DrPatrickBarry - Slashdot User

Comment EngD (Score 1) 487

by DrPatrickBarry on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @07:20AM (#35940126) Attached to: Reform the PhD System or Close It Down

The EngD programme in the UK was created for this very reason Mine was industry based with a maintenance engineering consultancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_Doctorate

Comment vote for!! (Score 1) 554

by DrPatrickBarry on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:11AM (#35266540) Attached to: UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours

I soooo hope they do this, I might even consider voting tory for a millisecond

Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" 356

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 23, 2009 @05:10AM from the what-about-the-library dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TTVK, a Finnish national copyright lobby, is threatening a book rental service called Bookabooka for allegedly running the 'Pirate Bay for Books.' Bookabooka however does not offer a torrent tracker service, nor does it enable a user in any way to download eBooks; it simply provides a place for book owners to rent textbooks to each other via the traditional mail service. It is mandatory that all textbooks must be originals. The service is used by a lot of School and University students, and it does not handle the shipping or returns of the textbooks. Nevertheless, the Finnish book publishers' association (Suomen Kustannusyhdistys) is convinced the service is breaching the copyright laws and threatening their business. TTVK has given Bookabooka until Friday to cease operations or face a lawsuit. Bookabooka's founders have vowed to keep the service online and ignore the threat."

Comment overnight updates (Score 1) 348

by DrPatrickBarry on Thursday March 26, 2009 @05:09AM (#27339463) Attached to: Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs

I was on a contract at a company in Chester who actually disabled the shut down functionality in hundreds of XP machines. The reason overnight updates. crazy the cost of electricity

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