Posts by John Young 19 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2007
It's too heavy, too stretchy and too expensive. Anyone for aluminium?
Hard to see what really happened though - with Joburg emergency services quoted as saying "There's approximately 3 000 to 6 000 kilowatts running through the cables, they stood no chance because of the high voltage."
"Brought it where? Presumably, because it's a portable MP3 player & you tend to carry it with you, you would have brought it anyway."
Phill is clearly from the West Midlands, probably the Black Country. Round there, 'brought' can mean bought as well as fetched.
Ace software from Microsoft though - has to make you laugh that they only allowed for 365 days in the year!
SqueezeCenter runs on (at least) QNAP NAS boxes and is very easy to install.
Two gotchas though:
- SqueezeCenter's memory usage necessitates (on the QNAP) swap file writes which prevent spin-down. There's a swap-to-usb-flash mod available, but that doesn't sound sensible to me as it should eventually kill your flash.
- LosslessWMA is only supported when SqeezeCenter is running on a Windows platform (no problem with lossy WMA though) - the migration from lossless WMA to flac is fairly painless, but then you can no longer use Windows Media Player to sync to your (non-flac-playing) Walkman.
Having said that I'm extremely happy with the NAS/Duet solution.
"MP's plan to loose Boffins at a new facility so they dont loose admin at an old one?"
No, you have it very, very wrong.
The old facility at Daresbury is where the new 'Diamond' facility should have been built, but politics (an alliance of the Wellcome Trust and the French Government) made it go South. Maybe it wouldn't have overrun its budgets if it had 'stayed' 'up North'.
Paul, quit whinging is such a horrible, shameful, patronising way.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could have both facilities? Wouldn't it be nice if a few bob could be diverted from the London Olympics to promote science across the UK?
It's about scale - it's a lot less OK to publish copyrighted content to the whole world than it is to slip a copy to your mate.
People do have reduced salary & job security because of file sharing.
Just as I'm pissed off with terrorists and nutters because I can't take my small penknife on the plane because of them; I'm pissed off with file sharers because the majority of us have to put up with DRM because of them.
I think of 20p coin as being a four bob bit. I usually keep this to myself though.
I was 7 1/2 when we changed. It was a rip-off, one day you could get 48 mojos or 12 penny arrow bars for a shilling, next day you could only get 40/10 for 5 new pence.
I wouldn't. I get through a lot of 500ml bottles, usually poured into pint glasses - they're what I would call an unacceptably short measure if it were served in a pub.
(Current UK legislation deems less than 539.6 ml as an offence)
"I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles my Mammy!"
"My Thomson DVR has a 14-day EPG, so I would say that this 8-day one is a software limitation rather than a limitation of Freeview."
Freeview say "The Freeview service now includes an eight-day, on-screen electronic programme guide (EPG) to help you plan your viewing. " (@ http://www.freeview.co.uk/help/channels-programming/q1)
Maybe they're trialling a 14 day EPG in your area?
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