Posts by Steve Foster 835 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2007
...of why lumping all your sites under one core domain is not such a brilliant idea.
Kaspersky's blacklisting of "bbc.co.uk" kills more now than it would have done a couple of days ago.
It's also not so bright if you have one site that uses far more resource than the rest (as, for example, I would think is the case with news.bbc.co.uk).
Now that SSDs are becoming more readily available, and a wee bit less mouthwateringly expensive (the Kingston 512GB drive notwithstanding), how about an article (or series) on how best to optimise your PC or notebook to make the most out of an SSD, and what *not* to do with 'em too.
I know what you mean.
A few years back, I worked in a small SME, and the monitor I had (an old 19" CRT) had a high-pitched whine. Unfortunately, I was the only one with hearing sensitive enough to detect it, so all my co-workers didn't believe me. One day, a client came to see us, and promptly asked me how on earth I could put up with such a noisy monitor! That *finally* got me a nice shiny new screen...
Right now, this is the most compelling argument for legalising most drugs.
Tobacco duties raise just under £9bn/year for the UK government. If they could get close to that from all other drugs, that'd be £9bn less of tax rises/spending cuts for the rest of the economy.
The big downside with this is that it's not a proper network print server - it's a remote USB connection. So anything plugged into the Belkin is only accessible by one client at a time (two people cannot print simultaneously).
The other major downside is that it's Belkin. I've never come across a less reliable brand (even PC World's Advent is more reliable!).
The inability to reach the authoritative DNS servers for domain X is not the same thing as "domain X is down". I'm sure Amazon's servers were all fine, and working normally.
And for a large site like Amazon, surely their key DNS records would be sitting in cache on many ISPs DNS servers - or do UltraDNS deliberately set ridiculously low TTLs?
...more repeats.
Simples.
Let's face it - we don't have enough new programming to fill one channel per broadcaster, never mind the plethora each one transmits.
I reckon we should adopt a model of one, perhaps two, channels per broadcaster and no more, and then insist that all of them be broadcast in HD (if we slash the number of channels, there'd be plenty of bandwidth to go around).
If the interest rate on the new debt is lower than that on the old (which ought to be the case in the current economic climate), then it *is* sound practice (this holds true in the consumer space too).
What is stupid is replacing one debt with another more expensive one (which is what the likes of Ocean Finance usually do to consumers).
I use Windows Media Center to record stuff from radio 4, and now suddenly I have this new entry in the WMC "menu strips" for Sky Player "Coming Soon". WTF???? I will never subscribe to Sky, and am seriously pissed off with MS for pushing their crap at me (and there doesn't appear to be an obvious way to disable it).
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