Posts by Dave Edge

Ten Android games

Blast Monkeys

What about Blast Monkeys?

My kids are addicted to it - even my 2 year old!

Eurozone death spiral forces Microsoft to ease UK licensing price hike

We're still being screwed by M$!

The Company I work for is still going to be screwed by Micro$oft come the price hike.

Previously we've always qualified for Academic pricing because we're a registered charity and are classed as a "Social Enterprise" according to Microsoft.

MS are now changing the criteria for this and because we don't receive >10% in donations and we don't receive >50% from public sector contracts we're being moved to a Commercial License model, despite the fact that we're a non-profit organisation AND a registered charity.

This amounts to around a 500% increase in our licensing costs still!

Oh well, this will only serve to accelerate the uptake of Linux within our Company, so there is a good side to this already...

Dr Who scores new companion from Emmerdale

Re: Your all wrong

I agree, if they'd been given another series they could have turned the show around if they'd have got chance to implement the Cartmel Masterplan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartmel_Masterplan

MS announces Windows Phone 7.1

Local Databases?

STILL no mention of local database support! Grrrr.

(And no, I don't want to use Azure etc)

So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space

A lot of people have mentioned Richard Morgan and quite deservedly so. Altered Carbon is a fantastic read as are most of the Kovaks novels. Market Forces is also brilliant.

Nobody seems to have mentioned Revelation Space and the sequels (Chasm City etc) by Alastair Reynolds. These would be very cinematic.

Not sure how well the hard-SF would transfer to the big screen though...

MS pulls plugs on XP SP3 mass launch

Will they fix the SP3 GDI32.dll constant BSOD and reboot "compatibility issue"?

Apparently this issue has been around since the RC stage and hasn't been fixed.

We installed SP3 to two XP machines this morning to test it ended up with two machines constantly rebooting. We had to resort to the suggested fix here:

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/windows-xp-sp3-bsod-endless-reboot-loop-with-stop-c0000139-on-gdi32dll-error/