Posts by Steven

Asus to release desktop Eee PC as Ebox

Thumbs Up.

Looks great, I very much expect this will help Linux into the mainstream. I'm actually a Windows man, but I've always been a fan of the Linux open source ideals and would love to see the Eee desktop do well.

Facebook battles Google over access to user data

Just wet myself!

"Claiming that the Google service violates users' privacy". Of course Facebook is a pinnacle of upstanding when it comes to users privacy...

Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears

Hmm...

...because a sex offender couldn't possibly set up any number of free hotmail etc accounts...

The economy: A big Arab did it and ran away, claims PM

Erm...

Isn't it Gordan Brown who just agreed to a 4p tax increase on fuel, even though his advisors said he could afford to lower it by up to 7p...

That guy really doesn't know his arse from his elbow. How he manges to get dressed in the morning is beyond me let alone run the country.

Orange mobile broadband takes six-day break

Wouldn't touch Orange internet services with yours.

I've seen Orange rated as worse ISP in loads of online polls, and I can see why, both my cousin and my brother have Orange noband. The Live box they give you is frankly awful (not to mention looks hideous) and the service is unreliable at the best of times. Go with O2 (20mb) or Be (24mb), they're faster and a damn site more reliable (if you can get them of course).

Ofcom pulls plug on wholesale broadband regulation

What do you think?

"Whether price cuts are passed onto consumers will of course be the decision of retail broadband providers".

Take the profits for themselves or pass them to the masses...gee I wonder what they'll do...

UK.gov plans central database for all your communications

Oh goodie, more info for the goverment to lose in the post...

Do they never learn?

First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

Re: Now with FREE hidden useage tracking

Well I for one won't be downloading it because of this. As far as im concerned any company who even has ideas of this kind of thing has lost my business.

It sadens me that a company like Mozilla who are meant to be free and tax exempt are even thinking about making more money by selling peoples data.

a lot of people who use Firefox use it because they think its safer & to avoid things like this. In my op, Mozilla are very close to shooting themselves in the foot.

Apple okay with Safari 'carpet bombing' vuln for now

Ha Ha

OK so Apple sneak a program onto thousands of PC's which allows limitless nasty programs to be downloaded to your machine. Isn't that the definition of a Trojan? But don't worry, the nice people at Apple say that this isn't a security issue...

Billg bigs up SharePoint and Touch Wall

Was it just me...

Or did it look like ol'Bill was really struggling to get that 'wall' to do what he wanted? Some times it flipped on page, others it flipped three or four. Seemed all over the place when he was trying to zoom in on a bit of text, he had to moved it round like 3 or 4 times :S

Windows XP SP3 blame game begins

62 Working

62 of my companies Dell AMD machines are all working fine since SP3. A mixture of Precision M65's, Latitude 110L 120L & 131L's, Precision 370 & 360's, Optiplex GX280's etc. ALL AMD ALL 100% working on XP SP3 :)

PC World, Currys staff to be dumped in DSGi rescue plan?

Where in the World...

Sorry couldn't resit it.

I'll get my coat...

Facebook CTO logs out

It is not clear how issues of privacy will be dealt with

Well they don't really seem to care about privacy on their site, so why would it be any different when they pass your personalised ad targeting information to everyone else...

They should change their name to Phormbook.

Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot

49 Going Strong

Well 49 of our company machines have been updated with SP3 so far ALL Dell machines with AMD processors, some desktops and some laptops of varying models.

I'm also running an overclocked Vista machine at home and not had any problems with SP1 infact it's run a lot better since installing it.

Guess I'm either really lucky or the problems are being way over exagerated by the linux/apple camps as usual :)

Japan to tax MP3 players

Hmmm...

Isn't this basically making people who download all their music legally pay to fund those who don't? Doesn't exactly make you want to legally download when your going to be paying for those illegally downloading it either way. What a stupid law!

Sky plays the victim over Ofcom pay TV rights probe

Bring back the Sky Monopoly days!

Darn anoying, if you want all the football you now have to pay more. Not because Sky's prices are too high, but because you have to have Sky Sports AND Setanta which costs an extra tenner a month. If they split it even more your going to end up having to pay for about 4 or 5 subscriptions to watch the whole season.

Two arrested over piracy at computer fair

1 Million Pound??????

£1,000,000 for 5,000 games? Wouldn't that value them at £200 a piece?

The police really do need to invest in some calculators...