Posts by Alistair Wall
51 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd October 2007 09:59 GMT
Re: Hat
To hide the results of a previous experiment with squishy robot cephalopods.
Posted in Molesworth and the New Latin
Re: Anyway
2005.
While I was looking that up, I found a bit I hadn't read before:
"... neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work."
"today, people confuse the homonyms"
"Simonyi was a programming protege "
Proverbs 29:18
is in the Old Testament.
These things come in threes
Also, why did it take four years to come to trial?
Posted in Apple shares drop after Jobs resignation
new CEO
Bill Gates has a lot of time on his hands nowadays.
men
It is not just British men who are descended from mammoth hunters. Any women who have fathers will also have a male line of ancestry from this source.
scale
The scaled photo shows 8000 light years square, and the dimensions are 1000x1000 pixels, so each pixel covers an area of about 10^23 Wales.
experience of managing a large and complex database
and no mention of backup and recovery.
Excess vitamins
Excess water-soluble vitamins are excreted. Vitamins A and D accumulate in the liver, which is why you can get vitamin A poisoning from eating polar bear liver.
how long's the PFY ...
Anyone twentyfive years younger than you is a child and always will be.
O level arithmetic (1973)
180% is 70 percentage points more than 110%, but only 64% more.
We should do this for the next G20 summit
<a href="http://xkcd.com/617/>or perhaps not.</a>
Posted in Hansard to pulp paper processes
Complicated?
"The spokesperson said the system is complicated, as each parliamentary question has a unique identity number and the answer has to be linked to this."
Foreign keys are complicated?
nuggest?
Is this a new Reg unit?
Linux drivers
How can you do a review of printers without saying whether they work in Linux?
Posted in Daily Mail breaks iPhone 4 recall scoop
not just the mail
http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/2010/06/orange-say-that-iphone-4-has-been.html
Posted in Copyright wally of the week
fair use
The copyright notice on the Wind-Watch website does say "This site contains copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. ", followed by the EFF fair use policy.
Tom Stacy's proposal would fit a careful reading of this policy.
given a death penalty it's probably pretty obvious
The lawyers have argued that a case of meningitis at the age of four may have caused Gardner considerable brain damage, debilitating his capacity for empathy and impulse control. He was also sexually abused, used drugs between the ages of six and 11 and had a troubled childhood, with two parents who were both alcoholics and physically abusive.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/jurors-in-death-row-case-speak-out-as-defendant-faces-firing-squad/1501/
a "ponderomotive force" field
Named after the wizard Ponder Stibbins.
Kangaroos in Austria
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4813976.stm
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam
distinguishes him from Dr David Clarke of Glasgow, and from a bunch of Americans.
Posted in BOFH: The PFY Chronicles
spoiler alert
May I be the first to ask whether the BOFH really dead, or whether the PFY has persuaded his LUG to stage a fake funeral while the BOFH is on his annual pilgrimage?
Posted in Gas mask bra secures Ig Nobel prize
Pandas
This, Chris Packham (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/panda_death/) is why we need to save the giant panda.
ccentripetal force battling with the hole's pull?
The centripetal force IS the hole's pull
Call youself a sub?
Didn't Death say "CATS. CATS ARE NICE".
@Andrew Culpeck
PG Wodehouse: Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.
It's from one of the Mulliner stories.
Plug in
Aren't there any plugins for IE to emulate Firefox?
Posted in Rogue Atlantis knob removed by hand
@Doug Glass
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Posted in Bloke uses nail clippers to go roundhead
Why?
He is demonstrating his genetic fitness by his ability to endure pain and recover from injury - nowadays, drinking a lot of beer is not enough to set him apart from the competition.
The girls will be queuing up when he comes out of hospital.
@Andy Barber
In German, these are very different: Rufen Sie Polizei/Rufen Sie Grundsatz, so the advisor must have been writing in French, Italian or English, where the captors might have missed a message that was subtle enough for the Swiss bank to miss it.
We need a zimmer frame icon.
Collaboration Suite
has been replaced with Beehive. I thought you would know that.
@AC 15:19
c) Call the Microsoft helpdesk - Science 0, Medieval superstitious bullshit 1
Frankenstein
The joke was about a claim that Hussein had <em>assembled</em> experts for his nuclear programme.
@AC
select min(id) keep (dense rank first order by ((x-p_x)*(x-p_x) + (y-p_y)*(y-p_y) + (z-p_z)*(z-p_z)) ) from points
(Oracle syntax)
ex-patriot?
Nino Doijashvili is probably an ex-patriat rather than an ex-patriot.
Posted in Obama bloats Vista by 11MB
Linux
This affects Linux as well - I have just tested it on OpenOffice/PCLinuxOS.
not the first
It is not the first networked coffee maker: http://www.ddj.com/architect/184409827
@Chad H
Jean de Menezes did not skip paying for the tube.
11% of people?
If 20% of the population is online (1.3 billion/6.5 billion) and 11% of people admit to buying from spam, then more than 50% of internet users buy from spam. This seems rather high.
It is more likely that the universe of Sophos' survey was not "people".
screen readers
The alt text says alt="HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime." even if the image is not displayed (eg http://www.haworthpressinc.com/default.asp).
Does this mean that blind users will be told that the site has passed the test when it hasn't?
@ Ash
flashback table "Users" to before drop;
or if you are using a cheapo version of Oracle,
create table "Users" as select * from "Users" as of timestamp (systimestamp-1/24);
Posted in Quake rocks Britain
Global Warming
It was due to global warming - the north of Britain is still bouncing back after the weight of ice pushed it down in the last ice age.
Be fair
According to the revision history, it is only a draft.
Plan B
I thought perhaps they mistyped http://www.ictmarketingstrategy.gov.uk/, but that domain is free as well.
Posted in BOFH: Friday madness
The solution
Ensure all the clocks in the office are synchronised to UTC, then install your own time server.
pedantry
Did he actually say "giga-terror" , "giga/tera" or "giga ... tera"?
