Posts by flokie 77 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Feb 2014
Interesting, I have a couple of cans of Lidl "Indian tonic water" in the fridge, planning to mix a G+T later, but ingredients list seems fine. Made with sugar - no added sweeteners, hear that Schweppes? - and it has quinine too. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be overly sweet.
I can understand why you'd say with that kind of thing being bandied about by the London centric media.
But there's a massive hint that the council isn't led by the SNP in the Scotsman story: no political party is mentioned.
Actually the majority of councils in Scotland are not controlled the SNP - again something that some might find surprising in a "one party state"...
As it turns out, East Lothian council is led by a Labour/tory/independent coalition: http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/695/council_information_performance_and_statistics/625/who_runs_the_council
That type of arrangement is actually far from uncommon.
Call me a killjoy, but I for one finds their 'marketing for punks' really rather annoying.I know it's Friday but everyone here seems so enthusiastic and I can't fathom why.
I was quite disappointed the last couple of times I had their beers. A Punk IPA that tasted like flat fruit juice. And their draught lager is really just a plain boring lager. If you want to try a nice lager from a Scottish brewery, Harviestoun's Schiehallion is a much better choice. The Williams Brothers lager isn't bad either.
Then there's also this in the news today:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14304753.Cheers__Glasgow_pub_allows_your__dug__to_have_a_pint/
*sigh*
That recipe book is cool though - I'll definitely pass it on to some people I know do home brewing.
Back in 1999/2000 (?) I found that if I sent an HTML email to my Yahoo account,and if that included a style tag linking to a CSS, then that style would be applied to the full Yahoo webmail page, not just the email. Cue laughs sending emails to pals and replacing the fonts of their Yahoo inbox to pink Comic Sans.
I don't think I used Yahoo email much longer afterwards...
was to make it easy to leave after the contract had finished. The agent in the retention service promptly understood there was no point trying to keep me as a customer after I gave her 3 or 4 reasons why I was leaving and wanted my PAC code. I'd expected they would try a bit harder.
With giffgaff now.. not for the faint hearted, but at least it's cheap and 4G is included.
As for BT, I left them many years ago, pretty much as soon as I was able to. Had I waited a bit longer, this would only have been one more reason to give to the EE retention service.
It definitely launched too late, in an unfinished state, and the lack of budget phones hurt them too. I really like my Q10 (which I got free with a 24mth £20 contract inc.a Deezer sub - I still think Orange messed that one up and 'sold' it as if it were a Curve! ) but yes, BB10 was a real pain to work with initially, I really missed the trackpoint as precise text selection was next to impossible.
After the OS upgrades it is now a great phone. It's still very snappy two years on, the original problems have been smoothed out. I thought of upgrading to the Classic, but I no longer miss the physical buttons, and the hardware specs are otherwise similar to the Q10.
I really hate to think there may be no further BB10 devices and having to go to either Apple (yikes!) or Androis (yikes!) for my next phone.. Thankfully the Q10 has got life left in it.
Very disappointed with the Amazon thing too. I don't mind having the App Store to get Android apps, and it's not too bad for permissions. But what's the point of the Amazon Store app? Why does it need all these permissions and why can't I remove it?
If you've opened it by mistake and given it permissions, it's still possible to reset it to its default state and delete data by using the ccleaner app (yes, from the Amazon app store..).
This was never a commercial website - it's possible one of the companies you mention could find a way to monetize it, but they're probably more interested in directing users to their own walled gardens.
TIMJ let you pick any song off Youtube/Soundcloud/HypeM etc and accepted direct links or you could upload an MP3. The idea being that you just need a browser to listen to songs other have shared and no specific subscription/application.
Looking at their blog, the time they had to spend keeping the code linking to various platforms up to date is one of the reasons why they're shutting down.
I'll miss the site, it was a cool idea and I've discovered a few songs and artists over the years through it.
Nope, A clearly isn't willing to listen to B. And you're only showing your own bias with this post.
Of course 2+2=4 in the decimal system, using 0123456789.
But maybe in B's reference system (still using decimal) the numbers are 01245G?789. And 2+2=5.
The numbers themselves, and the decimal system are only arbitrary human conventions.
In a ternary system using 012, 2+2 = 11.
It's a bit like the fundamentalists arguing their reading of the Bible is the only correct belief system, and the only reference system you should view the world through.
Having said that, I personally wouldn't entirely rule out humans and dinosaurs coexisting. Clearly, all scientific evidence makes this extremely unlikely in this universe. But considering there's still so much we don't know and/or understand, we can't rule out parallel universes.
So yeah I might end up agreeing with the Creationists - should they agree with parallel universes.
My grandfather fought in WW1 and had a few 'kitchen' related anecdotes. The grub was horrible, but one time he was sent to fetch the food for his troop, the cook was proud to share a rat he had caught. This turned out to be possibly the nicest meal he had in the trenches.
I'm not very fussy when it comes to meat, but I'd definitely consider guinea pig ahead of rat. Although squashing the whole thing keeping the teeth visible isn't the most appetising way of presenting I could think of.
Reminds me of a thought that crossed my mind the other day as seagulls were flying about... Do seagulls get eaten anywhere? Or is there not enough meat on them? Or do they taste horrible?
Indeed, it's not widespread yet, but there are many bands/websites/record companies out there that do provide lossless audio.
I really like Bandcamp - a lot of indie and alternatives bands and independent record labels on there. You can buy digital only from the website, or buy the physical release, and once you've done so can immediately download the digital versions in a variety of formats - including FLAC, I can't remember whether they do WAV files. I usually download a FLAC copy from the home setup and OGG for phone/portable. I've also bought a few LPs in shops to find a Bandcamp voucher inside to get the digital copy - once again meaning a wide choice of formats for download.
Some record labels still provide CD copies with LPs rather than digital vouchers. I recall buying Shellac's"1000 Hurts" back in 2000 and that's the first LP I bought that also included the CD. I don't think I even hard a turntable at the time! And then the no-vinyl 00s happened and it was a while since I saw that again. Electronic music label Kompakt are amongst several that still do so (or did last time I purchased an LP from one of their artists).
Domino Records LPs include digital vouchers - letting you pick between HQ MP3 or WAV. They're one of the biggest indies.
On a case by case basis, My Bloody Valentine fully embraced all formats with their third album - the LP came with the CD and a digital voucher - download formats included 24bit 96K WAV. Once I got a download voucher and found 192kbps MP3s. I expressed my disappointment to the (very small) indie label, and got a copy in WAV.
But really most LPs I buy nowadays come either with a CD and/or a voucher allowing me to download a lossless copy.
So I'm not sure how come you've never encountered lossless audio out there? I'll admit I'm not well versed in major labels digital releases, but if that's all you ever listen to, then I would question your commitment to music to start with. I'm guessing either that or you haven't tried and yet use the argument as a reason why not to purchase music.
I had a BB 9780 on Orange, and yes there was some geo-locking - but that only happened after 1 week outside the UK.
I miss it on the Q10, which should now have wifi calling capabilities but obviously the carrier network needs to support them too.Will it work with VoLTE? Not sure, but then if BT buy out EE indeed, then there's definitely no way I will still be with them by the time they support it.
6 music is fab, and it's not competing with Radio 3. Kick Radio 2 off FM if you like, not 3.
The following may not be valid if you mostly listen to BBC6 daytime through the week, but if you're into the more weird and wonderful on 6, chances are you will find plenty to like in Radio 3's Late Junction.
I noticed this in my TuneIn app on my phone - they had a high bitrate AAC stream for Radio 3, but now the BBC is only providing two unreliable 128k mp3 streams.
I'm yet to try catching up on BBC radio shows with TuneIn - maybe I'll forgive them if these start to work as they never did before.
But the latest versions of Opera use the Chrome engine - so it's even more Chrome than the FF UI redesign. At least Firefox still has about:config. I'm still running Opera 12.16 - the last version to use the Opera Presto engine.
Unfortunately this means I find myself having to reach for Firefox more and more often as there won't be an update to 12.16.
And Firefox here= ESR. Always ESR. I don't need browser updates every 10 days thank you.
On the consumer front I suspect price is a bigger problem than lack of apps. Lack of apps was an issue at launch, but then so was BB10 itself. I find the app selection at present to be better than it ever was with BB7. And that didn't prevent BB7 devices from being successful.
I'm with Sky which provided me with a Netgear DG934G some years ago - which is OK but obviously a custom firmware limits what you can do: eg. you can't set it in transparent mode, it has to do NAT.
Its main drawback for me was the lack of Gigabit ports, so I supplemented it with an Edimax router/AP.
I've been offered upgrades since, but my setup works fine and I never had issues with VPNs when WfH so I'll leave this be for now.
In hindsight it was still a minor miracle considering my mother is a complete luddite.
My friends in school who had a computer at home had a CPC6128. Obviously, I would have liked that so we could trade games on 3.5in floppies. But nope, we got a 464+ as that cost <£100.
We only ever had two game cartridges, I can't say I have fond memories of either. The manual included instructions for games in Basic. My sister and I spent entire afternoons copying the code so we could play more games, but there were so many typos and errors in the instructions that we only ever got one to work - and that was little more advanced than pong. Saving and loading from tapes only caused more hassle too. Thankfully we got a NES not long after and the 464+ was given away.
I'm too young to recall the original CPC464, but that CPC6128 was popular indeed back then - and appears to be fondly remembered.
A quick search seems to suggest that Xen would be a better choice. KVM graphics capabilities are quite limited compared to other hypervisors. I have a RHEL desktop, with a Win KVM VM, connecting via Spice, and there isn't any 3D support to start with.
Another thing to bear in mind is that RHEL is built for stability, not the latest and greatest.
eg. libgcc in fully patched RHEL 6.4: 4.4.7 20120313.
Fedora will have all the latest features.
As far as I'm aware, the VDI solution that has the best graphics support will be XenDesktop.
But I think I'm with most here, it would make more sense of give Win direct access to the HW and have a Linux VM, or have two separate physical boxes.
I did try Opera 15 in a Win VM, so I'll stick to sad panda.
The problem with switching engines is that Presto had unique features indeed. I don't think the fixed-width display can be replicated in Blink. Maybe I tried it too early, and I hope they've listened to some of the feedback and reintroduced bookmarks eg. but as far as I'm concerned they're just following instead of leading now and they have lost what made them unique, so I'm not even bothered by the lack of a Linux version.
I still use Opera 12.16 for most websites, FF for some others, but yeah I know I'll have to find a better alternative sometime soon.
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