How quaint. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those (except where deliberately created for loop counters etc.).

Oh I don't know... throughing rocks has real class, a certain appeal, and is completely justified :)

I do wish people would stop calling it a 'memory effect'. It's probably the least descriptive term your could apply.

I don't know about Lithium batteries but NiCad cells exhibit a second plateau which gradually gets more difficult for the charge system to punch through. The usual cure is a couple of heavy charge/discharge cycles.

Don't think I want to try that with Lithium though!

Instead of forcing how about nagging, wherever possible bring up a reminder message saying the the default is set, is the same as many others and *bad* people will know it is admin:12345

Used to be a nice little earner for me repairing these in the late 1960s - the real ones. All electromechanical, none of your wimpy solid state rubbish.
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I've got a solar powered watch :) The only annoying thing is it doesn't do daylight saving, so I have to set it twice a year.

The first fuzzy clock I saw was in the late 1980s on an Acorn Archimedes. The wording was pretty good anyway, but you could also edit the text file it was taken from. The look on people's faces when they saw "It's just gone quarter past three" was priceless.

Satellite images may tell you there is a building, but a man on the street with a GPS can tell you exactly what the building is for, and who is going in and out of it.

Bugrit! You beat me to it :)

Absolutely do not buy anything of real value for at least 2 months. Burglars frequently try to double-dip and snatch all your nice new stuff about a month after their first visit.

When you do buy new stuff don't put the empty boxes out - the bar-stewards will be waiting to see those too :(

I'm astonished at how many people right across the technology forums don't seem to get what an amazing opportunity has been handed to The Pirate Bay... on a plate! They would be absolute fools to not make the most of this, and really rub the copyright lobby's noses in their own poo.

Talking about them being hypocritical is nonsense. They are rolling on the floor laughing while they poke at CPIAC with the very laws that were being used against them. I reckon this will just run and run, and I'll thoroughly enjoy it.

The data was transmitted by wireless. There was a glitch - there are in fact lots of them, which to me, as an engineer tends to increase my confidence that these are unadulterated logs.

... and if you are, I don't want you on the same road as me!

You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man :)

See title. Also don't reply until you absolutely HAVE to. Paten runs out this year!