Posts by Chris Matchett

Mills and Boon thrusts into pr0n market

URL: /beast_with_two_paperbacks/

Love it

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome

@AC

Is the answer 'thair'?

Dixons Group still suffering

to be fair

They have improved over the past year. I bought an external hard drive from them at a very reasonable price. They also had some cheap optical cables (if you avoid the 'premium' belkin brand). It's actually worth checking them out for certain items. Every now and then they can be cheaper these days.

Internet Explorer - now with 35% less FAIL

"Re: 'FAIL' IS NOT A NOUN!!! By Sarah Bee

"Well, 'omg' is not a word, is it?

Fail."

OMGWTFpwn'd :-)

Is anything new?

So far I don't see any features that other browsers don't already have. So why would I download and install this?

GooTube cheers online gay porn ruling

@Dick

Chelsea suck hard at the top of the Premier League already. Yup we suck hard.

Openstream implores you: Talk to your mobile browser

library images

That presentation looks like it's trying harder to convince themselves than us.

Winehouse jibe wins Fringe's funniest gag

Friday isn't it

ITT

Palm lets slip Treo Pro piccies

Want

Yes. That's what I said. Want.

Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident

How is it a scam?

The app does what it says it will.

I would have given him his money back (as a customer relations thing) but I see no reason to take down the app.

Congestion charge means less traffic, more congestion

Scotch corner

They're not lying about Scotch Corner in Knightsbridge. 4 lanes of traffic is now running at one lane one-way only and huge tailbacks either side. And it's right in the boundary of the Central to Western zone extension. Further west there's even more road works for Thames Water. My journey down this route currently goes through 4 roadworks including Scortch Corner.

The sore point about Scotch Corner is that most of the longer term disruption has come fomr a multi-million pound propety development for rich people. The developer should be paying rent for taking up the road space to park all though JCB diggers and contractor vans.

Ex-Googlers reinvent web search

Ironically...

it's shite at searching for pr0n

Vista 'perfection' dream over for iPhone?

Re: They have no choice

This.

Lots of kids posting on El Reg lately during the summer holidays but this Anon has got it spot on. These mods or skins don't just aim to look like Vista. They use icons and artwork that have been taken form the Vista software. Apple does the same thing to people who create iPhone skins for Windows Mobile devices.

The PSP: what's its future?

It's the games

As said here and many other places many other times. Japan is getting better software while the other territories is getting balls. PSP needs ore original games and less PS1 PS2 conversions.

My PSP100 is still humming along fine. Fits in my bag, battery copes well and the controls are fine. Decent graphics too when it's not some upscaled conversion of an older system's game.

Amazon opens video on demand shop

I hate it when naked lawyers step into shot

Feel free to put up the ones with you in them though.

Anon has a point you know

This shit shouldn't clog up El Reg.co.uk.

especially on a Friday

World fails to end as Palm ships Treo smartphone with Wi-Fi

In before the Treo haters

Want.

Wonders about battery life with even part of that running though. Wi-Fi not so useful but GPS = good.

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

It's not an OS

It was a GUI add-on for DOS.

Intel says 'no' to Windows Vista

Should I pay extra for XP?

Guys, I'm planning to buy a new Dell but the machine I want won't come with XP unless I buy a seperate XP Pro licence and install that. Considering it will be a 4GB beastie used for home use, team fortress 2, iTunes, a bit of PotatoShop and office stuff is it worth spending money to go back to XP?

I don't really want Vista but if it's the only choice and I don't want support headaches in about 3 years should I just grin and bear it?

and before you start... no linux based answers for me please. Just XP vs Vista.

BBC website suits slapped for cash splurge

news.bbc.co.uk redesign...

... was a bloody shambles. The site now doesn't render properly outside of IE, has too much whitespace, less information and just plain fails woefully.

And that's where a lot of that money went.

Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows

@ Coward

anon of the yellow belly. I installed it and it didn't work with sites that I use, there were adverts all over the screen that adblock on firefox normally hides and the securit settings don't let you have site by site settings.

There's your evidence and meanwhile safari is still shit.

You are all missing the point

Safari doesn't work very well with many sites, is missing adblock and has poor security.

Transgender man prepares to give birth

one of the most intellectual conversations on this site

but nevermind all that now... that kid is going to hit his/her head on the way out!

Ubuntu does bird beta

Barriers to entry

Windows has it.

So what if we once learned Windows? It doesn't meant we have to learn something else to get a similar result. Lazy? Maybe... but so what?

Polish builder sacked for humping hoover

Cleaning his underpants?

He's going to get a nasty suprise when he tries to have sex with his washboard then...

Software glitch hits Heathrow T4 baggage system

No more BA for me

That's the last straw. Lukily I booked my Japan flights in May with Virgin but had to break the habit of using BA.

@Tim: It's one thing if BA were upfront about the restriction when booking the flight - another thing to find out when you have turned up with your cases, spent money on accomodation and reserved precious annual leave with work.

Jane Fonda c-word slip shocks US

I want to offend all of you!

There I'll bet you're scared of me now

Hamster-in-rain emergency prompts 999 call

poor hamster

I sympathise with the hamster lady. Putting a hamster out in the rain is animal cruelty. Okay so maybe a call to the local police station would be more appropriate but a crime had been comitted.

Nude Italian models in kit-on protest

Where's the IT angle?

*lifts flabby buttock*

Oh nevermind. Found it.

'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again

@ @The German Tourist

"There are plenty of road signs in Germany that say exactly the same thing!"

It's a good thing many German's have a good grasp of the english language then.

And now @ People who ask why we haven't upgraded to Office 2007 yet: We paid money for 2003 and would have ot pay more money for 2007. While 2003 does what we need (before M$ 'fixed' it) then why would we spend money on the same thing with a fancy UI?

ITIL deeds don't go unpunished

Pigeons

Any good training course or read-through of the books by someone with any experience (this is aimed at managers after all) would know that ITIL processes are not job titles. This is just merely a set of Best Practices for the ways that IT provides services and a set of terminology so that people from different backgrounds yet familiar with ITIL can communicate better. The other 85% is all commonsense.

I think ITIL certification makes reasonable to good IT professionals better and the crap ones worse.

B3ta served DMCA notice for Photoshop Prince challenge

US vs UK law

The UK may not have specific exclusions for parody but the US does. And the UK does not have the DMCA but the US does.

So why would B3ta be worried about defending themselves in a UK court of law when they would be heard in a US court and can use US based arguements?

IT exam overseer fails test

ITIL exam coming up

I'm about to start my ITIL managers certificate next week and my colleagues have just done the exam last week. I also did my PRINCE2 foundation earlier this year. How could I be affected?

British computer society blunders on BCC

Your apology mail

Your apology mail was only sent to people that hit Reply To All. Send one now and you should get it soon.

Ask.com firm palms off Excite Europe

"Excite's reputation..."

What reputation?

At least it was smart to offload Excite but Ask still need a unique selling point after putting Jeeves in a home. Focus on natural language query for the less boolean inclined.

And Hi to Peter in San Francisco. I didn't know you guys had YTS in California.

Greenpeace admits iPhone 'compliant' with Euro chemicals rules

Easy publicity

Well El Reg fell for it...

Chuck Norris has two speeds: Walk and Kill

You got the MC Hammer one wrong

It should read:

MC Hammer found out the hard way that Chuck Norris can touch this

Vodafone takes one on the chin for billing problems

Nevermind who

I want to know when it will be back up. It's been down for months already

Beeb exterminates Tomorrow's World rumours

taking the Sexy Beast bit one step further

I can imagine Davros spitting out that line in his dalek wheelchair and following it up with, "Now I need a fucking piss".

UK payment service outage leaves users fuming

It's all about managing risk

You have to anticipate that such an upgrade could cause an outage and balance the effect of that with the benefits of upgrading. Once you have done this the course of action is clear.

Murder as many IT project managers as possible as quickly as possible. It's what I call PRINCE3 Risk & Issue Management.

Kylie comforts the Time Lord

Tech stories need.

Tech stories need Kylie Cup-Of-Tea angle.

RFID a 'technical blunder', report says

@@@@Ads by Google

A) I normally do use Adblock but am at work.

B) But you couldn't resist a bit of greasy, here's what I use and you should too nerdyship. I don't give a shit what .nix open source bollocks you think is great.

C) Fact is in this case the Google adverts are funny and that was the point.

Ads by Google

I am loving the Ads by Google banner on this story

Culture matters: Why i-mode failed

Japan 'research'

"Japanese houses consist of spaces which are multi-function depending on what the occupants are doing. Walls may be moved around during the day, and it's extremely unlikely that a child would have its own room."

Based on what? Where are you getting this information from? Not based on visits to actual homes in Japan that's for sure.

Beavis and Butthead in London jihad

I think we need a demonstration

And I think the writer of this article and most of the commenters above should be guinea pigs to stand as close as the people in Tiger Tiger and people waiting for buses nearby. You can help each other pick out the nails and broken glass from each other.

Nice of you to criticise the press for jumping to conclusions while at the same time assuming you know exactly what was in those cars, how they were set up and how they were going to be used.

Now apart from the road closures this city has got on with life as normal so could you slack jawed yokels kindly fuck the fuck off out of our business and go back to shooting squirrels or whatever it is you have to do on Friday night.

Spanish police arrest moby virus writer

The sub-title made me laugh

It's been such a long Monday that even the weakest of Monty Pyhton references will make me laugh

Ebuyer in hard-drive warranty debacle

kikatek

if kikatek are in the eu then they are lying, wrong or both. they can explain oops to their accountant.

sale of goods act my friend.

Opera tries to out-do the iPhone

Frankly you don't get out enough

Google Maps and travel news plus email on the phone is great. Check footie scores on the go? Yes!

Anyhoo The current version of Opera Mini (haven't tried the beta yet) works wonderfully on my Palm Treo 750v although I needed to dig out a compact and well working distribution of the Websphere Java engine.

Mobile internet set for take-off?

The hardware is fine

Current phones either have decent resolutions or are Windows Mobile or other OSs that can cope with most web pages just fine. Sites that don't work are just poorly designed if they rely on a minimum screen size.

Sony ponders PS3 price cut

Actually I want PS2 on PS3

I got a HD ready LCD last week and it made my PS/2 look like a SNES with that fancy 2D pretending to be 3D engine.. If the PS3 was cheaper and would upscale PS2 games for new TVs decently then I would buy it.