Posts by Matt

Or try out Smart-E

www.smart-e.co.uk do solutions for switching single/multiple video signals over Cat5 network cable. Not sure on the cost, you have to email them for a brochure (usually this hints at expensive ;) ).

rsa keyfob anyone

something slightly less chunky and distinctly more secure, wouldn't this have been far better?

I've used the 895

but not on Windows MCE yet - very good design and setup tools, very customizable, works perfectly with every device i've used it on so far (big brand stuff). Your only other option is likely to be the Phillips Pronto range.

re: oh dear

yes, or like the article about the guy who cut off his penis in a restaurant, with an embedded advert for circumcision :)

http://www.dj909.com/googleads.JPG

sony does it again

puts hardware in box, sells at astronomical price due to name tag.

"Sony's VAIO VGC-RM1N is an impressive system, but then again for £2,500 it should be"

I mean, when you can put the raw components of this system together for less than £900 it says alot for the price tag

well i slept in the drivers seat once

but i think, had the police asked any questions, i could easily have proved i couldn't have been trying to drive the car anywhere - not inside a sleeping bag anyway!

yes people are stupid

i worked for a tech support company a while back, and a local medical advice line printed the wrong number (only off by one digit) on the top of their newsletters. You wouldn't believe the laughs we had putting the speakerphone on listening to people spout on about where they had fungus growing from etc before you've barely had a chance to say hello how can i help you.

Not so great while you are still eating your bacon butty, mind.

Dillon, we don't all have euro's, mate

we still heft around bags of pounds and pennies over here :-)

more great journalism

why can't you write something new and incisive on the subject instead of copying and pasting your own original article in to bush it out? Let me guess, you get paid per word, right....?

hiding the body

"His plan to hide the disappearance of his wife and stepson had just fallen apart."

Obviously this was when he found out his invited guest was a vegetarian and couldn't serve the mixed grill(ed wife and child)

Virgin HD box?

My Virgin Media TV Drive is a Scientic Atlanta 8300, any idea's if it will work with that? Presume there is some need to enable the external e-Sata port......

re: SMTP

"once you fix that, spam disappears"

what makes you think that any new mail protocol will stop the spammers from using it instead of SMTP? They'll find a way, they always do.

If its easy enough for 'everyone' to use, its easy enough for spammers to abuse.

re: Yves

Do people actually still use hotmail/live *for* mail? considering the number of free alternatives, it amazes me. gmail for your domain is one...including spam filters that acutally work

a bit pedantic maybe...but

"a system where knowing someone's email address.....gives access to their public key and thus enables encrypted messages to be sent to that person"

surely you kind of need to know there email address simply to send them the mail whatever the encryption ;) quite possibly a bad example :)

nice one Rick.

or perhaps,

Britney Spears: Cupid Stunt.

re: Spike

"The reason I don’t leave feedback for my customers until they have left feedback for me is so that I know they are completely satisfied before I consider the sale complete"

But what does your rating of the buyer have to do with THEIR satisfaction of your product/service? You are deluded if you think you have a valid reason for holding back your feedback other than a reason to give them bad feedback if they are unsatisfied with your product and give you bad feedback.

"substantial" donation

that'll be one ps3 at current prices then...i wonder if they'll include the game.... :)

re: Oh No : By Gavin Hamer

"25p is a lot, in fact it takes the Michael, because the staff on the other end of the line are probably only on 10-15p per minute in wages."

You refer to the india call centre flunkies? 10p per minute, would equate to £6 per hour, and you realise thats higher than the basic rate in the UK!

I don't think so....consider the average salary for a computer call centre employee is approx £2500 per year, 48 weeks a year work, 5 days a week, 10 hours a day, I make that 1.7p per minute, no?

I agree however, if this is the case that their tech support department is in India and they charge 25p per minute, the service probably won't improve much. But from my experience, isn't the techie side of things based uk side and just the call centre numbnuts based offshore?

yeah i know i'm starting that 'unlimited' argument again

but how do you use 60Gb or more a month on joost and youtube? Joost uses about 1Gb every 10 hours, so are you watching it 20 hours a day for a month? Youtube uses a very negligable amount of b/w, and unless you download the same linux iso's 3 times a day and delete them again, I still fail to see how you get to 60Gb p/m.

Please note, i'm not making the accusation (that most people seem to jump to) that you are using torrents or p2p etc illegally, in fact i think i'm a fairly heavy user of my bandwidth, but i don't justify that any of it is legal. I'm just curious to know how people come to justify that quantity themselves.

re: other suggestions

rather phallic imagery, number 8.

re: they don't make 'em like they used to

i dropped my old nokia 5110 out of a 2nd story window (don't ask) which bounced off a roof gutter, hit the pavement and slid into a muddy puddle. Still works to this day. (no its not still my current phone :) )

re: preserve the sahara?

does the sahara need preservation? whats causing damage to the sahara (except perhaps wind erosion, which I can't see a way around) ?

Pioneer are not exclusively supporting Blu-Ray

They also have plans for dual format players.

google entrance, in mountain view

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&view=map&q=google&near=mountain+view&ie=UTF8&ll=37.425593,-122.08349&spn=0.005564,0.014334&z=17&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.423202,-122.08525&cbp=1,139.882927834857,0.53156377696798,2

even the cones are in google order (starting from o, red yellow blue green)

i think thats what Gav was getting at....

...that just saying 'look for a padlock' in order to make the average noob online consumer be sure their transaction is safe isn't enough, you do indeed need to get them to look in the right places. As pointed out, its not always in the same place, depending on your browser.

the Register does sell stuff online too...

but i agree, its hardly something for the articles section.

region free

also in the amazon review, it's mentioned as 'Multiregion' DVD. Also that getting the digital freeview to work when portable is nigh on impossible *surprise*

and I thought I had it bad with Virgin HD...

At least we get a reasonable HD on-demand content to boot....just sucks not being able to watch Sky Sports in HD. I guess after the last fight with Sky, they aren't going to be falling over themselves to sell Sports/Movies HD to Virgin any time :(

Sad to say, but its true

I only watch the auditions, but only for the arse-clenchingly bad ones.

'Fair' use of your bandwidth

And those who download 90-100Gb a month are downloading legitimate data? Not warez DVDr's, tv episodes and pirated games, that some of the aforementioned media companies are also offering as part of their services? I think sometimes people lose track of where they stand in what is 'fair'. Complaining you can't use your broadband for illegal purposes is like complaining the police arrested you while you were robbing the bank.

I do agree with the comments about not letting commercial entities make the decision on what the usage of the internet should be, and also aware of the fact that bandwidth demands are going to rise dramatically as more services are available on demand, but i can't see how a home user can legitimately use 100Gb of bandwidth in a month in the here and now.

Dax Sheperd

Has a resemblance of Dax Sheperd, from Without a Paddle

http://imdb.com/name/nm1009277/

Sky HD channels

I wonder how this will affect the negotiations for the HD channels. I guess we won't see them for a while now.... :(