* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Playmobil figures feared lost in Great Fire of Guildford

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Joke

CRB?

I wonder if the firemen had CRB checks before handling their hoses in front of the children?

Microsoft and Armani fashion a phone

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@IT specialist

Armani is the lipstick. Windows mobile is the pig

How very aptly put, apart from the spelling!

Phorm takes a bullet for the advertising industry

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Intrusion

Im going to be honest here, but Im fed up of intrusion, call it what you like if you work for Phorm its profiling or some other term, but profilers to anyone else who knocks on my door please...

Fuck off

Someone from some shitty rag mag called me up today & after the initial introduction asked me for the date and town of birth, why? because its a security question. Duh.

I for one dont want every corporations servers heaving with data that they fail to manage & of course diddnt answer the question. I wouldnt be honest anyway.

So profiling IMO is shit, I anonamise my browsing sessions & send search engines tons of crap, i go to different cashpoints & draw out random ammounts of cash so I cant be tracked through CC companies & Im not bothered if my mobile is switched off because if someone cant call me its tough shit, It wont stop me breathing.

The sooner firm action is taken on unwanted/unnecessary/illegal data profiling the better

Windows 7, Bing and mobile will determine Ballmer's future

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@Alex Rose

Agreed, but to your "USERS DON'T CARE!" I add "so long as it works',

Which is why Windows 7 will be taken with a fairly large dose of "The Emperors New Clothes"

Toyota Prius fourth-generation e-car

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FAIL

Cant see the point

Of making an allegedly 'green' car thats stuffed full of batteries, which just in case anyone's forgotten are made with some of the most toxic chemicals available.

So unless youve been driving around the congestion charge zone in a Range Rover, I cant see why people buy into it. To me the Prius is an environmental disaster waiting to happen when their expired batteries need changing in a few years time.

Ballmer mixed on Windows 7's success

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Windows 7?

Im sure it will be wonderful, once youve got over the fact it wont really do anything more than your last PC, Im sure that sales of screen cleaner will go through the roof as we cant wait for that touch screen functionality, Ive no idea how weve managed without it.

& come first of January it will be so last year as Microshaft try to convince us Windows 8 will be 'the next best thing' otherwise known as Windows 7.1.

@ chr0m4t1c - bargain for Snow Leopard, do Apple users have more lead in their pencil as the family pack has five licenses to M$s 3? :D

MoD 'How to stop leaks' guide leaks

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The leakers guide to leaking

i cant imagine anyone wanting to read 2300 pages of bollox

cant they do anything without felling a rain forest?

Next-gen Trojan rewrites bank statements

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Anyone for

Sandboxie

Ballmer pumps Windows 7 up to thrifty customers

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Thrifty

Perhaps Mt Ballmer has realised that in the real world people are no longer prepared to pay big money for overhyped slop.

& I agree, Windows 7 shouldnt really be more than a few dollars after the abysmal crap that was shipped two years ago.

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Thrifty

Perhaps Mr Ballmer has realised that in the real world people are no longer prepared to pay big money for overhyped slop.

& I agree, Windows 7 shouldnt really be more than a few dollars after the abysmal crap that was shipped two years ago.

Bulk of Companies Act finally rolled out

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58 new forms for companies house

Yet another avalanche of meaningless crap heaped upon business in the form of 'red tape'

whoopee, I can hardly wait

MoD pays quadruple in money + blood for Afghan helicopters

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FAIL

@Death Ninja

Buy some Russian helicopters?

That explains your handle

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The right tools for the job?

Sadly, it is never going to happen, not without significant change

This is because the civil service is largely a pack of shiny arsed pen pushers.

Were these glorified administrators in their ever increasingly tall ivory towers be replaced by serving members from our Army, Navy & RAF earning a bit of hard earned shore time then it would all be very different.

How to host your very own Windows 7 launch party

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About as much fun as a tupperware party

Yuk, I cant think of anything Id like to do less, how those long winter nights must fly by in Redmond

Home Office makes nice cartoon ID card ad

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@ I'm in the queue for one...

Count me out, Im going to fuck off elsewhere if it ever becomes compulsory

Microsoft's support tweaks leave some email admins out in the cold

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Here we go again

“We felt that thoroughly validating the combination of Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 allowed us to focus on delivering great solutions which would be fully tested and would support the features of Windows Server 2008 R2,”

Which loosly translated means: Weve created yet another abyss into which the customer must take a leap of faith along with a very large cheque.

Thanks for fuck all

Students get deep Windows 7 price break

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Dear Mr Ballmer

Even though our country has been completely fucked up by a half wit with one finger up his nose that cant add up, the exchange rate is still a considerable way from $1 = £1

Ex-BT tech chief quits Phorm

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Die Phorm

only another 150 pee to go

Microsoft harries XP-loving biz customers on to Windows 7

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But

Windows 2000 works fine, thank you

Or any other O/S providing it does the job & runs the apps you want.

Complexity and confusion drive Microsoft's licensing

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smacks of

Ah but, what you really needed was...

No more premium rate numbers for docs

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Pointless in my area

No one answers the phone anyway, the GPs are all on the golf course & the only way to get an appointment is to go down & book one in person

Labour calls for free Wi-Fi on trains

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Fucktards

Everything ZaNu Liebour do is free for the Jocks.

Anyway, you wouldnt catch me using a laptop on a train in Scotland for sure.

Firefox to warn users of insecure Adobe Flash

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Typical stupid Adobe

Its turned off & on 'able for the few times I actually need it.

But I wish theyd sort their software out & provide a better means of updating

Apple and Snow Leopard take-downs - just say no

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@get a grip...

Couldnt agree more & well done El Reg,

Tell em to fuck off anyway, even though I like & use Macs, i dont like this sort of trivia

Software company lawers are too full of themselves where this sort of suff is concerned.

How to run Mac OS X on a generic PC

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As many above have said

Its a good idea, but...

I think Id prefer to put the £170 towards a new Mac, not forgetting that youd have to buy a copy of OSx outright which is a fair amount of coin.

Then I guess its an option for a few who want to run the OS on a PC without a bit of hackery.

FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign

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I agree

The website looks like a school project, in fact an ICT project would probably be better.

& Windows 7 is shite

UK.gov revives net cut-off threat for illegal downloaders

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The sooner

We get rid of ZaNu Liebour & its nasty cling-ons the better.

Hotmail pulls Attach-Photo feature over security concerns

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Active X

Is a bag of shit

Yet another reason to use a browser other than IE

MS and Sophos incompatible over Win 7 XP Mode

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Not compatible?

How can it be not compatible, Ive never heard of that happening with Windows?

...nose grows exponentially

Microsoft to encircle Google and Apple with Windows Mobile split

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Microsoft 'strategy'

1. Turn out crap stuff

2. Try & rubbish the competition

3. Spend a ton on advertising

4. Prance around the stage like a baboon

5. Say it will all be fixed in the next version

6. Goto step 1

Windows XP customers positive but split on Windows 7

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@Happy XP Pro user

Agreed, the networking is a joke, anytime you want to connect to something there a daft quiz, none of which is meaningful & achieves nothing. it couldnt recognise my primary domain controller whilst everything else, Mac Linux, Windows XP & even NT4.0 sees it right away.

Ive no doubt that Steve Ballmer will soon be prancing round the stage, sweating like a drug crazed baboon & shouting mindless crap into the microphone about how amazing it is & 15 year olds in PC Rip Off World will say its wonderful, but then they sell shit like Packard Bell.

I had wished 7 to be a new operating system, no registry, no driver problems, no dependence on stuff thats donkeys years old & an interface for those of us over five years old but its Vista SP2 so bend over, accept the red hot poker up your arse and incessant round of fiddling around to make it do what was so easy in XP.

What a crock of shit.

Finger crossing won't lure iPhone coders to Windows Mobile

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Fairly obvious really

There are more 'consumers' who dont want to have to fuck around with an over complicated lot of bollox than those that take some sadistic pleasure in doing so.

Collar the lot of us! The biometric delusion

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FAIL

Anyone know

Any government IT initiative to be a success, that it operating with in the design intent & within budget etc, as opposed to a claimed success?

It seems like theyve failed at everything else & Ive every confidence they will fail at this.

Publishing giant hits delete on internal IT staff

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@NuLabour

The only thing comrade Brown can do is fuck around with statistics to try & hide the mess, results are far more important than statistics. But by his own admission hes not very good at maths so no wonder were up shit creek minus a paddle.

As for the so called 'management' of this company, its easy to make decisions like this when everything is working (or as I would declare, most of it works, most of the time) but as pointed out no one is going to hop on a plane from India when a server gets bricked.

Microsoft at a loss in Word patent case?

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Too bad

If they cant sell Word, theyll have to give it away for free.

Reg reader captures Perseid meteor

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4.33 Am?

Ye Gods, that takes some doing, must have had a good supply of black coffee.

Nice shot & agreed, meta data & camera info would be handy

Texan judge outlaws Word

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Im sure

That Microsoft would shaft the hell out of anyone, including their own grandmothers, if the boot was on the other foot.

Opera chief warns on equal access to Windows services

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I can see their point but

They are hardly like to be on Steve Ballmers Christmas card list after their last round of whinging about Internet Explorer!

Although anyone who makes a stand against Microsoft & its tactics needs to be congratulated.

Microsoft's web Office: No love for Chrome, Opera

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Since when

Has Microsoft had any love for anything that it didnt produce (or copy) itself?

Im surprised that FF & Safari users are allowed to soil the sacred orifice cloud.

73% of Brits too shagged for a shag

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The only excercise I get

Is walking to the pub & sex

Thats why Im so fit!

Microsoft assaults our senses with 'viral' Bing video

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You were right...

I couldnt bear to watch it, its cheese re-defined.

And to think they paid money to produce such a load of complete shit, is scary.

What a load of tossers

Microsoft whips out Office 2008 patch for Mac lovers

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iWork

Straightforward non processor hogging, no bloat & a pleasure to use & dosnt piss me off on a regular basis.

As for Orifice, the 2000/2003 versions much better, what makes me laugh is the PC users who dont have Microsofts latest bulge & cant open docx files (without a viewer), where as my Mac reads them fine & offers a selection to load the format

I just cant think of any reason why MS dreamt up this broken xml format other than to make Mac users look & feel smug.

The term Richard Cranium or Dickheads springs to mind.

Wasted billions of government IT spending exposed

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@ The end is near...

Agree but trouble is, 8 years is not enough to correct the mess these toss pots have created

Microsoft gets personal on Windows 7 "show stopper" bug

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FAIL

Ha Ha

Has to be run on non boot volume, ie chkdsk /r D:

:-D

Microsoft under threat from Linux - it's official

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OMG! Competition

Another expensive advertising campaign will fix it...

High Court shields database state from blame

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Gordon Clown & chums

Accept responsibility for loosing data?

no chance.

Faster broadband for free?

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Excuse me, but

Broadband Accelerator it is most certainly NOT.

The iPlate consists of a filter which removes the interference created by Microwaves and similar electrical equipment, thus allowing an increase in speed due to reduced interference.

For anyone prepared to remove the two screws in their master socket & disconnect the bell wires 3 & 4 (if they havnt done so already) it have a similar effect, albeit to a lesser degree.

Scareware package mimics Windows Blue Screen of Death

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Good effort

That Sunbelt Software detects it, Ive always considered their offerings good value.

Microsoft's Windows 7 price gamble - and why it's flawed

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More smoke & mirrors

Compare the confused mess that Microsoft is to OSx (Im not asking you to embrace or use it, just compare)

One version of OSx, V Christ knows how many version of Windows,

OSx will run on all intel hardware V a question mark if your hardware is older, for example: about half of Intels processors wont be able to permit 7 to run in XP virtual mode.

Just thats enough to convince me my decision to abandon Microsoft was the right one - for me.

Even if Windows 7 was free & I believe I qualify for a gratis copy, Im not going to use it, Ill stick with XP, thank you.

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Same old bollox

Even if it was perfect, which it isnt, I wouldnt buy it because I no longer trust Microsoft.