Posts by Michael Hutchinson

Giraffe Interchange Format

It stands for Graphics Interchange Format, and the word Graphics has a hard G.

If it stood for Giraffe Interchange Format then I'd agree on the soft G.

Re: Good article here

And kubernetes has been forked 21k times. The number of forks isn't particularly meaningful.

Re: why the F

Do you even know how the modern Web works? You really think sites fetch their JS directly from npm?

You could make the same argument for _any_ dependency system, hell even the Debian user repo had malware in it recently.

Re: I always feared the worst

Macrovision? Macromedia was bought out by Adobe...

Re: Still in business .....

Have you actually used a HTC flagship in the last 3-4 years? Apart from the camera they're every bit as great as any other flagship device.

Re: Genius!

"I seem to remember that the SIM card will still be a SIM card in a SIM slot, so it is swap-out-able, otherwise other, non-Apple-SIM-providers will not be able to put theirs in."

For now. Come the next iteration of the iPad next year/the year after, and you'll suddenly find the removable sim is no longer removable.

And soon after you'll find the other device manufacturers following suit.

Re: "keyboard doubles as a capacitive multitouch trackpad"

Look at the picture in the article. You can clearly see the reflections from the edges of the raised buttons. They look like they're a single sheet, but each button is raised slightly so they'll be able to be pressed and give tactile feedback.

I had a Samsung NV10 point & shoot digital camera years ago that allowed you to navigate the menus by swiping across the capacitive physical buttons on the back. It worked very nicely. This is (shock!) genuine innovation in the mobile phone sector.

Re: It is what it is ...

"Unfortunately for your theory there's the law of contracts getting in the way."

And fortunately for us consumers!

Re: Filter

"Went for WiFi Powerline LAN back to a base-station wired into the Thompson router. Good coverage now, even in the outbuildings, and none of the neighbours can listen to any DAB station, but that's not a problem because they don't even know what DAB is"

Re: The small ironies of life.

The small irony is that one of the most widely used weapons against people parking in the wrong place, is to immobilise their vehicle so it stays in said place.

RTFA

He _did_ contact GoDaddy first, but they declined to help him.

Re: Is it just me, or

@WibbleMe

The Free software vendor referred to in the original comment is OpenSUSE. The proprietary application is vBulletin.

Re: "90% of what's needed" external storage

It'd be cheaper and easier to just buy a device with an sd slot.

Re: It's an option

Where is it in the settings on the website? I've scoured every setting and can't find one to turn it off.

In the meantime, I'm using this greasemonkey script instead: http://userstyles.org/styles/94605/hide-twitter-timeline-image-previews

The in joke changed.

When the ! was tilted.

No.

"if they see a version no. they don't like you don't get the site, just a nag message"

You get a nag message and limited functionality. They don't remove your access completely.

"In general, Gmail supports the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. If you use a browser other than those listed below, you'll be automatically directed to the basic HTML view of Gmail."

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6557

Re: "Fingerprint sensors are a decent step..."

"Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords."

But you can still change your username (sometimes). Once someone has your fingerprint, it'll be a painful process to change it.

Re: Temptation Vs Apathy (Side order of spectacle)

"I'll just wait a bit longer for one with a decent sized screen and perhaps an integrated keyboard. If only I could get my hands on one of those now."

You just essentially described a touchscreen "ultrabook".

Re: I know, I know...

"Petrov, we owe him, big. Had it been real, he woulda been shot & doomed his countrymen. A real man to do that."

Or possibly killed by the very missles he was employed to track.

Gear Icon>Configure Inbox.

Not exactly difficult...

Re: The question is...

Aren't there H&S regulations that say you must have a fire drill every x months? That'd get him outside.