* Posts by Fred Bakunin

4 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jul 2010

Virgin Media goes titsup AGAIN. The cause? Yet MORE DNS strife

Fred Bakunin

Re: What outage?

> pointless having more than one DNS server

umm, why not set up primary and secondary DNS to come from *different* providers

when an(y) organisation's DNS goes titsup it's quite likely that it will affect both(/all) their options; this is precisely when falling back to another provider could be useful

I like having OpenDNS as a fallback option; but not as primary DNS because of what happens if a query is misspelled

FB

Oh, shoppin’ HELL: I’m in the supermarket of the DAMNED

Fred Bakunin

I want to hack the voice box...

...on one of these checkouts. Splicing the beginning of:

"Unexpected item~ in the bagging area"

onto the end of:

"Note~s will be dispensed below the scanner"

(with the ~ denoting the edit point) should produce an acceptable:

"Unexpected items will be dispensed below the scanner".

Considering that "below the scanner" is roughly at knee height - Eggs. Yup, eggs would be about the best; singly would do nicely and they wouldn't need to be wrapped or anything, just coming out at reasonably high speed, and with sufficient variation on the trajectory to make for some interesting slip fielding.

Teen project sparks WORLD-WIDE PEE-POWERED HYPEGASM!

Fred Bakunin
Boffin

Check this out ...

...before writing it off as a "perpetual motion machine":

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2009/july/02070902.asp

BBC chief acknowledges DAB flop & internet radio

Fred Bakunin
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bitrates in various countries

scraping the bottom of the barrel:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/worldwide_dab.htm

whereas the UK once *used* to be a world leader...