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Posts by bluefin333
26 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2011
Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink
Blackburn ain't big enough for the both of us: Mr Creamy and Mr Whippy at the centre of new ice-cream war
Three become six as new 'nauts arrive for a visit to the ISS
Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops
Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB
Elon Musk wants to get into the boring business, literally
Disney World-area University admits massive data breach
US rapper slams Earth is Round conspiracy in Twitter marathon
Flock of sheep ends NZ high-speed car chase
Yet another Android app security bug: This time 'everything is affected'
Faux pro-IS Facebook shot down within hours of launch
El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.
Monday 15th December 2014 15:55 GMT 
Banner
What's with the Reg logo/name centred in the red header/banner? It's a mess, put it back on the left where it should be - like on ChannelReg which you've left alone (for now?).
Also why only hyperlink the logo not the whole banner? I keep going back to the left to reload the homepage and have to keep moving my mouse again to hit the link.
I'm happy with progress, I work in IT so it's expected but ElReg wasn't broken... I was upset when you did away with RegHardware now this is going too far.
Stop it, now!
Thirteen Astonishing True Facts You Never Knew About SCREWS
Wednesday 30th July 2014 13:44 GMT 
My day screwed
A very good article I thought. I hope this sort of thing gets a regular 'Slot' it would be a 'Pozi'-tive contribution to the knowledge of El Reg readership.
So much so that I showed it to a couple of Brummie colleagues Mr 'Philips' and Mr 'Robertson' who took exception to the hammer-thing and ended up being right 'Cross-Heads'. Both saying that this happens in 'Bristol' more often and the p*** shouldn't be taken out of a 'Clutch' of West-Midlander's. That's quite normal for Mr 'Philips' though 'cos he 'Torx' & 'Torx' and but we can usually calm him down 'One-Way' or another and you have to draw a 'Line' somewhere but then as he said he was just making a 'Tri-point'
Bored now, someone else can have a go I've got some work to nail.
Glastonbury debuts festival wide Wi-Fi network - fitted to COWS
Want to sit in Picard's chair while spying on THE WORLD? We can make it so – ex-NSA man
Dyson takes Samsung to court in UK over vacuum cleaner
WIN a RockBLOCK Iridium satellite comms module
Tick-tock, Apple: Obama has just days to stop US iPhone iPad sales ban
Whatever happened to telepresence? From $2.5m deals to free iPad apps
Wednesday 20th March 2013 11:20 GMT
Re: Cisco is the problem, Skype is good enough
Cisco is no more 'the problem' than any other VC/TP vendor. As to not playing nice, how so? Cisco TP products CTS aside are from the purchase of TANDBERG - a company known for its interop and adherence to standards.
CTS used TIP a technically superior way for multi-screen systems which was propitiatory but no more it was released as part of the above purchase and has been used by Polycom among others.
Yes, they do cost money but there are times when 'good enough' IS NOT good enough.
To be clear I have no vested interest in Cisco, I have a number of years in the industry however and I just get a little mad with unfounded and unproven statements like this...
Texan contends iPod EXPLODED IN HER FACE
LG pitches £7k 55in OLED TV, again
iRobot Warrior-bot goes on sale this Spring
Cops cuff rectal shoplifter
Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car
Tuesday 20th December 2011 09:47 GMT
Technology Pioneers
To me this is further evidence of the circular nature of technology.
The late 1800's saw the beginning of the boom in the internal combustion engine vehicle we now take for granted. From the outset they were complicated to drive and maintain, slow, unreliable, of limited range - try finding a petrol station in 1888 and they were also the preserve of the rich. Yet as A to B transport inferior in pretty much every way to the horses they were destined to replace.
Progress has been made making these early examples of modern electric cars usable and unlike the first cars or horseless carriages as they were quaintly termed they are not complicated to the user, not slow and according to most reports the reliability is good. They are still of limited range and it could be said still the preserve of the rich.
Similarities are clear between the early engine/car technology and the current phase (pun intended) of electric vehicles. It is early days for the technology in an automotive application and may not in the end prove be the answer to the future of transport power but I think congratulations are in order to Renault/Nissan and others for being modern day pioneers, making electric cars suitable for every day use and for putting what is possible into the mainstream albeit with acknowledged limits but those limits being so much less restrictive than those of 150 years ago.
Coders breathe Android into dead HP fondleslab
Tuesday 23rd August 2011 16:03 GMT
XDA Developers
Managed to get a 32Gb TouchPad at cheaper than cheap and now the guys and gals at XDA Developers are now into the Android on Touchpad game.
Some very, very smart people over there. Looking forward to their results, will expect good things but I'll be giving WebOS a good go first though
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1245
Biting the hand that feeds IT
