Posts by Teiwaz

Re: And

They'll all run from Windows Mobile!

Well, I would. Seems it's creator is frightened enough of it to forget P.R. and run from it every few years, leaving it to lurch down to the village unsupervised to assault the locals....

Re: Finally, a reason to move the task bar

Yet the same trick works on Linux and everything else too.

+ Although proly not on a Tiling Wm.....

...well, not unless you've set your browser to Float all the time.

+ Many 'Linux Desktops these days have unmovable panels that nothing can hide under (Gnome, Unity).

+Then there are the hard-asses that have gone desktop comando (no pants, erm, panels whatsoever)....

Re: A Cricket pitch?

When your CEO is obsessed with silly things, and enforce them upon the company with company money, it's tome to show him or her the door...

Or the Window[s].....

Re: Really?

"Fitzgerald also drew attention to the "inhuman" conditions in the two American jails Love is most likely to be sent to if extradited"

Inhuman is a nice way to describe the Ville or Brixton

Is anyone thinking of his family?

At least a UK jail would be considerably more visitable, even if they are barely modernised victorian shells.

Re: Andrew really hates Google

The big problem with innovation at the moment .....

This sounds close to excusing the current broken system, stacked as it is toward the rich...

From patent law manipulation to threats, industrial espionage to downright banditry in the preceding century or so. Whatever they think they could get away with, for some companies.

Large may or may not be happy with the current situation, but it's one corporations have certainly had a hand in forming - more than the individual anyway.

Doesn't help against other corporations though.

Re: We should stop patronizing a company that doesn't patronize us

Why shop at a company that is intent on destroying the UK and US IT industries?

Join a commune or drop out to some other alternative lifestyle, as all companies seem intent on exploiting any resource they can get their mandibles round.

US, Canadian and EU companies will happily continue to do business with the offshoring service companies, desperately trying to keep the sans pokerface hidden as they drool over the perceived IT savings, only to realise after a year or two their IT is degrading or systems knowledge is draining away like water from a leaky barrel. Bring IT back, rebuild, five or six years later repeat.

Re: DNA

Adams ended up using elements of the plot in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where Chronotis is a university professor who happens to be hundreds of years old

Also elements from 'City of Death', another DG Doctor Who story, which is also damn good (and has Lalla Ward dressed Parisian schoolgirl style).

Re: RFC 2460..

I get the impression that we will soon be trailing behind the Chinese in many areas... If we trail behind then in relation to the internet then will soon become relegated to second rate states.

Well, seeing the direction things are going, we'll be trailing in the space of everyday items connected and spying on us for gov anc corp or merely just spaffing our personal details to in full view.

In those, I don't mind trailing...*

Re: I'm more interested

I would also be interested to see what happened afterwards. Did the statistcs level out once the craze had died down? Did overall accidents decrease?

If a high rate of accidents at the pokey holes continued could you really determine there was no correlation or that the really determined were still playing, increasingly oblivious, desperate for harder to obtain level ups.

Re: Shush, you didn't here it from me....

"Except when they have to move to whatever follows on from ChromeOS/android (of course,"

Why on earth would they move to a cut down OS that has less functionality and worse security even than Linux?!

Why are they moving to a cut-down OS with worse security than Linux now?

Because, reasons....

Increased use of cloud (hey, not data on laptops left on buses, just concerns that admins leave barn doors open on the other end), it's trendy and cheap, all the users already use a version on their phones....It's not as if security is a prime concern now*

It's a future possibility....

* Reminds me of Mr Don & Mr George,

'Q: You're not worried about security then?'

A: 'I'm not worried about security now.'

Re: BBC programming exports your culture around the world

But look what that did to Dr Who....

They started to get more interest from the U.S, which led to more storylines set there, next thing you know it is almost identical to US tv. No excuse for that, ITC knew how to do it.

Re: Well, I see water on Mars.

Yes.

No peril in any of the Aria anime, just niceness (even very little fan service).

For reasons I've not worked out yet, all the Undines (gondiliere) names begin with 'A' (but then I've yet to read the original Manga).

Re: Really useful article.

However I suspect Linux could be going that way; how else does one explain init scripts as being too difficult?

Init scripts are certainly easier than the systemd unit setups. Bash and JCL I can pump out in my sleep (oo-er!) but Systemd I keep having to refer to the docs.

Other than that, I don't have much issue with it, but then I use Arch at home.

Re: MS Exams & Suffering

I suffered for my music, and now it's your turn. Neil Innes, Rutland Weekend Television

Hmm, WordPerfect on the other hand....

Fellow students were so impressed by Reveal codes to help remove the fractal and seemingly infinite embedded chaos that was sending their formatting haywire - the fact that it was a recognised IT course was depressing....

Re: Whitman did the right thing

If you don't like capitalism then become a communist and see where that gets you. I prefer to buy the shares and take the money. It's the real world, I too wish it was fair.

Now that's a classic 'eat cake' line....

Things didn't work out so well the last time it was used...

Re: A bit of common sense ...

Among Minbari, one individual leads, but we move as one. We are at our best when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad for a very long time, a madness that almost consumed your world, until finally, before it was too late, we woke up together.

- Delenn - Ceremonies of light and Dark (Babylon 5)

Perhaps we've finally woken up too.

So drink wasn't involved then? - Drink isn't involved now!

[1] The (failed) American attempt to prohibit recreational consumption of alcohol because of the obvious benefit to overall public health.

I thought the (failed) American attempt to prohibit recreational consumption of alcohol was the result of a wave of puritan religious evangelical fervour.

Re: Persian Internet

'down there'

Ah, you mean the tops of their feet, right?

Having seen the state of Arabic porn, I doubt any shaving is necessary.

Re: I am shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!

they could lose unencrypted copies of it on USB drives and laptops left on trains and in taxi's;

'Lose'?

I'm not sure I believe that anymore....the old switched briefcase, the envelope taped into a newspaper and casually left behind in a public bar. (yeah, I like all those 1960's spy TV series).

A USB or a laptop left on a train or a taxi.......? .in exchange for an envelope full of 'used twennies' left.

...breaks into 'Avenues and alleyways'

Re: Wrong end of the crime?

but nut jobs that commit these crimes rarely commit them in a vacuum - unless its just they are a total nut job.

Granted, 'the phone didn't harm anyone; is a little puerile, but has a point on the 'nujob/total nutjob' front.

Merely because some terror attacks are group efforts doesn't mean all are networked affairs, social or otherwise.

People rarely commit them in a vacuum, yes, There is always some set of circumstances that set them off down the road, but often what drives them all the way there is a vacuum they create themselves. What Terry Pratchett referred to as 'spiralling inward' (Men at Arms).

However it does appear law enforcement are in the habit now of 'throwing an embarassing tantrum' in public every time it comes to the 'social media/contacts personal associations' checkbox of the investigation and they can't tick the box.

Back before all the polytechs went Uni...

I went to one, then transferred to a Uni.

Teaching quality much better at non-Uni at the time.The Lecturers just didn't have time/weren't interested in undergrads.

Re: Sign me up for one

I was thinking along the lines of gas and electricity salespeople.......

You aren't allowed to gas electricity salespeople.

Or use gas and electricity on salespeople.

'Electric fence' the doorbell?

Re: Jesus Toast

And what about all these Jesus pictures, images and toast ? Are they Fake News too ?

Wut?

People are seeing Jesus in toast?

Or is it just and advertising gimmick by the Turin margarine company?