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10 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2011

Tesla reveals Powerwall battery packs for homes, Powerpacks for cities

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Re: Much needed publicity for energy storage at last! @Richard L

Wind only blows during the day?

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Golem: Prominent plasticine phallus caught in tech consumerist nightmare

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Re: Provincial Theatres

Bloody manitees, coming over here, ruining our theatre etc.

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Untrue?

My feeling is that this is untrue.

Bath would be an example of a very small city with an extremely vibrant theatre scene. I would have to concede that this may be a function of the large number of affluent people close-by.

I echo the first comment that arts coverage in the media is hopelessly London-centric which helps to perpetuate London's dominance in the arts. You only have to listen to Front Row to get the feeling that little of cultural import happens outside of the M25.

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Glasgow subway's new smart tickets aren't, moan passengers

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Re: "based on an interoperable open standard"

You need to visit a third tier city like Bristol. The buses are extraordinarily expensive and unreliable. The urban rail north of the river is a dream but doesn't really go to the right places.

The thought of having a town/city wide smart card for public transport for many of the UK's inhabitants is a wild dream, and the thought of it working interoperably in other cities country wide is some sort of utopian day dream.

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Brocade, wake up: Cisco is here, and it also has 16 gig FC

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Typo?

End of the first paragraph. Could be a typo, could be my ignorance.

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Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story

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Bristol

Have you been to the west country?

My bristolian colleagues often construct sentences like "my dad bought I an Interface 2"

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What a Liberty: Virgin Media in buyout talks with telecoms giant

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BS6/BS7 Iis deepest darkest student land so no wonder things get so slow in the evening.

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Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

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Magic Beans

aren't they 3 for a tenner still?

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Virgin Media SuperHub 'upgrade' hangs up on IP phone punters

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Consolation?

If it's any consolation the BT HomeHub is equally awful. Blocks almost every application using uPNP and opening ports makes no difference.

Quickly plugged in my linksys WRT 54G running dd-wrt and i have has no problems since.

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Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB audio interface

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Roland Edirol UA25

Have to say that i have the Roland Edirol UA25 and use it with logic and a macbook pro and i wouldn't rate it. All sorts of problems including output clipping when i have my mac volume at maximum (no matter how much i turn down the device in audio/midi settings). The headphone output doesn't work either.

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