Posts by Matthew

Windows 7 borrows from OS X, avoids Vista

looks like

We'll be staying with XP for yet another generation... or moving to linux.

They just don't get it do they.

Speed cams ditched in Wiltshire

Yay

Finally a council with sense.. And it will probably save lives since people will be looking where there going, not at there speedo

UK.gov says: Regulate the internet

good luck for them

i mean.. with bit torrent, changing your DNS, encryption etc...

Hubble's 486 back-up springs into life

they could do all that with a 486

Just shows how lazy programs are now days heh, imagine if symantec had designed it :)

US teen cuffed for sending nude phone pics

riiiight

so she offended herself? well maybe she could also sue herself to make a bit of $$

Reg reader completely loses the plot

EPIC

Gotta love the spelling on :-D

Apple royalty skirmish ends in stalemate

No one to be sorry for here except for the artists.

Apple making 30%? That;s better than most retail stores

Label making 70c/$1 Seams like a killing

Sounds like the artists are getting a shit sandwich.. The sooner the big 4 go down the toilet the better off everyone will be - perhaps the artists will end up getting 50c/$1 then.

Blizzard awarded $6m in WoW bot case

heh..

Runescape was alot worse!

Servers buckle as Congress rejects $700bn Wall Street bailout

morons miss the point

Alough the system is not perfect remember the financial sector has driven growth in the economy for the past 30 years or so, given alot more growth to the economy than $700b.

NOT providing this money will cause more than $700b worth of damage to the economy so all things weighed up they should have 'invested' the money.

MS wields price cutlass at Chinese pirates

Whats wrong with 2007?

I think it's the best office that's come out since office 97. Its still too expensive though..

Dell offers XP option for £44k

Now we know why there called...

M$!!!!

US military offered flying hover car bike

Starwars

Looks like the broke into George's garage

Where are the complimentary Droids?

3G Americas warns against text warning systems

Delays of 2 hours or more are not uncommon?

I have never had any problem with my 3g phone, infact it is a hell of alot more reliable than my old CDMA phone which would regularly delay texts. Even on New Years night i was still able to make a call on it. Perhaps the Americans are *still* behind on the tech front?

No pr0n surfing for Qantas A380 passengers

wtf lol

cached internet? so in other words just click *work offline*

OMFG, what have you done?

Aghh

Whats up with the tiny 1024 width of the page? Im sure everyone has *atleast* 1280 buy now..

Apart from that no real gripes now that the odds and sorts bit is back :)

iPod Touch, Nano disassemblies reveal surprises

pity..

they don't come with radio still...

Well i don't see any reason to upgrade from my 3g ipod to this one? Why not just buy a screen protector

Google launching its own navy?

I bet they won't be running on windows for warships!

Looks like M$ has beaten them to it. As soon as its floating i bet every Surface to surface missile will "missfire" ... and accidently land on there floating server

NZ in 'Old Bo***ck Road' balls-up

Just round the corner from where i live

If the sign go's missing tonight it wasn't me!

Academic wants to 'free up' English spelling

just lower the bar

If people are failing, then just lower the bar? very cleaver..

That way no one will be stupid!

He should be shot!

Lockheed demos AI-based roboforce command tech

wrong section?

ROTM?

Dell Inspiron 910 mini-laptop to be a hardware hacker's dream?

i still dont see the point of these laptops

I bought my acer aspire (New with warranty) 5420 which has (under XP) 4 hours battery,

2gb of ram, bluetooth, dvd writer, 80gb HDD, AMD Turion dual core, SD slot, the works....

for NZ$630 which is about probably not even €300..

so why does anyone buy these things?

There not much smaller either by the way..

MS beefs up WinXP Pro's anti-piracy nagware

hmm i saw th "critical update" download yesterday...

Luckily i have a genuine CD. but maybe they should offer free downgrades (well there upgrades really) from vista down to XP. That would be great. Im sure alot of people have Vista CD's now and hate it so have just downgraded to XP on a pirate copy... but since they have a copy of vista and a licence for that... it would be great if they could use as an upgrade licence to XP!

Colonel: Bowman army comms 'astonishingly bad'

Simple solution =-)

Sounds like they should arrange some "Al-Qaeda" to break into an american base and thief some of their radio equipment!

US police radios killing trees

how about..

they actually get off there fat asss and turn on the tap!

there's a thought...

µTorrent silently fixes long-standing zero-day vuln

nice one colin :)

9/10

mint

American ISP flashes phantom bandwidth cap

thats normal in new zealand..

5gb is usually about the 2nd highest plan you can get here...

200mb is the standard on telecom! so you guys have it lucky

UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users

well all i really download are TV shows anyway

how do they tell the diffenence on an encrypted connection? oh thats right they can't.. so its bloody rude to effectively call you guilty until proven innocent

Rogue SF sysadmin coughs up passwords

real life BOFH story

nice one mate.

Sony Ericsson sees profits tumble, turns on workers

what do you expect

The T610 was great..

the k700i was great..

the k800i was/is pretty good (my current phone), though is pretty much the same as the k700..

and in the last year and a half?? nothing good has come out of the factories at all..

Then they wonder why people have stopped buying

Seagate CEO cops to sloppy floppy in Q4

I agree

Just this day bought a segate drive... DOA..

Problem is its for RAID so want to keep them all the same. next time i might go with WD..even if they have a shorter warranty period.

Vodafone presents punter with £500k phone bill

lucky he doesnt live in New Zealand

10c / kb at the moment.

= $102/4/mb

=14gb to use $1.5 million NZ

AVG chokes fake traffic spew

lucky..

if it scanned a link to an *extreme porn* website you yould be done for visiting it even if you hadn't.

9/11 an inside job, says Irish pop folkster

just the very idea that the EU would do ANYTHING

ìs just plain stupid...

The only thing there good at doing is nothing

Swedish authorities pull plug on female Elvis

Tax??

And a tax board would care why?

confused as dear Paris here...

French court fines eBay for sale of counterfeit handbags

Stupid..

do people really expect that any name brand bag bought on Ebay is genuine??

Honestly even Paris would realise that a $100 "new, genuine" LV bag might not actually be so.. um genuine..

The only people who buy them are people who can't afford a real one.. So the whole thing is a load of crap because no ones loosing money.. except traders on ebay who indirectly have to pay higher fees because of stupid laws and retarded french judges.

Perhaps they should just not use ebay.fr? the international one is great.. but then i live in New Zealand so only have that option anyway :)

Asus speaks out on UK Eee PC 900 battery issue

so there saying its likely to break in 2 years

.. not very confidance inspiring is it?

Why not just get acer aspire.. build quality is just as good as an eee, better battery life and chaper!

Vista on your iPhone - almost 'perfection'

now...

if it came with copy and paste.. that would be something

Tory proposes street-legal Segway legalisation

Get a damn bike

FFS are people too lazy to ride bikes anymore, there faster too!!

Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard

telling the truth is illegal?

bad show..

NZ bank robber stashes loot where the sun don't shine

new zealand notes ARE plastic..

would YOUnlike to wipe them?

Kiwi airliners converted into giant iPod docks

iplanes to follow!

Apple will be into iplanes next, hope there more reliable than there nanos!

I think i would rather use my nice $100 headphones and just play it off my ipod rather than use the crap air NZ supply you with. Still, will be good for charging.

As for quality, well.. the movies you play on your ipod aren't usually very good quality anyway so i dont see the big deal..

Son of 419 victim contacts El Reg

Poor guy!

where can we send our donations??!!

MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope

starfield

For those of you moaning about the system requirements, which don't seam that bad to me, there is another lower spec version called *starfield*, in your screen-saver menu - it looks amazing

Web cam images undo MacBook thieves

go to my pc

If you use go to my pc perhaps you could do this on a PC =)

Very funny story

Comcast mulls overage fees for bandwidth lovers

250gb???!!!

There damn lucky... In New Zealand we are on the 'best' plan available, which costs NZ$70 a month for 30gb at about 7.5/1.5 ADSL, and after we use that it costs $20/gb...

ffs.. feel sorry for us!

Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy

im sure they will see all of that money

..not..

How to destroy 60 hard drives an hour

Ive always found...

A Decent hammer blow to be enough to render the average HDD useless :) Im sure i could crush 60/hour easily too.. plus you won't need to go to the gym after work :)

AMD now has 'more than allegations' against Intel

I have just one thing to say..

AMD -------- --- ---------- --- Intel --------- - ------- --- ---------!

'Extreme porn' law could criminalise millions

what about firefox?

What about if you use the popular extension for Firefox, Fasterfox - if you have it set to load links in the background before you even open them, does this would mean you were guilty of downloading porn without even opening the web page.. even if you had typed something legit into Google.. seams like opening the Pandora's box to

Welsh student exposed to nude webcam operators

whats the problem?

If you don't like it don't apply... its not like there advertising to 13 year-olds... its a free market.. 10 an hour doesn't seam like much though.. i would be more disgusted at the pay..