Posts by BongoJoe

Re: To be fair, there's a naked selfie on mine, as of last week...

And you just know that there will be a magazine for that sort of thing

Re: "human editors barring valid contributions."

One thing that I have learnt is to never to offer any corrections nor additional facts to any of the following:

1. Western based theology

2. Any wars which the US may or may not have actually been involved in.

I don't think that I need to explain why.

Re: What a lot of rubbish.

This article reminds me of that (thankfully) short lived craze in the 70s when everyone and dog was encapulating stuff in clear resin.

Jewellry? Yes, have a sea horse in a block of stuff (with the obligatory fingerprint). Something to put on the mantlepiece? Yes, have a seahorse and a shell in a clear block with a bit of seaweed.

Car key organiser? Well, it's called a keyfob and, guess what? We can make you one with a sea horse set in an attractive clear block.

Looking for that diamond ring of your late mother? Well, look no further because little Johnny has encapsulated in clear resin along with a sea horse.

I am looking over my desk now to see what I have here that could be printed in white snot. Er, nothing. Could I use my car keys to be organised with white snotted plastic? Well, no, they are all kept on one keyring and they can't get more organised that that. No sorry, a great invention but not there yet.

Re: Haven't you watched

Beat me to it, damn 15 hour days. Would have said, "Avoid Midsomer, the murder rate is frightful."

However, I would prefer to live there than in Stephen King's Castle Rock where one has demons and portals to the nether dimensions opening every five minutes spilling out all sorts of undesirable nasties.

Re: Surely ISPs are all for this really.

I woner if I will be able to look at images of the Blind Faith album cover which, even in the 70s, I found rather creepy.

You might have a point with 'Overpriced music' and you certainly have a point with 'little of this going to the artists'. 'DRM' and '128 kbit/s mp3 downloads' reveals your pirate colours though. Seriously, when was the last time you even looked at the specs of a legit music download?

I agree. All the downloads that I purchase are .flac

Re: Why not protect their jobs?

Unfortunately none of the smart countries speak English as their first language.

Iawn. Croeso i Gymru

coat: because...

Re: Is Android - or any other mobile OS - a good DSLR OS?

I am mildly curious as it wasn't mentioned in the article; but does it shoot RAW or jpg files?

Either way, the answer makes the thing even more pointless.

Re: Microsoft FAIL

But surely you (and others) must realise that the longer you put off moving off your current platform, the more painful and expensive it will eventually be? If the business is so dependent on MS, you're in big trouble two years from now either way. If you are expecting MS to change direction, think again.

I can't agree more. But now being a one-man business and having to spend my time available away from administration, looking after customers, making feature updates leaves me with little or no time left.

Like all small businesses I can't afford to stand still. If my product didn't improve constantly then I would lose custom which means more and more coding on defunct platforms. It's not like I have a choice.

I have one client I do development work for now and then when they are stuck. They're larger than my one man band as they have about a dozen people in their office. One of their suppliers has a monopoly on an item that they sell. To get to order said item they have to use IE6 because of Active-X.

Now, because of years of buggerations by MS they are stuck at running IE6 and you can imagine the fun when a machine needs to be updated. And there's no point telling the supplier to change their ways; they won't so they're shafted by the ever changing direction of MS. So, it's not a case of them being unwillng to hire someone to any software changes; they are held hostage to their supplier who couldn't give too hoots as they have the monopoly (they're an overseas state run organisation, by the way).

The point is that even if I wanted to rewrite everything from MS code; be it VS6, .Net, VBA and ASP (which is all tied into one product line) into something which is going to be the equivilent in Linux land is has about 200,000 lines of code overall isn't going to be an easy task. And whilst I am supposed to be innovating at the same time? Impossible and perhaps it's time I just pulled the plug and took up llama farming.

Re: Typical, misguided Microsoft

I have a client who uses SBS and even they are on broadband the line speeds are so slow that's it quicker for one person to drive home to send largish eMails. My client is not quite in the middle of nowhere but right next to an exchange that BT has managed to butcher.

But they need to have Exchange running for one of their server applications. They can't afford to buy/rent/licence Exchange shoving it on the cloud is going to be a no-no for lots of reasons.

The SBS was a perfect package and, well, this simply astounds me.

Re: zone behind the border

Exactly. Which is why in America-land one has to go through Immigration even if one is now going outside the airport, ie jeting off elsewhere.

They don't have the concept of transit (which makes that film with Tom Hanks doubly unbelievable*) unlike most other countries because having 'transit' is admistratively easler that way.

*Getting off with KZJ is the first

Re: It's not what you see that counts

I'll stick to Van Dam cabling and Neutrix plugs . If it's good enough for Trevor Horn's studios then it's good enough for me.

Re: I call bullshit .

I would even consider joining FaceBork to read details of your expense claim of your night out at the local pole dancing club.

...on the other hand

it makes it all the easier for the snipers.

How many yoofs who nick cars to crash them to get a kick out of setting the air bags off (before burning the car) will be now more encouraged to do the same just to see pod, the ambulance and Fireman Sam all hove to so they can throw rocks at them from the council estate walkways?

Aye, and I wonder how many of these bearies will be thinking the same when their ankles are caught in their jaws?

The trouble is that badgers have had years of good PR in the media which perpetuate the myth that they are sweet little creatures. They appear, for example, in children's books as the kindly village copper when really they should be depicted as the then SPG beating suspects in the police cells for the fun of it.

Re: A question for rocket scientists on El Reg...

I used to live in Antwerp and there was, when i was there in the 80s, still many gaps between the houses from the old V1 and V2 damages. Quite often one or two houses in a street would be gone and that's it.

But that's not to say the effect that they had; because there were so many there were literally a weapon of terror.

My faher was in Antwerp for a while during the war and he'd say that one would drop an hour - on the hour. So everyone would be waiting nervously for the next one knowing full well when it was going to come. He said that he was glad to get back to the front line for 'peace of mind'.

One, of course, fell on the Rex cinema on the De Keyser Lei killing hundreds of allied soldiers.

Horrible things. I can't see why anyone would want to spend money on one. The man has gone further down in my estimation.

- Paris because they never reached her. Thankfully.

Re: Don't buy an Xbox One

Games are not films. Typically you're unlikely to go back to a game after you've upgraded your console a few times.

There are always exceptions to the rules. I would love to revisit <bold>Myst</bold> for example.

Re: But this is *not* a network, by your own definition.

Do you remember the first phone networks?

Er, no. I am only in my late fifties so I'm perhaps a litle young to remember such a thing.

Re: Another Way to Push Out Possible Customers

"I was thinking about the same thing... anyone not competent enough to need an app. to find their car, really has no business owning a car."

Many years ago I parked my car one of the long stay car parks at Brussels airport to go to Norway for a month or so on business. I carefully made a note of the car park building number, the floor, the zone and what have you.

Four weeks passed and i returned to the airport, found the bit of paper in the Filofax (yes, it was those days), hunted down the car park building number, climbed to the right floor and then looked for the car in the correct zone.

Nothing. Not a car there. I checked and checked again but, no, nothing and it was then that I could have used such as app.

As it happens, I found the car many hours later - they had renumbered all the car parks whilst I was away.

Re: The welsh lobby

"I'm sorry but it's absolute bollocks to say that there are any significant number of Welsh people who have difficulty with English."

So, where do you get your information from? I get mine first hand from direct experience of knowing people here on the Llŷn Peninsula, so I can present this (and them too, I suppose) as fact.

Or does this experience make me out to be some sort of liar?