Posts by Rhyd

Re: Calling Mythbusters![*]

They tested it on Mythbusters Jr. when recreating the Breaking Bad electromagnet scene. It took a fairly strong electromagnet to do anything.

Re: Font recommendations

Out of interest, why wouldn't it make sense?

Re: hang on

It certainly doesn't sound complicated, but I don't think Chrome has ever labelled the address bar. I find that people completely ignore the address bar and, having finally managed to open Chrome, type the internal hostname into the search box on the start page.

If they get completely stuck, I'll offer to help with Quick Assist. Generally that goes along the lines of:

"Click the start button"

"What's that?"

"The Windows icon at the bottom left"

"Where?"

"The button at very bottom left of the screen, it used to say Start, but now it's just a Windows logo"

"Ok, it says Apps and Features, Power Options..."

"No, left click"

"On what?"

"The start button"

"I can't see it, that list is in the way"

"Just click anywhere to close the menu"

"OK, it's opened Device Manager"

"OK, now left click on the start button and type Q"

"Where do I type it?"

"Nowhere, just press Q on the keyboard after you've left clicked on the start button"

"Oh, yes I see"

"Now click Quick Assist"

"Now it says Run as administator, Open file location...."

Every time, guaranteed.

Re: Any blame on Hertz for not actually being in charge?

Umm, yes we do.

Re: "secure" boot is *EVIL* 4 Chronos

Click product, scroll a bit, click Buy button, see price.

Re: until you get a colourblind appy

I had that on an openSUSE installation, 10 I think.

I also considered the lazy / efficient option...

...until I came across "burglarized".

as opposed to USB stick, SD card, USB cable...

Obviously it sank because he opened a hatch; that was his biggest mistake.

Re: Obvious and stupid mistake

The size is quoted elsewhere as 17 metres / 56 feet. 5 is above 2 on a the numeric keypad - this is commonly called a typo, an honest and simple mistake.

I don't know how big a meter you're using, but as the sub is 17 metres long I'm assuming your meter is about 2/3 of a metre, or 2.15 feet long.

Incidentally, Wikipedia states 17.76 m (58 ft 3 in).

Re: The same everywhere...?

Umm, that's called responsive web design and is being used all over the place so that websites are usable on mobiles and tablets. The "looks the same everywhere" thing is becoming less relevant.

Re: Cookies

"Google Analytics ... is also an abuse of privacy."

Please elaborate.

Re: 8.5kW and 0-60 in 10 seconds?

Acceleration requires capacitor charge generated by braking from a speed achieved by accelerating.

I hope the capacitors don't discharge overnight.

Indeed, I had to look up ELK to find out why I'd want to spend 30 minutes installing it.

Until recently I always had 60 tabs open, arranged into groups for daily reports, analytics + search console etc., payment systems, reviews, AWS consoles + reference guides, web interfaces for internal appliances, non-work stuff, and one for live projects (responsive web design at the time). I also have 6 pinned tabs for internal systems and customer facing websites I maintain, as well as database admin and a project management tool.

Unfortunately, the tab group implementation is crap so I got fed up and closed all the tabs. I haven't decided whether I'm more or less productive since!

Re: Ditching XBL/XUL would mean Mozilla shooting itself in the foot

There.is.only.xul

Re: It's all very well churning out new stuff...

The entire Xperia Z range is being updated to Lollipop, no news on the SP though.

http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2014/10/16/were-bringing-android-5-0-lollipop-to-the-entire-xperia-z-series/

Re: Seriously?

20% of all users is not the same as 20% of users that have an update available.

Apples and pears!

Re: Image

Indeed, there's something phishy with that image. It seems to be doing the opposite of what the article states.

Fail indeed

I know someone who had 3 fail in a week - first with poor call quality and volume buttons not working, then the replacement wouldn't charge and the third one wouldn't even turn on.

As for selling well into the enterprise market, I doubt it as there's still no VPN (not that Android fares much better on the VPN front).

Bulk email != spam

We send out a monthly email newsletter with special offers and new ranges etc. I wouldn't call that spam, and neither do the 40,000 customers that receive it (we have a simple opt out procedure in place for those that aren't interested).

It's not about spamming potential customers, and if you're not keeping in touch with your existing customers in this way then you're missing a trick!

FTA:

"Blatter, well known as the president of Fifa"

It's good...

...but not as good as Wright Hassall

Perhaps...

p000?