* Posts by Bill Gould

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Pirates of the Caribbean say 'narrr' to Bulgarian airbags

Bill Gould
FAIL

Aaaaand, it's dead.

Replacing one of the main cast members is certain death.

Microsoft talks up Windows 7 SP1, shy on dates

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LTU n00b

Please use the finished product before making shit up. Kthxbye.

'Racist' job ad sparks investigation

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WTF?

re: Quebec

But who really wants to work in Quebec? Really.

I still vote we swap the populations with Newfoundland and then blast the island free to float as they will.

Hidden Windows 7 costs worry upgraders

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XP Mode

The only concern with XP mode is that it requires a virtualization capable processor (toss that old kit you twits), and that virtualization has to be enabled (and don't buy Sony).

So provided companies actually involve their IT departments... wait, strike that. As long as companies actually involve their IT techs in the decision making process they'll be fine.

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Not Win7 issue. Talk to your vendor.

Drivers are not Microsofts issue. It's a vendor issue. If your %thingy% doesn't work in Win7 because of drivers then your vendor didn't bother to write them and get them approved for inclusion. Or even bother to write them for a separate download for that matter.

Internet Explorer 8 still not mingling well with 2,000 highly-visited sites

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Made a standard that the standard didn't support...

Web dev's made "standards" that weren't supported by the de-facto Standard Browser for the vast majority of the world at the time. That's a lot like me making an accelerator pedal for all cars and all the big automotive companies calling it the new standard, though it only fits and works in an obscure soviet produced model only sold in a country that no longer exists.

Senators to NASA: Get your ass to Mars

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Isn't it passed time...

...we had that one world government thing. What's the hold up China? Ditch the 1984 communism and take over the world already.

Buffy's heart gets wrong kind of flutter from Google Buzz

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FAIL

Disabled.

"Don't be evil" my ass.

BOFH: The PFY Chronicles

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Thumb Up

<insert laugh track here>

Hahah. Nice one.

iPad launch raises awareness, boosts disinterest

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Gates Halo

Price

You can buy them a cheap little netbook for less than 1/2 the price of the iPad and just lock it down. Oh, and they can see all the things on websites they go to.

Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

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Utterly worthless

I can't see a situation where I'd ever want one. Ever. I still need to carry my phone and I can browse on that. I'll keep my phone and Sony reader thanks.

California school pulls 'oral sex' dictionary

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FAIL

Damnable imbiciles.

That is all.

Firefox 3.6 goes live and final

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FAIL

No change?

I didn't uninstall my previous version and saw something flash by really quick about upgading. No faster, all my add-ons still work. The only change I can see is that the version number incremented.

I might try an uninstall/reinstall on one of my home boxes to see if that makes a difference.

New avast freebie security scanner aims to keel-haul MS

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No problems

Avast has worked fine for me since ... version 2(?). Thus far there's been one documented false positive that could fsck a Win32 install, but AVG had 3 in the last 2 years.

I still recommend Avast to people because it's free, works and is dead simple to use.

Firefox 3.7 to feel need for speed with multicore boost

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Re: IE 8 speed

IE8 starts up faster than FF and has since release. FF is just getting fat and slow. If they trim it down and fix the memory issue it will be great again.

However, until other browsers let me use add-ins like adblock, noscript etc I'll keep on with the Fox.

EC drops Microsoft browser probe

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FAIL

Seriously...

...I'd love to see the list of 12.

MS patent looks just like Unix command, critics howl

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Apparently...

...the "free for the world yaaaay" hippies didn't bother patenting it. Sucks to be them.

Europe clears Windows 7 for takeoff

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WTF?

Still don't see the problem

When I installed Win7 on 4 different machines I just chose not to install IE. *shrug* the EC is just a bunch of pandering nincompoops.

Palm Pre backs away from Apple iTunes

Bill Gould
Flame

Apple? Fuck you.

Why people continue to support such an overpriced, OCD, anal retentive, closed, customer belittling, incompatible company I will never know. I've never seen any benefit from Apple. Ever. I've seen their malware, their flashy, overpriced hardware, and their "I shit on your face peasant" customer service though.

Apple. Fuck you.

US Bank dumps Sharepoint (to spend more time with Lotus)

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FAIL

Why?

Notes is ass. That is all.

Microsoft pulls Windows 7 balloons from Euro 'launch parties'

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Go

Perhaps...

...bundling the balloons with the party violates some EU Anti-trust argument dreamt up by a daft whoremonger deserving of a slow, painful death atop a pyre of exploding iPhones?

Microsoft can still sell Word

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Gates Halo

XML

Maybe MS will do with Office what they tried with Win7 for the EU, just remove support for XLM from versions of Office sold in the US. Of course resellers could make a killing selling imported versions from Canukistan and we'd finally have correct spellings of armour and colour again :)

Opera 10 hits release candidate status

Bill Gould
FAIL

Maybe...

...if they would focus on the browser and not the email client they'd have better luck.

MS and Sophos incompatible over Win 7 XP Mode

Bill Gould
FAIL

It's just a VM

NAT or Bridge or Host only Networking is possible. This is just Sophos trying to avoid work.

Also note that most business desktops that are running XP will need a hardware refresh just to get access to VT which is required to run any VM.

Seriously Sophos? Go away.

Sony's Windows 7 virtualization switch-off (partly) reversed

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Gates Halo

names please! Which applications are effected?

Old shit.

"Sony - We can't do anything right." or maybe "Sony - We're a bunch of asshats."

Microsoft under threat from Linux - it's official

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Gates Halo

@Barracoder

You win a cookie. Seriously. No sarcasm. I agree.

Microsoft releases Windows 7 to MSDN, TechNet today

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Gates Halo

Scheduled and ready

I've got my gaming rig prep'd and I'll be installing this weekend. The workhorse will get it the following weekend and my work laptop will likely see it during a slow day... so maybe before 2010.

Greenpeace unleashes Captain Kirk on HP

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Greenpeace Terrorists

Why haven't they been marked for death yet?

Endeavour crew wrap final ISS spacewalk

Bill Gould
Gates Halo

Uhm...

Perhaps we can shoot a little further and actually GO somewhere. What say you NASA?

Riot police raid birthday barbecue for 'all-night' Facebook tag

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Gates Halo

Asshats

the lot of them. Perhaps they should start preventing actual crime. Revolutionary? Perhaps. Logical? Definitely.

Google's vanity OS is Microsoft's dream

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Excellent

A good read and well put together.

/signed

Hackintosh maker rises from the dead

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Gates Halo

@Mei Lewis

OS X costs the price of the hardware, yes. A few grand for free software.

Great Australian Firewall to censor online games

Bill Gould
Gates Halo

Sites that would be banned:

Amazon

eBay

Valve (Steam)

Microsoft (XBL and Games for Windows Live)

Sony (PS3 thingy)

Blizzard

Direct2Drive

FilePlanet

Online versions of Big Box stores

Why you gotta be that guy Auz?

MS no-frills security scanner gets thumbs up in early tests

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@Giles Jones

If they integrate it into the OS it will only cause people to bitch and whine about monopoly. Granted, I say "fuck those people, do it anyway", but lawsuits do get expensive.

Opera to take web back to the old days

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Gates Halo

So all I need to publish...

...as Joe AverageGuy is the name of my computer, and a username. Which, being Joe AverageGuy will be the name of the user I log in with. Which, being Joe AverageGuy will be a local admin.

Opera found a legal way to create an opt-in botnet.

Microsoft fans call for Opera boycott

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Buy them

Microsoft, just buy Opera for an outrageous sum and summarily can the entire project, staff and hardware. Kill it with fire. THAT will shut them the hell up.

Oh, and EU Commission... grow a fucking brain.

Apple takes Snow Leopard for walk

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Gates Halo

Still non-functional for home use

No reason to even have a Mac in my house. It won't do anything I can't already do, and it doesn't do most of the things I do already do.

Yay for email... and uhm... browsing... Whoo?

'D'oh!' tops fave kids' TV catchphrase poll

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#4 - Not real

I find it interesting that #4 is on the list at all, considering it's never been said on the show. It shows how pop culture can occlude the memory and implant a falsehood as truth.

OpenOffice 3.1 ready to lick Microsoft's suite?

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When you sort...

...data by rows in Calc does it still refuse to move the cell formatting with the data? Yes, I do want the row with that data highlighted red no matter where it's ordered.

Pirate Bay loses trial: defendants face prison time, hefty fines

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@Lee Jackson

Strip DRM from legit sources. Provide fair value for dollar exchanges. Remove the pointless middle-man. An artist can distribute directly to their consumer without the need for Record Companies or Film Studios.

The industry has been dying for years, they just refuse to fall over.

I hope the appeal is heard someone with a little common sense.

Sun begs IBM to come back and talk

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Join the dark side

If only MS would throw an offer on the table. Buy Sun, kill Java and the world can move on dancing tra-la tra-la. I hate you java, with the white hot death of a burning universe I hate you.

Canadian cops cry for BlackBerry wiretap

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Sadly no

It's not different here. I think we've found another idiot we need to purge though. Encryption is good m'kay? Damn politician.

Opera chief: Microsoft's IE 8 ‘undermines’ web standards

Bill Gould
Gates Halo

Whiney bitch much?

I think Opera's just pissed because it sucks and sees the end of the road in its near future.

On another note: "On a closing sarcastic comment, I think it's dreadful that Ubuntu comes with Firefox by default..."

Oh noes! They're using their dominant position within the consumer open source OS community to unfairly force users into using FF.

I await the day that MS falls into full compliance with the frivolous lawsuits and ships the EU a version inf Windows with no web browser bundled. Go download your prefe....oh. Damn.

World of Warcraft: 'The crack cocaine of the computer world'

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'rents.

[If only there had been some sort of authority to look over the boy. Perhaps someone with the wisdom of age from who's loins he could have sprung, then raised him for 15 years, brought the computer, and payed for his WoW account every month].

QFT. Fucking lazy parents that don't give enough of a shit about their kids to TALK to them or regulate them. Rules and boundaries are good for people you frelling loonies!

Ahem. I digress.

Brits 'a bunch of yellow bastards', says irate Yank

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CAAF

For those still wondering, Lester means Coward And A Fool (CAAF). However:

Acronym Definition

CAAF Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (since 1993; Los Angeles, California)

CAAF US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

CAAF Chapel Allerton Arts Festival (Leeds, England)

CAAF Cairns Army Airfield (Fort Rucker, AL)

CAAF Cockfighting Across America Foundation (homor; Jim Rome Show)

As for USA I'll point here: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/USA

UK.gov backs ISPs on charging content providers, throttling P2P

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Gates Halo

Why play ball?

Why should the BBC play with the ISP's? Work a sweet deal with on or two ISP's and simply do not service the others. "They charge too much to deliver out service at a reasonable speed." Simple cop-out.

This will not create innovation, it will create back-room deals and further segregate the haves and have nots in relation to broadband performance.

Microsoft IE8 rolls out the astroturf

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Heart

IE8? YIE?

When IE supports add-ons to the same extent that Fox does I may very well switch to it. For now I'm happy with my 'alternative'.

Opera sings praises of Microsoft-browser statement

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Gates Halo

Re: Mac OS, Ian Ferguson

Mac OSX and Safari are less tied because they both have a crappy market share. Thus nobody can really complain.

I can't wait for the first batch of machines to hit the EU with NO browser installed.

"How do I get the one I like?"

"Go on the internet and download it."

"Uhm... HOW exactly?"

"Oh yeah..."

Ballmer reacquaints Microsoft with its PC past

Bill Gould
Gates Halo

"...you can do it all in WINE."

Yup. Just run this windows emulator (with a subscription) on your happy-go-lucky OS... missing options, not fully supported, can't correctly detect hardware, etc. OR just install windows and everything automagically works correctly.

Vista 32 Business at work: no issues at all.

Vista 64 Ultimate at home (licensed): no issues at all.

Same goes back to XP, no issues.

2000? No issues.

98SE? No issues.

95? No issues.

DOS? No issues.

Tweak a bit sure. Just don't fuck with what's under the hood and it runs quite happily on what it's supposed to and does what it's supposed to.

My home Vista install was 15 minutes from boot to install media to desktop login, and everything WORKED.

IBM takes on VMware virtual desktop

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Oh boy...

...Lotus! Yay! Er... wait. No.

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