Posts by Hi Wreck

Apple iTablet a (virtual) certainty

Love Apple

@jrk

i'd give my life for steve!

That seems rather steep even for Steve. However, I'm sure he'd take a liver.

Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel

Of course C sucks...

Like people haven't cut their fingers off on table saws before. For the *nix lovers who want their cake and eat it too, there auroraux (http://auroraux.org/index.php/Main_Page). Coded in Ada, because "Ada sucks the least" (http://www.osnews.com/comments/21123)

MS no-frills security scanner gets thumbs up in early tests

Remind me again

Why a computer needs virus protection in the first place?

Signed

Mr. Solaris.

Alcatel-Lucent to eject '1,000 IT staff' into HP

Deja Vu...

Why so glum? Nortel outsourced lots of "non-core" functions rather successfully several years ago. Look where they are now!

Black hole swallows Barbarella rehash

Too Bad

Doubtless, Paris would have been a shoe-in for the lead role.

Old school music sales fell 8% last year

Not withstanding...

1) The content is crap.

2) Why by a CD when there's only one decent tune which I can get on iTunes for a buck

3) Rockband

The asteroid has landed in pirate bay.

Brits and Yanks struck with embarasment embarrassment

Amerikan

If I recall correctly, the Americans dropped all of those stupid U's in words like colour in order to save some ink when printing newspapers.

If you really want to go batty, write "canadian" which seems to take a bit of both British and American spellings. I.e. colour and program.

In the end, blame the French. It's all their fault.

OMFG, what have you done?

Get with the times...

The new look is all very nice, but it's still a pain in the arse to read on an iPod touch. Maybe you can steal some of the blokes from osnews.com to figure out how to do things right.