timthorn

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by timthorn 19d ago
Yes, though I think it's being positioned as a commuter service for the people of Bewdley to get to Birmingham and back rather than for visitors to get to Bewdley.
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Cave Radio – Talking Through Solid Rock(makezine.com)
4 points by timthorn 22d ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 27d ago
It's a rhetorical device to emphasise the reason for cancellation, not a revision.
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by timthorn 29d ago
Richard Walker tried to become a Conservative MP, but when no constituency party selected him as their candidate defected to Labour, who put him in the House of Lords.
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by timthorn 1mo ago
> I probably missed a lot of them Psion is the big one - the Organiser, Series 3 and Series 5 in particular. The latter was the genesis of Symbian, which Motorola was also a partner in.
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by timthorn 2mo ago
Paul Fellows absolutely claims that. From https://astrospeakers.org/provider/paul-fellows : > He worked on the first generation of home computers and lead the design of the RiscOS operating system for the ARM proces
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by timthorn 2mo ago
Well, a reminder of the origin story of RiscOS: https://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Acorn/fellows.php Paul Fellows later went on to be the CTO of AlertMe, which became the basis of British Gas' Hive service,
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UK Online Safety Consultation: Giving users more choice control and trust online(ofcom.org.uk)
3 points by timthorn 2mo ago|0 comments
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Frank Land obituary: programmer of the first business computer(thetimes.com)
1 points by timthorn 3mo ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 4mo ago
Dot matrix printers + fanfold paper
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by timthorn 4mo ago
> Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth Civilization and The Ascent of Man were both commissioned by Attenborough - he had a major impact on the broadcast landscape well beyond natural
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by timthorn 5mo ago
It's the same Greek root as Kubernetes
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by timthorn 5mo ago
The article is a great read. Though it talks about OBEX, and how Bluetooth wiped out IrDA, but not that Bluetooth took OBEX straight out of the IrDA stack. Not IRDA, but there was also IRTalk built into some of the Power Book series, allowi
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The silent coup: How AI captured Westminster(newstatesman.com)
2 points by timthorn 5mo ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 6mo ago
Partially redacted details here. The award was over 5 years for half that amount, but could be extended to 10. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f8a65b5-2...
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by timthorn 6mo ago
> click on the “books” tab - the author is a technologist That's rather underselling him. Charles Petzold wrote the canonical reference works for programming Win32 and MFC. It's like calling Donald Knuth a lecturer.
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by timthorn 6mo ago
And a Televideo 910. Keyboard with added reverb :)
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January 1877 – Sir Titus Salt obituary(theengineer.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 7mo ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 7mo ago
Typically, fun memory they'd move to a secure connection for credit card input, but most of the site would be open HTTP - why secure what isn't confidential? Concerns about 3rd parties eavesdropping on the sites you visited weren&
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by timthorn 7mo ago
I bought myself a 3 year subscription with my very first pay cheque. I got 2 or 3 issues before it went under. As a way of teaching a teenager about the full range of computer technology from the Cambridge Active Badge through to Big Data,
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by timthorn 8mo ago
The MRAO is a fascinating place, with things left as they were the last time an instrument was used. The floor of the hut where the array cables were aggregated for connection to the cable back to the Cavendish is covered in little plastic
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by timthorn 8mo ago
It's possibly because of a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority back in the ADSL days: https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/broadband-speed-claims-guida...
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by timthorn 8mo ago
I wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.
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by timthorn 8mo ago
And the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience. Thants.
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by timthorn 8mo ago
You might be thinking of Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28telecommunications%2...
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by timthorn 8mo ago
Are the dual redundant leaky feeders configured to act as a MIMO array?
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by timthorn 8mo ago
Reminds me of Field, an art installation of planted fluorescent tubes under an HV electricity distribution line back in 2004: https://www.gorge.org/images/field/
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by timthorn 9mo ago
The print copy of Felder and Felder looks to be cheaper than Young and Freedman at both Barnes and Noble and Amazon?
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by timthorn 9mo ago
Ah yes, and they are very readable indeed.
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by timthorn 9mo ago
Felder & Felder's Modern Physics is pretty good ( https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/physic... ). I also second OgsyedIE's suggestion og Young & Freedman.

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