Posts by John Bayly

Beeb news website goes titsup

Infinite 302

When you go to news.bbc.co.uk, it returns a 302 -> ... news.bbc.co.uk (Where else would it try to send you)

Sounds like somebody's been mucking around with httpd.conf, oops

Worst problem is that I'll have to rely on El-Reg to get my Paris updates.

Microsoft punts web-based apps to the masses

@Richard Thomas

Shouldn't that be `Windows Button`-R ?

People are biggest threat to IT security

Can I be the first to say it ...

... Well duh!

Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground?

Flashblock

I never used Adblock, but I do use the Flashblock plugin for Firefox. All it shows is a placeholder for the flash content, and I can click on it if I really want to watch it.

Of course, I've allowed certain sites that require flash (americascup.com), but it's made my browsing experience a lot better.

However, if I find the content on a free site really helpful I do occasionally click on a random ad to give the webmaster some revenue.

And I forgot ...

Surely you could use greasemonkey alongside Adblock to disable Danny Carlton's script. Or will he have to start blocking that too?

Wyse strips down thin client computers

Ndiyo

I always liked the look of the thin clients at http://www.ndiyo.org/

And they're British, whoo hoo.

Unfortunately, they're not really available, though you can get a starter kit of 5 prototypes for £1499 +VAT.

So, it's still a bit pricey

Microsoft readies Virtual Machine Manager 2007

Misread

Am I the only one who read SCVMM as SCUMM.

</troll>

Master crim leaves vital clue at scene of burglary

In the words of Bugs Bunny...

... What a maroon.

Although, from an educational point of view, at least he was able to write his own name.

And on a complete tangent, can you please add an option to remember our session so that we can add snide comments easily.

Pentagon: Chinese military hacked us

Blank PWD

What are the odds?

Racist Reg hacks slammed for 'vitriolic hatred'

Somehow I think...

... that D Bevan doesn't get out much

Genghis Khan didn't much like gays

Re: And the IT angle of this story is....

"damaging grassland with unauthorized excavations or starting fires"

Obviously he didn't want people digging up fibre, and causing network outages. It's obvious really.

Nashville strippers finger net forger

Re: How?

Wow, I never knew that.

However, I just did a quick test and scanned a fiver with a brother scanner.

Saves fine to BMP, and can open it with mspaint.ext and Paint.Net

Paintshop Pro refuses though.

Astronauts bring space-grown bugs home

Exact same conditions?

"Both sets of bacteria were exposed to exactly the same conditions, except for the microgravity,"

Umm, and also the large acceleration and vibration (although that could be dampened) during lift off.

No data protection exemption for YouTube baby battle video

@Martin Benson

British Social Workers are renowned in Ireland (the Republic) for being heavy handed and not taking the needs of families into account.

I'm not trying to tar them all with the same brush, but the ones in this recording are really making it hard for their colleagues when a real issue crops up.

Google invades Outer Space

Not too impressed

I had a great sky viewer for my Palm, you told it your location, and it would show what the sky would look like at any given time. It could also be animated.

With this, you can't even tell whether something's below the horizon.

The search seems to need some work too.

ISPs hijack BBC in tiered services push

Tiscalli P2P shaping

FFS, they even shape MySQL traffic. One of our employees can't use our s/w from home most of the time.

In fact, as far as I can see the only traffic they don't seem to shape in HTTP/S

'Ads-funded' Microsoft Works pilot barges onto your PC this year

Who uses MS Works?

Even if you have Office it tends be a bit tricky to open a Works file.

FFS, you need to install "the Optional Works Converter" from the value pack. It's a standard MS thing, our products won't talk to each other.

It's a bit like trying to send a PDF attachment from OE6 to Hotmail, it get's corrupted. Two MS products that can't communicate. Genius

I've given up even trying to read the contents. If someone sends me a .wps document, it gets deleted, simple.

Council worker develops PC energy-saving program

@CharleyBoy: How do they know they're off

If the machines are allocated an IP by MAC, they can check if a ping is replied to.

It does mean that some poor bastard had to record all the MAC addresses though.

Burned by a MacBook

No such thing as bad PR?

The Reality distortion field is now available to the plebes in the company too.

Obviously Apple believe that there's no such thing as bad PR.

When I did tech support Iomega (not a high point of my career) if a customer said they were a journalist, we were to ignore stats and help them as much as possible.

At least that way if somebody was writing a review of some of our hardware and it blew up, they would say (in theory) that they were treated properly.

Apple know that can get away with anything.

Starburst snap holds clues to galactic evolution

I still think of them as ...

Opal Fruits

Dell cleans up crapware

Re: decrapifier

"No, I am not making this up."

Joel, surely it should be "I shit you not"

Texas cops taser diabetic seizure man

Cohabiting?

Could this be because the couple were sharing a bed?

The police, noticing their surnames are different assume they're not married, and proceed to show them the error of their ways?

It is Texas after all.

Symantec revenue hop can't stop profit flop

How?

I'm surprised their revenues have gone up, though I imagine it's more to do with exchange rates than demand for their software.

Who in their right mind uses Symantec products? You constantly have to re-active the AV to download definitions, their firewall is shit, and I resent my boot time going up by 3-5 minutes the moment I install their AV suite.

All they seem good at anymore is destroying the [decent] products of companies that they assimilate.