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Comment on Siemens washing machine broken – flashing key symbol, child lock by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:25:57 +0000

WOW! Thank you so much for your blogg! It may have been the most boring blogg you have ever written but for me it has been the most usefull I have ever read!!!

Life saver!!

Comment on Siemens washing machine broken – flashing key symbol, child lock by Rosie

Rosie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:16:05 +0000

thank you Declan, I keep doing this and can never remember how to unlock now I know I can find the answer on here, thank you.

Comment on Siemens washing machine broken – flashing key symbol, child lock by Declan

Declan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:39:06 +0000

Thanks TechBelly. And extra thanks to Mark!
It was Mark’s tip that hinted at the solution for our machine. The illusive WM14S76, just try to find it on the Siemens website…!
Anyway, if you have one of these the way to release the child lock is:
-Set the mode to cottons, (dial clockwise once)
-Press and hold the option down touch button for 5 seconds or until you see the magic message ‘Child lock released’.

Thanks again.

Comment on Raise a toast to British journalism! by The 16 year old

The 16 year old — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:25:08 +0000

Dont worry guys, none of us were charged And youre right, being in that cell for six days was bloody awful.
Cheers for your concern

Comment on List of UK MPs on twitter by Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:23 +0000

TheyWorkForYou now links to those Twitter feeds using your spreadsheet, thanks

Given when Parliament is dissolved, all MPs cease to be MPs and so presumably cannot refer to themselves as such, I wonder what the 40 MPs who have MP in their Twitter username are going to rename themselves to.

Comment on DHL couldn’t deliver pizza if it tried. by Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:46:22 +0000

Im currently awaiting an order from DHL im a university student, and on the email (so i could access tracking) is says:

Your parcel number(s) is:

it was left blank… so i cannot check at all… tried every code on the email to no prevail.

Comment on TDD – it’s all about the concrete. by Alan J.Williams (TESOM)

Alan J.Williams (TESOM) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:35:19 +0000

Thanks for the interesting article.

Code certainly is abstract. All code has a target processor.
The processor is a stange beast. Converting the abstract to concrete via the manipulation of actuators. The abstract domain and the real domain become intwined in the processor. The processor is the place of other miracles too. The source and destination of all communications, the symbolisation of a real domain, (following on from “communications”) the
source and destination of all abstractions, the place where
intellegence makes it’s appearance in the real domain.

All code is purposeful. The processor then is the place where purpose meets the real domain. Note that processors always contain coded structures that interface with the code it is running.

All human oganisations behave like a processor running
code, ultimately manipulating the real domain with actuators (people and processes) in accordance with purposeful code. Thus humans have been writing code for target processors since the beginning. Weird
or what.

Testing is essential but so boring. It’s results can be easily
wrong, missunderstood or even ignored. However testing deserves some proportion of the resources cake.

Other people contribute to the success or failure of a software manufacturing process and their contribution needs to be tested too. Particular attention needs to be placed on testing the user specification before and during the coding/testing period, especially if it is a government thing ( ).

Comment on I expect more of the BBC by The Phazer

The Phazer — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:35:32 +0000

“Unfortunately, the BBC doesn’t seem to have the courage it used to have.”

If the BBC had the courage it used to, it’d sue Cory Doctorow for being the lying fantasist he is – that Guardian article is full of complete fabrications about British broadcasting law and misrepresentations, and I think the BBC’s response is positively restrained.

Comment on I expect more of the BBC by Mo

Mo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:17:22 +0000

Nick:—

If I was a rights-holder, I’d expect to be engaging in dialogue with the BBC separate from the blog posts, for a start (and of course, we know that’s been happening, so it’s all gravy).

As part of that dialogue, if I didn’t already know (which I _should_, as a rights-holder in the broadcasting industry) what the real-world effect of these measures were, I’d expect the BBC to point them out as part of their rationale for action or inaction.

The content being easy to copy by a determined pirate is pretty much as far removed as possible from the debate about protection measures being applied to HD channels (and don’t for a second thing that this means “casual pirates” would be stopped in their tracks as a concession: the casual pirates are just the ones downloading content already made available through illicit means).

None of this is rocket science, nor any sort of secret, nor particularly contentious. The behaviour of pirates and those who make use of their wares has been well-understood since the late 1990s. The broadcasting industry is sailing very close to making the same mistakes the record industry did and shooting itself in the collective foot. I’m sure you’ll agree that none of us wants to see that happen.

Comment on I expect more of the BBC by Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:11:30 +0000

Not sure I get the joke, Nick. But obviously I do so appreciate your disdainful tone.

And, you must stop with this “live streams are not being encrypted” line. Encrypting the metadata stream is a nice technical wheeze that allows that line to be technically true and practically false. Doesn’t that feel a bit spin-ful to you? The service is de facto encrypted.

Personally, I think I’d feel that the BBC was fulfilling its public purpose. Just a thought.