Recent content by Owen Smith

As do I. But my parents won't let me set theirs like that, they say it's far to inconvenient for texts from friends. What is annoying on iOS is there is nothing on the lock screen to say you have messages, so you have to unlock it only to find there aren't any and lock it again. Sigh.

I'm still using original 512MB drives that came with the four Humax HDR Fox T2s I manage. The one my parents use had a faulty drive from new, but by the time custom firmware got good enough to know that it was too late for a warranty claim. There were nearly 100 bad sectors the first time I ran...

gov.uk is every time I change to a different page within the gov web site. It can take a dozen text messages to do my tax return in one session of a few hours. That's way too much.

Yes it is rather annoying.

Did the long disk self test finish? There's an option in the telnet menu to tell you the result of the last disk self test, I forget its name.

That works for me, the recording changes to match EPG data when it updates even without AR in use. But I'm in the UK.

I love the name Element Man for the site. Clearly someone with an appreciation for classic films.

Indeed. I tend to buy from Amazon or eBay to get some protection, unless I know the company I'm buying from. However I have bought from this site several times with no problems: https://elementman.co.uk/

But of course. Someone somewhere is kept employed and well paid by this pointless rubbish. The regulator perhaps?

What a surprise.

I don't think you stated that previously.

Fortunately I can build optimised with full debug symbols, the C compilers for both platforms I work on give me independent control of both. Our release builds that go to customers can be fully debugged, though we don't give customers the elf files.

Yes, been there and done that. Our code does not fit when compiled with the optimiser off, so I have to run the debugger on optimised code which can be very confusing unless I debug in assembler view.

I suspect a replacement hard disc which runs cooler means the fan never runs with default Humax firmware. Using the fan package set to min speed 50% would have been an easier fix than bodging the hardware.

Yes explicit inline is somewhat archaic. Any decent modern optimising compiler is also a total pain in the arse for the low level embedded work I do in C, where we put the code in ROM and use hardware to patch in updates to fix bugs. When the compiler turns the code inside out and back to front...