Posts by AndrewInIreland

Similar (but no visit from the The Fuzz)

I had something similar- was contacted by a company I used to work for (many years ago), saying that a client of theirs was screaming blue murder- their “IT Manager” had been on because one of their critical servers had stopped working and the explanation he came up with is that I had hacked them. So, mainly to clear my good name, I went onsite with a team, and found a load of suddenly misconfigured settings and config files. A quick check of the logs and I had a local IP address. Which lead right back to the “IT Managers” own computer...

Obvious omission...

I'm guessing Adam Sandler didn't have a film out last year then...

Hmmmm....

I'm pretty sure the nasties in The Dark Crystal were called The Shkrelis

My tuppence worth...

I wasn't a fan of Prince but I was a fan of his Spitting Image puppet.

Right...

I'm going for some form of underground seesaw action right next to the crater

Best line...

"5 rounds rapid"

And what didn't work...

The whole SWAT or whatever team deciding to walk into the church. There must have been at least one properly trained soldier amongst them.

Spanish...

perroflauta is just brilliant. I used it correctly in Malaga last August, much to the delight of my Spanish friends.

Orphan Black...

The only thing I watched on BBC3 was Orphan Black, and the odd Doctor Who catch up (iPlayer is not available in Ireland). Hopefully OB will get moved to BBC2.

Anyone remember...

...when the must-have phone was a Motorola Razr? Or a Blackberry?

Enjoy it while it lasts Samsung, but it might not last long.

Voting site seems to be broken...

"Sorry, something went bad, and your vote has not been recorded. Please drop a note to webmaster@theregister.co.uk! [TEE-1357826997000]"

On the plus side...

It ships with Google Maps

V for Vendetta?

"I konw every inch of this cell and it knows every inch of me. Except one."

Thankfully...

some of us have access to High Definition Scanners so it's Pointclouds away!

"I’m not entirely sure who it’s aimed at anymore..."

App developers who want to develop for the Retina4 display but don't want to buy phone that's pretty useless at making and taking phone calls.

That autograph...

...Jimmy Saville, is it not???

Might be worth holding onto. Unless you have a stpry behind it that you can sell to the newspapers for a large amount of wedge.

Also,

It managed to flag Airfield House (which is a farm up the road from me) as an airport.

I kinda liked...

Hitman and Resident Evil. Though I think the saving grace was I never played the games in the first place.

BTW, the biggest turd is missing from the list: Wing Commander. Boy was that a space dump.

Deju vu...

"The week before leaving on vacation was hell. Despite me giving my clients plenty of warning and asking them not to send me work later than usual, almost all of them did precisely that."

Yep, sounds like the week I spent before going to Spain. Right now all my clients are getting 'yep, I'll get onto that when I get back off holiday' auto-responses (5 so far).

Aha!

I knew there was a reason why Dabsie is my favorite hack- an Psion owner and a CIXen to boot.

And iof you hadn't mentioned it at the end of the article I would have flagged the Logitech keyboard- I'm currently writing this on one.

Errrrr....

Isn't this the outfit that uses a mask created by Alan Moore/David Lloyd? How much are they paying in royalties then?

hmmmm...

I can see these becoming highly desirable for remote delivery of contraband...

Well finally....

Looks like Apple are going to join everyone else and move to the Micro-USB connector.

Errrr....

The Four Yorkshiremen was an 'At Last The 1948 Show' sketch. Okay, it did star John Cleese and Graham Chapman but the other 2 Yorkshiremen were Tim Brooke Taylor and Marty Feldman.

What no Design Design???

Hall of the things deserves to be there somewhere.

HDS

I can see this being very useful in the field of LIDAR scanning