Posts by Peter Barcroft

Feel.me up for grabs in dot-me domain auction

What about do.me?

slipitin.me?

screw.me (obviously a DIY site)

plu.me

There should be a competition for the silliest .me.

Splinter Cell hack smells more like publicity stunt

Obvious Publiciy

Google translate of the russian Text:-

27.11.09 - Subject: System Maintenance

Occasionally the security system will be switched off for planned work and data protection. During such work may be a breach in security from external threats. Thus, all off would be a random character in accordance with a random pattern of Delta-3-6-Oscar

Sony widens its e-bookshelf

Oh Wonderful more ebook readers for the US

Well there's a surprise another set of ebook readers being released in the US.

As an owner of a sony PRS505 I have wanted the PRS700 (which if I remember came out at the back end of last year) in the UK, or maybe a Kindle or any of the others that are US only.

Ah well I can hope.

Microsoft claims 'landmark victory' against defunct UK reseller

ITAC were a Limited Co

Therefore am I right in thinking that unless the judgement was guaranteed by the MD personally, Microsoft can only go after the company, which with no money means they will get bugger all. BUT it does give them a great excuse to fleece, I mean charge to market conditions, the British public for even more.

We do need a Grrrrr logo

Did the width move for you, darling?

Good comeback...

... but I still think you are going to lose the argument on fixed width. Back in the dark old days of the early 90's when having a work machine with a 15" 1024x768 screen was considered luxury maybe 800 fixed width was a good idea, but for crying out loud, you can buy a 20" Widescreen monitor for less than £100 which has a resolution on 1680x1050 which means that 50% (ish excepting scrollbars etc)) of your screen is given over grey nothingness.

OMFG, what have you done?

2 days and it is sill annoying

Well I thought I'd leave it a couple of days, try and get used to the new layout, let my eyes adjust to the (irritating) grey bars down the side, even spend time reading some of the articles.

But...

Noooooooooooooooo - this is not working - I have to agree with everyone who has said that fixed width sucks - have any of your designers head of widescreen - try putting the site on a 1600x1050 screen. And as for the icons - the less said the better.

Hurry up and fix what you broke.

P2P site cries traffic shaping foul at Canuck ISP

IBM Lotus Notes Being Throttled

I thought Microsoft had done that years ago

CERN completes 'world’s largest jigsaw puzzle'

Is it me or....

Are they being a bit slap dash

ATLAS's role is to measure particles produced in proton-proton collisions within its 7000 tonne, 28,750 cubic metre bulk packing 100 million sensors.

CERN explains: "As particles pass through a magnetic field produced by superconducting magnets, this detector has the ability to accurately track them to the width of a human hair."

Proton Size ~ 0.000000000000001 m

Human Hair ~ 0.0001 m

Anybody see some difference in scale?

The previous posters were right it going to be Another World/Fade to Black/Half Life - do these scientist never play games???

Businessman takes NatWest for £35k

Mor Information

If you want to know more about how to reclaim YOUR bank charges go to http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/index.php.

British forces auction old kit online

And Down

El reg strikes again - yet another government website taken down within minutes of being put on the register