So.....
Was the cleaner vaporized?
Posts by Silo Spen
30 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2007
Vacuum cleaner set Swedish nuke plant on fire
Facebook fails webmail tests
UK banks 'not doing enough' on internet fraud
Three hospital worm infection dubbed 'substantive failure'
Thursday 12th February 2009 04:04 GMT 
@ Steve
"Since XP SP2 it hasn't been insecure out of the box. It automatically updates, it has a firewall and you shouldn't need any vists to the desktop for support. Yeah, it costs. But it's also easy to work with and the admins are cheap. Management is a piece of cake and you KNOW there's an application - with support 24/7 - for nearly any application you need."
Two words: Ha ha.
Not that I'm advocating Linux on all NHS machines, or Windows on all NHS machines. I'm just laughing at the statement you made.
Three simultaneously cut undersea cables under repair
Google stretching underwater comms cable?
World's biggest ISPs drag feet on critical DNS patch
SanDisk makes sub-SSDs for sub-laptops
Computer Misuse Act changes are delayed further
Microsoft orders 65nm Xbox 360 graphics chip
Your personal data just got permanently cached at the US border
Friday 2nd May 2008 01:28 GMT 
Well, I have a solution
EEEPC + /home on an SD card.
= win.
Take it out of the drive, put it in your wallet, suddenly your personal information vanishes. They can look through the laptop as much as they want, the logs are all stored to RAM and are gone. All that's left is linux sans home.
Telling you guys, epic win.
Ballmer bitch slaps Vista
Monroe BJ film - world exclusive still
Mr. and Mrs. Boring sue Google over Street View pics
Home Secretary in ID card gaffe
Friday 7th March 2008 13:21 GMT
Oh god...
So we have this massive database which, presumably, all the customs, passport guys, everyone, needs to have access to. If they don't have access to it, it defeats the point of the whole thing!
If it does have to be shared, how will they get the data - by post?! I thought they had already tried that.
RIAA chief calls for copyright filters on PCs
Pillar adds 'application awareness' to Axiom arrays
Man buys MacBook Air, pulls it apart, takes pics
Sunday 3rd February 2008 18:17 GMT 
Well....
I'm still shocked at how little is under the hood. It looks like an IPod on the inside!
I can't help but think that Apple have missed the point of miniaturisation. Light, small, etc are all good points - thin? That doesn't really make it smaller in any sense. I mean, if you took pretty much any object and made it thin instead of smaller, it would still be a pain in the ass to carry around.
Still, thin looks good.
Rocket train smashes world land-speed record
ICANN to throttle domain tasters
Polish IT worker calculates exact speed of snail mail
Spotted in the wild: Home router attack serves up counterfeit pages
The OLPC XO laptop
Clash of the compacts: Eee vs Air
Wednesday 16th January 2008 12:51 GMT 
Bla bla bla...
It looks pretty, there's no doubting that.
But I love my eeepc. As it's been said many times before, thin != small, thin == more likely to break.
Or at least thats my conclusion. Sure, maybe it's made of indestructibleness, I guess we'll all find out when someone actually gets their hands on one and can flex it a little without those mac security guards pooping themselves.
'Dangerously alluring' Ukrainian joins Bond 22
Head banker leaves job over Muslim gaffe
Tuesday 8th January 2008 12:11 GMT
Stupid?
"What a joke, thank god they did away with him! How can people with such a low intellect reach such high ranks? I remain puzzled!"
Pfft. I wouldn't call it low intellect. Hell, it's just a play on words, not really a racist joke. I can see why people are getting pissed off, but honestly, what a waste of time.
Lighten up world.
Now RIAA says copying your own CDs is illegal
The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java
Google Maps rolls out the Mesopotamian nil-cubit
Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows
Monday 24th September 2007 10:23 GMT
Sure but....
I'm a linux fan, I run 3 Ubuntu computers (Quiet you "Ubuntu isn't proper linux" lot :P ). I'm pretty well versed in computers, yet it still took me a good hour to get my video card working with 2 monitors and my soundcard working with mixing (so you can listen to 2 audio sources at once, eg XMMS and Firefox).
Anyway, my point is that Linux is great for the low down computer users who just want to check their emails and maybe type a few documents, great for the geeks who want to do everything else and have some control, but it's terrible for the medium power users.
You know, the guys who want to listen to music, play games, etc, who don't particularly care about how their computer really works. Which I suspect is the majority of people, or at least, the loudest group of people.
Point is: What needs to happen is manufacturers need to release decent drivers for their hardware that run on linux (you listening ATI?), but that isn't going to happen until something like this happens. But it's a bit of a catch 22, because until this decent support is available in linux, the group I discussed above aren't going to buy into (or not buy into, as it's free) Linux.
So, hey ho, I hope it goes ahead for the "free market" etc. But on the other hand, if I get millions of phone calls from my parents demanding tech support, i'll be pissed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
