Hacker News: toypaj

New comment by toypaj in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

toypaj — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:56:19 +0000

Exactly what I thought of, I bought these posters at the time and they are still in the cardboard tube.

New comment by toypaj in "Saying “sup” with `net send`"

toypaj — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:54:00 +0000

I still have a copy of it on a floppy somewhere, renaming the exe to coolpicture.bmp [extra spaces] .exe and sending it to people.

New comment by toypaj in "Saying “sup” with `net send`"

toypaj — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:51:08 +0000

I got fired from a training placement in 98 for sending a NET SEND message to the internal Novell Netware 4.xx based mail server, stopped the mail for about 30 mins.

New comment by toypaj in "Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator"

toypaj — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:56:36 +0000

I've used this for years, and use it to tally up my outgoings quickly, and changing a linked value will update all the related items

New comment by toypaj in "Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10"

toypaj — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:37:27 +0000

I just bought another Pi Zero on Friday.

So have bought a Wireless one just now too :D

New comment by toypaj in "Google Web Designer (2013)"

toypaj — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:52:11 +0000

macOS version is there:

http://download.macaw.co/1.6.1/Macaw1.6.1.dmg

New comment by toypaj in "The Secret Button"

toypaj — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:01:14 +0000

I use this all the time, and people wonder what I am doing, i don't tell them though :D

New comment by toypaj in "Tips for Staying Sane While Working from Home"

toypaj — Thu, 26 May 2016 23:18:21 +0000

I use Screenflow to record meetings and also whatever is on my screen at the same time, will continue to do this.

New comment by toypaj in "Tips for Staying Sane While Working from Home"

toypaj — Thu, 26 May 2016 23:16:24 +0000

I'm moving and will be working from my new home, will try to do at least a few of these.

Don't want to get distracted, as that is what happens in the normal office, toypaj can you just...

New comment by toypaj in "Why do old statues have such small penises?"

toypaj — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:21:45 +0000

it was cold when they were modelling

New comment by toypaj in "iPhone 5 with iOS 7 randomly shuts off"

toypaj — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:31:18 +0000

I'd spoken to apple support about it and told them that I'd done all the restore and backup and restore and testing from blank install.

This was a few days outside of default Applecare (of course) and had been happening for a few weeks before it expired.

Dying at daft times and magically charging instantly when plugged in

Bought a replacement battery but cannot take the screen off, just won't budge with a sucker, almost lost the teeny screws.

So will try the exhaust battery and full charge thing tonight.

very annoying, last night it was at 6% for hours, plugged it in at bedtime, straight to 33% stupid thing.

New comment by toypaj in "Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac"

toypaj — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:23:27 +0000

Have purchased but cannot do anything, iPhone is waiting for Macbook and Macbook is waiting for iPhone, cycling bluetooth doesn't help (iPhone 5 and Macbook Air 2012)

hmmm

New comment by toypaj in "BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK"

toypaj — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:28:18 +0000

Yeah, I was told by a support guy that between 25-30% of BT users were affected.

We managed with iPad 3G with MiWi tethered to iMac via WiFi and then sharing connection from iMac via Ethernet!

New comment by toypaj in "How to pick up and carry your iMac G5"

toypaj — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:33:50 +0000

Now why didn't I think of that?

I have scrape marks on mine from dragging it to my GF's!

;)

New comment by toypaj in "Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?"

toypaj — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:44:18 +0000

The Soundtrack is the first thing I bought on eBay (it came from the US)

I also wanted the headset that Zero wears. Now all I need is a spinning Phonebooth.

Angelina hubba hubba