Posts by WinHatter

Amazon cloud still on fritz after 36 hours

The Java Paradigm knock off

Corollary-1

Ama-zone cloud : designed once fails everywhere.

I know bugger all about their design but I'd assume, to cut costs, they copied-pasted their zones (infrastructure, hardware, hypervisors, OS & software). Ooooh shit-ngle point of failure.

Corollary-2

Hacked once hacked everywhere.

May be some are happy to (help) see them fail. Ooooh Pooh again.

'Real' JavaScript benchmark topped by...Microsoft

you don't need to hear a fart to

know it stinks.

Crankshaft was inspired by Sun's Java HotSpot performance engine. Here is your hotspot fart.

Google's patents bid may prompt showdown with Microsoft

Hope they'll choke

to death on the patent bulimia.

From progressive they all turn conservative, the only thing they are afraid of it someone else making monies out of one of patented snippets.

That demonstrates only one thing : innovation is not the aim (money is).

Facebook user locked out of account even with ID

Don't take that as a hobble

take it as an opportunity to do something useful ...

/mine's the one with the locked out TheVulture account.

Google: Oracle doctored that 'copied Java code'

Eskellent

I was wondering how long it would take before Oracle gets shitty about Java crap.

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones

Already there

I get it now ... it's pronounced eyePhone.

I bet the kill switch is already there, just waiting for a patent to give them "legal" grounds to use it.

Steve Jobs middle name is Hand.

New code-execution bug found in Windows and 40 apps

No 80/139/445 port

Total isolation is good too. And leaving the PC switched off is even better.

Luv it. Ready made excuse to do nothing on the job today ... and tomorrow .... and ...

Software engineer demands source of his speeding collar

Why not suing the car's manufacturer

as well, for wrongfully shaping to the side of his car.

iPad apps flood Apple's App Store

Apple's website saturated.

probably just a fad. An iPod for people with deep pockets ... literally.

Windows 7 speculation claims SP1 will land in Q4 2010

SP1 will land in Q4 2010

or is it "SP1 will crash land in Q4 2010" ?

I don't deny or confirm W7 is working great, as I'm not using it, but will it take that long (Q4) before W7 emits some creaks at the seams???

SeaWorld killer killer whale must die, Bible insists

I wouldnt want to be

the executioner.

Stoning to death an Orca type may kill you first.

Mine's got pebbles.

Experts rubbish iPhone for health use

Rubbish

phone for rubbish organisation I don't see any incompatibilities.

Windows 7 'genuine' nagware winging its way to OS

Legitosectomy

Why am I under the impression that some will end up locked out their legit copy?

What can possibly go wrong. Security by patch & update always a nice thing ... ask Apple.

Apple preps touchy-feely iMac

Greasy sausages on me screen.

I hate that.

Bloody hate it.

Don't tooch me screen or I kill ya.

Monty looks to Russia, China to stop Oracle's Sun buyout

Giv' it back

Monty can you kindly propose $1 bn to Oracle so you can get your stuff back ... or kindly shut up.

Zuckerberg: 'I am a prophet'

Ewww

Him around a pool ... yuk ... no wonder he does not believe in privat'see.

Twat.

Microsoft 'sorry' for volume licensing website cockup

Easy to say sorry ...

when you don't really mean it.

Microsoft ends Windows and Office 2007 rental restrictions

Sorry ...

... I haven't been paying attention to MS orientations lately. In the world I belong to, MS is just a way to run legacy applications, and it is rather bad : XP/2003Server.

But, if MS is pissing off people that can't be a bad thing.

Microsoft petitions for second look at Word XML decision

The only thing left ...

now is to remove the offending MS Office from the Earth.

Greenpeace: Apple ain't so brown anymore

Most importantly

forgot to put in the infra ultra dark red Sun/Java for wasting so many CPU cycles.

James Gosling the young goose that got turkeys buying into Java should be fined $4 bn in carbon tax.

Firefox 3.7 to feel need for speed with multicore boost

ARFFF

Multi-core support ... because some IT directors think they can run their Enterprise Class Application in a browser.

That is the kind of stupidity that never ceases to amaze me. They fail to realize the Classy application will run in the same "context" as JS-pr0n ... that should worry them.

Microsoft delays Visual Studio 2010 launch

Stuck in time.

Well I'm still with MSVC++ 6 & .NET 2005 (well 2003 SP1) and that is the last one I'll ever use ... so M$ can issue any kind of sluggish MSVC++ they want ... the plank's been walked for us.

Windows 7's dirty secrets revealed

M$ workaround

Interdependencies not well understood.

Well let's have all of it in 1 single big fat DLL ... problemo solved.

Microsoft admits Win 7 tool violated GPL

bitter init??

M$ is having a taste of their own medicine ... hope they get sued and publicly spanked for some other "mistakes" that haven't caught the public attention.

But will Win 7 matter enough to attract law suits ???

Sarko caught short in Irish VIP footie box shocker

Massively huge box

joke most probably but still,

Sarko needs one tiny box for his body & soul and a massive one adjacent to it for his massively over inflated ego.

Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses

Two Trojans down.

"Two Trojans - a variant of Bredo and a banking trojan - failed to work on Win 7 machines."

Woawww

Meaning APIs have changed and that many other things will turn out to be broken. Probably the Trojan's code is fixed already/

Peugeot's bulbous BB1 e-car bound for Blighty

"Human head" shaped headrests

What a strange idea.

There is noway the heads at the back are attached to a human body.

Wintel 7 machines freeze out iPhone

Jobs can't fly

a Mustang P55 ... but I'd love to fly one of the P51 around Balmer's house.

Oracle sees future in Sun's GlassFish

And I once promised

to never get wasted again ... well that went well ... for a couple of weeks.

If GlassFish is the fittest, that may turn to be a true promise, otherwise that is just not to scare the sheep away.

Microsoft counters Windows 7 upgrade hack advice

Poor M$ buggers

why bother, Apple with Mac OS X does not give a flying crapware so why should M$. Even if M$ were to set the retail tag price to $29 for Win 7 I would not buy it. XP is good enough for the 3 tiny apps I need to M$ run.

Windows 7 lessons - the must know before you buy

stopped reading after

... before you buy.

I'll sure wait to have my hands on a pirated copy, before I buy.

GCHQ outsources net snooping... to EDS

Rimmer ...

Reminds me of a RedDwarf episode:

If the job is worth doing it, do it properly, if it isn't give it to EDS.

Fanbois howl over data-munching Snow Leopard bug

To the VistaMobile.

Oh snap, take that Ballmer, Jobs is stepping on your bedding plants.

After such a cockup Macs should sell like mad.

Android to overtake iPhone in 2012 - analyst

OS doesn't matter

iPhone because iLove when peephole are looking at iMe

Android because iM broke and iStill want to look cool.

Symbian because iDontCare TM because a majority of people doesn't give a toss as long as it works.

IT'S JUST A PHONE not a window on my pathetic existence.

Pluto still a planet, says Ronald McDonald

Ronald

also defies food definition. That does not prevent many to adhere the McDoo church.

Ballmer pumps Windows 7 up to thrifty customers

The C word ...

"crap" that's indeed the first word that comes to mind when talking about Win7

"c*nt" is also de rigueur when qualifying Ballmer,

But obviously Ballmer is not proficient in C ... or ++

Mainframe emulator goes commercial

@Kebabbert

The Mainframe forté is IO rather than CPU.

Microsoft apes Google with chillerless* data center

Antarctica

Stoopid over all.

Go build up your data center in Antarctica, it may melt the ice cap but no need for cooling.

The issue is with ill designed apps wasting millions of CPU cycles & MB of memory achieving bugger all. 50% of the apps' features never get used and 25% of the remaining don't work as expected. Pulled those figures out of my bum coz the statistics app was not running as expected.

IBM in £24m battle with UK spooks

EDS not involved

Why ???

Microsoft and Intel port Silverlight to Linux

Ported to Linux

And now they can port/carry it to the skip.

Mission sets e-bike land speed record

That's one useless record.

OK it goes fast but some trains go even faster on leccy.

Now I would be impressed if the bike were to run 200 miles on a R6 or AA battery. But I guessed it had just enough juice for the run up and one mile.

Wasteful speed records are not worth it. Even Formula 1 is applying the brakes on gas consumption.

Microsoft harries XP-loving biz customers on to Windows 7

Frustration at M$'

"before old agreements expire and customers look elsewhere for their OS needs."

Now M$ may feel the way I felt for many years, frustration when the OS is not doing what it is supposed to do or in M$' case when the customer is not doing what M$ expects.

/double pint for me

Sun's Sparc server roadmap revealed

wait for it

Larry the pull cable guy may well pull the sparc plug altogether.

65nm in 2011 means they are not investing in manufacturing processes so wether the chips are priced at $1 a pop and that may work or ... they don't have a roadmap at all.

If I were a Sun customer I'd move, even Windows 7 is not as scary as this roadmap. Ooops I forgot, I was ... RedHat is me buddy now ... oh the irony!!!

Linux webserver botnet pushes malware

well don't

expose open ports to the world and if

do not use the standard port,

use the secure version of telnet or ftp,

keep the system updated.

thought this was covered in the manual.

Why bother.

Post-Vista Windows flaw creates Blue Screen risk

& Impressive

Can they make the BSOD pink? Pink slip for M$.

Super-soldier exoskeletons ready for troop tests in 2010

Still breaking a sweat

looks they should add climate control to the kit as the guy's temples are a bit sweaty.

Oracle should relax Sun's Java Community control grip

I wish for the opposite

Java has been around for 18 years, never achieved anything of interest, it's a fashionable heap of pooh.

Sun came up with that piece of crap so they can sell more hardware to run the ill designed JVM.

Hope Oracle transforms Java specs so that it can produce C++ code and run at native speed by design, keep the interpreted mode but give me the boost I need so I don't have to write C modules everyday.

Microsoft sneak peeks embedded Windows 7

Fail

Fail

Fail

Fail

Fail

Fail

...

will succeed only in failing

Snow Leopard security - The good, the bad and the missing

ASLR by M$

Probably the way M$ implemented ASLR will be cracked open thanks to their history of poorly implementing industry standards.

M$ security will be as usual: useful as a chocolate fireguard. Will see when Win7 is ahead of XP.

Apple blogger legally unlocks iPhone

Legally bound.

No one is legally bound to buy an iPhone in the first place.

What a waste of time, hacking or going through the fine prints to find a loophole.

Got a couple of Macs that will run on any kind of leccy or Wifi, why an iPhone should be any different???