Posts by Andy ORourke 613 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2007
Look, when such a great company takes a long time to hand craft stunning code from the ground up and then test it thoroughly it is obviously going to take time to get it right. Once again the wait is going to be worthwhile, another flawless piece of software engineering, smooth, unbloated and reliable and secure to boot!
What greater incentive could you need to move to Vista now?
All I can say is I installed Vista on my desktop and it has worked perfectly since it was installed. The install asked just two questions and went about it’s business. No problems, automatic updates work fine and I have not had a single crash, I even feel slightly left out since I have not seen any evidence of any of the bugs (file copy times etc) that so many people report.
I use Ubuntu on my Laptop and this has worked perfectly since it was installed. The install was just as simple as the Vista install (apart from having a visit to the forums to find out how to set everything up so that the MASSIVE text that appeared on screen, meaning I couldn’t log-in to the graphic environment), the updates work fine and I have not had a single crash.
Personally (being VERY lazy) I think Windows is easier to use and also to find solutions for questions you may have since there are so many sources of information, I found the Ubuntu forums rather intimidating since, when you asked a simple question, you would invariably be greeted with either withering scorn that you probably shouldn’t be using Ubuntu because your clearly not intelligent enough or a (perfectly Valid) very, very, very obscure command line string to type in to the terminal without really understanding what the command was going to do.
Now if they could only make Ubuntu as useable as Windows (i.e. no command line stuff at all, unless you really, really want to) then "they" could be on to a winner.
Oh, and as for Bill, no matter what you think of him or his company they don’t call it Micro$oft for nothing, after all he's the one in the solid gold mansion driving to work each day in his rocket car (Slight paraphrase from Chester Lampwick there) :-)
As for Beta testing service packs, I’ll leave that to others, as I said I am a lazy, lazy man.
Look, we all know that pirated data is transmitted across ISP networks, there have even been a few successful law suits to prove it. Now right or wrong the owners of copyright material do have the law on their side but, IMHO if the ISP's are willing to spend millions of dollars and man hours to detect, block or throttle this kind of traffic surely it would be cheaper all round for each ISP to pay a levy to the recoding industry Ass and other bodies in various countries and forget trying to do this because, for all the reasons already stated it is probably going to be a huge mess.
I think the reader was probably refering to Subscriber Traffic Management (STM) which Virgin have implimented in order to manage traffic on their network (stop those pesky peer to peer transfers!). This could restrict your upload and download speeds between 4pm and 2am, 7 days a week.
See the current T&C's at http://abcde.co.uk/virginmedia/stm.html
As for 1 fibre cut being responsible, Pah! IMHO
Once the government has successfully 'lost' the personal details of every man, woman and child in the country there will be no need to worry about identity theft and personal details being open to abuse when they introduce ID cards since everyone’s details will already be in the public domain!
Once the government has successfully 'lost' the personal details of every man, woman and child in the country there will be no need to worry about identity theft and personal details being open to abuse when they introduce ID cards since everyone’s details will already be in the public domain!
I work in the UK for a HUGE US comms company (Talking multi billion dollar turn over) and last year they didnt stump up for anything for us employees in the regions (OOP North) this year our boss has told us he has a budget of £100 for christmas drinks / meals etc. Once we can arrange a date all 20 of us are going to get together and have a pint, in fact since we are oop north we can actually have 2 pints each!
"So given ISP's cant tell you exactly what speeds you can get before hand, how should they advertise their service without using paragraphs of explanation/qualifications?"
Go to BT ADSL Line checker, type in your telephone number and hey presto it gives you an indication there and then of the maximum speed you might reasonably be able to get based on initial testing.
I found that my son (Bless him) had spent £90.00 on a Premium rate phone line to top up his Habbo account. I did have a little chat with him about the rights and wrongs of using the telephone for such frivolous matters (and then promptly barred access to Habbo on the firewall and locked the telephone handset away when not in the house!).
He then had the little problem of having all his stuff stolen. You see this other Habbo user chatting with him asked him if he would like a load of free furniture and other things. Understandably my son jumped at the chance, all he had to do was give his "Friend" his username and password, his "Friend" would log-in to my sons account and add all these things for him.............
Now, one good thing did come of the fleecing, the "Friend" stole all the stuff from my Son but after doing so he also deleted my Son's'* (*delete as applicable) account. :-)
I looked in my email this afternoon and I have, in no particular order:
£750,000 from the UK national lottery (Wonder why they use an email address from Yahoo!)
£800,000 from the Heiniken Internation promotion (probably the best promotion in the world)
£250,000 from the ecowas (ecoWHO?) foundation
£2,500,000 from the international promotional program
£3,934,000 from the UK national lottery this is my second win today!
£1,000,000 from the Microsoft Lottery (I thought that was something to do with using their software but I must have been mistaken.
Now, all I have to do is send them my name, address, bank details, age, sex and I can retire next week :-)
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