* Posts by Matt Vernon

6 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Oct 2008

Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK

Matt Vernon
Thumb Up

Hmm

Would be quite good out in the sticks where the BT equipment is being held together by chewing-gum and celotape... probably be fairly conspicuous carrying that dish round with you though anon ;)

Jacqui calls Vodafone man to run massive snoop database

Matt Vernon
Black Helicopters

Hmmm

"The probes would populate a pilot central database with details of who communicates with whom, when and where."

Just finished reading Ben Eltons "Blind Faith"... this seems horrifyingly familiar....

New trojan in mass DNS hijack

Matt Vernon

Possibly a problem between keyboard and chair on my end...

... but after changing my dns addresses to those given in the article it took my PC ~20mins to boot up (stuck on applying computer settings) changed it back to our servers and back to ~30 seconds...

No Stop or flame icon because as it says in the title problem could be me!

DARPA wargamer calls for US X-Men superplane fleet

Matt Vernon
Stop

What no one seems to have mentioned is....

.... what do the Chinese think of US planners trying to decide how to best get Special Ops teams into their country?

Buffer overflow bug bites Linux wireless component

Matt Vernon
Flame

Hmmm

No "Ha you see Linux has vulns as well" "No it's a windows component causing the problem!" argument yet.... Must be Monday :)

Asus to phase out sub-10in Eee PCs, says CEO

Matt Vernon

@Webster

Erm.... not sure if the story has been edited since you posted but is the line you're on about this one: "Buy your 7in and 8.9in Eee PCs while you can" Can't find the word enjoy in the whole article...?