Comment Re: surprise-- (Score 1) 89
Sometimes these spammers have no clue.
Ganty
Sometimes these spammers have no clue.
Ganty
OK, so I'm living on the outskirts of an Eastern European city but I've still made some preparations:
Backups of all data held off-site
Fully charged laptop battery always available (I rotate them)
Passport and all essential documents all kept in one safe place
Working torch where I can find it
Box of tinned food and 25 Liters of water in the basement along with a torch and tent
Cellphone always kept charged and a spare SIM in case our local carrier goes titsup
Five minutes warning of the big one and I can be out of here.
Ganty
Hands up if you've watched a Betty Boop movie in the last decade.
http://new.wavlist.com/soundfx/014/cricket-1.wav
Thought so.
Ganty
So long as PJ continues to censor posts she doesn't like the site has limited value.
Ganty
Retired at fifty, you young folk keep working whilst I take it easy (and get off my lawn).
Ganty
Turned on the computer and smelled smoke. The NIC had released its magic smoke and was dead after that.
Stargate Universe in Hungarian loses some impact, so does CSI Crime Scene Investigation. I therefore download episodes as they are shown and watch them in English. OK, so I am a pirate, but I can't see how MGM or CBS lose out here?
Ganty
The picnic was rained off but hundreds of us did form a big '42' in Moscow Square and then move on to Millennium Park for 42 science experiments.
I do research into high IP3 HF receiver front ends, other radio hams are working with software defined radios, recovering digital signals from noise, DSP chips and even the way the brain perceives sound.
Ganty HA5RXZ
Retired at fifty. Take note, this is what happens when you save for your retirement.
Ganty
Fifteen minutes battery life on a two year old Vaio notebook. I also have the letters rubbing off the keyboard and Sony refuse to touch the machine because wiping the hard drive and installing Linux 'voided the warranty'.
Ganty
The inability to use your own headphones is a big problem, in fact this makes the new shuffle unusable for me as I can't use earbuds.
Ganty
"Essentially, we're looking to be able to power up/down and reboot some computers, and be able to start/stop some programs."
Dial in using the telephone system and use a sequence of DTMF tones on your telephone keypad to carry out a task. This will be low bandwidth (about 2,700 Hz) and low cost.
Ganty
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?