - https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/01/who_me/ .
Are we now going to see a plethora of recycled stories with changed terminology for the Americas (in this case changing "supermarket" to "grocery store")?
It's not problem .. you have a chat with the student, let them know you're impressed with their solution, and ask them to explain it.
You are testing comprehension, not necessarily implementation.
So what if you are using someone/something else's code, does it answer the question that's been presented?
And unless you insist on some kind of hierarchical page structure, most of the pages that users create are never looked at because they are impossible to find.
On the contrary, I've had SP working well (for a given value of 'well') for years with all docs (hunners of them) in one location, categorised using metadata; means that a document can be found by type, product and so on, without having to guess which folder it is in (or worse, multiple versions in different folders). Use revision control and insist on check-in comments and you have a decent revision history.
Search is still *^%$ though.
The fact that they exist doesn't, by itself, make them a good idea.
OK, not brilliant on a short dull winter's day, but I'm at 56 degrees north, currently generating more than 3KW with a 4KW PV system, have plenty of free hot water, and the feed in tariff has more than covered the initial outlay.
Computers in schools at the time were of course pitched at the how-to-drive a word processor level; and all rather a wasted exercise...
I beg to differ - in the 1980s I was with a group teaching with a variety of kit; there were Amstrads and IBM PCs for business applications, BBC micros for programming, Apple Macintoshes for graphic design, and yet more BBCs for CNC machining.
The resource was shared across all schools in the area and catered for all abilities.
A lot of the educational software at the time was cr*p, so a part of our remit was to evaluate what was available, develop our own courses (and software if necessary), and share our experiences.
So, hopefully not a wasted exercise.
Shouldn't that be fill the keyboard buffer G.10G.10:G.10... ?
Hitting Enter would expand it to GOTO 10:GOTO 10 .. overwriting the sound buffer causing the chaos.
Similar fun was to be had on the Beeb with VDU CTRL codes to change graphics modes and the like on demo programs that should have less accepting of their input.
A sparrowhawk recently caught itself in netting in our garden. We called the RSPB for advice and/or help, but they didn't want to know and suggested we contact the SSPCA.
The RSPB seem to be more interested in land preservation and pushing their agenda in the countryside.
[btw, the SSPCA were helpful and the hawk was released unharmed, much to the chagrin of the local song birds]
It may be zero cost and seamless from your provider, but some providers 'make' you pay through the nose (e.g. >£50 annually for a single domain SSL certificate from Heart Internet).
That's fine for businesses, but OTT for a small club or charity website that doesn't collect information or sell stuff online.
That's not the end of the fibre, it runs far closer and there are Openreach crews rolling more out in the area. Wayleave shouldn't be a problem as there are few landowners, and there may even be an existing route to the exchange (though doubtless in pretty poor shape if it's underground).
It's certainly not a Des-Res, with fully loaded timber lorries belting past just all day just a few feet away (when the R&BT isn't shut).
My adaptive cruise control car is a (not top of the range) Skoda. It's not a Tesla, it doesn't steer for me, it's 20th century cruise control but with the benefit that it maintains a minimum distance from the vehicle in front; perfect for those long slow road works with average speed cameras.
I regularly drive the length of Spain and it's a refreshing change from blighty.
With few exceptions, everyone drives on the right; they signal, pull out, overtake, and return to the right leaving the left lane(s) free (except rush hour around Madrid).
Last time I returned from a visit the traffic in the UK looked similar .. on the A3 most folk drove on the right, and on the M25 they drove on the right and over/undertook on the left albeit with less courtesy than the Spanish.
Firstly just tell the delivery driver that you hadn't ordered anything from Amazon and simply refuse to accept delivery on the basis that you didn't place the order...
That doesn't work during Covid - delivery drivers are just leaving goods on doorsteps, maybe taking a photo as proof of delivery in lieu of a signature, then ringing the doorbell and scarpering. By the time I get to the door they're already in the their van ready to go.
Under that clause, is it not the responsibility of the NHS trust in question since it is them that are making the content of the communication system available by broadcasting it in plain text in the first place?
Why should the NHS spend a fortune upgrading their systems just because some scrote has a cheap SDR dongle and chooses to broadcast their pager messages? It may be old technology, but it has wider coverage than mobile telephony.
This is the same as intercepting ambulance, police, fire, coastguard, aircraft etc. radio conversations in the clear .. listening in is illegal but unlikely to lead to prosecution, however acting on those messages or re-transmitting them is the bigger problem.
I remember reading of a case in the UK, probably in the 90s, where the directors of a small software house were jailed after selling customers an accounts package that contained two sets of books, the real (hidden) ones, and the ones sent to the Revenue.
The one I'm familiar with was in the '80s (courtesy of a close contact in the Customs & Excise computer investigation branch).
An Apple II accounting package was found to have a backdoor .. log in with the regular password and accounts were clean, but append a value, e.g. password10, and that percentage of transactions would be 'lost'.
IIRC the program was written in BASIC, so once suspicions were aroused it wasn't too difficult to find out what was going on.
Many moons ago I was documenting a CAD program that had been migrated from a terminal UI to a graphical UI.
One icon that had me confused looked like a pair of cat footprints. .. turns out it was Pause (Paws).
I can't remember if it was changed after I pointed out that there may be problems when it came to translating to French or German.
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