Posts by The Fuzzy Wotnot 1805 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2008
Their budget desktop tape drives were crap! The ZIP drive lasted all of 5 mins, anyone remember the dreaded ZIP disk "click-of-death"? 1TB, well I have dumped about 20% of my DVDs to AVI and I have already filled 2TB on my server, as the world moves forward to higher quality video, 1TB will be pretty much useless other than for email and few word or spreadsheet docs!
It's far from perfect. but for a quick idea on something, I find it extremely useful. but I wouldn't stake anything really important on it's knowledge, like my my personal safety, my family's or my job!
Too may people go there look up what they know about already, just to poke fun at it's imperfections. Well here's an idea, if it's not good enough, start your own one and all you know-alls can have your own perfect little online tome of knowledge free from any inaccuracies.
For the rest of us looking up roughly how a toilet flush system works, or how XYZ band got started and their current status, it's perfect!
Anyone remember about 2 years ago a guy in France had the cruise control system lock up on him at 70mph and it took about 60 mins of the Police having to clear a path down the motorway until the system unfroze and let him have control back. He couldn't pull the key out as the system had an electronic PIN locking system with no key.
Of course we know the UK gov would give the contract to the most respected and honest contractor, not the cheapest who would cut corners?!
...get the feeling that the government wants the UK taken back medieval times? You can't communicate with anyone that you can't physically see. You can't go anywhere. You won't have any money. You will have no rights at all. Now peasant, get back out in the field and get those turnips in that bag!
Morally wrong, don't really like Lennon much but dragging up dead celebs like that is just wrong, on all counts.
The accent? Lilly Savage on dope! JL spoke more softly, less nasal and a LOT deeper. Was it really that hard to dig out a load of interviews with the man, cut the audio you want and adjust the tones correctly? Perhaps even hold a quick one day audition in Merseyside for someone with a good approximation of his voice?
At the end of the day, with thousands dying, perhaps getting these poor people back on their feet with basic education in subsistance farming, keeping the scum warlord murderers and rapists out of their areas and allowing kids to get at least 3 squares a day and learn the 3 Rs in safety, before we start chucking useless bits of tech charity about!
Now if all the LUGs can write to MS and get them to get this up and running, preferably in the next version of Windows, we will quickly hasten MS's demise.
Just imagine it, you need to pay an extra 2 quid a day to play the latest shat-hot game or CAD package, to "unlock" the potential of that machine you just paid 2k for. No one buys the games, they start pirating even more, the game and software companies decide it's not worth it, they move solely to consoles, where there is less copying. No commerical PC games, no need for Windows.
Companies with 10,000 desktops already financially stretched, say enough is enough, test Ubuntu with Wine and OpenOffice, find it's good enough for what most people want.
We see a rise in online office services through Linux based "dumb-terms" using browsers.
The beast is slain once and for all....
Whitelists is the only way to go, you sign up to Websense or some such other mob, you pay a sub for a whitelist, your kids are slightly better off, not perfect but part of your arsenal. Worst case you write your own whitelist and maintain it.
Sorry to break it to you Andy, mate! The "inna-web" was designed by adults, for use by adults and it contains adult material, bit like....what's that thing....ermm oh yeah, REAL F**KING LIFE!
As a responsible parent I do my best to protect my kids from the nasties in life until they are old enough to know better, that includes ANY form of media no matter where it comes from. Not just because I am tech savvy, but because I am one of the small group of parents still left in this world who cares about their kid's welfare. Christ, my non-tech relatives insisted that I help with locking up the family PCs until their kids all reached a mature age and could be trusted, you know why Andy? Some of us are capable of making our own decisions and taking our parental responsibilities seriously!
Now go stick your head up your arse and see if you can find the brains you were born with!
Zavvi? Always sounded like a toilet cleaner to me, supposed to be one of those silly Web 2.0 names is it? I always despised Virgin they always seem to charge 15-20% more than anyone else of practically everything they sold, the biggest kick in the teeth and the reason I started buying online only, was when Virgin bought out Tower Records. TR was great and with resonable high-street prices. My sympathies for the staff, never nice to have to work in closing down sales, but good riddance to "Toilet Duck" and Mr Beardy!
#1 . Yonks ago, having an email was like having a tarantula as a pet, quite rare, then the world and his dog wanted to get "da innerweb" and get one of them new fangled email thingys.
#2. Quite a few people still think you keep an email like you keep a house address, for a very long time.
#3. Most people use the same email, usually something obvious like first_name.surname@whatever.com, for everything, no matter what. Sooner or later it gets snagged by the ne'r do wells.
Me, I change my email addresses every 6 months, the valuable ones are made up of random characters at one of 5 domains also with silly names. I maintain a list of exactly who has what one and when it needs changing. Touch wood I have had 2 spam emails in 18 months. Not perfect, but I have better things to do that wade through lists of cheap viagra pills and plastic nob pumps!
VM launch a s**t-hot service and then just make sure it's not abused they clamp down on the one thing that will ive it a severe testing and drive it's adoption rate up. The only reason for getting a fat pipe, to draw down large amounts of data. The biggest way to draw bucket loads of data? A swarm like BT!
Glad I dumped VM last year, they are so full of it. Not saying the other won't follow this lead, but they are not as pathetic as VM, the ADSL mob tell you your going to get screwed before they bend you over, VM put on the pizzazz before taking round the back for a good drubbing!
I know there was a happy ending but free software listed is Google Earth, iTunes, Adobe? Free to download and use maybe, not free as in open to learn!
Remember if you use Linux you are a Communist! The Lord Ballmer has spoken and you will listen!
( Mines with the local LUG card in the pocket! )
Now tell me when you get on any bus or train these days, or simply walk about the streets, what do you see? Legions of morons with little white headphones all plugged in listening to the lastest X-Factor or Coldplay claptrap, all wired in and subservient to the lord and master Steve "Polo-Neck, Dance Teacher" Jobs and his enslavement devices!
1984 happened, just not quite the way Mr Orwell had in mind.
At the end of the day average Joe, couldn't give a monkey's about most techy stuff, providing he can get to Amazon, pick us his email and maybe BBC/NBC/whatever news service, he's sorted. Only when Joe finds XYZ favourite site is blocked will be bothered, by which time it's too late.
I believe the main ISPs in Oz have objected, with Telstra flatly refusing to have anything to to do with it. Let's see the government do exactly what "Wacky J" would do, force them to by act of government!
I don't think we are seeing the end of the cards. All that will happen is some wag in UK Gov will simply assume that we don't know what we're talking about, spend bucket loads of that Euro loaned cash on "re-educating" us to understand that you will be safer under Auntie Jacqui's little scheme!
What do all the blokes say when the missus/GF says "What are you thinking about?", we all say...."Oh nothing." You know what? 99.9% of the time that's true! Sorry ladies, the most intelligent we normally get is wondering how that top heavy lady we saw on the bus this morning, manages to sleep face down?
So you ban GE and everyone in India can't use it. Well the last time I checked, most criminals for that is what terrorist is still, didn't really give a monkeys about the law, hence how they got their name. So they will simply get a mate of a mate to get the info or find a way to bypass checks and get what they want.
Guns are illegal in the UK without a license. Well that doesn't seem to stop some nutters on Manchester housing estates from blowing each other away does it?
The driver with no license, no insurance and a stolen car is banned from driving for 3 years after he mounts pavement and injures someone! Well not having a fecking license didn't stop him before, it's unlikely to fecking stop him now, is it?!
Back in the eighties Tipper Gore and the PMRC managed to nag the US government and record labels until they finally got those silly "May contain explicit lyrics!" stickers on any half decent album.
Net result, every band deliberately put an f-word in their music just so they would have to have a sticker on their CD, because the bands and record company knew that any album with a silly PMRC sticker on the front would sell X amount more than one without! It completely backfired on those PMRC knobs!
Let's just see if that comes about, this time around!
While we're at it, can we ban Scorpion's Blackout as well, I might come home one day and find my kids are trying ram forks into their eyes.
Let's ban Celtic Frost's Emperor's Return, I might find people trying to dress up in S&M gear while attracting the attention of large green monsters!
Ban anything by Girls Aloud and the Pussycat Dolls, the covers I can handle, it's the "music" that's just utter, putrid shite!
So is it 10k URLs or sites?
Hmm, well should just about cover average online store, what about everyone else? Doesn't the BlueTack anti-corp IP list contain something like about 2.5M IPs, not including DNS aliases, not URLs!! BlueTack is just a volunteer list let alone something, I use the term losely here, government organised!
I have no idea what's going on but as an avid Daily Mail reader I am shocked and appalled at whatever is going on and anyone who did whatever it was that went on should be lashed to within and inch of their lives.
Bring back the cat for anyone using the internet for any reason!
There must have been about 10 of us Scorpions fans in the whole world who knew about it, and the Blind Faith one, now everyone knows about it! Should raise their profile again, been a bit quiet lately!
Well I have a huge box of vinyl ready for Mary Whitehouse style cronies to come round and censor when they have time, just hope they have a big budget for taxis and fire lighters as it's going to take a while to get around to all of us!
I am only a casual web coder, but I despise IE with a passion. You spend time coding your site to the standards, FF, Opera, Chrome all happily render pages perfect. Then you fire up IE and spend three times at long carefully inserting all the little workarounds to allow IE to work.
Of course the MS sheeple will fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
There has to be some kind of case here, this is getting beyond ridiculous now. Come MS, we've had a laugh a few giggles, let's knock it on the head now!
I remeber ordering loads of 240s with pairs of 72GB disks. The units would turn in cardboard boxes and polystyrene. Then the disks would be in their own boxes and packing. Then the manuals would have their own boxes and bags. And finally, this was the pathetic one, the two US power adapter cables, would each have their own cardboard box! We had to order UK power cords and they would each turn up in a cardboard box!!
I'm not a massive greenie and I try to do my bit, but this was truly pathetic.
"Games on the firm's list accumulate points representing its soul-corrupting properties by scoring in categories of sex, nudity, gay/lesbian encounters, violence, cartoon violence, language, comic mischief, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, demonic references, and game addiction."
What has any of this got to do with being offensive to religious sensibilities? Now bear in mind I have studied any of the well known religious books of fairy stories to any great extent but I'm pretty sure that at no point does it say that "That shalt not indulge in comic mishief."!!
Bloody, moralistic, religious nutcases, think their faith gives them a right to mouth off on every subject under the sun, 'cos it's tied to religion the mouth-breathing, fire and brimstone mob all sit up and take note, 'cos they so mind numbingly daft they can't make up their own minds about what's right or wrong.
What's usually the first thing any psycho says when he's carved up 26 people and buried them under the patio? "God spoke through my dog/dreams/toaster/XBOX, and told me to sort humanity out!".
Exactly what I was thinking. Johnny Redbeard or whatever "da kids" that pirate games are called these days, will be thinking "Well that sounds like a challenge to me!". Time and money wasted on security that will last less than 24 hours, of course the money will be recouped through the game price and the extra cost will be justified as an anti-piracy measure to safe guard you gaming experience.
I dropped out of the peeing contest that gaming had become many yonks ago. For the best gaming experience, all you need is a copy of M.E.S.S. and a stack of old 8bit game image files! All glory to Dizzy and Horace!
We now live in such a desensitised society, violence means so little these days. The quality of entertainment is such that we have trained ourselves to enjoy real suffering as much as portrayed fictional violence. I listen to a lot of violent and extreme music, but I can't stand gore or horror flicks. I don't want to be desensitised, I want to be shocked when I read the plight of others, in the hope that I will realise that I am OK and I should always make sure I try my best to help ensure others are OK.
This really is quite sad that a human being, so lonely and at end of their tether would feel the need to leave in such a voyeristic way, screaming a cry for help, yet it was percieved as nothing more than cheap entertainment. What did it achieve in the end? Will you rememeber his name in a day ? A week? A year? Unlikely that you can remember his name even now, only 5 mins after reading it...
When you watch sport on TV you always shout and rant that given the chance you could do better, but you know deep down you probably couldn't, you're unlikely to get the chance. However with games, you can rant and shout that you could do better, with the added opportunity that you could, given enough time, prove it.
I'm torn, on the one hand you have everyone's right to privacy, especially the innocent kids of affiliates and on the other you have the fact that if you join a rather nefarious organisation like the BNPm then you should be prepared to stand up for it when pushed.
Then knowing what "da web" is like, what about...
It's circulating like a bad smell. someone grabs it and plasters all the names of people they dislike on it and posts it back almost a black-market version of the list, if you like. Next your boss gets the list from somewhere and your called up and suspended pending investigation...
Another fine example of our wonderful, technology empowered society shooting itself in head!
Perhaps the time might be better spent teaching kids to be able to read and write to basic standard? I had the pleasure of reading my 15 year old nephew's essay about climate change about a year ago, having been asked to print it out after his family printer went on the fritz. I had to fight the urge to whip out the red biro and start scribbling corrections and notes all over it!
Things like this always remind me of the Simpon's episode, where a toy company takes over the school and tricks the kids into designing their new toy for them.
Plastic Bertrand was Belgian, not French!
The only French music worth bothering with is Gojira ( you wouldn't like it! ). Like AC said further up, simply ask the rest of the world to ban all French IP ranges, then when the economy is turmoil and a 2nd revolution is in the offing, perhaps these parasitic lawyers will wake up a little bit!
I hate music copyright infringement, all "pirates" should be strung up for it, I have to pay for all my music due to it's niche nature, so should everyone else! However at the same time, for flip's sake, get some common sense if you're going to mount a world-wide crusade.
Sodding PETA, get on my fecking wick! I am a veggie and stick up for animal rights, but organisations like PETA just make the rest of us who have made personal choices, look like complete fecking loonies!
Here's an idea instead of ramming your ideas down everyone's throat trying to grab headlines, how about a programme of educational options in schools and public places, supplying sensible ideas? You don't see IFAW or the Veggie Society running naked up the high street drenched in fake blood to prove their point? Enough to make me go back to meat, just to teach those twats a lesson!
The PSP is pretty naff it only really comes into it's own when the firmware is "opened", you can then get to play so many great homebrew apps, games and for me retro emulators. Nintendo 64, Megadrive and my favoruite ZX Speccy! Modern 3D, state-of-the-art games? Sorry too boring, they all look the same and have next to no gameplay worth speaking of, all trying to cram too much in at once. Nothing like playing Glider Rider and Skooldaze on the way to work!
Forget the rest, get the best, PSP!
(Yes I had a GP32 and GP2X, neither can beat a PSP! )
How long have so called experts been forcasting the death of Unix? Doesn't seem to be hurting Linux at the moment. How long have been promised "new paradigms in GUI design", well baring Apple moving the menu bar to the top of the screen, we still seem to be stuck with windows with stuff we want, in 'em, whether it be Windows, KDE, Gnome, OSX, etc. We've added flashy twirly stuff, Aero and Compiz, but they're still square bits of screen real estate with the stuff we need printed in them.
"The decision to shield a child record will be taken on a case-by-case basis, based on the level of threat posed if information about their whereabouts becomes available,"
Yes and judging by recent events, we can whole-heartedly believe that those in positions of trust can be relied upon to carry out their duties diligently and with the child's interests foremost!
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