* Posts by Rukario

563 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2008

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US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

Rukario

Re: 'Right-minded'

The opposite of 'right-minded' is 'left-minded'.

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Childcatcher

Re: The gecko lives

Yes a talking serpent, before it was "cursed" to "crawl" on its belly.

Smugleaf.

Four firms pitch hi-def DRM for Flash cards

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Re: When will the studios realise...

"I think you'll find that's called "free market economics". If you don't like the price the market sets, you do not have the right to interfere in said market and create artificial barriers (e.g. region locks) to try and get the price you want (which is what the RIAA, BPI et al try and do)."

And the price the market is setting is 0.00.

No mobile signal? Blame hippies and their eco-friendly walls

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Pint

Re: Gyproc/plaster board/drywall has gone high tech

But then, the "metallic tinted" windows in Royal Bank Plaza (both buildings) are gold.

Trekkies detect Spock's Vulcan homeworld ORBITING PLUTO

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Alien

18610 Arthurdent

Arthur Dent already has an asteroid named after him. As for Ford Prefect, well... that would be the 5th planet found orbiting Betelgeuse Or would that be Zaphod Beeblebrox?

Official: Cloud computing invented by two technophobic old geezers

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Re: I've Looked At Clouds from Both Sides Now...

Lying on top of a building... The cloud looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

(The Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel has this written all down the outside of its hotel floors. How very apt.)

John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net

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East Grinstead

So, did anyone go to his talk last night? (Erm, anyone here I mean.)

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Mushroom

Re: CoS

Send 'em a .bmp

<--- what happens to the file size

Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER

Rukario

Re: Home Use Program

Home Use Program falls under the enterprise licensing agreement from your workplace, so is again different from the retail version that's being discussed here. You can do 2 installations on different machines, though not sure if replacing a machine counts as a "reinstall".

Details here. http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/faq.aspx

Rukario
Headmaster

Re: How does this work for upgrades... what's the dentition of a computer...

The dentition of a computer... incisors=0, canines=0, premolars=0, molars=0. Therefore, 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0

Council IT bod in the dock for flogging scrap work PC parts

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Headmaster

Re: The irony is that the downvoter

It's probably to do with your usage of "dime".

(We need a language flame icon, along with a popcorn icon, an old fart icon, etc, etc, etc.)

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FAIL

Re: This lack of imagination

In this case, the council would need to have the drives certified as wiped. Otherwise they end up with the problem of having some excel spreadsheet with ratepayers' personal details ending up in some computer in Nigeria. I know in several authorities I worked for, we had to have the drives certified as wiped anyway, even before sending them off to the landfill (in the days before mandatory electronics recycling).

Blackberry Z10 sales fail to impress analysts

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Re: Blame the Marketing Dept

The Marketing Department. the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Or at RIM/BB. one can only hope.

Still, I liked the Storm. It didn't have a physical keyboard, but the tactile touchscreen almost gave the sense of one.

Happy birthday, LP: Can you believe it's only 65?

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Happy

Re: Woah, woah woah.

I had a Sony minidisc Walkman, and a Sharp (yes Sharp!) 3-CD multichanger with minidisc recorder. Left them all back in Blighty before moving to Canada though.

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Mushroom

Re: More old-fuckery !

You had to dub it onto a tape first (depending on your TAPE IN interface of course), and if your recording equipment wasn't good enough, it would make a total mess of things.

<-- Killer Poke

Rid yourself of Adobe: New Firefox 19.0 gets JAVASCRIPT PDF viewer

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Font issue

Just tried it, and this is what it's looking like to me... original PDF contains a condensed font, the browser uses my default browser font and tries to kern to the condensed font.

Baby-boulder bowling burglar breaks Boulder Apple Store's $100k glass door

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Paris Hilton

Re: Its thread likes theses which is why pc pro, moderates all posters now...

Proper discussions? We shall have none of such heresy here!

(Paris, because, well, Ugandan discussions.)

Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'

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Thumb Up

Re: Gates quote

Upvoted for, at the very least, the Zaphod Beeblebrox reference.

Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? Debian? We'll find you the right Linux to swallow

Rukario
Facepalm

Re: I'll jump to Linux when...

Actually, the first time I read the post, I missed the join between "I'll jump to Linux when..." and the post contents. I almost went searching for a Linux version of Photoshop before re-reading!

And, you are right about OO/LO compatibility... I frequently have to use LO to convert Office files from 2010 or 2011 saved as Office 97-2003, to something that can actually be read in Office 2003.

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Linux

Kubuntu deprecated?

I hadn't heard that! I'm downloading the latest Kubuntu images now. Been using it since Gutsy, now using Precise almost exclusively (except for the compulsory Wintendo). Wouldn't install Ubuntu Unity if you paid me... I've got Windows 8 in a VM at work and find it a pain to use at best, though I admit part of that could be Virtualbox.

I've even installed Kubuntu Precise on a computer for a friend who is computer-clueless (approaching clue-resistant). He is quite comfortable with it, and is even getting used to, yes, the command line.

Crucial question after asteroid near-miss: How big was rock in Olympic pools?

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Alien

Re: I can hear the strains of the theme from...

Definitely HHGG, the closing of the TV series, and I can hear the strains of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World (which I believe was on the radio series as well), as a tree fades away into a non-computer outline.

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

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Big Brother

Empty pot.

Rinse out.

Warm the pot, always.

Rinse out.

Now, one for me, one for thee, one for the pot, one for luck.

Boiling water.

Switch off.

Let stand for one moment.

Pour the milk.

Cup, saucer, spoon.

Sugar.

Pour, should be just about nice.

(Big Brother icon because Number 6 is always being watched.)

Huge rock-hard marble erection shocks Japanese kiddies

Rukario

Never mind Hentai

Bukkake

'Nuff said.

Paper computers: Not mere pulp fiction

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Devil

Re: On the other hand

Two additional London sized flats?

So that's two £1000/month shoeboxes, then?

Android gets tipsy on Wine, runs WINDOWS apps

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Joke

Re: It's never going to be fast

"WINE IS NOT an Emulator" is not an emulator.

Reg Hardware Awards 2012: The Winners...

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Headmaster

Re: RE: I'm Cancelling my subscription!

This is the comments section of The Register, not the letters section of Private Eye! ...although it is difficult at times to tell the difference, Pedant's/Pedants/Pedants'/Ped'ants Corner and all.

Rukario
Alien

Re: Sod all this IT crap

The only thing that goes with fish fingers is CUSTARD!

Wii-U boat torpedoes Nintendo's '¥20bn profit' into ¥20bn loss

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Thumb Up

Re: Games are king

Exactly, their main strengths are in their first- (and second-)party titles. Mario (best-selling franchise), Pokémon (best-selling RPG franchise), Zelda, Smash,... I thought Shigsy was beginning to lose the plot with the Wii (actually he began to lose it when dropping the CD-ROM deal with Sony, and look what happened there), but the Wii U, definitely.

Oh well, Pokétards have another generation of games to look forward to in October.

Apple, Google tumble off top 20 trusted companies list

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Devil

Re: The Ponemon Institute

Pina pina, pinachu! When it comes to your data, gotta catch 'em all! (o^;^o)

Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink

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Joke

Re: Buses, huh?

What's that in BoJo buses?

Cisco sued by East Carolina University

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Headmaster

Actually, Kiribati would be the proper owner of the "tomorrow starts here", at time zone GMT+14. (Interesting, I'm going to San Jose this week.)

Facebook testing $100 fee to mail Mark Zuckerberg

Rukario

Re: Cheap at..

Cheap at $12.50 per character

Leaping hedgehog probes planned for Martian moon Phobos

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Re: Video games

Roboticised by Robotnik. The probes then unfold into Scratch and Grounder.

It's JUST possible, but Apple MIGHT not make an iWatch in 2013

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Joke

Re: Intel chip?

You'd need an iHand to wear it on. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg3g7W8NENg)

After Sandy Hook, Senator calls for violent video game probe

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Facepalm

Proof that violent video games don't cause real world violence

Jack Thompson is still alive.

New Year's resolution: Don't use Instagram, it'll sell YOUR photos

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Flame

Pigs who get fed...?

You mean, whilst they exist in the state known as "pre-bacon"?

Samsung grabs 'World's biggest handset-maker' title off Nokia

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Apple bridges a gap between stupid and cool.

There's a gap?

Kim Dotcom flashes his rack

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Headmaster

Re: Mansion?

How about tidying up this one also?

"Dotcom has also let it be known he’s going to launch mega.co.nz t9o the press..." (last paragraph)

Frack me! UK shale gas bonanza 'bigger than North Sea oil'

Rukario
Alien

Re: Who will take her place?

She's now an environmental campaigner called Jo Jones, probably campaigning against fracking with her grandson Santiago.

Rukario

Re: +100 points

Meanwhile Silurians have evolved...

PayPal founder funds 'tornado-driven' power plant

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And I guess the details of grafting frickin lasers to frickin sharks' heads is still secret.

VCDX: The elite certification just 105 people hold

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Headmaster

Re: A Doctorate, You Say?

"At least then I can go around calling myself Doctor."

As long as you can wave the sonic screwdriver.

Personally, I'd prefer calling myself Master and have the human tissue compressor.

Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows

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Boffin

Re: Stallman is not a man I'd like to be stuck in a lift with.

"Why not? If you get stuck for a long time and get really, really hungry you can eat whatever he stores in his feet."

That link should come with a "Cannot unsee" warning.

Private cloud user in dialogue with Atmos, el Reg facilitating

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Alien

ATMOS?

Are we ready for the Sontaran invasion?

McAfee seeks asylum in Guatemala

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Trollface

Re: No apple for you

It's about time Newton's Fourth Law was invoked!

Samsung: Demand for mobes forced 16hr days on factory slaves

Rukario

Re: Why is the first post about Apple?

Elsewhere it's been dubbed Newton's Fourth Law. It's a version of Godwin's Law. As an El Reg discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Apple approaches 1.

Convert your iPad into a foosball table and relive the dot-com days

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Re: Must...buy...iPad...

This is to the iPad what the Snake joystick is to the Nokia 5110.

London Underground platform Wi-Fi set to cost £2 daily for many

Rukario

Re: Walled Garden?

And you have to wait just as long for them to be restocked.

South Korean convicted for tweeting Pyongyang propaganda

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Re: Have I broken the law too?

Nope, that's more the style of Grunthos the Flatulent.

Sam Sung found in Apple Store SHOCKER

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Devil

I'll have to go there tomorrow! I work across the road from there.

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