* Posts by tuppence

20 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2011

Pizza and beer night out the window, hours trying to sort issue, then a fresh pair of eyes says 'See, the problem is...'

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Re: Proof reader

where you get very stange looks at the chippy if you speak with an English accest......

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

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Re: Shaken

nope, Newcastle Brown tastes totally different when slumming it with a can instead of a bottle......the bottled variety being far superior....

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

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Great Feature

Top article, many more of these please. My Father used to talk about this - he flew Vulcan's in the 60's. a bygone age where munitions had such nice names, this, Blue Danube, Yellow Sun....

Found on Mars: Alien insects... or whatever the hell this smudge is supposed to be, anyway

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Re: 20/20

labyrinthitis is also suprisingly good at making you hold onto the floor to stop you from falling off..

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

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Re: It was something we used to do in the 60s & 70s

hybrid circuits - thick film circuits?

Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox

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Re: Just How Trustworthy is Cloudflare

you're not a Virgin customer then?

In Hemel Hempstead, cycling is as bad as taking a leak in the middle of the street

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used to get a nice view of that from the top of the old Kodak building

Security? We've heard of it! But why be a party pooper when there's printing to be done

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that's now changed - sooo much easier with the old passphrase...

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

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you're assuming that the bod on the gate is capable of independent thought......

Will that old Vulcan's engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber

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Re: Even a Gnat is loud if you are close enough

fortunate enough to have lived at Scampton 69-72... very noisy place then!

Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years

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Re: Handrails

this is why we have brass handles

Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight

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Re: Technology

used to do for GEC avionics back in the day - before Nimrod got cancelled and the gig folded.....

F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs

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Re: Oh-Oh-Whoah-Oh-Oh

the Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters one?

Leaked memo: No internet until you clean your bathroom, Ecuador told Julian Assange

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he's not being held though.. he ran off and hid.....

Euro bureaucrats tie up .eu in red tape to stop Brexit Brits snatching back their web domains

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Re: Couldn't have said it better myself

and the blatant lies told by all parties in the run up to the vote......

How much do you think Cisco's paying erstwhile Brit PM David Cameron?

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too much - the mans a cock.......

Schadenfreude for UK mobile networks over the tumult at Carphone

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Re: Once the Competition Commission have allowed all the networks to be combined...

err..... not great for the suppliers? - have you seen the ridiculous prices the NHS pays for stuff??

Virgin mulls handing out free Wi-Fi

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Alert

virgin doing free??

0.5mb free to all makes my quite frankly shit VM-up-to-2Mb (on a blindingly fast day/night I might be lucky to get 0.5mb) connection obsolete then. They are crap, my mobile gets faster connectivity through 3G!

Nintendo: no DVD, BD playback for Wii U

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FAIL

Great British Broadband

which is fine if you live in area where the max download speed available exceeds "up to 2Mb"