Ah no
Sadly I've read there will be no new code to the old TV boxes. I'll just have to keep hacking!
Posts by George of the Jungle
72 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2009
Apple goes social with musical Ping
Drunken employee pops cap in server
Dell Streak GPL snub enrages Android fans
US colonel blasts PowerPoint bureaucracy in Afghan HQ
Friday 27th August 2010 12:43 GMT 
Good one Colonel!
My guess is Col. Sellin is either close to retirement or knows that he'll never be promoted above Colonel. Sec of Defense Gates has been saying the same thing about 1) the general staff having too much staff and 2) there could be less Generals in the US military.
Sec Gates should probably get Col Sellin moved to his staff to help reduce the waste/inefficiency.
Google Nexus One 'too popular' in dev phone afterlife
Sunday 22nd August 2010 20:11 GMT 
Good thing I ordered when I did
I wanted to get a Nexus One for development. Of course the day I finally get around to it was the day they took their retail market down. When they announced that they would sell them to developers, I haunted the dev site until they went on sale, and bought immediately.
It's nice to use an unadulterated Froyo phone for development. The extra benefit is that I can retire my unlocked Palm Treo 680 for my trips to Europe and use the N1.
Oracle sues Google over Java in Android
Friday 13th August 2010 10:52 GMT
Maybe it's the other meglomaniac
...or maybe ol' Larry wants to help out his good friend Stevie Jobs. Android is growing too fast, so put some FUD around the Android and help the iPhone. If you can also take the piss out of Google at the same time why not?
Black helo for obvious foil-hat reasoning.
Plane crash kills 'series of tubes' Senator Ted Stevens
Microsoft's KIN goes to hell: Site offers comfort
'The internet's completely over', declares petulant Prince
Middle-aged sex is crap: Official
Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked
Usenet's home shuts down today
Chocolate Factory pulls plug on Googlephone webstore
Friday 14th May 2010 22:36 GMT
VZ is expensive
Verizon Wireless is very expensive. I need CDMA where I live, as there are not enough GSM towers to get a signal at my house. I ended up getting a HTC Hero through Sprint because their smartphone package costs seemed more reasonable. My fiancée liked my phone so much she switched from Verizon to Sprint and got a Hero also.
Mighty hard-sums special function toolset goes online
Android tops iPhone in US (no thanks to the Nexus One)
Tuesday 11th May 2010 12:33 GMT
CDMA nit
"Like Verizon, Sprint runs a network based on the black sheep CDMA standard"
The color of your sheep depends on where you live. :)
In the rural part of the Eastern US, CDMA generally provides better coverage. GSM seems to be relegated to the Interstate highways and the large cities. When I moved to a rural area I dumped GSM for CDMA so I could have a reliable connection.
That said, I still keep an unlocked Treo 680 GSM phone around when I travel to Europe; I just buy a local PAYG SIM card and off I go. I've thought about upgrading to a Nexus One for travel since I'd have app commonality (I use a Sprint HTC Hero now), except I don't feel like giving 500 some-odd dollars to Google at the moment.
Turk unwraps doner kebab robot
Scott McNealy signs off in style
Wednesday 27th January 2010 13:48 GMT
End of an era
I hated Sun for a while since I worked for a competitor (Apollo) during the workstation wars of the late 80s. McNealy was the poster child for the hate since he was always full of bombast. Looking back on it, it was certainly entertainment.
One McNealy story from a friend of mine. He was a sales rep for Sun in NYC, and he was bringing McNealy, who was in NY for a conference, to meet with the heads of a large financial institution. They were running late, so my friend suggests using the subway instead of a "black car" (limos for hire) to get there on time. McNealy acquiesces and off they go. The short of it is the NY subway ride from hell in a overheating car with a fragrant vagrant. When they got off the train, McNealy tells my friend, "No matter what, after this meeting, we're returning in a black car."
Pants bombs vs America: The infernal conflict
Saturday 9th January 2010 00:17 GMT
Really?
"The unpalatable truth is that American governments have sponsored terrorism around the globe many times. That hundreds lost their lives in Belfast at the hands of bombers funded by citizens on the streets of New York and other cities is equally indisputable."
Provide credible sources that state the United States government or its citizens were killing people in Belfast please.
"The childlike over-reaction when others do unto them that which they have so often done to "foreigners" would be funniy (sic) if it wasn't so sad."
The "holier than thou" attitude of many outside the US is just as nauseating.
The Prisoner set for Sunday release
Tuesday 17th November 2009 06:16 GMT
I'm also trying to like this show
but I keep doing the comparison to the original (which I watched again before watching the new version.)
The original was almost an acid trip in its oddness, while the "new" version is sort of sneaking out behind mum's for a quick joint. I'll watch it through before making up my mind completely.
(This is the time I need a "meh" icon!)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
