Posts by Bill Gould

MPs lost for Word over creaking Microsoft packages

Word 07

I blame their in house techs for not configuring the default to save in a 2000-2003 format. Can the one that was in charge of the migration. It's freaking Office for crying out loud.

ASA slaps beer-punting ladyboy

Seriously?

Are you folks even allowed to think for yourselves and form your own informed opinions over there? It's like someone 1984'd you in the nuts.

Dell zeroes in on US customers with 0% financing

Recession

Isn't this exactly the kind of behavior that got the banks and lending houses into so much trouble?

Social workers sacked over Gary Glitter email

I laughed.

I'm just saying.

Story withdrawn

I can't believe

it's not butter.

Asshats of the world, unite!

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

Find this fucker

Someone needs to find this asshat in Reno and beat his ass.

Work laptop, from cold boot to login prompt: 1 minute. That's with only 2 gig of RAM.

Home gaming rig, from cold boot to login prompt: 20-30 seconds.

I think the companies are running underpowered machines, likely have a shit network and are screwing the employees. It's NOT Vista. If the machine can't run it, why the fsck is it on there?

One-eyed woman wants techno-vision

The number of times...

...I've wished I could replay back exactly what I had recently, or even long ago, seen but didn't have the forethought to record or snap at the time. Oi. I hope this works for her. I'd love a fibre/wireless/storage/etc wetware suite installed in my noggin.

Microsoft marks Windows' anniversary with Windows 7

MS Win

First mass market GUI, ergo all other GUIs "stole" from them.

As for Win being a shell: Yes. Just like OSX and Gnome, etc.

iPhone passcode blocks everything - except phone calls

Way to go Apple.

Just another reason to stay away from Wonderdouches craptech.

Yahoo! shares tumble as Ballmer shuts coffin on Microhoo

Burned

Buh-bye Yahoo.

US airforce online ad theme: 'Horror Meets Comedy'

How about...

They change the tagline to "The USAF: Bunch of fucktards" or a Waldo series of books where some hillbilly general is looking for his lost nukes on every page.

Asshats.

9 hilarious election tweets worth remembering

At least it's over...

...now let us all simply ignore it for 4 more years.

OpenOffice 3.0 - the only option for masochistic Linux users

OOOooOoOooOooOooo

It's still shite, lacking basic functionality like copying cell, column or row background or text color when sorting. Instead you have to use the advanced sort menu/screen. Fuck me. *highlight area, click A-Z, it works!* How hard is that you cheeto munching open source ass-hats!

BOFH: Radiating sincerity

HA!

Top notch as always.

Police collar kid for Wi-Fi pinching

@AC - Something Doesn't Add Up

"The article says the boy wasn't techie enough to change his computer name, but apparently he can hack an encrypted router and disable it's protection????"

Exactly! Kid's innocent. Father wins his complaint.

Microsoft unveils 'lightweight' Office for Web

Call before you dig.

I love all these "cloud" ideas. Then when your internet goes down you have no access to anything. Great plan. Easy to take days off for the telecommuters. Just say your internet was down so you couldn't do anything for 3 days... in the summer... so you went to the beach.

Shuttleworth on Ubuntu: It ain't about the money

no money to be made on the desktop

Correct. Stay on servers, I don't care. There's no *nix that I can use as a desktop at home. When they decide they want to increase market share, come talk to me and I'll tell them the very few things they need to do.

Oprah cuddles Kindle

That's it then

Kindle is the must have item for women this Holiday season. I wonder how much it cost Amazon to get Her Vacuousness to pimp Kindle.

Dutch court convicts teens for stealing pixels

This does not bode well

It sets a precedent for when governments attempt to dip into virtual earnings for tax purposes. The US (shocking no?) has already made rumblings about wanting to do this.

By allowing these items to have 'value' that 'value' can then be taxed as income... allegedly.

Oi. When will the Stupid stop?

Is Amazon censoring anti-DRM reviews?

@The Fuzzy Wotnot

"Don't like it? Then go to another online retailer or pay twice the price on the high street!"

Or just pirate it.

You'd think businesses would learn. If the majority of your target audience hates something you do, don't do it.

Thanks go to StarDock, Direct2Drive, and Valve. Also to all those games companies that don't include DRM in their software.

The netbook newbie's guide to Linux

Gamer

^ Just what the subject says. Windows for me.

Crazy Frog won't croak again

Frog?

Ah, so you've not seen & heard the new Crazy Cow ringtone with video then.

Vista SP2 beta could land within next four weeks

SP2? Nah.

I installed vista on a new gaming rig just last week. Went on smooth, quick and aside from a well known driver issue (the companies, not MSs) it's been great.

Then again both my work laptop and my gaming rig surpass the recommended specs.

Google says sorry as Gmail plummets out of the cloud

Durr

Durr, GMail is a mission critical thingy for my company hur-hur.

Run your own damn mail server idjit. Personally I wouldn't do business with a company if their email addresses were @gmail.com, it smacks of slacking and unproffessionalism.

iPhone beer maker sues Carling over virtual suds

He'll win this

The way the US copyright office works, you can indeed copyright an idea. If he can prove that he was first to market, it's a lock.

Servers buckle as Congress rejects $700bn Wall Street bailout

Physician heal thyself.

The individuals that caused the problem have the 700 Bn. Let them bail themselves out.

Collapse and split the mega-banks and investment houses and prevent them from buying each other and merging again.

In short, suck it Wallstreet.

Tw*tdangler defends Benito Mussolini stunt

Who the fuck...

...is this ass? I thought he was an illusionist. It's not an "illusion" to do any of the dumbass stunts he's been doing. Granted, it's an illusion that he's any good at anything other than being a media whore the likes of which make Paris seem like Mother Theresa.

Maybe he should try to survive 10 days inside a sensory deprivation tank. During those 10 days I suggest we encase it in concrete and bury it.

Paris, because even she feels sorry for him.

Axon 100mpg car gallery

I'd buy it.

Make it available across the pond and I'd seriously consider buying one. No fuel changes, just better mileage and efficiency. Sounds like a good idea.

Axon takes 100mpg wonder car for a spin

I'd drive it

Make it available across the pond in Canukistan and I'd seriously consider buying one. It even looks pretty good.

Blame game over United Airlines stock crash rumbles on

No matter who's to blame...

Some IT worker heads are going to roll. Sad really... sad I didn't buy up some UA stock when it was at $3.

Motorola gets down with the kids

@Pascal Monett

It would be an excellent feature however. So I guess we know the solution: Stuff DRM.

Doctors rally for right to call UK.gov quangonista a 'sh*t'

@Fraser

To be more accurate with the analogy though, what would you expect if you publicly called someone with more experience in your chosen field of expertise a "fucking shit"? No direct CoC, just someone else in the industry.

Google publishes Chrome patch details

@Evgeny

The Chrome update actually does require you to close and restart Chrome (because it doesn't integrate with the OS that doesn't need to be restarted).

If they have an update, tell me there's an update, provide a link to details regarding said update and ask me if I want to download and install it.

Bad form Goog, bad form.

History shaped Google's Trojan Horse

Creatures of habit

As long as Chrome remains crippleware, and requires users to drastically change how they operate, it will not make mainstream like Firefox did. IE still controls the market because it's just there. No download or tweaking required (unless you have an IQ above that of a cabbage), click the "e" and browse.

Google restores Chrome's shine

Not even a Beta

I'll keep playing with it and hope that they incorporate such useful little things like AdBlock , Script-Blocker, Active-X support, mouse gestures, etc...

It's a fun little browser. Just not up to snuff for actual use.

The Google-isation of all the net's access points

No relationship from linker to linkee

So... I follow a link, don't open a new tab... can I go back? It dumped the entire previous process and started a new one, so how could it? Unless it DOES keep a relationship or a listing or something.

I'll give it a shot when it drops. Though my tweaked Firefox does everything I want better than any other browser I've tried.

Two Shuttles hit by fuel tank problems

I can't imagine...

...why QA/QC would go to shit after it was announced that the vast majority were being cut. Do they have no pride in the disposable garbage they toss in the ocean?

Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank

Ah, keyword

While I would still expect that to be encrypted, I would also expect that certain staff would be able to see it while checking your account. How else would they verify you are who you say you are over the phone? A common keyword is "Your mother's maiden name".

It would explain how they were able to track down the single offending employee quickly. There would be logs about who accessed the users account for keyword verification or changes.

McKinnon loses extradition fight

Charges

In some fashion his trial will be tied to a terrorist plot and an attempt to subvert the US military, etc.... It's a GitMo he be goin'. He might get a trial... maybe.

Apple slapped for dodgy ads

@Neil Hoskins

Here, have some Kool-Aid at the remote Apple compound and put on your jumpsuit. Everything will become clear...

Once more with feeling... Fuck Apple.

US utilities plot remote switch off

More power to them

Now if they can just get in my house and hook that up I'll believe it.

Colonel: Bowman army comms 'astonishingly bad'

Kudos

...to the Lt Col for telling it like it is. The General did ask him after all.

Anatomy of a malware scam

Very good overview and basic test

A nice read. Thanks Jesper.

US made to wait for Quantum of Solace

@ Dave

Indeed. Many would anyway, but people unwilling to wait will now ALSO be added to the P2Pers. Brilliant Sony. Asshats.

Old timers rattle zimmers at 'Elderly Persons' sign

Why don't they...

...go to dinner at 1530 or something and stop griping. Damn old folks. Get back in yer stinky house and look at your etchings.

Nothing left to do with your life but bitch? Should have done more of it while you were younger, then you could relax now.

Another day, another iPhone fix

Apple:

"Rotten to the core."

Ooooh shiney....

Paris, because she's all about the looks too.

ISO rejects Office Open XML appeal (redux)

Never been an issue

Hrm, oddly all of my documents work quite well in Office '07. Of course they've all been written in previous versions of Office and not in that OOooOoOOoOoOo thing.

Meh. A pointless win for the big guys, but it does serve to put the little guys back in their place.

Colchester Hospital sacks manager over lost laptop

Labour Board?

Is there any such creature available for the manager to appeal to? If so I'd be on the phone immediately and gouging the hospital for a nice fat settlement based on wrongful dismissal, etc. This was their fault. Then of course I'd go on holiday again with the settlement money.

Linux risks netbooks defeat to Microsoft

@Simpson (Linux Therapy)

Too true.

Linux doesn't do what I want, so I don't use it. *shrug* That's about it.

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

Fire this dolt

...and fail those that chose to follow in his illiterate wake.

Learn to spell kids. I don't want to support your unemployed ass because your resume is full of typos and 'made up' words.