Posts by John 110

Re: Although...

It's good to know I'm not alone, although I put it down to carelessness on the part of someone giving their email address. These days I just delete the emails, but I have been known to report them to abuse@ whoever sent them, and once I went the extra mile to inform a doctor's practise in California that their patient was never going to turn up for surgery... (That was hard, due to a reluctance on the part of the practise to put any contact details on the website that didn't need logged in to, and I wasn't going to phone them)

Re: What about Martin Baker?

@skippybing

Interesting thread you linked to. Thanks.

Having read the first couple of pages, the reaction to the prosecution seems mixed, but the consensus seems to be that it was the right thing to do.

[disclaimer] I was too lazy^h^h^h^hbusy to read the whole thread, so opinion may have shifted towards the end.

Re: BTW

"...horrors the Brits perpetrate when making/serving coffee. ;-)"

Coffee bag in a mug. Add boiling water. Risk blistered fingers by dunking it about a bit until it's cooled enough to drink. Drink slowly, leaving bag in mug to achieve a turkish level of strength by the time you get to the end.

What's wrong with that?

Re: Promoters culpable?

"...instead of letting the free market solve it..."

Because the free market isn't solving it, perhaps?

Re: Email?

If you go to vivaldi.net there's a wee link to webmail at the top. Once you've registered, you can use your client of choice with IMAP or POP to access the mail.

Or is that not what you mean? Are you looking for a (proper) Opera-like built in client?

Re: Nah. We were civilized, no rodeo in the data center.

@bob

"/me wonders where the IT angle is on this one..."

They had a light, and a plug! of course they were IT equipment!!

Re: Database Normalisation Warning

You've got windows!! Bastard!!!

Re: Count me unimpressed

"Maybe millions of housepersons watch porn whilst doing the ironing?"

I wouldn't, not near a hot iron...

@amused of DukeStreet

They still talk as much, but the actual information content drops the longer they talk...

Re: Typical robots - half a job done

@Ledswinger -- "And sweat, it needs to exude gallons of salty, dirty, malodorous juice."

I NEVER want to sit in your car...Never!!

Re: use the mouse to move the pointer

It's easy to laugh at mouse stories, but I remember the "Computing in Medical Laboratories" thing that we hosted in the 80's where guys who were at the cutting edge of Labsystem development (from Norfolk if I remember correctly) were harumphing about those new-fangled mouse things.

"I would turn them over and use them as a trackball" they said...

As an aside, our current labsystem is completely mouse-free once you've clicked on it's icon to fire it up...

Re: Not just Hollywood

ooh, you got a downvote, Teflon suit man must have read your post. Have a balancing upvote.

Re: Why

Because it doesn't matter how often you tell people that it's a work laptop, they still think it's theirs, just like my work desktop is "mine".

Generally though, people think that they're going to have time to clear it down before they have to hand it back.

They're not always right...

Re: Hollywood being moribund

Can I vote for Consider Phlebus (Iain Banks)?

Re: Look in the loft

"CPC was crap when it came out"

My CPC with its two ROM boxes was a brilliant wee Word processor and development environment. OK, the games suffered a bit what with being mostly direct ports from the Spectrum, but Elite played fine (what else did you need...)

Re: Natzionalism At It's Worst!

Ah, you're the one that falls for knee-jerk "SNP-bad" press propaganda!

(What sort of a word is Natzionalism anyway, you should be ashamed of yourself)

Re: All they have to do...

That's all very well, but scumbags don't think that they're the scumbags, they think everybody else is.

These videos reinforce and validate the poster's actions in the eyes of those they see as peers.

Where once they would boast and threaten in front of their mates and 10 people would agree and egg them on, now they can post Youtube videos that are viewed 300,000 times. That's a hell of an egg on and can only serve to amplify a problem that we should be trying to scale down.

Re: I'm sorry I read this now...

Yeah, but I'm not living in a different country (with different costs-of-living etc) from overpaid football players.