Posts by Les Matthew

@Quinnum

"You really think Flash supported every two-bit browser and platform out of the box when it first came out?"

Windows and IE? ;)

Re: Shoddy Research..

"Rock Star" crack comes in rocks. Get it?

Re: The mind boggles...

Wasn't the land of the free in the front of the queue in giving it an AO rating, which is as good as a ban?

Has everyone everywhere been able to play it apart from us Brits?

@Ralph B

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badly+packed+kebab

;)

The naked truth

Wasn't the Wispa just a Flake with its clothes on?

Re: My bits are sagging

You need a body that actually has some flesh on it to get saggy bits.

Re: True, so true...

Who wants Emma Peel when you can have Pussy Galore?

Re: Damn and blast!

Don't worry you didn't miss anything.

Piss poor camera work.

Piss poor acting.

And it wasn't even funny.

like 904

is going to show valid results for a population of around 60 million.

Re: Guilty from birth

Scotland has a completely separate legal system from that of England and Wales.

That might have something to do with it.

Just all you Second Lifers wait

for the Jehovah's Witnesses to appear and start knocking on your virtual doors.

Where would we be

without Lesters Friday pr0nucopia column? ;)

I never entered mine, but it would have been Fiver Cockels.

Re: theres a surprise

That was a bit of a rimshot.

I'll get my coat too.

An unrelated cat story

I got up one morning and into the bathroom for the brushing of teeth and a quick wash before getting off out to work.

So there I was in the altogether having a wash with my dear old moggy weaving in and around my legs purring away. Woops, the soaps slips out of my hands and falls onto the floor. So I squat down to pick it up and suddenly the little sod takes a swipe at my dangly bits with claws extended. The shock makes me jump up in shock and I smack my head on the underside of the washand basin on the way up.

Talk about a double whammy. ;)

Re: EU troops in Afghanistan

I guess that's why the British military is pissed about other EU nations troops staying in their bases?

To all the Linux nay sayers

What if the BBC suddenly said that you could only watch terrestrial TV on Sony television sets. Would you be happy with that?

And no, I'm not a Linux zealot or user. Yet.

This was on Radio 4 news this morning

With an American Expert saying (roughly) It started with open source and that open source has NO copyright.

That's not correct, is it?

I just love the experts that get rolled out. ;)

18 people and that ammount of booze

makes me wonder how much Bolivian marching powder was also involved? ;)

Re: Once again.....

Well don't read the articles that are under "Odds & Sods/Entertainment" ;)

I've always thought

that racism is a bogus term.

We are "all" members of the human race are we not?

From its shape

It looks kind of dual purpose to me. ;)

How am I supposed to choose

between "Fluffy Bristol" and "Muffy Mount"? ;)

Instead of The Gimp

for home users I would recommend paint.net

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html

I think they would be more at home with its UI.

Not work safe: German lad in a tizzy with his PC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA

Ex Plumber?

Does that mean that his price of $46 is hugely inflated or shock horror actually a rip off. ;)

Just to let you know, my daughters current boyfriend is a plumber and from what I've heard from him rip off is the standard.

He left his last job because his boss was trying to get him to over charge customers, which he did not want to do.

Re: the real news

legless = seriously drunk. ;)

The expression

Hoist by your own petard.

Springs to mind. ;)

No

Wizards hat and robe for them then. ;)

Are these people

for real? ;)

Now that

is what I call value for money.

Yes, that is sarcasm.

Considering the success of government IT projects.

Never mind BAAPS

What the hell is a 'Gummy Bear'?

Off to googly now,

Re: What really annoys me...

I thought that OS X is basically a modified version of BSD? If so I assume a lot of it was already designed and written by other people.

Though I may be wrong. ;)

Re: Really - £400,000?

I really am in the wrong line of work.

For all you English Xenophobes with Nuclear Power

Do a google for "scotland+hydro-electric"

I'm off to check the half-life of H2O. ;)

RE: (w)here is it

Click on the Green LiveLink insert.

Pot meet kettle

This from the linked pic article made me chuckle.

"A note from the HP Corporate Archives:

...

and HP urges you to respect the privacy of our neighbors."

the word "pretext" springs to mind.

RE: RE: This method of spreading isn't new...

I don't remember DOS having a auto-run feature in the eighties. ;)

Remember The Crystals song

Da don't run RON RON, da don't run RON ;)

Seriously though, has there ever been a government IT project that has worked and come in on or under budget?

Hippies?

Glastonbury festival has not been full of hippies for about two decades. At least when I was working there in 1989 it wasn't all hippies. (I was a tech with the company that supplied the P.A. system)

Isn't there another group that

"need to control their computers with one hand." ;)

Great effort

from all the Vultures. ;)

I'm on the folding@home now.

Nice to see

that a 6800GTS graphics card does so well in the benckmarks.

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