Recent content by nigelren

I've had it from new and used it a LOT, think the battery is just worn out. I'm not bothered about getting the battery working - more about the best thing to do going forwards.

The battery on my laptop hasn't been holding charge, so I've tended to leave it plugged into the mains to keep it going. This makes me think I should just take the battery out and run it off the mains all of the time. Would removing the battery cause any problems? Is there any advantage -...

Perhaps Google should issue them with 'take down' notices and then Youtube-mp3 can publish stats on their web site saying how bad these oppressive governments/companies are for trying to deny their freedom of speech. Google just thinks it's above it's own standards as well as everyone elses!

'flooding Twitter with 679 requests' - wow, with such huge numbers of requests I wonder how they coped! As twitter passed 500 million users this year the number of requests is pathetic IMHO!

It's a difficult balance - I agree with freedom of speech and how people should be able to do or say as they want, BUT who says that Google isn't becoming a law unto itself - who monitors what Google does. After the 'we didn't intentionally capture peoples data' crap they gave over Google maps...

From 2008 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/20/gadgets.computers