Posts by WonkoTheSane
265 posts • joined Thursday 17th July 2008 16:35 GMT
Divide by zero?
nothing to see here, move along.
Get root
Root it & install CyanogenMod 7.
It's possible LTE would displace one of the older technologies like say, EDGE.
Have you checked how often folks are stuck using EDGE instead of GPRS or 3G in the UK?
Posted in DeLorean goes electric for 2013 roll-out
Agreed re fruit-connector
Just go with a standard USB socket, like my Vauxhall.
Aircon will suck the batteries dry, but we'd only need it 3 days a year!
TL;DR = WANT!
(Mines the one with the Palestinian Plutonium in the pocket)
Not the only problem...
It would help if O'Bama would stop appointing MAFIAA lawyers to the Supreme Court!
Posted in Ten... earphones for mobiles
Noise Isolation + Public road != Good thing
You really REALLY want to hear that car/bus/truck coming as you step into the road!
Loudhailer so that you can hear me over your dubstep mix.
P already decided
12.04 (an LTS release due next April as the version number suggests) will be codenamed Precise Pangolin.
Obviously
They had trouble installing the NSA backdoor on the servers.
The first comment made when this story hit Slashdot?
The researchers are totally off base here. These aren't self-portraits; they're writing. When transliterated into the Roman alphabet, they read "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
Expected changes
I foresee the cancellation of F1, Top Gear & everything Dr Who related - the only BBC shows I watch.
This coupled with a massively increased budget for 'Stenders, Costume bl**dy Drama & Celebrity "I can't dance to save my life".
Posted in Obama+world pays tribute to Steve Jobs
Jobs' family to arrange "quiet" funeral
They say he didn't want anything flash.
Oh Really?
I hadn't noticed, thanks to Adblock Plus.
@Naughtyhorse
"such a claim by tea partiers would be admitting man went there, and i'm pretty sure it says in that there book of theirs that we didn't."
Fixed that for you.
I do see where you're going with this...
http://www.ironicsans.com/images/steampunkterminator.jpg
Dixons prays Olympics will boost sales
Title fixed.
Not Anonymous
These people have been named, therefore they cannot be members of Anonymous.
If they were members, the article would have read "two unnamed men".
Never mind the width...
Feel the quality.
The record companies need to make music worth "stealing" again, instead of album after album of utter Cowell.
Posted in Range Rover Evoque Si4
Design consultant = Victoria Beckham
According to Top Gear this season.
Paris wants one in bubblegum pink to go with her Bentley.
I'll just leave this here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLg3lROCLoM
Of course, the conspiracy theorists will be along in a minute to explain that the riots were started by "Da Gubmint" in order to reclaim their control over the dear peepul, which has been bypassed by all this "social netw*nking 'n' stuff".
Not a black helicopter, Murdoch's illegal spy drone.
Name has been named
BBC say it's Greg Miskiw.
This man has a claim for wrongful arrest, he is neither Australian nor 80 years old.
Yawn.
Wake me when an 80-81 year old Australian has been arrested for this.
Posted in Apple delivers Orange aid
Triple fail.
1: Not everyone has an iOS device.
2: iTunes won't run on Linux.
3: Worst movie list ever.
Posted in E-petitions site: Death wish FAIL
"staff at Direct Gov working to remove duplicates."
"staff at Direct Gov working to remove duplicates."
Wouldn't it be better to merge duplicates rather than remove them?
"Social Networking?"
I've heard of it.
Mine's the one with "Diogenes" on the nametag.
@Chris Ward
The TV Batmobile was originally a 386 cubic inch V8 powered Lincoln Futura concept car, sold to Barris for $1.00. (Lincoln are indeed a division of Ford Motor Company)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Futura
A company in the US now has a license to make replicas of it, for $150,000 a time!
http://www.buybatparts.com/joomla/index.php/replicas
(Black Helicopter because Bats has one of those too)
Shiny Circle?
Group of people who like shiny things?
@Joe Montana
You're right. MS have missed all the boats.
My Motorola phone runs Android = Linux
My Sony Bluray & Amp both run Busybox = Linux
My Toshiba TV runs Busybox = Linux
My PCs & Laptop run Ubuntu = Linux
My MP3 runs RockBox = Linux
My SkyHD box runs Busybox = Linux (check Settings/Software/Details for 109 pages of GPL & BSD licences. Linus is mentioned by name.)
Posted in News of the World TO CLOSE
What the public need to realise...
Is that Rupert Murdoch owns more than one newspaper!.
Posted in Akira Blu-ray remastered disc set
@Bunker_Monkey
Yes, but thankfully, Keanu has dropped plans to play Kaneda.
Anyone who wants the non-Steelbook version can just give Asda 13quid like I did last night.
What I'm really waiting for at the moment is an English-subtitled version of this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoNTjwPb5w
Dear Microsoft
Evidence or GTFO.
Posted in Brewer bashes Beeb over anti-beer bias
I'll just leave this here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRSwo9bGHQ
We can but hope...
That they don't think of obtaining a DNA sample as part of the registration of a birth.
@ AC 16:04
"I'd be happy if the fucker were strung up in public as a warning to other scum of his type. "
No thanks. Bringing back the stocks should do nicely.
(If he's dead, he won't learn from his mistakes & will probably repeat them next time round.)
Easy fix
1: Get root
2: Install CyanogenMod
3: ???
4: Profit!
Dodgy Android apps?
Like Motoblur?
Posted in Hot bodies get super-slippery when wet
He's been watching Mythbusters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZio0f7fP04
Skip ahead to 6 minutes in.
(Explosion because... well.... Mythbusters!)
Two words...
Lockheed
Luftwaffe
@ Mark C Casey
The Jabba scene existed all along.
Under the CGI slug is a now deceased Irish actor named Declan Mulholland,
delivering the same lines that the subtitles showed, while wearing a hideous fur waistcoat.
It's Boba Fett who was never there. Proof? I gots proof:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWq71Y5-B4
(Mine's the one with a lighsabre in the pocket)
As seen on the side of a London bus...
Science can fly man to the moon.
Religion can only fly him into buildings.
We need BIG SPACE operas
Like Arthur C Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama".
+1 for Doc Smith's Lensman, also his "The Skylark of Space" series.
How about a live-action Dan Dare?
@Paul Dx & Ashton Black - The subject is "The Best Sci-Fi Film _Never_ Made.", not "My fave flick".
Don't like Unity?
Just select "Ubuntu Classic" session when you log in.
Posted in WTF is... 3D printing
Self replicating?
Reprap can print all its plastic parts already.
As the design is open source, many owners do this to recoup their costs.
The answer lies in Top Gear!
Their Combine Harvester/Snowplough _nearly_ worked.
Given that combines have a power feed at the front for the harvester bits,
a snow blower attachment might have been a better idea.
BAA could keep a dozen or so of these attachments at each airport,
and when the weather starts looking dodgy, rent some combines from nearby farmers.
Cue Sony lawsuit in 3...2...1...
See title
Easily bypassed
Just pass your text through Google Translate into a random language, then back.
If you're really paranoid, make a couple of passes through different languages before English.
This is the EU we're tallking about...
Therefore, all applications must be made in French.
Posted in BOFH: This buck's for you
Does Simon work here?
"In actual fact we hastily cobbled together a variety of randomly selected Google documents ... into a semi-coherent ... guide for senior management. Then went to the pub for two days…"
This sounds suspiciously like our new Company Handbook.
TL;DR
If you fire someone, you delete their access codes IMMEDIATELY, preferably before they've left the building!
