EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
Openreach inherited the original infrastructure yes, it was built when it was owned by the UK government, then passed to BT, then Openreach (a BT subsidiary). Openreach have since been responsible for the upkeep, and are rolling out fibre t
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by EwanToo 14y ago
According to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=1000 1000 points happened around a month ago as well, but before that there doesn't seem to be any, though I'd expect Steve Job's death to be much higher - perhaps it was hidden a
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Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account(translate.google.com)
293 points by EwanToo 14y ago|150 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I've ordered one of these, along with a 64GB high speed SD card, will definitely be giving this a try. The only shame is that the Chromebook doesn't seem to come with a UHS-1 [1] interface, just SDHC/SDXC http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The reviews seem to suggest it does pretty well for video playback, the GPU might well be more powerful than the atom one, which wouldn't be hard!
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think it was a pretty good joke, it's funny specifically because amazon obviously won't be doing it deliberately, no poisonous thinking required.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Not sure why this comment in particular got downvoted, bizarre..
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It is based on Ubuntu, just very loosely http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/ubuntu_chrome_os_con...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I've ordered one, at least part in curiousity, because I think the device probably fits a lot better into my work life than a tablet, and I want to see how it actually runs. It'll probably be too slow, and the battery life won't be quite en
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Well clear numbers are pretty hard to get yes, but BT Openreach is a good source of data, as a government forced wholesaler of land line services. Ofcom has set the current price of wholesale line rental (i.e. a land line only service, no b
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There's plenty of database systems that either don't support SQL at all, or support it with a range of other languages. One of SQL's remaining powers over most other options is the ability of non-expert users to construct their own ad-hoc r
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Well if you were planning on having an instance run for a long time, and it's a CPU bound process, then it would definitely be worth experimenting with a roulette system. Some people already do this for EBS disk I/O issues, you fire up an i
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There's a fairly well hidden PDF link at the bottom which has the details https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotcloud12/ho...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Shame about the angle the BBC took, but the publicity worked at least in part - I've just donated :)
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Exploiting Hardware Heterogeneity within the Same Instance Type of Amazon EC2(usenix.org)
23 points by EwanToo 14y ago|10 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
As an aside, it doesn't cost more to call a cell phone for any reason other than "Because people will pay more". If anything, mobile networks are less troublesome to maintain than fixed line networks, the equipment needs a lot less human in
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's in the update manager, I ran the upgrade a couple of hours ago on a VM on my work PC, worked fine.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You definitely need to write this up fully!
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Perhaps, I generally ignore most rubbish like that which is written online, there's too much of it to pay much attention to.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
What complete nonsense. While banter between Scotland and England as countries has been going on for centuries, the idea that all (or even most) Scottish people would be happy to see an individual tormented just because he's English is, wel
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It also cost around £15 million to do, before the first branch opened!
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think quite a few data scientists are taking the position that they're a specialist plasterer in your metaphor, someone who does one job very well, but can't help design the skyscraper they're working inside. Good plasterers get paid (and
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Pretty depressing story, both Facebook and the group owner have their own faults here. In this case I don't know why the group owner didn't think it was more appropriate to ask people "Hey, want to join our facebook group?", not to sign the
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by EwanToo 14y ago
That's pretty cool, will definitely give that a try
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Even the manufacturers couldn't source them, the drives simple weren't being made. Beyond having a several month buffer of drives (which they had), what would you suggest they did?
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I'm sure they would have been dealing with various distributors to source their drives, but pretty much every one of them will have been saying the same thing "We've got no drives to sell." Anyone who didn't have a multi-year, multi-million
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The cloud crowd(economist.com)
1 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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One Linux for all ARM systems(zdnet.com)
50 points by EwanToo 14y ago|7 comments
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Natwest bank suspends Get Cash iPhone app after fraud(bbc.in)
1 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Farnell can now ship them pretty much anywhere with a couple of weeks lead time, which isn't great but is at least an improvement on a couple of months ago. http://export.farnell.com/rp/order/?COM=raspberrypi-group

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