Posts by Adrian Jones 302 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2007
I can understand accessing it over your LAN, but the internet?
I also can't see anything in their instructions as to whether there's a sensor to stop it pouring when there isn't a cup under the nozzle.
Otherwise Al-Qaeda could be hacking into it and pouring lovely rich dark espresso all over your floor.
Now *that* would be a crime against humanity!
There's no reason for 0870 numbers, other than revenue generation for the company that owns them.
In some cases (Carphone Whorehouse, I'm looking at you) all local branches are given 0870 numbers, the better to fleece their customers.
About time that local rate numbers were charged at local rates and included in price plans, 0870 and premium rate numbers were withdrawn and any phone company that charged for calling a freephone number fined.
A few weeks ago, I discovered that several of my mailboxes in Pegasus had disappeared. Very annoying as one of them was my main box, with hundreds of emails.
I've just realised that it was AVG which deleted them. It's scanned them as an archive, identified a virus (or so it thinks, I'm somewhat doubtful, since I've always deleted anything with a dodgy looking attachment, and one was a simple word document from about 10 years ago!) and moved the whole file to the Virus Vault.
Which then filled up past its default maximum size, so it's deleted several of them.
All without bothering to tell me about it. I only spotted it because I happened to be in front of the screen when a scan finished, saw the pop-up appear and disappear and wondered why it had 40+ warnings. (Cookies, it would appear.) I then discovered that there were several "viruses" found in May and that they'd already been deleted from the vault.
Not very impressed with AVG after all.
Having installed the latest AVG I was impressed that it was now managing to scan my email as it came in. (Using Pegasus with SpamPal usually meant that nothing was able to manage this.) I also spotted the little tick marks (or not) appearing in Google.
I presumed that AVG was looking up data that Grisoft had compiled in advance, rather than scanning each search result as it was found.
There's also an issue that this is eating up the users' bandwith which, although I'm not affected could be a problem with some contracts.
LinkScanner has now been disabled on my machines, until the situation changes.
"I'm very interested to see what actual price O2 do end up quoting for PAYG because I'm sure it will conflict with what Steve has said."
From the O2 website, yesterday:
"Best of all, the new 8GB iPhone won't cost you a penny on our £45 and £75 tariffs. And it's just £99 on our £35 tariff and new £30 tariff."
Doesn't seem to conflict at all with what Steve said.
"Apple is going to have to start selling the iPhone to O2, rather than to the end customers, just as all the other manufacturers do."
Well, according to the Apple website, you can get it from O2 or Carphone Warehouse, who say it'll be available on O2. No mention of it being available to the end customers, from Apple stores.
The flash version is streamed in IE and FF, but you can still download using iPlayer on Windows.
The programs are available to stream or download for 7 days, then downloaded programs can be watched within 30 days of the broadcast date. (After you start watching you get 7 days before they expire.)
How you'd buy it in the UK?
http://uk.asus.com/ has a link saying it's available to buy on November 12th, which takes you to http://eeepc.asus.com/uk/ which has a countdown stopped at 000:00:00:00 and the slogan "Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, Easy to Play".
This link takes you to http://eeepc.asus.com/en/ where you can download pictures, but still not buy it.
Obviously it's not "Easy to buy".
The bastards decided to "upgrade" my card. To one with the same credit limit, interest rate and no extra facilities, except it had the word "platinum" on the card and, of course, a new number. Naturally this screwed up lots of subscriptions and stored card details for companies I deal with, giving me nearly a years worth of emails and letters telling me my old card had been declined.
And did they ask me if I wanted all this hassle for the word "platinum" on my card? Well, they *claim* they sent me a letter, asking me if I wanted to change. Since I didn't receive the letter, and therefore couldn't tell them not to change it, that apparently gave them permission.
They had, of course cancelled the old card before they sent out the unsolicited one, so they insisted that it couldn't be re-enabled.
So, please excuse me while I have a quiet chuckle at their latest cock-up. Safe in the knowledge that I'll never use another Mastercard (or NatWest) again.
"The research revealed that enough snow melted in Greenland this year to cover the surface of the USA more than two times over."
What on earth does "two times over" mean?
To the depth of two snowflakes? Two molecules of water?
I wonder at the quality of the research sometimes, when scientists spout such vague headline-grabbing nonsense.
Can convert speeds into Furlongs per fortnight.
Just type:
speed of light in furlongs per fortnight
into Google and hit Search.
It does less useful conversions like meters into feet and lbs to kgs too. Although I don't think it can cope with standard grapefruit and linguine yet.
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