Posts by wolfetone

Re: Ammendment.

"Not "lazy". Just ordinary paying customers, including small businesses for whom every penny counts."

If every penny counts then why stick with a service that lets them down and costs them money?

Re: COBOL is dead!

"But really, for a "forgotten" language like this, you need a mentor. Someone you can meet up with every month and learn from. Chances are they'll be a little older, and I suspect they will be thrilled to be asked to share their knowledge and experience. You might even be able to parlay it into some paying gigs because they'll know better than you what businesses still use the stuff.\"

I did think of this, but I'm not sure how many of those types are in the UK, let alone the West Midlands.

I'm playing about with it now, well reading/playing. So far makes sense.

"I'm curious to know how many British passport holders would actually pass the £180-a-go English tests"

Wrong way to look at it.

There are plenty of people born, bred and educated in the UK who have the reading level of a 7 year old. Yet there are those who come from outside of the UK, Europe, Africa, wherever, and they have a better comprehension of the English language than most natives do.

Re: Outraged citizen

"This tech will only allow Putin to manipulate and control us when we vote."

Says more about the stupidity of the American people that they think they can be tricked by a Russian to vote for someone they don't like, than it does about Putin's intentions.

Re: web hosting?

"So how do you host your websites then?"

Through VPS's. Two (at the moment) host 6 sites (3 each). These sites are then replicated on to two other VPS's which are hosted elsewhere with a different company. So the data is mirrored from the primary VPS's to the secondary ones.

In the even of a failure on the main VPS's, the domain name is switched to the secondary VPS until the problem is resolved.

Plus the beauty with the VPS's is that if there's a hardware failure on the host they can be moved to another machine. And in my experience, with the primary VPS providers anyway, they do this very quickly with hardly any down time.

Re: Unicorns and clouds

I don't know how it finished up but I think last year they were planning on dropped Thunderbird, or at least passing it to someone else away from Mozilla.

Heard no more about it though.

Re: A deeper issue

"You want to believe that Brexit will make things better for ordinary working folk..."

Dude, while I agree, it's Friday. Can we hold off on the politics until Monday?

An iPhone, from what I remember, allowed you to say "You can access my photos and my contacts, but you can't access my camera or microphone". Whether or not that was actually heeded by the app (most times it was) at least you were given the choice.

When I installed the Xaomi Mi Fit app, it said it wanted access to contacts etc etc. Do you think I had the option to stop it? No I didn't. But if it was on an iPhone I could've had that choice, even if it was a placebo.

I went to Tesco Mobile after suffering 2 years at the hands of EE, which I turned too after my abusive relationship with 3. I've never had a problem with the network - except in the case of trying to use a VPN over their mobile internet, it doesn't like that.

The good thing with Tesco is that they split the bill in half. You know what you pay for the handset, you know what you pay for the tariff. My 2 years is up in June, at which point my £35 a month will fall to £13 a month as I'll have stopped paying for the phone. EE definately didn't let me do this, neither did 3.

"I presume it's a Very early sandwich?"

A Very Early Morning Jam Sandwich.

"My nine year old has a mnemonic which works for him and which does not include Pluto. More importantly he totally gets why Pluto does not qualify."

Well he has time to work out why Pluto should also qualify as a planet.

Or it could be like one of those vouchers that say the real world monetary value is 0.0001p.

Re: "... shafted by the likes of Dell"

"And yet you probably didn't mind when Dell moved its assembly line from Bracknell to Dublin, huh?"

It's a bigger hit to the economy of an Island of ~3 million when a company like Dell leaves compared to the economy of a country with ~60 million.

Re: My condolences.

Justice isn't blind to honesty, it just gets a helping hand from whoever has the biggest wallet.