Just add to your /etc/network/interfaces.......
... simple as that, eh?
I'll get me granny on it straight away!
Posts by Robert E A Harvey
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World shrugs as IPv4 addresses finally exhausted
UK probes ebook pricing
Home Office crime maps go to street-level detail
Tuesday 1st February 2011 11:58 GMT
for December 2010 only.
For some unfathomable reason it will be accumulating data from now on. Why historic data can't be included with a couple of quick SQL commands to populate it from the old data I can't imagine.
I suppose the police are going to be even busier now, dragging google map orange markers onto the place where Sharon says that Dave sent her a text threatening to slash her.
Tuesday 1st February 2011 09:47 GMT 
out of town
street-level mapping may preserve anonymity in metropolitan areas, but what about farming areas?
If you live in Guthram Gowt, and it says 1 violent crime (it doesn't today) then the equation is simple. Either you were beating your wife or the bloke over the road was. If it wasn't you, then he has lost anonymity.
Another instance of the people who run this country thinking that UK == London.
The future is analog (at least part of it)
Tuesday 1st February 2011 09:47 GMT 
Music industry
I accept the basic argument that digital does not always mean better - ask listeners to radio 3 if they prefer FM or DAB. I'm working in Germany at the moment and can use the car radio to get radio 5 on MW & radio 4 on LW. No plans for cross-border broadcasting by digital.
But the music industry is a poor model over which to argue. Digital music is a HUGE success. The record companies are hurting, but that is because they are (1) Dinosaurs who tried to prevent progress (2) turning out rubbish. I am reminded of the chap on 'The Now Show' who got the biggest round of applause I have ever heard for "Downloading isn't killing the music industry, Simon Cowell is killing the music industry".
You have to ask why ancient rockers, the Beatles, and old folkies are selling so well as downloads. Could it possibly be that, like Mariachi, you only need one Rap track and you have the whole genre? Could it be that the record companies in switching from A&R to managed production have killed their own golden-egg laying goose?
I've been collecting music from the 1930s and 1940s in the last few years. All paid for, of course. But even there the record companies show their greed. These tracks are out of copyright, but they slap copytheft protection on them by applying a digital filter or something and then charge the same as for living artists. The contempt they display for customers is obvious.
Mozilla slips 'Do Not Track' header into Firefox nightlies
Google Docs morphs into once and future 'GDrive'
Netgear CEO says 'closed' Apple is doomed
Yuppie cellphone-style iPhone case comes to Blighty
UK a 3D TV nation? Not half
Digital TV team sets 3D standard
Smartphone shipments surged in 2010
MP: Googlepoly hurts British business
Thursday 27th January 2011 12:11 GMT
Simple solution
OK, Mr Graham Jones, get you back to Hyndburn and poke your feckless constituents with a stick until one of them starts a world-class technology based on a seriously good education and an understanding of how to do things in a way that no-one has tried before.
Before anyone asks how I know they are feckless, they voted Labour at the last election. Not all of them, of course, but probably not all of them are feckless.
Antique Nimrod subhunters scrapped – THANK GOODNESS!
Middlesbrough cabbie relieves lad of iPhone
UK proximity payments by phone this summer
UK tech retailers are rubbish
Wednesday 26th January 2011 13:04 GMT
They lost me
I was a member of the Consumer Association back in the 1960s. When they tested something then they put the actual measurements in the report. Round about 1971 they switched to coloured blobs to rate things, and turned into 'reader's digest' with the amount of special offers and advertising mailshots.
I said 'buggerm' and cancelled the subscription.
Seagate tells flash bigots to get real
Wednesday 26th January 2011 12:43 GMT
Fascinating
During the 1920s the LNER was investigating high speed trains, and the germans had a high speed diesel railcar and the swiss had some very clever electric technology.
Because the infrastructure was there and they were familiar with the manufacturing they rejected both alternatives and built the A4 streamliners. Ten years later Mallard went on to break the steam speed record, and steam traction remained king until the middle 1950s.
Now, in the 21st century, no-one would consider even diesel for high speed operations, and electric is everywhere. Steam is for hobbyists and museums. And yet, Mallard remains magnificent.
The comparison with hard disks? Well, given that the life of a railway locomotive is between 20 and 60 years, we are around 3-4 generations on from the decision not to buy the flying hamburger. What will storage look like in 3-4 generations? How long is a generation? 3 years?
Hard disks are cruising into their Mallard era, but the future won't stop there.
Predicting the future is easy. Getting it right is nearly impossible.
Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down
HP Palm tablet specs outed
Italy sues Microsoft for box-bundling bungling
Tuesday 25th January 2011 16:02 GMT
Well Perhaps
But Apple sell complete systems.
When I buy a laptop from HP or a desktop from Dell I am NOT getting a Dell OS, I am getting one from a different company. And, as has been adequately reported above, if something goes wrong with that OS HP or Dell will shrug their shoulders and say "nothing to do with us". That is NOT what happens with Apple, and so the argument is different.
If HP or Dell are to give no support, then it seems unreasonable that they should insist you pay the OS tax.
Monday 24th January 2011 16:49 GMT
Just don't buy that machine!
Fair enough. Have you tried?
>If there's any blame it should be reserved purely for the resellers they should
>include an option to buy it with no software.
I've lost count of the number of times I've tried, and been told they are 'not allowed' to sell it without windows. M$ has them stitched up like a kipper.
>I know dell used to have an Ubuntu option
They had a very carefully hidden ubuntu option on one or two of their products. I tried to buy a mainstream laptop without windows and was refused.
Hackers sell access to hacked .mil and .gov sites
Microsoft explains Windows 7 Phone phantom data cockup
Matrix 4 and 5 in works, threatens Keanu
Mozilla blocks Firefox-breaking Skype toolbar
The Last Airbender up for nine Razzies
Monday 24th January 2011 10:29 GMT
soft targets
I don't think that bad parodies like 'Vampires Suck' should be in the list, as it detracts from the chance to give a serious kicking to utterly dreadful things like SITC2, which deserves taking out and burning, as a nasty, sexist, racist piece of crap.
The boy Kermode does a nice line in rants, but Vampires Suck did not get one. Just a telling off for being a waste of time.
Apple seeks touchscreen display mouse patent
Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can't lock down its booty
Acer backpedals from 'phasing out netbooks' claim
Thursday 20th January 2011 14:31 GMT
no-name
MY local computer store is selling a no-name chinese tablet with android 2.2 and a micro-sd slot for UKP90. it's got GPS too. Only downside I could see is it takes about 4 mins to boot from cold, but in normal use you'd put it on standby and wake it up - both instantly. rouyghly half the screen size of the iPud, but nice and clear.
HP WebOS tablets won't ship until September?
Wednesday 19th January 2011 13:25 GMT
Oh, for Glod's sake
What on earth is the matter with these people?
I loved my Palm V, So was so impressed by webOS when I saw the phones. I really want one of these tablets.
But no matter how good the engineering, the money-men running companies do their best to kick me in the head. Phones on exclusive contract deals, and now a year late with the tablet.
This product line will fail, and it will have nothing to do with how good the product is.
Apple without Jobs: Who's next?
Wednesday 19th January 2011 07:56 GMT
in Other disclosures
"Our CEO lives in a country where madmen can get sniper rifles, yet insists on travelling between home and office without building a private underground railway"
"Our CEO goes on skiing holidays four times a year, and enjoys off-piste skiing in areas of high avalanche risk"
"Our CEO plays tennis with the wife of a Russian Oligarch with mafia connections. We don't know if he's shagging her, but the Russian is very old, and our CEO seems to need all afternoon to shower after the game."
Come on, anyone can get sick, and everyone dies. Investors should not need the humanity of CEOs telegraphing to them. And if they think its a one-man-band, there are loads of other places to invest. I'm sick and tired of rich people thinking wealth deserves privilege.
Shocked mum muzzles foul-mouthed toy mutt
Who are the biggest electric car liars - the BBC, or Tesla Motors?
Tuesday 18th January 2011 21:22 GMT
trolley busses
part of the whole 1960s 'break with the past' thinking. Nonsense then, nonsense now.
Go to Munich, Zurich, a hundred other European cities. Loads of trolleybusses. Mate of mine built a van with trollies so the city would pay his fuel costs, got him a year inside for theft and a 5 minute slot on the telly.
US Eye-o-Sauron border scan tower project finally axed
Israel and US fingered for Stuxnet attack on Iran
Steve Jobs takes 'medical leave of absence' from Apple
Online sync'n'store services
Steve Ballmer at 11: A Microsoft power play too far?
Friday 14th January 2011 00:42 GMT
Soap opera
A thoughtful, well researched, and insightful piece about what might have been, or how things could have been otherwise.
And you know what? I don't care. When companies get so big (and I work for another $MEGACORP) the decisions become divorced from the product, customers, and workforce. People start to see the abstract or intangible as real, and the real as mere 'detail'.
It becomes - as so eloquently reported here - about personalities. So much management effort expended on everything but the product. This is why Vista was such a dog, Phone7 is a lash-up, and security is never good enough.
Ho hum and goodnight. I don't care.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
