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Re: A Brief history of me.¶

chewtoy — Sat, 24 May 2014 08:31:27 -0000

This page is *really* in need of an update...

Re: Download all Juniper JunOS documentation – Nice Feature

chewtoy — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:22:20 -0000

"all Juniper documentation was hidden behind a paywall" - Have to disagree with you on that one Greg.

All JunOS docs have been public for as long as I've been using Juniper (~7yrs). They even used to do the portable library in a palmtop friendly version, long before the advent of tablets... (check out the pdb and LIT columns in this release from 2006: http://www.juniper.net/tech...

They hide their bug database and security advisories behind a login, but then Cisco generally do that too...

Re: More gaff than giff: The consumer-run network falters

chewtoy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:34:54 -0000

"I've been with giffgaff for a week after being with it's parent but seperate company, O2. I get much better value (saving at least £5 a month AND I get whatever payback at the end of the month) AND more minutes!
...
And also, you might be more 'qualified' to talk about cellular networks than me, but not more than giffgaff."

Where to start... You've been with giffgaff for a week, and that makes you more qualified to comment than Dan who has been with them since launch and experienced the turn-up of multiple accounts?

You seem to be confusing the terms value and cost, there are a lot of people out there (myself included) that consider paying a bit extra to get a more responsive service good value.

Outages and problem installs are inevitable. That is true on any carrier. The real measure of a company is not how well they cope with things going well, it is how they respond when things go wrong.

If you have experience with giffgaff dealing well with issues then I'm sure we'd all like to hear them as a balance to Dan's bad experiences.

Also, you can actually fit a lot of information about an outage in a 140 character tweet. Especially if you include a link to a blog post with a full explanation.

Re: The ‘word of mouth’ election

chewtoy — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:16:21 -0000

I think this post on the Data Protection implications of the Conservative's iPhone app is relevant here:

http://tmik.co.uk/?p=312

It is certainly a more social approach than the labour call centres, but is founded on some fairly obnoxious principles.

Re: Digital Economy Bill – Help replying

chewtoy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:53:33 -0000

This is my second email to Ann Main MP (cons) for St Albans.

http://j.mp/amTBqK

Her initial response is included along with my reply

Re: The Dying Buzz – The Worst Tech Move of the Week

chewtoy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:51:18 -0000

My understanding is that this is exactly what Google did.

They decided to build a threaded, location aware social network; they
scooped up some talent and experience (Jaiku) and they gave them a clean
slate (i.e. they closed the doors on Jaiku and open sourced the code,
freeing up the engineers and their experience to work on Buzz).

I think they have done a lot of the right things in creating Buzz but they
have released it before it is ready. A limited opt-in beta release would
have ironed out a lot of the issues of the last week in a much less damaging
way but hindsight is always 20/20.

I agree totally on the fact that the FB acquisition is not good news for
fans of FF. While I would also love to see Friendfeed spin back out, I
don't see it happening; without the minds there is no reason for anyone to
buy it.

Re: The Dying Buzz – The Worst Tech Move of the Week

chewtoy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:27 -0000

"With an interface as polished and slick as Friendfeed, why wouldn’t they just buy it and integrate that into Google?"

Erm... because Facebook already did that?

Love the show and enjoyed the rant, but that comment bugged me ;)

Re: Google Latitude on iPhone and UK T-Mobile G1

chewtoy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:04:59 -0000

Cupcake hit T-Mobile UK G1s back in early May. Google maps 3.0 (which should support Latitude) was included with Cupcake; however the latitude code was disabled in the T-Mobile UK build of the code.

Cupcake on the Magic and Cupcake on the G1 in the US both had the same version of maps and both had Latitude support. Presumably your Dev G1 is running a dev build of Android rather than the stock T-Mobile UK version.

I noticed and installed Maps 3.1.0 on June 16th, not sure of the exact release date. It is up to 3.1.2 at the current time. All versions I have tried from the market have had functional Latitude, its just the one bundled in with the phone OS that lacks support.

Re: Is the stylus indicative of shoddy UI design?

chewtoy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:25:30 -0000

I'm a long time palm user, so am very familiar with stylus use. While I have never had a phone with a stylus, I sometimes find myself wishing I had that option while using my G1. I often find I am following the wrong link due to my sausage fingers...

Re: Opera mini 4.2 comes to the G1 and out of beta

chewtoy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:56:23 -0000

Not sure if its just a problem with the UK market, but I can still only see the beta for Opera Mini.

I had a go on the beta a couple of days ago http://ping.fm/NrQqs and wasn't that impressed, even though I really wanted to be. It feels like a very competent mobile browser which is good; however the built in browser feels like a limited desktop browser - and even a crippled desktop browser wins over a mobile browser IMO.

I'll keep it installed, but I'll probably only use it when I'm either very low on battery or have something to do that the built in browser just can't cope with (like unicode text entry).

Re: Android Ã¢â‚¬ËœrebootÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ command gets a fix

chewtoy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:51:30 -0000

It does on mine! What firmware version are you on? AFAIK there isn't a fixed UK firmware yet...

Try doing a cold boot on the phone and making sure you hit return both before and after typing reboot.

A simple fix is to type "cat" (again surrounded by returns) to send all the user input to a less harmful location than /bin/sh ;)

Re: T-Mobile G1: 16 Things I Like About You

chewtoy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:25:52 -0000

Thanks for number 3! I've been waiting for the timeout for locking, didn't realise I could just hit hang-up (doh!)

On number 7: I have a bit of a love hate relationship with this one. First time I started typing and the address bar automagically came up I loved it; however the loss of keyboard shortcuts on some of the sites I visit regularly slows me down a lot more than the simple two press "menu->goto url"