Posts by filey

Microsoft's Silverlight 3 due in July?

Yawn

Updates for something no-one uses

its a good week for microsofties, what with bing, windows fixes that themselves need fixing and now this old tripe

all that is left is .net version 4 to round off the week

Twitter worm author gets security job

remember

Never buy any products or deal with

exqSoft Solutions

nice to know who the cowboys are

Blu-ray Disc added to UK shopping basket

The list (seeings as old reg was too lazy to link)

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/article.asp?ID=1951&Pos=1&ColRank=1&Rank=224

list?

Where is this list of 650-odd products and services?

cant you lazy journos at least link to the list?

BMW, Fiat partner to dominate small e-car biz?

Ugh!

With the reputation Italian cars have for electrical problems, i would say It isn't going to happen

New ISS piss-extractor drinks unit to go up on Discovery

really?

Are you taking the piss? or are you just extracting the urine (as a nerd would say)

im sure the end result beats what is in most bottled water these days.

Amazon pulls beta tag from PayPal foe

really? wow

NOT coming to an Ebay store near you...

we are well and truly stuck will paypal

Windows 7 'upgrade' doesn't mark XP spot

there you go

obviously, upgrading vista to windows 7 will be easy as windows 7 IS vista, more like a service pack than a new OS

eBay revenue shrinks for first time in history

Question..

Can we expect customer service levels to plummet further (if this is possible) ?

skull and crossbones? probably not the first comparison to pirates....

Intel profits sink 90% in Q4

Competition?

The reason is all the hard cost-cutting, designed mostly to give AMD a hard time

IWF confirms Wayback Machine porn blacklisting

Virgin cable with open-dns

its intermittent, sometimes a generic page not found in archive, other times slow but ok

strangely, old theregister pages all seem to give a path index error, perhaps they dont like old reg either....

Seven MPs go a Twittering

on the seventh day of christmas

my true love gave to me....

Seven Mps a-twittering...

up to you lot to fill in the others...

i got it...

7 mps a-twittering

6 assistants a-laying

5 holidays a year

4 calling my publicist

3 french vineyards

2 public disgraces

and a pay raise when we want it

Reg readers say ‘don’t panic’ about the economy

i predict....

lots more exploding pie charts

and what a waste of pie it is.

Indian court urged to 'ban Google Earth'

banning works?

If banning stuff works so well to defeat terrorism, just ban guns and terrorism

Google Oompa Loompas cloaking user agents?

because...

it sounds more menacing and scary to say they are cloaking

total non-story

Apple's Snow Leopard set to exploit GPU power

ugh..

this article is acronym hell

only the nerdiest of nerds can read the whole article

you all need to get out more

Windows 7 first beta due January 2009

@piro

yes, i know its a limitation of 32 bit addressing

maybe mainstream windows needs to go 64bit, and maybe virtualisation for older apps?

We have all heard about the need to recycle...

It feels too soon, too much like a recycled vista. Seems likely i will be using XP for a few more years

Questions...

Will windows 7 be able to do anything regarding the 3GB ram limit?

it was silly the mainstream vista couldnt use any more ram than xp, usually when i buy a new machine it has loads more ram than my last. My current machine came with 2gb and its near 4 years old.

Is that a spider? I blooming hate those things...

Man threatens lawsuit after negative eBay feedback

looky lou

seller has lots of negs and such!

http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=onsalexuk&Dirn=Received+by

not sure why he is so bothered about just the latest, sounds like a seller i'd prefer to avoid

further

more reading of the ebay listing shows me that it is indeed the F700 offered in the description, the F700V written on the box in the picture, but not in the description, thought to counteract this he states:

ITEM IS IN GOOD CONDITION

ITEM IS IN ORIGINAL BOX

Sony powerless to fix PSP screen problem

Feature?

Usual cobblers about a fault being a feature, who'd have thought Sony people also worked at Microsoft too.

Next Windows name unveiled: Windows 7

i'm not buying it

Why won't they call it Windows Vista 2.0? or Mojave?

we all know its just the vista codebase with knobs on, mostly just a search and replace name change.

Look out for features such as 3gb memory limit (that limit is a joke now, imagine 5 years time!)

YouTube offers full-length shows

Offers full-length shows?

Maybe it does, but whats the point for us UK users

any ep of any show from CBS's youtube channel is greeted with:

This video is not available in your country.

boo! no wonder people prefer torrents....