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How many megabytes?!

May 19th, 2010 1 comment

I was just burning a data DVD in Brasero, and the following dialogue popped up.

Brasero screenshot

Ah, I get it. It’s negative because the data is going out of the computer and onto the DVD. Still not sure why it thinks I’ve got 2 billion megabytes though… :P

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Productivity tools

March 3rd, 2010 No comments

For my email and calendaring, I use Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin (which implements the Sunbird calendar inside Thunderbird – nifty!).

As you can see here, Lightning is helping me plan my morning at work efficiently, by automatically checking over 4 billion of my calendars. Perhaps by that time it has fetched all of that metadata, I’ll have been lucky enough to miss my first meeting :)

I didn’t buy that!

March 3rd, 2010 No comments

And hot off the press, another fail entry.

I placed an order with Amazon, and received this confirmation email.

Screenshot - Amazon email

I sure don’t remember ordering an ARRAY(0x6b390274), but hey, if it’s free…

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Fail: Hannspree TV manual

March 3rd, 2010 No comments

For ages I’ve been meaning to collect together all the fails I come across and post them on my blog. So let’s get started.

This snippet is taken from the user manual of a Hannspree Xv-S LCD TV.

Operating conditions Temperature Temperature 32°F to + 104°F ( 0°C to + 40°C)
Humanity 20% to 65% (no condensation)
Altitude To 10,000 feet (3,000m)

For those of you who didn’t spot it… apparently this TV will work where there is between 20% and 65% humanity. So, Russia?

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Asking for trouble

July 11th, 2009 No comments

Perhaps this is just my layman’s perspective, but this doesn’t seem like a terribly safe way to use a hedge trimmer…

Asking for trouble

Asking for trouble

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