Posts by Steve

Google slips Reg reader £500k!!!!!

@Col

You been speaking to my wife again...

Makes a Change

Beats the "You need a bigger penis" crap lol

Microsoft guns down 13 unlucky products

And they could add :-

Windows Me

Windows Vista

i could say most verions of windows are shoddy BUT thoese 2 are teh worst out the bunch

PC-pwning infection hits 30,000 legit websites

Hmm

Any of you guysd noticed that annoying MSN messagner one thats floating around also.

The user keeps sending you daft messages..

You then tell the user and they dont belive you lol

Shifty study proclaims Brits a nation of freetards

Erm

Makes me Laugh on teh bbc site they say we can download a dvd in 3 mins on a 50mb connection...

Wrong lol never works out like that

Sky dishes up iPlayer-style service for Xbox 360

One word

Eurovox HD on Virgin ;-))

Microsoft squirts out Vista SP2

And it did not work

Downed the update.

Tried to install and i am missing components.... lol

Sod it

Facebook users warned over renewed phishing assault

Makes me laugh

They always use teh term "Hackers"

I would take that as an insult.

Google suffers international outages, slowdowns

Ok whos been...

Googleing for Google in Google

We told you it breaks the internet....

Major law firm drops filesharing threats

Clones

Wonder how they catch the peeps on the virgin network with cloned modems.....

That would be a kick in the Teeth as the network works on the Mac address of the modem which is linked to your bill...

When the Modem chats to server the server check if access is allowed. if allowed then you get a IP address..

All well and dandy..

How ever if your Mac has been cloned and being used else where then u r buggered!!.. (if they are filesharing)

Kind of reminds me of the Tv Licence people who assume every one in the uk has a tv and you have to prove you dont.....

Bit like saying every one with a net connection must file share and you ahve to prove you dont....

Oh the joys of uk law eh lol

Swine flu apocalypse: Batten down the hatches

But is it worse then..

Manflu?

Had it last week...

Must have been that bacon sarnie.....

HP ScanJet 3C takes lead on Bohemian Rhapsody

Amiga

Sure saw something years ago with a amiga floppy drive that was amde to play music lol

Jackalope gets jaunty with Ubuntu nip and tuck

Support

Will teh sodding thing work on my advent 5301?? with the right resoultions

Verizon to prosecute anons for communications sabotage

Ahh now i know

Now thats where they shipped hat guy from london who was driveing that tunnel boring machine..

Jamaica cracks down on 'daggering' after broken todger upswing

Jive

Me no speaks "Jive" Man

Virgin Media switches to Gmail

@gaz

Google For Eurovox 7000 ;-)

Brussels to sue UK over Phorm failures

lol

What happened to the term "Iggnorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law"?? Oh wait the Laws ni the country get re-written to suit

Russian schoolgirl invents inertioid-driven Venus rover

That was published in 1982...

Does that mean as i was born in 79 I am a indiglo thingy?

Cool Time to get back to me basement me thinks and continue with me hyrdo fusion generator

Hugh Jackman speaks of Wolverine leak heartbreak

Hmm

Well I did watch the pre release (was like teh making of )and liked it.

But will now go to cinema (Only downt he road from me)

TO see the full finished version.

'Mad as hell' news agency declares war on light-fingered sites

Is it Sue Google Month

It must be... Makes a change from Microsoft being sued for a change

Olympic cock-up knocks East London off Internet

Reminds me of

Die hard 3 when they nicked the gold reserves..

They will have a shock if they try and Rob a bank theres bugger all in em they will end up oweing the bank cash lol

BT cuts phone charges for prisoners

HMm

And i thought most prisoners ahd mobile fines smuggled in any way!!

G20 Summit: All the action caught on camera

lol

They got more sense then the real people!!

Honda creates thought-controlled android

yay

We can have a thought powered light switch

Paris - Becuase in a world of thought she would be buggered

Vulture Central on total G20 terror lockdown

Cool

Does this mean I can grab a few mates around with a few beers like we used to when the Mayday riots happened?

Great viewing on Sky and when the sky cam bloke wa getting beat up you could switch to teh BBC filming the skycam guy being beat. and vice versa...

All this was before all this digital TV multiangle rubbish.

All we need is Delboy in his car to turn up wack the horn and seperate the protestors from the police.!

Firefox exploit sends Mozilla into 'high-priority fire drill' mode

Amiga Voyager

Time to fire up Amiga Voyager 2.95 me thinks

Sun packs 150 billion web pages into meat locker

Odd this

Search for www.redhotant.com and its blocked?

Microsoft claims IE8 is 'a leap forward in web standards'

RUN IE6 on it

Was getting a score of 4 with that!

Emotional arguments do not make Street View illegal

Daftness

Got to laugh though people must get realy bored and think of new ways to sue compaines.

What are the chances of some 1 seeing you on google street view and then they see you in teh street?

9 times out of ten people dont take any notice.

Phorm CEO clashes with Berners-Lee at Parliament

Makes you laugh

Whats to stop them monitoring all traffic anyways?? unofficaly of course.

And dont people pipe up and say they dont do it its the law....

Case of yeh right.

Speaking of Monitoring wonder ig GCHQ have taken there base off google maps yet lol

Barclays heralds new wave of wallet-waving

The Foil

Yeh get to wrap me wallet in foil now!!

DSGi crosses fingers on new store format

Lower Prices

Lower the prices in the stores would be good as well to compete with online stores.

And sell people PCs who just want a pc not half a dozen extra bits they will never use!!!

Ryanair may charge cattle to use the bog

Right

Open the window then to take a whizz!

Irish cops tripped up by Prawo Jazdy dragnet

@ Tim

Use Tiny URL much easier for long urls http://tinyurl.com/bbb46y

AA sniffs out Blighty's best bacon sarnie

Lee Evans Sketch

Any body Remember that Lee Evans Sketch when he was on about AA Aproved Hotels?

Basicaly he said chap from the AA walked in and and went "Yeh thats alright" and walked off....

I

New attacks on IE7 go wild

TO Sean

Same here.

Only use IE if i realy have to (Piss poor coded sites)

Funny part is most of the Computer repairs i do these days involve removing al the crap out of them (Yes i know we was thinking about windows here)

Spam ware

And why are people so happy to install about 6 toolbars on there browser??

But keeps me busy i suppose lol....

Now time to go andsmirk at me Unbunto box (and teh kids stupid box which is stuck in 800x600)

Brit, French nuke subs collide - fail to 'see' each other

Got to Say it

Paint it Yellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scotland to battle grey squirrel invaders

Lol

The Film CaddyShack and that gopher spring to mind

High-slider integrity planned for Windows 7 UAC

Vista

ahh yes I rem this UAC in Vista.

Had my shiny new laptop in Sept last year.

Had a play with Vista.. Got hacked off with the UAC and was turned off within the hour.

Now funnily enough do not use vista at all on the laptop lol.....

Windows = Basterdiseing PCs everywhere.

Teen accused of 'sinister' Facebook sex extortion plot

Get the boiler suites

Well get the Orange Boiler suits prepped

Windows 7 'upgrade' doesn't mark XP spot

XP REinstall

Hmm So I am not the only one noticed that XP needs a reinstall after about 6 months.. Thank god for Norton Ghost eh.

Also there is still people out there who insist on storing all there data on one drive with out even partioning it. (Prefer seperate drives my self)

Beta Test

Wonder if they will fix that bug with the power saver thingy on me lap top.

When running on battery the screen is dimly lit to save batt power however when I used to connect the mains to it when the thing had vista onit the screen would light up properlty.

even in the power savings menu i ave tried to adjust teh brightness and it just laughs at me.

How ever I found if i restart with main power in it works lol.

And ye i have sent feedback to Microsoft!!

Yes! It's the cardboard PC!

Soggy Card

So if you spill your drink over your desk your nice new cardbaord pc will happily absorb the liquid.

Then once the Card has enough i am pretty sure the electricity wuld be more then happy to travel around teh card thus makeing the thing live. lol

Ofcom woos theatricals and delays digital dividend

Ofcom

Now I am wondering if we will all have have to buy new Freeview boxes?? Or is the Frequency already picked up by the boxes... Or certain makes/models might need replacing.

Ahh well we shall see... Wonder if they will send out Channel 5 stlye men who used to come and retune your video player before channel 5 went live.

Seagate sets Constellation above Barracuda

Firmware

Wonder if this is affected by that nice firmware bug.....

Arizona Super Bowl fans cop eyeful of todger

Lol

Reminds me of that Max Headroom thingy from years gone by when the Dr Who got taken over lol

EC will force users to pick a Windows browser, says Microsoft

Get worse

So if MS are not allowed to ship any broswer with windows BUT you need to go online to get a browser erm how the hell you sodding ment to do it (And dont say go round a mates house!!)

Reminds me of that stupid argument I had with Pace when I had my 56k Dial up modem.

I had damaged the drivers disk so I rang em up to have a new one sent. But they was insistant I go online and download the driver. But I could not get online to get the driver as i needed the driver to get on line lol took me 30 mins for the woman at the other end of the fone to click on. and yes this was back in 1997/8

Doner kebabs: Death wrapped in pitta bread

ALl they need is a "May Contatin Thingy"

May contain the following :-

Cat

Dog

Rabitt

The rat that was caught eating the leftovers in the bin outside.

Nails

Hearts

Liver

Anything that may be on hand to stick in there

And my favorite is :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7669625.stm

And yes i live not too far away from wolvo am glad i am too lazy to que at 1am for a kebab.

Paris because every one has seen her kebab!

PhonepayPlus gets stern on premium raters

Right

So I taking this is also referring to all thoses soddng adverts late at night on tv.

Saying so and so is waiting to text you etc etc.

Now thats a Rip off service if I ever saw one.

UK.gov opens up delayed child protection database

I Wonder

Wonder how this will get updated..

All a parent has to do is move address and it can take weeks for the system to catch up. By which time it could be to late for that child.