* Posts by bowdie

13 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Apr 2011

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

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Re: @Midnight - Penn Jillette as Cyrano

That sort of already happened. Penn and Teller were cast in an episode of Bablyon5. And it was terrible (but then I think Bab5 was just terrible anyway)

$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

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Re: Optional

@Electron Shepherd

I'm sure it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Sir Clive Sinclair in tech tin-rattle triumph

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At the risk of showing my age, it's "Randomize usr 1302" for the correct colours.

Work from home when the next big Windows 10 installation arrives

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Dear Xbox One update,

God help you if you get between me and Fallout 4.

That is all.

Game CARTRIDGES make a comeback ... for smartmobes

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Re: ZX Spectrum, cartridge port?

They're talking about Interface 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Interface_2

Joystick and (sort of) cartridge port. Didn't have the biggest selection, as the carts only supported 16k.

Crowdfunded ZX Spectrum revival just days from shipment

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ZX nerd

For correct yellow on blue loading colours, it's "randomise usr 1302"

So,

10 PRINT AT 2,0;"Program : BruceLee"

20 RANDOMISE USR 1302

Would keep the good people of boots / WHSmiths on tenderhooks for ages.

Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA

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Weird the things you find out about your family. My uncle Bill was an electronics engineer for most of his working life. He's the reason I turned out the nerd I am. He designed (some of) the control systems for the Harrier, and worked on the avionics for Concorde. He was one of the people aboard the prototype Concorde #002 when they flew it out of Filton airport.

He always kept it really quiet and downplayed it. I only really found out about just how much he'd done at his funeral, talking to his colleagues. We'd assumed he was just a guy on the spanners, but it was much more than that.

Christ, I miss that old nerd.

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

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I live and work in Cheltenham. I tell everyone I meet (that I'm unlikely to have much to do with) that I'm a civil servant. That kills it dead. Anyone that knows I really work in IT support knows that I have a very strict personal rule that I do not fix, or even offer advice*, regarding computers.

I fix my parents stuff, anyone else can get knotted.

*My stock response to "what computer should I buy" and the like is just "The best thing you can afford from the Dell catolouge"

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

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I'll have a bloke's number 6 please

I'd actually quite like UK barbers to do this, at least then I wouldn't have to do the stupid "short on the sides and back, and a bit off the top, yeah.. parting there... around the ears, yes I would like it straight at the back... no product please..." bullshit I have to do whenever I get my haircut now.

Or maybe I'm just bitter because the old greek bloke that knew just how I like my hair has retired.

Ikea to integrate TV, Blu-ray, sound system into sideboard

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Joke

Re: It's called a Radiogram

ARE YOU BOYS COOKING UP THERE?

no

ARE YOU BOYS ASSEMBLING AN INTERROSSITER?

NO!

Bug-Byte Manic Miner

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Facepalm

Hmm...

That last screenshot isn't from a spectrum. BBC perhaps?

Teenage duo sentenced over credit card Ghostmarket

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FAIL

“I will never get a job in IT now.”

FX : The world's saddest song, played on the world's smallest violin.

Sony brings Skype to Bravia HD TVs

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You mean..

I have to build my own Interocitor? With that metal catologue? Only to find that images on the Interocitor don't show up on film?

harumph.