Posts by ideapete

Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep

Usability

As speeds increase it changes how people use systems and that opens the Usability can worms .

Unless the carriers and designers understand this ( go see Don Norman ) its a fast dump to nowhere

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Then again : Human Data Interaction, HDI, legibility, agency and negotiation makes a lot of sense you can hear the Silicon Valley screams of outrageous fortune from here

Apple owes us big time for bungled display-killing cable design in MacBook Pro kit, lawsuit claims

WTF every time

Interesting as the solution for the vanishing cursor is -- wait for it - OPEN CLOSE the laptop

Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

Export across pond

Call it authentic Willy Shakes dish , instant poetry sell for $50 a pop

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

Re: Tonnage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9rh5kCsEAk

BE before O

BE was before the Oracle ( via Larry Ellison ) and it worked better then

Re: ( @ John Riddoch) put it on health plan

Surprising maglement didn't charge the sysads for a free sauna in their health plan or cooking the Oracle without permission

Re: Somebody else's sweat... Hell Hath

Hell Hath no fury like an architect who has not been plugged in ( connected properly ) for a while

Re: Inlet Air Sensor OIDs

Sun 1.1.8.103 just screams WTF which is probably what set of the alarms and unless you ask nicely is talking to Sun ( used to ) remotely

Re: RS232 Frog ( which part plugged in )

Wonder which part of the frog plugged into the socket , the mind boggles

Re: Tonnage BTU = D unit

BTU converted across the pond to the D ( Donald ) unit for obvious patriotic reasons

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

Need Latin Glands

Seriously the older ( pun ) Royal Navy ships used to use Lignum Vitae ( oily wood ) which used to swell when placed in the glands ( snigger ) making the shaft ( oh jeeez ) watertight and allowing it ( the shaft ) to spin . Now they use artificial packing and the experience is not so good hence the leaky shaft ( I am done stop laughing and great Christmas to you all and remember only use the real deal when handling your shaft or glands )

Essex drone snapper dealt with by police for steamy train photos

De railed plod

Plod belts photog to protect master

Please virtualize my reality before asking me to goggle at a fake one

Re: Not sure the economics make sense for homeowners

Arch-Eng-Construction industry is about 35% efficient and has no intention of letting the client have any info to improve that as the more inefficient they get the more they charge for steadily decreasing quality .

Coming right up

With project http://www.ideapete.com/MetaHome.html

Re: DIY!

They dumped SKP to move into the cheap less data intensive world of photogrammetry and Trimble needed to block competition to their expensive site measurement tools ,

Fight over internet handover to ICANN goes right down to the wire

Oxymoron

" The Russia/China/Iran argument has been repeatedly rebutted by both experts and reporters,"

or just plain stupid

You should install smart meters even if they're dumb, says flack

Smart meters by Dumb people

Monty Python did it better

Keep up the pressure on the telcos, Canada

Mega BS in Can land Telcos to egh

http://ideapete.com/megaBS.html

Euro Patent Office prez's brake line cut – aka how to tell you're not popular

Pluss

Add chauffeur and butler to formation and gaggle of bikes with no brakes but that will not stop them , isn't this Inspector Jacques Clouseau scenario

Swedish old timer pulls airsoft gun on broadband salesman

Her bits from his bytes

She could tell http://ideapete.com/megaBS.html

German boffins smash records with 37km wireless spurt at 6Gbps

bits not Bytes

http://www.ideapete.com/megaBS.html

Walmart sues Visa for being too lax with protecting chip cards

Re: I like sigs

I leave my DNA everywhere its a cultural thing

No Fries with that

So why can't I get Fries with that ?

AdBlock Plus, websites draft peace deal so ads can bypass blockade

Re: Defeating the Purpose

Passing through delicate regions , front or back ?

Firefox 44.0 upgrade kills adblocker and Google

I am with the I decide above , the latest piece of firefox crap update kills all google services and replaces them with Yahoo , then eliminates adblocker plus and all its memory as well as your other add ons then replaces them with add commercial infiltrated garbage even on sites you have PAID membership to avoid this junk

LinkedIn plays down '117 million users' breach data sale

Re: I always want salt on my hash

Chippies do IT better

Denial is not

Thank U linked out , Denial is not a river in Egypt

Theranos bins two years of test results

Sadly this Says it all = Theranos has itself become a byline for a tech company that misleads people

Techie on the ground disputes BlackEnergy Ukraine power outage story

Ban frigging squirrels

Its about time we took away all these bloody squirrel , rat , snake , possum ( except lying ) access accounts away then we see who is really the FUBAR maker, us the two legged things with the beer glasses ( hand and eye )

How a power blip briefly broke GitHub's boxes and tripped it offline

Re: Thanks

Now if they would only DESCRIBE the power outage , surge dirty power , failure of back up WHAT ?

Tablet computer zoom error saw plane fly 13 hours with 46cm hole

Goooooooo Bill

Windows 8 OS Needs Zoooooom to read runway signs and Zooooom out to see where you friging are on the Runway on a multi million dollar plane. . Thank you Bill Gates bloody we'll done

Telecity fails with car park net rescue plan. In fact, things got worse. Again

HV AC > Sync Via DC Bridge > HV AC = Good SOP , HV AC -> Sync < HV AC = TITSUP every time

Autonomy ex-boss Lynch tells of poisonous life within HP in High Court showdown

Re: anxiously: They killed Compaq/Dec and 3Com as well.

As they did with DEC-ALPHA total business in a box ,one of the best ideas of its time and that team went to the Jobs factory

BBC websites GO TITSUP – Auntie blames 'internal system failure'

Beeb is

We are the BBC we are a technical problem - so there

UK spaceport, phase two: Now where do we PUT the bleeding thing?

Re: Where to put it?

come down on Birmingham

Re: Where to put it?

NM USA they have a spare one no one is using

'NSA, GCHQ-ransacked' SIM maker Gemalto takes a $500m stock hit

Then along comes Apple software sim

Jobs is proved right once again - Software sim + encryption is the only way . Come on Apple

UK flights CRIPPLED by system outage that shut ALL London airspace

Plenty of interruptible

UPS becomes IPS

US govt tells ICANN: No accountability, no keys to the internet

ICANN Power ( Outage needed )

Corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely especially moving the worlds electrons.

Time for Gromit to be put back in change

Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD

Then they buy Level 3

And the Jobsian data world really connects ( pun )

City council thinks what we're all thinking: 'Comcast is terrible – and NOT welcome here'

Its from the Colonies

Come on chaps , its obviously from one of her majesties colonies ( they have just forgotten )

Greedy datagrabs, crap security will KILL the Internet of Thingies

Or why the richest man in the world will be a plumber

Keeping the crap moving generated by all the IoTs

Oh noes, fanbois! iPhone 6 Plus shipments 'DELAYED' in the UK

iPhone 6SC+ ( Its Huge )

Available now http://goo.gl/crMgGC

BBC Trust candidate defends licence fee, says evaders are CRIMINALS

Re: Of course!

Stop slandering articulate puppets who work for a living, the lady doesn't qualify totally mediocre Beebette

If you ate at one of these PF Chang's restaurants, your bank card is at risk

Colorado 2

Happened to my mother in law ( no jokes please ) in Denver . Do you think PFC offered to help , No way

Call off the firing squad: HP grants stay of execution to OpenVMS

Jealousy reigns

HP via Compaq has always been jealous of VMS when it streaked away from the competition with DEC-Alpha which itself was a black project originally killed by DEC

Google de-listing of BBC article 'broke UK and Euro public interest laws' - So WHY do it?

merely £500,000.

What bloody world do you live in or is this the rate of brit inflation

The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder

Re: Hmm catapult

No No your throw people across the country pinpoint destination with magnetic catapults curtesy on Monty P , No HSR needed