* Posts by Spoonsinger

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No one watches TV, Nielsen, and you know it

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Re: sheilas wheels

My theory is that those adverts were so irritating the European Court of Justice had to step because they contravened some WHO mandate or another.

Natwest, RBS: When will bank glitch be fixed? Probably not today

Spoonsinger
Happy

Re: Classic!

Nice, but following looked more proactive....

"I'm going to take a poo on your doorstep you inbred mugs. If I don't get my money in my account within 24 hours I'm going to chain myself to your qc naked and play with my todger. I think your employes should work naked for compensation #SayNoMore

by I hate natwest from Hmp Bristol on June 22, 2012 at 11:12 pm 0 comments "

(also have screenshot :-)

Vatican subtly shifts its position on The Blues Brothers

Spoonsinger
Windows

To quote Bluto in Animal House,

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Oracle accepts a nice round number in damages from Google

Spoonsinger

Re: Not going to be overturned.

Obviously to outline, reference IBM v's Compaq rulings, during the eighties, on compatibility issues. (i.e. to paraphrase the API is open, inner workings ain't). Mind lawyers nowadays, bla, bla, bla.

Spoonsinger

Re: Not going to be overturned.

It's also totally in ruling with the US on API's, otherwise you wouldn't have had the whole PC revolution and IBM would still be king.

Python wraps its coils around the enterprise

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Year of the snake is 2013.

Although something has gone extremely wiggly with the caption on the main page, (as of 14:02 today) - or is it just Firefox?

'Google released a dairy product'. What, it's cheesy?

Spoonsinger

re :- Ditto chocolate,

Actually 'chocolate' in this country ain't that great either. But, I suppose, it at least it has proper sugar in it, rather than HFCS.

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

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Unhappy

I never thought my school dinners were that great,

but at least they came on separate plates, (i.e. collect main course, then go up for pudding after), and did look edible - well infinitely more edible that that slop. How did it come to this?

Microsoft's $1bn Yammer gobble gabble blabbed by insiders

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Headmaster

Re: Yammer Time

"My father's family (Scandinavian roots) would use "What are you yammering on about?" as an approximate equivalent of "What are you wittering on about?""

Used all the time by my family since forever, (English/Italian). So I'm fairly sure the phrase is fairly wide spread in the English speaking world, (and probably has a Germanic/Nordic invader type derivation, which makes a change from nicking Latin and French words).

World+dog discovers hi-res aerial maps, thanks to Google and Apple

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Coat

What is this? A centre for ants?

The building has to be at least... three times bigger than this!

Thief open-sources Richard Stallman's laptop, passport, visa

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Paris Hilton

The thief was only being positive in the freedom dimension!

Paris - because she is too, (apparently)

Source code smoking gun links Stuxnet AND Flame

Spoonsinger
Unhappy

Re: Orientalists creeping out of the woodwork, fellating President Bomborama

1) Really?

2) Good point

3) Perks of being the victor, (you have too give the grunts something to do)

4) Most of the UN sanctioned war's since the late 1940's have been done because one country or another has abstained.

5) Not sure about that, (links? etc)

6) Yep according to the US, Cyber attacks are an act of war. However they don't seem to realize that it's exactly the same as the old MAD based stuff, when they commit the offense. (dumb arsed art's student type politicians).

Mr Sulu causes DDoS panic after posting link on Facebook

Spoonsinger

Re: Oh well played.

Can't believe you went there, but you did and should be saluted - probably. Mind in the back of your mind you did really want to do some "Klingon's on the forward bow" type comment, but as an AC it might of been too much of a risk.

Ten... Sata 3 SSDs

Spoonsinger

"You can be certain that Samsung will be tuning up its SSDs even more going forward,"

Is that the same as in the future?

PC-makers hope for Windows 8 hero to sweep up sales

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Facepalm

Re: My take on the current situation and beyond:-

Eeek, touched a nerve (sorry).

"Professionals would be able to remember what to type and where to click"

Quite, but explaining that over mobile phone connection can be somewhat fraught. But as they say you should try everything in life except Morris Dancing and Incest.

"They would also know how to use remote support requests so they didn't need to tell the user anything at all..."

Depends if the actual problem was actually related to the network, (i.e. wireless/dubious hotel setup/Windows 7 weird unknown network type problem for instance), otherwise Logmein is fab.

Spoonsinger
Unhappy

My take on the current situation and beyond:-

Being a general old school sort of A/P doing random user support on my down time, (it's the economy don't you know) :-(

Trying to do remote admin on people with current Windows 7 is actually quite bad. i.e.

(after general obvious stuff),

'press the start button, yep the round thing in the left bottom corner', now type 'cmd' return. Oh so it didn't come up with anything, umm, type local security policy. Oh so that hasn't come back with anything. Try 'local group policy'. umm nothing either. Read me down what you have on the screen. Oh, not there, goes on, (until randomly find the appropriate app - not actually listed in any o/s search for end user to find easily).

Not entirely sure Win8 duel interface is going to make this procedure more elegant.

(*) Yep, and before you point it out, a default windows install would pop up the things requested. An off the shelf consumer build, (i.e. Dell I'm looking at you), apparently might not.

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Missed the Venus solar flyby? It's only 105 years to the next one

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Alien

Re: "The "send a decent camera to Mars" campaign starts here."

LOHAN, should be more ambitious in the carrion cry.

Windows 8 Release Preview open for download

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Meh

"I generally found that Windows 7 works better on any given hardware than XP",

Maybe, but they did cut out a lot of useful stuff to get the improvement. For instance, you can't say that Windows 7 file explorer is better the the one in XP - well you can but you'd be wrong. (Speaking who someone who does use lots of files rather than using than the 'puter as an interface to the TV).

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Unhappy

Not going to touch this with yours,

regardless of how clean yours is. (and that's from someone who earns their dosh from windows stuff).

Hard disk drive prices quick to rise, slow to fall

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Is it possible,

that although production is coming "back online", that it was actually quite a serious event locally which would take some time to resolve? (not saying that HDD's arn't important, but....)

Megan Fox fingers fondleslab in sexy store promo

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Unhappy

Re: Butterfly marks are going to play hell with those silk sheets.

Indeed. Basically the bedtime version of snow-angels, (in lubricated form). However it's an interesting point that Gordon10 brought up. Was a commonly know expression, but no actual reference on the internet, (well google anyways). Fountain of all knowledge my foot.

Spoonsinger

Butterfly marks are going to play hell with those silk sheets.

IGMC

Moon at annual perigee this weekend

Spoonsinger
Alien

I for one welcome our Clanger overlords.

(duck! incoming soup)

'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry

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Coat

Just save that Excel document luv and make us a cuppa tea.

IGMC

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 'release preview' for June

Spoonsinger
Meh

Re: Do that and everything is rosy again.. Yes and

install Classic Shell.

Happy 30th Birthday, Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Spoonsinger

Re:- The Amstrad 3 inch discs may have been rubbish... etc

Mousier Sugar got them cheap because they were part of the MSX standard (which was going down the pan worldwide at the time). Mind mine still work :-). Obviously a reliable format, (floppy wise).

Global chocolate crisis looms

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Can't they get it...

from the same sewage filled gutter Cadbury do?, (ref Armando Iannucci observation 2005/06 or sometime).

Student's Linux daemon 0-day triggers InfoSec Institute outcry

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Coat

Re: My point is - vulnerability exists but not everyone is affected.

It's Linux, shirely very few people are effected? - ducks :-)

Ten... Kitchen Gadget Treats

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Happy

Re: Tasimo

Try looking in your local charity shop for a chrome coffee pot you can put on your hob. Just fill with water, dump coffee grounds in the container, turn on the heat and let it bloop. Cheap and effective. (Then use the used grounds on your Chilli plants).

Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record

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Paris Hilton

Won't somebody think of the

polar bears?

(Paris because although not bear related I'm fairly sure she knows her way around Belvoir)

Shuttle Discovery to buzz Washington DC at 1,500 feet

Spoonsinger
Holmes

errr "Discovery aboard the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft when it still had a job"...

Isn't that the Enterprise shuttle before the actual job started?

Iran's plan to UNPLUG the INTERWEBS back from the dead

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Windows

I like persia,

No idea where Iran came from, (and too bored to google it).

Mega-star HD 10180 could have more planets than the Sun

Spoonsinger

Re:"I'D LOVE TO GO TO SPACE BECAUSE ZAK SAID".....

Wiggle your wings FGSK, WIGGLE THEM!!!!!!

Windows XP support ends two years from now

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Unhappy

"Why is XP Still with us?"

Well I do like 7, however the file explorer doesn't do what I want and removed functionality provided by XP, - i.e. ability to turn auto-sort off and ability to rearrange icons in any order in icon mode). Maybe not a problem for some, but it is a personal preference and something that was removed for no real reason other than the 'undocumented' control now being used in Win7's file explorer doesn't do it. Does remind me of the time they removed the 'block' copy ability from Word for no reason. Thank god for Textpad.

Forensic snoops: It doesn't take a Genius to break into an iPhone

Spoonsinger
Holmes

And the no shit sherlock award goes to....

(Mind boggles).

Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11

Spoonsinger

Re: real coders use notepad

Use 'debug' to write their own editor before starting work.

Spoonsinger
Holmes

I got a theory,

and that is - MS wants out of the consumer space. So they make the next version of windows unusable, and pee off anybody left who might of wanted to develop for it. Just a theory.

UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech

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Go

Shirely....

they'll need to request that all retrospective communication data is provided back to the dawn of the internet, just so they can implicate all the parties involved for their nefarious day to day communication based activities.

Disappearing bees mystery: Boffins finger regicide pesticides

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Pesticides cause

No shit Sherlock.

James Cameron back from dive to world's deepest point

Spoonsinger
Terminator

"I'm bottom of the WORLD!!!!!"

(quote - probably)

So, what IS the worst film ever made?

Spoonsinger
Facepalm

Liquid Sky (1982)...

Youth of today don't know how bad a movie can be.

Lawyers of Mordor menace Hobbit boozer

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Just drop the H, so it's...

"The 'obbit.". Job's a good-un.

Atari Pong at 40: Alcorn talks plastics, pirates and square balls

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Unhappy

Might want to tell...

Volkswagen to get their dates right on that fecking annoying "up!" advert.

System Shock

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PIPE!!!!!! :-)

Indeed. Loved the game but this was a really really really bad article about it. (Bit like an eight year schoolchild's 'what I did over the weekend' essay).

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

Spoonsinger
Holmes

Falls into the same category as...

How do cats purr. Elusive but real and quite entertaining on a good day.

Acorn King Moir: BBC Micros, Ataris and 'BS' marketing

Spoonsinger
Happy

@Jim59 - "How sizeable ?"

CPC ROMBO + Roms, (Protext,Maxam,BCPL, ProSpell, sure there was another one). Bought for circa £50 in 88 or 89 for course work. Sold '09 for £323.00. So not bad in my book :-) (Mind they were the ROM's not the disks).

Spoonsinger

Protext/Amstrad

"I used Protext/Amstrad CPC a year later and handed in a bunch of dot matrix It was spit in 2 because of memory constraints or something."

Yeh!, not just me then :-). Horrible late night experiences late at night running out of space and having to start a new file to continue my ramblings.

Mind I did make a very sizeable profit selling off my Arnor CPC ROMS a couple of years back. (must of been rare).

Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital

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Terminator

Fencing master?

Maybe, but shirely in OSW they just stood there and waggled the light sabres at each other. No real gymnastics involved - and even slightly sad to my seven year old jaded eyes at the time. (but it was more than made up by Han Solo's gunning down of the dude cantina scene).

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again

Spoonsinger

"ignore this evidence that there isn't a market for extra channels"

Well dah, in the same way that whichever advertising regulatory body whose job it is, is ignoring those "Freeview" adverts which states everything is free, (slightly ignoring the fact that you need a TV licence which isn't free).

Anyway I miss the days when you could tell an American production by it's orange hue.

Comet Lovejoy survives brush with fiery solar death

Spoonsinger

"Lovejoy is still with us"

and still as small.

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