Posts by Gregg Bond

AMD to pair CPUs, GPUs with Intel's physics tech

In Other News....

Scientists in hell have managed to achieve 0 degrees Kelvin, Satan is quoted as saying "It's a trifle chilly".

Besuited cubicle monkey trashes office

Damn it feels good to be a gangster.

It's identifiable, work is a stressful place, but whanging a co-worker in the face with a monitor is bad Karma. I cant help but wonder if they used LCD's he might have been able to get more hang-time on the shot though.

BOFH: New toys

Warrantee Void Stickers

....are also known as fun reduction seals.

Google embarasses MapQuest

What they need is

to keep a log of all these route changes, and use as they call it in London Cabbie circles (no pun, honest!), The Knowledge.

Fastest

Shortest

Local

Too busy to read this?

Some answers that should resonate....

Or, as we suspect, are you just too busy doing all this stuff to care? Yes

And what's keeping you so busy? Users

What are the bug bears and headaches taking up inappropriate amounts of your time? Thier idiot problems

What practical ways around these issues are there? Yes, I call it a shotgun.

On a serious note, IT management systems are great for servers, but most of them just don't require that much of my time. I spend about 10 minutes a day checking the backup log and dealing with user additions/deletions, everything else on my plate is because a user has done something stupid. There are just too many ways a user can be an idiot to possible code into a management system.

So what's in a URL? The Reg URL?

There is a .co.us

However it specifically relates to business in the state of Colorado.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us

.com was always supposed to be for commercial use however the growth of the Internet in the States far outstripped the commercial use anywhere else in the world, so they "just got there first"

TBH arguing over the nationality of .com's isnt the problem, ICANN and its contracts with the US Dpt Of Commerce should be looked into more. I'd prefer if they farmed off that sort of thing to the ITU or something.

Facebook taunts MySpace with open book policy

In reference to Del....

I suspect it might be tkt spk for "Fête".

Clearly it is like the G8 then in that all they seem to do it have a big jolly that doesnt acheive much apart from dunking whoever forgot to bring the cakes...

Brown dwarf cools its jets

Let us not forget d=√13h

Where d = distance in kilometres and h=hight of observation point in metres, therefor 1.8m (approx 6ft) equates to 4.837354649 Km or 3.00579283 miles.

Basically it would be hidden by the horizon far sooner than 40km. I guess im just being pedantic.

Magical elf jailed for lifting women's knickers

Whats next?

Clearly Violent Video games have had their day. Good old human imagination is next on the chopping block, clearly.

I got you Reme, I'm not sure is this is a good thing or not :)