Posts by Noogie Brown

Retailer drops Eee Pad Transformer Prime, claims quality issues

Are you a small IT vendor that no one has heard of?

Do you want to get some publicity on a tier-1 technology website? Well just make up some wild claims about one of the products you sell !

Dev's iPhone cable melts after iOS 5 upgrade

No an issue.

Put it in the fridge.

Teen sells Perl cloud startup to ActiveState

HTML "Programmer"

o rly

Apple antenna guru 'warned Steve Jobs' over Judas Phone

You know why there call it the Xbox 360?

Because when you see it you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away.

Brit honeybees crawl through rotten winter

I'm off to the garden centre

to get some emergency budlias

Seagate preps three terabyte whopper

Imagine...

... a beowulf cluster of those!

Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?

Pulling

The only good thing on BBC3 was pulling, but it was too good so they cancelled it for some mindless repetitive "comedy".

O2 takes a Christmas break

Is this for 3G data or home broadband?

Inquiring minds want to know

TwitterPeek - the handset that spews Web2.0rhea...

When will they be releasing a ElRegPeek

so I can check the reg all day and post inane comments wherever i am

Google Spanner — instamatic redundancy for 10 million servers?

Google Spanner is approved.

The system goes on-line October 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic data-centre control. Spanner begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, October 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Windows 95 to Windows 7: How Microsoft lost its vision

Win 3.1

Bring back 3.1 GUI !

Neanderthal woman could whup Schwarzenegger

Ah but

we'd boss them at quake

45th Mersenne prime revealed

2^43,112,609-1

That's Numberwang

Adobe relieves Reader and Acrobat update blues

B L O A T

i'm off acrobat reader now, after the last install took up 200Mb. TWO HUNDRED???!!! WHAT ON EARTH???

I'm now using Sumatra PDF, which is tiny, and seems ok (Not that I'm a PDF-viewing master).

Most Mac owners getting Windows on the side

I think it's more like

Many windows users are experimenting with Macs, but have still got their Windows machines.

Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'

I'm waiting for 3.11

iPhone for workgroups

E-cars are a dangerous myth, says top boffin

I'm going to work on taming some kind of giant lizard

they we can all ride around on them.

An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++

urgggh

let c++ die already. it really is a monstrosity.

Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream

@James O'Brien

Yuo must bee new heer!

Internet Explorer - now with 35% less FAIL

When did 4chan take over el reg?

no text

Apple under the gun to master the iPhone's 'second album'

I'm not enough of a wanker

to get one of these. And also so are a lot of other sensible people. That's why this is no big deal really.

Canuck faces life sentence for nude girl webcam scheme

Re: Re: Re: Ehh...

Craig?

Sun and Microsoft confirm data center lovechild

Hmm

To parody a rather witty AC from slashdot*, "... the stability of Windows with the value-of-money of Sun hardware. Sign me up."

* said in response to apple's boot camp

Teen-mum flick gets filmgoers hungry for hamburger phone

Forget the burger phone, I want the garfield phone

as seen in Godfrey Ho's timeless classic Ninja Terminator.

Sun nails four buyers in 15 months with White Trash Data Center

Looking up words

I'd recommend onelook.com . It searchs all the others dicts for you

Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children

The Game

Ok noogie , we could really use your help in the factory. We play a game up here called Factory Frenzy. Would you like to play?

noogie says (16:30):

what kind of game is it?

- Santa - says (16:30):

I think you know what I'm talking about when I refer to the game.

noogie says (16:30):

what kind of game is it?

- Santa - says (16:30):

You know, *the* game!

noogie says (16:30):

you're on the game?

- Santa - says (16:30):

I think you're on the game.

PC superstore unhinged by Linux

Pizza Hut

I installed pizza hut once on my laptop... Or was in ubuntu on my pizza. Or a BMW engine on my pizza hut. Fastest pizza in the west.

Social networks to replace imagination and be woven into clothes

LOL

What a bunch of losers.

MEP plans EU build ban on cars faster than 100mph

Lol what about 4x4s?

Surely their excess weight contributes unecessarily to CO2 production if we're going to get silly about things.

Google rebuilds New Orleans

More severe google earth problems:

Personally, I am outraged that the Coulsdon bypass is not yet shown in it's full glory.