Recent content by onomatopoeia

£250 (2x100, 1x50) this month!

Maybe in a larger organisation you could do that, but in a tiny company (five employees) like I work at, if something needs doing, you do it. I'm a software engineer, but I also do networks, hardware, infrastructure, telecoms, I.T. etc as needed.

I know, I get the paper form, next time in 2027. They gave me a five year licence rather than three year last time. Maybe they were embarrassed after threatening to suspect my licence because I hadn't told them about my pacemaker. I don't have a pacemaker, but they gave me this massive form...

£125 on a £35k holding this month

This has brought to light the fact that barges / houseboats on leisure moorings do not get charged council tax as, like a motorhome or touring caravan parked on someone's drive, they are not homes and don't stay in one place, whereas if they are on residential moorings (which are very hard to...

Yep, massive data protection breach for which I was financially compensated with processing my medical licence renewal. Had to get my MP involved to get it sorted out.

What is the nature of the wall? If it's concrete block a cheap core drill bit will work, if it's red engineering brick my experience is that a cheap bit of a size suitable for a sink waste will give up before the brick does and be a false economy.

Havene't read them all but "Excession" is one of my all-time favourie scifi novels and if I ever become a spaceship I will be called Serious Callers Only. Currenly reading "I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman, before that the first two "On the calculation of volume" novels from...

Lovely. Whenever I see one I think it could do with a BDA on 40s though.

You won't go wrong, the car might though. Still, you can make it run with two bits of wire, at least until the condeser or rotor arm fail as they're all made in a factory in China these days and are all rubbish.

I've got some years to go so I'm not panicing. I've been moving some of the money from heavily US weighted (due to the big tech companies) global trackers into other global funds that don't include those particular companies so it's not such a rollercoaster on every AI announcement, but other...

You weren't tempted by Unix v4 which as recently been recovered from a 50+ year old tape and is now available to download?

UK government debt is sold by the Debt Management Office (DMO) as government bonds aka Gilts. New debt is auctioned and anyone with an appropriate investment account can bid. I could, if I wanted, buy them in my S&S ISA or my general investment account, possibly my SIPP as well (haven't...

That is even more complicated because the formatted capacity of that disk in the standard format understood by the BIOS of PCs and compatibles was 1,440 KB (where 1KB = 1,024 bytes), so 14747560 bytes, meaning quoting it as 1.44MB is wrong by any measure. There is no rule to say that such a...

RAM is sold on powers of two to this day, everything in low-level computing works in powers of two, it's only disks that are sold on powers of ten and that changed in the mid 1990s when manufacturers saw it as a free way to increase the headline size in their marketing.