Well, this is why the British government wanted to increase the terrorist detention limit to 42 days; to make sure they had enough time to gather all the information about a suspect.
They just didn't explain that most of those 42 days would be working out what bloody train they'd left their details on.
See, this is why I don't do my taxes.* * yes, of course I do, I just do them on paper. it's actually a shorter form iirc.
That's true, I'm just surprised at the figure. It implies that EVERYONE in the UK has at least one mobile phone, and nearly 20% of people have two. A lot of people I know don't even have one mobile phone!
What I still don't understand is if there are 72 million mobile phones in use in the UK, how come the UK population is only 60,776,238 (July 2007 est.)?
I'm not convinced that almost 20% of the population have two mobiles they use at the same time.
She might be better off trying O2, T-Mobile or one of the other mobile phone companies. I've a couple of good friends using USB dongles and getting around 2mbps through their mobile phone operator, sometimes its a lot cheaper than using (A)DSL and means you don't have to have a BT line which most ISPs need you to have.
My friend uses Linux on an old Dell Inspiron. BBC confusingly call both their Adobe Flash and peer-to-peer systems iPlayer. I was referring to their website, which is called BBC iPlayer, not their P2P streaming service, called BBC iPlayer. (which you clearly recommend, and is quite good).
Sorry I didn't explain that well in the original post, but since I mentioned streaming from their website and not P2P, I would've thought it was bleeding obvious.
He can't download the full resolution using the software - call my friend difficult if you like, but Windows XP won't run nicely on his laptop, Gentoo works great, and Youtube and others stream fine with it. I've set up a couple of video streams from my own server that work great for him, using JWPlayer, which stream live for him (depending on the FLV quality I choose, naturally!)
The problem comes where the BBC iPlayer Adobe Flash Player (BiAFP?) will only stream the next few minutes of the streamed file when paused, rather than Youtube which will keep streaming until the end of the file.
Apart from the obvious conservation of bandwidth, is there any technicial reason that the BBC's iPlayer (BiAFP, not their P2P software) won't stream an entire file when paused? It'd actually make it usable on slow systems.
For the record, I think the 'low quality' is actually rather good, its good enough quality to watch for most TV shows, just a shame their player isn't quite so well designed for slower connections.
Most of the videos from the BBC iPlayer (BiAFP) are already on Youtube, split into parts. I have to admit, he usually uses these. Even worse quality, yet there doesn't appear to be any other option.
Thanks for trying though. Yours would be a great solution if it were possible! Any other ideas?
Out in the sticks a friend only gets 1mbps. BBC iPlayer can't quite cope with that - and unfortuately unlike YouTube won't stream the entire file when paused, just the first few minutes, then stops downloading. Watch 3 minutes, wait to buffer for 5, then repeat.
Which kinda makes using BBC iPlayer there impossible. For me on 2mbps though, its fine.
Very true, and the same with the major amounts of aspartame in sugar-free Rockstar. Aspartame gives me major headaches a couple of hours after drinking it, and sometimes indigestion and stomach cramps. Its something I've only recently heard about.
I'm pretty sure its not psychological, (correlation does not imply causation, I know, but I've been trying this for a week so far and feel a lot better, so I'm continuing with it!)
It seems like its a real problem with some artificial sweeteners, I guess only with some people. Still, I'm avoiding aspartame more than I avoid caffeine!
FWIW, I don't have this problem with 'normal' Rockstar. Anyone else had this?
If you read the article, its not about the iPhone at all - but Pay As You Go customers cannot use eMail on a normal handset. We were told by O2 that the iPhone would have the same problem on PAYG.
If it works, fine, but why are O2 saying its a 'technicial limitation' that email cannot be used on a Pay-As-You-Go phone, when it can on an iPhone?
I'd recommend you go and try this with a private mail server and your own phone (non-iPhone), then come back and tell me if the story is BS. If you can get it to work, then I owe you one - if you can't, you're just BSing yourself, sir.
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Thanks for that, I thought there'd be a better way! Mine's shorter though! (not that it's something to be proud of)
I don't know about rev, but I've used tac (reverse of cat) a few times for messing about with scripts many many years ago.
Some more common ones I've thought of:
screen - too useful, run apps in a virtual console which you can attach, deattach and share
cd `pwd -P` - Jump into the real directory (from a linked directory).
history - use it with grep if you forgot what you did
strings - just show the printable strings from a file
tail and head - tail -f is a lifesaver
sftp - i really shouldn't need to explain this.
file - do magic stuff
Hope that's some help.
This shows all attached block devices (it also errors like crazy, hence the | more)
/dev/* | more
blockdev --report
Useful sometimes! Also shows disk size and stuff.
If I've already eaten it, how can I still have it?
Well, this is why the British government wanted to increase the terrorist detention limit to 42 days; to make sure they had enough time to gather all the information about a suspect.
They just didn't explain that most of those 42 days would be working out what bloody train they'd left their details on.
See, this is why I don't do my taxes.*
* yes, of course I do, I just do them on paper. it's actually a shorter form iirc.
That's true, I'm just surprised at the figure. It implies that EVERYONE in the UK has at least one mobile phone, and nearly 20% of people have two. A lot of people I know don't even have one mobile phone!
What I still don't understand is if there are 72 million mobile phones in use in the UK, how come the UK population is only 60,776,238 (July 2007 est.)?
I'm not convinced that almost 20% of the population have two mobiles they use at the same time.
Has anyone got a more up to date figure?
I guess I'm one of the few people who uses windbg to do this then?
Try it out, it's amazingly useful for debugging BSODs.
Internet Explorer does a very similar thing. We all know how to get around it. Whats your point?
Yeah, it's terrible! I agree!
She might be better off trying O2, T-Mobile or one of the other mobile phone companies. I've a couple of good friends using USB dongles and getting around 2mbps through their mobile phone operator, sometimes its a lot cheaper than using (A)DSL and means you don't have to have a BT line which most ISPs need you to have.
Hope that helps!
You're a legend Xaxa! I'll give it a go! Thanks very much!!
My friend uses Linux on an old Dell Inspiron. BBC confusingly call both their Adobe Flash and peer-to-peer systems iPlayer. I was referring to their website, which is called BBC iPlayer, not their P2P streaming service, called BBC iPlayer. (which you clearly recommend, and is quite good).
Sorry I didn't explain that well in the original post, but since I mentioned streaming from their website and not P2P, I would've thought it was bleeding obvious.
He can't download the full resolution using the software - call my friend difficult if you like, but Windows XP won't run nicely on his laptop, Gentoo works great, and Youtube and others stream fine with it. I've set up a couple of video streams from my own server that work great for him, using JWPlayer, which stream live for him (depending on the FLV quality I choose, naturally!)
The problem comes where the BBC iPlayer Adobe Flash Player (BiAFP?) will only stream the next few minutes of the streamed file when paused, rather than Youtube which will keep streaming until the end of the file.
Apart from the obvious conservation of bandwidth, is there any technicial reason that the BBC's iPlayer (BiAFP, not their P2P software) won't stream an entire file when paused? It'd actually make it usable on slow systems.
For the record, I think the 'low quality' is actually rather good, its good enough quality to watch for most TV shows, just a shame their player isn't quite so well designed for slower connections.
Most of the videos from the BBC iPlayer (BiAFP) are already on Youtube, split into parts. I have to admit, he usually uses these. Even worse quality, yet there doesn't appear to be any other option.
Thanks for trying though. Yours would be a great solution if it were possible! Any other ideas?
Out in the sticks a friend only gets 1mbps. BBC iPlayer can't quite cope with that - and unfortuately unlike YouTube won't stream the entire file when paused, just the first few minutes, then stops downloading. Watch 3 minutes, wait to buffer for 5, then repeat.
Which kinda makes using BBC iPlayer there impossible. For me on 2mbps though, its fine.
Very true, and the same with the major amounts of aspartame in sugar-free Rockstar. Aspartame gives me major headaches a couple of hours after drinking it, and sometimes indigestion and stomach cramps. Its something I've only recently heard about.
I'm pretty sure its not psychological, (correlation does not imply causation, I know, but I've been trying this for a week so far and feel a lot better, so I'm continuing with it!)
It seems like its a real problem with some artificial sweeteners, I guess only with some people. Still, I'm avoiding aspartame more than I avoid caffeine!
FWIW, I don't have this problem with 'normal' Rockstar. Anyone else had this?
Playing Portal whilst under the influence is not a good idea. Even without it, I suspect most people saw or even tried to use portals in real life.
Maybe that was just me then.
The cake was delicious and moist though.
You mean to say stainless steel isn't stainless, it just stains less? :)
Not that simple, requires a 27mb download :)
Interestingly, it's broken in my email; I just got:
Nicolas MONNET has posted a comment in reply to your comment.
My keyboard has a Ãâs key
Weird that. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 btw.
Your keyboard doesn't have an &, e, u, r, o, or ; buttons?
:D
:) - That's some nice work!!
Damn, you need to upgrade! Still, I agree with you about the Euro symbol; it's not *that* hard to use on Slashdot is it?
Just let me check... € - oh... is that right?
But then again, you couldn't type it, and yet you still pedanticised* the summary
* sometimes i like to make words up.
Google Checkout seems to be better than Paypal, less transaction fees (iirc), and most merchs don't require signup for it.
Dunno how we got onto this from certificates but I thought I'd comment anyway.
wait... i just realised i made an even more stupid mistake. would someone like to correct me?
/me makes no excuses for stupidity
Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago
isn't that 4 AD, not 4 BCE!?
methinks someone made a mistake in the summary...
How can you tell if it isn't out yet?
If you read the article, its not about the iPhone at all - but Pay As You Go customers cannot use eMail on a normal handset. We were told by O2 that the iPhone would have the same problem on PAYG.
If it works, fine, but why are O2 saying its a 'technicial limitation' that email cannot be used on a Pay-As-You-Go phone, when it can on an iPhone?
I'd recommend you go and try this with a private mail server and your own phone (non-iPhone), then come back and tell me if the story is BS. If you can get it to work, then I owe you one - if you can't, you're just BSing yourself, sir.
It doesn't work on non-iPhone phones,
So if I don't have an iPhone I can't have my email?
Seems that's what I've been saying all along, Tony!