Friday, April 21, 2006

Technical thoughts from Spain

  • I've seen 4x3 tube'd TVs everywhere - even the larger model CRTs aren't widescreen. Plasmas and TFTs seem available in 4x3 (honest!) as well as 16x9.
  • Every PDA I've seen has been a Blackberry - not seen one Windows Mobile device.
  • Lighting circuits (even low load ones - akin to UK 5 amp feed) must be earthed. This goes against my predjudice that safety specs in Europe are lower than in Blighty.
  • The PCs on the reception desk of my hotel were running Windows 3.11 - honest! They seemed to be doing the bookings on them - in fact my invoice was printed from them. I thought perhaps they might have been NT 3.5 (which had the same pre-95 GUI), but no - a trip down misery, erm memory-lane!

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