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You might be right. The binary 'ones' would be oneier, the 'naughts' would be naughtier. As a result, the data would be richer - it stands to reason. Can you afford not to?

I just presumed a restricted electric "assisted" bike was OK for road use. I might be wrong. Anyway, good job there's so much regulation - how dare someone have the audacity to commute in an efficient way.

Nice one. Time to re-post this gem: Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables? - The Consumerist In summary:

I got passed by an electric bike a couple of weeks ago. I don't hang about, even on a single-speed with 700x23c tyres I'm pretty nippy. But this thing just went passed me at about 30mph or so. They're supposed to be speed-restricted, but there's obviously ways around it.

It looks like that Spesh has 120mm disk brakes, so they'll be fine!

You're quite right, Marci. The question was about the plug, not the appliance. Ignore my reply.

None of the above! You need a 2A fuse. It's telling you that you need a slow-blow fuse which allow momentary spikes above the rated value. Ask for a T2ah fuse.

Whiz Kids was great. Computers and BMX - what more could you ask for?

That takes me back. The smell of the sheets! They had a brand name of Gestetner, and my teacher was quite amused when, during an errand, I asked for "copies from the Gestapo machine." A seven year old is easily confused.

OK, earliest-time-you-used-a-computer competition. This will be beaten, I'm sure, but to start off, mine was 1980 and a Commodore PET which was brand new to the school. I think I played an adventure called "Nightmare Park", though it's a bit hazy.

Oh the treat of the AV lessons! Herded in to the hall to sit in front of the one (and only) TV in the school and 'shooting the dots'* during the countdown before the programme started. * remember the dots?

Money itself is worthless; it's a notion. Interestingly, it started out with early bankers who issued receipts for gold deposits. People started trading these receipts instead of the gold (or whatever else was deposited), and money started. The most amazing thing followed, whereby the bankers issued more money than they had in the safe, fueled by the demand for credit. As long as there was no "run" on the bank, this worked and is still working today. We trust money as a unit of commodity; we all subscribe to the notion that it has value. it's a representation of debt. If money vanished, society could not function. If we vanished, money would simply vanish as it has no meaning outside of us.

Did anyone see this last night? I missed it but I'll catch up on iplayer tonight. From what it says here, "A News Corporation company recruited a pay-TV "pirate" to post hacked details of a rival's secret codes online, BBC Panorama has found." BBC News - Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival Are we shocked and stunned to the very core? Or not?

Banks, foreign (and domestic) investors, other countries, etc. It really is just like a personal bank account. The govt gets taxes from its taxpayers, and spends the money. If it doesn't have enough money to meet this spend, it borrows (from other sources, countries) or issues bonds or gilts. The hilarious part to this is that the banks just conjure money out of thin air. Don't believe me? Look up "fractional reserve banking", or if you have a spare 45 minutes or so, look up the eye-opening "Money As Debt" presentation on Youtube.

It's like shooting fish, isn't it. I could make a cheap joke, something like 'incorrect COMBUST.INI file', but I won't.

Couple of ways: You could mount the share in your fstab and rely on Windows security preventing the users accessing the other users' accounts Configure a system to automount a Samba share with /etc/fstab or you could configure the "logon drive" in Samba Samba & Windows Profiles - SambaWiki or you could use your idea of a logon script in the user's home directory (hidden file called ".bashrc")

Downloaded, going to test it later. The previous standalone distro had faults with Raided drives, and the XMBC package for Ubuntu had bugs so fingers crossed....

Here's a curveball: LMMS. Yes, it's a port from Linux, but the Windows version is pretty good. Rather than a linear approach, ala Cubase, it works with loops and samples in segments. It also supports linear MIDI. In terms of getting a music piece together, there's nothing to touch it for speed. It's only weak spot is no audio recording, but you can import audio clips into its built-in sampler, or drop them onto a sample track. Open up the demo songs under "Cool Songs" and within 10 minutes you'll understand how it works. It's free too, so worth a look.

This is topical: Icelandic Government Moves Towards Open Source - Tech Europe - WSJ http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2012/03/22/iceland-swaps-windows-for-linux-in-open-source-push-40154870/ This is an intriguing quote:

Phone call for Mr. Kettle - you have Mr Pot on line 4.

I hear what you're saying, but there's no need for this. You could teach crap techniques in any language and be in the same boat. I'm convinced that you can teach Bash properly and impart the rudiments of programming. That's not to say that you'd use it to write a financial system, that would be silly, but it could be a useful part of a programming course on the Pi, as it's inextricably linked.

I don't think there is one. You could wheel out some definitions, but it the differences would still be hazy to me. Anyway, I can't see anything wrong with using Bash on the Pi. It's tied closely to the underlying OS, so you can do file level tasks natively, and it permits a reasonable amount of logic rudiments (if, case, for, while, and so on). Provided tools like awk and sed are to hand, you can do string handling. Horses for courses and transferable skills. The logical next level is Perl or Python, but Bash is a good enough place to start. I cut my teeth on ZX Basic, but (GOTO aside) the logical principles were there. In all cases, the zeitgeist will move on. Languages fall in and out of fashion, but the underlying principles, if taught correctly, will be transferable. As an example, I did some stuff in the early '90s using C++ and Borland OWL framework. I wouldn't dream of using this now, but the principles are still sound, even though it's obsolete.

Hmm Texas TI 99 4/a? Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Memotech MTX? Memotech MTX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Perhaps one of the MSX range? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

It's been a long time since I did any audio on Windows, but I remember Asio4All being useful. ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver

.... but it kept blowing away! Boom boom!