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Forum: Off Topic 2008-11-22, 22:03
Replies: 15
Views: 1,486
Posted By tabletrat
Re: idle question

Depends, if you know what you want to code, code then get drunk. If you don't know what you want to code, try it the other way round!
Forum: Off Topic 2008-11-08, 20:15
Replies: 360
Views: 31,387
Posted By tabletrat
Re: safety and politics

While I have no intentions of getting into an argument with americans about gun control (been there, done that), this:



Is a complete fantasy.

There are armed response units in the UK, there...
Forum: General 2008-10-11, 23:38
Replies: 2
Views: 1,248
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Connecting through three.co.uk via an E71

I went out after the post and suddenly realised that I had only tried on saturdays, when the mail checks all day. I switched the mail to offline, tried again and it worked!
So yes, it was the same...
Forum: General 2008-10-11, 11:36
Replies: 2
Views: 1,248
Posted By tabletrat
Question Connecting through three.co.uk via an E71

I haven't used my N810 for a while, I got a E71 which gave me most things that the n810 was used for and a MSI wind which did the others. As well as that I couldn't connect the phone and n810 at...
Forum: General 2008-09-20, 21:24
Replies: 37
Views: 9,544
Posted By tabletrat
Re: No more Nokia products for me

You are joking right? Where are you from if american warranties are good? I mean the warantee here in the UK is a year, but if something goes major wrong in 18 months, I can still get it replaced for...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-08-05, 18:51
Replies: 4
Views: 1,007
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Will Nokia make something like E70?

What do you mean will they make something like the E70? They already did!
Forum: General 2008-08-04, 17:42
Replies: 1
Views: 1,073
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Sequencer for iPhone/Touch

I have the previous version to that on the iPod.
Only problem doing it on a tablet is that without the multitouch you wouldn't be able to use it the same way
Forum: Nokia N810 2008-07-29, 17:12
Replies: 123
Views: 49,571
Posted By tabletrat
Re: A-GPS Beta MUCH improved GPS on N810

I have constantly critisised the GPS in the N810 as being next to worthless, but i installed the AGPS thing today (no idea what you were supposed to do with it), ran it - it had a dot on the UK. Quit...
Forum: Newbie 2008-07-27, 23:07
Replies: 13
Views: 3,678
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Connecting to laptop (mac os x in my case) via USB to browse files

Cyberduck does. Well, others do to, but it has the right combination of usefullness and freeness.
Forum: Competitors 2008-07-26, 23:05
Replies: 246
Views: 61,373
Posted By tabletrat
Re: $199 iPhone 2 (3G & GPS and exchange)

Well, after a bit of deciding I have got myself a shiny new.. E71.
I know, doesn't really belong here!
Turned out that with my 'loyalty discount' I get the E71 for £20/month where the iPhone is...
Forum: General 2008-07-22, 18:12
Replies: 0
Views: 1,449
Posted By tabletrat
N800 for £105

In case anyone in the UK wants a N800, the nokia shop is currently giving 30% quidco discount, taking the N800 from £145 to £105
...
Forum: General 2008-06-26, 17:27
Replies: 11
Views: 3,842
Posted By tabletrat
Re: 3 mobile in UK and DUN phones

Is this a contract phone? Do you have bandwidth on that contract?
Can you browse the phone by bluetooth?
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-24, 17:33
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

Depends what you mean by understand it. I understand how an internal combustion engine works, but there is no way I am doing something with it. If it goes wrong, I pay for it and it is someone elses...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-24, 06:49
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

ok, it is entirely text apart from the things that it needs to store as binary.



umm, no, there was no registry and every single config file was an ini file designed to be edited in notepad. It...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-23, 23:21
Replies: 5
Views: 1,573
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Nokia to take location-based social networking mainstream

Is that like loopt?
loopt (https://app.loopt.com/loopt/sess/index.aspx)?

I am betting there are going to be at least 5 cases in the news this year of ex-husbands/wives/lovers/wierdos stalking and...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-23, 23:15
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

although it isn't exactly binary, it is mostly text.



which is why they changed from plain text files to the registry in later versions of windows!
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-23, 22:28
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

Huh? I have had rotation of screens on a variety of computers since the mid 90s and never once needed any terminal access to do it, so I guess it is just a linux thing. I also do a lot of work with...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-23, 22:24
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

Although there are obviously a lot of things trapped in specific formats, there are many applications that don't have equivalent applications to use in other systems.
As a mac user I find it...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-23, 18:10
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

Hands Karel a sense of humour, complete with fully functional irony detector as obviously his is playing up!
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-22, 16:34
Replies: 86
Views: 11,720
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?

Pah, thats nothing. I have used linux since the 60s, when we had to count the bits out by hand!
Forum: Competitors 2008-06-22, 10:41
Replies: 12
Views: 4,328
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Garmin Nuvifone gets it

Never buy a device for what it could have. If the device doesn't do what you want then the chances are it never will. That is new features or ease of use.
My answer would be that it needs the...
Forum: Applications 2008-06-20, 20:37
Replies: 16
Views: 3,048
Posted By tabletrat
Re: So there is NO free GPS navigation for the US???

Free wireless is pretty rare in the UK.
It is a shame there isn't something for automatically routing in maemo mapper, as it is quite a nice program.
Very good at drawing nice little trails as to...
Forum: Newbie 2008-06-20, 07:43
Replies: 7
Views: 1,624
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Buying Used N810, Question

Really, like all computers, you need to test the components, rather than the software. The software works or it doesn't, and that is pretty obvious.
You need to check the wireless / bluetooth and...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-06-19, 19:11
Replies: 101
Views: 9,453
Posted By tabletrat
Re: Gas Prices

Ooh - ours here. They lied like you wouldn't believe. Or you probably would.
They lied then, they carried on lying, and now they have gone completely mental
Forum: General 2008-06-17, 17:14
Replies: 10
Views: 2,499
Posted By tabletrat
Re: United connects to iPods and iPhones

Yes, you are right, I wasn't thinking of that high tech. I assumed it would just be providing power and taking video/audio from the machine, rather than having a whole computer behind it.
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