Posts by Mr_Pitiful
77 posts • joined Friday 6th November 2009 17:30 GMT
30 Meters from Exchange.....
Super fast broadband over copper
never less than 60MBits
Only had 12 - 20 hours outage in 8 years!
Posted in Review: Renault Zoe electric car
Re: completely useless beyond a few niche users
Bus and train services in Cornwall are available but less than practical...
To get to Truro from where I live on a bus will take over 2 hours and require 2 changes
And there is only one bus service that can get me there for 9am (start of work)
To take a train takes 30 mins minimum, and I still have to get to a station - 20 mins average
The cost is also so high, that driving makes it cheeper and I can choose when I leave home or work
I tested an Electric Car a while back, for a week, it costed a lot to recharge at home - approx £3.80 per night
And to recharge at work approx £5.60 (Tarriff thing I guess)
So altogether approx £9.40 a day total and the round trip was 48 miles
My petrol car does 40mpg approx, so a tank (£60) will last all week, with shopping trips etc
An EV would cost me £47 just to get to work, never mind anything else.
If I had to go to a site visit, it just wouldn't be practical. 150 mile range is rubbish
It's amazing......
What can be achieved with a few spectrums and C64s
Posted in Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! are! back!...
I've been seeing the spam all week
All coming from compromised accounts overseas
I've even advised some off them by phone to change their passwords
Well at least we never click on stupid links!
Icon - Yahoo!
Re: AAAHH MOTHERLAND!
Do you realise how much that costs?
URL?
Where is the cars URL?
The chances of anything coming from mars.....
Are a million to one he said!
Posted in El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa
I had the misfortune
To visit a tea plantation in Sri Lanka
I nearly prchased a kilo of the stuff to bring home
Luckily, I tried a cup before purchasing, and it was terrible
Even the processing plant stank, but I thought, well that must be the process!
How wrong can one be!
Typical
There is no menu on it!
Where do you click for File & Save As?
Why can't C&W customers...
Simply re-route their outgoing call to BT
All they need to do is dial 1280 before the number...
Problem solved
RIP
I had a letter from him when I was 10, Inviting me to join his news letter
Which I did, and received until recently
He was such an inspiration to me over the years, as was Carl Sagan
A toast to you my friend, I hope you're up there enjoying the 'SPACE'
Re: Double Fail
/me quickly takes down postit notes from my wall and writes the passwords in our little black book!!!!
The shame I will now suffer
dev passwords
Those are dev passwords i.e. Zaq12wsx or Xsw23edc
easy as pie if you use one starting with the website first letter theregister.co.uk could be Tgbnhy65
up or down and around, meets the usual 8 letter/numeric restrictions
Beer, as it's a good way to forget the passwords you've used
BTW my former IT manager locked the whole company to use Password10 with no option to change ever! WTF
I've got a spare -80 freezer....
If you need to test it at low temps like the upper atmosphere
Beer because, well done so far guys
Re: At first I was excited by this news...
Ditto & I got a bloody key that I don't need or want!
Re: I think we have a millipede living in our house!
Naaaa, can buy anything I want!
Quick ring a scientist
You have a centipede that can count out loud!
I think we have a millipede living in our house!
There must be, I can see at least 200 pairs off shoes by the front door
Only 4 off them belong to me
That leaves 196 pairs belonging to 1 other adult and 2 children
Someone in our house has an obsession with shoes?
but it not on the 13th
international dateline anyone?
looks like the 14th @ 18.45
humph
Re: I predict anguish
Why would there be any anguish
Office 2003 is fantastic and can read DOCX documents perfectly with the addon
I've just decided I've got too much junk
Oh my, what have I got?
We are lucky that the place we live in has a few dry out buildings, one of which has a walk in freezer - unused.
All the buildings are full floor to ceiling with boxes of old IT kit, towers, routers, drives of all sorts.
Loads of old CRT monitors and working LCD screens.
About 20 plastic boxes of cable, no idea whats in them.
My office is pretty clear, though, on 25 assorted hard drives and a few DVD drives.
All needs to be got rid off, but I will shed a tear, if I have to dump it!
Nuke, in case it all ens up landfill!
Re: Dinosaurs?
Nice schema!
Re: IT departments
I would worry if they did
Can you imagine the damage it could cause!
Posted in Neil Armstrong dies aged 82
RIP
If he did go to the moon then wow what a achievement!
If he didn't go then wow what a photo shoot
Infected Routers!
I rather doubt that there are any infected routers
or am I missing something?
If there were routers affected, then wouldn't there be other isseus?
Posted in Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube
Hmmm
What about all the other youtube - mp3/mp4 sites, what did they all do right then. The one I use is still working... well it was 10 minutes ago!
Re: What will this be sued for?
I really hope that was a typo!
it does look good as a medical application
Re: DLNA - Doesn't Like Nearly Anything
"and I am convinced the user's dress and choice of deodorant."
You own me half a beer, the half I just coughed over my monitor!
Re: If the first thing they do
I owe you a beer, for that comment
Nice one
Re: ...
Is there an oyster card I can get in Cornwall?
Thought not!
Some of us have to pay over £250 on fuel a month just to get to work!
I consider my salary good for this area, but rent increases & general bills have gone up big time
When I ask my wife what is the point, she generally doesn't give a reason not to go on benefits, apart from I love my job and I'm not likely to get anything better.
You are a total IDIOT
Hmmm
Windows for Oil!
Perhaps there is a market out there after all.
Now if only they could afford the hardware to run it on!
Re: Sorry, zero sympathy for the marks.
I wondered about getting the cash also, then I remembered something...
HSBC do have a platnium account 'withdraw upto £1000 a day from cash machines'
If you also had a credit card linked to it the £2k in maybe 3 mins
Re: Great video
Doh, and I even bothered to subscribe!
Must I stick with the spinning things forever then?
Great video
I want some!!
But... can you drop it from 3 feet an the screen stays intact?
Ok nearly got me
check the date
Posted in Apple land-grabs fuel cells for mobiles
Can I Patent
A range of temperatures
36.5c to 37.5c should surfice, but just in case
97.5f to 99.6f & 309.15k to 311.5k
anyone using these temperatures must pay me 1p for every 24 hour period
Can I also patent body warming & cooling devices, that reduce MY income
?What & what
As Ultravox said "This means nothing to me"
I doubt this effects....
my nokia 3110. so I won't worry about it
Is it time to dust off my 486dx2-66 running windows 3.11 & nuke the site from orbit?
It's the only way to be sure!
I think I can detect dark matter in that picture
What exactly is holding her body to her legs?
There are some more examples where her tits should be!
Quick call a boffin!
Posted in Nuke plant shut down after US earthquake
this is a tit le
Did I read this correctly
Reactors shut down & backups running
So no nuclear breach like in Japan
Was the earthquake Middle East generated?
Do the powers that be maybe have a GRAZER II satellite up there
Tin Foil hat at the ready
Posted in Here lies
/^v.+b$/iMy Epitaph
{
Existance.Live();
}
Catch(FatalException ex)
{
Console.Writeline(“O Bugger!”);
}
2 monitors is so last decade
I have 3 at work & 4 at home
3 x 28" identical lcds at work
4 x 32" plasmas at home
Everyone admires my desk at work
El Reg on one - masked by a few remote desktops, Server monitors on the second & CRM & email on the third.
Home is usually pretty much the same except no4 gets switched off when the wife is around!!
2 monitors, so lame
IP V6
I think I'll wait a while until they iron out all the bugs
Then I go straight to IP V7
It worked with Windows 7
That's not a Cornish Cow
Have you been to Camborne lately!!!
Eclipse ISP Were affected
At 17.30 on Wed Evening, router reported no connection
Switched to backup BT Connection & all was fine
Same exchange 200m from our office
Didn't re-connect until 03.30 roughly
If it wern't for our redundant backup ADSL then I'd have had to spend the evening talking to the wife. PHEW
Strange that BT wern't affected by their own outage!
Posted in Tosh shows off snazzy external drive
I'll take the green 6540Gb one please
Wonder how many platters that will have!!
Argo Bouys
I have a video I made launching them from the aft of a survey vessel in 2005
They are fantastic pieces of kit
All of ours were in the South Atlantic Ocean 35.5 degrees south of the equator
They are really heavy but bouyant
Activated by magnets
Posted in 1kW of sexy GPU love
I've got an.....
Abacus you can borrow, the next time you need graphical speed!
