Posts by SteveK

No, as far as I can see it was a brand of CRT monitors trademarked in 2001.

I parsed that as "simply hiring more lawyers". I guess the principle is the same, at least as far as lawsuits are concerned.

Steve.

The article did say:

"The handset connected immediately to the supplied base station as well as to my own cheap-as-chips Tesco branded unit."

Ok, not specifically tested with a Panasonic or BT base station, but presumably if it worked with another 3rd party cheap DECT base station that shows its not locked to only working with the provided one and it should work with a BT one (or if it doesn't perhaps it's the fault of the base station?)

Yes, I was wondering about £3.23. Especially as it also offered me German and Japanese versions at £3.21, although those have just gone up to £3.22 as I watched.

The other oddity is that it shows as being a mere 18Mb in size, while the IOS version (which is £2.99) is 462Mb. I can't imagine that developing for IOS brings in that much bloat, so what is missing from the Android version? Is the Android version really that small, or is that an error? Does the Android version have the soundtrack? (I don't know if the IOS version does either?) Does it download game data separately from the main program so as not to need to re-download the whole thing every time?

Steve.

"(Of course, if I'm wrong, and simply writing a piece of software can alter the trajectories of asteroids just imagine what else we could achieve!!!! :) )"

Perhaps they're quantum, and the act of observing them changes their state?

The trouble is that the big, empty chunks of desert are nowhere near where people want the power. Americans probably don't want to be dependant on the people who sell them oil for electricity either, and it is harder to ship.

That said, I came up with the idea a couple of years ago of building big solar arrays in the desert, then converting oil tankers into huge batteries that you charge up at the solar array, and then take and dock in some far off country and plug into the grid... sure there are all sorts of issues surrounding this giant battery idea, most of which involve release of nasty chemicals and so on if one sank...

Another idea - put a huge array on the moon and beam it back to Earth in a beam wide enough that encompasses most of the planet, at low enough power that won't cause any harm, and pay for it by selling us all some sort of induction charging devices that suck 'free' power out of the air. Obviously only produces power when the moon is up in your region, and is subject to moon phase (best to have two arrays, at left and right sides of the moon so would only produce nothing close to new moon), but it would complement existing generation systems.

I never said these were good ideas...

Steve.

"Dave?! PAY to watch ads?!"

Sorry? Dave is on free-to-air so why are you talking about paying to watch it? Sure it has adverts but with a DVR you can just skip over them. Oh, it's not on FreeSat if that's what you have, but it is on Freeview.

Steve.

I wasn't aware the Welsh were fluent with the Water Beings. Explains the weather though.

You forgot one step:

Stop every 20 minutes or so to retune FM transmitter to a frequency that isn't being used now you've driven over a hill and now have fuzzy echoes of a distant station intermittently blocking out your signal.

Tried using one of these in Italy once, couldn't find a single free channel that worked for more than 5 minutes, and this transmitter worked across the whole range from 88 to 108MHz in 0.1MHz (or maybe 0.05?) increments, not one of the common ones that just have 4 presets.

Steve.

Theoretically Overdrive can work with Kindles too according to their website, except again it's restricted to US schools/libraries only...

I think it's the real reason there's been no recent manned missions anywhere - would take too long to find a gap between the satellites and spacejunk to actually get outside the geostationary orbit zone without undue risk of collisions. A bit like trying to fight for the last parking space on a Saturday evening.

"The right approach would be to boot off a DVD-ROM, download up-to-date virus signatures from the vendor and then scan the disks"

I have a fair rate of students bringing their infected machines in (policy says they must have AV but without admin access to their personal PCs can't enforce...), so my solution to this was to create a Windows PE boot image which can be booted via TFTP (or written to CD) and connects to a read-only network share that has SAV32CLI, updated overnight with the virus definitions that our enterprise console has downloaded. Just network-boot the machine and run a disinfect or remove scan with no worries about what is being run. or what the virus is preventing from being accessed.

Steve.

Human rights

Oh, there are petitions also calling for us to scrap all human rights agreements too...

Steve.

cheap as chips

Have a look at the earlier articles - it's not the cost saving, it's the fact that BT can't give him broadband at all, he is too far from the exchange. His earlier articles talk about satellite broadband, running cat5 cables through fields - all in search of a data connection capable of working beyond when an engineer is holding the cable just right...

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"Three's website fails to offer the Sensation or S2 for £30pcm"

No it doesn't. It defaults to the 'One Plan' at £35/month but switch to the text plan and it's there at £30. (I'd thought that at first too).

Agree with the 24 months thing though.

Steve.

No hollowing required.

Don't even need to hollow a mountain, lakes top and bottom work as well - look up 'Electric mountain' on wikipedia - a pumped storage hydroelectric station in North Wales (although they apparently did still dig out 12 million tonnes of rock to make all of the tunnels).

@DanW

"If you have a physical box running 10 VMs, all of which are talking to one another - how does Cisco manage to monitor that traffic?"

"If this *is* the case then Cisco either has to a) Create their own VM that works with their existing tools and risk cannibalising some other sales"

They're ahead of you here - may I introduce you to the Cisco Nexus 1000v - the V being 'Virtual'..

It appears to run as a virtual machine onVMware and maybe others, replacing the standard switch with one capable of being managed in the same way using the same interface as all other Cisco switches, but able to muck about with networking between VMs where the default virtual switch doesn't. Oh, and it shouldn't cannibalise their other sales too much as it appears to cost almost as much as a real physical switch...

@Daniel 1

"Make the advert mostly black, stick it in the background of the site and suppress the mouse pointer from changing, as it hovers over the ad."

Ah, it's not just me who frequently falls foul of that when I click focus back into my browser, careful to always click into the blank space outside the content area...

Steve.

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"Whilst a certain amount of education would help in that respect, it's amazing that there still isn't a centralised place or mechanism for updating Windows."

Ah, but as luck would have it, Secunia just happen to sell tools for patch management. What a coincidence.

"outside of large towns and cities"

I'm with Vodafone and only occasionally get a very weak 3G signal in this city, even when outside. Most of the time just a pathetic 2G signal of medium strength. So Vodafone have a huge way to go as they can't even provide 3G *in* cities, let alone outside them.

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As far as I can see, it's not random unidentified bidders who are buying your item, but one of several businesses that ebay have teamed up with. Whether they are more or less honest than random members of the public is a question I'll leave hanging.

Apparently not

As, in Vodafone's world, increasing (potentially five-fold) the data roaming rates didn't constitute a change to your agreement and that they would not allow you to leave your contract early because of the change, I can't see that they'd allow you to go without buying your way out for this either.

From memory, their claim was that, while your UK tariff was agreed and specified, the roaming rates weren't and that the contract only covered the UK, the ability to pay vast sums of money to use data while abroad was purely a bonus that you didn't have any right to, and therefore they could change at will without it altering your contract.