Posts by Andus McCoatover

More like the "Zen of Pi"

No, Leswinger, the card wouln't stay in. Furthermore, the tiny bits of gold (as a switch), to detect whether a card was connected or not were buckled. (I guess I could've just somehow twisted the two together, but I couldn't find my glasses.....

When I've got money, I'll fire the bugger up with 16G card. THEN, i'll persuade the bugger with 16 Gig up its jaksy! That'll make its eyes water!

(That's the problem. I wanna change the card. Duct-tape, etc OK once I get the thing to boot, I'll use a memory stick. Until then however...)

Re: Sinclair, what was that all about ?

Anybody willing to help my dementia here?

I seem to remember buying a chip, with an aluminium 'armadillo' heatsink stuck on its back (It actally worked very well, but got extremely hot!). IIRC, I stuck it on a board, with the tracks carved out by a scalpel I "purloined" from my mother - who was a nurse at the time. Holes 'drilled' by knocking a nail through carefully marked holes. (Oh, Veroboard! Where would we be without you!)

Put a 'skeleton' gramaphone into a wooden chess-box I had, connected to the speaker of a defunct wooden wireless we had. It worked. Powered by a 6V? motorbike battery I found on the local rubbish tip.

Envy of my friends. Think I was about 13 at the time. Would that really be 44 years ago?

Was it a Sinclair? I bought quite a few bits'n'bobs from Sinclair in my yoof, starting withe the MK14.

Re: More to the point, which set of bastards are pushing Nokia this way?

"Their success was never based on break-through innovation but in commercial savvy and ruthlessness."

Don't get it. I thought being 'ruthless' and 'savvy' was how you made money, and became competetive nowadays.

Oh, well. What do I know.

Re: Look on the bright side.

Agree.

I got 2m/s included in the rent price. It's enough to watch BBC News video/ Bbcgoodfod.com's cookery class.

No cap, nothing. "All you can eat". Easy peasy. But, the quality of the connection is brilliant! Undecured WiFi, so even my neighbours use it - and I can still log in and watch po - sorry, aforementioned cookery programmes.

Linux Mint 13, MATE interface.

I write letters, open internet, play music/videos. Create presentations, whatever.

Just 'floats my boat'. Unity simply got up my nose. It seems to be a classic case of engineers showing what they can do, without listening to the end-user's requirement.

I've seen it in a lot of products. Almost without exception, they are all landfill now.

(Nicolet 660B is the exception - yet I'm possibly the only bloke left drawing breath on this planet who could still fix one, saw one advertised for $25,000 the other day. 25 years old, fuse-programmed ROM's..Joking or what?!)

Re: Don't sign up to a commercial provider..!!!

Of course you're gonna have a New Mexico on any new planet. How else will the first colonists - 'Merkans' - get their clothes washed and ironed, or their dishes washed? NASA's in Texas, yeah? 'Nuff said.

Re: Privacy controls ? How ?

Agree. I use FB daily, mainly to see what my kids are up to. (Oh, and ave a laugh with George Takei..He finds some really funny stuff!)

Point is, I never 'Friend' anyone unless I know them personally (Takei is an exception). So if the parents implemented that rule, FB would be a safer place.

Also agree with a previous poster that "Internet Safety" must be added to the school curriculm. You never know what little toe-rag is gonna tell his '10-year old new girlfriend' called Bubba, which window is insecure, so he can meet Bubba...

Re: Not a meterorite

Of course it was, dear boy!

That's exactly why everyone living under Heathrow approach have to replace their window when a plane goes past. About 300 times a day. Glaziers must be happy!

Oh, FFS, Matthew.

Forehead, meet palm.

Re: Still Hope for Nokia

"I'd bet dollars to salmiakki..."

Oh, ta. I promised my daughter a couple of packs of salmiakki. Forgot. Ta muchly for the reminder...

(Salmiakki is a Finnish candy, based on licorice, that has the same effect on non-Finnish girls as eating garlic before a first date, farting during it, or requesting (same date) the Karaoke Lapland singing style of Joiku - which to me is the sound you would make if your toenails were being pulled out, one-by-one)

Dunno, really.

If I can fire up my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 'fondleslab' , open Polar offcice, press the speech input button, and say - albeit in a quiet room - "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party".

...and this South-Korean thing writes it flawlessly, after it does a bit of thinking. Think they've got something right...

Re: That pic would indicate...

By Romanian painters?

Re: @Eenymeeny

Happened to me once. OO saved me from deep failure.

Training material for a 3-day training spasm. Somehow, the illustrations - vital! were either corrupted, or the version of PP on the machine was nadgered. As I'd flown from Finland to China to do the training, I couldn't exactly pop home...Always kept a DVD of my material with me. Download Open Office, run my presentation/material (in .ppt format) through that, didn't bat an eyelid! Rescued!

Re: It's just a penis.

I love my Finnish girlfriend.

In winter.

When it's dark.

And, the lights are off.

Aah, she's beautiful!

Blue dots...

They wouldn't be aircraft, perchance, approaching Heathrow or London city? There are quite a few, which might make sense. Some kind of heat-sensing interference? Just a wild guess....

Re: Harry Potter's <actor>

"Dad - dad... Was the world really Black & White when you were a kid?"

"Yeah, Son, I only used Ilfachrome, when everyone else used Kodachrome. It's only a passing fad. Just like in the Silent movie time, when Nancy Reagan said 'who wants to hear actors speak! She had a point." Got this new thing called 'Polaroid' now. Can't wait to try it...Now, where's my box of cubic flashbulbs???"

Re: Never mind the nuke angle, there are more important questions:

Monkeynauts?

Or Monkeynuts.

Whichever.

Re: Showing off our stupidity eh?

Dunno where your'e living...

Here, -20C, snowing, and this 56-year old git is going to walk 2 miles to the bank to pay a cheque in. Then, back.

OK, try: http://yle.fi/uutiset/lapland_experiences_record_freeze/6469117

Frikking nippy. Wish I was looking after Lester Haines' donkey right now.....

Re: Not the revolution you were looking for

من منكم تستحق هذه الكلمـــــــــــــــــــاتى:؟!

Now, that's what I call a "line" of code....

(No idea what it means...)

Re: As predicted last year....

Neither do I. It'd be a tragedy for the country I now live in, that I love. I want Nokia to succeed, and Elop's NOT the person to do it. (OK, prior to Palm who went 'in bed with MS' was Sendo. We SURELY know what happened to that!!!)

Yep, Elop must go. But then... Underpants Gnomes? No. Like the current encumbent, they couldn't work out step 2) to get to step 3 - PROFIT!!!

Jorma Ollilla. It's his baby, after all. "Jorma, come back to the creche - we need you!"