a disaster of tit-anic proportions?
"a disaster of tit-anic proportions?"
no comment just an idea for a by-line...
17 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Feb 2008
at least all their packaging seems to be bio-degradable or recyclable cardboard, not that 'orrible greasy white or grey "gonna outlive the universe" foam stuff tht some other manufacturers seem more than happy to use
personally id rather have an exess of cardboard than a small amount of that 'orrible foam stuff!
try getting windows xp working fuly on any laptop made in the last 6 months or so - anything with a geforce 8400m wont work as nvidia only provide drivers for vista, connexants audio drivers are vista only, some atheros wifi cards only have vista drivers and the list goes on..
the label needs updating.. not "designed for vista" but "designed for ONLY vista"
when i was out phone shopping for a new phone last month i was talkng to the store manager of our o2 shop and asked him when they were getting the omnia, i was expecting the usual "in the next 2 weeks or so" but instead got a rather sheepish "never - if we sold it we'd never shift the iphone 3g" - can't get a better reccomendation than that!
when i got my omnia the battery life was shite but then realised it had hsdpa set to enabled - as none of our cell transmitters come close to maxing out 3g having 3g+ enabled was pointless, end result was about 3x longer battery life
incase anyone hasn't worked out how to kill the vista-esq sidebar its:
start - settings - today - items - untick samsung widget
it seems to be the samsung widet thats responsible for most cases of the long press on the end call key to keylock not working
finally, am i the only one that reularly manages to twat myself with the stylus dongle trying to unrotate the screen when the omnias desided to screen rotate during a call?
final question.... does the omnia hold the record for the longest hands free kit bundled with any phone? the one that came with mine tops out at just under 7 feet!
theres just 4 flaws in their plan:
1) the self service consoles are chip and pin only
2) most stores dont allow high value items trough self service, our local tesco has signs al over the self serve kiosks to that effect
3) the self serice kioska dont offer cah back
4) stores like argos who do take mag stripe cards require you to sign in front of the person handing you the goods...
weihl
KB940510 doesnt disable the patch or indeed vista, it just tells you all is not well
the SLIC patches ave been around as long as vista, the only reason this is news is because the KB940510 update has made a lot of people aware of the shafting theyve recieved (mostly "presintalled" ebay buyers)
theres even a few guides around on how to extract the slic key yourself, ive been using a self extracted advent slic file for months to create stable vlited vista installs for my various advent pc's
ah, so thats why theyre calling 3 times aday offering a £2 discount for signing up for another 12 months (so that makes them only 2X more expensive and 6X slower th an BE internet...)
also speaking of advertising how come El Reg refuses point blank to load when all of double clicks comains are blocked by protowall yet any other site happily loads minus its adverts? - is there some El Reg / double click conspiracy?
hex
ok, so the story focuses on the big 6 and everyone says theyll just go to the small names to be safe... trouble is a lot of the small names aere just sticking their name over services bought from the big 6 so they still get your private data either way
looks like its time to break out aircrack again, - who cares what data they collect when its not your name on the bill ;)