Posts by phuzz

Re: But that UK weather.....

But interesting, and you'll never be short of a conversation.

Even bloody foreigners get the hang of talking about the weather after a little while, as long as you speak SLOWLY AND LOUDLY.

Re: Easy

From TFA:

"Embassies therefore need to switch off satellite connections to the internet"

Re: ISIS too good for them

Maybe he just meant Banque Nationale de Paris?

Re: You get what you pay for

VM have the advantage that in many areas they offer the fastest home internet connection available.

They seem to manage to cock something up like this about once a month, which is about par for the course for all of the home ISPs I've used over the years (except Be*, who _used_ to be fantastic).

You get a semi-static IP (changes every few years), the bundled Superhub is crap, but can be put in modem only mode, and they charge you more if you don't get a phone line off them.

So there you go, VM, not great, but not so bad I can be bothered to switch providers (and who is an alternative?)

Re: mod up and...

What exactly alarmed you about Dropbox?

After all, the entire point of it is to take your files, and upload (and sometimes download) them to the internet, so the minimum set of permissions you can give it would still be full R/W on your personal files, and network access.

You either have to trust Dropbox with your personal information, or not use it.

Re: Just the beginning

..complete with a link to ebay so you can buy a stol^^^^second hand one for yourself.

Re: Not forgetting regional variations

Up north it's just pa£word, because they're skint.

Re: Polaroids FTW

And if you do take polaroids, please don't leave them on the floor of your room where an innocent housemate might run across them whilst borrowing a cable.

Mentally scarred for years, I was.

Re: Another 'could be' law?

If you wandered into the centre of Cheltenham at a weekend, and took a picture of the crowds shopping, you'd probably be taking a picture of a GCHQ employee, or the pictures I took at my friend's wedding, which included his parents who worked at GCHQ. Nieth of these is likely to be illegal, because it's not obvious from the photo what those people do.

However, if you take a photo of the same person as they're walking through the door into the doughnut, it's pretty obvious what they do for a living, and thus they're open to blackmail, etc.

I'm guessing that's why the police can't give a snappy one line answer about which photos are legal.

Re: Poor IBM

I'm not sure what they were expecting, if a supplier rings me up and asks if we're thinking of buying anything new I tell them "no", and put them to the bottom of the list.

Don't call me, I'll call you when I need something.

Re: Not Gamma

Some ISP called COnnexus that one of our customers used was down as well.

We found it quite amusing as they're just migrating *to* Connexus, against our advice.

Re: Quite right

"Wait.... wouldn't they have video on a destruction engineering run?"

They've been using a drone copter to get cool footage recently. I can see why they didn't want to send that up if they were expecting an explosion.

Also, they tend to take a few days to release footage even when they do get some, not sure why, but i suppose it's their prerogative.

Re: Two girls and a cup

Well, it did contain two girls, and one cup, so you can't say the title was misleading, it just didn't cover everything...

Re: Yeah, well, like, you know.

I'm assuming they're referring to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Given that the US claims a policy of "Innocent until proven guilty", shooting a US citizen, in a foreign country where they have no official jurisdiction, was rude at best, and probably illegal under US law.

Of course in most countries, if the government does something it's legal by default, but Americans are weird about stuff like that.

Possibly they're referring to al-Awlaki's son, who was also a US citizen and who was killed two weeks later, and doesn't seem to have any connections with terrorism beyond his father.

Re: Never gonna replace windows

When Valve first released Steam the only reason most people installed it was because it was necessary to run Half Life 2 (but oh how we grumbled, especially those of us still on dial-up).

Valve could do the same to drive uptake of SteamOS. Personally I can't see Half Life 3 (or L4D3 or whatever) being a Linux exclusive, but even a one week exclusive would drive a massive increase in users.

Also, just by releasing games on Linux Valve are helping the platform, whether it's passing bug fixes and performance enhancements upstream, or just raising the profile of penguin gaming. A lot of the most used game engines (eg Unity) make it pretty simple to export to Linux (and OSX) as well as Windows now.

Re: That's nice.

Is there *any* race car that can do any of that?

If you're looking for an electric vehicle to carry lots of people, dogs and cargo, at least compare your current car to something like this: http://www.smithelectric.com/smith-vehicles/models-and-configurations/

Which doesn't have the range you need, but can probably do everything else. Unlike a race car.

Re: Word of warning, Notch

I have a Oculus rift DK2. I do not have a facebook account. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no facebookery in the Rift.

I'm not entirely sure how facebook *could* put their oar in to be honest. Unless they only allowed sales through facebook (which is not currently the case).

When I first heard about facebook buying Oculus I was pissed off as well, as I'd just given them money, but there is really nothing to worry about. and if they ever do start inserting floating banner ads or something equally stupid, then vote with your wallet and buy one of the other VR headsets that will undoubtedly be coming out in the next few years.

Re: He needs the attention, but still...

It's quite possible to support the aims of Wikileaks, whilst thinking that Assange is a self aggrandising dickhead.