Posts by adnim 2081 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2007
I get 14mbit from Be. Always the same speed, even between 4pm and 7pm. No caps and no throttling. BBC HD comes in just fine whatever time I watch. I have hit 300Gb+ per month on a few occasions. I pay less than £20 per month. I am happy with slower speeds that meet all my needs.
I seem to remember when I was a teenager some kind of English language teaching aid that had picture cards that slid into/onto the surface of a plastic box. When an image on the card was pressed a very synthetic voice or poor quality sample said the word associated with the picture. Now if i could only remember the name of this device.
If I stick a picture of an ice cream on one of the keys of my midi keyboard and set it to play a sample of me saying ice cream I breach some copyright or patent?
I think I could knock something like speak for yourself up in a week or two using my own sampled voice and some images, I would give it away just for the kudos and good feeling. $299 is plain extortion.
Somethings really should be free or at most sold for cost.
I never see any.
After Scroogle went down I missed it so much that I wrote my own scraping engine, it removes all ads and price comparison sites (should I tick a box) before displaying the results. It is so annoying when searching for a hardware manual or a genuine product review to see a page of price comparison sites full of shilled reviews.
OK they still get my IP because reliable free proxy services are very transient. When I get the time and the inclination to do so, I will experiment with TOR perhaps turning the VM web server I use for this into a TOR node. I don't know much about TOR yet. Being both busy and lazy can be a curse.
Take control or be controlled.
Ubuntu:
The program 'wump' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install bsdgames
Windows:
'wump' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
My missus:
What?
It's Sunday 7:09 pm.... I need to get a life!
I don't have full control of a device and I cannot block advertising or decide myself what data it transmits then It doesn't matter who makes it, I don't want it. I am certainty not going to bend over and relax for Apple, Google or Microsoft.
Apple kit is great for those who don't care about what information is transmitted in the background, those who want an easy to use, reliable and consistent yet controlled experience.
Apple kit is pretty cool, there is no doubt about that. However, an over priced device with no root access is an anathema to me.
as most training courses will teach the student primarily to pass the exam and secondarily the subject. With most course taught in a perfect lab environment where things never go wrong, trouble shooting issues with the subject matter when things do go wrong is rarely touched upon.
IT systems have developed and evolved over the years, there has been no sudden leap where all previously learned skills have become redundant. In my opinion IT professionals should also develop and evolve along with it. I would rather employ a 50 year old with perhaps 30 years IT experience, who maybe a little set in their ways, over a pliable youngster with a list of training course certificates as long as their arm.
I wouldn't call myself an expert in any particular field but with over 20 years experience across a broad range of IT disciplines, there isn't much I cannot turn my hand to and make a passable job of. I also know my limitations so I'm unlikely to bite off more than I can chew.
The last virus infection, apart from the malware I deliberately infect vm's with was the Saddam virus on my Amiga, now that was a proper man flu infection.
Yes you read right, I am being very smug indeed, I have not had a virus on any of my Windows or Linux boxes ever. I am very careful, although not being infallible I expect luck has a bit to do with it too.
Famous last words.... Perhaps my bank details are on there way to China or Russia now and my machine will fail to boot tomorrow 'cos the hard disk has been formatted. Good job I back up all my important and personal data in plain text to the cloud.
Block all cookies especially third party cookies, allow session cookies only if the site requires them to function, allow permanent cookies only from sites one trusts. block everything else. Yes, imho Adblock and NoScript are essential.
I would expect ones options are limited on locked down devices... that's why I don't use them.
Most of the major advertising and tracking servers/networks are blocked at my router.
and my desktop makes a wonderful arm rest. For certain games, this could be useful and amount to fun. Although I expect if I used this to play TF2 I would get owned by keyboard and mouse users.
For navigating an IDE, image manipulation or indeed any serious computer work I doubt it's usefulness.
Still, wait and see I could be proved wrong.
"Suppliers want to introduce the technology not only because it simplifies the process of collecting meter reading, but also because it makes it easier to control supply at times of peak demand. The technology also makes it easier to switch late or unreliable payers onto higher tariffs."
Don't forget the savings from sacking all those fleshy meter readers. The return from selling off the vehicles they use and the savings from not fueling those vehicles. I dare say that despite these savings the consumer will not see a reduction in the cost of electricity and maybe even see an increase in costs to pay for the technology.
"My data collection continues to expand and includes some of my most precious memories, including irreplaceable photos and home videos of my children since their birth,"
Seems reason enough not to trust that data to third parties... Unless one uses them as an additional backup to whatever backup regime one currently uses.
I back up my most important data to several devices in two different physical locations. None of them are cloud storage.
testing their code so that Safari users get the same experience as Firefox users, IE users, Chrome users, Opera users.
I have 5 browsers installed on this box. I only browse the Internet with Firefox, the other 4 only ever run code from my dev server or local files.
Now if all browsers were standards compliant and all supported the same feature set, I would only need one.
Awesome. 2+ years I have been using them. Not one single issue, problem or down time that I have noticed. No caps and no throttling( that I am aware of). 24Mbs service I get 14Mbs but that's down to the poor copper between me and the exchange. I only use BE for broadband I cannot comment on any other service they offer. It isn't as cheap as some but I work from home and 24x7x365 always on is a requirement as I run Internet facing servers from home.
This is just a one off. It won't happen again. All the employees of cloud service providers are highly trained and competent personnel. No corners will be cut when a cloud provider attempts to be competitive and undercut its rivals. Not one single cloud service provider employee will ever make a mistake, nor will they ever be open to bribery or blackmail. Your data is safe with a cloud service provider.
I don't ever expect to to read another news story regarding the leaking of data from a cloud service provider.
</sarcasm>
"RIM will develop, test, and release a software update that is designed to minimize the potential adverse impact to our customers"
Corrected for truth:
RIM will develop, test, and release a software update that is designed to minimize the potential loss of revenue from our customers.
Unless he posted his address on Facebook it likely had very little to do with it, if indeed anything at all. His keys were stolen by his class mate because he bragged about his wealth. If he had just posted images of his goodies to Facebook and kept his mouth shut would the robbery have still occurred? I can't help thinking it wouldn't.
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