Posts by Ian Wyper

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 sub-notebook

re: Defrag SSD?

Wouldn't regular defragging of an SSD drive cause it to expire earlier?

Censor to challenge Manhunt 2 release in court

I don't get it

I don't understand why BBFC are trying to ban this. I didn't think their remit was to ban stuff.

Any age related censorship is only as good as the ability of parents to say no to their children. Maybe the BBFC should use this game as a publicity vehicle to promote the idea the 18+ games really are meant for adults. Use the media to glorify how gory it is. Perhaps the idea should be promoted that showing 18+ certified material to minors is a form of child abuse.

Satanic car key traps 12 motorists in car park of horror

Gravesend in Medway?

I just though I would point out that Gravesend is not one of the Medway towns.

Seagate's US customers get refund

This has been going on for years

I remember back at college in the early 90's when one of my lecturers said that disk space used 1000 kilobytes to mean a MB.

All HDD manufacturers have been doing this for years. As disk sizes increase, the difference between the proper binary GB and HDD GB increases.

So why were Seagate singled out now, rather than years ago?