Posts by Steven Bloomfield

KCOM caught in yet ANOTHER customer privacy snafu

The pot calling the kettle black

Mistakes happen, I'm sure The Reg will agree eh?

If I recall right, it was about 3 years ago when all The Reg subscribers addresses were visible in an e-mail.

Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat

Goodbye F1

Well that’s very bad news.

If I can’t watch all the races live, then what’s the point?

At the moment I hate watching highlights, I prefer to get up at silly o’clock to watch races live. It’s just not the same, the whole sense of occasion is lost if it’s not live.

Perhaps the first season I might watch the live races on BBC.

It’s likely I will end up just watching F1 as a highlights programme so it’s always the same format.

Eventually, because highlights aren’t the same as a live race it might turn into can’t be bothered.

Just like many things for me, they cease to exist when they disappear to Sky.

It could be a good opportunity for BTCC to gain in popularity though.

Elite UK police agency website downed by Lulzsec

Read a bit more...

If you put a system under high stress, cracks will appear.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2011/06/14/lulzsec-targets-bethesda-softworks-game-maker-40093100/

Ballmer says Windows on ARM isn't about ARM

Reading between the lines..

Reading between the lines.. Windows Phone 7 Series could be short lived?

Sounds like Windows 8 could be a unified Windows OS (to a certain degree) across all devices - from Desktop to Phone.

Meltdown ahoy!: Net king returns to save the interwebs

This is the future

I really got excited reading this article, CCN seems very sensible and a logical progression for the future of the Internet & WWW.

I am pleased to see that the first implementations are through Android. Again a very intelligent way to implement CCN - on devices which adoption is growing the fastest. PCs & servers will then have to adopt CCN when the defacto way of accessing ‘The Net’ will be over CCN. Actually I don’t mean PCs I mean Workstations.

The term PC seems somewhat outdated now. At home I use a laptop, my Android phone, xbox. Maybe Santa will get me a slate for Christmas!

In this article I do think some of the examples were poor, as people have pointed out multi-casting / DHT deals with same content bottlenecks.

I was also just reading the article "Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/20/berners_lee_says_facebook_a_thret_to_web/

This also has the same underlying issues as CCN is addressing.

Instead of entering your information repeatedly, you allow what site can see information.

Just like installing an application on Android, you allow on a per website basis what information they can access from YOUR database.

No need to re-enter the same information again and again. You can see who has access to your information and change access rights.

I think this would be a great way to utilise CCN.

Ofcom rules on Clarkson strumpet gag

I'm shocked!

Finally a bit of sanity from Ofcom!

I'm fed up with knee jerk reactions to a few complaints fueled by the media.

Microsoft's IE 8 puts giant web hole on notice

@JIM THE BOSS

You are my hero. Saw your posting in another article, I will watch enthusiastically for your next insights, it's nice to have a bit of humour.

BTW. Opera is great for checking standards compliance, I've used it for years. I do find I use Opera as my second preferred browser.

My main browser is IE, I started developing websites in 1996. I remember the Netscape days, I remember how utterly crap IE 1,2 & 3 were. I remember Mosaic. I know IE7 is bloody annoying but I still like using it.

The webdev plug-ins for Firefox are really cool though.

Nine Inch Nails cracks net distribution (maybe)

Excellent!

Getting 200KB/s download speed so it's not so bad.

File is 283MB for the MP3 format.

I can't believe people have never heard of NIN!

Google encourages 10 teams to rocket to the moon

This will end up as a film

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Death Race 2000

Rat Race

Wacky Races

X-Race2.0 - The Moon!

I'd watch that... could be quite a funny film.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum: 25 today

Happy Birthday Speccy

Magic days indeed. I got my Spectrum for Christmas in 1983. It had a Cheetah sweet talk box, my new Spectrum talked to me on Christmas day! "Hello my name is sweet talker"

Manic Miner, Jet Pac, Attic Attack, Underworlde. So many great games.. remember Skool Daze, fantastic. Those were the days when £1.99 would/could buy you some great games

I used to spend hours playing games like Lords of Midnight!

Waiting for 5-10 minutes, staring at blue,red,white horizontal lines, listening to the screaming sound, waiting for it to end... it all added to the excitement... or dissapointment if it just reset at the end.

Did anyone else go into shops which had Spectrums on display and type in things like

10 PRINT "Ste is great"

20 GOTO 10

BREAK

RANDOMIZE USR 1000

Never did finish Manic Miner, always died at a level called "We must perform a Quirkafleeg".

I think the Speccy was originally called the Sinclair ZX82, but renamed Spectrum, presumably before launch. It was also called Spaccy by me when it cheated at games.

After the Spectrum I moved on to the Atari ST, which will be 25 in 3 years.. now i'm feelin old.

:-)

Happy days.