Posts by Anthonyl

Drone collisions with airliners may not be fatal, US study suggests

Re: How is this different than birdstrike?

All birds should be refused a licence to fly near aircraft and drone owners should only be allowed after training. Happier now?

Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020

Re: @Anthonyl

@ AJ MacLeod

Fellow Mech Eng here too <g>

Picasa exists on my XP computer, updates disabled. Getting an alternative for Linux isn't easy, Digikam is a bit rough around the edges and struggles (at least on my Mint KDE - which is now about to be dropped :( )

WINE is likely to work with a number of applications though some of them will still require a purchased licence.

But my main issue is why are we even talking about workarounds with Linux, wasted opportunities in my book.

If half the effort that was spent on producing every possible permutation of Linux was devoted to improving the range and quality of apps available I'd be writing this on a Linux laptop. Where's my Office Outlook PIM integration (non-cloud, or clod as someone more aptly wrote earlier) with Android? Why isn't my favourite Canon photo processing software readily available on Linux whereas both Microsoft and Apple are supported? Image recognition software has nowhere need reached the levels of the free Picasa. Scanning software is a poor imitation of what comes with my printer.

I desperately want to eliminate Microsoft and had embarked on a 3yr plan to so do - but I have a dozen or more items of software that just won't run (please, no WINE or Virtual Machines running Windows - these are workarounds).

An advocate of Linux friend, after 3 years of trying, has finally yielded to Apple Mac and now gets on with his work and hobbies.

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

Re: How is it different

The plane is flying in the geese's airspace, the drone is flying in the aircraft's airspace. The drone operator knows he shouldn't be there, the geese are yet to be trained (well probably both are yet to be trained).

Just have a mandatory 10yr prison sentence on anyone flying a drone where they shouldn't.

My name is Bill Gates and I am an Android user

Re: Windows phones

Def: "I'm still using my Lumia 950."

I'm still running an HP514 with Windows CE which still syncs nicely with my Outlook 2002 on my Win XP computer. The fact that no-one allows WEP and that the browser has no HTTPS are quite secondary but until I can fully replace my PIM on Android (non-cloud) and Linux I'm stuck.

Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time

Think of the man-hours that would have been saved with just a single button!

And anyway, I'd always understood that it wasn't Bill Gates who invented Ctrl-Alt-Del but he sure made it famous.