Posts by TeamEvil

Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!

We've got a 486 running SELTEK Voice Manager, connected to an equally stable Avaya Index Switch that's been running since 1997. It's only down time, power cuts.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Oh. Not nice El Reg, not nice at all.

Video: Dyson unveils robotic tank that hoovers while you're out

I have an "XR advanced vacuum cleaning robot" £160 from Amazon. Fair play to it, the bloody thing is fantastic. Wakes up at 6am every day, trundles around a carpeted room for 2 hours and genuinely keeps the carpets clean. The dust bucket needs emptying every other day and is normally full of Mutt hair and dust.

It may not be the most intelligent robot, but for the price I have no complaints at all.

Nokia's phone division burned us so badly we HAD to flog it, says CEO

PaulR79 the limit on stopping them making phones is in a number of the September articles when the deal was announced, one here

http://www.zdnet.com/despite-the-microsoft-takeover-whats-left-of-nokia-can-still-make-mobile-phones-and-soon-7000020214/

Nominet resurrects second-level namespace plan: 'Before you say no...'

Still don't see anything about giving first dibs at the .uk for those that own the .co.uk already.

Vodafone coughs up £6.5bn for Kabel Deutschland

They'll probably feel the need for some cash and sell their stake in Verizon below what the market is expecting.

How spreadsheets (nearly) conquered and killed the financial industry

Luckily in my office most of the users see Excel as a form building app, with pretty colours and boxes. Calculations are added on a calculator and added to the cell in the spreadsheet.

Google adds 25 million grey building 'footprints' to Maps

Google announced a few months back that all the user contributed 3D models for Google Earth in major metropolitan would effectively be nuked and replaced with models built and textured using Aerial Photography.

It pissed of a fair amount of users who had built the models in Sketchup, especially those that made a money making business from it.

Mystery as Google offloads SketchUp 3D drawing tool

I entered my town into the 2012 Model Your Town comp, got an email saying I'll be getting a gift from Google for my contribution to the community. Still waiting for it.

Google rejigs search bar (again)

I liked the black bar. Looks like another shitty contrast colour scheme coming in, just like the horrific gmail theme.

Bloke gets wedding tackle trapped in ring

Wasn't this same thing in the very first episode of London's Burning?

Kiwi gals swig shots of horse semen

It's Friday

Yes it's friday, but WTF?

Google calls halt on German Street View

Whats the problem

I still don't get the big opposition to having photos of your house on Streetview. If somebody wants to rob you I'm sure that they would just do a quick check of your house in person a few days \ Hours before.

Sony streams music subscriptions to TVs, Blu-ray boxes

When you can..

When you can register for the service, it's utterly shite. Tried different cards all said to contact my bank. I gave up and after reading various posts from forums it seems I'm not alone.

Ten... budget Android smartphones

GT54.

The LG Optimus GT540 is now officially upgradeable to 2.1

Google's Inventor gets short shrift

Fine so far

I've been using it for the past three weeks and will agree that it isn't a Point and Click tool.

For basic text and button based apps, weight conversion, length conversions its pretty straight forward. Start adding in IF criteria and I can see the average joe scratching their heads. I'm basing this on the general assumption of office workers understanding of Excel, anything more than colouring cells and columns in and they walk away. Mention IF statements or Vlookups and they faint.

Going from this, App inventor will scare anyone away who cant just say make me a game.

But I like it, I can see potential. And if matey boy spent half a day failing to make one app that worked, he's possibly in the wrong job.

Mozy backs up cloud backup with hard-drive storage

No NAS

No mention of backing up to a NAS then?

Google Apps to embrace all Chocolate Factory services

Android

Using an Android mobile it better sync my Picasa account with my Apps Domain.

Employers call for end to Mickey Mouse degrees

Degree or common sense

Working at the same company now for 11 years, I've seen my fair share of students waiving their degrees saying "look at me, look how clever I am!"

It's a shame that most of them have no common sense at all after doing a Mickey Mouse degree in Fruit Flies. They may well have spent the past 3 years in University, but they're pretty dim with everyday office based tasks, or throw a hissy fit when the Magic Box doesn't work as it should.

Google forced to use humans to support Nexus One

If Google...

I'll take a punt and say if Google really wanted to 'UnFlop' the handset, they'de be sticking one page ads in the Tabloids like they are doing for Chrome Browser.

I know a couple of users, both didnt want they iPhone, both happy.

Googlephone sales off to a sluggish start?

Sigh

I ordered one on the 5th and it was delivered to the UK on the 7th.

Spotify adds PayPal in bid for profitability

Tenner a month

Call me cheap, but if Spotify lowered the Sub to a fiver a month I'd subscribe.

Samsung shines a light on first solar cellphone

What no Nokia?

Nokia sold a Solar Battery back in 1997 for the 1610 \ 1611. It was pretty crap here in blighty.