Posts by TeeCee

Quite clearly the source of this worm is Hollywood...

Ah, well fixing it all should be simple then. They just need to attach a supercomputer to the network, fire up a command line and type in "RUN INFECTION REMOVAL".

Re: A low friction connector?

Yup, magnets.

A couple of steel contact patches on Lohan's skin and a pair of wires from the external power pack ending in small magnets should do the trick. The slight drag on detachment should not be an issue if you ensure that the wires are short enough that this will occur while the spaceplane's still travelling along the launch rod so the trajectory cannot be affected.

Re: Fire drill

If, as seems to be implied, it's happened more than once recently, the most likely explanation is that the building's owners are having some electrical work done and the muppets have triggered the fire alarms. Again.

I was in an office with that problem not so long ago. Worst bit was that 'cos it wasn't a planned drill, every time it happened we all had to stand around and wait 'til the fire brigade tipped up to stick their noses in the place and say it was all OK.

I always make a point of nipping back to my office and grabbing my jacket and cigs if the alarm goes off. I reckon that the 0.00001% chance of it being a real fire, a serious one and the slight delay caused making any difference in that situation is vastly outweighed by the 100% chance of being fagless and frozen while waiting outside.

Re: anyone know

.....hence the conspiracy tards claiming someone simply walked up to the rover in the deep Arizona desert and took a photo of it....

Well that's just bloody ridiculous. If it had held out its camera and taken a self-portrait while on Earth, there'd be someone behind it pulling a silly face.

Re: Agree totally on the Take-Aways

Yes. For a start, on this side of the channel they don't seem to have quite grasped the concept of hot curry. They seem to think that "very hot" means "slightly spicy" and not "will remove paint from battlecruisers" as one would expect.

Even the Thai food seems to lack any of those dishes where the first mouthful causes the dawning realisation that you may well have made a terrible mistake and a frantic flagging of the nearest waiter for additional supplies of Singha.

On the upside, steak is actually steak and not cremated shoeleather.

Re: Sounds like our new helpdesk ;)

Ours have come up with a slightly more cunning approach than that.

They look at it and decide that, yes, that is a problem. Having figured out that there is a problem in there somewhere they convert the service call to a problem ticket, which doesn't have a TRT........

Re: Quasars used for accurate geodesy, which is essential for GPS

Even GPS tracking came later, with Cruise Missiles in the Gulf War 1 (earliest).

They were still using terrain guidance on Cruise then, at the very least for final guidance onto target.

I remember a hack who was in Baghdad saying he was standing at his hotel window and a Cruise Missile went past the window, following the street. He said it turned left at the junction down the way and then obliterated the TV centre round the corner.

He also said that he almost expected it to stop, as the lights at the junction were red.

"...the broad nature of the permissions..."

That seems to be the rule rather than the exception these days. I'm wondering how much of this is due to the app itself and how much is the result of the GooCruft (tm) 1.0 (beta) shiteware that always seems to be embedded, even on the non ad-supported stuff.

I was fairly surprised to see that the current version of Chrome now requires full access to the phone side of things (WTF for?). Back using the stock browser now.

Re: Why are the KDE desktop shortcuts penned in?

Yup, took me a few moments to work that out when I first saw it.

Once I'd figured out what was going on[1] and stopped fruitlessly trying to drag things to and from it, it became obvious that it's actually an astonishingly good idea.

[1] Other "KDE fun" moments include figuring out how to get the bit that shows all the running things back when an errant mouse swipe removes it from the bar at the bottom (it's a "task switcher panel" apparently - the hard bit's figuring out that that's the right one of the multifarious widgets on offer). I thoroughly recommend locking the widgets and such once you have it the way you want it.

I guess one reason that people don't host their own advertising content is that this would make tracking much harder, so the ad slingers won't let them.

I wasn't suggesting that they did. I was suggesting that the ad-slingers should rather than just flogging the slot to the actual advertiser and fetching their content, as seems to be the case now. As things stand, you do not have control over what's in an ad, Google/Doubleclick/${other_bunch_of_bastards} do not have control over what's in an ad (or even give a shit as far as I can see), but some advertising weasel or scammer who's bought the slot? He has....

The current way of doing things is like flogging souvenir chunks of semtex on eBay. Some of your purchasers may not be planning to leave theirs on a shelf as an ornament....

Re: Solar moitor

Re: Dishwasher.

Sod the solenoids. Just get an old-skool dishwasher with proper pushbutton switches and an analogue programmer rather than one of the electronic ones. Then thump the "on" button after loading and you can just turn the mains supply on and off to play/pause it.

Of course, if you already have an electronic one, it's almost certainly got a timer function built in if you RTFM......

Never seen Zardoz. Will now even just to see how bad it is.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say it's actually not bad. Very clever in it's own way, but firstly its way is very much Boorman's[1] way and secondly it is a product of its time.

[1] Quite possibly the most "marmite" of directors.