Posts by Edmund Cramp

Behind IE 8's big incompatibility list

Bucket? Did someone say Bucket?

I'll take one of them ... and a standard wafer thin mint too.

Logic3 Valve80 thermionic iPod dock and speaker set

Remote Control

Note that the review does not address the lack a valve powered remote control - I think that this is the main reason for the poor aural response from the loudspeakers which are obviously confused by the mix of valve and transistor technologies in this product. Replacing the remote control with a valve design (using say a matched pair of EF80's and an array of SPMT toggle switches) and using an EM84 electric eye to indicate remote access at the amplifier would vastly improve the sound of this device and warm the hands of the user on cold winter nights.

Raids net police £1m in pirate game and movie discs

"estimated street value of £1m"

30,000 disks with an estimated street value of £1m works out at about 33 quid each - it must have been a high class operation ... with no discounting - it's so nice to see that even the crims sticking to the manufacturers recommended pricing particularly given the economy these days.

How about doing so real reporting and not just parroting the police report?

Airline pilot sacked for 777 Top Gun stunt

Cathay Pacific just got their undies in a wad.

All Cathay Pacific have done is turn some good publicity into bad.

I used to watch them doing this as a kid with the Concord (before it got an "e") at the airfield outside Oxford ... basic touch and go except in this case he wasn't planning to touch so he didn't put the wheels down. It's a lot harder to put a plane that size into the ground than you might think.

I've done this with the wheels down in Atlanta when the plane landing before us didn't get of the runway fast enough, and years before that in Charlotte when the pilot decided that he REALLY didn't like the weather coming in at the end of the runway (the round, funnel sort of weather)... did a half roll that time too.

If you don't trust the pilot then don't get on the plane - if you get on the plane then quit complaining.

Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'

I like biased reporting - it tells you a lot about people.

Interesting ... I remember Mike Finch and he was always a pretty much OK guy at the mission. But, while the DML aspect is interesting, the real question here is the ago old, "Who will watch the watchmen?" - and that's pretty well discussed on Stallman's website here <http://www.stallman.org/watchmen.html>.

While I'm no great fan of Wikipedia, it does have its uses and seems to be attempting to be reasonably transparent in its biases. Frankly anyone who reads uncritically generally deserves what they get ... whether it's wikipedia, the CIA factbook or the menu.

Why is Hotmail so bad at spam?

spam - what spam?

There's a simple solution - move to a mail server using spam assassin - we have about 10 users on our own domain, hosted in-house with spam assassin scanning everything coming in, and we each get maybe two to three spam emails per day in our in-boxes - and about 200-300 pieces of junk in the spam folder. We run AV software on the mail server (around 10-30 per day) and don't bother with running individual packages on the desktops.

Life is sweet.

'IE8 compatible' - the cure for web standards headache?

Quick easy fix for IE problems

Microsoft has never worried about IE's ability to break websites in the past so it's very unlikely that they are going to start now - also, I note that the article says "improve support for web standards in IE" - meaning that Microsoft are not going to make IE8 work properly either.

But there's an easy answer - take IE out and shoot it and then offer users the opportunity to install a standards compliant browser instead.