Posts by brian43 posts • joined Thursday 11th October 2007 15:15 GMT
There used to be a good little dedicated platform specialist called DSVR which was bought by Legend plc which was absorbed by Thus and integrated into Demon. During this process the availability of the servers (especially email) went down the toilet and many customers f****d off into the sunset and took their hosting elsewhere. Nowadays the formerly vibrant DSVR forums are like a Welsh village on a rainy Sunday afternoon (thanks to Douglas Adams for that!!).
I dread to think what the remaining customers are about to go through. I'm glad I've escaped and took all my hosting platforms elsewhere.
Mine's the one with "Ex-Customer" on the back.
So, I'm sitting in my seat being monitored by this camera mounted in the seat in front and I start to assemble a gun (like Christopher Lee in "The man with golden gun") so I can hijack the plane.
The camera records this and me setting the timer on the bomb.
Then what?
What is the point? The camera won't stop me unless my seat is fitted with automatic handcuffs too..... What a waste of time.
"You're waiting for someone to dump Gordon and Jacquie onto a landfill? A little bit harsh I feel but can see where you are coming from..."
He can't do that - they count as "hazardous waste" and require a special disposable procedure.....
"If I want stationary, I'll go to a stationary shop"
I think you'll find that most shops are stationary..... ;-)
Except paper shops which are "stationery" as well as stationary!
Mine's the one with "Pedant" on the back.
"I met some Swedish people in Germany who went to Linköping Uni, and they reckoned it was a swinging place! So, what do I know? "
WIth only tufty grass and time on their hands - what do you think they did to pass the time?
Swinging....... Hmmmm..... I'll bet it did not involve a pendulum-like oscillating seat.
amanfrommars is a town in south wales - north of Swansea
They'll undoubtably be suing this next
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/tech/lovell/
because it doesn't get much more directional than that....
... is highly toxic. It kills just about everything it comes into contact with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#Safety
... if it *did* work then you couldn't have a programme on telly called something like "Criminals caught on CCTV". If CCTV worked then why does Crimewatch show crims robbing banks? Everyone *knows* banks have had CCTV for 30-40 years.
The evidence is against CCTV - a complete and utter waste of time and money.
There's far, far more energy in water movement than wind movement (water being denser per unit volume) and the tides have been shifting water round our coasts twice a day every day for the last few billion years whereas the wind sometimes doesn't blow at all....
They should shoot these "astroboffins" into deep space. Have they bothered to calculate just how much materials are needed?
[back of fag-packet mode]
The moon has a radius of 1900 km giving it a crosssectional area of 3.1416 * 1900 *1900 * 1000000 = 10^13 m2. If the reflective surface is 1mm thick then that is 10^10m3 or 10 billion m3 of metal. If we use Aluminium then we have a mass of 2.7x10^13 kg or 27 billion tonnes of metal
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Also, attracting aliens might not be a good idea - have they ever read "Footfall", "The Mote in God's Eye", "War of the Worlds" or seen "Independence Day"? We can't afford to attract aliens unless Randy Quaid is free - just in case...
.... in the next Queen's speech to make it offence to alter blogs by any means whatsoever including editing them which shall also become an offence unless they belong to the opposition in which case deleting them will be mandatory.
Paris, because after writing about "harridan" Harriet, well.... need I say more?
The phrase "Not for Profit" is a tricky one. It says nothing about turnover, simply that they do not make a profit. For example, they could give the "profit" to the directors as a bonus every year, thus making no profit.....
I think I would rather see that profit reinvested back into the domain infrastructure and control or possibly running seminars, conferences etc up and down the country on a regular basis.
...they really *are* a bunch of w**kers!!!
Not much point in blaming PHP on this one. The site's headers reveal
Server: Oracle HTTP Server Powered by Apache/1.3.19 (Win32) mod_plsql/3.0.9.8.4 mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 mod_oprocmgr/1.0 mod_perl/1.25
Oracle, Apache, Perl, CGI.....
... they should know that legal papers have to be "served" by a court-appointed individual who must hand them over in person and inform you of the fact.
That BubbleWrap - was it painted red with the word "Tension sheet" on it? Was it patent pending - Thickie Holden Enterprises?
(Hint for those who don't watch Red Dwarf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeslides#Plot )
"Recomplie the kernel"????
I've been using Linux for years. Everything in this office except one laptop is Linux and I've never had to recompile anything. Try using it instead of "spouting off"
I'm shocked that there is a possibility that my crack-den might be turned into a house and given to a white, english, indigenous native of these islands.
At least wait until we've finished our roast swans & the football section.
It's too late to apologise. You're toast buddy!!!
To "El Reg"
You forgot to post the names of these half-wits so that they can be fired.... or do you want to let them persist in the hope of getting more "inside info"?
Paris, because she knows how to deal with a good shafting.....
An AC said "Guess what, the only people to stop and check if she is OK were foreigners"
I've stopped to help people before and I've had very mixed reactions. One older lady fell off her bike and couldn't get up so I called an ambulance and she was grateful. She was also the exception.
Twice I stopped to help someone broken down on a country road. In one "incident" the woman in the car told me to go away. The next time (some years later) I was told by another woman that she had my registration and would phone the police to report me if I didn't go away. So I no longer stop to help.
I won't help with children either. These days any man who shows any concern or interest in a child *must* be a child-molester. I've been told that by a social worker.
So, women and kids, you're on your own because I'll be damned if I'm going to jail for just trying to help some lilly-livered nitwit afraid of her own shadow.
The "V" gesture also symbollises "Up yours" and is rumoured to originated at the Battle of Agincourt where English archers (who used a v finger grip to draw arrows) are supposed to have used it on the French....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#The_V_sign_as_an_insult
United States president George H. W. Bush, attempting to give the "peace sign", once gave the insulting V sign to onlookers while touring Australia, unaware of what it meant to Australians
... talk about giving away the "keys to the kingdom"? On top of that, I have never seen an outsourced project where it was not necessary to rewrite large portions of the code. Combine this with the security risks and outsourcing just proves to be a large waste of money.
You could sort out drivers and pedestrian mobile use by attaching the mobile to an outlet socket with a wire...... errr.... ohh.....
As a weekend pilot myself, I wonder why the pilots can't guide police to the approximate area where the beam is. They've got the best view and I doubt that whoever is doing this is in the middle of a big crowd.
Regular surveillance by ground cops should catch these fools and then charge them with attempted murder - for a Jumbo that could be 500 counts......
It said "the Medical Council will today rule whether the owner of one Bangkok clinic has breached medical ethics in allegedly performing castration on boys under 18 for just 5,000 baht."
Does that mean that ethics would not have been breached if it was done for 10,000 baht?
What's wrong with OOXML? Well here's a taster for you.
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/disharmony-of-ooxml.html
and scroll down a bit to the table that shows how to colour red or right-align stuff. It's just a small sample. If you want a more technical overview then go here
http://www.noooxml.org/open:rejectooxmlnow
or here
http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/top_10_worst_responses/
Basically, no one can implement an unimplementable standard. No one is even sure if Microsoft can implement this stuff.....
How bad does it have to be? There's nothing wrong with the idea of OOXML per se, but it needs a lot more work to actually be *fit* to be a standard.
The delegates seem to be able to add up the votes and there is not that many of them, so why the silence from the ISO?
Could it be that they've heard that the process might be a touch flawed? Time for a review perhaps?
Another nail in the ID card coffin? It will be interesting to see how the minister's fingerprint gets used and what the minister "buys" or "agrees" to on the strength of his fingerprint.
Biometrics are the ultimate form of "money laundering". After all, the system validates *your* identity so if it says you are the German Interior Minister then you must be. All of you........
Stupid bl**dy system!
"Enceladus' brew is like carbonated water with an essence of natural gas"
Expect the price of Perrier et al. to drop as the Islington set and other chinless wonders start looking to where they can buy "Enceladus Spring Water"
Come to think it, there's a business opportunity here......
"...the main difficulty (I suspect) is in the remote control range..."
I don't doubt it. Most hobbyist kit couldn't support the instrumentation package's weight or battery, but at the end of the day I would expect these minor problems to be solvable. After all, a handheld satellite telephone can reach an orbiting satellite and the technology is out there for a few hundred quid. Maplin can flog a webcam and a thumb drive to support an operating system and solid state storage. I could build one of these things in my shed get change from a grand or two
OK - so the MoD version would be fancier, but by a cost factor of several thousand times? If they're cheap enough then it doesn't matter if you trash them when you land them.
(NOTE: the best way to make these things invisible is to light them up. Weird, but true)
hopefully those stupid "Hello moto" ads will disappear as well.
About two miles up the road from is a large field where modelling enthusiasts make radio controlled aircraft, some of which have wingspans in excess of 2m. If a bunch of cardigan wearing "anoraks" (pardon the mixed metaphor) can manage with tissue paper and dope then surely the MoD can make a slightly heavier version?
The only real expense is the instrumentation module and if that was recessed into the body instead of sticking down underneath...... or maybe, just maybe, they could try some of those new fangled "wheel" thingies....
Mine's the one with the radio controller in the pocket!
The EPO is nothing to do with the EU.
It is a completely separate organisation which is not under control from Brussels, owes no loyalty to Brussels and is not under any European treaty. Several non-EU countries such as Switzerland belong to the EPO.
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
That should keep us all busy......
"SP1 signals .... Broad take up by businesses"?
Err... what? It breaks A/V software and other packages suffer a loss of functionality? What business is going to install such a lemon? Time to hang on to XP Pro methinks.
Are they nuts? Will you be able to see the track and field events on the other side of the bank of cameras? I'm sorry, but this just proves that the police think that we are ALL guilty - we have just not been caught yet.
Besides CCTV is a waste of money as far as crime prevention is concerned. If CCTV prevented crime then there would be no programmes of the "Criminals on Camera" variety. All CCTV does is let you watch the crime in progress from the comfort of your armchair.
... that this requires PHYSICAL access to the machine. As always, the first line of defense is to make sure that no one gets access to a sensitive machine. Locked doors are a good preventative.
Paris, because even she could solve this one....
My ISP is Zen who say they are not doing this and have no intention of doing this.
Good news for me then, because I don't fancy the hassle of moving....
.... that patent rights have to be disclosed and asserted from the day the patent is granted. This would kill most submarine patents and certainly would knobble these "standards" patents since failure to disclose them on submission to the patents process would invalidate any action based on the use as a standard.
Passing less stupid laws in the first place....
Idiots
So, according to the govt. all those private sector companies who DO support non-Microsoft technologies are comprised security wise?
Was the medical system secure? I think not! Next they'll be telling us of a successful IT project in the NHS........
