Posts by sanwin

Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

I wonder if the astronauts selected for the next Boeing launch will decline.

"Its a Boeing - I ain't going"

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Re: The devil is in the detail

I wish my CC kept the car at the set speed downhill! The car will speed up and the CC indicator will flash to warn me I am exceeding the set speed. (It does warn me at least - but so does the speedometer)

Changing Country - what then?

So here am I driving in the UK with a car reading road signs on the LHS in MPH. So I decide to take a trip to France/Spain/etc. I'm now driving on the 'wrong' side of the road with the car looking in the wrong place for speed signs which are now in KPH. So I hit a 40kph limit and my car does 40mph - now what?

On my last three cars the GPS checked 30mph shows as 32 on the speedo and the CC, 60mph shows 63, and 70mph shows 74. So in every case the car would be limiting me to at least 2mph below the actual limit. Driving through the smiley/frowny warning signs at 32 indicated I always get the smiley. The annoying thing is I can't set the CC to 20mph when required - it is too low for the CC system!

I guess if the new systems use GPS to work out the speed limit, maybe they'll also use the GPS to monitor the car's actual speed. I drive through villages with 30mph limits with the CC on which tends to annoy the boy racers coming up behind me. As to speed limiters, on my last car there was no way to override the limit short of turning it off - not good at 30mph going into a faster zone.

Boeing's Calamity Capsule launch date slides into the future

If it's a Boeing I ain't going!

US postal service electrifyies its next-gen delivery fleet

"Carbon Free"???

So the US now has "Carbon Free" electricity generation and vehicle production? They've kept that quiet!

Bouncing cheques or a bouncy landing? All in a day's work for the expert pilot

It is almost as if the company does not test things properly before unleashing them on the world.

In the old days getting the Ethernet and Phone connectors mixed up was pretty common. One RJ looks much like another if you don't really look.

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

It is almost as if the company does not test things properly before unleashing them on the world.

"How big is your Linkedin network?"

Zero - and it'll stay that way. I don't need an old boys network any more than I need an Eton tie.

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

Back in the 70s worked at a place which still had a very old telephone exchange where the operator plugged cables in to connect 'phones to the outside world. Internal calls could be dialled.

Whenever we tried on our shared office phone to get an outside call, the operator never answered us. The managers in the offices on either side had no problem. One day a colleague got fed up and used a manager's phone to ask the operator why we were ignored.

The response was "Oh! Your bulb has blown so your line never lit up. I'll change it"

We never had any further trouble - until a modern exchange was installed!

Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call

You mean the best Bond ever starring the best Bond ever?

BOFH: You. Wouldn't. Put. A. Test. Machine. Into. Production. Without. Telling. Us.

It is almost as if the company does not test things properly before unleashing them on the world.

I had that problem several years back with a certain company in Redmond. The website insisted on a minimum length pw and I used 20 characters. It apparently accepted this but subsequent login attempts failed.

I finally sussed the problem when, for a change, I had headphones plugged in to the PC and heard a beep when I typed the 17th character! No indication other than that beep that there was an upper limit. I complained and was not surprised to get no response, however the restriction was removed some time later.

In a large office who has speakers attached to their PC?

Redpilled Microsoft does away with flashing icons on taskbar as Windows 11 hits Beta

Re: This is complete crap

Does anybody work with sounds on?

If you can I still won't use it!

Click/Double-click an icon - much quicker and no need for the keyboard.

Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far

Not happy at the position of the taskbar being fixed. Vertical on the RHS is my preference.. Only on one monitor too.

Microsoft fixes the thing it broke via another dose of out-of-band patching to deal with BSOD printing problems

"It is almost as if the company does not test things properly before unleashing them on the world."

Surely not! :)

With a million unwanted .uk domains expiring this week, Nominet again sends punters pushy emails to pay up

Five Nominet emails yesterday - all ignored.

Looking at them it is easy to see how busy people could make the mistake of paying up after misreading the content.

Happy birthday to the Nokia 3310: 20 years ago, it seemed like almost everyone owned this legendary mobile

Slapped wrist to whoever wrote the caption for the photograph!

We've come to wish you an unhappy birthday: Microsoft to yank services from Internet Explorer, kill off Legacy Edge by 2021

The annoying thing about the MS Browser situation at the moment is that if you rename msedge.exe the next update puts it back!

Logitech G915 TKL: Numpad-free mechanical keyboard clicks all the right boxes

Just checked my local PC parts supplier.

Logitech K120 - £9.98 - That'll do me!

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

"Electromagnetic interference has been blamed for a number of unforeseen problems in electronic devices over the years"

Who knew! Unforeseen only by designers who know nothing about EMI!

The Rise of The (Coffee) Machines: I need assistance. I think I'm running Windows. Send help

Re: Not quite Windows

Back in the 80s I spent many hours trying to find the cause of the error message 'Shouldn't get here' in a piece of the company's in-house software.

Easy enough to find the error message which a colleague had inserted in the source code, not easy to figure out which error path had not been trapped.

Gmail and Outlook sitting in a tree, not t-a-l-k-i-n-g to me or thee

I can never understand why people read email in a browser, rather than 'modern' it seems totally antiquated to me. Outlook started demanding my gmail password this morning - ironically it is only my backup for if my main email goes down.

COBOL-coding volunteers sought as slammed mainframes slow New Jersey's coronavirus response

Technical debt bites – but beancounters never get it in time.

Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month

Re: And all that Android phone data

Roughly half on Android and the rest are on?

Oooh another American OS!

Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first?

One of my former managers had the SAP icon on his PC screen labelled as "Stop All Progress". Most people agreed with him as the company was transitioning to SAP.

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

I still come across people who use the recycle bin as regular storage. In the past I've known people who assumed it was a different disc, network, or even cloud storage.

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

The real irritant to me

Cotton Traders sell cheap cotton clothes which are of varying quality. They also sell Guinness branded clothing which is dearer! If they want me to advertise Guinness then it should be a lot cheaper than the non-branded version.

Grrrr

Samsung Galaxy S8: Slimmer bezels, a desktop mode – and yet another me-too AI pal

Simpler/cheaper/better anyone?

How much was that new 3310?

April Fool decries Blighty's dodecaquid

A tad harsh Lester insofar as the comments were posted a day apart. The first on Saturday, and when it hadn't appeared by Sunday I repeated it.

I still think the coin looks more like an April Fool than most of the 'jokes' around last Friday.

Blighty starts pumping out 12-sided quids

Huh?

Why is this article still on the site - April 1st is long gone.

It is no longer April 1st - shouldn't this article have been removed by now?