Posts by dotdavid

Re: and this is why...

Agreed. I would have liked a basic translation next to each :-(

Re: Entertainment on board

Some flights do have switchable external camera views, although I've never been on a flight with one. Being able to "look out the window" virtually would be pretty cool IMHO.

Re: Photos photos

I wonder why there is not a version without the front facing camera, a lot of the privacy concerns would then go away.

This. Why not make the camera detachable and optional then if you really want some PoV video you can always attach it as and when it's actually appropriate to use.

Re: Why not put a blue LED on the front ?

A red one is better; would make you look like a borg.

Re: tvcatchup.com?

tvcatchup.com doesn't have Aereo's weird "one physical antenna per customer" business model, which was one of the stated reasons for them not describing themselves as a cable company at the time the lawsuit was launched against them. tvcatchup.com customers presumably share a few antennae rather than have one each.

They had their own legal troubles when they had a remote PVR feature (hence the "catchup" part of their name) but it all seems to have quietened down now they're basically just an online Freeview stream. Not sure how long that'll last unfortunately.

Re: Surely an easy fix for this...

A good question. When I ran a Windows VPS I was getting so many opportunistic skids attempting to log in with "administrator"/[generated_password_1_through_infinity], I ended up disabling the administrator account as there was no obvious way to blacklist an IP for an hour or so after X failed logins. It really didn't give me much confidence that the server would stay secure.

Agreed. The ASA should be told that the warnings should not appear again in their current form.

Re: @Gene Cash

It's already rolling out to Moto G handsets in some countries, India for example. Past performance would indicate that the UK release is going to be pretty soon.

Most Android OEMs are pretty crap with update schedules but Motorola's newer handsets X, G, E seem to have changed that for the better.

Re: Are you listening Adobe, Oracle?

Ninite has its' own problems.

1) It's not exactly exhaustive, although it does include some good software.

2) While the Ninite installation packages don't include adware etc, they also don't allow you to customise settings like file associations and whether or not another %^!"%^ icon gets added to your desktop.

So YMMV.

Re: Foolish earthlings

Of course we might find the intelligent life too; they'll just turn up with the police...

Re: I name this ship White Elephant.....

"So, why would we invest in anti-sub and surface combat destroyers?"

I'm guessing it's in case an opponent thinks "nearly all of our wars in the last 20 years have been about air power. They won't be expecting our submarine/destroyer/shark-with-laser-weapon attack!"

Re: So what can we call these companies

How about "productally challenged organisation"?

Re: Just good enough

For me the "stitched up for 2 years" is key. I have an S3 with CyanogenMod 11 (KitKat). Sure a slightly faster handset would be nice, 4G perhaps but it's not essential. Contract is up next month and I'm switching to another provider (as my current one felt that it was okay to bump up my contract's monthly fee mid-contract, despite being told this was Not OK by OFCOM) on a at-least-£15-cheaper 1-month rolling contract.

The money I will save on my contract costs will go in a savings account and if my phone dies I'll look around for another one bought outright with that money. Hell, could even buy a second hand S3 and new battery for not-very-much. Simples.

Re: Finally a chance tp drive from the command line

> Bugger - what's the syntax for 'stop'?

$ break

Re: Hmm

Yep their status page is awful.

Whenever I have an internet outage, I check the status page from my phone and it usually says something like "Phone - OK, Internet - OK, TV - There are reported problems with TV service in your area". Despite the fact that I don't have TV with them and it's my Internet that's down I can only assume "Internet" and "TV" are linked in some way, and only bother contacting the helpdesk if all three services are listed as OK.

The similar Trakdot thing mentioned in the article switches itself off when it detects itself as accelerating down a runway (or, presumably, flying through the air as a result of a baggage-handling-related accident). Presumably this would have something similar.

Re: Three tonnes of force?

How many elephants is that?

Re: film theft

You wouldn't film a car!

Wait...

I concur. I tried it for a while but the intelligent features were pretty limited, leaving the only useful bit the autocategorisation of apps.

Since then I've tried SmartLauncher instead which just has the autocategorisation of apps bit and that's working well.

Re: Moto G

The Tesco ROM for the Moto G is slightly different to the standard ROM and has to wait for Tesco Mobile to finish tweaking it before it is released. You can flash the standard ROM manually if you want slightly quicker updates.

Re: Kitkat

> On my HTC Android Jellybean, gallery has the options to "select player". and "play"

Hmm, from stuff on the internet it looks like a DLNAthing and will therefore be HTC's software not Google's doing it. Unfortunately DLNA is notoriously flakey.

I would try an alternative DLNA app to see if that can talk to your TV - if it can, well, that's your problem ;-) BubbleUPNP is a good option.