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Comment on Hacker Culture and geek groups in Birmingham, West Midlands by hellocatfood.wordpress.com/

hellocatfood.wordpress.com/ — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:02:26 +0000

FYI, for Micromouse, the best source of information on events is their website, which includes their forum. For global/bigger events there's the website on the TIC domain, which annoyingly doesn't have RSS

Comment on Hacker Culture and geek groups in Birmingham, West Midlands by Stuff I’ve seen February 12th through to February 13th | Podnosh

Stuff I’ve seen February 12th through to February 13th | Podnosh — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:03:55 +0000

[...] Misspelled nemesis club » Blog Archive » Hacker Culture and geek groups in Birmingham, W… – Birmingham has a vibrant community of geek/enthusiast groups, of which I’m proud to be a part. That said, it’s sometimes hard to find or even know about all of them, without the right. So collected here are the groups I know of: [...]

Comment on Electric scooter by Alex Willmer

Alex Willmer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:50:03 +0000

“It copes okay with the 40 mph dual-carriageway sections of my route, and fine with city centre streets.”

Somebody asked me to clarify this. I don’t mean to say that the scooter can do more than 30 mph, I mean that in the rush hour traffic on this road 30 mph is okay for me. Roughly half the time I am being overtaken, and the other half I’m overtaking queues.

Comment on Review of the Candy Trio 503: a combination hob, oven & dishwasher by erpost

erpost — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:23:46 +0000

Thank you for a good review, I am now certain that this is te solution for my small kitchen..

Comment on MPGe of an electric car by Alex Willmer

Alex Willmer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:11:14 +0000

I’m quite partial to them myself (G-Wiz excepted). Powered from Gas, nuclear or renewables they emit less carbon too (tank to wheel) if the above maths is right. I just wanted some numbers to argue with, rather than half remembered headlines

Comment on MPGe of an electric car by fancyAcar

fancyAcar — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:29 +0000

Given the choice i’ll go with electric cars. Petrol an unrenewable source of energy and bad for the environement, so we need to ditch it

Comment on MPGe of an electric car by Canada Guy

Canada Guy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:14 +0000

Electric cars are useful in small doses, and can be beneficial for the environment. However, they cannot, and should not, be used to replace cars on the mass scale. We need more efficient long distance transportation systems for cargo and passengers, such as electrified rail. http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/10/electric-cars-in-small-doses.html

Comment on A new twist on spam? by ambrose

ambrose — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:34:25 +0000

Yes, correct. They either required you to download an ActiveX control or a Java applet, and I agree that downloading ActiveX is just as dangerous as downloading an exe, but since it is Trend Micro we trusted it. But the point is that the hoax email specifically mentions that the administrator does not allow installation of exe files (which would indeed be a valid concern for a “small centre” because the computer would probably be donated and they probably would have no spare licenses to reinstall Windows); there is no such admin control for ActiveX so the hoax would still sound legit at first glance.

BTW, in our case since we do have admin access we just switched to a free scanner (that requires installation).

Comment on A new twist on spam? by Alex Willmer

Alex Willmer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:16 +0000

Dougie and ambrose, I agree the question has probably been copied from a genuine enquiry. If the Trend Micro online scan worked as you recall, there was probably an Active-X control involved. The effect is the same as downloading a .exe, a program is downloaded from the website, and runs on your computer.

I suggest Avast! anti virus and using a better web browser, such as Firefox or Google Chrome . If you must use Internet Explorer, please upgrade to version 8.0.

Comment on A new twist on spam? by ambrose

ambrose — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:25:38 +0000

The question does sound reasonable to me. In fact I asked myself precisely the same question some not-so-long time ago. Trend Micro used to provide an online scan that both (1) works and (2) does not require you to download an exe file. Now the new version requires you to download an exe file, which I don’t want. So I would instinctively feel that the question is legit and has come from a former “Housecall” user…