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Arista juices switch with x86 server, FPGA, atomic clock
BMW recalls 1.3m motors over fire risk
Wednesday 28th March 2012 07:01 GMT 
Re: Could someone explain to me...
Obvious example is the original Mini (1959). No space under the bonnet for it.
The MGB (1962) has the battery behind the seats, forward of the boot. Originally two six volt ones, then a single twelve volt. The reason here is that when it came out, they couldn't get a single 12v unit that provided sufficient cranking amps to turn over the engine reliably and two 6v units wouldn't fit in the front. The fact that the "B" series V8 engine that required that cranking power never got made is beside the point. The resulting unnecessary pig's ear, of a car having a bonnet mostly full of fresh air and a battery in the back, is just typical of the british car industry....
CD: The indestructible music format that REFUSES TO DIE
Tuesday 27th March 2012 15:14 GMT
Re: Fidelity issues?
Yeah, right.
Try playing that on your car stereo without fannying around with transcoding first. This made all the more interesting by the fact that all the transcoding utilities I've found that support FLAC have proced to be buggy as hell and come with offensively shite UI's.
I've moved to using WMA lossless, purely for practical reasons.
Web hosting
Monday 26th March 2012 14:39 GMT
Re: Web hosting
UK2? Support not only in English, but they fairly recently insourced their support to, er, England IIRC. They always seem to get a round of approving noises from the commentarderie whenever they get a mention here too.
"Support in English" can easily mean "supported by muppets who speak something resembling English from a call-centre in India".
Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters
Monday 26th March 2012 14:18 GMT 
Tell you what.
You, the power lads, start investing heavily in Shale Gas and Nuclear power.
That way there'll be enough to go around and the price will stay stable, so I might stand a bloody chance of saving a bit of cash by using less of it.
Then we'll talk about smart meters. Frankly I cannot be arsed as long as my bill keeps going up regardless of how much I use.
London fire brigade outsources 999 control centre to Capita
ISS 'nauts take to the escape pods in Russian sat-prang debris peril
El Reg Forums FAQ
Monday 26th March 2012 11:26 GMT
Re: The one thing that I really dislike about the forums
On the subject of up/downvotes, how about a "retract" function? Maybe implemented as a "same commentard, up + down =0" thing?
It's way to damned easy to hit one while aiming for something else around here (I think that one of Drew's above just gained a spurious "down", courtesy of my feeble attempt to hit the "reply" button).
Monday 26th March 2012 11:17 GMT
Re: iPad app
s/on to/smoking/
Er, surely a vanilla HTML5 version of the site with the "app" side limited to icon + URL link shortcut, served in the preferred flavour of the various platforms is the way to go here?
1) You only have to do it once for everything.
2) No need to update the "app" every time you want to do something new.
3) Those who have something[1] which you don't ship a shortcut for can just roll their own without losing any functionality.
[1] And with this audience there's probably a good few of those somethings too.
Monday 26th March 2012 11:11 GMT
Re: Bug? Log-in tick box not remembering
Not being remembered isn't a big deal for me.
Being asked for the password during a session in which I am already logged in is a genuine WTF? moment.
Obvious one here is when trawling back through own posts, hit "next" or "previous" and get prompted to login. That one comes across as particularly daft, as that action and the very page it's on wouldn't be available were I not logged in...?!!? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this.
Tend to read at work, so that'll be XP / IE8.
BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH
Microsoft tarts up custom Mustang Muscle Microserfmobile
New iPad can't get its Wi-Fi up
6,000 sign e-petition to put Turing on £10 note
Space probe in orbit above Mercury sees signs of polar ice
Thursday 22nd March 2012 11:47 GMT
Re: does this support Manual Olivers nova hypothesis ?
Obvious problem:
If yellow dwarves are the remnants of supernovae, the night sky should be like a firework display as the things are rather common.
Other obvious problem:
As supernovae occur when stars have exhausted their hydrogen, been through the helium cycle and are running out of options in heavier fusion cycles, causing collapse, where's the sun got all it's hydrogen from? Does this theory require the involvement of the hydrogen fairies?
The Facebook job test: Now interviewers want your logins
Wannabe Murdochs crash Ofcom's local telly party
Thursday 22nd March 2012 08:38 GMT
Re: Self obsessed students - ha!
I think you're reading way too much into that. 5m is a drop in the ocean as far as the Beeb's spend on programmes from other makers goes and it makes sense to earmark a bit for small local providers. After all, it's our[1] money and it would probably just go to accompany a shedload more across the pond or line the pockets of the usual suspects otherwise.
It's probably only just enough to obtain the rights to Leeds TV's blockbuster culinary documentary series on cooking with beef dripping...
[1] Ok, strictly speaking your money. I'm living elsewhere.
Nokia invents teeny throbbing tattoos to make your skin crawl
Windows 8 on ARM vs iPad: Has Microsoft lost already?
Wednesday 21st March 2012 12:17 GMT
Re: Woa is me
Actually I think that WOA in the noddy tablet market will probably do fairly well and if Intel finally get a tablet-suitable CPU out, 8 will be the only serious game in town there. That gives MS an interesting cross-platform angle on tablets.
It's everywhere else that 8's gonna die like a dog, as it's nigh-on bloody unusable on a real computer.
Oz billionaire says CIA backs Greenpeace
Giant planet pileups in far-flung star systems: Computer says yes
Tuesday 20th March 2012 14:13 GMT
Re: Interesting
Very true, Battle of the Teutoberg Forest is a good example.
Three Legions of the shithottest troops of the most advanced professional army in the western hemisphere, equipped with every bit of advanced military kit available at the time, butchered by hordes of Germanic tribesmen.
Give the locals vast numeric superiority and their choice of terrain to fight in and it tends to go badly for the big boys. Add a healthy dose of overconfidence and sense of superiority to the "better" army and an embarassing defeat is assured.
WTF... should I pay to download BBC shows?
ARM's ultra-low-power fridge-puter chips: Just what the CIA ordered
Tuesday 20th March 2012 13:38 GMT
Re: Kitchen Appliances
If your house is big enough that you need your washing machine to contact you over the internet to tell you that it's finished, surely you have servants to do the washing anyway?
If I want to know if mine's finished, I stick my head round the door. If I can't hear it running, it's finished. There's a thing on the wall called a "clock" that tells me when it's about time to stick my head round the door.
GiffGaff gaffe charity spaff to quell miffed riffraff
Tuesday 20th March 2012 13:29 GMT
Actually I think that their determined approach here is mind-numbingly sensible.
The network itself works without the thing. The only thing that goes pear-shaped when it's down is the ability to bill the customers. It's cheaper to just give the calls away than it is to maintain a hot standby.
Everyone wins. They don't have to build and maintain a hot spare and their customers get free calls if it does go titsup.com. The alternative would have been finding the money somewhere, presumably in their customers' pockets.
Tiny pile of Windows 8 ARM slabs slated for October
Tuesday 20th March 2012 12:59 GMT
Re: Quantity over quality?
"compete as a device"? Of course not. Taking on the iPad directly would be suicidal. Wrong badge on the outside for a start and there ain't much that'll make up for that in the minds of the great unwashed.
So the only weapons at their disposal are diversity and price. Diversity to tempt the techies who care about specific areas of functionality (or don't care about others for that matter) and price to tempt everyone into giving it a whirl.
Starting from scratch to eke out a market against a product as mature and well-entrenched as the iPad is going to be a bit of a miracle if they pull it off though.
The Register obtains covert snaps of Google's new London offices
Tuesday 20th March 2012 10:47 GMT
Re: WOW!
Windows are overrated.
I've got a shiny, new 5th floor corner office that attracts light and heat in the same way that dead camels attract flies. I get a choice of windows closed and sweat or windows open and deafened by the pile-drivers, cranes and excavators working on the motorway tunnel construction outside. Oh and gassed by the diesel fumes from the honking great queue of trucks trying to get through the roadworks when the wind's in the right direction for added fun.
Ye Bug List
Monday 19th March 2012 14:28 GMT
Sumfin's up.
Dunno what's happened today, but the format on the User Forums section and its dependants has gone fubar in IE8 (yes, I know).
<Quick check>
Oooo, Chrome too, so unusually it ain't an IE thang.
The bit with the boxes and ads on the right is overlapping the main section with the headings and forum stuff on the left. Looks like someone's got hold of the fixed-width bit and squeezed the two sides together, if you see what I mean.
Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo
Tuesday 20th March 2012 10:07 GMT
Re: Some people have the 'knack'
I knew a bloke like that, back in the day, in a System/38 shop. He used to go through terminals like they were free.
Eventually the lads gave him an ancient IBM 5251 as they were thought to be indestructible. It burst into flames while he was using it.
To give the thing credit, it did carry on working for quite some time with smoke and obvious flames coming out the back of it......
So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Tuesday 20th March 2012 08:04 GMT
It is true....
.....that there are many low budget / straight to video / we were only having a laugh......honest, stinkers out there, so I think we have to exclude these and only allow those turkeys that got a wide cinematic distribution.
Thus I have to agree with what many enlightened commentards have said and go with Highlander II. What a cast-iron stinker that was! Also I saw it in the cinema and I don't think you can truly appreciate how bad it is 'til you've done that.
I can't quite believe how many films that I actually like have aquired the odd vote or two.....
Report: UK falls behind as smart meters rolled out across Europe
Apple to reveal plans on Monday for $97.6bn cash hoard
Pair of double-As give you cheap, quick charge
LOHAN to straddle meaty titanium rod
Friday 16th March 2012 15:56 GMT
Tail.
"For obvious reasons, the Vulture 2 must have a "V" tail elevon configuration."
Nothing obvious there and no need for the dihedral tail. I'd have thought a conventional horizontal stabiliser / elevator configuration with a fin / rudder at each end would be simpler and more practical. Have a look at an Avro Lancaster for a practical implementation. You still have to tie the two rudders together (assuming rudder control to be a requirement at all), but you don't have to get into the horror of managing the synchronisation of the two "rudderators" independantly to produce the desired turn / pitch movements.
Pedantry bit: An "elevon" is something found on a "tailless" aircraft (usually delta wing designs), being a combination of the elevator, for pitch control and the aileron, for roll control. Your design combines the rudder, for yaw control and elevator as mentioned. I've used "rudderator", there's probably a proper word for this..........
Mobile phones cause ADHD in rodents
Friday 16th March 2012 13:00 GMT 
How boffins have fun.
"Gosh I'm bored."
"Tell you what. Let's write a paper showing how, under some ludicrously unlikely conditions, mobile phones have a health risk."
"Why?"
"Well then we get to watch the tabloid press and the conspiracy nuts all go apeshit at once."
"Yeah you're right, it gave us all a really good laugh last time somebody did that one. I'm game."
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Mega squid use HUMONGOUS eyes to spot ravenous sperm whales
Charge of the Metro brigade: Did Microsoft execs plan to take a hit?
Friday 16th March 2012 10:43 GMT
Re: The unmaking of an old monopoly - very good, Mr Orlowski, very good...
Yeah, right.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the sheep will use 8 and winge about it a bit while businesses stick with 7. MS will rework things in 9 to sort it out.
Just like what happened with XP-->Vista-->7 in fact. I remember the mass outpourings of "what an opportunity for MacOS and LINUX!!11!!!" when Vista came out and yet we're now in a world owned by 7, so I'll stick with hindsight rather than wild prognostication for the eventual outcome.
As I have said before, in the corporate world 8 was going nowhere even if it were a gem. Too many 7 rollouts going on, 7 support will be around for a few years yet and nobody's going to change more often than they have to. MS know this, so 8 is a "try it on the sheep" release with lessons learned going into 9 for corp use, where the real money is.
Using Canonical's model, think of XP, 7 and 9 as the LTS releases......
Friday 16th March 2012 09:55 GMT
Re: Not a chance
"....how long will it take before more tablets than pc's are sold?"
Er, never. Those consumer sales figures that get bandied about are a drop in the ocean of corporate purchasing. As long as people sit at desks in offices, desktops/laptops will outnumber tablets. I can see the possibility of dockable tablets replacing some laptops, but that's about it.
Deriving an IT trend from consumer sales is like deriving cosmological theories from soil samples.
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