Posts by Barry

What about bags of flour?

Do you think that if they knew how explosive flour is (when mixed with air) they'd require some kind of explosives licence for purchase?

Careful now! Down with this sort of thing.

Only Jeebus can save us now.

Or, possibly Father Jack Hackett.

Paris, 'cause she's called out His name plenty of times of an evening, and probably thinks that the smock+sandle look is 'hot'.

But, the privacy!!?!?!

You didn't blur the number plate / drivers face?!? Ban this sick filth. Think of the children. And some other Daily Mailesque stuff.

Finally, a used for chav'd-up cars

Get the risky MRSA'd patients out of the hospitals and leave them in the nearest Halfords carpark. With all blue washer-jet lights, and the like, they'll be cured in minutes.

*Everything I Own

#You sheltered me from harm, kept me warm, kept me warm

You gave my life to me, set me free, set me free

The finest years I ever knew, were all the years I had with you

I would give *anything I own, give up my life, my heart, my home

I would give *anything I own, just to have you back again#

For the purpose of the Jury, *'anything' (everything) means 'excluding photos on my laptop'.

Don't discount passive noise-cancelling

Ok, so these are two pretty smart active noise-cancelling headphones. But, don't discount the abilities of the passive noise-cancelling ones.

I can personally vouch for the Etymotic ER4p's. Ok, so they are inner-ear type, and you have to use the little foam earpiece to get the most noise cancelling effect. But, with them in place, and your music turned *off* you can barely hear a sound. It's like wearing earplugs. Of course, this means that your personal choice of music is almost entirely isolated from the external noises. And, because of their passive nature, no batteries are needed.

Peaches = (female) Nathan Barley

Someone get her a job at trashbat.co.ck

Bad? It's unusable (for me+Ubunutu+Firefox)

If you try to use hotmail.com and your O/S of choice is Ubuntu, and your browser of choice is Firefox, then hotmail is entirely broken!!

You can browse/read your email. But, you cannot 'click' in the message area for newmails.

Apparently, if you 'fake' your useragent as IE it works fine. Go figure.

They tell you, 'Change your regon to "US"'

Trouble is, it's not that easy.

The moment you do that, the profile page tells you your address/postcode is no longer valid. And then there's the phone number.

My profile is linked to my 360/Live account, I can't just muck around with my settings/region and fake my address just to test some beta software!!

WinXP 901 @ ebuyer now

Ebuyer.com have 2 Atom-based "EEE"'s.

9in 20GB SSD with WinXP

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146033

10in 80GB HD with WinXP

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146026

atom-based EEE's now on sale

See: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146026

96 in stock (as I write).

It's the WinXP, 80GB HDD model. Not the 20GB SSD Linux one I'm waiting for.

But, all the same, it's Atom-based.

And I thought that video games were the greater danger...

... and it turns out that nuclear weapons are actually more dangerous. Who'd have thought it?

Paris: because a nuclear blast is 'hot'.

Get another 3% off of £275

See: http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/195257/sony-alpha-a200-digital-slr-camera-/

You can get another 3% off (about £8) if you use Quidco.

I reckon...

She looks like she'd make particularly good usage of the extra 1.9 inches.

Will I still use my beige systems?

I've heard that once you have black, you never go back.

This is of concern to me, as I still have some beige systems.

Paris, because she'll have anything, as long as it's 'hot'.

Apologies in advance...

Phishing - it's not exactly rocket science, is it?

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Whilst on holiday in Canada (not quite N.America, but, close enough) I died a little inside at every ad-break. And, they were frequent, & sudden.

I'm removing her...

from my "I would" list.

Presumably....

... if I'm caught with a battery, that is only just under the limits, I'll be allowed on the plane just as long as I <here it comes> don't start anything?

@SmokeyMcPotHead

Oh, I'm with you on that!! I've never dream of buying anything from Game. Far too uncompetitive.

But, for every one of us shrewd 'net bargain hunters, there's 10 (or more) suckers prepared to pay high-street retail prices (which are generally full RRP).

Even if the next 5yrs brings a growth of game downloads/streaming/etc (via the 'net), this will be the exception, and not the norm. eg. with Blu-Ray content being 10-50GB (in theory), I don't want to be downloading 50GB!!

So, there's definately some money to still me made in this area (high-street sales).

There's a flying in....

... Wargames!!

Where they go to the island to find the Doc responsible for building WOMPR.

Forget the price/spec of it...

If it's not being marketed with images of some hot, young, blonde totty using said product on a towel, on the beach - then it can't be very good.

Poor network design/management?

Wasn't the initial (military) idea behind network design/protocols/routing that the network (as a whole) would survive in the event of direct nuclear attacks on a routing node? I seem to remember DARPA being involved at some point. Someone remind me.

So, given there hasn't been a catastrophic nuclear attack on the VM network, is it safe to assume that it doesn't handle routing failure well?

Don't get me started on Virgin Media.

Worse thing I ever did was sign up with ADSL from Virgin Media.

Best thing I ever did was pay the £50 "exit fee" to leave and find a decent ISP.

ADSLosers

Yet again, VM prove they are all about *cable* broadband users.

What about us poor sods on their shockingly bad ADSL service?

What of the recent traffic prioritisation work (about 2 weeks ago) that meant all streaming/video/VoIP/gaming data was treated as P2P, and throttled right back - which, due to the time-sensitive nature of gaming packets, meant that gaming was broken? And, when it wasn't broken, latency was 220-280ms!?!?

Just have a look at:

http://bazza.dyndns.org/rrdstats/baz14all.cgi?p=1y

And you'll see the poor latency for yourself.

Actually, see if you can guess the month when I moved onto their ADSL service?!

But, what do I care? Branson can stick his ADSL broadband service up his jacksy. I'm off to Be. Should be activated tomorrow.

I hope Beardy-Branson takes the £50 "exit fee" I'm having to pay, and puts it towards more infrastructure. Because, they sorely need the investment.

Online gaming b0rked since *last* Friday (for ADSL customers)

When is anyone going to post a story about the traffic management changes they made to their (terrible) ADSL network last Friday, that has broken online gaming/VoIP/etc ever since?

Not like it was good prior to then. I mean, tell me a gamer that wants latency of 280ms to UK servers.

Checkout my 24/7 monitoring if you don't believe me:

http://bazza.dyndns.org/rrdstats/baz14all.cgi?p=1d

Try clicking on 'Year' and see if you can guess when I joined their service?

More on the traffic management:

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=virgin_adsl&Number=3198432&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=7#Post3198432

Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Was it his strategy to change the traffic shaping last week (Thu night/Fri morn) so that it broke all online game (eg. 360/PS3) and VoIP?

In which case, would he mind un-doing it, before he leaves. He's FUBAR'd it.

Just read the complaints at:

http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=virgin_adsl&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=7

Something wrong with her hand?

Well, I've got 2 here.

And, would gladly give her one.

Putting coat on now, and leaving with my eee PC in the pocket of it.

Milk a rat?

You're going to need very small hands indeed, to milk a rat.

Trialling 50Mbit?!

They want to start off simple - start trialling 1Mbit (at peak) with latency below 200ms!!

Virgin Media ADSL is the work of the devil

If you want 5-20% packet loss, and pings (to UK servers) around the 280ms mark, evenings & weekends, then Virgin Media's ADSL offering is the product for you.

Checkout my 24/7 latency/loss monitoring, and see if you can guess the month I moved to their ADSL?

http://bazza.dyndns.org/rrdstats/ping-year.cgi

*broad*band my arse.

Grrrrrr!!