Posts by James Coombs

All these petitions ask for the same thing

Which one is gaining votes most quickly? Who cares - both are asking for the exactly the same outcome.

The original petition started two calendar months ago but was probably largely ignored until last Friday when Treezapeeza decided to use the queen as a bargaining chip to limit the wanton destruction she's carrying out in order to keep the Tory party together. Since Friday, literally 100s more petitions have been submitted to parliament who allowed one of these to continue (strictly speaking against their rules). They've then linked all the other 150 petitions to the second one (thus increasing the hit rate in search engines for the proTrump petition).

At last count roughly 1.75m + 175k petitioners are all asking parliament to debate whether Trump should be afforded a state visit or not. Still, it saves all that going out in the cold and wet and doing all that shouting.

Toothbrush

Does this mean I'm going to have to pay Apple royalties to carry on using my electric toothbrush?

DNS servers down

DNS servers 194.168.8.100 and 194.168.4.100 were both down ALL last night. Now appears working (so I can post this.)

protecting children or M$?

I want to know if this is to protect our children or to protect Microsoft's profits. I might just go and search MS to see if I can find something I think my children shouldn't see ...

There's undoubtedly some dubious stuff on Google but only because Google maps the web which has some dubious stuff ... Have MS somehow miraculously come up with a search engine which only returns "safe" material?

mostly agree but ...

... on the server side HP Have the Titanic range which although developed in partnership with Intel is as good as proprietary. IBM also have their own proprietary so having both doesn't mark Sun out as unique in that respect.

The real IT crowd

I saw a couple of episodes but it struck me as very dated. The characters weren't based in Mumbai using remote access and following scripts to fix 90% of the problems before giving up on the other 10%.

So .... ?

"According to ... Panorama many had no chance of winning " ... whereas those who phoned in before the call handling centre had gone to bed for the night had _virtually_ no chance of winning. There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference to me.

OK so it's out-and-out fraud and those responsible should be locked up but I find it difficult to find sympathy for anyone who thinks they stand anything approaching a chance of winning.

Anyway, just make sure that I win that draw you were running for something last week :-)