A single story?
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Posts by Adrian Jones
302 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2007
Doctor Who writers Neil Gaiman and Terrance Dicks talk to The Reg
Whovians, your Doctor needs you: Take back the Day from One Direction
Sail HO! Look out Bay Area - it's the Google Galleon
Adobe users' purloined passwords were pathetic
That time when an NSA bloke's son borked the ENTIRE INTERNET...
What the CUFF? Nokia shows how a smartwatch really OUGHT to work
ZERO-G DINOSAUR made from bits and bobs by space station flight engineer
Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials
Tweet like escaping Hell depends on it, Twitter Catholics told
Boffins create tabletop ANTIMATTER GUN
It was the Reg what won it: Online Hitchhiker's Guide thriving
Arise, Lord BONG
Dragons' Den badboy's biz Expansys is soaked in red
Londoners can bonk their way to work without Oyster cards TODAY
Thursday 13th December 2012 10:15 GMT
Re: So, given that my cards are in my wallet
I had an Barclaycard One Plus, which was RFID credit card + oyster card.
When Barclaycard took over Egg credit cards, they sent me a new RFID card, which stopped the oyster card part of the One Plus card from working. Barclaycard swore blind that it wasn't having any effect and refused point blank to replace it.
So I no longer have any Barclaycards, nor will I ever again.
AWS to ISVs: Let us vaporise your Windows apps
Brain boffins: 'Yes, math CAN make your head hurt – LITERALLY'
Christian footie match ends in almighty brawl
Ten backpacks for tech-heads
Wednesday 19th September 2012 09:05 GMT 
Crosskase Solar
That appears to be a re-branding of the Infinit Solar backpack I bought last year.
The quality was terrible. One of the interior zips wouldn't close (the zipper moved, but the zip stayed open.), several of the seams have come apart and the solar cell was rubbish.
The battery would charge up, but would be flat again in less than a day. It seemed like the solar cell was draining it. I added adaptors to charge my PowerMonkey from the solar cell (It holds it charge perfectly well, normally) and that was flat a day later.
So I'd recommend you avoid this like the plague.
On the other hand, we bought a Wenger backpack for our accountant's birthday, a year ago and that is still a fantastic piece of kit. I think that'll be my next choice.
Visual Studio 2012: 50 Shades of Grey by Microsoft
Dropbox brings in crack team to probe spam leakage
'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth
Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer
Nokia eyes private equity buyer for bling-phone firm
LinkedIn admits site hack, adds pinch of salt to passwords
Ten... mad materials made into tech
Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit
'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues
Wednesday 28th March 2012 10:28 GMT
Re: sterilisation or pasturise or desalinate
It's unclear (to me, anyway) as to whether it's pulling heat from the cool area, or just directing it away. Condensing the steam in the cool area would, obviously, warm up that area.
If it is cooling the cool area, effectively pumping the heat into the hot area, then coupling it to a stirling engine might be interesting.
Novatech pushes affordable Ultrabook
Suitably-endowed punters lured into bonking for Vaseline loving
Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers
Wednesday 29th February 2012 10:13 GMT
Re: Never trust a publicity junkie
It never ceases to amaze me how people spout off with righteous indignation while getting all their facts wrong.
The Pi went on sale today. Farnell sold out of them in about 15 minutes. RS for some reason didn't start selling. (I'm not sure what they think a "launch" is, but they royally cocked up."
The Pi has a processor, GPU, memory, storage, HDMI output, USB ports and a network port. It runs GNU/Linux. How does this not make it a computer?
Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive
Toshiba Portégé Z830-10N 13.3in Ultrabook
PARIS soars to Guinness World Record
Pay attention, 007: Wi-Fi cufflinks perfect for a spy
Motorola strengthens Defy+ with JCB logo
Kodak heading to Chapter 11
NASA to place twin probes in Moon orbit as you snog beneath mistletoe
Dell flees netbook market, dumps Minis
Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
Kepler spots Earth-sized exoplanet ideal for barbecues
Strap-on thruster daredevil shows off Swiss peak formation
Tuesday 29th November 2011 11:23 GMT
There's another problem with taking off from the ground...
We "saw" him at Jersey last year.
I say "saw" because he was so high up, all we could see was a tiny dot, with a pale grey trail behind it, until he ran out of fuel and opened the parachute.
He had to fly so high because of the time it takes to open a parachute large enough to support the extra weight of the wing. Flying at a lower altitude, and taking off of course, would put him in the situation where he could recover from an engine failure.
Facebook phone rises from the dead, again
Bishop to bless road salt supplies for added winter safety
Pass the wine, dear. Yes, that papier-mache thing
Man builds smartphone dock into arm
Amazon Kindle 4
Thursday 13th October 2011 09:12 GMT
Screen saver images?
In the States, the $79 Kindle comes with adverts on the screen saver, rather than images, to remove them you have to pay $109 to have them removed. Am I right in thinking that the UK version doesn't have the ads?
Which would change the equivalent cost from £60 inc VAT to £84 inc VAT, making the UK version almost as cheap as the US one.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
