Posts by Justin Stringfellow

Students outraged: Computer refuses to do any work for entire week

heads need to roll

As usual NGOs and Govermental orgs get away with outages that would result in mass sackings in the private sector.

Elon Musk pledges transcontinental car juicers by end of year

but...

"Tesla is tripling the number of electric recharging stations ... to enable coast-to-coast road trips by the end of the year."

But the UK is only about 300 miles wide at most, and the range of the tesla cars is about 300 miles. No recharge required, surely.

Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars'

umm

Can't believe someone hasn't suggested "winblow".

Transporter upstart Connected Data could will merge with Drobo

Re: Why?

It's "proprietary". Learn to spell.

Honey, I BLEW UP the International SPACE STATION - in full 3D

Re: Wow

The ultimate challenge is of course, animating Keanu Reeves.

I think we've a few thousand iterations of moore's law (any relation to coleslaw?) before he will ever look real.

Dark blue side of the Force used to quell Star Wars nerd clash

Re: hats off to the police

Not so, my young padawan. They have four fingers and an opposing thumb. How else would they grip a hydrospanner correctly?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookiee

Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel

Re: sourgrapes

Yep, this'd be the same Apple that ran an advert in the early 90's claiming they had the first RISC home computer, ignoring the fact that the Archimedes debuted in 1987. And the same Apple that stole the icon bar from RiscOS, etc etc. Same old same old.

Re: sourgrapes

er, ARM?

.. which originally stood for "Acorn Risc Machine".

Firefox 21 ships with performance-profiling Health Report

I just don't care

" stats about the browser's operation, such as how long it took to start up, how long it has been running, and how often it crashed."

None of which would be interesting if it started quickly and didn't crash.

Upgraded yesterday, yet to spot a difference. Why the major release then...?

Bill & Jobs' excellent adventure: Steve's tech looked better than mine

must have missed this

"Jobs died in October 2011 from pancreatic cancer."

On an IT site I think we can reasonably assume people are aware of the passing of His Holiness.

It's right up there with the BBC's insistence on still saying "The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher" even when she'd been in office for over 10 years.

Torvalds unveils first Linux 3.10 release candidate

extremely nit picky but

"Torvalds unveils...."

in what way was it 'veiled', then? It's open source, right?

Ten ancestors of the netbook

what about IBM PC110

Rare as hen's teeth, but a true tiny PC compatible.

http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pictures.htm

IMO half of the stuff on this list are ancestors of modern mobile phones, not netbooks.

Review: Western Digital Sentinel DX4000

all you need to know

"Windows-based NAS "

move along, nothing to see here.

World's first 5mm-thin gyrating models paraded on disk catwalk

Re: Robustness...

Don't forget the microdrive was used in the original ipod mini - my wife's 4GB one from, uh, maybe 2005, is still in working order. I don't think Apple would have committed to mass producing a portable consumer product with them in unless it was fairly robust....

.... or would they?

Black-eyed Pies reel from BeagleBoard's $45 Linux micro blow

512MB = fail

1GB min, surely?

No reason, other than it seems stingy.

Oh S**T, here comes a robot to take my job

Re: am I the only one

Evidently not since I got a thumbs up from another cultured reader.

am I the only one

...that gets this column in Daniel Craig's voice when reading it?

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

original cray was better

I nearly cried when I saw the Cray-1 in the London Science Museum - just perfect.

Suprised there's no Sun kit in here (disclaimer: I'm ex-Sun..)

I thought the E10K was good, and the sun4m and dinnerbox chassis machines (IPC/IPX/Classic) were good too.

The mac stuff looks nice but it's form over function - fewer ports, non removable batteries etc.

HP's 'historic' Project Moonshot servers aim at hyperscale future

taller racks then?

"8 to 10 million new servers in the next three years. Using convention rack or blade servers, those servers would take up around 200 football fields – about the 13.5-mile length of Manhattan"

Gotta laugh at this crappy unit of measurement. Why would a server be on a football field?

So anyway the answer is obvious, given that the analogy is Manhattan.... 100ft high racks!

Prime Ministerial exploding cheese expert to become 'entrepreneur'

hang on...

Wasn't Silva the villain in the most recent episode of James Bond?

You could tell he was a nutjob, he had no HVAC in his datacenter. Mental!

Flash to the future: Memristors, photonics, MLC-y tsunami

agreed

695,000 is 1 billion a day, divided out by 1440 minutes. It's a suspiciously round number which just tells me that facebook and/or google don't really know or want to share the answer.

Google Translate for Android adds offline translation option

rice cooking instructions

boil it till it's soft enough to eat.

There, fixed that for you.

Off-the-shelf optics kit tweaked for bonkers performance

Re: The non-technobabble version...

...and managed to turn it off an on again trillions of times per second.

And then read that at the other end.

QLogic: 3 words - caching SAN adapter. Just blew your mind, didn't we?

Re: Won't touch 'em

label your cables. At install time, really.

Re: Won't touch 'em

Interestingly their website says:

" *QLogic requires a minimum one-year service program with each 10000 Series Adapter purchased. No warranty is included. "

Is it not illegal to sell stuff without a 1 year warranty (UK) / 2 year warranty (EU) ? Or did I mis-brain this fact?

actually no

write through cacheing = mind not blown.

Fitting a server card with a fan on it doesn't appeal. Should be passively cooled, and let the server fans (which will be more easily replaceable) do the work.

No mention here, or on Qlogic's website of OS driver support either.

Boffin road trip! The Reg presents Geek's Guide to Britain

Re: Don't forget...

@Tony S Yeah! My very great very grand father. First to powered flight. All the Wrights did was improve controls and shove a human in it, and they were 60 years later.

Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map

Re: Give the researcher a medal!

The question is not should the device in question force a password change, but should it be be exposing a login prompt to the internet?

Most routers I've come across only provide a ssh login on the internal interface.

Review: Supermicro FatTwin

what luck

They've been advertising this kit on your website for months, and now they've got a favourable review!

What were the odd of that then?

Mmmm, TOE jam: Trev shoves Intel's NICs in his bonkers test lab

Re: most of this stuff is old

It makes them ancient, simple as that. Is that the answer you were hoping for?

'Quantum fridge' gets close to absolute zero

"They" did - google for "Huski" a pen-shaped device that was being patented a few years back. Dunno if it made it to market actually.

Penguins, only YOU can turn desktop disk IO into legacy tech

but...

Quark doesn't run on Linux.

Super-fast super-massive black hole spins at nearly light-speed

Re: That Ergosphere is gonna whip the wheels off Hawking's chair!

MATHS not MATH

MATH is what Americans do when designing spacecraft in a mixture of metric and imperial before launching it into a planet.

Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62

Re: Sense of déjà vu

Threatening the in-laws with a shoulder launched missile? Sorry, but that's bringing a knife to a gunfight. The guy should be applauded for his restraint.

Hey, software snobs: Hardware love can set your code free

"A farmer with a heavy cart can only increase the size of a single horse up to a point before resorting to multiple horses."

Analogy fail. Horses can't be magically grown larger and stronger on the spot.

Actually what happens is the farmer sells his non shape-shifting horse to a French abbatoir and buys a tractor.

Trekkies detect Spock's Vulcan homeworld ORBITING PLUTO

not any more...

it was destroyed by Nero using a singularity in the most recent movie.

HP shareholders bay for blood in $19 BEELLION writedown aftermath

explains the cost of HP toner

now I know why it's hundreds of quid for a small boxes of coloured dust... so HP can buy lame donkeys.

Quit the 2D internet, flee your cave, and GET LAID, barks rock star

Re: Business Plan

PedAntards, surely?

EMC anoints ‘Elect’ group of IT pros

the mark of the cult of EMC

"EMC Elect members get to pop this logo on their blogs and .sig files"

That's handy - I'll be able to easily spot the fanbois that are working pro bono for EMC's marketing team, and ignore their attempts at "holistic social engagement" whatever that is.

Fusion-io touts cheap-as-chips flash to Apple, Facebook and chums

not rust

There we go with "spinning rust" again.

It's a cobalt alloy these days, as has been pointed out before many times....

Review: HP ENVY x2 Windows 8 convertible

it's called ENVY because

I ENVY the FOOL who has £800 quid for this thing.

....Hang on that's wrong.....

I PITY the FOOL who has £800 to waste on this thing.

1366 x 768? Seriously?

Bob Dylan's new album is 'Copyright Extension Collection'

Re: @LarsG: Well

> Is he rich?

He effing better be. He charged me over £60 a ticket to see him mumble his way through some tunes while hiding behind a keyboard and large hat, in Bournemouth last year.