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Re: I use KeePass

Thankfully I'm not in such a locked down environment so can't speak from experience, but I use the portable version of KeePass and would assume (please correct if wrong) that this would work in such a "you can't install stuff" organisation. Unless of course the policies are granular enough to only allow certain EXEs to be run.

bluesxman
FAIL

Re: Never

Why stop there?

You shouldn't use share a computer keyboard or mouse.

Don't take the lift, those buttons will be filthy. But be careful of the hand rail as you take the stairs.

Don't flush the toilet, you know where those hands have been. You can't be sure the last person washed their hands properly before turning off that tap either. Watch out for that door handle on your way out too! In fact, any door handle.

In fact just put on your paper suit and stay out of public places altogether, Mr Hughes.

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Meh

Re: yep, indeed

Hmmm I might have encountered that, though only seems to affect photos for me (not much else on my SD card to be fair) and it seemed to be more about number of files in a directory. Once I'd breached a certain amount new ones wouldn't appear in the gallery without a rescan (and then vanished again later). I worked around the issue by moving my old pics into "/sdcard/old_pics".

bluesxman
Coat

Pricing

$29.90 ... for 2GB, presumably?

At those prices they can stick 'em up their arse instead.

I'm going...

bluesxman

Re: Hm, odd

I'm with FanMan.

I thought "why would I need a SatNav?", until I acquired my old man's cranky old TomTom One via handmedown. With stock software (who knows what delights the hacking community have come up with) it pisses all over Google Nav in most respects.

Even if you just look at the "alternative route" navigation features, it's the clear winner - you can't tell Google Nav to avoid a particular road or navigate you around a traffic jam ahead (or that you are in) can you?

Oh and you're not reliant on a data connection to recalculate your route.

bluesxman

Re: Please reformat...

http://m.reghardware.com/2012/04/21/product_round_up_ten_satnavs/

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Go

Re: Ainol Novo 7 Elf

A couple of hours ago I sprung £130 for an Ainol Novo 7 Aurora (w/ ICS), after seeing a colleagues in action (rooted).

Seem like tidy bits of kit and way better spec'd than these Gemini things on a lowly 7 incher

A10 processor (single core) 1.5Ghz

1024x600 screen

16GB storage

1GB memory

Dual camera

bluesxman
Coat

Re: 3D dreaming.

Probably using binary compression.

10 Take a string

20 Represent it in binary

30 Zeroes have no value, so throw them away

40 You are left with a string of ones, count them

50 GOTO 20

Some data loss may occur...

bluesxman
WTF?

Title as icon

What exactly makes them think I want to take my (fairly) slim and (reasonably) moveable plasma TV and replace it with a fucking sideboard?

bluesxman
FAIL

Re: Will avoid, lesson already learned

If you buy the cheapest of the cheap, maybe. But if you spend a little more you'll find the things like look like wood are chipboard with a veneer coating, with a naturally occurring wood pattern.

bluesxman
FAIL

Updates

Good to see now that Moto are owned by Google (or soon to be) that their devices are right on the cutting edge for Android updates.

Oh. Wait.

bluesxman
Linux

Lots of luck

There's definitely an element of the random in which way things fall. I've previously started a level (in the "original") where the pieces "settle" slightly at the start of the level -- on one attempt (and only one attempt), a pig on a high tower rolled off to its doom before I'd fired a single shot.

Penguin ... well, it's a bird innit?

bluesxman
FAIL

Re: Aliteration..

Not really...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alliteration

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assonance

bluesxman

Quench

Truly, truly awful. And most certainly not in a funny way.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0874314/

bluesxman
Meh

Mixed feelings

It's an illustration, like the other graphics -- so big deal. But why black out his eyes? This is definitely misleading and probably the only thing they actually did wrong, to my mind. Assuming they licensed use of the image.

And (slightly off point) why waste so much precious column-inch space with a full height picture of a fictional character? At least the mock-up of the scene adds (some) value to the story, he's just a big fat waste of space.

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Re: No sympathy here

"why would MS want you to buy a 2ndhand console?" -- because they make a loss on "new" console sales, expecting to recoup it on game sales. Think about it.

Not that I believe there is/was an MS/Game conspiracy.

Actually, maybe I'm starting to ;-)

bluesxman
Stop

And the % of buyers who actually give a shit about 3D TV?

I'd be surprised if it was 10%, let alone 25%.

bluesxman

Re: Any chance of some still images...

Nothing to get excited about. No gameplay, just some "coming soon" type messages.

Posted in AppAware
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Coat

Re: That was an appalling sub-title.

Funny, I thought it rather appropriate.

Posted in AirDroid
bluesxman
Holmes

RE: How do they make money?

I imagine this is the key phrase in the article: "Technically, AirDroid is still in beta"

Don't be too surprised if it becomes payware/adware/crippleware (or some combination thereof) around about the same time it ceases to be "in beta".

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Flame

Back to Basics

So LEGO have gone pretty much full circle -- from where you would creating things from your imagination using simple, standardised blocks, through that whole dumbing-down mess o' crap of later years -- whereby you get a toy which has the word LEGO on the box and contains a dozen or so pieces, around half of which are made specifically for the model you've got. And now they've gone all the way back to creating things from your imagination using simple, standardised blocks.

Bah fucking humbug, I say.

bluesxman
Happy

Widescreen laptop/monitor in 1996?

*scoff*

bluesxman

RE: 720

Speculation? Sure.

Fuelled by Microsoft? Make up your own mind...

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/10/20/next_gen_xbox_due_in_2013_says_develop_mag/

bluesxman

RE: Llama

Sounds nifty, thanks for the heads up.

bluesxman
WTF?

RE: netcounter

"Someday I'll compile myself a build without wifi support."

Er or why not just turn it off via a widget button/Settings...?

bluesxman

Panto Season...

Widow Tw**key may not fare too well.

bluesxman
Coat

Marmite(k)

Well you either love 'em or hate 'em.

What? No, I don't have anything constructive to offer.

I'm going, I'm going.

bluesxman
FAIL

is it really on obstacle?

"the technology switcheroo wouldn't affect or apply to PS3, iPad, internet TVs and other streaming devices"

If some devices can still access non-Silverlight content, I'd wager there's a piece of software that can be written that'll pretend to be one of them in order to circumvent this.

bluesxman
Pint

Word list please

Surely I'm not the only one who wants to see the list, if only for the 'eight obscenities involving the word "foot"'! I'd like to be able to pick up some new colourful phrases.

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bluesxman
WTF?

A tenner?

Or just install Chrome and play it for free*

*assuming you don't consider letting Google in to be too much of a cost to bear.

bluesxman
Mushroom

Prior Art

Many moons ago, I had a security app on my Handspring Visor called "OnlyMe" which prevented access to the device via a security code. One of the unlocking methods available was to swipe the stylus in a predetermined (user defined) pattern through areas displayed on the touch screen.

This was circa 2000.

bluesxman

"the game will be set in real-world Los Angeles"

So they can reuse big chunks of the map created for LA Noire...?

bluesxman
FAIL

RE: WHY?

As they repeatedly state, they review the version they are sent by the publishers. Perhaps you'd like to buy them a copy of the PC version to review on your behalf?

bluesxman
FAIL

Well obviously your use case applies to all users everywhere.

And no one will ever need more than 640KB of RAM, right?

bluesxman

Angled corners?

Novel. Better get that patent application in.

bluesxman
Boffin

@ Stewart Atkins

Presumably each item will carry a unique, peel-unfriendly QR code (or similar) sticker so you can't do some cheeky "grab, scan, walk out, toss phone to mate, mate walks in, grabs, walks out" move to get yourself some freebies.

Presumably door lurkers will carry a mobile device to rescan your unique sticker as you leave to confirm /someone/ has paid for it (a quick shufty at your mobile device would show that you coughed up the necessary, should they actually give a shit about that).

bluesxman
WTF?

£36?

... on top of the ~£100 for the device? For something that arguably MS should have made Kinect do in the first place? Hmph.

bluesxman
Boffin

RE: FAIL

Isn't that just a shit implementation of card validation on the part of the Oyster system?

If you don't get a similar problem when using your bank card in a contactless fashion with an Oyster next to it then I'd have to infer "yes".

bluesxman
Coat

RE: No, they do need something

You should get yourself a smartphone. It'll give you something to do on the train besides obsessing over what the other passengers are doing with themselves, their phones, their lives.

bluesxman
WTF?

RE: More Than >

In my case it meant (considerably) "More Than" Admiral ultimately charged me for my car insurance. By about £900. For third party only vs fully comp. WT, and furthermore, F?

bluesxman
FAIL

Correction

*But never let that get in the way of a bad pun

Bah.

bluesxman

Horrible.

But never that get in the way of a bad pun:

"This is a private matter." >> "This is a privates matter."

There, fixed it for you.

bluesxman
FAIL

RE: Just like Freeview?

I'm going to hazard a guess that, like most people, you usually "flick through" during an intra-show or inter-show ad break? In case you've not been paying attention, programs /usually/ start and end at the same time, as do their ad breaks. No I'm not remotely surprised.

bluesxman
WTF?

RE: The EFF?

"What are they doing involved in this case?"

Erm sounds like he asked them for advice and they duly told him to keep his trap shut, as he quite possibly doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. I'd surmise that their involvement isn't much more or less than that.

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Go

RE: What if?

Then *he* has great boobies.

What's up? Were you looking for some homophobia?

bluesxman

RE: Prior Art

Agreed. Especially since when I heard that Nintendo were doing a glasses free 3D display I immediately thought "sounds like they'll do doing something like a lenticular hologram". If it was obvious to me, shurely it was obvious to many ... can't patent something obvious, can you?

bluesxman
Happy

Clangers on the moon?

Surely you mean Whalers?

bluesxman
Headmaster

RE: erm..

Sorry it'd be "Burrita", if anything. Gender specific suffixes have befouled your otherwise fine pun.

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Support?

Seems to be Windows only.

If only it claimed Linux support I'd take a punt on it (or one of the many similar ones they have on Brando) for my XBMC box ... even though it looks like it'll croak after 2 weeks.

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