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How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth

Monday 17th October 2022 03:40 GMT Steve Goodey

Mars Climate Orbiter

Are they using English or Metric units?

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In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Wednesday 17th November 2021 15:45 GMT Steve Goodey

Code peeking.

I seem to remember a work colleague looking through the code and finding the string "Does your mother know you do this?" which made us both laugh!

I think he was trying to mod the game in some way.

Unless I dreamt that!

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JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations

Tuesday 27th April 2021 18:50 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: Have said this before...

do no good?

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'Mindset reset' contributes to £1bn extra costs and another delay – 2 years this time – for Emergency Services Network

Tuesday 15th September 2020 14:40 GMT Steve Goodey

Eh?

What is M4 digitisation? Smart motorway malarkey?

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We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Friday 10th July 2020 13:53 GMT Steve Goodey

"Harris was frank: “With hindsight, was it the right thing – should we have put a message out and said ‘Really sorry guys, we’ve got to delay payment’? Maybe, perhaps. Maybe we could have done something like that."

You think?

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It looks like you want a storage appliance for your data centre. Maybe you'd prefer a smart card reader?

Monday 4th May 2020 11:11 GMT Steve Goodey

Startech.com

I like Startech.com gear and find it quite good, are you sure it's not equivalent?

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Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Friday 11th October 2019 18:13 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: Challenge

Haven't Netzpolitik heard of Arkell v. Pressdram?

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GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Wednesday 28th August 2019 16:08 GMT Steve Goodey

Excuse me! You're talking about software I love.

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Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted its data, so it escalated its support ticket to a lawsuit

Friday 5th July 2019 20:28 GMT Steve Goodey

As per wittertainment.

How do you accidentally delete a whole G Suite account? You just accidentally delete a whole G Suite account.

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Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

Saturday 3rd November 2018 13:19 GMT Steve Goodey

Another one who got screwed over...

Robert Hooke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke

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Do I hear two million dollars? Apple-1 fossil goes on the block, cassettes included

Friday 24th August 2018 18:44 GMT Steve Goodey

Has it got...

...a headphone socket?

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We wanted a camera, they gave us the eye of Gemini – and an eSIM

Friday 27th April 2018 12:40 GMT Steve Goodey

Hinge ok.

I must say I've been using mine for approx. 6 weeks now and the hinge is excellent. It stays open in use and snaps shut when closing with a crisp clunk. Very impressed.

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There's just one month left 'til the big day: May 25... but don't panic!

Wednesday 25th April 2018 15:51 GMT Steve Goodey

Will any towel do? Or are there recommendations?

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Blighty stuffs itself in Galileo airlock and dares Europe to pull the lever

Wednesday 25th April 2018 15:03 GMT Steve Goodey

I can stump up a fiver, will that help?

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Crewless dinghy signs to UK Ship Register for Middle East mission

Saturday 18th November 2017 14:06 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: Challenge

"The only wrinkle comes if/when that boat hits something else. Seems unlikely tho. The sea doesn't have a lot of damn fools and maniacs driving around on it like the land does, greatly simplifying the navigation task of the autopilot."

Err...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8648011.stm

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Blighty's Department for Culture, Media & Sport gets 'digital' rebrand

Tuesday 4th July 2017 19:39 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: Challenge

"How do you make a complaint about them not replying to your emails?"

You just make a complaint about them not replying to your emails

As per Wittertainment.

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BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

Wednesday 12th April 2017 16:48 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: Too late for me and BT.

I seem to remember the change happened on the retirement of the editor. Once he'd gone the critical letters stopped and the magazine changed to a wipe your arse job.

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BT's hiring! 500 more customer service folk to answer your angry calls

Monday 12th December 2016 18:58 GMT Steve Goodey

Engineers bah!

They don't need more engineers or external planners. New technology will do away with them! Apparently.

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Reg meets 'Lokihardt', quite possibly the world's best hacker

Sunday 13th November 2016 13:53 GMT Steve Goodey

Lee says laughing. "I worked for Samsung for a little while, but not anymore."

Was he their battery guru and they let him go?

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That's gotta hurt: NASA suffers attack of the lame Orionids

Tuesday 20th October 2015 14:31 GMT Steve Goodey

Re: The Orionids are not a major shower

What about the Haemorrhoids? A decent show?

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So, what's happening with LOHAN? Sweet FAA, that's what

Friday 2nd October 2015 09:55 GMT Steve Goodey

Come on....

FFS it's not rocket science!

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If you got Netflix for Miss Marple, you're out of luck (and a bit odd)

Friday 25th September 2015 19:16 GMT Steve Goodey

Hickson

If you get a hankering again for the Hickson Marple you might want to try the remastered Blu-ray version that's available as three individual packs region free.

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BT broadband in broad-based brownout and TITSUP incidents

Wednesday 29th July 2015 10:31 GMT Steve Goodey

Deluded.

Wouldn't be so bad if the status page I tried mentions the problem. It says everything's hunky dory. At least the apology and goodwill payment will be some consolation!!!!

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