Posts by AndrueC

So the rumours say. On the other hand:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-18646660

and debunking some recent newspaper stories:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19755695

So as ever it depends who you ask but the extinction of Cod appears to have been exaggerated..at least recently.

Re: the sub headline?

There are already several providers selling broadband by satellite in the UK and have been for many years so you're wrong there as well.

Sky/News International have nothing to do with satellite broadband and probably never will. In fact over the next decade they might get out of satellite broadcasting completely as IPTV drops in price and increases in availability. There is just no reason to mention them in respect of an article about satellite broadband.

Sigh. Hit return too soon there. There should be a smiley after that comment.

Re: What's New?

They won't if it requires a signature ;)

Re: Is it me?

Yeah there's a 'scene' in that where Tim says he's been to NASA and they explained the shape of craters if I remember correctly. It's been years since I read it. There's also a scene where the sea wipes out London. Still - it is really an optimistic novel :)

Re: Actually

Damn, you beat me to it.

I use Acronis because it was the first one I tried and I know it works. I used it to transfer a Win7 installation from a 250GB HDD to a 64GB SD. I've also used it once since then to restore the machine after Windows Update shafted it(*)

But the UI is ugly and slow. Do too much with it (assuming you have the patience in the first place) and it usually crashes. The bootable recovery disk works - but for some reason is horribly slow on my server. It actually takes over half an hour to boot up, select the source and specify the target. The actual restoration only takes five minutes :-/

(*)A couple of years ago I used to laugh at people who disabled WU. I don't now :(

Re: Talking of Tax Rebates

Yeah, I've had something like that. I got a rebate of a couple of thousand. Then a new tax coding that included a correct for £35 underpaid :-/

Re: all the land is in use?

> BTW Thank you for demonstrating why spell checking without proof reading is a *bad* idea.

Meeeoooow!

Re: "Does the EPG have to stop?"

They'd struggle to use VM's given that as far as I know it isn't broadcast from satellites :)

But of course in principle someone else could create an EPG or perhaps they'd all move over to Freesat's. It's technically possible I imagine although would require new firmware on all Sky boxes. Contracts would have to be negotiated as well which would take time. It's safe to say that we don't need Sky to watch satellite TV but if it were suddenly to be switched off I reckon it'd be many months before the channels that are exclusive to it became available again. Now doubt VM would love that but it's rather a smack in the teeth for the other 50% of the country who can't get cable :-/

Well one way or the other something would go off in their hand :)

Re: This is not about the video.

Thank you, and yes although I agree it wasn't clear.

To put it another way: All sorts of things annoy me but I never let them drive me beyond foul language (and even then I'm mindful of the audience). Knowing what triggered this incident has value but there are so many potential triggers with these nutters(*) that you can't legislate against each one and I don't think we should have to curb ourselves just because they are daft. Life is full of irritations and triggers - a sane rational human ought to be able to shrug them off.

(*)By which I mean the small percentage of extremists, not Muslims in general.

Re: Ugh

The content of this article has not yet been approved by Apple therefore the faithful may struggle to correctly categorise it.

Neither. It's just an example of how silly government procurement tends to be. Looking for intelligence or planning in such matters is rarely useful.

Re: Seems they made a mistake....

> so they have done a smack up job on quality control again!!!

It's VS quality control is always patchy.

Re: Jai, I agree but with this qualification......

Swap, no. My colleague has nearly had to though because his Desire HD barely gets through the day on one charge. However I was glad I could upgrade to a 3aH batter on my Desire. It now lasts three, sometimes four days between charges.

Re: @Anonymous IV

Gods do you remember the old Creative Labs installers? Not just the drivers but also a dozen more discrete utilities and widgets half of which put an icon in the notification area as well.

Re: Why the hell

Everything in IT goes in circles.

Dumb terminals/mainframes - Centralised computing.

Clever terminals - Distributed computing.

The Cloud - Centralised computing.

Wait long enough and most things come back around again. Usually somewhat improved but there's little that's really new in IT. The trick to a successful career is to keep your eye on the trends and stay ahead of the game :)