Posts by Ol'Peculier

To be fair, it's not nationwide, although I don't use EE's DNS.

Steering

So if the lorries are squeezed up nose-to-tail, how on earth does anyone other than the leader know which direction to steer in?

Makes it clear what, or who, is the product here...

With that churn rate, I the new guy must be bricking it...

Don't they know how London prices work?

It's the kind of thing I'd visit regardless of price, but a very reasonable £16 including a donation is remarkable:

That and another trip round the Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A next time I'm in the smog...

Does anyone care? Does anyone really pay attention to the domain that is shown from search engine results? (I'm talking the general public here though.) The only one I thought had legs was .bank to be run by a registrar that would only register them to known financial institutions (though the Nationwide's on both sides of the Atlantic might have had to scrap it out in the car park). The rest, just a money grab for ICANN.

Saw Docs...

And on that note, I'm never going to go on Bebo again....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxV9Q5998uc

I've never had a Microsoft call, but like others have stated, it's our job to keep them trying to scam us rather than those more vulnerable.

I do have fun with others, with ambulance chasers: I say I can't talk due to the CAA being involved. When they ask who they are, I say "It's the Civil Aviation Authority, it's because of the plane crash"

People trying to flog phones: "Do you have any family that would be interested in this offer" Me, after a short pause and a sniff, "Both my parents were on the plane that got shot down over the Ukraine"

...amongst others...

The link...

FOllowing the link to ITV's website and starting the video kindly informs me that "The video you are trying to watch is using the HTTP Live Streaming protocol which is only supported in iOS devices."

Bloody useless...

Cameras

Does anybody know if this applies to DSLR's, because there is no way on earth my camera bag is going in the hold, I'd rather walk!

Ideas...

I almost hate to admit this, but this has given me an idea for a site I am working on. Being able to bellow "hey Alexa, who's playing at my local pub tonight?" does sort of seem like a fun thing to be able to do.

But that would mean me having to buy one of the things, so maybe not...

Java

I've just had to disable updates on the PC's in our warehouse that use the Royal Mail DMO system for sending parcels as the RM insist on using Java, and an old version at that, JRE7 Update 51. Which is about as secure as Hillary Clinton's email server.

When I was working in 'Ull on a regeneration project about 15 years ago, trying to get connectivity out of KCOM was atrocious Sound like it's got better, but that won't have been difficult...

Depends where the train was going,

As long as they didn't put him on the train that pulled into Barking last week...

Best line in the article:

"If you’re concerned that you’ve had too much to drink, it’s probably a sign that you have, and a taxi is in order."

Amen to that.

Sounds about right. If I do a Wi-Fi scan in my flat mine is the only router that isn't Sky-XSDSD or TalkTalk-blah etc.

5, 6, 7, 8G...

Surely we are getting to the point where cables are unnecessary. I already get a faster download speed at home on my mobile compared to my home broadband. (and I live in a mid-sized town, FWIW) Must be better to put the money into getting everybody tooled up with 4G and move from there?

Wonder if this is why I had an update for my Pixel XL yesterday evening?

Well, if it means I get to travel on the Heart of Gold, I'm in...

Ancient applications platform?

CF was released in 1995, a year after PHP. And the latest version was released only 7 months ago.

I know you guys don't "get" CF, but it is used by a hell of a lot of very large companies and various government bodies. (yes, I use it and have done for since CF4.5...)