Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 1) 1044
You can think of the children just don't look at the children.
Comment Damn, they we just about to change their logo (Score 1) 711
Comment Re:No Archive.org either (Score 1) 711
I was going to post that they had enough nous to get a robots.txt but not to actually maintain their system. I wouldn't want that company on my CV even if I was the janitor. This is going to be a millstone for anyone who was involved in this going back from day 2 (I can just about forgive them for being stupid on day 1)
Comment Re:check your upload (Score 1) 279
And in other news, I managed to get over the line and I am now 3.06 ratio.
Not that I expect people to care, but it made my day
Comment Re:check your upload (Score 1) 279
Yeah. The router is old and not very sophisticated so it has to go the journey. The asymmetry was never a surprise for me but I didn't realise that they monitored the upload stream also. You live and learn.
Comment Figures are out of date (Score 1) 279
Well, I upgraded from 2Mbit/s to 20Mbit/s (Virgin Media) on Friday so the balance has swung a small distance the other way. ;-)
However, I have now noticed that my router is only allowing ~6Mbit/s through it so I really need to get to a shop and buy a new one. Fortunately the torrent uploads are going at nominal values. I expect to have a Demonoid ratio of 3 later this week. Sad, but it gives me something to strive for.
Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 1601
Ah spit.
I was going to mod this informative but the damn laptop glidepad made me select Redundant instead. Just posting to remove my negative moderation.
Feed Blue Sky squeezes GPS onto a SIM (theregister.com)
Dawn of the next killer app?
Just as we were predicting the end of SIM technological development, along comes a technology which really could be a killer application - a complete GPS system embedded inside one.
Journal Journal: Meebo hits 100,000 simultaneous users
Instant Messaging site http://www.meebo.com/ has reported that it has reached 100,000 simultaneous users last Monday (http://blog.meebo.com/). It seems that their infrastructure coped perfectly with the load.
Feed Asbo-breach OAP jailed (theregister.com)
Octogenarian 'neighbour from hell' gets six months
The 81-year-old "neighbour from hell" who was found guilty of harrassment and six breaches of an Asbo after making her neighbours' lives "a misery" has been jailed for six months, the BBC reports.
Submission + - A $10 wok replaces a $20,000 satellite dish
tchild writes: EE Times reports a $10 wok replacing a $20,000 satellite dish.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jht ml?articleID=197700218
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jh
Submission + - BBC Micro: Britain's First PC Hit
An anonymous reader writes: North American children grew up with the Apple II. Across the Atlantic, the BBC gave its blessings to the unreleased Acorn Proton (another 6502 micro) and it became the standard in education and home for almost a decade as the BBC Micro, even though there were cheaper, more capable machines on the market. Read about how Acorn won the lucrative contract and slowly disintegrated after their RISC home computer (released in 1987) failed to catch on.
Submission + - Daylight Savings Time the Next Y2K?
turnitover writes: It happens a few thousand times more frequently, but according to an eWEEK.com article, this year's change to Daylight Savings Time could be a bigger IT headache than the much-ballyhooed Y2K. From TFA: ""We are likely to see more issues than we did with Y2K because there is no visibility at the board and the CEO level, yet it's a similar risk to the business," said Tim Howes, CTO at data center provisioning provider Opsware in Sunnyvale, CA." This is despite numerous Windows and Mac and Linux patches... . How about you? Are you ready?
Submission + - Boston Bomb-Squad Strikes Again
Brian writes: Boston Police discover (and destroy) the latest pseudo-threat. This time it's not an animated LED sign, but something far, far more nasty — A Traffic Counter. You know, the little boxes that the city (!) places on a roadside to measure the number of cars that pass in a given amount of time. Wow.
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Submission + - VCs expect big returns from open source
munchola writes: Venture capital firms have invested $1.89bn in Linux and open source vendors since 2000, according to CBRonline, which has also
asked a number of VCs about what makes open source an attractive investment. According to Robin Vasan, managing director at Mayfield, the fact that open source "lowers the cost of development, but also the cost of purchasing for the customer" means that there could actually be more money to be made from open source than proprietary software models in the long term: "Open source is not a market, it is a new form of development and distribution. When you look at it that way then the rationale as to why so much money has gone into open source makes more sense."
