Posts by unpale

Bezos denied: New Glenn launch pushed into 2022 after Space Force says no

"the testing programme will conclude by early fall..."

...well let's hope it doesn't.

The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes

> FORMAT A:

In the mid-80s, PCs were not the only desktop; the Victor/Sirius had morphed into the Apricot, and they were sexier than a PC.

So our MD gets one of the first hard-disk Apricots for his secretary, because only the best will do.

Unfortunately, on this machine, the hard disk is drive "A:", not "C:".

And the first time his secretary needs to format a floppy, she puts it in and types:

> format a:

like you do. It replies:

> "Confirm you want to format Winchester Disk?"

And never having seen the word "Winchester" in her life, she assumes it must mean the floppy, and she goes ahead.

Eek.

This was a very early lesson to me, as I was morphing into an allegedly user-centred software designer, that if there are places in your product where "things written by programmers" (as they were called) surface themselves, you better find them, before the end users do...

(And no, there were no backups, but then again, each backup would have taken you about a day.)

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Re: The secret to security is to make your neighbour a more attractive target

Upvoted for "commentardiat"

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

Re: As a dev system? No, startup biz!

> My first business as an entrepreneur was wholly run on the QL

I so hope you used Psion Xchange - the Microsoft Office of the 80's - ??

If at first, second, third... fourth time you don't succeed, you're Apple: Another appeal lost in $440m net patent war

This company is simply outrageous

It's an outrage that this company spend so much time in court, contributing nothing to making the world better place – they couldn't make a half-decent product themselves if they tried.

And VirnetX aren't much better.

Would you believe it? The Museum of Failure contains quite a few pieces of technology

Re: Betamax - Betamax quality wasn't actually that much better.

I use a CGA card myself.

640 pixels should be enough resolution for anybody.

Tablets become feebleslabs as sales spiral down

> This data will worry not just tablet-makers but PC-makers and Intel, as the latter two have held out hope that detachables would become a hot new class of device.

I hate to break it to the whizzkid thirty-somethings at Intel and Dell etc, but::

"Compaq Concerto", early 90's?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162381126439

Kids, look at the Deep Learnings! (We’re just going to slurp your data)

Re: Open Source, free hosted solution

AFAICT framanotes is 'online only', ie no offline editing?