Posts by Phil Cooke

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Looks like it takes as long to update, as the moderatrix takes to approve these......

@ Steve Bennett

All the main mobile telecoms companies have been doing work on smartmeters with embedded SIMS, so these are the most likely route for the connection.

@AC 21:23

It's a googlephone, so it will only sync with google - you don't need all that outlook stuff when you can trust it all to the mighty googleplex!

@steven

While not working in uk.gov, on my desk here I have a client desktop for access to their systems, my work laptop for access to my employers systems, and a netbook I use for personal stuff and network testing. Knowing how many systems and suppliers have been in and out of uk.gov, I'd be surprised if a significant number of staff didn't have 2 or 3 PC's. just to get into diverse systems!

@Mycho

Knowing Oveur, I suspect they are on pint 20 or 30 by now, that man can drink! Lets hope the node has less downtime then TQ tho :p

Website

www.axethebeertax.com - also failbook groups etc out there if ya interested :)

24 connection?

Sounds like Obama's been watching the current 24 and is panicing it could happen for real!

Another pointless study

All this proves is that there are benefits from both, as with most things.

N. Yorks mapping...

Just took a look at my area, which flags as average for everything except Anti-Social behaviour which is flagged high.....with exactly 0 cases reported in the stats they show! How the hell can that be high compared to the rest of North Yorkshire?!?!?!?

Lame

ROFL, what a nub!

IE6

I have access to 2 different corporates networks for my current job. Both of them have IE6 as the standard browser and no immediate plans to change this :(

That's probably where a lot of the IE6 traffic is from, legacy setups in corporates :s

Paperless

Class! Especially the PFY's 'committment' to paperless at the end :D

@ AC 10:16

and there was me thinking most of them were in places like the House of Commons, or the White House......I can't see how a politician could ever be human!

@ AC 13:52

OMG, a fellow EVE Player! I think part of the decline is the fact a lot of people are subscribing to MMOs like EVE instead on PC. Plus, with some of them you get the upgrades free and major community support :)

@ James

'Personally if you havent tried it (and by try I do mean run it on a system that isnt the bare minimum for running it) then before you continue to knock it you should.'

Couldn't agree more with this - I just had to purchase a new laptop and managed to get an employee deal for a HP. They shipped this with Vista Home Premium 64 (as the Laptop has 4gb of ram) and thus far I have been impressed with how stable it is.I was expecting loads of compatibility issues with my games etc but so far everything has worked......

However, I have older hardware that I wouldn't let Vista near with a barge pole as XP SP3 is stable and supports everything I need (mainly for internet broadcasting). It's a case of working out what is 'fit for purpose' for your INDIVIDUAL needs.

@breakfast

Ya barred!

Seriously tho, the sooner they kill these off the better! Especially with lab.gov's record on data security.........

RE: Helping the scouts is suicide

Working with kids in general is nowadays. I spent 7 years as an IT manager in a school, during that time 2 Heads of IT got suspended due to allegations by kids, all later proven innocent but lead to them leaving.

Needless to say, I don't intend on going back into education IT in case it happens to me, I took a pay cut and went to work for a telecoms company instead, well away from kids and vulnerable persons - still had to have a disclosure done tho! Madness!

RE: What is Best buy?

It's the US version of Currys, but with a slightly wider range of overpriced tat!

Re: Miss Bee

I thought it might be :)

@ Tow Walsh

2. If you must think, for Heaven's sake think illogically. That should be fairly safe.

With the present Gov, thinking logically would be the safest bet surely......leave the illogical, screwed up ideas to them, especially Mr Brown!

Win 3.1 and the interwebz

I remember using it as a student with Compuserve and running a copy of Dr Solomons Anti virus, back when it used to check for a whole 6000 viruses!

Also remember Win 3.0 on the schools RM network, which had OS/2 on the server and a couple of old 186? PC's running Windows 1!

Those were the days...

Rocketmail

I've still got my old Rocketmail address, same setup as Ben with the username.rm login - pity I stopped using it as Yahoo!s service was pants compared to rocketmails. I check it occasionally and use it as an archive now.

Guess I got me coat when it comes to Yahoo! ages ago.........

RE: DO NOT BUY

you'll find every provider does this! I've been using one of these for a month now and don't have any issues with it - It's a lot better that the old PCMCIA card it replaced :)

PH angle, it's curvy............

RE: Production Company

But... aren't the BBC *the* production company concerned, or don't they own the rights to their own programs?

No, they also buy in programs internationally which obviously the producers want guarantees will be protected as well as from independents in the UK as previously mentioned.

However, I think that it's a fair point that it should be opened up as much as possible, 2 years for a MAC or Linux client seems extreme......

to Paul Talbot

EVe-Online is the MMORPG you mean - it deleted the boot.ini file. Lets hope XP SP3 adds at least a little protection for key system files!

Anyone found the paris hilton angle yet?