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Comment Re:BS 546 are no longer used in the UK. (Score 1) 711

by oggiejnr on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @03:59AM (#28863343) Attached to: Favorite type of electical wall socket?

It is still used in a lot of theatre installations in the UK. It means the only fuse/breaker to blow/trip is in the dimming rack not 20 feet up on an inaccessible lighting bar as might happen with BS1363. Also makes chained extensions far easier to deal with.

Comment Re:why use botnet (Score 1) 457

by oggiejnr on Friday March 13, 2009 @01:16PM (#27182925) Attached to: BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration

The radio tax was abolished 1971.

Comment Re:Early vote makes your vote count (better chance (Score 1) 254

by oggiejnr on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:44PM (#24935129) Attached to: Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines

The main reason for moving to a secret ballot is to reduce the effects of vote buying due to it begin (theoretically) unable to confirm (although there are discussions as to why this is not perfect). It would arguably be worse for democracy for your employer to make it known that anyone who does not vote for his preferred candidate will be fired.

Submission + - IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

Submitted by notamicrosoftlover on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @05:00PM

notamicrosoftlover writes: From Channel9: '...on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several milestones for the interoperability, standards compliance, and backwards compatibility that we're committed to for this release...' You can read the whole blog entry here. There's also a video interview regarding IE8 development on Channel9.

Submission + - Internet Explorer 8 passes Acid2 (msdn.com)

Submitted by

zxSpectrum

on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @04:41PM

zxSpectrum writes: "According to this blog post over at the The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog, Internet Explorer 8 will pass the ."

Submission + - Linux ready for the desktop?

Submitted by

kaiwai

on Sunday April 22, 2007 @09:36AM

kaiwai writes: "After reviewing Ubuntu 7.04, is it ready for the desktop, and what are the real motivating factors behind Linux on the desktop over the status quo?

http://kaiwai.blogspot.com/search/label/Linux%20Fo r%20The%20Desktop"

Submission + - Tagged!!! Brilliant use of Spam to grow ....

Submitted by

Karlgrass

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:39AM

Karlgrass writes: "It seems that finally some smart startup has been able to build traffic by using spam as an effective tool. In last 1-2 months majority of us must have got this tagged mail where some user seems to have tagged you or somebody else. With a familiar Indian sounding name, the click rate was high in order to just find all about it as 98% of spam mails have a western name and suddenly we realized that for a change somebody has used spamming efficiently and in process build a huge traffic (Alexa ranking is 78). But what make us believe think this is a spam mail??? http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/03/21/tagg ed-brilliant-use-of-spam-to-grow-%E2%80%A6/"

Submission + - A $200 60ppm inkjet?

Submitted by

ldpercy

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @03:38AM

ldpercy writes: "Quoted from http://texyt.com/silverbrook+memjet+printer+inkjet +mems+lyra+canon+epson+hp+kodak:

A $200 desktop printer with a color printing speed of 60 A4 pages per minute is just one of the revolutionary new devices promised by Silverbrook, a company which holds more than 1400 patents, but has never released a product. Analysts from leading printer market research firm, Lyra Research Inc, showed this video of the prototype Memjet inkjet printer today, and say they have personally examined it and verified that it is real.

I'm assured by a very good friend who has worked for Silverbrook here in Sydney for a few years that it is real, even though the vid looks a bit fake."

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