Alan Fleming

What happens if you have a perfectly square monitor, say 1800x1800? (Can you tell I try to find edge case bugs in software before release? I went to the same school as Little Bobby Tables! 😂)

The Nene was high in Ferry Meadows today, but not alarmingly high thankfully

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Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER

dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut

Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!

Bought the cassette t-shirt the other week, and I'm very happy with it. It's great quality for anyone wondering, fits perfectly, and looks amazing, obviously. Top work!

Shame you couldn't see the screen for that giant tub of popcorn though...

AI should be spelt Ai, especially when your name is Al

Is it worth checking to see if the card can record from a mic or line input? That would at least tell you if the main chip is working. It could be something as simple as the op-amp IC on the output of the card is faulty. A record input would be virtually direct from jack to main chip

Bar chart showing the number of hours in each day. Today, unusually, has 25

Happy Longest Day Of The Year

An empty footbridge tunnel disappears into the distance, with overhead lights creating dark and light stripes on the red metalwork.

A panorama of the Finnieston crane, north rotunda, Armadillo, Hydro, SEC and River Clyde on a crisp sunny morning.

The hench Finnieston Crane looming overhead, set against a crisp blue sky.

I enjoyed my flying visit to Glasgow this week. It was looking splendid in the autumn sunshine, though I didn't take nearly enough photos this time

Pay VERY close attention to the sender's address when you get what appears to be a legitimate password management request. In this instance the sender is not "Microsoft", but R N icrosoft, the R & N close together look like a lowercase 'm' at first glance.

Maybe they think IP stands for Intermittent Packets?

This was a lovely little exchange! 💜

If you check under the 'view' menu, I think there is an option to view disabled/hidden devices. Tick that, then see if the basic display adaptor shows - uninstall it if so. Then uninstall the driver for the actual card, and tick the box to delete the driver completely. Then reinstall the driver.

This is excellent!

A colleague used an IR thermometer on a couple, and they were over 100°C on idle, with the fans running at 30% which is 'normal' in firmware. 🥵 This was with the PC idling at a logon screen. You might be able to tell, but I'm not a fan of those cards! I've been burned (almost literally!)

Ah, beware of these cards. Had 100s of those in Dell PCs with an extremely high failure rate. You'd get visual artefacts at first, then the PC's would lock up completely. I think it was down to bad thermal paste, and bad firmware that didn't spin the fans up when needed. Had to dispose of 100s! 😔

Ah, I remember those cases, with the little ISA riser card! Would love to see more photos of it if you have any

With or without the air quotes? 😂

Oh, it looked like 2 rows of pins from your first photo, which is what threw me. I think IBMs of that era might have used a similar 7 pin molex though, so maybe that was a pre-AT standard of sorts?

Such an unusual power connector - I thought everything used the AT style molex connectors, or variations of them? Was this motherboard from a server or some custom/embedded chassis by any chance?

Let's not even talk about LBC on AM - 1152 (kHz) is quite ambitious. Even 261 (meters) is a stretch!

"Sir Richard Hussey Hussey" - so good, they named him twice! 🧐

Ooft, that sucks. Is your landline provided over IP now as well?

Is that the mill between Alwalton and Castor?

BBC says goodbye to premium-rate phone voting

End of an era. Phone call voting is to end on BBC shows such as Strictly and Eurovision. All voting to be online. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

This got me thinking about the Eurostar. When you go through security in St. Pancras, you immediately go through French passport control. Does that mean part of London is technically French? And, vice versa at Gare du Nord? 🤔

Nice selection!

YouTube video by Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop [Official Music Video]

That's the second VCR based one they did! I like their song about having a dodgy VCR remote control button.