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53 posts • joined Wednesday 19th January 2011 12:02 GMT

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Re: Anyone else thought of Vaultec?

Give me a powerfist and i'll be a happy wandered :)

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Pirate

giganews subscription.

job done :)

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Holmes

James Cameron?

Lester, you took THE James Cameron to the rocky outcrop, or just a happy name coincidence.

I would like to believe you took the director of Aliens out there :)

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we recently advertised for a mid-level avaya voip lead and got only 8 respondents. you could say thats an advantage to recruiting in the flatlands of the UK. however we are yet to find out how shallow the voip talent pool is in this locale...

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Pint

upvoted purely for rocketjumping and quad damage comments. Now if you had managed to get the grapple in there too that would have been a full house :)

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Re: I reckon the other source had it spot on

That's so good, and accurate, I have just printed it out and stuck it on the kitchen wall as a reminder to the ever expanding mass of PHB's I have the (mis)fortune of working with/for/alongside

Made my day :)

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Trollface

Not socialist..

Yes but...you have to agree in the UK the average Labour voter is a communist bastard in disguise.

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Trollface

Re: Nice piece

take a wild guess?

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Trollface

Re: The G Bomb!

calm down dear :)

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Re: Waze ? for what ?

your feedback loop comment is exactly how my tomtom satnav (825 GO) works with its onboard SIM card. its a neat feature but here in east anglia theres not a huge choice of routes i can take to avoid any problems.

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FAIL

Re: Good

you can say that again (ios bugs). several of my 3750 stacks are reporting millions of deformed packets per day even tho theyre totally clean.

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Re: We wish you a merry...

Well, an asset stripping company has bought shares and wants a place on the board so now is the time to start drawing lots on which arm of the company will be sold off next - and how many months until we see the end of Quantim as we know it...

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Coat

Re: Thoughtcrime

i already have an ID card. not one of the government types admittedly. but it does get me into such interesting places are government facilities and prisons*

*and perhaps most importantly, allows me to leave!

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WTF?

following on

how large were the images and were they thin or thick provisioned. these factors are an important metric in deciding is this is genuine speed, or just another massively favourable sales pitch.

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Unhappy

fines...

because fining a public funded resource will REALLY make the problem go away.

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Re: Fond memories!

me too :)

when i saw the screengrab, my first though was "thats the amiga workbench". nice, utilitarian (as already mentioned) GUI.

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Joke

Re: Vermin

all you need is a wheelybin :)

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Coat

A better title

would have been "The Ternimeter" imo

(works best in a mock south african accent)

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Re: eBuyer

me too. lucky for me, it arrived just as i was heading out the door last friday morning so had the pleasure of showing it off to my workmates (all infrastructure geeks too). then utilised the friday night hotel wifi to browse/fondle/nerd out

i like it, sygic satnav on it is very good btw. download all maps locally.

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awesome game! reading this nostalgia piece, i can hear the music in my head. i spent FAR too many hours playing this game on my friend's SNES

guile stage music is up there with any other composition imo :)

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Re: "attempting to prove his kills"

BOOM HEADSHOT!

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Re: 2001 obelisk

when do they get to the beating with bones part?

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WTF?

in regard to the whole gTLD "choose your own" auction (now fiasco)

WHY??

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY????

andy mcandy

they can put one or two in my village if they like.

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Re: An excerpt of the stolen code

at a guess, because its the source code build files (not a coder, excuse my terminology) in the screenshot and not the actual line by line code itself.

regardless, according to the article its ESX which is based on *shhh dont tell anyone* redhat linux.

ESXi is the significantly better and more recent hypervisor from vmware which pretty much eliminates all the attack vectors exposed in the previous ESX/redhat OS.

everyone has upgraded their infrastructure to ESXi by now, havent they? ;-)

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Unhappy

neither did my zipstick

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Re: I smell elections coming

i read that as electrons. all this talk of nuclear power, must have jolted something

sorry :)

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graphics

mmm plants. so lots of DX11 tessellation eyecandy then :)

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FAIL

how about reviewing some blackout curtains and rails/boxes? now summer is (almost) upon us, waking up at 5am isnt all its cracked up to be!

i was in italy recently and the place i stayed at had the most impressive blackout curtains ive ever seen. im really crap if i dont get a good nights sleep ://

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Trollface

i quite like nescafe alta rica

too much effort arsing about with "real" coffee, especially at work or home :)

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Mushroom

gotta take off first, before nuking the site from orbit

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Mushroom

well, the sequel to cloverfield is due this year and we all know how that started, dont we

dont we?

:)

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Devil

agreed :)

i spent a couple of years working away (living on expenses, natch) and came back to find i could barely fit into the seat of my weekend toy car. so dont make the seats wider, make the drivers more healthy.

too fat to drive? you're donald ducked then :)

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Pint

maybe its...

stuxnet, back for revenge!*

*or payback, depending on your particular moral stance

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Pirate

good point, exactly how fast would a 3G wankel rotary 'phone be?!

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the p910i is one of the best smartphones ever. i used mine for about 6 years until it finally broke (my fault).

killer app was tomtom and the active car cradle. :)

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Pint

ouch

reading your comment made my brain go crosseyed! :)

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crichton

"Prey" anyone?

I for one, overlords etc... :)

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WTF?

but but but...

it's a plastic fake steering wheel that is uncomfortable to hold. seriously, what more of a review is needed?

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Trollface

title.

never mind that, i would be very happy with a semi-decent 2G signal where i live, without having to hang out of the window or go to the other side of the village!

however the upside of this is i can ignore sms and phone calls with the excuse "i didnt have any signal"

ooh its a tough life :)

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Gimp

a title

harking back to the original topic of "hacking", the jeff minter story is great. beginning with limitations of ye olde spectrum our hero jeff got hooked

follow the story here: http://minotaurproject.co.uk/lshistory1.php#1

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Happy

i did the same thing...

...but a few years later on an amiga. changed all the planet names etc on frontier:elite2 to humorous words. also the intro credits. that was pretty cool

deksid got me into "hacking" (worked fine as long as the CRC was unchanged), which i very rarely see anymore in my professional life as a contractor. hit the hex dude!!!!! :)

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Stop

what we need is

to fine the idiots who bring this kind of rubbish to court in the first place. the attempt to sue for damages over this is completely stupid.

not to mention idiotic

idiots

:)

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best unique phone ever...

well, maybe its not unique, but it was certainly niche:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/25/review_sony_e_p910i/

the SE P910i. brilliant phone, awesome support and if the screen hadnt broken (at the same time as being given a iphone 3GS through work) i would probably still be using it now.

tomtom satnav on it was brilliant

:)

/nostalgia trip

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Pint

if my clancy knowledge is correct...

...the operation titles are randomly selected from a list of keywords. because its random, you cant deduce the matter of the operation solely by its title

/me gets back to espionage novels...with cold pint in hand!

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Happy

what they really need...

is james taylor to sing "youve got a friend", whilst the astronauts eat zero gravity crisps.

i, for one, welcome our new deep space homer overlords ;)

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author

theres a name i havent read in a long time, gordon laing, writer for the great PC mag PCW :)

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aargh

COULDN'T CARE LESS

if they could care less, than means they care at least a teensy little bit!

</soapbox>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

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Meh

weight

im interested to see how much these headphones weigh. theres no mention of that particular "feature" on the Tritton webpage. if theyre too heavy, it will be like wearing a bike helmet on your head for any gaming sessions, or even watching a late night film without waking everyone else in the house...

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muppets

so do i, but im out of here in 4 weeks and three days!

am i and my fellow contractors counting the hours? YES :)

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