Posts by Trevor Marshall

Database man flown to Hong Kong to install forgotten patch spends week in pub

Never flew there for real, but worked with a lot of flight simulators (big boxy jobs on hydraulics) that included Kai Tak as an airport and I almost perfected landing on Rwy 13. Aim at the chequerboard painted on the hill and turn sharp right when you're over the middle marker. Kind of.

US intercepts Bermuda Triangle bubble podule

Call that a podule?

I'd like to see you plug that into your Acorn Archimedes.

Elasticsearch cluster in a jiffy: Step by step

Indeed, it's really simple with Docker, there are off-the-shelf containers for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.

Why the Sun is setting on the Boeing 747

Re: Ah the 747-100

Ah Redifon, and the 'erection shop' - and tannoy messages for Richard Stiffener to go there. Yes - childish. But there's nothing like the fun of flying a full-flight simulator at 300 feet inverted over the old Kai Tak airport.

Meet ARM1, grandfather of today's mobe, tablet CPUs – watch it crunch code live in a browser

Conditional execution

You've got to love making all instructions able to be conditional, it gives such great mnemonics. SoftWare Interrupt only when the result of the previous instruction didn't set the zero ('Z') bit is the wonderful:

SWINE <expression>

BRITISH BIGFOOT ON LOOSE in Tunbridge Wells

More likely to be a werewolf

"He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent

Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair

You better stay away from him

He'll rip your lungs out, jim

Ha, I'd like to meet his tailor

Ah-ooooo, werewolves of London

Ah-ooooo....."

From the brilliant Warren Zevon

Carphone Warehouse lauds Nexus 7 while eagerly eying iPad Mini

re WHERE?

Here! Mine updated itself on Sunday - much to my surprise. And the rotating home screen is nice too.

GNOME hacker: Culture isn't holding desktop Linux back

Just to say ...

... that Linux works for me, on the desktop, server and laptop (and as Android on a phone and tablet). There are some things it's good for, and some that it's not so good for. But if it doesn't float your boat that's OK, you can use something else, I really don't mind. The operating system is just something that enables you to run your applications, right? So pick the one that best supports those applications and relax.

Qantas to provide wireless iPad entertainment on 767s

Re: QANTAS.

QANTAS - Quite A Nice Trip - All Survived

Stephen Hawking to demonstrate speech via brain scan

Re: An ibrick for An iapple

Well, it's not going to be a Flash mob on an iDevice...

Pilots asking not to fly F-22 after oxygen problems

Re: 'The Right Stuff'

In the words of Robert Calvert from 'Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters'

"Catch a falling Starfighter

Put it in the pocket of your jeans

You can use it as a cigarette lighter

Or as an opener for a can of beans"

Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record

Lewis is only doing his job

Which is to get lots of eyeballs looking at ElReg and its comment pages, and while they're at it seeing all those lovely ads that decorate the pages. The more contentious the article the more comments there are which means more eyeballs.