Posts by Tommy Pock

BlackBerry CEO: Reports of firm's death 'greatly exaggerated'

Re: Not 'Greatly Exaggerated'

My Pre3 does - but I get your point.

Upgrade time soon and I'm trying very hard not to get a Q10. I really, really want one.

DEATH-PROOF your old XP netbook: 5 OSes to bring it back to life

Re: Minecraft

Oolite runs well, Half Life runs perfectly in Wine but you scan forget Minecraft. It just doesn't have the power.

Re: To be encouraged.

Are you me...?

I recently got an old iMac, too. Ran like a dog. I put Tiger on it, updated it, stuck another 256mb of PC133 RAM in it and it runs like new. New in 2005, but still new.

Re: Hackintosh would be cool surely

I've Hackintosh-ed mine, I've got a spare HD with it on somewhere. Works okayish. 60% of the time it'll boot into a wrong-aspect ratio square screen and there's absolutely nothing I can do to get it back. Brilliant when it works, but incredibly annoying when it doesn't.

MSI Wind U100 here

Almost exactly the same specs as yours (2GB RAM, 160GB HD).

I use vanilla Ubuntu with mine, because I've become hooked on Unity's contextual search*. I've tried a LOT of other distros, but this one works best with the form factor. It probably doesn't run as fast as you lot reading this would like, but it probably runs better than you'd expect.

Battery life was comical though, coming in at less than an hour, so I sorted that out with a 6000mAh battery from Amazon for 30 quid, which gives me a real life 7 hours use. Also handy as a keyboard tilt because it's bloody massive.

Elementary OS Luna is another OS you might want to look at, it's small and very fast but just too basic for me. It's very well made but looks like a Fisher Price My First Mac.

Yes your son may prefer an iPad but so would mine (he's 15) and he''s quite welcome to buy one from his own money. When he's earned some.

I'm happy with my little laptop which cost me, new battery included, £120. It'd be very difficult indeed to get that much functionality for so little money any other way.

*and Compiz's Wobbly Windows. I'm a sucker for wobbly windows.

Looks like Google may ask you to PAY for YouTube music - report

Hang on, I've got a Pre 3

Download for offline viewing, no ads.. I get all that already.

False widow spiders in guinea pig slaughter horror

'killer arachnid'. You're right on one score; it's an arachnid.

Apple stalls iWatch, 12.9-inch iPad from Quanta rumored for mid-2014

Re: Maxipad

Oh. Bugger.

Maxipad

That sounds like a sanitary product

Winamp is still a thing? NOPE: It'll be silenced forever in December

Re: BAH HUMBUG!

or Easytag on Linux. I use that alongside Rhythmbox, no problems here.

I still use my old X10 Mini as my MP3 player, using Winamp (paid for) for its FLAC and gapless playback support. Pity.

You THINK you're watching your LG smart TV - but IT's WATCHING YOU, baby

Re: Clenches jaw, takes deep breath . . .

I was going to get a G2. Now I'm not. That was easy, thanks LG.

Possibly EXPLODING or GLORIOUS Comet ISON: The (GIF) MOVIE

We've done this.

Inventors should not be allowed to name their own inventions.

"Because it is submerged in a marine environment, I call it the going-under-the-water-safely-device."

Leonard of Quirm

Look! GNOME 3.10 (with Fedora 20). Did we mention GNOME 3.10?

Elementary OS Luna has done away with its minimize button as well, and it works. Kind of.

But with that, you can put them back where they're supposed to be (close,minimize,maximize:) with gconf-editor. I don't know if that'll work with Gnome 3

MPAA, RIAA: Kids need to learn 3 Rs – reading, writing and NO RIPPING

Re: Sponsored curriculum

I've been thinking about this. Egg on buttered toast is seen as a normal healthy breakfast, as is cereal with milk and a light sprinkling of sugar. Perfectly normal.

Using exactly the same ingredients (flour, eggs, milk, sugar), I can make cake.

So I eat cake every morning. You can't argue with science.

Re: Sponsored curriculum

Also, watch out for linguistic tricks in advertising

Sponsored curriculum

Great idea!

On Wednesday morning the reception class will be held by by Special K representatives, teaching the importance of starting the day with a breakfast consisting of 17% sugar.

Wednesday afternoons is loan practice in the Wonga block

Apple kicks iStuff-sniffer out of App Store

Handy tip

We can all ensure that every store has an available stock of iPhones, iPads and iPods by not buying any.

Staying power: The small screen spans of the eleven Doctor Whos

I remember when infographics were called diagrams. It was all fields around here then

Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo

Re: sounds like it works then

Can't you just run

firefox -P

from Terminal to access the profile manager rather than use sudo?

Z30: The classiest BlackBerry mobe ever ... and possibly the last

Such a shame it's probably the last

I would have probably bought a Q30

LG G Flex: A new cheeky curvy mobe with a 'SELF-HEALING' bottom

I'm not convinced

Lay the phone flat on a desk and then try to type on it, or do anything at all without looking like you're trying to poke an unruly fish. Then come back and tell me curved is good.

Apple CEO Tim Cook v Microsoft's Ballmer: Seconds out, round two!

Cook?

Sounds more like Gil Gunderson.

Pirate Bay captain pleads with Swedes: Don't make me walk Danish plank

Re: All mouth until it's time to take his punishment

Thanks for your input, Mister Faxon

You like iPads, you like things called 'Air'. You will LOVE this puppy

The old New iPad

It was - is - called 'The New iPad'. I'm already confused

Apple's first iPhone now COSTS MORE than golden mobe 5S

Don't bother. I still use my 7110, it's dial-up only (no GPRS in those days) and there's no numbers left to connect it to

YouTube turns on dormant DRM, permits official downloads

"And you are not paying anybody for this happiness."

I'm the commodity, pal. It's me who's for sale, not the videos. I don't have to pay YouTube a penny, ever.

Re: Horse, stable door

Same here, I tap the floppy disc icon during a video on this Pre 3 and it saves the .mp4 to my phone. It doesn't harm anyone's business interests, doesn't deprive Google or its partners of advertising revenue, it just means I can save videos at home on wi-fi and watch them while I'm out and about which I wouldn't do using mobile data.

Plus the Pre 3 doesn't show adverts - ever - but we won't tell Google abut that

CERN releases retro 'Line Mode' browser

ah, man

That green-on-black gave my eyes such a rest. I could sit and read the phonebook on a screen like that.

I'm going to find a CBM PET for sale, I'm done with all of this modern crap

Boris Johnson's ex-right-hand man's right hand lands johnson in web slip

Re: Pix or it didn't happen.

He's denied that he's even seen the photos, and he's denying all knowledge of their existence.

There's proof of 30 years' experience in politics right there.

T-Mobile pulls BlackBerry products from US retail stores

I want a Q10 - yes, I do - and I asked Vodafone about 6 weeks ago if they'd put one under a desk for me so I can have it in July when I can upgrade, because I was worried Blackberry would have gone bump by then.

I was only half-joking, and Vodafone said no.

They should have taken me a little more seriously, because Blackberry will have probably gone bump by then :(

Apple Maps directs drivers INTO path of ONCOMING PLANES

bong

"In 150 yards, turn left to join the A380"

Surface Mini on shelves NEXT YEAR – and it will run Windows RT

Windows RT

I don't want it, you don't want it, nobody wants it. But Microsoft want you to have it, so that's what they're selling and you'll jolly well like it.

It's the Microsoft way.

Ubuntu penguins strain to squeeze out bug backlog by mobe OS deadline

Wow, Reg commentards hate EVERYTHING.

I'm excited about this and I want to try it.

Ten top new games for phones ’n’ slabs

If you use http://m.theregister.co.uk instead you'll get all of the articles on one lovely long single page.

But being an I.T. professional you already knew that, of course.

Pure boffinry: We peek inside Nokia's miracle cameraphone

Re: It is a marvel of modern technology...

It doesn't need a popular OS; it needs its OS to be popular.

It's amazing how many informed opinions there are on WP, considering how few people have actually used it.

Galaxy S4 way faster than iPhone 5: Which?

Title

This article helps a lot, thanks. As I keep trying to explain to the missus, I might not last very long but I'm very fast

Ex-Palm CEO Rubinstein wishes HP sale never happened

Re: I've seen the future and it will be

Oh. My reference was from the Batman soundtrack. My youth was pretty tasteless, I'll admit

I've seen the future and it will be

One day Hewlett Packard and Yahoo! will merge into one gigantic corporate supershambles and disappear in a puff of hapless mismanagement.

Microsoft in sexism strife again over XBOX rape joke

Re: There's no such thing as 'offensive language'.

That's you reported to the Irish Internet Police, sonny

There's no such thing as 'offensive language'.

Only language "offensive to me". If you're offended by words, get the fuck off of my planet.

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

It's up to 3rd parties whether to allow resale

The reason for this - the only reason - is to create a loophole enabling Microsoft to evade any litigation by any companies involved in or dependent on the second-hand games market.

Firefox OS: Go away fanbois, fandroids - you wouldn't understand

Re: Its an interesting strategy

HP shat on the Prē developers from a very great height. I don't think Mozilla are quite as suicidal.

(Posted from my Prē3)

Fancy some mobile filth? New logo tells you when not to bother

Just plain mister will do.

Opera Mini. It really is that simple.

The app only talks to Opera's servers - with end-to-end encryption. Any site you visit is hidden from everyone except you and everyone who works for Opera.

FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know

Inventors shouldn't get to name their own inventions.

"Because it's SUBmerged in a MARINE environment, I've called it my going-under-the-water-safely-device." - Leonard of Quirm.

New Lumia 925: This, loyalists, is the BIG ONE you've waited for

Come upgrade time this will have been replaced, but until then I want one of these more than I want world peace. It's beautiful