Re: Outer Manchuria?
"Pity Lewis Page isn't still with El Reg; would have been interesting to hear his views on the subject."
Indeed, I'll 2nd that.
Posts by AugustB
6 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Oct 2012
Whoosh! China shows off J-20 'stealth' fighters and jet drones
Crappy sandwiches, cantankerous nerds: Put user back in user group
Web daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Back off Putin, I'm no CIA stooge
Don't bother with Apple's 9 Sept hype-day: Someone's GONE AND BLABBED IT ALL
Friday 5th September 2014 09:02 GMT
use for one-handed
when Google changed their Maps app for Android to remove the + and - zoom buttons, I was pissed. I commute for work almost 30 miles each way through very heavy traffic (yes i live in the US, DFW area of Texas). I used the app to check traffic conditions while driving as there are several alternate highway routes I could take each way. they removed these zoom buttons, andthe app became near useless while driving, as zooming really took two hands to do. Pinch zooming while driving didn't work well, whereas memory muscle for pressing a plus or minus button to zoom does..then glancing to see which routes are green/orange/red.
Didn't mean to ramble, just to point out that for several hours a day I have a legitimate need to use a phone one handed...bravo apple! Maybe I'll break down and finally buy my first Apple product.
Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD
Wednesday 8th May 2013 16:13 GMT 
How much data...?
"which works out to be around 40GB of data written every day for five years"
Brings an interesting question to mind - how much data is read/written in this sort of scenario?
-Windows 7 laptop, 4gigs ram.
-Booting up then
- pandora, gmail, facebook, pintrest; for an hour or two
-Shutting down
The laptop the wife uses has a nearly-full disk I'm looking to replace - I occasionally use it as well.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
