Posts by zebthecat

Re: Want

Yep, me too

Well done...

...that is the most idiotic comment I have read for a while. It is satirical I hope.

Re: Long-lived VMSclusters?

There, indeed, are - I worked for one.

I am pretty sure their two main cluster incarnations have been since 1990 (I recall rewriting some ancient C++ code that run there where the previous edit had been done in 1992 and this was five years ago).

They also did a full data centre move, mainframes and all, in a weekend which was pretty bloody impressive.

OpenVMS really is spectacularly resilient, the only downside (apart from debugging which was hideously slow) was the boxes puny network cards.

Re: Drop Java

No wonder you posted as AC.

Ignorance is bliss and you are very blissed out.

Re: Universities can't do training, they just do "Education"

I am old enough to remember the days when most employers recruited bright kids and then trained them. If a company is short sighted enough not to even consider this approach when the job market is competitive then tough titty.

Re: That's the problem with politicians....

I am with you on that, the BBC is too important to leave to (quoting Robin Day) "here today, gone tomorrow" politicians.

The charter renewal should be the responsibility of a non partisan body and this should lead it to be less open to party political abuse.

Also the license fee is becoming increasingly anachronistic (even if it is a simple and cheap way of collecting revenue). I think it should paid from general taxation BUT there should be legislation to protect it from the grasp of the Treasury.

The idea that it should not attempt mass appeal TV is ludicrous and a pretty transparent ruse to make the BBC a lesser broadcaster therefore easier to take to pieces politically (having said that - The Voice is still shite).

Re: I, for one, welcome our slimy alien overlords...

Blimey! It's The Blob!

Have to agree with anon

There is now way that this HP will have enough grunt to play Minecraft acceptably and certainly won't be up for video editing.

Re: self-indulgent onanism

Furious

Re: We should pay for TV we dont want

Er, this is kind of how public service and taxation works (for tax is what the license fee is).

See also:

Roads

Railways

The NHS

Schools

etc etc.

While they are about it...

...why not ditch their stupid BIOS whitelist policy as well.

My son's Lenovo laptop WiFi card went titsup and Lenovo support were unable to tell me which WiFi cards the laptop BIOS would accept.

Useless

Re: They took over my broadband provider

Were you were another ex ADSL24 custiomer?

Had exaclty the same thing with Coms (along with 2 long complete outages) and moved on once BT got round to putting a fibre cabinet in at the end of my road - not at all surprised Coms are in trouble.

Re: Indeed

Sadly it does have facebook and twitter natively - your search continues...

Re: Cheap BDs from Asda

Ein

Zwei

DIE!

Re: Pointless and dangerous fads

Had this last year when they tried to convince me that they had to install a smart meter for safety reasons. I said fine but can i have a dumb meter instead if safety was their concern. They said of course and, 18 month on, have heard nothing more from them on the subject.

I just cannot fathom how fitting a smart meter will magically reduce bills by 2% (unless they fit external insulation for free as part of the service).

Re: How Widespread?

It happens quite a lot to me (use it for javascript debugging and css work) and have learnt to live with it as the dev tools are good. Two things are really irritating though.

1. It appears to be impossible to clear the file cache - clearing the cache manually rarely works entirely and the options to stop caching while the dev tools are open is flaky too. Incognito also caches files. This is bloody annoying if you are debugging js includes and Chrome is keeping hold of stale files.

2. Whoever thought "Aw Snap!" was amusing needs a knee in the nads.

Re: BlackBerry Passport - Black (UK) Out Of Stock

Blimey! That didn't take long.

Best guess is that the bondholders will get whatever PWC manage to extract from the remnants of the business post redundancy payments before the other creditors.

However...

...If you wish to while away your commute with Flappy Bird you still can,

Rubbish

EE and Vodafone need no outside help when it comes to brand reputation and Phones4u were certainly no worse.

That phones4u did do, however, was offer a variety of handsets that the networks sometimes didn't carry themselves and (from my experience) undercut the carriers using a like for like comparison thus breaking the carrier cartel.

Consumers will be poorer as this is another supply route cut off.

Agree absolutely with all that.

I swapped from to a Q10 from the HTC One and the BB10 Hub pisses all over the (non-existent) Android messaging alert "system".

Reputation is a beautiful thing

That was Starbucks best wheeze.

When buying all their UK coffee beans from that famous coffee growing country Switzerland wasn't enough the UK arm gets charged a whopping sum for using the Starbucks name. Hey Presto! Profit turns to loss.

Quite how that got past the transfer pricing rules is a mite baffling.

Re: 300k laptops sold in UK first quarter?

>Wonder why I'm only seeing people with tablets and phones?

Depends where you look really, nobody in my office uses a tablet or mobile for any work stuff (apart from the test team).

Re: Twaddle

Azure you say?

Of course that has never had an outage whatsoever...

Re: Daily Mail?

Fuck off!

I know, not very clever but it is our personal data NOT yours.

Re: Not just women.

Sanctimonious rubbish there Gaz. Do not confuse freedom of speech with freedom to spout blatantly sexist threats. We have laws against this sort of stuff for a reason.

Re: Hardly a shock.

Totally agree - The hard keyboard is Blackberry's USP. If BB10 is any good and the Q10 has decent real world battery life I'm having one. The Z10 really doesn't stand a chance as the johnny come lately of touch slab phones.