User: Uomograsso

People drive cars

On: Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)

People drive cars and don't know how the engine works. It's a shame but that is how it is.

But at least with the Raspberry Pi, there is a low cost option to learn what is under the computing bonnet.

Women are not idiots.

On: Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com)

... men with the "strong ability to work under pressure, able to work on weekends, holidays and night shifts."

Obviously, women are not idiot enough to apply for such a job.

But what about the moon?

On: Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks

There were more deaths via selfies than deaths on the moon this year.

stuff block plus

On: Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground?

I use ad block plus to block a picture at the top of a forum I read. Not because it is an advertisement but because it takes up screen space on my netbook.

So not just for advertisements - rename it stuff block plus.

rsync with hard links

On: Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road?

I use a new directory for incremental backup with rsync, using hard links and references to the last completed back up and the latest incomplete backup.

The major problem I have is that photos can take 12 or more minutes each on slow internet connections but I just leave it running overnight.

A File-Centric Photo Manager?

On: A File-Centric Photo Manager?

For adding exifdata to a number of photos at once, you can use exiftool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ I also use NikonviewNX to add titles to my photos. This is free from Nikon.

However, I don't touch the originals and only update copies of the photos.

Once you have data in the photo's exifdata, you can extract for other purposes using exiftool or the underlying libraries.

Alan

Scunthorpe

On: Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech

Maybe an myth but I seem to remember that AOL had problems with the vulva in the north east of England.

Re:use gmail?

On: Email-only Providers?

SPF on Gmail is not a problem even using your own domain in the from: field.  Presumably it is the return-path: or sender: field that is tested rather than the from: field.

Certainly SpamAssassin is happy with it.

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Alan Clifford

fast boot editor

On: Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System?

Psion series 3

Yes, you're right

On: Where Has All My Spam Gone?

I'ma only seeing two dated 20th August. This is down from 10 on the day before. Alan

Re:This is far from New Research

On: Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams

I remember a professor at university going on about density waves in vehicular traffic. His name was Felgett I think and the year was around about 1972. One part of the phenomenon is that the density waves are flowing in the opposite direction to the traffic.

Sempahore towers

On: Email In the 18th Century

There is a reconstructed tower at Chatley Heath near Guildford, England, which was part of the route from the admiralty in London down to Portsmouth.

There are still some left in Barbados:

http://photo.clifford.ac/2007/Barbados.October/tn/dscn2211.jpg.index.html

and here is what you see when looking at Cotton Tower from Grendade Hall:
http://photo.clifford.ac/2004/Barbados.April/tn/p4130674.jpg.index.html

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Alan clifford