* Posts by Daveedmo

11 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Dec 2011

Microsoft's Intel-powered Surface Pro to launch in February

Daveedmo

Cut the eye candy

Do they include an ssh client yet?

Hyperspeed travel looks wrong: Leicester students

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Maybe...

...the 'Kessel Run' is not a measured distance, it's a set of tasks that could be carried out in any set order. This would make the parsec measurement correct... Feasible?

Swiss photographer sues Apple for pilfering her eyeball

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Re: Did she try

Why did this get downvoted by so many? Have you seen the froth when a Migros opens on a Sunday in CH?

New iPod nano and touch: Lightning strikes again

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Storage?

Only 16Gb? Again? That's three generations at the same level - no reason for me to update my spin wheel nano. Why not 32Gb to tempt for repeat purchases?

BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel

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Oh aye.

You know now how many sysadmins reading this are thinking 'hmm, that'll do for my next admin password.'

Olympic champ ad blitz dents Virgin Media despite £1bn sales

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"featuring the likes of Olympian Usain Bolt and Virgin Group's Richard Branson"

Surely they get Branson for free?

'As seen on TV' claims can't be made about unbranded props

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Remember

...this is marketing aimed at the lowest common denominator. The same people who buy headphones because the packaging says "suitable for mp3".

iPhone/PS3 hacker Hotz arrested in pot bust

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The good ole US of A

Keeping up the tradition of jailing their brightest young talent just because they're not conservative enough. No wonder they're becoming less and less relevant in the world today.

MP allegedly cuffed after scrap in Commons bar

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Have you been in a Falkirk pub?

That's the normal end to a night's drinking in Falkirk. (maybe excluding Behind the Wall...)

1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife

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...and weep

...when you forget you've got it the next time you head through an airport and they make you drop it in that see through bin with all the nail files...

Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman

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Brilliant

Obviously, residents of Twatt, in Orkney, shouldn't even bother trying...