Posts by dc_m

it's called mslogo now.

The "little bots" are known as turtles, they are still being used. There are variations of basically the same thing.

It would have been a variant of the original valiant roamer. Uses two massive lantern batteries. I know for a fact schools were buying these no more than 8 years ago.

Re: Context

Almost a Douglas Adams reference

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space

upvote for you!

I thought hospitals all had generators?

Re: Can you hold down the power button

There's probably one on your numeric keypad!

Re: Mark Oleynik is a Ph.D. mathematician

Surely just weigh rather than measure the carrot.

Re: I find what people hate about Ubuntu weird

Nope, same things happens on Win 10 as well!

Re: Ahhhhh Win 3.1 on a 386DX 40MHz with 8MB Ram

nope, 386dx 25 with 1mb here!

The answer is both

Preferably in a nice hot bath. A cup of tea and a pint of beer. Plan not to do anything afterwards, guaranteed a good nights sleep.

I like your thinking, like quorn, not bad if you add meat!

Re: Oi Belkin!!

I can see both sides here.

I'd be annoyed if a product I bought was absolute cr*p, but then that's why I wouldn't buy belkin in the first place. Their routers have never exactly been the last word in reliability!

Re: Ahhh Windows 3.11 for Workgroups...

For us it was 486's with Office 97 and windows 98!

Re: Just like the Elephone P8000

I did exactly that when the usb fell out of my elephone P8.

The Wileyfox has so much better build quality!

Re: Kettle user

Beautifully put, I completely agree.

There is also a wifi enabled dustbin. WTF!

Re: We can not lose....

Bacon and beer,

That sounds like dinner to me!

Re: WTF?

ah yes, I seem to remember they consisted mainly of match heads.

Happy days

Re: "surveilled"

Wrong, wrong wrong, wrong and wrong! best explanation ever is here.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=should+of

Should of should be banned from the language as an insult!

The only time it makes any sense is in the sentence "Should Of Mice and Men be written in another language"

With you on the ear gauges, particularly big ones and tattoos completely turn me off. However a really beautiful woman can carry off a nose stud (she isn't).

Re: Multiroom audio?

Too right, and if it can play seamlessly from google music without dropouts, then it could actually replace the pure jongo setup I have!

Re: Just Apple?

Oh, you'll get there all right. Probably by bus that you will have to wait an inordinate amount of time for!

Whoa there tiger, don't you swear at us like that! I thought the headline was bad.

Actually, it's kind of cool. I've never seen that in print before.

Re: Viruses are all very well...

I seem to remember people doing something similar with cap gun caps.

Re: Beefy benefits packages ?

And don't forget that all this needs to be done with zero down-time to the network and next to no budget!

Re: Nokia CRT Monitors

My favourite was always a 21" (ish, might have been bigger) Dell with a Nokia tube.

Totally flat screen, but took two people to get it up the stairs, the picture was phenomenal though.

reminds me of a chicken once from Sainsburys that tasted like fish.

Just wrong

Good point, that was a stupid statement, must have been BNC across the buildings!

SMH

Re: Also on a helpdesk

Highly unprofessional of me, but I pretty much would have sworn and hung up on him.

You missed the other important side effect there that really gets on my nerves. They shrunk the ENTER button to make the space.

That was just rude.

Re: Coffee cup speakers

Yep, imagine if you accidently put in it in the dishwasher

Re: Monster

And of course, they will be gold plated. Like that's going to make any difference to a digital signal.

Re: Taking Mattel are they?

That sounds like quite a cool film right there!

Re: Gawd/ess.

That is actually a very good point. If she was a milker surely they just wait.

Re: When I was a kid

yup, it still is the tradition in Germany, I spotted it in Berlin a few weeks ago. It took a while to work out what people were doing.

yes, cash here.