* Posts by simonmcqueen

4 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Mar 2010

Google starts rolling out Android 4.2 to select devices

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The Nexus 7 update to 4.2 appears to break the iPlayer

... or at least the new fangled BBC Media Player that is now required to play any content seems to have been removed/won't install from the Play store.

http://simonmcqueen.posterous.com/after-last-nights-update-to-android-42-on-the

Aunty's not having a good month.

Judges reject Operation Ore appeal

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Coat

From the judgement...

"IP addresses are stored as binary numbers, but are shown in readable notations, such as 208.14.156.289"

289 ?! O RLY ?

Nokia latest to feel wrath of Jobs

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Fish in a barrel

I own a Nokia N97. It is a pathetic excuse for a phone. It is woeful in every regard.

This is like picking out the weediest kid in the playground for a fight to prove how tough you are.

Woman finds Romanian living in shed

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Alternate approach

My mate Sarah found she had a bloke living in her garage last year. She can't be bothered putting her car in it so it's not used. He'd moved his sleeping bag and bits and bobs in and appeared to be kipping on the floor.

She got hold of an old mattress that somebody had spare and had it put in there one day while he was out. Don't think it ever occurred to her to wonder about his nationality. To the best of my knowledge she is not now, nor has she ever been, a reader of the Daily Mail.