Hamish910 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I would take (Score 1) 300

by Hamish910 on Thursday September 10, 2009 @12:57AM (#29375239) Attached to: Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness

Fuck it, do 90 then

Comment Re:Easy fix (Score 1) 214

by Hamish910 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:27AM (#27328545) Attached to: How To Prevent Being Hacked Via Backups?

Hard drive, with USB cable that passes through the back of a safe, and is bolted to the concrete floor next to the server.

So I just plug a laptop into the USB cable and copy and/or format/erase that drive?

Comment Re:You can dream (Score 2, Interesting) 532

by Hamish910 on Thursday March 12, 2009 @08:32PM (#27175807) Attached to: Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

On that note, has anybody seen a webpage screen shot on TV were the browser was not IE? And does it make one an official nerd when you date TV shows by the style of monitor they use and the OS they are running?

Yes, actually. On Australian news programs and infomercials that have a reason to show a web site, they will often show it in FF.
I've been noticing it for about the last year or so.

Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday 664

Posted by timothy on Friday February 13, 2009 @02:17AM from the stay-warm-date-a-swede dept.

Anonymous Pirate writes "Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. The four defendants have run the site since 2004 after it was started in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån. The Swedish public service television announced that they are going to send a live audio stream from the trial. It will be broadcast without editing or translation."

Comment Re:Aged badly (Score 1) 298

by Hamish910 on Friday January 30, 2009 @08:46AM (#26664955) Attached to: Red Dwarf To Return, Find Earth

eh, that's from Keeping Up Appearances, not Are You Being Served.

No, its from Are You Being Served.
Have you even watched these shows?

Comment Re:Learned it on "Red Dwarf" (Score 1) 625

by Hamish910 on Monday January 19, 2009 @10:33PM (#26524165) Attached to: Single Drive Wipe Protects Data

Yea, but Lister actually said it was something that Rimmer did.
So really, Lister said it, not Rimmer.

Comment Re:Is this....legal? (Score 1) 595

by Hamish910 on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:40PM (#26337045) Attached to: UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs

Actually, I find pointed knives critical for preparing microwave dinners. How else do you puncture the film across the top of tray?

With a fork?

Comment Re:Is it a breakthrough? (Score 1) 95

by Hamish910 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @05:53AM (#26044757) Attached to: World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call"

I may be wrong, but I think this is 21Mbps through the phone line.

Yes, you are wrong.

Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition 183

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 06, 2008 @06:39PM from the because-creating-martyrs-is-good-for-civil-obedience dept.

neonsignal writes "Raja Petra Kamarudin, a Malaysian blogger, is in court under the Internal Security Act, under which he can be detained indefinitely. He is well known for his commentary on the Malaysian government, and was arrested after a piece on the murder of a Mongolian woman, who was allegedly killed by two policeman and an associate of the deputy prime minister."

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