Posts by Bodestone
65 posts • joined Monday 4th July 2011 10:00 GMT
Mouse-over..
If the software behind the proximity works the same as the note range then hover is supported with the built in browser. I use hover menus all the time via the stylus on my Note 2. It is exceedingly useful.
It's great to see this extended to the finger if, as stated, if it works well and is accurate.
I do turn off a lot of the eye tracking stuff on my phone as it is not overly useful for me. That's not to say it wouldn't be for some however. My colleague finds the prevention of screen time out really useful for reading articles on the bus.
Posted in Bacon sarnies can kill: Official
Re: ...and now I must warn about the the Danger or drinking Water
Of course. Water, being a fundamental requirement for life in the first place is therefore a fundamental cause of death since without life there can be no death. QED.
Right, I'm off to find a zebra crossing.
Posted in Bacon sarnies can kill: Official
Arnold's Addendum
Pardo's First Postulate:
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Arnold's Addendum:
Everything else causes cancer in rats.
Posted in Keyboard, you're not my type
PS/2
Really? I can't see how buying a PS/2 keyboard and not being able to plug it in will improve things.
Even for machines with the sockets I must be missing something what difference that would make.
Indeed
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2851
Has anyone else noticed...
That 2012 DA14 seems to pick something up on it's way past? Center screen on the animated image.
They've even stopped using 6 dimentional physics
Unfortunately they have fixed this as well but meters to the 6?
http://blog.ergatides.com/2012/03/12/stick-of-butter-half-cup-according-to-google/
Re: Only Apple can decide if tehy want to deliver the required info
Well, with the Pebble there is an API. You can tell it to get anything that the phone side application has permission to access. It can tie in with applications and it is the watch's phone side software which does the transmission via bluetooth.
Don't forget that these things aren't just for iPhones they are for smartphones in general. There is no way Apple can decide what information can be retrieved from and Android phone.
If apple refuse to let applictions have access to the information that would make these watches useful it is their loss. I am assuming it is possible though.
Pebble at last
At long last I have a date for the start of shipping for my long awaited Pebble.
It has been a fascinating journey following the design and manufacturing process through in the mean time however.
I think they have it as right as can be for now. Rather than try and emulate phone functionality on a colour screen that lasts a day tops if used with the phone it is designed as a watch with interaction features. One that you can swim lengths with as well.
Re: broken
Looking for where to actually vote reminded me of Hitchhiker's.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
"Working at our company is tough. It calls for someone who can take the pain and suffering."
I wonder how many applicants they would get if that was part of the job advertisement.
Is it Verified by Visa?
That has a very specific 8-12 characters for the password.
Every single time I am forced to re-generate a password because I can't remember the last one and therefore have to enter all my identifying information in all over again. I'm assuming other people write them down and keep them with the credit card.
Way to increase security.
Posted in Help-desk hell
I have blacked out most of the details
Really, the worst 2 hours on the phone I have spent was trying to talk someone not overly technically literate through mail merging over the phone. When I say not overly technically literate I mean that I had to explain which bits of the screen and program were which.
I'd not used MS Word mail merge functionality for a couple of years so was re-learning on the go.
The worst part though was that I only had access to office 2003. She had office 2007 and I had never seen it before.
The funniest tech incident was relatively recent.
A farmer who needed to send us photographic evidence was savy enough to have used a camera phone to take his pictures. His know-how ended there and he then popped the phone in a jiffy bag and posted it to us.
He'd not bothered with any cables either and all the ports were proprietary but luckily it was new enough to have bluetooth and was not locked. The office was giggling all morning.
Re: Well, duh.
You mean the way google will tell you a product is listed from £50 and when you drill down the cheapest is £55 and most of the times delivery is listed as free it actually isn't for the product you selected but the shop happens to offer it somewhere, or only on the second Tuesday of the month for people who's name begins with X.
Reading their guide..
"The OFT's 2007 market study into internet shopping estimated that if consumers used price comparison websites as effectively as they could they would stand to gain additional savings of £150m - £240m per year."
Wow. I could save millions per year? What a useless piece of information to put on a page designed for your average consumer. How the hell does that number relate to how much I could personally save?
Saying that, it is useful to know that there are accreditation schemes for comparison sites.
because every computer has Bluetooth these days?
Most but not all portables do. Almost no desktops do out of the box.
Posted in RISC OS comes to Raspberry Pi
If my memory fails me...
I still actually have my BBC Basic user guide.
Where was that article on hoarding again?
Hmmm
"As it stands, Ofcom's rules state that mobile, phone and broadband providers have to give their customers a minimum of one month's notice regarding any major change to contractual terms. Subscribers can then cut loose from the contract without being stung with a penalty for walking away early. "
So, if a mobile provider informs you it is raising prices you can end the contract without paying the fee?
That is interesting. Especially if they do it a couple of months into a contract you just got a really expensive phone with.
Re: Non of the early HTC Windows Mobile devices?
We still have a few of them in our office and several in active service out in the field due to a piece of software that only runs on Windows mobile 6.5.
The N-Gage, really. I remember the device being a complete flop so they made the software a pladform added to other phones. The N95 on the other hand.
And yes, the SIII is awesome but what about the one that went from niche curiosity to kick starting interest in the large phone market as more than a niche. I speak of non other than the Note. I shall be sad to see mine go but the consolation will be all the shiny in its replacement.
Before it does go I am going to try an experiment since I still have all of my others.
I shall use the camera on my Nokia 6230 to take a photo of my first mobile (S.E. T29s), then use the Nokia 3250 to take a snap of the 3250 showing a picture of the t29, then the N95 of that then the N900 (seeing a pattern there) . Then of course my Note can take the Goodbye Nokia pic followed by the Note2 of the Note.
Amazon
You've just bought a TV, how about this one, or this one, or this one...
For the last time "Noooooooo". I have one now you see...
You can report the numbers
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/marketing.aspx
Just click on Report your concerns.
You don't even have to supply any personal information if you don't want to.
I report all of the texts I get.
Not just the overnighters
Since the first thing to get hit was the Sophos server so it could not get the updates. It then passed on the bad one to everyone who logged on next day.
Re: Picture's Mouseover - Full Text Restored!
Shame you missed the typo. I'm sure it's a wasp not a was.
I want
Right click, view in http://longurl.org/
Also for tinyurl and bit.ly to disallow using data URIs
Hint indeed
I agree. I never bother with the hint, though I suppose if you had a password locker on your phone that had an ID field you could hint 1, 2, 3 etc.
I just use moomins.
Then again, I worked for a company that provided a service for IBM so we had to have annual security reviews. Mine was one of 2 passwords the consultant could not get after a 3 day brute force from within the domain.
I can't use the one I had at Uni any more because of these restrictions that you must have numbers and letters and or mixed case etc. Well, I could but they also say between X and Y characters and "yellow flavoured doors" is a bit outside the max length of most.
Norman
Just because.
A little cheeky
Saying they dreamed it up recently when there has been an awesome hexapod in active service for at least 5 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBNjdwYdvE
Re: So it's not only faster but...
Not necessarily.
Usually the faster routes are more fuel intensive. The 2 orbits would have been the previously calculated way to get there on minimum fuel burn. That burn would drop you into an orbital pattern that would get you close in 2 orbits with no further fuel usage. OK, so you may save a bit on rations...
Re: Ummm
You beat me to it.
For the sceptics out there who don't believe it is an eighth an know that google never lies:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=48%2F6
Re: But have you allowed for the shorter half-life?
Why? It's only the gasses recently released into the atmosphere that causes the issues.
How can CO2 re-released from oceanic absorption be classed as man made emissions?
And do they factor..
The fact that excessive fb users (i.e. those that sit in front of the computer all day eating junk food and getting no excercise) are likely to fart more?
The mars aliens aren't invisible
They just have good printers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AoAJOF5GVQ
Posted in Three punters' data use doubles
Switch to wifi
I always switch to wi-fi at home or the office even though I never come near my data cap (2 gig sim only on 3)
Partly this is habit. Mainly though I hate having to put in a PIN all the time to unlock the phone (required with ICS if you have credentials on the phone) and Unlock with Wifi removed the need when you are hooked up to your selected stations.
I don't agree with the petrol analogy though. If Vauxhaul offered unlimited tank refills then people would tend to drive further than if they had to start forking out for their own petrol after the first tank each month. It goes without saying.
If 3 were not as cheap on their buffet deals then their overall usage may not have increased as much.
I agree. Working wi-fi would be even better
It takes 20 minutes to connect, when you can. It never remembers you from last time so you have to go through account creation every time then it claims to offer you 15 minutes for free per month I believe, not per journey (though of course with it not remembering you from last time..)
15 minutes is just about enough to get logged in to whatever you wanted to do since it is barely better than mobile internet anyway.
Bit of a WTF situation just now
10 months down the track we are still trying to give us money to replace our primary (read only) flile server. If it powers down it will not come back until the following routine is followed:
Unplug cable, pop lid, remove BIOS battery, bridge reset, insert power cord, remove cord, unbridge, replace battery, close lid, power up, reconfigure the BIOS again.
Combined with the fact that we are still trying to also get money to replace the faulty tape drive. It goes for a couple of days then fails with unknown HW error. Only solution is to power down drive and server, power up drive, wait, power up server. Sometimes it works first time, sometimes takes a few tries. Our last successful backup was 9 days ago.
Slight issue
If you go there and spend ages typing something in then you will lose all the text unless an already logged in member of their community. To register they seem to want a huge amount of your details before you can continue.
Re: You know that all looks okay to me
Chances are it will support HDMI out via an MHL adapter.
Posted in Samsung snafu grounds blue Galaxy S III
But.. Just 2 colours?
OK, I'll not be leaving my Note any time soon but I would have to forgo what looks like an awesome phone because they don't offer it in black/dark grey.
I don't believe any phone/techy gadget should ever be white. it's a terrible colour that should be confined to fridges and washing machines.
They're not the only ones with certificate issues just now
https://o2email.co.uk/html?brand=o2mailuk
This sentence should be taken out and shot!
The quantum device in question uses a pancake-shaped crystal of beryllium ions – 300 to be precise – that Bieruck says the team built “from scratch, atom by atom” with a told ABC radio that the apparatus required to capture the crystallise the atoms uses lasers, pumps and vacuum chambers to do the job, but that the rig needs occupies only a single room.
Posted in Ten... smartphone survival accessories
Where's the Spiderpodium?
GorillaPod may all well and good but not nearly as versatile as the Spiderpodium
I actually still have...
Almost mint condition, boxed with manuals, install disks for Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Compatible with all types of screen?
Any screen that uses a cable connection?
I have a 32" LCD. That has DVI, SCART and Coax cable connections. That thar cable is not directly compatible.
Posted in Smartphone owners demand bigger screens
The note is perfect
Smaller phones would fall out of my shirt pocket when I bent over. The Note is nice and snug. It just pokes out of the top a tad.
They never learn
A few years ago I spent many hours trying to get Exchange 2003 installed and it kept falling over. Several hours in my search on the error message started producing hundreds of additional results from countries several hours ahead of me.
That's right. It couldn't be installed on Feb 29th. I had to wait until March 1st.
What's the worry?
We all know that before final release there will 3rd party software to bring back the start menu and hide Metro unless specifically asked for.
Crays
After this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/08/supercomputing_vs_home_usage/
I think that all smartphone and computer reviews done by El Reg should also give them a cray rating..
ipad2: 1.5 Crays
