Posts by Missing Semicolon

Re: There are so many of these incidents

ERP is the systemd of finance. In order to track everything,it must control everything.

Re: "the UK remains open to association"

What is forgotten is that the anti-democratic Benn Act was pushed through to enforce an unnecessary deadline.

No deal in time, no Brexit.

This meant that the required haggling and hardball couldn't be done, so we got a crap deal. Which was the plot all along to bring forward the frabjious day when it could be undone.

Also rather deceitful.

Makes a change from an Astramax van.

Re: Tumbleweed

But if everyone joins Mastodon, it will turn into Twitter. Twitter's problems are not technical.

Re: Conspiracy theory : An Arm leak to test the waters?

Quite possibly, since Qualcomm have decided to disregard the contract terms.

Re: The problem is

"soft diplomacy, trade and support " == Massive bribes to corrupt Governments.

Re: ...using TPM 2.0 hardware

"existing secure boot can be disabled in the BIOS settings" for some machines. Not the cheap ones.

Re: No loss of hardware support

If you want to run an archived Linux version, you will have to get hold of the correct versions of the source for all of the applications supported at the time, and their dependencies. Then build them all, and recreate the package archive. Basically, respinning an old distro. A job that is far from trivial.

Re: I don't mind PDFs

To be fair, away from Geocities, web "applications" (static pages generated from dynamic data) - i.e., web1.0 - could at least express a reasonable amount of data

A suitably-crafted <table> attribute makes a reasonable on-screen simulacrum of a paper table, or a spreadsheet.

Nowadays you can fit about 6 rows on a HD screen.

Re: The word "Math" is ...

But they are ripums! (c) Ave.

Re: If I have to look in the manual (absolute last resort of course) it's a really bad design!

Having got fed up with ludicrous alarm clocks with too many features, I'm building my own!

Why yes, it's got a proper VFD and an ESP8266 to get the time from the internet, what did you expect?

Re: contingency planning

Factor in the cost of the food in your freezer.

Don't forget that at one point, the USA nearly bankrupted Opec by driving the price down to $30/bbl. Don't forget that we have quite a lot of gas.

Even if our gas was as expensive as the world market, at least it will be available. Such local-supply-first clauses could be written in to the exploitation licenses.

Re: An alternative

Nearly got into the wrong Ford Cortina. Same colour, wrong key didn't matter. But the junk on the passenger seat looked wrong....

Re: I'm sorry, Mr Auditor

Same as always. "Cloud outage" - shrug.

Re: Also plausible deniability

In the current environment, that gets expensive fast. Agencies in the UK are demanding 20%+ of salaries up front. Nonrefundable on canning 3+months on.

Re: Survey missing option

I see your "registry" and raise you "dconf"

Re: Silicon in an electric blanket?

The knob is connected to a controller device. The one warming my knees at the moment is actually temperature controlled, so not just a triac, diac and capacitor.

Re: Does anyone really need to know how I walk?

Some people with joint issues are affected by an unusual gait. Analyzing the pressure patterns of the feet would make it easier.

Re: I would have thought Gascon was more sensible than this

Jurisdiction of data is a thing. Just because it's "in the cloud" does not mean data sovereignty issues have gone away. Storing election workers' personal data on servers in China would definitely be problematic.

Elderly machines

may not boot properly from recent USB drives written with an ISO image. For example, my T440p won't work with all USB keys for some reason, and it's otherwise an excellent host for Linux.

Re: A perfect storm of his own making

Needs lessons from Johnny Depp.