Posts by James Boag

Hang in there, Internet Explorer peeps: Gaping zero-day fix coming Tues

ire Surley

Most people only need it to update the immune deficient OS that it's attached to !

Highways Agency tracks Brits' every move by their mobes: THE TRUTH

Missed opportunity

mmmm they could have done something useful with the smart phone on the (road) network, Like map the pot holes and bloody fix em !

Knock, knock. Hello, delivery person: I am this building's SKYPE OVERLORD

Rip off

I'm working on this for my Raspberry pi based doorbell,

as it's bloody annoying for my phone to tell me someones

at my front door, whist i am at work 40 miles away !

Twerking 'ell! Google BUMPs and grinds way to another app slurp

Google Glasses

Will this be re branded as "Glasgow Kiss" ?

Dominant web ad giant (Google) possibly 'weeks' away from Euro slapdown

Google has a Rival ?

Google has a Rival ?

Virgin Galactic spaceship goes supersonic in second test flight

And the Aircraft / Space ships not bad too

Tough luck, bumpkins! Blighty broadband speed gap misery worsens

re small village in scotland

Even Smaller village circa 900 people, 87Mbs <ahhhh>

Google kicks off Android 4.3 updates for Nexus devices

re benchops

Imagine your nexus 4, Now Imagine a room full of marketing men, all crapping all over it, just prior to the sales droid saying , Would you a bag with that sir.

No more lock in crap for me

From now on all my androids will be Google, I fed up with the crap in the middle leaving me open hacking as they can't won't spend the time wrapping their own crap ware round my phone's os, Bought a Nexus 7 and the update keep flowing, Sorry Sony (with your crap Not enough juice left in the battery to charge the phone X10 and Samsung with your please wait for (ever) upgrade. I will be buying as close to the source as possible, too many marketing men have been pissing in the bit between release and ship to customer.

Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate

As a Linux man, Im quite impressed

I use Linux, Unless you pay me then i'll use anything. I took the bate and upgraded a copy of XP to windows 8 for £24.99, all went well untill the reboot and then it totalled my machine, (well it was dual boot with grub) 3 weeks later i found my xp disk and started again 12 hours later i had taken xp thur to sp 3 and then upgraded to 8, I was sore, sore on the eyes sore on the brain and eventually i gave in an installed a 3rd party start bar. I must say they have really fixed the BSOD by simply going going to a power off state with no warning. So after a month or two i inserted a dual channel free view card and put it in the living room, Win 8 makes a great freeview box, it even records, i can actually streem and change channels via an Xbox (a bit usless as they sit next to each other ) and it won't do it to even window 7 media center... but apart for that, best free view box you can get. don't see what all the fuss is.

Twitter patents sending messages, promises not to sue everyone

re Shitter

I would follow you, but from a distance !

Ten pi-fect projects for your new Raspberry Pi

RE Is this workable?

Tell you next week, At present my "PiBell" project works as a doorbell, (Playing a couple of bars of AC/DC) your door bell has a sub woofer yeah !, Pushes a message to my android phone, Tweets, then post to facebook, Hoping to add more functionality to it soon, The same pi's also a cups server and contains a complete lamp stack (You do log your door bell activations don't you) Anyway follow the door bell at @raspberypibel on twitter

Philips pushes out SDK for multicolour Zigbee LED lights

Just the ticket

Now the Raspberry Pi Door bell is in production mode (tweets and all) it's time to play with the light !

Titsup Windows 8 PayPal payments snare upgraders

Handy Tip

Don't try to upgrade on a dual boot system, all goes well till you are about to log in and then it rewinds to XP and takes out the xp (hal.dll missing) and the Linux too, funny that, clean install of xp on the same hardware no issues at all.

STONEHENGE: Attack of the RAYGUN HISTORIANS

re : I guess

Living in Scotland I agree,

we all you forwards to our two days of summer up here, and it only rained on one of them last year :) .

Android games console scheme nets $2.5m

@ g e

Raspberry PI openELEC XBMC just saved half your money and a heap of time

Major London problem hits BT broadband across southeast

That may explain why Spotify was a bit sticky this afternoon up in Scotland :)

Top Facebook exec begs students: 'Click on an ad or two'

Am With Armando 123

I've been marking all their ads as sexually explicit unless they are remotely sexually explicit, then i mark em uninteresting make me laugh every time

Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads

<title> Why </title>

I always mark all face book add as "sexually explicit" unless they are remotely sexually explicit then i mark em "uninteresting" !

Facebook ups IPO shares to $38, edges towards $104bn value

What that I hear

Pop op op op op op op op

Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins

I much Prefer Volcano Island Industries. Come see the mono rail, Shark tanks ....

Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X

What is the optical properties of bird shit on these towers ?

JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all

Lets look to the fossil records ...

I am sure i read somewhere that they have found Jelly fish fossils on top of mountains, this would prove that at least in the past they could climb mountains, are we sure they are looking the the right places !

Crap alchemist jailed for poo-into-gold experiment

It worked for Microsoft !

Just look at the returns they made from vista !

Google turning us into forgetful morons, warn boffins

may i be the

No sorry Lost it .

Microsoft warns on support scams

Funny that

The Scammers have the same accents the the Telco out source to, About time BT TalkTalk ect we ask why these guys have our numbers .

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade

Easy

Day and Night !

Huge fat pipe squirts mighty streams

Sir

Just what kind of pervert would try to transmitt the entire Library of Congress collections, I do worry about El Reg Readership

Microsoft inflating cloud PC-management option

Only with M$

Ok so you pay for an operating system, then hire the software to make it work, Man these marketing people are good, or is this M$ admitting that their OS's are not fit for purpose, and if so can we get our money back

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

Sir you own me a new keyboard

Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group !

Civil servants touted ID cards to friends, family as flop loomed

So I thought

Until l posted a FOI request just asking how much the government expects to save on pensions by upping the pension age by a year (ie how many people who have paid into you dodgy financial scheme oh sorry TAX and NI will not collect any benefits by being unfortunate to die between the age of 65 and 66 ) Still waiting for a reply and you know that they have done the calculation before changing the law haven't they

'Virtual sit-in' tests line between DDoS and free speech

this is what the fee west should be applauding

In a "civilized" society we should applaud this sort of thing, we should support this kind of action, why ! when the alternative is blowing you self up with explosives strapped to your chest and taking many other's who don't even know what your gripe is never mind care, should this bloke be nominated for a peace prize , as times get tough people need to express their repulsion with a system. I for one would prefer his methods of "self expression"

Microsoft tickles Bing with feather duster

Sorry but

Im Using the ultra-hyper-mega-search-o-matic-o-tron...6000 it's much better :)

Telcos to deliver VaaS

re Barrycudasuck

Barry they do it,

For the basic package

(just don't plug yer phone in)

Ordnance Survey consultation reaches end of line

If the Post code Belong to them

Don't use em, see how they like these onions !

worked for me an M$ / Apple

Android app brings in $13K a month

Androids Big problem

IS the UK carriers, I tried to purchace an Android phone from Virgin today, only to be told that the "unlimited internet" bundled with the phone would not cover the data charges needed to keep it turned on and attached to the network for a month, Hardy fair use Virgin when pinging the base station will use more that you "unlimited internet" bundle, (trading standards have been informed, untill the Accountants and Sales people for uk Carriers are taken out to the carpark and "made to see sence" Android will be limited to the few who did'nt do the research before buying

Buster's World gives Guardian Professional balloon-sized headache

Should they not arrest themselves

With all these new laws they must have broken lots of em with that gaff.

Think of the children !

New music file aims to sink piracy using blogs and Twitter

hmmmm

Yet another place for malware to hide can't see this ever working.

Ferry giant refuses ID card

Customs and excise had enough problems in aberdeen

Customs and Excise or what ever they are called these days had enough trouble recognizing a British seaman card in Aberdeen airport ,years ago, never mind a new fangled nu labour enslavement card on trial. (i had to use a seaman card as my passport was off having visa added to it at the time) up the revolution brother and sisters Imagine theres no countries .....

Microsoft is developing its own cloud storage O/S

Only One Question

Will it have an Azure Screen of Death, or just the plain Blue one ?

El Reg launches 'Comment of the Week'

Have we not seen this before !

As i recall Viz would give a sachet of instant soup to any top tip published and the best would receive a Newcastle United thermos flask, Could el reg not provide the best with a Organ transplant container (branded with El Regs logos) to hold said balls ?

Proles told to get online to save economy

Clive Sinclar and Kraftwerk

Now that's a Crap time show i may watch.

The Great Spotify Mystery

Not Just the Music Industry !

Remember Home Fucking is killing Prostitution !

Call for heads to roll over failed spook IT system

Don't tell me.

When they tried to encrypt 2.5 million child benefit data records, they found on a cd, Excel went tits up and then Vista refused to validate.

No one at PC world can fix it

so project abandoned.

What we need is a good set of stock out side westminster

at least that way we could use all those 2 for 1 offers

on ripe tomatoes.

Atomsmasher boffins probe duff whisky deluge

ill do it for free

just send me your good stuff, i promise to test it by midnight and email you the results, that's if i can see the keyboard .

Windows 7 gets built in XP mode

Microsoft Compatability !

But when do we get a ZX80 mode !