* Posts by Danny 14

4301 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009

Energizer site still plagued by data-stealing trojan

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FAIL

aye

indeed, if there was someone to take the call at 9.30 then there would either be someone paged OR someone in a contracted different timezone to fix it. We have a contractor in the US and Singapore for out of (UK) hours work.

LG InTouch Max GW620

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had one for a month

just about the only good thing about this phone is the fact it is on virgin for £23/18 months with 1gig data and the keyboard. Cant say I like android 1.5, too many bugs for my liking - mainly when syncing to cars (wont sync with my BMW or ford convers+

Shame as I really wanted to like this phone. Battery life is crap too, maybe a day and a half at best. The home capacitive button is annoying as hell, so easy to brush it.

Jobcentre ejects Jedi Knight

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aye

And jediism is no crazier than crap that goes on in the bible.

Windows Phone 7 - what's in and what's out

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hmm

Im not sure why you say "bloated". If you use many of the hacked firmwares out there then you have a mighty phone. And by hacked, I simply downloaded the activesynce, the modem driver, firmware and away I went 6.1 -> 6.5. My ancient by modern standards omnia will happily run tomtom, surf the web and use flash-lite, play just about any film or music going with coreplayer, sync to exchange, download my own IMAP emails from 2 separate accounts, store all of the contacts separately not in one mush, use OS maps courtesy of memory map (with onboard GPS of course). Oh and tether quite happily to my netbook for HSDPA loveliness. A good days use and there is still 50% charge left for the next day all on a 2 year battery.

I also have an old iphone (the wife has it) and a new LG touchmax (eve) android phone. I bought that as the KB was great on it. I hate the OS. It is slower than the omnia, more of a faff to do everyday tasks on it, the batterylife is horrific - I dont care about 3G/HSDPA bug, fix it! Give me an app to fix it! It wont sync with either of my cars (common fault in forums).

Dont get me started on the iphone, its capabilities as a true smartphone are laughable.

That being said. All that make winmo6.5 great have been removed from wphone 7. No more tomtom as im not buying it twice. No more memory map, same as. And no chance of removing the bloat added by the service provider. Unless a good hacked firmware comes out then im avoiding like the plague.

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android. hmm.

let me see. I'd like android to sync to my BMW 530 and my ford galaxy. I'd also like the battery to last longer than one day without it being off all the time. Be able to plug it into my PC and act as a memory stick without faffing about clicking here there and everywhere just to get pictures and music off. Plug into my netbook to tether without arsing about with a rooted app.

All of which possible on my omnia but not on my lg touch max (eve)

That being said, this winmo/phone 7 looks like a stoooopid idea. It takes all the good bits of 6.5 and throws them away. Great move, i'll ignore it.

Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic

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well I would

if I just bought it from a vodaphone shop (maybe to give to my mum or some other not so technical person) i'd be pretty pissed.

US burg renames self 'Google'

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great idea

'cause if I was an executive at a multi billion dollar company I would just *love* to be associated with some no-mark backwater. What can go wrong.

Google Maps boss to Germans: 'We don't want to invade you'

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not quite the same though is it

It is called extremes. Whilst my house is in public view, it isnt being gawped over by potentially hundres of thousands of people. Got a nice car in the drive? That might get noticed by someone wanting that car.

Got a TV in the window that can be seen? Maybe the local thugs want to see the layout of your windows.

Sure someone could go along and take a piccy if so interested but with google doing the job for you then why not use that instead?

Cant say I want my house on street view.

BBC confirms death of 6Music, slashes online budget by a quarter

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Well

They need to make savings after switching iplayer to adobe from its open strategy. Lord knows how much that has cost them (at the expense of people trying to get away from adobe shite)

Acer H5360 3D projector

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FAIL

review fail?

HDMI is digital or is that there for show? Get a HDMI to DVI from asda for £5 and im sure you are away.

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oh more review fail

I forgot, of course it couldnt handle 1080p properly on analogue. Im surprised it worked at all at those res in analogue...

Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700

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standard affair

a gw620 can be had from virgin for better spec and almost identical price. With a slidey keyboard its the better option. But in any case, 1.5 is a bit longtooth.

MS uses court order to take out Waledac botnet

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not really

great in principle. I have so many programs that I reject on our domain because they wont run as a normal user.

Microsoft made a phone, and I hate it already

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wut?

I love my omnia. It is a fantastic phone and it multitasks quite happily. Then again I have flashed it with winmo 6.5 and HTC touchflo is running on it and ive pruned out all the services I dont actually use - oh and upgraded the "phone" part too so the battery life is better (and probably illegal too and frying my brain).

Messaging? Fine, 2 email accounts syncing? Yup - shame it wont "push" but a minor inconvenience. Tomtom running on it? Yup. mobile opera? yup. Music and video? Yup - although I did buy coreplayer which does a far better job. Tethers 3G? Yup - great for the netbook on the train if I am really doing some work.

Contract is up next month so im getting an omni pro. For the amount of minor corrections and surfing I do, the foldup bluetooth keyboard is overkill really so a small thumb pad is better than the screen keyboard.

Contest offers $100,000 for smartphone, browser hacks

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Unhappy

missing?

No penguin love? Opera?

Archos 9

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nah

It is shite though. Sorry.

US lab births flexy, stingy solar cells

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aye

but money has to come from somewhere. Im sure you dont want to research for 10 years gratis, then mine refine and manufacture for gratis.

Android first to host Adobe's AIR for smartphones

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shame its android

lets just hope you arent trying running a proxy via wifi. Or at least an authenticated proxy.

Researchers rip iPad apart to reveal Apple's profits

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really?

I can tell you havent used a windows slate. Awful things with dire battery life. And android phones? Dont make me laugh, try using it in a modern car (ours wont sync properly in the BMW 530 or the mondeo convers+) . Have you been able to use an authenticated proxy over wifi yet - which sort of makes it useless in any normal business environment?

Its horses for courses, if the ipad works then great, but simply saying "its apple, trash it" is silly. No-one seems to have the perfect solution yet.

Brits take iTablet moniker for 12in iPad rival

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aye

and apple wont instantly sue them over the "i" moniker.

Sure they might lose but tying the small company up in litigation wont help.

Britain warns businesses of Chinese 'honey trap'

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sounds like a good holiday

I wonder if you need to say the right things at customs. "yes im working with a new exclusive plastic in the UK. I wouldnt want anyone to steal the secrets!" then you get free USB sticks (for my linux machines) and free cameras (for my MAC). Not to mention girly company.

Tories moot breaking up BT Openreach monopoly

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underspend? UNDERSPEND?

How about underspend going towards getting rid of the fucking licence fee.

French mock British G-spot probe

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Joke

perhaps they are just imagining sex

or perhaps not doing it on a real woman.

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sometimes

only after lots of rubbing.

BPI rejects scareletter approach to possible pirates

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20 minutes is quite conservative too

We had a fool about with a live CD and a prism promiscuous card and grabbed our own WEP in a few minutes (64 bit) and certianly no longer than it took to make a brew (128bit). And that was a live CD too - hardly difficult to come by.

IT training firm goes titsup

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not quite

If you spend thousands of pounds on a course and DONT use a credit card then you need your head reading anyway. Surely the money can be reclaimed via your CC?

IE Windows vuln coughs up local files

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Linux

it would all go away...

Oh sudo where art thou! All is forgiven!

Rubber Duck banned from txt

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Happy

err

when you hit the tree?

Japanese biometric border check no match for, um, tape

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or no fingerprints

What do they do if someone has no arms? Or has no/illegible fingerprints? Stupid idea really.

Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

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Badgers

so

so you wouldnt want to (say) open up a browser and maybe have a document open at the same time so that you can keep notes on the holiday you were looking at? Or have a spreadsheet open so you can add up the cost of buying a new car over different plans. Perhaps some random 3rd party app that tracks your current carb intake whilst you plan your menus?

Multitasking is more than just word+excel+powerpoint+paint

Bloated Office 2010 kicks dirt in face of old computers

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Megaphone

It does im afraid...

It saves you money because all your *clients* use later versions of office. And regardless of open office, filters, conversion programs you will always find a super mangled 2010 word table that will not play ball. Then you need to get them to send a pdf, get it over to the one machine licenced with arobat, export to 2003 and hope the fonts and formatting is still intact.

I have office as much as the next man but I need to deal with clients that use it unfortunately.

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I agree

Indeed. OO is built on a crumbling tower though.

AMD adds Black Edition to Phenom range

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BE are great chips!

My old x2 550 BE is an absolute corker. Not only will the other 2 cores unlock but the whole kit and kaboodle will happily run prime overnight at 3.4GHz . No extra voltage applied either. Core 0 and Core 1 are stable up to 3.7 but 2 & 3 stop after 3.4

No idea what it failed (10% overclock on "failed" cores cant be a reason - surely?) on to be sold as an X2 but whatever it is, I havent found it yet!

Whirlpool allows old stains to linger on Kitchenaid.com site

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just delist them

If they get delisted or on peoples email and domain blacklists they will react fairly quickly.

Jumbo-jet laser cannon tested against missile

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not a waste

As someone has already said - the tracking part of this can probably be tacked onto any laser. Imagine an AWACS with a laser defence onboard - you'd need good old fashioned dogfighters to take it down.

Brits left cold by mobile internet

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crap survey

2000 people? Of what age demographic? I dont expect my grandma to surf the web but in my office of 20 people *all* of us surf the web. I get 1gb of traffic 300 mins and 300 txts for £29.50 on TMobile. I can even internet share (as I have done) with my netbook (it will act as an access point too if I trust the people around me - wep only) I can generally get a decent HSDPA signal on my omnia, 3G isnt too backbreaking when it needs to.

do they class Email as internet use? Weather updates? Twitter plugins?

I see countless people using various cheap qwerty phones, my wife picked up a cheap Samsung B3310 to go online with (virgin mobile again with 1gb monthly).

crap survey really.

LG releases Android smartphone

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so root it then

There is an active scene rooting the GW620 already.

Super-soldier exoskeleton to get 3-day fuel cell powerpack

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Joke

aye

How about adding some AI to it too? Surely that CANT go wrong can it?

IFPI wants another stab at OiNK

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A bit pointless

he'll reference his case law with his defence. This will then pave the way for others in similar situations. They should be careful to not set too many more precidents else they will never win a case.

NASA flying-car man designs electric VTOL podcraft

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not really

Ground effect is still ground effect computers or not. I dont fancy having 90seconds to tail sit gently in a crosswind on a slight slope.

Exploit code for potent IE zero-day bug goes wild

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not always sound advice

We cant use opera/firefox here for two reasons. One, our MMS uses IE. Plain and simple. Two, GPOs dont really work for firefox and the buggers find ways around it. We whitelist applications installed to stop pocket browsers too. That being said, I do at least run IE8 (installed with GPO and IEAK rather than WSUS as we can then use mandatory profiles with generic installs and no nag screens).

Still, its not hard and DOES seem to work.

'Anti-cyberbullying' rapper sorry for SMS smack talk

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if he phoned her

then I would have posted his number on facebook. That would have sorted him out.

UK BitTorrent admin acquitted on fraud charge

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but

there is a distinct difference between moral and legal. This guy did nothing illegal. I bet you can use google to search for child pornography. Should we arrest the google owners? MSN will no doubt have links to bomb making sites encouraging people to blow up others. Should they be locked away too?

They went about it the wrong way and paid the heavy price for it.

New Labour bring old Nuremberg Laws to Britain

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dunno

I guess that if it was the only evidence yes, but subsequential evidence would put you in doubt. Just because the initial stop and search was invalid does not exempt you from the fact that you did have a bomb making factory in your house.

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indeed

this was initially on record on BB1 breakfast too.

French top MOT failure league

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mazda eh?

Like the mondeo which is high in the list? The list is useless as obvioulsy thrashed reps cars will fail the minute they need MOTs

Microsoft predicts Linux will fail mobile 'quality' test

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I agree

Since I hacked my omnia to run 6.5 on it ive not looked back. It is user friendly and quick. Plenty of apps work and it sync's nicely with exchange. When I first got it from TMobile it was a car crash, too much crap on there that you cant change and an out of date firmware that sucked battery life.

T-Mobile UK earmarks two tariffs for scrappage

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shame

I have an old roaming combi that I got from fake-canceling an out of contract. Its great, for £15 I get free internet (1gig so not the crappy 50mb one) 300 texts and 300 mins. Its a rolling 30 day one so hopefully they wont bin me off it.

Keene IRAnywhere

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Pint

Not pointless.

I can see the appeal. I store my HTPC in a box in the living room that is ventilated and sound proofed. I currently run the IR dongle via USB out of the box. Now I would love to put all my other AV equipment inside this soundproofed ventilated box but the remotes stop me from doing so. I have tried the wireless remote senders but these things generally only come with a few channels and disrupt my wireless kit (not many free channels near me - im naughtily using a japanese frequency)

If this was only £30 then i'd bite

Google to mobile industry: ‘F*ck you very much!’

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WTF?

not really

you're taking the piss out of autistic people. Sure it might be ok to insult people on dar intarwebs but hey, doesnt stop you being a jerk about it.

WTF does a large army have to do with a googlephone?