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Flashing away

Setting the default (only?) numerical var type to be a float is beyond idiotic. That said, I'm not sure why "1" would be approximated as a float, seeing as it can be represented exactly in binary. Maybe they're adding 33 and 6/17 to every number before they do any calculation on it...

Two Hurrahs!

Dr Gill

Very excellent web site. Very impressed.

I'm Back

Pragnya

I love this! Have really missed making comments as was my custom on someone else's site. Looking forward to photos - how red are you!!!!?

DavidH

Lobster Boy!!!

Two Hurrahs!

Beer in spanish is easy. You just hold your hand in the air and go "thevehthehea" in a drunken way, and they bring you beer. It's great :)

DavidH

You get one word free in most languages - for the meditterranean ones it's generally "beer"

Who Here Uses VoIP?

Ooh, that name rings a bell - thanks, will look into it.

I'm currently just working off my mobile, but don't have brilliant signal in either place I live. I used to use the 'divert to landline' option on Orange, but I kept forgetting to turn it on or off. VoIP seems like the kind of thing I could automate - ie when my machine is off, calls go to my mobile. Guess I'll just have to pay for the priviledge!

The other main option I'd heard of was Vonage, although they will forward your calls for free, they do still treat it as a outgoing call.

I don't think you're likely to get around that though mate -- they are all going to want you to cover the cost of using the real phone network. Might just be best to get a mobile number as your primary number and keep the phone with you.

Woo, Phone Line Ahoy

DavidH

Ah... so it's not as good as the Arc

Qapla is a 1.3ghz duron :p

DavidH

Correct me... Qapla is the Archimedes or the 7000?

Goodnight, Uriel

I'm still internetless - sitting in Starbucks trying to get my e-mail, but of course it's on Qapla too :p

Have tried to restart it - waiting to see if it'll work. Not looking good, sorry!

But I now have a phone line, yay! One step closer to internet goodness :)

I Have Found Ballamory

carol

do you know why the houses were painted different colors in the first place?

Goodnight, Uriel

We are missing you rads ....... well ok we are missing the talker 8-)
Qapla died ;(
MSN has never been so active. But I mustn't be insensitive as I can see you now sitting with withdrawal symtoms which can't be good for the nerves.

Don't be getting sunburned!!! talk soon

We Really Love BT (For The Third Year In A Row)

Yay! I'm hoping to have my usual expensive faff with my phone line this year as well. It all stems from the fact that most ISP's only let you take out contracts for a minimum of 12 months. Now, if you rent a house for a year, the internet gets activated about 2 weeks into that. Thing is, when you move out 12 months later, you're therefore 2 weeks short of the 12 month contract, which gets cancelled by default when BT cancel the phone line. Thus expensiveness.

This time I'm looking at Zen. They've only got 1 month minimum contract terms, and everyone says they're good.

I Hate Telemarketers

DavidH

Report them to Orange... Orange require dealers who operate under the aegis of direct sales under the O name to abide to certain t&c's and have actually done something to stop norty people abusing the rules.

Moving To Cheltenham

Yeah, I'm not quite sure what to call it, it's higher than what I'd call a basement. The floor is about 3 feet below ground.

DavidH

"lower ground"?
Round here that means "basement"

Arrgh, Spiders!

You can come round and take out my rubbish then :)

William Black

Killing baby spiders is thoughtless and cruel. It's not funny or amusing at all. Simply because you're lacking in manhood to the extent that you are scared of a tiny creature (which happens to do a lot of good) doesn't mean you must stoop to such cowardly, inane acts as killing them.