Woops
Looks like guthub has had a bit of a problem
https://status.github.com
Coincidence?
Posts by Bill Cumming
209 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2008
Walmart takes its DevOps platform and piles it high on GitHub
Clinton defence of personal email server fails to placate critics
Thursday 12th March 2015 04:49 GMT
Heard at least one report about the email system that was used and it was basically the same setup as her husband used while he was president. It was installed under orders from the state department.
It was not illegal to use private emails systems (virtually everyone was using the official network as little as possible) both democratic and Republican.
All the law required at that time was that all work related emails were logged onto the official system if they ware not using official channels. The law requiring everyone to only use official email system can't into effect 18 months after she left.
Panda antivirus labels itself as malware, then borks EVERYTHING
Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft
The... Windows... XPocalypse... is... NIGH
Tuesday 8th April 2014 09:48 GMT
Microsoft missed an opportunity here...
Think about it.
They could take XP of the shelves for a few months, tinker with the OS a bit, rebrand/rebadge XP to "Windows Corporate" double the licence and cash in as IT everywhere would want to licence it. Give it another 5 years premium support (more $$) and hey presto
Roberta Is your mother's brother she don't talk about.... ^_~
Big blue Avatar movie spawns THREE SEQUELS
Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock
BOFH: The Great Patch Mismatch
Google Nexus 7 blighted by brightness blunder
Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids
Raspberry Pi safe and warm in TINY Lego fortress
White AMERICANS will have become MEKON brain-men by 3000AD
ISPs should get 'up to' full fee for 'up to' broadband
Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy
Thursday 12th April 2012 23:58 GMT
Re: Repeat
Actually! everyone who says "Voyager episode : Distant Origin 1997" did it first your FAIL ^_~
It was the main "reveal" of the final episode of "Space : Above and Beyond" 1995-1996
Turned out the "Chigs" (aliens bad-guys) were actually descended from either Bacteria and/or Dino's DNA f early earth. It was spread across the galaxy when the Asteroid that killed the Dion's hit earth...
Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs
Just like a real computer: Android gets Android IDE
Climate models need revising: Droughts, heat waves not such a big deal
Monday 20th February 2012 12:59 GMT 
Would be nice...
... If they were talking bout the effect on "cash crops", you know, the ones we need to survive and feed ourselves.
So we know that grazers like cattle won't run out of food if the climate changes but what about us?
Would a couple of years of the corn/maze harvest failing put a major dent in out food production...??
Ten... digital adult toys
Saturday 18th February 2012 14:02 GMT 
Movie quote time...
From "Top Secret!"
Nick Rivers: "You don't scare me. My manager is on his way to the American Consulate."
German: "Do not be so sure Mr Rivers. Evidently, your friend did not realise that here in East Germany we use 220 volt current. He was found in his hotel room impaled on a large electrical device. Our surgeons did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face."
Space: 1999 returning to TV?
First-person shootout world record set
Monday 30th January 2012 15:26 GMT 
i took part ...
It was a good laugh till the last 5 mins of the game.
Up till that point the human side was doing quite well close to the machines spawn point nice mountain for cover next to the machine spawn area.
Then the machines got the upper hand and camped directly out side the humans spawn points.
Inside spawn points you can't shoot, but CAN be killed.
Machine spawn points was an 4-5 open areas so they can move in any direction once they spawned.
BUT the humans spawn inside a few vehicles with a single exit.
The machines camped out directly in front of the exit to the humans spawn points, killing us as soon as we spawned. a few humans got lucky and was able to get outside the spawn point for a second and kill a few Machines before getting killed in a hail of laser fire! :(
Kiwis collar Megaupload kingpin, Anonymous exacts revenge
Etailer punts steamy lace-up 24-port switch
Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production
Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off her chair
Mythbusters cannonball ‘myth-fires’
SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces
GCHQ code-breaking challenge cracked by Google search
Wednesday 7th December 2011 13:46 GMT 
the prize is in...
... the journey, not in the destination.
The solution to get the pass code includes grabbing a couple of files from a website.
Those IP addresses are probably logged and matched against people clicking the "apply here for a job" button.
If they get a match then that's the start of the first part of the interview... ^_~
Mine is the coat with the unencrypted Thumb drive from GCHQ in the pocket...
Virus infects killer US air drone fleet
Monday 10th October 2011 19:05 GMT 
From other sources..
Can't find the link at the moment but their was a report that the "Virus" / "Key Logger" is actually part of a Department of Defence Security Package installed in some DoD machines.
It was just not supposed to be in the UAV Control machines, but when equipment was shared between internal departments in cost cutting exorcise, it spread.
BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56
Amazon to whup Apple rivals when Kindle Fire hits UK
Amazon accepts Kindle Fire will be rooted
Facebook 'personal' news feed gets algorithm rejig
Wednesday 21st September 2011 14:44 GMT 
#Failbook
i was an unwilling recipient of the "new" facebook layout last week.
At the moment you have the choice between seeing "top News" or "Most Recent" in the new layout you DON'T get the choice.
I had to wade through 20-30 old posts Facebook had helpfully "pinned" to the top of the list, most were 5-8 hours old and I had already read them, and their is no "remove all option" so you have to manually go through all the pinned items to remove them before you get to your Latest entries.
Come back 10 mins later...
You have another 20-30 old posts pinned to the top of your feed... and it begins again...
their was no option to turn the "feature" off!
They changed me back to the old version a couple of days ago but don't know how long it will stay like that...
Fox turns LightSquared political
Winter for webOS, winter for Droid, but springtime for iPad!
Hologram Live
Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone
Tuesday 6th September 2011 07:46 GMT 
Amazon "Prime"
If "Amazon Prime" is linked to an account rather than a device then this would be a major selling point. I'm in the UK and i had a US Prime account trial and guess what! with a simple change I could access the free streaming movies!
If that works in some form on the Amazon-pad then you'll find a lot of non-US people lining up to get one!
I'll definatly be saving my pennies to pick up an "Amazonian Fondleslab" ^__^
beer: well i've had a few ..*hic*
Space junk at 'tipping point', now getting worse on its own
Friday 2nd September 2011 12:02 GMT 
@ John Arthur
GSO does not mean "not moving" it means moving forward at the same rate as falling towards the ground. (Remember Douglas Adams explanation of flying " falling towards the ground and missing")
Things are still whizing about at a few hundred meters per second.
Also it's not all in a nice circle around the equator, they tend to pass overhead as well...
How to... re-energise your Android smartphone's OS
Monday 29th August 2011 17:00 GMT 
Love this mod
I've been using it for over 6 months (ever since I got my Desire HD)
it's fast, and stable (even when over clocked to 1.4Ghz) battery life is good with this mod.
Oh and i've set a lower screen density (effectively giving me more screen acreage!).
I've tried a few of the "sence" and "Miui" mods (LeeRoid being one) and they just don't feel as snappy as CM.
Amazon Free Apps start to rile developers
Wednesday 3rd August 2011 17:37 GMT
What this article fails to mention..
...in the original Blog Post:
Amazon can Re-Write the description of any app in it's store.
So Shifty Jelly said that Amazon added items in the description that his app does not do, and he was left dealing with the new 100+'s customers complaining the app didn't work as described.
Glasgow cammer not thrown in slammer
Sunday 3rd July 2011 14:16 GMT
@Ben 45 Heard of "R5 (bootleg)" disks
From Wikipedia: In an effort to compete with movie piracy in these areas, the movie industry chose to create a new format for DVD releases that could be produced more quickly and less expensively than traditional DVD releases. R5 releases differ from normal releases in that they often lack both the image post-processing and special features that are common on DVD releases. This allows the film to be released for sale at the same time that DVD screeners are released. Since these screeners are the chief source of high-quality pre-DVD release pirated movies (in comparison to cam or telesync, mostly), this allows the movie studios to beat the pirates to market."
They were probably selling the R5 disks legally
Blighty gets gold-dispensing ATM
Scientists print out solar cells using inkjet tech
600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT
BOFH: CSI Haxploitation Cube Farm Apocalypse
Three to supply UK Chromebooks' 3G access
Friday 13th May 2011 11:21 GMT
From what i've seen...
If you get a Chrome OS laptop from "3" you'll get the first 3 months (3Gb) free out of the box,
Then you can choose between a "month to month" or fixed contract period (prices not disclosed).
And with "3"s current "laptop buy-back offer" (£150 if you've a laptop younger than 3 years old) if you take out a new laptop deal it might bring the costs down to a reasonable level.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
