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Boffins dream up Sleeptalking PC standby-mode tech

Monday 27th April 2009 14:12 GMT Martin

Media Players

The PopcornHour media player does torrent and usenet troughing out of the box.

(don't have the power ratings to hand though).

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Dixons websites take a little lie down

Tuesday 13th January 2009 01:15 GMT Martin

Still Down

Currys.co.uk and pcworld.co.uk (plus a few oddies) still down at 21:45

That familiar old feeling of finding out you can't read you backup tapes.

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Raids net police £1m in pirate game and movie discs

Wednesday 10th December 2008 13:53 GMT Martin

Hull too.

25,000 DVDs 125,000 disks and 12 people arrested.

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Police-ve-cracked-illegal-DVD-racket-Walton-Street-market/article-532038-detail/article.html

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Jacqui Smith kick-starts yoof ID debate site, site kick stops

Wednesday 9th July 2008 14:50 GMT Martin

The mod sounds familiar

Reading the moderators replies, they seemed strangely familiar.

Than it came back to me - The old Eliza programs where you try to have a conversation with a machine. http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

You: How do we stop ID cards

Eliza: Does that question interest you?

You: Labour have shot themselves in the foot again with this ID card nonsense.

Eliza: Please go on.

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Home Office hands over £50m for police mobile devices

Monday 26th May 2008 10:53 GMT Martin

Title should read. "Officers get iPlod"

Mines the stab-proof one.

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Ofcom pulls plug on wholesale broadband regulation

Wednesday 21st May 2008 14:55 GMT Martin

If only.

I have both BT and Kingston/Karoo available here.

The former has zero LLU's in the local exchange and Krapoo.... well say no more.

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Next time you go to the loo, bring your locked laptop with you

Friday 28th March 2008 12:53 GMT Martin

Lucky me then?

I have yet to own a desktop or laptop that can boot off USB. I thought it a damn nuisance, maybe not so bad now.

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Ofcom stands up to Information Commissioner

Monday 3rd March 2008 20:58 GMT Martin

Freely Available on CD Real Soon Now.

Coat, get, bye.

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Join the army, get your ID pinched - MoD laptop goes AWOL

Sunday 20th January 2008 21:59 GMT Martin

And the rest

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3353778.ece

"The Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that it was urgently checking the information thought to be held on more than 400 laptops stolen from the department in the past five years, including at least 68 stolen in 2007 alone."

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Dreamhost billing cock-up shocks customer bank accounts

Tuesday 15th January 2008 20:56 GMT Martin

Peanuts - Hull takes 900,000 UKP

" Angry city councillors are calling for a full investigation into how the authority mistakenly withdrew £900,000 from residents' accounts.

As the Mail reported yesterday, about 9,500 unauthorised automated transactions were carried out by the council earlier this week."

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=136541&contentPK=19527439&folderPk=79656&pNodeId=243835

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Excuse me sir: there's a rootkit in your master boot record

Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:16 GMT Martin

@Robert

"The protected flash BIOSs must have some sort of password or PIN built in to the flash upgrade utility."

Usually a physical link on the mobo.

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Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:49 GMT Martin

more than 512 bytes available.

Someone said "I'm at a loss to figure how 512 bytes of code (incl partition table data)"

There's vastly more room than that. The 512 bytes is what is loaded into memory at boot time, the whole of the first track (cylinder maybe) is available as well.

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Amazon claims amazing Christmas

Thursday 27th December 2007 16:55 GMT Martin

Bah, Humbug - not next year

And my DVD's, books and CD's arrived this morning, 27th. Ordered in plenty of time. Thank you TNT for finding out you couldn't handle the load and just posted the excess, probably on Christmas eve.

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