Posts by Matthew Henry

Power supplies do make a difference

I'm no electrical engineer but I have heard demos by a highly-regarded British hi-fi manufacturer in which changing the power supply arrangement to the source (in this case a CD player) made a hell of a difference to the sound. It's part of the upgrade path for their components, eg, adding an off-board power supply to your CD player so the on-board one handles the digital stuff while the off-board one handles the analogue. That can really work but, I agree, most of what this particular vendor sells must be hogwash -- and it gets a lot crazier than mains cables.

Crashed on Yahoo! UK homepage...

... and a nice new dialog blamed FlashPlayer 10.6!!!

A new front opens up in the War on Flash.

Simple really...

Berlusconi doesn't own the internet so of course he wants Web 2.0 in Italy to fail. Do you think this would be happening if Google was in his portfolio?

@ Paul Murphy 1

There won't be a diesel version for the same reason that there isn't a diesel Prius. Diesel engines cost twice as much to make as petrol engines and are nearly twice as heavy.

Lester, does this mean...

... that all of your stories are published from a bar in Spain? If so, you've really got this internet thing figured out.

Just seen on The Register...

"Hosted CRM gives SME's big-business customer management"

Gives it to whom, I ask.