Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected])

Retired InfoSec consultant, Christian, incorrigible tinkerer, interested in music, electronics, and how stuff works. Keen to share skills and enthusiasm.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@hertscc Why no mention on your website or on https://t.co/9JKYAu3NQJ of 4-way traffic lights in Harpenden at junct of Milton Rd/Topstreet Way/Crabtree Lane? They've been going on most of this week! How long??

[The Restart Project @RestartProject]

We're Restart and we're on a mission to connect repair communities and help people repair their stuff🪛

We know that fixing devices is the right thing to do for our planet🌍pocket💰and people👩🏽‍🔧but it's often just too hard! We're trying to make it simpler and easier for everyone.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@Star_Knight12 @linuxopsys Of course it does. It has to. You can't open windows in space!

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@NaturePodcast I've lost my RSS feed for the podcasts. Can only find a feed for all Nature articles on the website. What's the podcast rss feed url please?

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@RDKLInc You wanna do it PROPERLY!

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@Tnargeel @markmiodownik I swear by low temperature solder containing bismuth. Add some to the joints and it stays molten long enough to easily lift the part off.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@sysxplore #

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@nixcraft You poke a pin in there to eject the disk.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@DataChaz And how many screwdrivers do you think I've got, into my 8th decade?

[The Restart Project @RestartProject]

We are so excited to announce that we’ve been awarded #NationalLottery funding, in partnership @_wearepossible, to bring our 3 new Fixing Factories to London.

Thank you to @TNLComFund, Climate Action Fund and National Lottery players 💚

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@sec_defcon Got it! Planet Earth!!

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@ThatEricAlper A small boy found a floppy disk in his dad's desk drawer. "Hey Dad, that's cool - you've 3D printed the Save icon!"

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@ThatEricAlper For my 2nd home-build I had to disassemble and relocate MS Basic 'cos the 6303 chip had RAM at the bottom of memory. I was thrilled with my first test:
PRINT "HELLO"
HELLO
So I tried:
PRINT 2+2
5

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@ThatEricAlper C'mon kids. If you haven't fed 700ft of paper tape into a machine with a 39 bit word length in order to compile and run an Algol 60 program ... ... you haven't LIVED!

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@Jordan_W_Taylor An impressive list of improvements, granted, but comparison with petrol cars isn't saying much, given we're trying to phase them out. My VW Polo does over 60mpg on a long journey, and that's 120 person-miles/gal with my wife, or 240 pmpg 4-up.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@jtsveigdalen Very nice on your muesli for breakfast.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@rekdt The Russians hate the French for their support of Ukraine. I'm sure their hackers would just *lurve* to apply this to all their ransomware servers.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

⁦@StABachChoir⁩ a sad day indeed when we said farewell to Andrew after a standing ovation at the end of the Mozart Requiem. And we had ⁦@johnmrutter⁩ in the front row clapping as hard as anyone!

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

Rehearsing for great concert tonight with @StABachChoir - Mozart Coronation Mass and Requiem.

[Philip Le Riche (also @[email protected]) @pleriche]

@JenMsft Try Spinrite @sggrc - the new v6.1 is supposed to be very good.