Posts by Ken Darling

Student falsely IDed by Reddit as Boston bomber found dead

Identify yourself

"We cannot begin to know what you're going through and for that we are truly sorry."

Show your remorse by identifying yourself. Perhaps than you may have a better idea of what a which-hunt feels like.

Windows 8 has put the world's PC market to sleep - IDC

Re: Vista Part II...?

"There will never be another Vista travesty."

I never had a problem with Vista; it worked very well on a dual core system with 8GB RAM. Mind you, I did encounter a few people who had terrible issues with the initial release on laptops. So it was a mixed bag. That said, it was superior to Win 95/98/2000/ME.

"Back in 2007 there was still no real alternatives to Windows. Its such a different playing field now, but MS are still behaving like the old monopoly."

I don't think it is much better. What are the alternatives? Mac OSX? Linux? I could probably cope with OSX (though the price of hardware is prohibitive), but Linux is still a terrible joke for the home user.

"Win8 & Office pricing is a joke. Game Over MS!"

Can't disagree with you.

Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix

Lame. Yawn

Bored before I even began reading. At least try to fool your audience.

SCO - been there, done that.

Apple CEO Cook's investor-meeting reveal: 'Dog bites man'

Re: No bathrooms

"the Prozac/suicide link appears to be real"

A side effect of many antidepressants is similar - thoughts of self harm/suicide - especially in the first few days. And you can't stop those urges.

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

Perhaps, instead of fussing over something that only exists in their own depraved minds, they should cast their attention to the disgusting ritual of child beauty pageants.

Dolling 5 year old girls up to like like low class prostitutes is little short of paedophilia.

F*ck the pig (metaphorically, of course)

BBC blueprint to make EVERY programme on TV a repeat revealed

I want to get rid of my television. When it's on, it's usually just playing DVDs or recorded programs on the PVR.

I don't have SKY or Virgin, just bog standard Freeview, and the programs that are worth watching can be counted on one hand. And even those are recorded as they are broadcast at inconvenient times. Sometimes the PVR forgets to record, so then we use iPlayer.

So, hardly any as-it's-broadcast programmes.

Just writing this has persuaded me. Goodbye television!

Apple loses bid to 'cut in line' in Samsung patent dust-up

I walked into the Bluewater Apple store once. It was most unpleasant. Filled with fanbois sweating profusely as they grappled to lay their hands on the latest slab. I'm sure thy would have been rolling on the floor and piddling in delight if there had been room.

I tried out an iPhone. Hated it. Not at all intuitive.

I'm off to trademark piddling in the air in delight.

Microsoft Office 2013 vs. Office 365: Is either right for you?

Re: Where are we?

@Jim - "quit the CHECK and MOM crap"

I'd upvote you 100 times if I could; It's just lazy journalism. The register is going downhill - rather that a port-of-call for IT related news, it's becoming more like TMZ every week.

And what is it with Yanks and their aversion to propositions. "Out on BluRay Monday" WTF is a BluRay Monday?

AV-Test boss dismisses Microsoft criticism of malware test results

Piece of Crap

AVG - bloated, slows machine to a crawl, wants to install toolbars you don't need.

AVAST - increasingly bloated with annoying messages

Comodo Internet Security - was good, but wtf have they done to the latest 64 bit version?

All three protected me handsomely over the years and no malware ever made it past them.

But when I tried MSE, my PC was infected within a few weeks. MSE had great pleasure in telling me the PC was infected, but was incapable of removing the file. In the end I used Autoruns to prevent it running at start up and removed it manually.

Back to Comodo for now.

Microsoft doesn't have a clue.

RAC prof: Road charges can end the ripoff of motorists

Cost of me using the road - ZERO

smart cdi - road tax= £0.

make my own bio diesel, cost per litre = £0.40 approx.

fuel duty paid = £0 (can make 2500 litres p/a without paying duty)

Road pricing is a good idea. I'm all for it. Make me pay my fair share for using the roads.

BBC's TV detector vans to remain a state secret

I thought...

It is the television that needs to be licensed, not the owner. So, it I were watching an unlicensed set - in my neighbour's home, or example - I could be fined, even if I had a television licence.

Just watch programs using iplayer.

eBay changes anger smaller sellers

Toss Pots

I gave up selling on eBay when they refused to accept the listings that offered Google Checkout as an accepted payment method.

So I closed my sellers account.

And this week I've closed my PayPal accounts.

Instead I sell on Craigslist. Much better and no fees.

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

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