Posts by Andy

Plan for 20mph urban speed-cam zones touted

utter rubbish

firstly i see they want to make the roads safer for cyclists.... is this the same cyclists who choose to ignore traffic lights and just do as they please??? or are the police going to crack down on that as well??

then i can do 20mph and still kill someone.. just mount the pathway and mow as many as i like down.. least im sticking to the speed limit eh!

what the government should be doing is spending more money on teaching road safety to kids (like they used to in the 70s when i was a kid) and also put a limit on the size engine new drivers can use (like motorbike rules), seeing as a 17yr old muppet with no expereince can get into any high powered car having no idea how to drive at any speed and kill.

this governent sucks and they wont stop till were all on those crap bendy busses that 1. catch fire or 2. end up killing you by running you over !!

Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

rubbish

from my own experience vista is crap.. i was really looking forward to it but was so disapointed..

first the slow response when copying network files or doing anything else network related and this was on a macbook pro with proper vista drivers, but the same problem on my father inlaws dell which i decided to buy as an XP build but decieded to give vista another chance and wish i hadnt bothered as i had no end of driver issues (and this is a brand new dell which is vista ready apparently) so went back to XP and low behold everything works perfect first time.

people go on about apple fanboys but on this vista subject i cant believe how many ms fanboys are out their and blinkered by pretty graphics but the useless implementation of legacy hardware/software support

im running server 2008 which looks like vista but seems to not have any of the problems vista has with slow networking so maybe the vista programmers want to have a work with the 2008 ones and find out what theyve done wrong.

p.s whats the paris hilton angle on this story??

p.p.s buy a mac and run XP via parallels its all so much better then

Facebook 'friend request' lands UK man in jail

re: Anonymous Vulture

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There's good reason why my professional profile is on LinkedIn, a deacent social network.

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shame you can't learn to spell though

Evesham: Staff and customers speak

anthing new?? comment

firstly dont be scared... why post anon??

well done reg on the roundup and letting the poor guys and girls turfed out a soap box for their feelings/comments... i was made redundant from amstrad 12yrs ago and from reading their comments felt the same way a lot of the evesham ex employees are felling (we was promised buying viglen would not affect our pc division, but it did)

i feel for you guys and hope you all get the money owed to you and also find new jobs quickly.. good luck to you all!!!

PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable

Missing the point. re:simon westerby

So basically the point is the users are idiots for assuming something instead of asking someone with some braincells... again its not MS fault people are thick!!!

BSkyB buys Amstrad

Good luck to him i say...

people seem to have a lot to say about alan without actually knowing the man personally! I had the pleasure of working for Alan Sugar for 8yrs in the 90's (i actually done a lot of the R&D work on the 6486/8000/9000 series). he is direct and to the point but if you want to make money you have to be like that, but he does trust the people around him, he certainly took notice when i told him getting in with philips and their new vcd (it was new at the time) would be a big mistake.

alan is entitled to retire at some point and what better way to bring in a lot of extra cash than to sell off some of his business... remember amstrad is only a small part of alans empire

Direct Line squashes esure's mouse on wheels

Royal bank is HBOS too, or am I going mad?

Your going mad, RBS is nothing to do with HBOS

Sony apologies over virtual cathedral firefight

just....

get over it will you its only a game!!! ..................

Pipex plotting carve-up for Tiscali deal

bye bye pipex

ive been with pipex for years but im not going to tiscali so ive just asked for my mac code and ill be off to bt in a week or so .. shame ive always told people to go pipex as their support (although ive never needed it) is very good and they always seem to answer their phones quickly

Macs are more secure: official

cant believe

Its bad enough people complain about TV programs instead of switching over or turning off but complain about a advert in the cinema.. GET A LIFE people!!!! i want the ones who complained to be named and shamed .. lol

on a side note, my mac doesnt crash , unlike my pc's, now we run on intel maybe its time apple allowed mac os to be run on a pc

Virgin Media tech support goes premium rate

wine wine wine....

i used to work for amstrad many moons ago and people complained when we went over to 0898 numbers but man did people get the idea. instead of 3hr calls helping people reinstall dos and windows from scratch because of their stupidty of deleting files they should, people started dipping in and out of the calls instead..

if you can now get straight through with your proper technical problem relating to the service and not asking general PC related questions then you should be thanking them. and if you still dont like it well go to another provider that costs more but gives a better service (hint: things are cheap for a reason normally!!!)

Parallels enhances Windows-on-Mac tool

fao chris kimpton

just download the new version and intall it, should work with your existing key

if the pc version is anywhere near as good as the mac version then vmware should be very very scared!!! vmware fusion i know is still beta but parallels has come from pretty much nowhere and taking the mac world by storm.

god bless parallels give vmware a run for its money on the pc dont let them rest on their laurels

Sony announces 80GB PS3

pricing...

what you all dont seem to grasp is that although we appear to be paying more for it in reality we arnt... in the states their income is less than ours generally, so its fixed on that.. also exchange rates have to be taken into account, the £ is very strong against most cuurencies so where always going to look bad

and as for the comment about sony run by idiots.. if you think you can do better then why not start up a company yourself and see how easy it is

MS stops hacked hardware accessing Xbox Live

ha ha

legit backup copies my arse.. whats that i can smell *snif snif*

'Media monster' Motorola mobile hits UK

ah yes but....

ok it looks nice but does it stil have the usual rubbish o/s that motorolla insist in pushing out ... looks like something from the 1980's and nothing like nokia or sony are now using... this is one reason why i will not look at their phones

British Gas security scare as payments page springs a leak

Direct Debit

has no one heard of using direct debit???.. then their is no need to use their site to pay your bill

cant get safer than that....

Asus W6 leather-clad laptop

macbook pro

When you can buy a macbook pro for £1600 i wonder why youd want to buy this instead?? Macbook will run current games extremely well indeed, im playing NFS Carbon on it and it runs better than my P4 3.2ghz with a geforce 550 256mb.. and it looks a lot more gorgeous than this laptop does

go apple you know you want to and you can even run windows with bootcamp if you really must

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot K800i photo phone

Nokia lover turns to Sony

I got myself a Nokia N80 not long ago and found although i loved it the phone a tad slow still and the camera although much improved over my other Nokias i have owned no where near as good as the K800i

I also wanted just a phone with a decent camera than a full blown smartphone so the k800i is perfect..

but i will say the syncing with outlook is fantastic as i get all my diary, contacts and notes all downloaded to my phone without any trouble. only thing i would improve is the syncing being automatic where i can only seem to get it sync manually.. something i really miss from the nokia side of things

so in roundup from someone who lives and breaths nokia and always hated sony phones i love this.. everything is very simple to use