Posts by Ol'Peculier

I can already access my cards with a long press of the power button, which also pulls up a menu to screenshot, emergency and power down or restart

Making your mind up

That's ironic, our local community radio station handed back their DAB licence and has just been given the necessary permissions to start broadcasting on FM

Oh for Bob's sake... I meant Oook, obviously!

Was anybody at the event at the British library yesterday? Fantastic way to spend an afternoon in the company who knew and worked with Douglas, finishing with a cast reading of the second radio episode by people who had starred on the radio, TV and stage shows. Jon Culshaw was even wearing the original dressing gown!

Not just phones, as people are noting. My S5e tablet got the notification, I wasn't aware it even had Find my Phone on it.

I can never hear or read "the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" without putting the long pause in between media & sport from W1A...

I simply don't see it happening. It's a sure way of loosing customers to a network that continues to allow it.

And EE, who I'm with, also include roaming in Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand so would be a bit bizarre if they decided to shutter it in the EU.

I saw him at the Cheltenham literature festival in 2014 on a panel talking about a new book about Douglas Adams and it was so sad to see him struggle. Such a sad loss.

I bet one of the countries he wouldn't mention is Azerbaijan, I went there for the race last year and EE was tempting me with 5MB of roaming data for £36.

Anyway, I love reading about the stuff that goes on behind the scenes in F1, so more of the same please! I do remember a few years ago Red Bull were advertising for an IT position, with the added bonus of moonlighting as the rear jack man as well.

My experience with Bluetooth headphones and video has so far been pretty poor, although that might be down to the processing grunt of my tablet, so to move away from wired headphones would be a very bad thing for me.

Can't see it working out, they'll only blow it.

I've been using Brave for a while, in this time I've apparently had over 330K ads and trackers blocked, 12K HTTPS upgrades and has saved me nealy 5 hours.

It's worth a look, although as the article states the script blocking can bork certain, but not many, sites.

Pizza

I was sat waiting for a train to leave Kings Cross when somebody got on with a whole pizza.

I think if he'd offered to sell slices to people that were drooling over the smell he'd have come out with a good profit.

All this reminds me of the trains in Sri Lanka, where hawkers got on at every stop and went round with strange foods. You were never sure what you were eating, but it did taste good!

We have a problem with fake sites scraping product content and images from our site and buying expired domains with a fairly recent page rank, so sites like bobsgardensersofsuffolk.co.uk suddenly starts selling clothing.

We get people that have bought our products from these sites and, obviously, they don't arrive so we get asked about them. When trying to talk to Action Fraud about the ability to take these sites down we were told to "contact an IT in order to try and get the site taken down". When we pushed they said "you will have to contact an Independent IT team to see if they can help you somewhere like PC World may be able to assist"

Absolute joke.

A few years ago, walking over a bridge in Central Hong Kong I saw a group of teens sat round a small table with a selection of different cubes (snake, pyramid etc.). They also had a timer similar to those used in chess. It was quite fun to see these guys frantically twisting the things around before hitting the timer.

They are probably trying to break into government buildings now, but hey, different times...

There's a shop on Scarborough seafront that is called seabay.com using the eBay font and colours. Amazed they have got away with it for so long...

I was taught COBOL at my local Technical College as part of my computer studies course. I've yet to write a single line.

On the other hand, I tried to persuade my Dad, who had spent his life mainly writing COBOL applications for am RAF base in the UK to come out of retirement for Y2K. Reckon he could have made a small fortune if he had...

I upgraded to Android 10 over the weekend, and was frankly astonished about the background permissions some apps had.

They don't now, anthology I feel I have more work to do.

And meanwhile the USA still haven't got contactless, let alone chip and pin

Obligatory quote...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Bing maps was good for the birds eye view, I don't know why it was removed from the UK but it was quite useful.

For visitors using Chrome on Android – the only mobile browser supporting this at the moment – to websites supported by Cloudflare,

Seems a lot of work for very little reward...

And about an hours drive south is Allendale, where you can visit the small and brilliant Sci Fi museum, complete with the controversial Dalek shed...

http://www.museumofclassicsci-fi.com/home/4589856996

I'm she that in the early 00s, El Reg team a series of stories about a press flight of the 777 that lost altitude she too the two fly by wire systems disagreeing with each other. Something about them both been developed by the same team, rather than two two separate units. Anybody remember this?

Knowing nothing about the subject, is there any reason why you can't put a box on top of a wind turbine? I see a few single fans in the Wolds presumably run by the local farmer, so could they be utilised?