Posts by Simple Si
17 posts • joined Thursday 17th September 2009 13:39 GMT
Festival of the Steel Phallus
If they find that shocking, wait until these kids accidentally stumble upon Kanamara Matsuri (Japanese Festival of the Steel Phallus):-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri
Giant penis costumes and penis themed floats parading down the street. A perfect festival for all the family.
Paris? - Do you really need to ask why?
Best Form of Defence...
...is to ATTACK. Therefore, we must destroy the Sun to prevent any further acts of terror from this death star.
Re: But...
"Your analogue modem could not have run at 0.1Mbps "
I may be wrong but I took that as 0.1Mbps being slower than his last ISDN modem (128Kbps?) in which case I think he is right.
Re: Head over to indeed.com ..
That site begins with an "i" - surely Apple have some influence over those figures ;)
Posted in Emotional baggage
Re: Crumpler
Crumpler gets the thumbs up from me too - I bought the 'Double Charge' bag designed for large laptops. I use it nearly every day for over 4 years now when commuting in on my push bike. Lots of space and pockets!
Re: Oh, that thing?
You can turn of the auto-complete/instant suggestions here:-
http://www.google.com/preferences
...but, then again, you may not want Google tracking your search history and could be blocking use of cookies or do not have a Google profile to log into.
But I agree, I'm not a fan of installing browser toolbars either!
Data Recover PR
Could be good PR for the SD card manufacturer if the card comes out in working order. Failing that, good PR for the data recovery company that manages to salvage the data. Certainly not a project I would want to go near!
Posted in Internet's first 'Hall of Fame' REVEALED
Does the list include...
...Goatse and the stars of Two Girls, One Cup?
Re: A British solution
Great idea, although the government would then have to regulate the bell marketplace. Perhaps offering licenses to organisations that produce bells of particular frequencies. The costs will have to cover the policing of the black-market for those unlicensed fake town crier bells produced in eastern markets. More jobs, lots of back slapping politicians, surely this plan can't fail - hazzah!
Paris? 'Coz she loves bell ringing.
So...
...how long before Mammoth burgers go on sale?
Yep - the existing converter needs updating:-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html
Two versions
I noticed two versions on the market for me with my HTC Desire HD. To get the non-US version installed I had to uninstall the updates for voice search using the market, restart then install the new international version and restart again after a force close error message. After that, all seemed fine. I can now get my phone to send texts, get navigation instructions using voice command - hazzah!
why?
...because a network MAC address filtering system is not secure -yes, it can help but at the end of the day is not secure as MAC addresses can be spoofed.
Also access to company networks on personal mobile devices can be carried out from outside of the company network - e.g web email such as outlook web access and usually there is only comapny policy rather than a secure system in place telling users that they can't use personal devices on company systems.
Posted in Podgy Googlers get shrunken plates
Got your big plate, Alan?
The chubby googlers may learn something from Mr Partridge:
Alan "...I’ve got a scam going with a big plate. Do you fancy being my… co-eater… lady?"
Quality of Service
I think a lot of corporate networks will have QOS anyway so critical services such as VoIP or VPN can be prioritised over web streaming anyway but I guess it will still affect web browsing.
If you are lucky enough like me to have access to the firewall configuration, you could look to set your connection to have highest priority for 'research purposes' during this fine sporting event.
Posted in T-Mobile's G2 denied the update Touch
T-Mobile customer -updtd OK from HTC site...
Started reading more about this and I managed to update my T-Mobile HTC Hero phone using the update issued from the HTC website just following the instructions on their site. Accepted my serial number ok and let me download the firmware.
I purchased my handset from an online company that is well advertised on this site :D. The handset was unbranded so it had no T-Mobile logos on.
My firmware version was previously build 1.76.405.6
Ran the update forgetting to back up my photos and Footprints but luckily they were stored on the card and were still there after the update - phew!
I am now running a snappier interface - Not sure if all those valuable mili-seconds I have saved have been worth going through the update but I can now sleep better.
Posted in T-Mobile's G2 denied the update Touch
HTC's Hero RSS feed not updated yet
I bought this phone on a T-mobile contract - subscribed to the HTC's Hero update support RSS feed which doesnt actually display the new update yet :(
@ Patrick - I'm probably going to wait for T-Mobile to release their varient of the patch as have been happy with the phone so far & can live with a small delay - very cool phone though!
