billybofh

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by billybofh 10y ago
I think the first artistically ambitious TV show I remember coming out of the US was 'Twin Peaks'. I've watched GBH a few times since it aired and I think it still holds up. Certainly give it a go if you get the chance. The
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by billybofh 10y ago
I knew an old-time naval engineer who used to live by "If you've tried brute force and it didn't work, you just didn't use enough brute force"... ;-)
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by billybofh 10y ago
If it's a self-add thing, possibly just hasn't had the word of mouth yet over here?
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by billybofh 10y ago
My commute is ~1hr and I'm only going around three miles. I could go on at length about the joys of the bus system... ;-)
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by billybofh 10y ago
And if you're so inclined you can pop over to Jura and have a nosey around the cottage Orwell wrote most of 1984 in :-) It's quite a pretty spot too :-) https://flic.kr/p/kkwkuk
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by billybofh 10y ago
Just to add some anecdotal pain... I recently bought my first audio book from Audible. I didn't realise it was a proprietary DRM'd format which has no sensible playback on Linux. So rather than spend time hacking together someth
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by billybofh 10y ago
In a similar line, I've been using 'streisand' for the past little while - might be worth looking at for inspiration if nothing else. https://github.com/jlund/streisand
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by billybofh 10y ago
I fondly remember playing 'Midi Maze' on the ST back in the 80's. LAN gaming has moved on a little, but I remember the joy and amazement of playing it :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSoy1S43dw
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by billybofh 10y ago
I can relate to that - we used to have two related systems which couldn't talk to each other. So the solution was to print out (landscape, tiny font) 1000's of lines from one system, then sit with a ruler and highlighter pen re-t
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by billybofh 10y ago
I'm just down the road - I might pop past at some point for a nosey :-) The only things of note I'd ever spotted in Govan were Titan Props and Film City - live and learn!
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by billybofh 10y ago
We're a CERN connected site and originally 'only' had 10x10G feeds. When the first data started to come in the network guy was looking a bit worried and said "the plane's coming into land, and the runway isn't
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by billybofh 10y ago
I remember when the bus system was being privatised and watching the transport minister on the news explaining that he'd been 'inspired' by watching multiple double-decker buses crossing in front of parliament - all with no p
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by billybofh 10y ago
There's also a good documentary about the lead up to various nuclear power issues in the Adam Curtis documentary 'A Is For Atom' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_Box_%28TV_series%29#...
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by billybofh 11y ago
Have you tried the follow up - 'Lila'? It goes at it somewhat differently.
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by billybofh 11y ago
Not really non-fiction, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is always a good read. Also if you're just interested in 'stuff', Plato's The Republic is very worth reading : https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by billybofh 11y ago
You might prefer "Time Management for System Administrators" : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do It's a little bit GTD-ish, but has a direct practical IT take on it without so much dwellin
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by billybofh 11y ago
There is a quite good 70's sci-fi film (well, I like it anyway) where an AI becomes for all intents and purposes The President (and then some) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
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by billybofh 11y ago
I remember watching a video of her washing all the goodness out of a bit of dough then baking it into a hard inedible lump of starch. Take from that what you will ;-)
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by billybofh 11y ago
And on ubu : http://www.ubu.com/sound/oram.html . Also a lot of Delia Derbyshire's work : http://www.ubu.com/sound/derbyshire.html
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by billybofh 11y ago
I think the EU certainly helped a lot by trade and free movement of people. It's a lot harder to make people from another country into demons if you've met them and shared a bottle of wine with some of their (almost inevitably fr
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by billybofh 11y ago
> Europe has been at peace for a logn time I think in terms of peace it's useful to distinguish between the EU and Europe. There have been a couple of wars in Europe in my lifetime. Not to mention a few military dictatorships (whi
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by billybofh 11y ago
No worries - the only thing I did was slide the time forward by a couple of hours - it was rendering ok before that :-)
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by billybofh 11y ago
It's giving me what look like quite unlikely wind conditions (FF42/Linux) : https://imgur.com/QejZqTY
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by billybofh 11y ago
It seems to want to take my email address so you can email me 'stuff' - and also I need to use OAuth2 via your site for... something? I'm afraid I've given up on it after about three minutes :-/ Our servers aren&#
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by billybofh 11y ago
Brings back to mind the row about Eddie George's comments : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/197995.stm
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by billybofh 11y ago
I've been looking for a copy of that for ages - thank you!
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by billybofh 11y ago
Like you, I cook fresh pretty much every day. I find it quite relaxing (but then I find housework quite relaxing, so I may be broken!). One thing I'd add to the list is a slow cooker. I don't use it very much in summer, but in wi
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by billybofh 11y ago
They also, as I remember, used to broadcast data at the top of the picture (possibly just about off-screen) during 'The Computer Programme' or one of its follow-ups, that a BBC Micro could decipher with some kind of dongle.
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by billybofh 11y ago
I think my favourite (rather savage) line from the series was in the Xmas special which went along the lines of "Whether you're busy hanging decorations in London, or busy being decorated for a hanging in the Philippines - it&#x27
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by billybofh 11y ago
Outside of London we were gifted the 'marvels' of deregulation in the 80's though and the prices & service are now pretty bad. I remember watching the minister responsible at the time espousing how marvellous deregulatio

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