Posts by Ceiling Cat

El Reg seeks top net neologism

@MJ

Well, I used to hear it (wibble) in conjunction with the word "whinge" quite often. I assumed it was kind of like simpering, but more blatantly whiny.

A "wibble" is also a smiley. like the icon I chose for this comment.

Personally, I nominate the following :

Sotong - S.E.Asian word for squid, also means an annoying forum poster who asks the same newb question over and over again.

IAH'ed - To be repeatedly F*cked over by IAHGames, or for that matter, any other game hosting company. IAHgames are a subsidiary of The9, if anyone gives a sh*t.

LeeJunMing'ed - Or LJM'ed : To have your brain fried to a blackened pile of smoking fail by bad grammar, horrible english, and the realization that some sotong has just made the same damned post 100 times, but worded it slightly differently.

Sun Java piggybacks Microsoft searchbar, divorces Google

This'll teach people . . .

absolutely nothing.

I still wind up having to remove at least 2 toolbars a year from the systems I repair.

You'd think that for what they pay me to fix their broken systems, my users would learn . . . but they don't.

The penguin, because my (l)users are scared to death of it.

Fifty years later, steam appears on British railway

Why always nuclear?

Surely, instead of Nuclear power, they could (at the very least) have used the industrial equivalent of an electric Kettle element + Condensing system to conserve water? they could have even drawn power off the caternary or 3rd rails, although that would spoil the appearance a tad.

Not that the old way isn't cool to see.

Mine's the one with a copy of Trainz in the pocket.

Swiss boffins sniff passwords from (wired) keyboards 65 feet away

Fascinating stuff . . .

But you knwo what, somehow this story just isn't getting me worked into the sweaty psychotic (security minded) frenzy that it should. I know that in half the offices @ my work, if I lift the user's monitor, I'll find the post-it note with their username and password on it TAPED TO THE BLOODY BASE.

And at home, well I just can't see anyone who DOES want my passwords having this sort of kit.

Penguin, cos it reminds me of Carmageddon 2!

Remote access tech nabs smut-fan laptop theft suspect

Stupid criminals...

@ Daft Questin Alert : he must have had the machine set to update his dyndns entry and load the remote admin software automatically on boot. Not difficult.

@Software : That, TweakXP, or half a dozen other utils that eliminate the need to type your pass. Or maybe he was one of those folks who uses a completely unprotected copy of WinXP (although it doesn't sound likely). Also, very few petty thieves are savvy enough to use a router/firewall.

Tux, because even fewer petty crims could even start up my HD-Less Knoppix-based laptop.

OMFG, what have you done?

Wow! I never realized how much I hate fixed width until now!

I know it's your site and all, but this is the same mistake I made last time I deployed a Joomla CMS. It wouldn't look so bad if it weren't for the fixed width.

Penguin, because Windows won't run on my laptop because the stupid tw*t who gave it to me didn't have the proprietary connector for the hard-disk (#$%^ Dell proprietary #$%^&)....

Creative Zen X-Fi 16GB media player

Creative MuVo

The MuVo was my first MP3 player - it sounds like they have NOT come very far since then. True, the MuVo lacks the nice big screen, but it also doesn't pretend to be ANYthing it's not.

And at least the MuVo can be powered off cheap Ni-MH or Ni-Cad batteries.

Comcast files FCC impotence suit

Shaw Communications

Canadian internet provider Shaw communications were pressured by their users into admitting that they were P2P throttling.

Luckily, while they didn't relent on their throttling, it was exposed that their crap Elacoya routers/bandwidth throttlign boxes were unable to recognize encrypted bittorrent packets.

So as far as I know, the morons who don't know how to configure their clients still get capped, and those with a little know-how can squeeze around their blocks without a problem.

Haven't used BitTorrent in ages, though. It seemed neat at the start, but the novelty wore off. Just give me a good fast FTP with Resume and I'll be fine.

History shaped Google's Trojan Horse

I think you'll find....

It's a lot easier to find someone who loathes Microsoft than it is to find someone who loathes IBM in this day and age.

Granted, I never buy pre-built machines anyways (my upgrade budgets are non existant), so I don't have to worry about hating IBM, Dell, or HP.

As far as chrome goes, no thanks. I have a very closed mind when it comes to new software, especially if there's loads and loads of things which do the job at least as well (if not better) and have been doing so for a number of years. I didn't even upgrade to Windows XP until my favorite composition app went XP-Only.

Mine's the one with the badly scratched win2k install CD in the pocket.