* Posts by Tim

12 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Dec 2007

Sockpuppeting civil servant Wikifiddles himself

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The Reg = LJDrama?

What's this? The Reg is trying to be that old site LJDrama.org now ey?

This is sad and a shame it's happened to the victims, but this sort of crap happens on the 'net 50 times a day. This wasn't even a story as such, just some blabber about some guy who posted some photos and got caught.

Wow Reg, what an "Exclusive!" It appears the only reason this was even a "story" is because the guy behind its a Civil Servant? Well, was one.

I read half way before it dawned on me this was a non-story, I read to end just in case it got interesting. Nope.

Don't turn into The Sun Reg!

Reg readers rage at comment icon outrage

Tim

Woohoo!

Love the new changes overall, but the icons were a sore point.

Glad that Paris and the Coat Guy are back.

ASA raps Paddy Power over gambling dwarf ad

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Poor England

Having moved here from Australia, I can't believe how seriously everyone takes themselves.

An Ad like this is a joke, it's supposed to be funny. Talk about being stuffy!

Sadly, Australia and New Zealand are slowly following suit, pulling funny ads from TV because 3 midgets got their knickers in a bunch.

Why is Christian advertising allowed? I find it offensive!

(Don't tell me to go back home! That's offensive!)

No sense of humour? Avoid Bootnotes

Tim

Bootnotes

They're the main reason I read The Reg!

Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article

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They need to just accept

They are, pretty much, screwed.

They're in the public eye in a bad ligh with a bad product that no one wants apart from the ISPs, though even they are now all backing away nervously.

If they'd been open and honest from the start they might have had some shred of credibility, but they don't. Editing their Wiki article like this was a stupid move in my opinion.

Tim

cDc automates Google Hacking

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l33t d00dz

These guys are so cool that they've banned anyone from visting their site if they're using Internet Explorer. What muppets.

I can't help what my corporate policy forces me to use.

eBayer invites buyers to rip him off

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@John Bayly

There is nothing more annoying.

I often email the webmaster and more than a few times I've got back an "oh - We didn't think of that" type message and they've fixed it. Mostly I get nothing though.

Yes, get off my lawn.

BOFH: Carbon neutrality

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Oh Boy

That made me howl with laughter. Thank you.

Dell XPS M1330 laptop

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A Couple Of Things

I own this laptop and it's a great laptop, I'm really really happy with it.

1) It does not have a Gigabit Ethernet Port. Yes, it's a tg3 Ethernet Card but it doesn't support Gig, only 10/100. It would be nice to see this fact corrected in the review.

2) It is possible to get XP running on this machine, it's what I've got. Dell have updated their driver page very well with all the necessary drivers to get this going under XP. It is however necessary to either have a USB Floppy with the SATA drivers on it when installing XP, or to change a setting in the BIOS which'll slow down the HD's speed. You can fix this later, but if you're not aware of this you'll get BSOD's trying to install/boot XP.

This laptop is also well supported under Linux, everything works for me driver-wise which is nice. I haven't tried FreeBSD yet.

Winamp blighted by bug brace

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Winamp

It's got a long history of security bugs, but I keep using it as I think it's the best Media Player (for Audio)

Everyone complains about how bloated it's got, but you can actually install it in a fairly minimum configuration.

Even that wouldn't have helped in this case though.

Facebook CEO capitulates (again) on Beacon

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@earthpig

Well, if that's the case, I fully understand why you don't get it. I don't either in that case!

I use it as a good "everyone in one place" tool to communicate with my close friends. I have had a number of people at work ask me to "friend" them, but I keep my work and private life as separate as I can.

I guess people's opinion of FB (and other social sites) is heavily reflected by talking to those who use them. Given that I seem to be rather in the minority in the way I use/interact with Facebook, I can now see why so many people have such a low opinion of it.

Tim

To the "I don't get it" posters

@Robert Harrison: You obviously haven't used Facebook at all, otherwise you'd realise your post is quite incorrect. Sadly you can't understand something if you haven't used it!

Think of Facebook as a sort of RSS Feed of what your friends are up to. I find it very hard to believe that of your friends/family that some of them don't have a Facebook account. Facebook is a good, spam and hassle free way to interact with them.

You all happily post your opinions to The Register, yet think Facebook is some terrible thing. It's hypocritical in my opinion. Facebook is just another way for people to post their opinions (albeit on more personal matters) about things.

The Reg asks for personal information (Where you work, purchasing power) etc when you sign up, why aren't you all posting about how you "Don't get it" for The Reg? Because you enjoy it reading/contributing to it? In the same way that everyone who Facebook enjoys reading and contributing to Facebook?

I am old (31), wary of all things Web2.0 etc. But I use Facebook. I check it say once/twice a week to see what people have been up to, occasionally add a comment to a friends photo etc.

Why is the appeal of being able to do that so hard to understand? Yes, these are real, actual friends of mine. Thus why I only have about 15 people listed as my friend in Facebook.

There's a lot of crap on Facebook, don't get me wrong. The stupid "apps" that people add are dumb and annoying and Beacon was plain and simple a stupid thing.

But you can easily control what information Facebook has about you by not giving it any. It has my email address and a few other details. That's all.

People are so happy to post about the extremes of Social Networking such as those people who seem to live to acquire as many virtual friends as possible, but for the majority of people, it's a fun easy way to stay in contact with their friends. Someone explain to me why "they don't get" that? Do you also not talk to your friends on the phone?

The concept of Facebook is a great one, I challenge anyone to tell me why it isn't. Sure, Facebook itself isn't brilliant (see Beacons, being unable to delete your account, targeted ads etc) but the fundamental concept, which is what draws people to it, is solid.

And fun.