Posts by Steve Foster

@Miek

"Ignore the letters, eventually they get bored and they stop sending them."

Do they?

Some 5 years after getting rid of my television, I'm still receiving periodic "you're a crim & we're gonna 'ave you" missives from Crapita on behalf of the BBC.

@mark1978

Microsoft bought the iTap clients from iTap.

@jonathanb

Scottish bank notes are not legal tender in England.

@Martijn

I had thought my comment so obvious not to need it (though the "spawn" icon might also have been a clue), but it seems I might have overestimated some of our esteemed fellow commentards.

Re: Wouldnt it make more sense

Yes, a hub, with the TT chip, designed for the Pi to slot inside, powering the Pi, and having 4+ USB sockets all nicely aligned along one edge (connected to the Pi's own USB port[s]), and leaving the other sides free for the remaining PiPorts.

@AC 11:50

Ok, so you don't need the performance, but how much ongoing power and environmental control savings might you make reducing your storage from "several racks" to one?

@Malcolm 1

Many mains sockets in UK residences are just a few inches above floor level, and the bottom of the powerline devices tends to be even lower. Trying to plug ethernet cables into sockets pointed to that floor can be a serious PITA - and may be entirely fruitless, or necessitate unplugging the unit entirely (thereby temporarily disconnecting anything else).

Ideally, all these devices would come in top/bottom socket variants so that buyers could select whichever they preferred, but as that's a serious pipedream, at least the availability of some models that are top-socketed gives us choice.

Re: Oh, not this hoary old chestnut again.

I have a client who mistreats his laptops something rotten. A MacBook Pro is the only one that has survived (so far), and even then, he's had to take it to the Apple Store a couple of times for TLC.

But he spends his life in Outlook (and at the time, Outlook:mac was a pale imitation), so it was set up with Boot Camp and Windows, and he _never_ sees OSX.

He's thinking about a new laptop at the moment, and I'm pretty sure it will be another MBP.

"Personally, I save their docx documents as doc before I send it back."

Absolutely, I do the same. Locally, I usually use the .OD? formats these days, though some "document sets" are still .DOC/.XLS for historical reasons (and I can't be arsed to go back through converting them to .OD?).