I worked in a garage when I was 16 (£1.50/hour) and one of the mechanics put the engine from an Austin 1600 into a Mini. The point there was ridiculous speed from that car. Shame it only had a 4 speed gearbox...
Posts by Rinsey
25 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2009
Full Linux-on-PS4 hits Github
Zalman ZM-VE200 portable virtual Rom drive
Apple pictures iOS on your wall
Wimbledon grunters turned down by viewers
Fedora 15: More than just a pretty interface
Linux kernel runs inside web browser
So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?
Hollywood eyes Blade Runner replicants
Locking antlers with a network Nazi
English Defence League site pulled offline after defacement
Assange relishes US banks 'squirming' over 'megaleak'
HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic
MySQL price hikes reveal depth of Oracle's wallet love
Channel islanders attack Street View car
Linus Torvalds outs himself as US citizen
Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store
Secret X-37B space plane lost by sat-spotters for 2 weeks
Verbatim MediaShare 1TB Nas
Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter
Top prices, old shows - the Beeb's iPlayer goes global
From what I have heard....
The archiving process at the BBC has been a catalogue of errors - first putting all the taped stuff on to DVD. Then they realised it should be on HDD on their servers. So then they had to transfer stuff back from DVD to the servers. And they hadn't got anywhere near finished by that stage. In the meantime, they laid off hundreds of guys doing exactly that job, and then re-engaged some of them as freelancers, once Dyke made the announcement mentioned above.
A relative of mine was able to pay off his house with the redundancy, and continue doing exactly the same job...
Nice one licence fee payers.