* Posts by Tom 38

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Japan tells operators: Put a SIM lock in a new mobe? You'd better unlock it for free

Tom 38
Headmaster

Re: "...hard to wean off of it." Seriously? "off of"?

Yes, seriously.

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WTF?

Re: Same here

Be prepared to pay likely $700+ in Early Termination Fees if you try that move. Even if you try to weasel out with an early-out clause, all of them stipulate you turn in the phone as a condition of using that early-out clause. Even T-Mobile isn't stupid. If you cancel one of their un-plans, they bill you for the balance of the phone you were paying in installments.

Gee, thanks for clarifying that! I thought, like everyone else, that if you cancelled your subsidized phone contract that you just got to fuck over the phone company. Who would have thought that they could use legal means to try and get you to pay for the goods you have received.

Pixel mania: Apple 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display

Tom 38

Re: Maximum viewing distances

Funnily enough, a computer is not a home theatre.. with a "theatre" system, you need to sit far enough away to not see the pixels, with a computer seeing the individual pixels is often the point...

Tom 38

One question and a comment

First up, the Q: the reviewer here had his display set to "scaling", so that his 5k screen appears the same resolution as his current 2560x1440 screen. He then says that the advantage of a 5k screen is that your 4k content can be displayed pixel for pixel. If you are scaling the screen, doesn't that mean that your 4k content is scaled down and then up again?

Secondly, the comment: the only reason why this is "value for money" is that 5k screens only exist for Apple. 4k screens on the other hand are fairly common, and you can choose whether you can accept TN (<£500) or must have IPS (<£1000). On that basis, a 5k screen isn't that value for money - for me, I'd rather have a 4k screen for content, a second 1080p screen for controls, and an extra £1000 in my pocket.

Netflix and other OTT giants use 'net neutrality' rules to clobber EU rivals

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Re: There are many myths.

If your ISP doesn't peer with Level3, they have to pay Level3 for transit to get to Netflix or Amazon.

I pay my ISP to make peering arrangements so that I can access the internet. This is the purpose and reason for being for an ISP, I do not need them for anything else. If the ISP chooses to not make peering arrangements with the main internet peers to save costs, that is their problem.

I don't want my ISP to charge the sites that I want to visit for me to visit them because that is what I am paying the ISP to provide to me - access to those sites. If they can't provide that without charging the other site, what am I paying the ISP for?

Tom 38

Cable giant Netflix This is some new definition of "cable giant" you have come up with? The first "cable giant" that runs no cables.

Norway’s biggest ISP, Telenor, was keen to improve the quality of its OTT video service, and offered a commercial rates direct connection…

“Telenor said ‘send it direct to us and customers will get a better experience’, but the US company said it preferred direct connection,”

Wow that's jolly nice of Telenor, offering to take all of Netflix's content and stick it into Telenor's OTT service. What possibly could be Netflix's issue with their content being sucked up by whatever system has been chucked together by Telenor.

Now it should be remembered that "sender pays" is a founding principle of internet video — video providers can’t use reciprocal free peering swaps to deliver low latency, high bandwidth traffic.

So I pay my ISP and my supplier pays my ISP? Good times to be an ISP.

Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

Tom 38

All this talk of faulty Russian engines is just a cover up I reckon. Much more likely one of Mr Musk's henchmen with an RPG.

Forget WHITE BOX, it's time for JUNK BOX NETWORKING

Tom 38

My media server is largely ebay sourced, at least for all the interesting bits. The "server" itself was not, its a stock i5 that I bought from components.

For the drive enclosures, I found an ebay store selling Rackable SE 3016, which is a 3U half-depth enclosure with 16 hot swap SAS/SATA drive bays, a SAS 1 expander, a PSU and a SFF-8088 cable for $100 each (+insane shipping - I bought two, total cost was ~£500).

To hook this up to the server, I got a Dell branded "SAS 6GB 8e" controller, with two external SFF-8088 ports, again from ebay, £70 (free shipping!). The trick with this one is knowing that this is in fact an LSI SAS 2008 card, after some fiddling with flashing various BIOSes I soon had it behaving as an LSI-9211-8e in IT (infrastructure) node - meaning each drive connected appears as a drive to the OS, no RAID.

To house the enclosures, I use an IKEA LACK side table, which is exactly 19" wide, and has ~6.25U of storage. The servers sits on top of the side table, the enclosures inside it. I took the backs off the enclosures, and replaced the noisy data centre PSUs with consumer silent ones, and then put a fake back on the LACK table, with cutouts for the PSUs, and 2 huge 200mm extractor fans. This makes the entire thing silent, whilst still pulling through the same CFM that the original (Delta) fans did, but without the 80db whine.

I run FreeBSD on the server, using ZFS to manage storage. The current configuration is 8 x 3 TB + 8 x 1.5 TB, for about 31 TB of usable storage. Sequential read speed from the array is around 800MB/s, most writes are async, and there is an SSD for an adaptive read cache.

IT JOB OUTSOURCING: Will it ever END?

Tom 38

Re: Perhaps sooner for IT.

Those same companies who have outsourced to cheaper locations are now the ones bleating about a skills shortage in the UK

There is not a skills shortage in IT - this is the biggest load of bollocks ever sent up the flagpole. That article asked a bunch of C-levels whether they had problems attracting and retaining staff of sufficient skills, and they all said they did.

This does not mean there is a "skills shortage". They can't attract people of the requisite skill because they don't pay enough, and whenever they hire someone incompetent and make them competent, they aren't paying enough for that competency and so the employee goes somewhere else where they are valued.

There is no problem with finding people with the right skills, you just have to pay them appropriately.

Tim Cook: The classic iPod HAD TO DIE, and this is WHY

Tom 38

Re: Thanks Apple...

The cloud, use local storage as a MFU cache.

Fanboi-and-fanfare-free fondleslabs fail to fire imagination

Tom 38

Its a tablet

in various different shapes and sizes. What were you expecting it to do?

Google opens Inbox – email for people too thick to handle email

Tom 38

Re: Bloody hell!

In order to go back to using pine, I'd have had to have stopped using at some point..

Tom 38

Er, the industry don't need pushing, we've already standardized:

https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

It's not an "official" standard, just what works in what clients, and is plenty sufficient to develop HTML emails. The problem comes when someone tests their emails in web browsers and get surprised when things like <style> tags don't work; check the chart before you start designing.

Boffins who stare at goats: I do believe they’re shrinking

Tom 38

Re: survive harsh winters & global warming?

Chamois live in the high alps in summer, normally above 1500m, and descend to lower wooded slopes (800m-100m) during the winter. If the winter is too fierce, then it is too cold even in the woods, and they either starve or are forced even lower in to the valleys.

I don't know about this climate angle; I would have thought that the systematic encroachment of man in to the Alps year round in the past 30 years is probably more to blame. Chamois are extremely easily disturbed by people, they don't like it when you get within a couple of kms.

Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit

Tom 38

It is effectively bricked, for the average person's level of skill.

If the "average user" used serial ports then you would still find them on the backs of computers. The average user has no use for a serial port, so if this bricks someone's USB-serial adapter, they aren't an average user.

Tom 38

Re: The elephant in the room is...

Do you really think that Microsoft keeps a stash of knock-off parts just on the off-chance that a driver causes it to fail in some way?

Not just. They keep stacks and stacks of hardware that they verify all windows updates (and subsequently user software) on for all sorts of reasons. Microsoft's dedication to keeping their software running on a wide variety of machines and OS is legendary, even to an OSS fanboy like me. Did you think "WHQL" was some badge they just stick on after looking at the code?

WAITER! There's a Flappy Bird in my Lollipop!

Tom 38

Re: So it scrolls from right-to-left ...

Candy Crush clones? The clone is now the original because they sue anyone who uses "Candy" or "Saga" in their title, but they are just another bejewelled clone.

HBO shocks US pay TV world: We're down with OTT. Netflix says, 'Gee'

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Re: I can handle a couple more subscriptions @Tom 38

Something strikes me as illogical. In your own words, the cost of provisioning the line is the same, so what does it matter if the user does voice or voice + data, or data only? It should cost the same.

A voice line has the potential for extra revenue (voice calls). A data line has no potential for extra revenue, because the data portion is rented by BT to your ISP, they can make no money from it.

I think what you want to say is that voice subsidizes data by sharing a part of the line cost. In that case, a fair pricing structure would show copper maintenance as a line item, and voice and data as add-ons, as they are.

That is exactly what is happening. Made up numbers - a line costs £15/month. If you take data, BT make no revenue from you and do not subsidize the line. If you take voice, BT do make revenue from you, and subsidize the line by £3 a month.

Data line: £15 + £0 = £15

Voice line: £15 + -£3 = £12

This is hardly rocket science.

Tom 38

Re: I can handle a couple more subscriptions.

like having to still pay for a 'voice line' and calls for ADSL when I don't use the voice/calls part.

I just need a data only line!

You can get a data only line if you ask your ISP to ask BT very nicely. It costs a few quid more than having a voice line.

The cost of providing and maintaining a copper phone line does not change because you are not using it for voice does not lower the cost of provisioning and maintaining the line. Therefore, a data only line must cost at least as much as a voice+data line.

A phone line used only as a data line will never provide any revenue from calls. Revenue from calls offsets the provisioning and maintenance costs - if you receive £2-3 extra per month per line, part of that pays for maintenance. Therefore, a data only line must cost more than a voice+data line, because there is no on-going call revenue.

So, how much do you really really want that data only copper wire? Wouldn't you rather have a free phone service to go with it?

Routine WHAT NOW? Bank of England’s CHAPS payment system goes TITSUP

Tom 38

Apparently they added a new institution over the weekend, which is what caused this kerfuffle.

1/5 - it bust the bounds of a fixed sized array

2/1 - unicode decode error

7/1 - File Not Found

Don't mess with Texas ('cos it's getting Google Fiber and you're not)

Tom 38

Get an EdgeRouter-Lite, use your current router as a wifi AP.

My ISP supplied router "only" gets up to around 700Mbit/s up or down, with the EdgeRouter its more like 950Mbit.

Torvalds CONFESSES: 'I'm pretty good at alienating devs'

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Re: Development

Most old school hackers believe the internet should be a meritocracy, like it was in the 90s. In a meritocracy, you don't need to have respect for others, only respect for better ideas. In a meritocracy if your ideas and knowledge are rubbish, then I do not need to have respect for you.

These days we have to be "forward thinking" and "inclusive", and make sure that no-one feels that they cannot contribute because their feelings may get hurt. For instance, the Django project changed their documentation on database replication to remove the terms "master server" and "slave server".

Radiohead(ache): BBC wants dead duck tech in sexy new mobes

Tom 38

£15 might be the world on a stick to some people, I don't get what that has to do with mobile phone tariffs. This is about how can we have decent radio on modern mobiles, not how do we enable poor people to listen to the radio.

If you are spending less than 50p a day on your mobile, you have a really basic deal, probably PAYG, or an extremely limited contract. If you are on such a deal, why would you expect to be able to consume as much of a limited resource as you like? How would that be fair to other users of the resource?

Tom 38

Cost? I pay £15 a month for unlimited data, unlimited texts and 900 minutes of calls. Switch contract.

Don't wait for that big iPad, order a NEXUS 9 instead, industry little bird says

Tom 38

Re: Kitkats and Jelly Beans are not desserts

Desserts are anything that you eat after you've eaten your main meal, at the same table. If you eat liquorice after a meal, it's a dessert. "Dessert" is derived from the french meaning "clear the table" (or the opposite of "serve the table").

I'm hoping for Android Lardy Cake

Tom 38
Joke

Re: 64 bit ARM CPU in a tablet?

Welcome to 2013 Android owners.

Think it will be a damn sight more than 2,013 tbh.

Facebook, Apple: LADIES! Why not FREEZE your EGGS? It's on the company!

Tom 38

Re: As a parent I frankly disapprove

Freezing eggs for career (not medical, such as chemo) reasons means mother age 40+ and more likely 45+.

Conjecture? Many women in their 30s have difficulty conceiving, both my sisters waited until they were early 30s to try and have kids, then found out it wasn't that straight-forward and it took multiple miscarriages before I met my first nephew. If they had had eggs saved in their 20s, it would have been easier to conceive, and they would probably have had children earlier rather than later.

Tom 38

Re: @Robin Get the butter

Ace Rimmer is cool though... It would have worked better as a gag if you'd said it was his Gordon Brittas get-up.

Coughing for 4G, getting 2G... Networks' penny-pinching SECRETS REVEALED

Tom 38

Population density

The problem with stations - well, pretty much the whole of Central London tbh - is that there are just too many people with too many smartphones trying to do things all at the same time.

If you leave work at 5:30, you might get 5 bars of 3G/4G signal, but try and use it to stream music or video and it will be slow as hell.

Lies, damn pies and obesity statistics: We're NOT a nation of fatties

Tom 38

Re: Always more questions

which means it's OK as a 'rough and ready' calculation for large populations, but not OK if, for example, health insurance is using BMI as a parameter in calculating premiums.

Sorry, what? This is exactly what it is useful for. Take a large population, segment it by BMI. The health of people within each segment is pretty consistent, statistically, and so the cost of providing insurance to people in that segment is pretty consistent, and you can use it to set premiums. At no point has someone said "Oh that James, his BMI is high so lets jack his premiums".

I doubt any provider goes solely off BMI..

Tom 38
Headmaster

Re: @AC

I had understood that no food provides a net calorie burn.

Well, to be a pedant, if it provided no net calorie burn, a) we're unlikely to eat it and b) we're very unlikely to describe it as food. Eating grass has little to none nutritional benefit for us, since we lack the advanced stomachs to use it, and we wouldn't normally refer to "grass" as a food.

There is one vegetable that is known for being so chewy and fibrous that it takes a lot of calories to masticate it fully, and since it is so rough we are hardly able to break it down when raw - the humble celery. This is often cited as a negative calorie food, but whilst chewing a whole stick of celery will only give you maybe 10 calories, the energy expended chewing is only about a pitiful 2 calories.

I guess if you chewed for an hour or more..

Tom 38

Re: Moving the goals?

"This doesn't mean that BMI is not a useful macro measurement, but that it is not particularly useful for you."

So in fact, BMI is useless for any individual.

I think you must be being extraordinarily dense. The OP was commenting that, as a statistical outlier in terms of height, BMI did not make much sense for her. I agreed, and said that as an outlier, it did not.

You've extrapolated this to "it is useless for any individual". Well, no. Actually, a great great many people are not statistical outliers, and for those people, BMI is a tremendously useful indicator of health.

I'm shocked that I have to explain this to you, this is the basis of the South Park joke, "I'm not fat I'm big boned". Yes, for some people this measurement is not appropriate, but for the vast majority it is. The sheer number of people proclaiming that BMI is not applicable to them would lead me to think that either we have a strangely large population of extremely tall people, or that at least some of them are like Eric Cartman, and not "big boned" or extremely tall.

Tom 38

Re: And now my turn,

My tips are:

Eat less, move more.

Your diet is not the food you eat when you are trying to lose weight, it is the food you eat all the time. You will not lose weight by trying to briefly change your existing food, you need to permanently alter the food you consume.

Arrange your diet so you are hungry when you are at work and asleep - work keeps you distracted, use tea and fruit as a further distraction, eat early in the evening so that you are feeling a bit peckish when you go to bed. It's not that eating late at night is bad for you, it's that if you are going to be hungry for 8 hours, its best to do it when you are unconscious as you will probably eat less.

Your weight is on a cycle. Don't get down on yourself until you understand your weight cycle. Always weigh yourself at the same time of day. You can lose/gain 3-6lb solely by dehydrating/over-hydrating yourself - don't.

Don't be too anal about measuring things. It's good to know roughly how many calories you are shoving down the pie hole, you don't need to weigh your fruit + veg. I've lost over 100lb, I've never calculated my BMR, TDEE nor weighed my food nor tracked my exercise nor recorded my daily weights. I measure my weight once a day, and record it about once every 2-3 months, to check on overall rates - that's it.

Low fat, low sugar, reduced and balanced carbs, slightly reduced protein. Anything you eat, think "is there something I can eat that is tastier than this and better for me?" and have that instead. Use NLP to change your thinking so that it is tastier for you.

Make eating a ritual. Eating an apple? Cut it up into 32 equal sized slices first. It will last longer, you spend more time thinking "Mmm. apple.", and it is a more satisfactory experience.

Most importantly, there is a human endocrine signal that most people call hunger. This signal developed when we were hunter-gathererers, and it lets us know that "hey buddy! we're going to need some food down here sometime soon. You'd better go hunting and gathering PDQ". Thing is, we don't need that signal anymore, food is everywhere, and so we treat that signal as "hey buddy! go eat something!". Learn to tolerate this signal. When you get it, look over to the fridge full of food and say "job done, done my gathering". Don't eat something until you do get the "go eat something" signal, which is unmissable when it gets there, or it is time to eat something.

I think the last one is the most crucial part of any will power driven exercise - identify the feeling, learn to tolerate/love the feeling, and live with it.

Tom 38

Re: artificial sweeteners make you fat

Nah, eating lots of calories makes you fat. You are saying that consuming artificial sweeteners makes you prone to consume more calories overall, which may be true.

If you want to lose weight, then if you have to choose between a Coke and a Diet Coke, the Diet Coke is the better choice. If you are going to choose between a Coke, a Diet Coke and an Evian, the Evian is the better choice.

Tom 38

Re: A personal experience

I always thought that the BMI stuff was bollocks too, but I think it is largely right if you are of average size.

I wasn't just a little tubby, I was morbidly obese and unfit. I'm a smidgen under 6ft, and weighed over 20 st/285lb/130kg, a BMI of 37, and was massively fed up of it.

I quit smoking (ish), and cut my diet to around 1000 calories per day - 3 satsumas for breakfast, an Eat noodle salad and another satsuma for lunch, more satsumas in the afternoon, and an M&S "Fuller for Longer" ready meal with some extra veg, and lots of cups of tea during the day.

1000 calories a day is damn hard. At the start, I'd keep failing to keep to it, but eventually, your stomach shrinks, and you feel less hungry all the time as a result, and the number of days a week where you fail gets smaller and smaller.*

At the same time, I started doing more exercise. Not actual "put on special exercising clothes" exercise; I walked to the station after work as fast as possible without sweating too much for 20 minutes. If it starts taking less than 20 minutes to get to that station, go a different route.

This diet and moderate exercise has let me lose weight regularly at the rate of 2lb a week; I've been doing it just over a year now, and I've lost about 105 lb, or 7 stone. My waist has gone from 46" to 34" - I have had to buy new trousers and belts almost every other month...

This was about BMI, right? So, the interesting thing about losing so much weight is that I have passed through every BMI stage apart from "Underweight" in the last year. For me, they all seemed pretty on the ball. I was definitely still overweight when I was "Overweight (25-30)", and I still have some more to lose now. When I was 14 stone I was sure that another 7lb would do it, now I am 12st 10lb, and I still think another 7lb needs to come off. I'm not a beanstalk either, I have very broad chest and shoulders.

My BMI now is around 24.5, which puts me in the "Healthy" category, but I'm still dieting to remove the last of my visceral fat and doing some more intensive exercise (couch 2 5k) to try and tighten up my loose skin.

* I changed the diet after about 8 months, as I found a) I was getting slightly bored of satsumas, and b) there was not enough roughage in that diet (Pro tip: do not get dehydrated when eating a diet with poor roughage..). Changed breakfast to two weetabix, a banana and the smallest amount of milk possible to make it edible, and I now mix and match my fruits, satsumas, pears, apples, peaches, nectarines; whatever looks good at the corner store.

Tom 38

Re: Moving the goals?

Obese is defined (in these wailing articles) strictly by BMI.

BMI is not meant to be a personal indicator of health, it is meant to be a way of grouping huge numbers of people for statistically similar outcomes.

For you personally, BMI 30 is not really obese, but for all people with BMI 30, you are a statistical outlier. This doesn't mean that BMI is not a useful macro measurement, but that it is not particularly useful for you.

Apple's iPhone bonk to 'Pay' app launches on Monday

Tom 38
Headmaster

Re: Being British

Why doesn't usage #1 seem appropriate.

"I hit my phone without much force on to the Pay terminal" vs "I bonked my phone on to the Pay terminal"?

Seems less to do with being British and more to be spoiling for a pedant slap-off?

Brits: Google, can you scrape 60k pages from web, pleeease

Tom 38

Re: Other search engines?

We're debating the merits of the system and who should be responsible for the data in question. You appear to be suggesting that irrelevant data should be available on the web but not searchable. If it is irrelevant, ask to have it removed from the web and it will, you know, fall off the search database too.

Actually, I'm not suggesting anything, just explaining what the law says and why google have to take these things down.

I agree, if you want something gone, remove it from the web, don't remove it from the search index.

The law however says something different. Google operate a database of personal information - names - along with keywords which link to webpages, which we would normally call their search index.

The contents of that database of personal information that google maintain has to be relevant, and data subjects can make applications for irrelevant information to be removed from the database.

That is all. Well, that and that Putting. Things. In. Single. Word. Sentences. Doesn't. Make. It. True. Just. Because. You. Would. Like. It. To. Be.

Tom 38

Re: Other search engines?

>> If a search engine provides results pertaining to an individual, then they have some

>> responsibility to keep those results accurate and relevant

No. They. Don't

Is sticking your head in the ground and going "LALALALALALALA" working at all for you?

ECJ ruled that search engines, by associating peoples names and search terms with pages, were forming a database keyed by that users name. This is the basis of the "right to be forgotten", the entries in that database are said to not be relevant, and since Google operate that database, they are responsible for keeping the contents of that database relevant.

Dairy Queen cuts the waffle, says bank cards creamed in 395 eateries

Tom 38

Re: Time to reinvent the wheel...

But cash CAN be stolen...or counterfeited...

I'll never forget the time I got done over by counterfeiters, they took my wallet, made me sit there for 3 days while they traced the £20 note and made copies before giving it back to me and letting me go. Bloody counterfeiters.

Was Nokia's Elop history's worst CEO?

Tom 38

Re: Bet Who's Farm

Yes, unsurprisingly, people who both own and run their own business have more to lose than someone who simply runs someone else's business.

If Jane and John decide not to actually run their sandwich shop, and ask Bob to do it instead, paying him a wage and live off the profits he produces, then Bob is risking nothing and only Jane and John are risking their business. That's fine though because it is Jane and John's business how they run their business.

Tom 38

Re: Bet Who's Farm

C level "talent" is hired by the board in order to run the company. The board are given power to do this by the shareholders, who do in fact own the company - it's their farm.

So when Elop comes in and "bets the farm", you are complaining that it is not his farm to bet, how dare he. He is the chosen instrument of the owners, who have chosen to bet their farm via a proxy. If he screws it up, the people who chose him lose their money.

'MYSTERIOUS PYRAMID STRUCTURE' found on COMET beyond Mars: Landing planned

Tom 38

Re: Can someone tell me...

Many reasons. Colour requires 3 discrete channels/measurements per pixel, which reduces the resolution of your sensor compared to simply measuring amplitude as you need to pack 3 sensors per pixel instead of one. It also increases the bandwidth required to transmit the image, since you have to send three times as much data back to earth.

Secondly, it's quite dark in space, Rosetta does not carry a massive flash bulb array with which to illuminate 67P, and to get good colour reproduction in your sensors requires incident light of the right colours.

Finally, this instrument, OSIRIS, stands for Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System, so I suspect that the "image" we see is not purely an optical capture from the camera but a computer assisted rendering from several sensor sources, of which only the optical could possibly be in colour. The last one is wild speculation on my part, I don't know enough about OSIRIS.

No one wants iOS 8 because it's for NERDS - dev

Tom 38

Re: works fine for me

Funny that, works fine on the N-1, how about N-3?

CONSUMERISM IS PAST ITS SELL-BY DATE: Die now, pay later

Tom 38

Re: Sub-Components consumer ?? try a REAL parts jobber...

Capitalism acts to raise prices for *everything* as high as the market will bear.

You say this like it is a bad thing. The definition of "price" is whatever you can persuade someone else to pay for an item - if you can't persuade someone else to buy it, its not worth what you are selling it at. If you can, well done.

You say that this raises prices, but then with the caveat "as the market will bear". If you raise the price too high, your competitors can undercut you and people will not buy from you.

Tom 38
Headmaster

Re: Thats the point!

a good ol' 200 hundred quid bike

Crikey, £20,000 for a bike?

Linux systemd dev says open source is 'SICK', kernel community 'awful'

Tom 38

Re: Oh please...

Lennart, your programs may be useful, they tend to not follow UN*X philsophy. Buy The UNIX Programming Environment and Software Tools. Read them to the point you have almost memorized them. Then if you still want to do programming, do things that follow in that philosophy.

Lennart has read them.. and then heavily criticised them. His vision is the only way forward.

Fortunately, his vision precludes seeing BSD even exists, so you can still get a UNIX environment without any of Lennart or Kay's bullshit baked in.

It's not you, it's Three. Mobe network goes titsup across UK

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Joke

Re: 3.

Who isn't listening here? The helpdesk person asked Lord Lien 3 times whether they had rebooted their phone, and he just keeps blathering about going in to a different town? Fascinating, BUT HAVE YOU REBOOTED YOUR PHONE?

The first answer to all IT problems is always "Have you tried turning it off then on again?", anyone who comes to me with an IT problem who hasn't done that yet or won't answer whether they have done that...

Tom 38

OK, companies should provide the service you pay for, but "pathetic" for one single outage? If Three continually had spaffy connections maybe, but generally they are very good.

Raging on the internet because you briefly (evidently) have no internet? #notevensurprised

Dear Reg readers. I want Metro tiles to replace all icons in Windows. Is this a good idea?

Tom 38

Re: There are lies ...

Simply dividing apples by oranges like that is only going to

…give you the apple:orange ratio?