Posts by Andy Taylor
139 posts • joined Monday 9th July 2007 12:51 GMT
BBC Mixing desks
The BBC mixing desk faders were backwards so you had to pull them on. Apparently it was so that if the presenter fell asleep across the desk it wouldn't fade stuff up, but switch off what was live (i.e. the presenter).
Re: North South Divide
Actually, anything past Watford is "the north".
Thank you, Mr Oakley, I live less than a mile from Bletchley Park and can wholly recommend it.
How do you input the data then?
You have to start on a device somewhere.
iCloud works perfectly for me across multiple devices.
Re: The ST was 32 bits
The STM did exist, I still have mine in the garage. I bought it second hand for £350 including a single sided floppy drive and high-resolution monitor. It had half a MB of RAM which I later upgraded to 2.5MB using some chips salvaged from old PC expansion cards.
Posted in The Register Comments Guidelines, 2012
Unable to find a replacement Moderatrix?
Obviously Sarah was a harder act to follow than you thought. This is the only rational solution.
Posted in Snake slides back onto Nokia smartphones
silent H
It's the phonetic sound of the word that determines the use of "an" instead of "a".
So "an homage" is correct.
It was Cornwall
Search for Camelford pollution.
Just look for "Pale Blue Dot"
Voyager 1 took a "Family Portrait" back in 1990.
Idiots
Is it even possible to go "round the meter" within 14 days in a normal sized house?
Would it not be better to prevent you from entering a lower figure and then directing you to call?
Gordon Brown had the Beatles on his iPod
but he had to remove them when someone pointed out that there was no legal way that the music could have got there (this being before the Beatles appeared on iTunes.
Copying CDs is still illegal in the UK
Although no one will come after you for ripping your own CDs onto your iPod, it is still illegal to do so in the UK without a mechanical copyright licence.
Excellent article.
Thanks for helping to get things into perspective, Lewis. I'm not a particular fan of Nuclear Power but I am fed up with the "we're all going to die" paranoia being touted by most media outlets.
Even worse, they are mixing up information within the articles:
<Paragraph on power station situation>
<Paragraph on power station situation>
<Paragraph on wider impact of power station situation>
<reminder of the number of people killed or missing from the earthquake/tsunami>
<Paragraph on power station situation>
This makes it look like the power stations have cause thousands of casualties.
Posted in Discovery glides into history
Soyuz
The Russians will provide the only access to the ISS using Soyuz craft, even older tech than the Shuttles
Posted in Flying dildo downs Oz stag party bloke
Could this be used as another Register unit of measurement?
Speed of a dildo in flight perhaps?
Posted in Assange fights extradition in court
Nobel useless since Obama?
Don't you mean since Henry Kissinger? The reason Tom Lehrer retired from satire.
The way to successful change management
I found the best way to work within a managed IT environment was to submit all change requests retrospectively.
That way I got to do what I wanted to do without the inevitable delays caused by the change management "system".
Posted in In defence of Comic Sans
The inventor of Comic Sans said:
If you love Comic Sans, you don't know much about typography.
If you hate Comic Sans, you really don't know anything about typography and should go and study something else.
In my lifetime..
I will have seen Concorde come and go and now the Space Shuttle.
Posted in Onkyo CS-545 combo mini hi-fi
Rip to Lossless and sell your CDs?
If you sell your CDs you should delete the ripped files.
Posted in Blu-ray barely better than DVD
I've always said this
VHS is much better than DVD, but BluRay isn't as much of an improvement. This is why I still buy DVDs and don't have a BluRay player
Manhole covers?
I'd imagine part of the issue will be that all the manholes, I mean access covers in the area will have been inspected and sealed by the bomb squad. No one will be allowed to open them until after his holiness has boarded the plane home.
No right to delete
Images are one of 2 things, either they have been lawfully created and no offence has been commited, or they are unlawful and constitute evidence. If lawful then the police (or anyone else other than the owner of the images) have no right to delete them and if unlawful the police have a duty to preserve them as evidence of an offence.
Remember also that there is plenty of software available to recover deleted images from memory cards.
Why is 7 better than Vista?
Possibly because the hardware has got faster over the last couple of years.
I've got Windows 2000 running on a virtual machine on my 2 year old Macbook Pro and it flies.
They have them in Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
As it's apparently the world's longest shopping centre, you won't be surprised to hear that the security guards there use Segways.
Typical Microsoft greed
One of my previous employers is a large charity that, amongst other things, provides IT services to a number of related, but legally separate charities. Several of the services are web based and hosted on Windows.
According to Microsoft, if you run a web site that is available to the public, that's fine, shove it on IIS and away you go. Alternatively, if you run a wabsite that is only available to employees of your organisation (aka an Intranet), that's fine too.
But any service that caters for your related, but separate organisations requires all the servers that provide that particular website to have an additional "interconnect" licence.
Does this special licence provide any additional functionality? What do you think?
12 grand for no discernable benefit to anyone except Microsoft. Of course my ex-employer simply paid up rather than tell Microsoft where to go or switch to a proper web server platform.
Posted in ISPA slams Mandy's copyright land grab
More rights for the corporates, less for the independents
Meanwhile Lord Voldemort, I mean Mandleson wants to remove copyright protection for non-commercial use of photographs. The election can't come soon enough.
There's a good reason the Vatican don't want you to read Dan Brown
Because his books are rubbish, they're just trying to save you from them
Posted in What do you call a flash-based super?
But will you able to ping it
and get back "gordon is alive"?
Mine's the one with the ray-gun
Posted in Home Office stonewalls ID findings
Getting the right results
@The Dorset Rambler - of course they're waiting until they have the results they want. It's a common tactic. They've taken things a stage further with the Badman review of Home Education, fed up with not getting the result they wanted 4 times in 3 years, they've found a lackey to write what they want him to. Now they've given him extra time to "collect more evidence" for an upcoming Select Committee review of the review because he can't now produce the evidence to back up what he said.
Yes, Minister anyone?
Wiimote anyone?
Looks a familiar concept but with less likelihood ofsmashing your screen.
Lancastrian Treacle Mines?
I thought the treacle mines were in Tadley, Hampshire. Close to the Atomic Weapons Establishment, I'm sure Sir Terry will have heard of them thanks to his nuclear connections.
Posted in Firefox 3.1 morphs into Firefox 3.5
It's a pity
Version 3.1x of several products have been stable and reliable over the years.
Was John Shuttleworth a consultant?
If not he should sue.
Please make it stop.
Hope there's no reserve price
Then if the whole thing is sold for a few hundred dollars, SCO will finally have lost everything.
Posted in Toaster used to recharge gadgets
Nothing new
Battery manufacturers have been making batteries that toast themselves for a while now.
Mine's the one with the overheating iPod in it.
Posted in Clangers creator dies at 83
A sad loss
Oliver Postgate was a truely inspired and inspirational man and I am sad to hear that he has died.
I remember watching Ivor, Bagpuss and the Clangers when growing up and now my children are fans as well. They watch (nearly) all the modern shows and enjoy them, and are equally happy to sit down and watch Ivor or the Clangers on DVD. This is a true measure of the genius of Postgate and Firmin.
I've long held the belief
that Home Secretary is one of the jobs that should on no account to be given to anyone that wants it.
Should have had charges thrown out
This poor lady has given up any hope of ever being able to teach again (she has surrendered her teaching licence) as a result of something she had no control over. I understand that she is unwell and unlikely to want to return to teaching, but she now has a criminal record thanks to idiot prosecutors.
Posted in NASA's lost toolbag filmed from Earth
September 18th?
Shouldn't that be the 18th of November?
Information Security
Well, at least the supermarkets have a better track record of keeping personal data safe than Government agencies or contractors.
I suspect all these unfortunate data losses are delibrately designed to make personal data less valuable as a prelude to the ID card.
When's the election due?
@Ed - 7ft Gauge
Surely a railway is civil engineering? Anyway, Brunel had a lot of influence on the railways and his 7ft gauge was probably the better option - the VHS vs Betamax of its day.
Posted in Prince Charles declines Doctor Who cameo
It's Trekker
Star Trek fans are Trekkers - there's a difference:
Trekkers wonder what sex is like in outer space.
Trekkies wonder what sex is like.
Benedict IX
Was Pope 3 times in the 11th Century, not sure if that makes it a better name than Linux.
What's the point?
When there are some brilliant free apps out there - Handbrake for the Mac for example.
Posted in Nokia creates Indoor Positioning
I thought this could be done already
I saw this done on an episode of Spooks...
Nothing new
This was an audio breakthrough in the days of the wind up gramophone, building the horn speaker into the box or cabinet - next thing they will be telling us how to lower the noise output by placing a scarf or hankerchief in the opening.
Posted in Did the width move for you, darling?
I've just worked out why the site looks wrong
It's the masthead - has The Register and logo and underneath "Biting the hand that feeds IT." but aligned to the right of the top line. Having this on the left hand side looks strange.
Either left justify the second line or put the whole thing in the middle and I'll be happy.
Increasing the font size in Firefox looks fine.
If it only affects Windows machines...
How can Apple Fans be affected? Surely a real fan would be using a Mac.
Perhaps "Windows using iPhone users" didn't sound quite so sensationalist.
Am I alone?
I liked the film, it was yet another different telling of the story, with most of the "new" plot devices and characters actually written by DNA himself.
I'm not too sure about this book idea though.
Well I could understand it perfectly
No problem at all. Plus the number of times you hear these bloody adverts, it'd only take a couple of listens to get it.
I don't tend to listen to commercial radio any more, but I did catch my local station the other day and heard a radio advert that could have been from twenty years ago. If you remember Radio Active's "Martins of Bond Street Sale" sketch, you will understand. Ghastly.
