Posts by happygeek

If he had been addicted to speed, would it have felt like he was driving at 560MPH instead of 280?

Building a cantenna isn't usually a hotel room option either :)

Richard Hammond has a well known addiction to speed.

Just goes to prove that drugs and driving don't mix then :)

Hi Sam, kinda welcome to DaniWeb then :)

Hi Cerberus, welcome to DaniWeb. Hope we can be of some help to you in the months to come...

DaniWeb isn't the place to drum up those leads, however it is the place for you to discuss how to drum up leads, improve your marketing etc etc.

Head over to the Site Management section and take a look at the relevant forums there where you should find the kind of advice you need.

I used to compose music on my Amiga using Oktalyzer

Cripes! That brings back the memories. I reviewed Oktalyzer for the Just Amiga Monthly (JAM) fanzine. Great application...

Whoops! My bad. :)

Got caught up in the moment there, just happened to be the wrong moment...

That's a real shame, he seems like a nice guy if a bit of a dumb one for taking on the challenge of attempting to break the British land speed record. Heck, the chap's a motoring journalist turned TV presenter, he is not a professionally trained and experienced driver. I note that both Clarkson and May had turned down the drive...

Just to add to my own ranting, I was at the HQ of Fujitsu Siemens Computers just outside Munich on Tuesday and, guess what? Yep, no wifi, and no network access.

Well there was, obviously, but not for the group of a dozen journalists they had gathered from as far away as Israel, US and Croatia. Apparently nobody thought we would need the ability to connect to the Internet to check email file our stories etc, while there. And apparently there was nobody at FSC who was capable of opening up a connection for us.

Grrrr.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Oktoberfest happened to be on in Munich at the same time (hic) I might have got really annoyed by it all :)

The thing you have to learn is that there is always a way to get free WiFi, if you're willing to try hard enough.

HeHe, I am more than capable of a little drive by wifi hacking if I wanted to, trouble is when it is 1am and you just need to check your email from the hotel in a strange city, the last thing you want to do is be wandering around the streets with your laptop...

Hi Junyah, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Lumlo, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Ben, welcome home :)

Hi Pratty, thanks for the kind words and welcome to DaniWeb...

Hi Goska - this is not the right forum for tech support questions. Which OS and email app is your problem with? Tell us that and we can move the thread to the right forum for help...

Hi Harold:

Here's just a little note
Because I want to say
I am so very glad
You've joined DaniWeb today

Sorry, couldn't resist the greeting card welcome :)

Hi Jessica, welcome to DaniWeb from the happygeek at Heathrow on his way to Munich and the Oktoberfest beer festival. It's a hard life, etc :)

Hi Jyoti, welcome to DaniWeb. A word of advice though, you might want to stop using the 'txt shorthand' as the rules here at DaniWeb ask that you use professional English (although obviously allowances are made when this is not your mother tongue, but broken English is easier on the eye than leet speek and similar.) Thanks... :)

Hi Cheryl, I guess that's a different type of coding to most people here :)

Welcome to DaniWeb...

I call myself an Internetwork Marketer, a first-of-its-kind entrepreneur who leverages on both the power of the Internet and Network Marketing to create streams of income.

If ever something needed more explaining, that is it. So go on then :)

BTW, I edited the link out of your posting as we don't allow 'fake sigs' on DaniWeb (see the Keep It On The Site section of the rules.)

Oh, and welcome to DaniWeb Roger, I almost forgot amongst that little lot ;)

CAUTION.. I tend to ramble and make thousands of typos.

Are we related? :)

Certainly many of the geek girls I know enjoy beat em ups and shoot em ups and especially first person shooters and online clan gaming as much as the boys, if not more. They can be really vicious these geek girls you know ;)

Hi Siya, welcome to DaniWeb.

Head over to the Java forum and all your questions will be answered. Probably...

This is the community introductions forum, where you say hello and a bit about yourself to the rest of DaniWeb.

Which either means you are some kind of weird robot, or you've posted a tech support question in the wrong place :)

Welcome to DaniWeb anyway, my friend...

What 'bad press' are women in IT getting? Unless you are referring to Patricia Dunn at HP (although not for much longer as chair, thank goodness) who deserved every ounce of criticism and her sex never came into it.

Seriously, while I agree that there should be more women in IT (and there is certainly an upward growth curve) I can't see how the media is being a negative influence here.

Hi there, welcome to DaniWeb and here's hoping you find all that you need when you are needing it.

When I say xmas I mean start December for the same reasons: my wife would have me made into a lampshade and some cushion covers if I was anywhere but home for the xmas break itself.

Hi Yogi, I started my writing career on the Amiga in the UK funnily enough - had a column in Amiga Shopper, another in Amiga Computing, did features for both as well as JAM (the Just Amiga Monthly 'zine) and even had a couple of Amiga related books published. Great computer, lousy company management...

Hi Mardie, welcome to DaniWeb.

Welcome to DaniWeb Alex.

Hi. Sounds like you have come to exactly the right place! Welcome to DaniWeb my friend.

That seems fair enough!

Ah, right, I didn't appreciate the history involved here ;)

In that case, I reserve my right to change my mind and now think that it's one of those cases that we should leave to public/moderator opinion. If this thread develops into a long pro-colour one then maybe your decision needs revisiting, if not, well, then not...

Bye To All Dw Members

Surely you mean hello, unless you are leaving us already, which to quote English comedian Harry Enfield "I do not believe you wanted to do that" :)

Welcome to DaniWeb my friend, here's hoping you find everything you want within these virtual walls.

I have today posted my 100th blog here, hitting the DaniWeb century, a technology ton-up, the big one...

Err, well, I am too easily pleased perhaps :)

What kind of trouble are you having with your computer?

Careful, Uncle Scruffy, or we will end up with tech support questions in the community introductions forum which have to be moved elsewhere...

Hi chimneymae, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Vijay, welcome to the DaniWeb community.

Welcome to DaniWeb!

I edited out the URL in your posting, by the way. See the rules which will help explain why.

* pinged Davey for his opinion *

I think that we are getting there on the moderator front, with a handful of new additions this week, including someone to look after Site Management.

I also think that Dave S has a point regarding the colour bbcode issue, and being flexible with such things, as does Dani with the looking messy when unmoderated comment.

My personal opinion on this one is that I'd consider bringing colour back, but only if properly moderated.

However, I agree with Dave that it should be a moderator decision so how about we put it to the vote over in the mods place forum after a period of discussion there?

Hi xponse, welcome to DaniWeb. I edited your posting to remove the link to your site in the message body as such 'fake signatures' are not allowed on DaniWeb. You might want to familiarise yourself with the rules to avoid slip ups in the future.

Hi Antonello and benvenuto. I hope I got that right, my Italian is a little rusty...

I was banned from the chemistry lab. Something to do with almost blowing it up, methinks...

Hello everyone :)!

I would kindly like to thank all those who responded to my information.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hello

You are welcome

And goodbyeeee, goodbyeeee, wipe a tear, baby dear, from your eyeeeee.

Hi all,

I am your new friend here.Please welcome me!

Thanks

Oh, go on then: Welcome friend...

Hi kaifoong, welcome to DaniWeb. Glad somebody here has been able to help you out with your problem. Hang around long enough and you can maybe return the favour one day?

Interestingly, one of the producers of .TV for Sky, Chris Long, is now one of the producers for Click at the BBC, which is why people such as Kate Thingy popped up there as presenters, I suspect.

Chris is, FWIW, a veteran IT journalist in the UK. He had many an important editorship before heading intt the freelance world, and then that of TV. If he can't persuade the BBC to make seriously serious tech TV, nobody can.

I used to be involved in something, many years ago, called 'The Net' which went out on BBC 2 and ran for a couple of years in all. We tried to treat technological issues with a bit more maturity and a bit less tabloidism, but to be honest I think we were ahead of our time. Not enough people were into the online thing at that point, so it was a bit like banging your head against a brick wall.

I scripted and presented a few pieces, which seemed to go down well at the time if the feedback I got was anything to go by. But audience figures of about 1.2 million peak just didn't swing it with the BBC methinks.

Now, I'm not sure that the audience would be there for such a show on TV anyway, they would probably much rather watch it on YouTube.

The TV audience, I suspect, would much prefer a kind of technology version of Top Gear...