Posts by Pie

Amazon puts up CD rack in the cloud, unearths your OLD stuff too

Does this mean that I will suddenly get access to all the CD''s I have brought for my mother/grand mother in the future... Oh goody...

Buying a petabyte of storage for YOURSELF? First, you'll need a fridge

No one has mentioned the cloud yet....

Amazon would do you for around $65,000 a month, upload is free, you may need a fat pipe to do it, but at least you wouldn't be charged for space you were not using.

Windows Vista woes killed MS Pinball

It's a great pinball game, although like most of them I never understand the way to get 'big' scores.

GhostShell hackers release 1.6 million NASA, FBI, ESA accounts

Brilliant :)

The best tablets for Christmas

I am a bit confused, it's a tablet article but has the ratings at the end for e-readers? Oh and how come no surface score?

Take it or break it: the return of the drop test

Accidents happen, it may make a difference to me when buying something if similar products have different drop test resistance, but it wouldn't be my first reason for buying.

Major £30m cyberheist pulled off using MOBILE malware

Re: Very easy...

I remember a very old apple one that deleted/corrupted your files while you played some sort of strip poker game...

Record €1.47 BEELLION EC fine for price-fixing display cartels

Re: where's me money then?!

seconded, I purchased several large CRT's over this period and they were not cheap, what do I get back....

Littlest pirate’s Winnie-the-Pooh laptop on the way home

Sometimes stress of a case can cause people to pay up even if they stand a very good chance of winning. It seems this was the easy option here, as has been said before we don't know the full facts of what was or wasn't shared so we are just guessing...

'Look, isn't there some way we can get Julian out of here?'

You work for NatWest then...

Smear campaign

After reading all these comments, I am so glad I don't have to share a computer....

BTW top tip, foil over a dish makes a nice clean surface to eat on, saves having to wash up the plate before...

LG claims UK Ultra HD TV first

Re: Harrods

Don't knock Harrods, I spent a happy few hours in their with a friend, playing Amiga games on their working demo.... It was a few years ago so things might of changed...

Japanese firm offers 4-tonne GIANT MECHs for just $1.3m

glad my wife has been asking me what I want for Christmas....

Microsoft's promises slow upgrade for loyal Phone 7 customers

I purchased a Lumia 710 for £90 unlocked a few months ago, knowing that WP8 was coming out and that it wouldn't be up-gradable, but I also knew it did what I wanted it to do and for a 'smart' phone was very cheap.

Phones go out of date, probably much to quickly in this day and age, but if you purchase a phone that does what you want it to do then you should be happy with it for 2 years or so shouldn't you?

It's great that MS release updates for phones rather than having to wait for the phone companies to release them, apple have a slightly easier time of it in my view as they have a very reduced range that they have full control over, but even they don't allow the latest IOS on the iPhone 3.

Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review

Re: UK Sim free 920

Those phones are sim free, but a different phones 4 u definition where you don't get a sim with them, so are free of sim but they are LOCKED to the EE/Orange/T-mobile network...

Brits swallow Google Nexus 4 supply 'in 30 minutes'

I got there early, and still couldn't buy one. Not in a huge rush, need it for xmas, but it would be nice to have it ticked off the list.

Unexpected curiosity cripples Molyneux app

I may buy an add on but when you can't login it is difficult, charging 59p for the app may of helped but at the mimoment it is unusable

Asus offers compensation to pre-price drop Nexus 7 buyers

Painful website to use, not got my nexus registration email yet, so can't apply for voucher, hopefully it will come soon as I can't see any way to contact them otherwise...

Nokia primes Lumias for Windows Phone 8 push

Re: Later this week?!?

Twitter had a promoted post saying 02/11/12 release date for the 920

Nokia flings low-end Lumia at developing world

Re: $199??

Odd, I paid £90 for a Lumia 710. a couple of months ago. Works fine

Natwest biz banking service goes titsup overnight

Gordon it's a typo on the new site they meant different bank...

Logged in but couldn't do anything useful.

Oh well at least we will get compensation for the problems. Last time we got a £0.68 credit on our statement....

still can't log in.

Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash

Thanks Jim, I'll look at that, forgot phone at home today.

Like Shaun, I have an Omnia 7 and will certainly look at this one for my next upgrade. The OS works well for me, the only thing I don't like is it doesn't thread calls in your call history, but I haven't applied the latest update yet so maybe that adds it.

Greens threaten to sue over solar power cash slash

the flip side of this is that 25,000 people are employed in installing these systems. These jobs were created on the basis that there would be an 8% anual rate reduction starting in April 2012, not a 50% cut with one months notice. This will stop the industry in it's tracks, costing jobs and any future scheme will be treated as not worth the paper it's written on.

Should the system have been launched with a 43p a unit payment, no, as it shouldn't of taken much to work out that the rate of return of 8%+ was far better than anyone could get from the bank, but it was and the powers that be should of acted sooner in a more measured way, so that perhaps some of the jobs could be proteced.

BlackBerry BBM, email offline AGAIN

May not be server admins Matt Bryant

1 out of our 4 BB users has been affected by this, all run off the same BIS, with the same handsets set up at the same time...

BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL

Only affecting one of my four users

Pain though as I spent 10 mins looking at the problem before I spotted this article...

For sale: 50,000 compromised iTunes accounts

you don't have to use a credit card

apple have a walkthrough on how to set up an itunes account without a credit card.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

Volunteer biker gang foils Westminster CCTV car fleet

I thought camera vans/cars had to park legally?

It seemed to be on double yellow lines, also the side windows seemed very dark...

Overzealous Orange cuts off customer, still bills

Orange in good customer service shocker...

I have recently switched a couple of phones to orange because they had the best signal for the users. The swap over didn't go smoothly with the numbers not being ported when they should of been, however a call to orange (business) on a saturday resulted in the person understanding the problem, and more importantly sorting it all out within an hour, during which time he called me back to keep me informed and was most apologetic for the problems.

True the switch over should of gone smoothly but Orange sorted it well when asked to.

Flood, fire at BT Paddington node causes widespread problems

forgot to mention

my local garage can't take credit cards at the moment, I pressume thats related...

Nildram didn't bother to update their RSS feed

So you have to call their help line at vast expense, or try and navigate to their website (the link from the rss feed is broken)

It's nice to know they have a resiliant network, that can cope with any eventuality, thank goodness our buisness is in a tiny village so the exchange doesn't have the datastream link, but my home is out and won't be back on tell tomorrow at the earliest (according to the message).

Nexus One in trigger-happy 999-dialling bother

surely 0800 is triggered by 08

or am I missing something?

Erin Andrews peephole footage spreads Trojan

Surely Sophos should post

peephole footage of Erin Andrews on youtube and save everyone having to go to nefarious sites to get it?

I'll get my coat...

Three brothers jailed for credit card factory

chip and pin doesn't have to be compromised

While the cards still have the magnetic stripe on them, as that is all the criminal needs to copy, put an unreadable chip on the card and bobs your uncle, as far as I know a lot of cash points don't use the chip, certainly abroad, and in this country I frequently don't use the chip as the chip readers seem to be fairly unreliable.

As soon as the card companies ditch the mag strip then we may well have security, at the moment the criminals are almost guranteed finding out or pin as we have to type it....

Brothel funds NZ lad's Olympic dream

Re: How much?

Presumably he has to give up his job, to devote himself to full time training, and pay for the training...

Masked passwords must go

what stops people looking at the keyboard

having a tick box that allowed the password to be masked or not, or to have as others have suggested just the last letter showing could help usability, and stop people having to write passwords down, or keep them in files to copy and paste...

When I am putting password in front of my children I make them turn away as I know there curisosity would enable them to 'work it out' after a while and I cba to keep changing my passwords.

But thinking that having a password masked out is the worlds best security when you are typing the password in front of someone is plainly mistaken.

Website liable for Google-generated page summary

we had a similar problem with a forum we run

Where in one of the theads a garage was being slaged off for being poor, however some recomended another local garage in the same thread and subsequent google searches for garages in that area (not bad or good ones just ones in the area) turned up the page summary with the good garage aparently being called poor.

When the garage reported this to us we deleted the offending thread (it was old), and informed google via their automatic system that that page should be removed from the their cache, it happened within 48 hours. I pressume the speed of this was because we use google analytics so they knew it was the websites admin that was asking for the changes.

In our case it was quickly and easily sorted out with everyone being happy,

Balls saves history lessons from Facebook and Twitter

Re: Henry

Indeed, I did a rather good dance to this music when 30 years ago at school. Well my mum liked it anyway.

Busted! Conficker's tell-tale heart uncovered

re: I feel dirty for commenting for support

try using python 2.6 rather than 3

Re: Scanner instructions?

@AC:

" Make that a couple of Python files that don't even compile... "

you need to use python 2.6 not 3.

Oh and the instructions were missing download http://iv.cs.uni-bonn.de/uploads/media/scs.zip !

Open sourcey bulletin board offline after hack attack

Shame the password list is no longer available

As I couldn't remeber my password on phpbb.com for the life of me....

Airline ticket receipt scam spreads malware

My favourite one of these

was the UPS parcel I was supposed to have posted on the 25/12/08. All I had to do was open the word document...

Customs warns of killer consoles

wasn't there a boy killed a few months ago

By a faulty DS adapter his parents had brought when he was on holiday in thailand?

These of course are probably perfectly safe and the consoles themselves will be if you supply your own UK adapter.

Booby-trapped emails fly back into fashion

old news

i started getting these around 6 months ago, with various different email subjects being tried since then, all with an attached zip file of around 40-80k.

Hubble transmissions cease as computer fails

they are going to use the spare

But they it's not a simple operation so it may well go wrong, if thats the case then there will be a 6 month wait for the data.

Fancy a shattering ORG45M for £150k?

FAL 1C

Is the best number plate I have seen, and it's more subtle than PEN 15

Lehmans techies start job hunt

Don't be so sure

A friend of mines brother was made redundant 5 months ago from his IT role in a bank, he still hasn't got a job. He has had plenty of interviews but there are a lot of people looking for a few jobs...

Reg readers rage at comment icon outrage

Paris

Is back in the building...