Posts by Patrick Hayden

Firefox devs ask navels when to curtail Mac OS support

Why not just drop support for OS/X altogether?

The recession and Windows 7 will kill it off anyway. And for those who prefer Unix, just switch to Linux. All the files are where you expect them to be, you don't have to wait for your favourite software to be ported to Fink and Firefox is updated automatically through the package manager. That's what's in store for my (foolishly purchased) Mac Mini as soon as Apple stops supporting 10.4.

Colorware offers MacBook Air custom paintjobs

Great that you saved half the money...

...pity you wasted the other half on a laptop that's running Windows.

Enraged vegan spitroasts Reg hack

compassionate indeed

"How my vegan children and I will laugh from our intellectually and compassionately superior platform as he dies a slow death as his colon struggles to expurge his over burdoned diet of meat and dairy products." - hmmm... the compassion must be so superior that it doesn't extend to humans.

Palm punts unlocked Treo 500 smartphone

hear! hear!

second that - might be interesting if is was running PalmOS.

787 unsafe, claims former Boeing engineer

Doesn't have to be fatal

Actually, although 89 people were tragically killed, 34 people did survive the recent air accident in Thailand. Would they have survived in a composite structure? Maybe, but that's the question that needs to be answered.