While it's true that the devices need to be on to do the recording, I imagine there's also a lot of time when they're idle.

My DVR (Sky+ HD) will go into Standby at 01:00 if it's not in use, and that seems like a sensible option.. most of what I record is broadcast during the regular evening slots, between 19:00 and midnight. Of course, that may not be the case for everyone.

Would I prefer it to go into a Deep Sleep rather than Standby? No, because it's startup times are really frustratingly long.

I guess part of the problem in that case is that age-old problem: I am too impatient to wait to use it. My desire for utter convenience outweighs my desire to save a few quid on my leccy bill.

Ironically, there is a password in the file that's "******", on line 795 if my text editor is working correctly. I appreciate you're joking, but it seems gengar@retrohappypeople.com beat you to it!

I think this is cool.. much like the "space object"* named after Frank Zappa.

* Can't remember whether is was an asteroid, meteor, etc. and know I'd be utter flamebait for getting it wrong in /. company ;)

After all these years, I finally fell for it. Just off to bleach my eyes.. thanks for that.

I don't think MSSQL runs on any other OS??

Came here for this - leaving happy!

Will we ever see an episode where the SG team visit Brown's Orthopedic Supplies I wonder?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Mitchell_and_Webb_Sound

For UK /.ers, you can listen again That Mitchell and Webb Sound on iPlayer.

I left Demon some years ago. I contacted them to inform them of a security problem I'd stumbled across - my FTP client had decided to head out and look ahead and cache some folders, however what I soon realised was, it'd stepped up a level from my own slice of hosting space and had walked down into a large number of other folder which were for other customers. When you FTPd to Demon at that time, you found yourself in a sub folder named something like ftp.demon.net/hosting/ftp/j/ju/jumpin_jon. I realised that the tree of folders was expanded from the /ftp/.. folder down into numerous others - and not just the top-level, where it should have been denied.. oh no, into people's webroots and beyond.

I called Demon and asked to be put through to the head tech guy at the time (Malcolm Muer or somesuch??) who basically told me to mind my own business. I explained further that I had accidentally strayed into other peoples webspace, which he understood, but insisted this was not their problem. His explanation was, if people has removed the security from their folders, that was not Demon's lookout.

I headed to another ISP and discovered that Demon' services had been piss-poor all those years - that leased lines actually didn't drop many times per day; that DNS changes didn't have to take days to get actioned - often they never got done until a second or third attempt.

Rubbish!

Goodbye Demon - you were once mighty, but no longer.

..also BP no longer stands for British Petroleum - it's now Beyond Petroleum, which I thought was quite inspired of them.

I use my laptop and Synergy to achieve just that.

The in-game browser in EVE is so basic, it transports you back to HTML 1.0.

Man, I wish I had some Mod Pts to negate that Troll. Well said. I don't think we're very popular round here, sir. ;)

Yes, that exactly what I was coming here to say. Not only does it perfectly illustrate the point, but it is also one of the cleverest and funniest shows I think I've ever seen. Chris Morris is a God.

...because of resistance from the electrical installers?
Oh, I see what you did there.. no?

Any chills protection agency... Is that, like, double glazing??