@hideout Heh, nice :)
@hideout A Miele in every home, and a Bosch in every hand! ;)
@hideout No worries. I wondered if it was real, when I saw it. Shame about the bad reviews of the place, though...
@hideout So maybe the Americans were envious of the German Dream, of having clean air vents? ;)
@hideout Hah, nice ;)
@hideout Hah, I just found this company in the US, by accident, whilst Googling - http://www.yelp.com/biz... ;)
@imabug Nice! Long may it continue to serve you for another 150,000 miles! :)
Hoping that updating it will also fix the "Invalid certificate" problem, when trying to connect to FaceBook's XMPP service...
Hmm, so it does connect, eventually (with Pidgin 2.10.7) - but it does so excruciatingly slowly. Need to upgrade to 2.10.10, anyway...
Hmm, and Windows 8.1 seems to have broken connecting to IRC in Pidgin. Now, it just hangs; and eventually, I get an error message...
@nightrose No worries. It was taking me a while to sort out Athens authentication, anyway. :)
Curiously, although things seem to work fine, post-update, VMware Player gives me this notice... https://twitter.com/vmlemon...
@nightrose I might be able to access the IEEE one.
今は、ウインドウズ8.1でバージョンアップされました。レノボさんの「エネルギーマネージメント」とWiresharkとVMware PlayerとグーグルIMEにまた働きましょう。
Aah, my bad. I don't think it ever came in a steel can - unless that was for other markets.
Oh well. Still tastes as good as ever.
@JennYates @rbonini I've been looking at 24-bit audio, and things like FLAC studio masters, a while ago, too. Now that's interesting stuff.
@JennYates I think they're more of a social phenomenon, really. Wouldn't rate them for sound quality, or longevity/reliability. :)
@JennYates So I'm at the mercy of battery life, and find myself worrying if I'll have enough charge, come 5pm.
@JennYates Aah, that makes sense. I tend to use my phone as a Swiss army knife (camera, document reader, music player, etc)...
@JennYates I still remember compact cassettes, too. :)
@JennYates Haven't experienced them, but it seems that there's some excellent decks, out there. So much for a dead format.
@JennYates @rbonini ...But I've got a UPnP server installed, so I can stream to the PS3, and my tablet.
@JennYates @rbonini Nice! Right now, I'm just using my phone for portable listening; and I occasionally listen to stuff on my laptop...
RT @JennYates: @vmlemon this player says it holds 58gb so I guess it's a music hd for my car lol
@JennYates @rbonini I hear rumours that you can play Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files on some BlackBerries, too - but I haven't tested it.
@JennYates @rbonini 141 tracks, spanning 10 albums (so average ~13 tracks/CD), at a total of 445MB, so far. Sounds great, too.
@JennYates @rbonini On that note, my sister's wanting to buy an iPod Touch - so I've spent the last 30mins ripping her CDs to HE-AAC/Pulse.
@JennYates @rbonini Agreed - and streaming media systems (e.g. Linn DS, and Sonos) seem to be the way to go, for in-home hi-fi, nowadays.
Thinking of biting the bullet, and just installing the W8.1 update. If it breaks, I keep all of the pieces...
RT @jetdaisuke: Windows95のころ何してた?と訊けばジェネレーションギャップ系の会話を楽しめたものだけど、最近じゃオムツしてたどころか精製されてもいないのがいてな。
RT @ThatsEarth: Long exposure photo of a lightning bolt hitting a tree. https://twitter.com/ThatsEa...