Posts by Murray-Mint

Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild

Re: And for Server 2012?

This. When you're using RDP to a Server 2012 machine and you want to use the start screen, having to pixel hunt for the bottom left corner of the screen to trigger it is annoying. I hate the concept on a desktop OS, but on the server OS where the default MS RDP client doesn't pass through pressing the Start Button on your keyboard? It's just awkward.

Virgin Media SuperHub 'upgrade' hangs up on IP phone punters

Re: One helluva of a lot of pissed off customers

Also in Gloucester, estimated fix time of 18:15.

Re: The solution is pretty straight forward....

True, I ended up doing exactly the same. I found the superhub useless even at the simple things, like having an FTP connection open for more than a minute. As a router it's utterly useless.

Doctor Who touches down in US of A

He's been to Utah before...

The ninth doctor went to a bunker underneath Utah in the new series episode 'Dalek'. Arguably not on US soil, but under it.

Ten of the best... noise-isolating earphones

Sony

+1 for the Sony Headphones. £15 at Tesco and quite good.

Getting animated about a 6,000 core Soho supercomputer

Makes me want to buy Dell

Not sure why, but now I want to Buy Dell for everything. Incredible unbiased journalism from el reg.

Wunderkind starts robot-buster weapons firm

@Robotexpert

How would you rate the current US military UAVs on Style, Control, Damage and Aggression?

Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing

@Niall

Cataracts?!

Boy burned in PSP trouser blaze

Fat and Heavy

Definitely a PSP Fat and Heavy. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a cheap imported battery or a hardware modded Pandora battery.