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Reply to copyright
bitrot posted a reply:. To be honest, yes I do think it ruins the image, which is why I don't do it. But at the same time, it is the only sure-fire way to stop people stealing your images, so it's all about your assessment of that risk. ...

Reply to Parr Guardian supplements (next one manchester 17th may)
bitrot posted a reply:. Agreed, the Manchester supplement today was superb. One or two odd choices (I think the general consensus is we don't "get" the monkey puzzle tree!) but overall a brilliant portrait of the Manchester we know and ...

Reply to martin parr manchester photo supplement in guardian this ...
bitrot posted a reply:. Well I came to this as a real Martin Parr sceptic, and I have to say I loved most of them. I completely agree with Jim about the monkey puzzle tree and the bollards though: the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome ...

Reply to 03/05/08: Sunday night
bitrot posted a reply:. I thought the winner was absolutely atrocious!! Not that it was a bad photo, but what the hell did it have to say about "Sunday Night"?? I didn't realise you could qualify just by taking a photo on a Sunday, ...

17/05/08: Power
bitrot posted a new topic:. This week's theme is POWER. So why not dust down all those unsuccessful Energy submissions and send them in again? ;¬) Flick has some great "power" images, mostly involving Battersea. ...

Reply to Guardian Urban Mural - another complaint
bitrot posted a reply:. Good tip, and not pretentious or condescending at all! The only problem is when they run to more than one screenful (and being legalese, they usually do!). If you're using Firefox, the Screengrab! extension is ...

Reply to Guardian Urban Mural - another complaint
bitrot posted a reply:. I agree, that's shocking. I hope your camera arrives soon!!

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. "Only 40 arrests" - but hundreds rioting: watch the CCTV footage. "at least £50m better off" - where on earth does that come from? People just seem to be plucking numbers out of the air. ...

Reply to What happened to Mark's Metro topic?
bitrot posted a reply:. LOL! I was asking if anyone had today's Metro because I hadn't been out to forage for one yet. I've since foraged, and got one, and my picture wasn't in it, and nobody had replied, so I just deleted the topic! ...

Reply to Got nothing to do - Lets play a game.
bitrot posted a reply:. Trust you to have a photo of a dirty canal.

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. Hear hear. Just popped in this morning and the clean-up operation is going swimmingly. (Photos coming soon. ;¬) Stop being a grump and give them their dues! ;¬)

Reply to Camera Phone
bitrot posted a reply:. I've got a nearly-2-year-old Nokia N73 and the camera on it is great. Comes up with some lovely results, including surprisingly good macros: Nokia tulip macro.

Reply to My Explore Formula
bitrot posted a reply:. I can exclusively reveal the true Explore formula, and here it is: A kitten on an iPhone at (HDR) sunset.

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. I've heard that the only place left in Manchester with booze for sale is Jessops, where a can of out-of-date Special Brew will set you back £75.

Reply to Canon, The Assignment
bitrot posted a reply:. Ooh, well while we're plugging... VOTE FOR ME!

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. It all feels a bit remote from Sale - all I can hear are the birds twittering outside. (As in going "twitter twitter", not as in using their iPhone to tell all the other birds what they're doing - which would, ...

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. Duncan, shame on you! Even as a GOM you deserve a day in the stocks for not bringing your camera!

Reply to ...a good place to stay?
bitrot posted a reply:. Hi Sylvain! I can't recommend anywhere to stay I'm afraid but I know others will be able to. As for things to shoot, there's loads to see right in the city centre so you won't go far wrong around there. ...

Reply to Is there a thread for Jessops rants?
bitrot posted a reply:. Now that I do agree with. Their passport photos are worse than awful. I went back and got a refund.

Reply to The Big Manchester Flickr Challenge: DON'T DO THAT!
bitrot posted a reply:. This might be handy for inspiration, including one from a familiar face! Search for "don't do that" on Flickr.

The Big Manchester Flickr Challenge: DON'T DO THAT!
bitrot posted a new topic:. Time to get those thinking caps on, boys and girls! Your challenge for Sunday's big meet, should you choose to accept it, is to take photos on the theme: DON'T DO THAT! We'll use this thread for your best ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. Hello! I don't have any plans per se for that bit, but I did say we'd have a bit of a challenge to keep everyone busy. Rather than a scavenger hunt (which we've done before), I've decided on a theme. ...

Reply to UEFA Cup Final
bitrot posted a reply:. Trafford informs us that, although some of the Glaswegians will be parking in Stretford, it won't cost the residents of Trafford a penny as Manchester City Council is picking up the tab. Seems fair enough to me. ...

Reply to Got nothing to do - Lets play a game.
bitrot posted a reply:. I see a tiger... Burning bright.

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. You're right Gene, silly question. Do what you like!

Reply to 26/04/08: Energy
bitrot posted a reply:. Thanks for the comments, chaps, but I thought the winner was far better than the one I entered. It was better executed and better composed too, and had more in it (including a jet flying past - did you spot that? ...

Reply to 10/05/08: Grace
bitrot posted a reply:. Top tip, Jim. Also don't forget all those photos of Grace, Idaho, the Hyundai Grace and of course, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.

Reply to 10/05/08: Grace
bitrot posted a reply:. Blimey! Another tricky one I think. Swans, dancers and churches ahoy! I'm a pretty obsessive tagger, so I always start with a quick search on my own photo stream. The only one that's come up is this photo from ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. Thanks for the alternative suggestions Mark & Gideon. However, since it's on my head I'm going to play it safe and stick with a venue I know, and know will be open and able to take us all at 2pm on a Sunday! ...

Your code is not flat
While you were reading that, your code rotted just a little. You’ve heard of it, bit rot. The bits in a program sitting on a disk rot. It’sa well known fact. Sure the magnetic surface could give out or if it’s in memory, a stray cosmic ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. Well, thanks for the suggestions, folks! Tricky, isn't it?! Rain Bar sounds good but has some drawbacks. Castlefield may be busy as the Great Manchester Run finishes around there. ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. Upcoming listing now updated. (Don't worry, it can be changed if need be. :¬)

Reply to tech head or more creative
bitrot posted a reply:. In my experience, both have improved over time and Flickr has been a massive help with both. :¬) If anyone's looking for a great book to explain all the techy stuff in detail but very clearly, I can heartily ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. And after seeing a bit of sunshine today, let me add that somewhere we could sit outside would be a distinct bonus!! Somewhere down in Castelfield could be nice, but may be tricky for people to find?

Reply to The Quiz
It often leads to what might be termed Level 1 mild friction at the dinner table, usually because Mrs Bitrot is adamant about an answer which any fool can see is wrong but which later, upon inspection of the ...

Reply to Flickr Meet: Sunday 18th May
bitrot posted a reply:. Oh bum! In that case the back-up plan is.... guess what..... Kro at Piccadilly! :¬) I know we might be a bit bored of Kro by now but at least it's big enough to take us. If anyone can suggest somewhere else then ...

Reply to 03/05/08: Sunday night
bitrot posted a reply:. Well thanks for the votes of confidence, folks, and sorry I didn't get in in time to give my thoughts on anyone else's. I wouldn't hold your breath! I'm the Teflon kid in this competition. ;¬)

Reply to Bank Holiday Monday - show us your pics.........
bitrot posted a reply:. Looks like I missed Truth by minutes! Superman's changing room.

Google guru on standards, mobility and our digital future
As we store more and more of our information online, Vinton noted, we must be careful to preserve older applications and operating systems or we run the risk of ‘bit rot’ rendering our valuable records and files useless. ...

Reply to 03/05/08: Sunday night
bitrot posted a reply:. I couldn't disagree more! Firstly, Sunday night is the end of the weekend - it's a much more generally significant part of the week than Tuesday evening. Secondly, it's not about trying to get "the right answer" ...

Bitrot
Bitrot, according to Wikipedia, refers to “the decay of physical storage media.” Back in the early days of computing, losing data was a way of life. I’ve seen people in tears more than once after discovering the floppy disk that once ...

Reply to The Quiz
bitrot posted a reply:. We scored 4 today. Tis a bleak day indeed in the Bitrot household. Mrs Bitrot's just gone out for fresh birch twigs.

Reply to Complaint from a winner....
bitrot posted a reply:. Yikes! The Nikon spin: See how everything ran nice and smoothly under Nikon but fell to pieces as soon as Canon got involved? The Canon spin: Ask yourself why they never had availability issues with the Nikon. ...

Reply to The Quiz
bitrot posted a reply:. LOL - I know those sorts of embarrassing debates so well.

Reply to 03/05/08: Sunday night
bitrot posted a reply:. I think #2 is your better one here, Clive. Have to say I agree with Truth that #1 isn't saying Sunday Night to me.

Working on the Ubuntu PS3 Port
I just felt I had to do something - Ubuntu on the PlayStation3 is just too compelling for me to sit back and watch it bit-rot! One of the first things that needed doing was to update the bootloader (otheros.bld) as the old Gutsy one ...

Reply to 19/04/08: Mystery
bitrot posted a reply:. I agree, another good set of winners this week. 1 and 2 were both superb and 3 was OK, although not so relevant to the topic. Becs: you wuz ROBBED!

Reply to 03/05/08: Sunday night
bitrot posted a reply:. Wow, a creative theme. Whatever next? I like the sound of this one...

Reply to photobooks?
bitrot posted a reply:. Quite a few of us have had books done at Photobox or Blurb and they're both great. Blurb gives you more flexibility over the layout but IMO Photobox has the edge on print and binding quality - but like I say, ...

The Quiz
bitrot posted a new topic:. I think it's high time we mentioned that other mainstay of any rational person's Saturday, conveniently put on the same page as the photos so that if you really had to you could condense the whole Saturday ...

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Bit of a leak
The Laramie Utilities Division responded Thursday to two water line breaks that took place near LaBonte Park. Distribution Supervisor Charlie Baron said the Utilities Division was alerted to a water line break at Ninth and Canby while working on another break in the area.

Readers get cagey with tomatoes
Left to their own devices, tomato plants would sprawl and clamber across the ground, gobbling up other plants along the way. Tomato fences PVC pipe Texas tomato cage "Remesh" Mel's tomato tower Redwood stakes

Polly's Indians crush Riders
Helped by excellent bowling from Shaun Pollock, the Mumbai Indians have routed the Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL match played in Mumbai.

Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Kapil Talwar writes : Re. Yesterday's editorial . Crikey wrote: "That several hundred of the finest minds in Australian journalism would willingly submit to a half-day's detention simply to read in detail what they have already been told is as great a mystery as a cliff-base beach littered with lemmings.

Arson Suspect Questioned In Palm Bay Fires
Police said Brian Crowder, 31, was charged Wednesday with intentional and unlawful burning of lands.

Historic Rosenwald school being restored
By Kathy Chaffin Salisbury Post CLEVELAND — Slowly but surely, the R.A. Clement School here — one of the historic Rosenwald schools built for black ...

On the rocks • Carrie, eat your heart out (or the zombies will)
With pallid faces, torn clothing and festering flesh wounds, Portland’s walking dead gathered Saturday, May 10, for the first Zombie Prom. A DJ is playing the song “Dead Man’s Party” as I enter Mt. Tabor Legacy’s main room. I’m clutching a severed arm made of ...

Murray v Simon as it happened
British number one Andy Murray beats France's Gilles Simon in straight sets in the second round at the Hamburg Masters.

With Jayasuriya's ton, Mumbai beat Chennai by nine wickets
Mumbai, May 15 : While Sachin Tendulkar failed to click on his debut in the Indian Premier League (IPL), his opening-wicket partner Sanath Jayasuriya shruged off his indifferent form, hit 114 off 48 deliveries, and guided Mumbai Indians to a nine-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings here Wednesday night.

Cullen Looks For Positives
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Bit rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... magnetic tape storage may experience bit rot as bits lose magnetic orientation, ... the breakdown of the material onto which the data is stored may cause bit rot. ...

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The term software rot is almost synonymous. Software rot is the effect, bit rot the notional cause. Prev. Up. Next. bit decay. Home. bit twiddling ...

Software rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Software rot, also known as code rot or software decay, is a type of bit rot. ... Normal maintenance of software and systems may cause software rot. ...

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Bit rot does happen. ... as hard drives) also suffers from bit rot as the magnetic domains weaken over time. ... Physical bit-rot can and does happen. ...

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bit rot. bit rot /n./ Also bit decay. ... The term software rot is almost synonymous. Software rot is the effect, bit rot the notional cause. Return to Cool ...

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bit decay See bit rot . People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay ... "Bit rot" from the Hacker's Dictionary ...

FAQ and Primer for comp.os.linux.advocacy, Edition III

...-DOS and Windows 9x. The NTFS filesystem are a bit problematic because of their nature and they way their ... and Windows 95, there has been a pheonoma known as software rot, also known as bit rot. With late DOS programs it could take an individual program on a production system out .... Windows 95 and Windows NT elevated the software rot phenomenon from causing the decay of individual programs to ...

Re: It's today. What quit working in Linux since yesterday?

...Linux: "That did it for me--Linux was "too hard." I quit." http://www.psychocats.net/essays/linuxswitchstory It's the famous linux bit-rot. Or more likely, one of the almost-daily system updates (apt-get update + apt-get upgrade) broke something. A dependent library gets updated...

Re: It's today. What quit working in Linux since yesterday?

... Linux: "That did it for me--Linux was "too hard." I quit." http://www.psychocats.net/essays/linuxswitchstory It's the famous linux bit-rot. Or more likely, one of the almost-daily system updates (apt-get update + apt-get upgrade) broke something. A dependent library gets updated and ...

Re: RRAS Internal interface using APIPA address, ignoring both DHCP an

...static addresses. In either case, the Internal adapter has a APIPA address. My guess is that there is bit rot in some RRAS related component, as the system has been running for a couple years. A reinstall of ... machine can't find a DHCP server or use the pool is the odd bit if another machine can do it. The only problem I have struck is ...

Re: confusion over ports improvements projects intentions (was Re: Is someone already working on a port that supports Boost 1.35.0?)

... the road". Not all evolutionary software engineering is bad, especially if modules are rewritten when appropriate. Of course I accept the possibility of 'bit rot' setting in when code has been through many hands and has many small changes applied. In this case, I believe that things are ...

confusion over ports improvements projects intentions (was Re: Is someone already working on a port that supports Boost 1.35.0?)

... down the road". Not all evolutionary software engineering is bad, especially if modules are rewritten when appropriate. Of course I accept the possibility of 'bit rot' setting in when code has been through many hands and has many small changes applied. In this case, I believe that things are ...

Re: Pronunciation assistance required.

...nt A quick furtle reveals that it still won't allow me to tell it to post in other than 8 bits. Or, indeed, do so. Hee, hee! After a mere two replies back and forth it's fully bit-rotted each dubious character to a pair of question marks. Yep. The flfgrz can still be relied upon to do what we expect it to. -- ...

Re: Pronunciation assistance required.

On 30/04/2008 19:17, Richard Robinson wrote: Andy Burns said: ??ha????r????f??nt A quick furtle reveals that it still won't allow me to tell it to post in other than 8 bits. Or, indeed, do so. Hee, hee! After a mere two replies back and forth it's fully bit-rotted each dubious character to a pair of question marks.

Re: Is someone already working on a port that supports Boost 1.35.0?

... down the road". Not all evolutionary software engineering is bad, especially if modules are rewritten when appropriate. Of course I accept the possibility of 'bit rot' setting in when code has been through many hands and has many small changes applied. In this case, I believe that things are ...

Re: No BIOS beeps

... PCI slot 5), and see if the BIOS chip is still present. BIOS chips have been known to develop bit errors, over long periods of time. This is sometimes referred to as "bit rot". But it is not going to be easy to fix, unless you have another CUSL2 handy to use for testing of the BIOS chip (swap them...