Posts by harimanjaro
7 posts • joined Monday 28th February 2011 14:46 GMT
Posted in The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
HP9845B for me
Seventeen years old, my first programming job, and they plonk me in front of an HP9845B. Love at first sight, and over thirty years later I still think they're beautiful.
http://www.hp9845.net/9845/hardware/9845b
MATE is already available in the fc17 repos. My Dell Mini 9 is snappy and responsive again!
Re: " one of the worst branding and marketing disasters in the history of computing"
I think it was probably Wang Care.
Posted in Australia should head-hunt Michael Gove
You can have him
It took the efforts of groups like Computing at School and the Raspberry Pi Foundation to persuade Gove of the mess we were in, and his knee-jerk response demonstrates that he still doesn't understand the magnitude of the problem. A flexible IT curiculum from September? Who's going to teach it? It's not just kids today who aren't learning computer science, most of their teachers didn't learn it either. I've read that of the 28,000 teachers who qualified in 2010 just three were qualified in computer science. Maybe he expects the Big Society is to provide, but knowing his type he'll just outsource to India.
Posted in Ten... digital voice recorders
Can I use your dictaphone?
No, use your finger like everyone else.
Nonsense
So if I drive a Hummer I've got more right to be on the road than someone driving a Fiat 500, just because my VED band and fuel consumption are sky-high? Hey, I earn about twice the national average, too, and pay lots more income tax as a result, so how about all these poor people getting off the road too?
Who pays?
"This might justifiably annoy motorists, as it is they who pay for the streets and roads"
Vehicle Excise Duty goes into the big bucket of tax revenue that pays for our hospitals, wars, roads, MPs expenses and everything else. There is no hypothecation, we all pay for the roads through general taxation.
So there.
See http://ipayroadtax.com/
