Posts by Ian Morrison

Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

Erm. Well. An overly simplified example is called for here. Air traffic control. All systems are hooked up to centralised time servers. If the time source that various towers around the world use were to fail and clocks slipped by even a few seconds. I imagine people would die.

Jeery Jerry loves Vista, y'know

too little too late

Vista has been out for 2 years already. Most people who are going to switch have presumable done so already. Those who haven't either don't plan on it - they don't want to spend the money on an OS that doesn't do anything XP can't do already, they've switched to Linux or they've bought a Mac.

It will be interesting to see how powerful advertising really is and whether this campaign can really make a difference. Or whether it will hit a wall, er window, er...

Microsoft proposes gadget feature disabling tech

get off your ass

This is not a good idea. Personally. I'd never buy a phone that was 'that' smart.

As for the annoyances. If it bugs you that much. Get off your ass and go yell at thet kid on his phone. If you just sit there and take it - he'll do it again next time!