Posts by _randomandy_

Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not

Re: Not screwdrivers but...

I think we may in fact be triplets!

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

Re: You have to know the obscure rules ....

You sir, are the spirit of Humphrey Lyttelton and I claim my £5.

Mine's the one with a recording of Everyman's Guide to Mornington Crescent, part 2 in the pocket.

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

Q: When was the last time you did something in the embedded sector?

A: About 15 minutes ago (the last 15 have been used to drink coffee and real El Reg) and for most of the last 25 years!

The system I am currently working on uses a 32bit microcontroller (ARM Cortex-M3) running at 120MHz with the sole connectivity being Ethernet for the outside world and I2C for a bunch of sensors.

There is, no doubt, a huge market for this in IoT type devices in an internal market as big as India.

UK govt finds £200,000 under sofa to kick off research into improving mobile connectivity on nation's crap railways

Re: West coast mainline

It does but by the government's (and many other people's) definition the "north" stops at Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester.

Almost beer o'clock and time for a good northern brew!

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

Not the successor to Windows Me

At the time, Microsoft had two operating system streams...

Those that ran on top of a DOS kernel - Windows 3.1(1), Window 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. The more stable (allegedly) platforms which used the NT kernel so Windows NT, 2000, Vista, XP, 7, 8 and 10.

Mine is the one with the MSDN subscription in the pocket

Microsoft tweaks its 'New Outlook' for Mac – but no support for Exchange on-premises yet

My biggest gripe that has stopped me using Outlook on macOS is its complete inability to support calendar sharing with .ics files or an ability to add a CalDAV plugin. If IMAP is going AWOL as well then it doesn't seem to have much going for it!

NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount

Checks date...

...ah yes...

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Re: Tab width

"...Tab width..."

Answer: Four (4)

...would that be a single tab or four spaces?

Re: Tab width

"...Tab width..."

Answer: Four (4)

... Is that an actual tab or 4 spaces?

Microsoft tries cutting the Ribbon in Office UI upgrade

It might be nice...

...if rather than finding new and interesting ways to screw about with the user interface they actually put some of the missing functionality into Office for Mac so that it at least behaves as well (or as badly) as the Windows version!