Posts by nowster
25 posts • joined Tuesday 4th August 2009 11:40 GMT
Charlotte Green reads Les Barker's poem "Voicemail"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-74wHCeAs
Have Apple UK registered this use and storage of personal information with the Information Commissioner?
Re: After the contract has expired,
Actually, T-Mobile is currently giving me a £4 per month discount for having continued the contract for another 24 months and not requesting an upgrade to my handset.
Prior art would not be Tesla but Heinrich Hertz using a portable tuned loop, looking for tiny sparks in a darkened room.
Posted in Big biz 'struggling' to dump Windows XP
Re: Windows 8
...a minimum 95% of the desktop, leaving just 5% for user applications.
There, fixed that for you.
Re: (C) StationX
Crown Copyright on documents only lasts for 50 years.
Is this the "fat bottom" meson?
Obvious!
It's to stop him being a rePeter offender.
Old hat
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/elw10.htm
Shetland Times versus Shetland News. 1996
Wikipedia
As it's now a published "fact", it can be cited on Wikipedia.
Posted in Guy Kewney, pioneer, guru, friend - RIP
Let's hope there are no more mix-ups
And they don't bury Guy Gomer instead.
Last memorial of the JANet coloured books
NRS be gone! Some of us will remember the back-to-front email addresses used in UK academia.
There is a tale of someone sending an email to a computer lab address of dressedinblack@uk.ac.oxbridge.cl, and finding it routed via Chile (manually forwarded by a mail system admin).
Sewerly not
In many rural places there is no main sewerage system; each property has its own septic tank.
Posted in PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux
A blue pencil moment
"But it seems that after four years work the vast majority of PHP applications are still being *deployment* on Linux servers at the expense of Windows."
Was the proof reading step mist?
Of course, the P in LAMP can equally be Perl or Python, and it's as easy to write code vulnerable to SQL injection in all of them.
Posted in Teletext toddles off as licence taken
Subtitles
888 subtitles are inserted by the broadcasters themselves (ie. ITV, C4 or five) and are independent of Teletext Ltd. The broadcaster has one VBI line exclusively for the use of subtitles. In other words, subtitles won't be affected by this.
Posted in Tesco store bans shopping in pyjamas
Correction.
"It was Stephen Fry who quipped that the purpose of Sainsbury’s is to keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose."
Actually, that was penned by the late Alan Coren.
Posted in Brum DJ canned for cutting short Her Maj
Live?
The Queen's Speech is never live. It's always pre-recorded several days before. The BBC and ITN take it in turns to record it. This year it was ITN's turn. I haven't checked, but I would suspect that the IRN network is used to distribute it to commercial radio stations on the day.
Posted in BBC publishes Freeview HD timetable
Parts of Liverpool will be covered
Much of the Liverpool area gets its signals from the Winter Hill mast (like Manchester), not Storeton (on the Wirral).
Posted in The Beatles go digital, sort of
Copyright?
Over the coming decade, the mechanical copyright on the original Beatles 45s and 78s will expire (50 years since release). There will still be composer royalties to be paid, but there's little that EMI will be able to do to prevent a third party from recording an original Parlophone pressing, cleaning it up, and releasing it on CD.
These recent CD/USB re-releases (because of the remastering) will have a fresh new mechanical copyright date which won't expire until at least 2059.
BBC Radio 7 too
CBeebies on BBC 7 would only ever play the first verse of Rolf Harris's "Two Little Boys".
Posted in German firm fails to trademark !
Victor Hugo's publisher got there first
Manufacturer: "!" ?
Court: ¬
The official information on the reshuffle.
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/40574/Wednesday_30_September_Re-tune_Briefing_FINAL_VERSION1_25Sept09.pdf
Posted in Channel 4 to go 3D
Passé
ITV did this in the early 1980s. I remember the cardboard 3D glasses given away in the TV Times, and Michael Rodd introducing the programmes -- mainly 1950s feature films.
No wonder it wasn't valid.
Of course, it should have been "...fewer beds..." not "...less beds..." as it's a countable quantity.
