Posts by Hi Wreck

Sway: Microsoft's new Office app doesn't have an Undo function

I think they got the name wrong...

Perhaps, given the lack of control over formatting and even the lack of an undo function, this new application should really be called "Pray".

Was Nokia's Elop history's worst CEO?

Hardly

One only has to look at Nortel as a start. Then there's DEC, Compaq, MCI etc. etc. etc.

Meg Whitman: The lady IS for TURNING. HP to lob printers'n'PCs OVERBOARD

Goldman makes off with the gold, the employees are simply laid off.

5000 for the high jump, sadly.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-06/its-official-hewlett-packard-split-two-goldman-notches-second-spin-success-after-pay

Microsoft WINDOWS 10: Seven ATE Nine. Or Eight did really

Re: it's binary...

No, 8 is not a number in base 8. It could be base 9 though. But then again, it might just be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

None the less, I wonder when they are going to release Windows Mountain Lion?

Buying memory in an iPhone 6: Like wiping your bottom with dollar bills

Speed isn't everything

The cheap SD card probably won't tolerate many write cycles before crapping out.

What's an Ultrabook? Now Intel touts 2-in-1 typoslabs to save PC biz

Steve Jobs is alive!

And working at Intel. Banish all ye cables!!!!! If they made the mouse and keyboard wirelessly chargeable too, they might have something.

What the BLOCK? Microsoft to gobble Minecraft-maker 'for $2bn'

Makes sense

The blocky minecraft theme matches the IFKAM perfectly well. Perhaps mineccraft will be the new home screen. Perhaps BoB was just a tad too early.

Look! Look at me! We do wearables, mobile stuff too! says Intel today

Third time's the charm?

I don't quite think that Intel has figured out the customer wants it's own system on a chip, and not what Intel says will be the system on the chip. Time will tell.

Microsoft boots 1,500 dodgy apps from the Windows Store

Re: @MacroRodent

Not at Microsoft. (See Sinosky (sp?))

Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game

Re: I'd call it "Spinal Tap"

Lost my coffee. +11

Microsoft confirms secret Surface will never see the light of day

I hate to rain on your parade

But on the surface, I would say the future looks cloudy for Mixrosoft.

Islamic terror peril hits US giants' phone wallets

IS-IS

And here I thought IS-IS stood for the intermediate system to intermediate system routing protocol, which would indeed terrify US Phone giants. Perhaps they should rename it to Open Source Payment Facility.

Could a 'Zunewatch' be Microsoft's next hardware foray?

Ahh Spot

See Spot (not) run. Oh bother, the battery is pooped our again.

Windows XP fixes flaws for free if you turn PCs into CASH REGISTERS

Cash Register

And here I though XP was already a cash register - for Microsoft. Ker-Ching!

Intel cutting prices, taking on all comers in fondleslab market grab

Re: Windows and Intel together in a tablet

What's the point? Pane relief

Solaris deposed as US drone-ware, replaced by Linux administration

Re: Damn

It's been done already. Windows for warships, complete with blue screen of death, for the missle cruiser which had to be towed back to port.

Bill Gates: Sell off Bing? Nah. Xbox? Maybe...

Re: I didn't understand what Bing was

Bing Is Not Google.

Or maybe: Bing Is No Good.

Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer – advice from US, UK, EU

Except that most of those sites running IIS are parked domains. If one scrolls down the page a tad, one sees that the line for IIS for active sites and million busiest sites is sloping downwards. Nginx seems to be gaining share.

The upside...

Windows servers default settings make...

I'm still howling with laughter over that one. As if anyone who could create an exploit would be stopped. Who comes up with this anyway? Get him or her a Pulitzer.

What's a right pain in the ASCII for IBM? Its own leech-like hardware biz

It's all an illusion.

You can't grow a company by cutting.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-17/big-blue-stock-buyback-machine-steroids

No, we're not in an IT 'stockapoclyse' – boom (and bust) is exactly what tech world needs

Flash boyz

It's all a big casino these days, so don't bother yourself with any of that analysis stuff.

Huawei: We'll sell a dual-boot Android, Windows 8 smartphone because, well, isn't it obvious?

And the point would be?

Work phone/personal phone?

Panel: Death of Cisco and Juniper switches are greatly exaggerated

Look out below.

It won't be the commodity stuff that puts a stake in Cisco's heart, rather, it will be Huawei.

Dell reveals 'proof-of-concept' ARM microserver

If I were Intel...

I would be quite concerned.

Dart 1.1 bullseyes JavaScript performance in latest benchmarks

Re: JS is the new ASM?

Don't confuse strong typing with dynamic binding. Strong typing just means all type errors are detected, which doesn't necessarily mean at compile time.

Loose typing, while making code easy to write, is a pain in the arse for reliable programs.

Top Microsoft bod: ARM servers right now smell like Intel's (doomed) Itanic

Re: LDS

Intel machines translate most instructions into a more RISC-like internal architecture. Note that the L1 instruction cache stores pre-decoded instructions. This is a hint. It is truly amazing that a register starved architecture can perform so well. Kudos to the Intel engineers.

Time travellers outsmart the NSA

Nonsense!

Time travelers do indeed exist. Just look at the NANEX data just prior to any announcement by the Federal Reserve.

Get lost, fanbois: Nokia pulls HERE Maps from Apple's App Store

Re: Apple maps - could be worse

Unfortunately, the mapping data for Apple maps still sucks (blame Tom-Tom?). The new bridge over the St Lawrence river on Autoroute 30, which has been open for over a year, still hasn't shown up. Apple maps will want you to go across the crumbling Champlain bridge instead.

Re: OOh lets dangle the maps

iOS is not the MAC desktop operating system. Given this rather blaring error, I can only deduce the rest of the post is about as accurate.

Mozilla: Native code? No, it's JavaScript, only it's BLAZING FAST

Re: Yeah right

The only relationship between JAVASCRIPT (i.e., browser stuff) and JAVA is they were both developed by coffee=addled C programmers. Browsers run the former in <SCRIPT...>, Browsers should block the latter (and its virtue-less machine).

Facebook's monster PHP engine ready to muscle into ARM server chips

Intel

Better be worried

Richard Stallman decides Emacs should go WYSIWYG

Re: email

He probably has an acoustic modem and runs uucp to do that email thing. I'll bet there's still a sendmail config for that!

Huawei was never interested in buying Blackberry

Doesn't need blackberry

'Cause they probably have the secret sauce already. Memories of iOS (no,the other one) come to mind.

Internet Explorer 11 BREAKS Google, Outlook Web Access

Re: Doesn't necessarily mean it's Microsoft's fault

Apparently, Microsoft does indeed test their browser, at least on their own web sites. None the less, they still ship it despite "also making life difficult for users of Microsoft's own Outlook Web Access webmail product."

Left hand, meet right hand.

Re: Why??

Except that even some Microsoft sites are borked too: "and is also making life difficult for users of Microsoft's own Outlook Web Access webmail product."

Circling the RIM: BB10 becomes chamber of horrors for BlackBerry

Fairprice financial

'Tis curious that Prem Watsa stepped down from the board just a short time ago only to buy the company lock stock and barrel today. He's also on record saying less than two years ago that the company needed 3-5 years to turn around. Deep discount buy, or catching a falling knife?

Microsoft: Surface is DEAD. Long live the Surface 2!

Re: 2 hours?

I'm not that patient.

Re: How much an Ultrabook costs?

I don't know about that. Emacs would certainly be able to use 10 point multitouch.

Google smacks Surface with free Quickoffice for Android, iOS

Re: Quickoffice files save into Google Drive

It's comfortable knowing your data is not only backed up, but backed up offsie too!

TWO can play this 64-bit mobile game, says Samsung, crossly

Re: Why oh why

Mmap(/dev/men)?

Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected

Blame Canada

Elop was/is a Canadian, ne c'est pas?

Queensland bans IBM from future work

Standard operating procedure

Robert X Cringely would not find this cock up surprising at all. http://www.cringely.com/2013/06/20/ibm-to-customers-your-hand-is-staining-my-window/

Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!

Crufty old machines.

A nice man from AECL came by one day to talk about the nuclear industry. Essentially, keeping the old stuff running is far far cheaper than swapping in new hardware. New stuff means an extended shutdown and recertification. This is not cheap at all, especially the recertification process. So if some bit of hardware beaks, remanufacture the part.

Blackstone gives up on $25bn bid to snatch Dell from Mr Dell

Put a stake in it

And give the shareholders their money back.

US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas

Re: Facepalm...

I think we need a few more TROLL roads to make us all pay pay pay.

RIM ends Reg headline pun filth (and launches two new phones)

I'm lost

What about maps? Google saved iOS's sorry arse.

My top tip for Microsoft: Stop charging for Windows Phone 8

Superior technology?

Assuming that Microsoft does indeed produce superior technology, it doesn't matter provided that what already exists is good enough. Just ask Sony. Etc.

Nokia turns a PROFIT. Sort of

Mark Twain said...

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme (cough Nortel cough).

New CEO to save company (Zafirovski/Elop). Check.

Cut staff. Check.

Cut product lines. Check.

Cut dividends. Check (this one is the kiss of death.)

It's sad to see.

Mobile phone sales slump bites Nokia

Units shipped?

Or money made. I dare say the former, not the latter.

Ballmer comes not to praise Sinofsky but to bury him

Re: Nothing to see here

Sinofsky has probably gone about as far within Microsoft as he can without displacing Ballmer. He probably reckons that isn't likely.

Perhaps he knows of an opening at Nokia? (or RIM?)