Posts by Steve Goodey

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

I bought the Astroslide and still use it..

I crowdsourced the AStroslide on Indigogo. But never received it from them as the company went tits up. I spotted one on Ebay so got that and have been using as an everyday till now and been very happy with it. A few people are rather jobsmacked when I get the keyboard out.

Luckily I got a refund from Indigogo as there was some cash left over, but others were not so fortunate.

Every morning on turning it on the Planet update app vainly tries connecting but no joy.

Recently i dropped it out of my pocket onto the garage floor and bust the screen!

Now waiting for a fold 7 to replace it.

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

Laughing Stock.

Their music is great.

X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up

PE.

Perhaps Arkell v. Pressdram would be a suitable response?

How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth

Mars Climate Orbiter

Are they using English or Metric units?

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Code peeking.

I seem to remember a work colleague looking through the code and finding the string "Does your mother know you do this?" which made us both laugh!

I think he was trying to mod the game in some way.

Unless I dreamt that!

JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations

Re: Have said this before...

do no good?

'Mindset reset' contributes to £1bn extra costs and another delay – 2 years this time – for Emergency Services Network

Eh?

What is M4 digitisation? Smart motorway malarkey?

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

"Harris was frank: “With hindsight, was it the right thing – should we have put a message out and said ‘Really sorry guys, we’ve got to delay payment’? Maybe, perhaps. Maybe we could have done something like that."

You think?

It looks like you want a storage appliance for your data centre. Maybe you'd prefer a smart card reader?

Startech.com

I like Startech.com gear and find it quite good, are you sure it's not equivalent?

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Re: Challenge

Haven't Netzpolitik heard of Arkell v. Pressdram?

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Excuse me! You're talking about software I love.

Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted its data, so it escalated its support ticket to a lawsuit

As per wittertainment.

How do you accidentally delete a whole G Suite account? You just accidentally delete a whole G Suite account.

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

Another one who got screwed over...

Robert Hooke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke

Do I hear two million dollars? Apple-1 fossil goes on the block, cassettes included

Has it got...

...a headphone socket?

We wanted a camera, they gave us the eye of Gemini – and an eSIM

Hinge ok.

I must say I've been using mine for approx. 6 weeks now and the hinge is excellent. It stays open in use and snaps shut when closing with a crisp clunk. Very impressed.

There's just one month left 'til the big day: May 25... but don't panic!

Will any towel do? Or are there recommendations?

Blighty stuffs itself in Galileo airlock and dares Europe to pull the lever

I can stump up a fiver, will that help?

Crewless dinghy signs to UK Ship Register for Middle East mission

Re: Challenge

"The only wrinkle comes if/when that boat hits something else. Seems unlikely tho. The sea doesn't have a lot of damn fools and maniacs driving around on it like the land does, greatly simplifying the navigation task of the autopilot."

Err...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8648011.stm

Blighty's Department for Culture, Media & Sport gets 'digital' rebrand

Re: Challenge

"How do you make a complaint about them not replying to your emails?"

You just make a complaint about them not replying to your emails

As per Wittertainment.

BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

Re: Too late for me and BT.

I seem to remember the change happened on the retirement of the editor. Once he'd gone the critical letters stopped and the magazine changed to a wipe your arse job.

BT's hiring! 500 more customer service folk to answer your angry calls

Engineers bah!

They don't need more engineers or external planners. New technology will do away with them! Apparently.

Reg meets 'Lokihardt', quite possibly the world's best hacker

Lee says laughing. "I worked for Samsung for a little while, but not anymore."

Was he their battery guru and they let him go?

That's gotta hurt: NASA suffers attack of the lame Orionids

Re: The Orionids are not a major shower

What about the Haemorrhoids? A decent show?

So, what's happening with LOHAN? Sweet FAA, that's what

Come on....

FFS it's not rocket science!

If you got Netflix for Miss Marple, you're out of luck (and a bit odd)

Hickson

If you get a hankering again for the Hickson Marple you might want to try the remastered Blu-ray version that's available as three individual packs region free.

BT broadband in broad-based brownout and TITSUP incidents

Deluded.

Wouldn't be so bad if the status page I tried mentions the problem. It says everything's hunky dory. At least the apology and goodwill payment will be some consolation!!!!

Urine for a treat this Monday, ISS 'nauts: SpaceX to launch pee-powered coffee pot

Re: Friday... beer o'clock.

The 3 seconds are due to orbital mechanics.

Footie fracas: MYSTERY DRONE waves flag, incites Balkan brawl

Re: So what's next?

Trigonoceps occipitalis. Thanks for the ACC ref. jogged a memory.

Vulture 2 X-Plane soars over Spaceport America

Those eyes!!!!

Supervalu supermarket stores stung by sneaky sales system scammers

"These include the Albertson's, Acme, Shaw's and Star Market chains."

Wait, there really is an ACME company?

Delaware pair nabbed for getting saucy atop Mexican eatery

Re: At least...

"Oh you just had to slip that one in..."

That's what she said.

Apple SOLDERS memory into new 'budget' iMac

You'll soon know if it's on, ask my son. (Hospital trip, plastic bag on hand etc.)

Goodbye cruel world: Robot 'commits suicide' in KITCHEN FIREBALL

Re: Were those tire marks ...

Tyred of life?

WIN a RockBLOCK Iridium satellite comms module

CLARKE

How about with a nod to Arthur C Clarke?

Command

LOHAN

Abort

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