Posts by Andy 70

Droboman expects a 3TB drive from somewhere soon

bring back 5.25" drives for an easy win.

got a stack load of 5.25" drive bays that arn't being used...

Hackers in keyless Windows 7 entry

penguin folk

if people want windows, people will have windows. Anyway, its not the linux operating system that puts me off, it's the people that use it continuously telling me i am retarded for doing something different. So you know what? eff the penguin.

*digs amiga1200/060 out of the loft*

(obligitory car reference)

like driving a BMW. the cars themselves are very well put together, look good, go well, and all in all, are a good purchase. But i could never have one, as almost all BMW drivers act like complete twunts once behind the wheel. As such, i could not allow myself to be associated with such a group.

I'm enough of a twunt anyway without needing to publicly advertise the fact.

3 to start shaping traffic on Monday

oh well, lost another customer

i was going to go for one of their "Mifi" packages when my current voda contract expired. never mind 3. thats what you get for offering 15GB for 15quid i guess.

@AndrueC absolutely. they can take my home's copper wire from my cold dead hands.

Urinating Spaniard soaks Street View's Canaries

what i'm curios about is...

how did he not spot a black car with blacked out windows with a stack of black boxes on the roof with what looks like lenses all over the place? maybe it's posed? maybe it's intentional?

hey google car! i'm a drunk brit abroad! check this out! i'm a race horse me!

Microsoft admits Mac was Windows 7 muse

i for one

thank apple for pulling windows along with this thing called progress.

with no competitors, there is no innovation. with no innovation, there is no progression.

so thanks to Apple, and the icons from the ages past, novell, Ibm os/2, Be, and all the others who are lost and forgotten in the mists of time, for keeping windows uptodate.

lets be honest, if there wasn't anything else, we'd still probably all be on win3.x

just like firefox/mozilla/chrome gave us IE7/8 after how many years of IE6?

not too sure about the vista vs BSD kernals though.

Apple's mini DisplayPort added to Vesa standard

weird proprietry display connector?

there's a standard for that .... now...

in all fairness, if this means we can have quad ports off the back of a standard GFX card, instead of those splitter things - that don't seem to be that compatible between ati/nvidia/matrox cards, then all for it.

also may mean that the monkeys in hardware can't screw up putting it together. "doesn't fit? just push harder!".

seriously. how you can get a PCIe x16 card in an AGP port takes a little doing, not to mention damaged splitters and card ports... but i digress...

MS home server users hit by Windows Live Custom Domains snafu

@Christopher Rogers

my background is sun solaris, and intel/win server and support, so i hope you'll understand if i consider myself a little more technical than your average Joe Public.

i use windows home server, and have been very pleased with it. does an out of the box job very well.

except i've not been effected by this issue, no problems here.

so, no "crock", and no "microsoft fail lolz" i'm afraid.

Europe welcomes Dell's Mac Mini Zino HD

such a simple design brief

and they still manage to get it wrong.

looks bleh!

and why is it atom powered? mac mini stuffs a real processor and GPU under the hood, in a smaller chassis. stick win7 on there and you're laughing.

going for the consumer market i guess. people who don't know better, but just see the sticker price.

dell fail. again. stick to the corperate environment Michael. it's what pays the bills.

Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing

so what?

i use IE8. it works, is as fast as the speed at which it can get hold of the data, i have no issues with regard to page rendering.

it is supported within corporate environments for citrix, vpn web portals etc....

i don't get what all the crying is about apart from people trying to stick it to the microsoft "man"?

i guess i must be missing something here.

Legendary McLaren F1 designer talks up e-car plan

no more iStuff please.

concept design, leccy car, yeah very good, welcome to the bandwagon, just quit it with the "i" prefix.

my only question is, how much of a mess will this make if i run over one with my normal sized car? mwahahahaha...

looks like electic powered street luge with two extra seats.

World's first iPhone worm Rickrolls angry fanbois

@Winkypop

May i second that motion, and follow it up with my own, additional;

haaaaahahahahahahahaaaahahahaha!

Many Thanks.

Intel lampooned by Nvidia toons

*sigh*

Nvidia it seems, has a name synonamous with childish self destructive behaviour, and history of alienating working partners and customers.

Pretty poor considering the company's foundation on the best and the brightest from Silicon Graphics, SUN, and later on 3DFX.

The sooner that they get rid of their egotistical muppet of a "leader", they may find their fortunes turn around.

and i hope they do. the thought of AMD/ATI's only competition in the graphics area being Intel makes me shudder.

oh, and i thought cartoons where supposed to be funny?

Asus waves farewell to (laptop) fans

hmmm

wouldn't look out of place on the set of battle star galactica.

the 70's version. athena ftw :)

The x-texting Metrotextual comes out of the closet

sports

yeah, like football's really manly isn't it.

i resent being implicated in that i have to be interested in a load of group showering, handbag waving, skirt and alice band wearing, premadona little ball chasers in order to be a fully fucktional member of the male side of the spiecies

anyway, no one i know sends an "X" at the end of a text to a mate, unless they are actually physically involved - no matter what set of chromosoms they have.

i call fail on this self publising consumerist "survey". and football.

Scots slam Germans for 'tight-arsed' slur

the number 22?

ok, just so i'm straight with this. 4 times the size, and less seats? so are they business class seats? and as such, you have no need to go home? just fall asleep trundling round on the 22.

save a bundle on not having a mortgage etc ;)

a billion huh? so thats where half the budget to aircondition the tube went :))

NASA to irradiate monkeys for science

leave the monkeys alone

lets send NASA some chavs/kevs/spods/barrys instead?

Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises

had some train problems last year....

because some pikey's had nabbed the overhead lines and other power related cabling.

unfortunatly while we stood waiting for a train that would never arrive, we didn't have the pleasure of looking at a charred corpse hanging from the wires with fake dole claims paperwork still smoldering in its pockets.

brave/stupid. either or. only one outcome would have been acceptable from that activity for the populous as a whole. see above.

China's The9 sued over Warcraft ditching

communisum is dead?

sounds like china is whole-heartedly embracing capitalist business models from the looks of things.

there is no way we can hold this up as an example of "china is crap", when we in the western world are just as guilty.

there are however, plenty of much more disturbing things going on in that part of the world than some stock holders doing some insider dealing and world of warcraft changing their server provider as a result.

just my 2 pence.

Sony Walkman NWZ-S544

no.

ok, so it works. great.

any chance of adjusting the law for "public perfomances" so that monkeys playing "choons" outloud come under the ... whats the thing called where you comit suicide by waving a gun at american police? something like that, only playing muzak at commuters...

What are you doing about refreshing the PC estate?

probably

i would hazard a guess that the "older" the kit, the more crappy the percieved IT service?

nice shiney shiney new toys, user is happy. old kit encrusted with coffee rings and dust, users not impressed.

simples. *squeak*

Apple confirms Windows 7 support for Mac OS X boot camp

thinking of buying a mac mini

just for the fact that it is a dinky little machine good enuff to run as a win7 media centre.

no need for this boot campf malarky, just wipe and re-install.

Xbox 360 to go Blu, says Ballmer

why bother?

blueray missed the bus.

download Hi Def content to my NAS, playback on whatever.

physical media is gone. apart from my vinyl collection. everything else is ripped to my server.

game over blueray.

Lily Allen exits Twitter, bins BlackBerry

yay!

more bandwidth left for those that know how to use it.

otherside of the coin tho, mates wife was at a birthday party, and spent the entire time sat in the corner facebooking and twittering on her laptop - about how much fun she was having at this party.

ergh. social notworking. fail.

Tories would scrap 50p broadband tax

oh ffs

STOP! Because this is just about the only tax i would pay more for.

GO! Because, like road tax, it probably won't get spent on it's name sake even if it does go ahead.

that is all.

Sky confirms telly-on-Xbox launch date

bloomin murdock

i don't know what they think standard definition is if it's not DVD 720x576.

maybe saying "standard def", is their way of excusing the pixel blockyness of streamed content?

and pay for multiroom? when i don't get the same quality or amount of channels over skyplayer that i would do normally? wtf? yeah sure, that bird'll fly. if it was a free service like PC skyplayer, then cool. but it's not. so bye bye.

anyway, i run BBC iplayer with so called"HD" streams over 3Mb adsl with no problem. quality is acceptable on a big screen. dunno what you're whinging about with your la-di-da "i live out in the sticks boohoo" fancy pants 4Mb hook up. ;)

iPhone saves woman from bear

Bear Attention Deficit Disorder?

RAR!! ... ooh shiney!

Toyota Prius fourth-generation e-car

the way i see it...

I think the real point of the arguement we have here, is not that a relatively economical car has been created, (good for the manufacturer to try to be better - bad as not entirely convinced on the materials chosen etc. etc.)

but that people who drive "normal" cars are treated with contempt, or even as downwright eco-criminals by a small minority of .. erm.. gifted individuals from within the prius membership, for 'not getting with the program'.

As such the persecuted group have no way of dealing with this resentment, so fall back to, as i myself do, to treating the entire prius group as a selfrightous and childish whole.

if they left us alone to sit and have a bit of an investigate, weigh up the options, then sure, maybe a few more people would drive a hybrid machine.

But no. having had prius owning superiority stuffed down my throat, had it inferred how backwards i am, and "maybe i'm too stupid to see the light". I am now much less inclined to follow that particular path.

i see a few parallels between macintosh and windows pc ownership.

but hey, thats just me.

Windows Home Server upgrade recedes into the distance

i need a "do not feed the ubuntu troll" icon

i on the other hand have found it most handly.

- running squeezeserver to feed its stored MP3's around the house to

suitably equiped rooms,

- being a network store for my media centre's recorded TV,

- automagically managing my disks with online invisable data mirroring across drives, dependent on what i want to mirror.

- able to wake up, then wake up other machines on the network, back them up, put them back to sleep again, and goto sleep.

- has a preconfigured service to provide a website to the outside world for your users to access files on the homeserver, and connection permitting, to remote desktop over the web onto it's console and or other connected machines on its network.

- being a NAS device that can actually get 40+MB/s over gigabit network....

i could carry on. but i actually like to spend my time using the resources and devices i have at my disposal, rather than balls deep in kernal code trying to get the thing to give me a display or even basic network capabilities. never mind automated systems management.

so excuse me if i pass by the option of the black and white beaked one, to do all that homeserver provides.

PC tune-up software: does it really work?

missed one.

i dunno if you guys know of it, but google "windows live onecare"

and click on the free scan.

has made a 4 year old lappie run like new, after it had been butchered with spyware, various messengers, flash games and all the crud and detritous kids install.

the crucial scanner is good, but not quite good enough.

the father-in-law's laptop scanner results came up with 256Mb ram, with one slot free to take at most, a 256Mb module. i happened to have a 1Gb stick floating around and chucked that in. 1.25Gb total. works a treat. much better than the possible 512Mb max the scanner reconned.

however, it correctly diagnosed an old HP pavilion i had to only be able to take 512Mb sticks, as it wouldn't post with the 1Gb's i had in for a Dell... even after a bios upgrade. anyway...

i have the luxury of testing to confirm so i can see what i can get.

max your ram. it's cheap enuff. except SD ram. laptop shaped SDram seems to be about 50 sheets for a half gig. DDR1 mini dimms are getting pricey too.

otherwise, then go for a software tweeks. but for god's sake don't pay for it. most the "system optimizers" out there asking for credit card details are scam related.

looking at the "results" from the legit cleaner software, makes me wonder if that is a scam too.

munglebunky

MS and Sophos incompatible over Win 7 XP Mode

Sohpos Sucks x2

i don't care if he is right. the amount of trouble that pos application has given in either home or corporate environments makes me wonder if it wouldn't be best it leave the whole damn firewall open and have the machines auto rebuild with a clean image every night.

XP mode blah. bothered. if it doesn't work natively on 7, i'm sure i can live without it. corp isn't going win7 anytime soon. XP and vista all the way.

i can sure live without Sophu*ked, crapafee, and crapersky killing off machines more often than a virus attack.

grrrrr, Sophos, amazed you're still in business.

Tesla Model S poses for cameras

lecy car design

why do designers think lecy cars need an air intake, or fake radiator grill?

surely that damages possible airodynamics drag co-efficients compaired to what they should be able to acheive?

i dunno.

won't say no to one though :)

Apple to offer own-brand HDTV, claims analyst

erm....

would this not just be an iMac with a HD screen, a couple of tuners, and frontrow or whatever installed?

bit of a generic leap to turn a computer into a TV... didn't they do this about a decade or so ago?

no doubt:-

1 - it'll be marketed as "the first"

2 - it'll be hailed as "the greatest"

3 - people in the street will be asking "why didn't anyone do this before?"

4 - everyone else will sigh dedgectedly.

5 - house prices will come down as the increase in thefts from propertys kick up a notch.

6 - 90% of those that have one, never actually use it to it's fullest extent. the technical equivilent of having your old VCR with the blinking 12:00.

paris, cos all it'll be good for is a fasion accessory, and probably just as flat.

US Navy aims to make jetfuel from seawater uranium

lol@Alex11

made me smile. its ok, the hippies will keep the solar panels clean for free to save the earth..

besides, paying them would make them think that they were "working for the man". win win.

plus, couldn't we fire gas fueled power stations from the methane of hippie farts from their bean curd and lentil diet?

Stargazers spy retrograde planetary bloater

mass, density, temperature.... or somefink

i dunno. something like if you have a hyperthetical ballon, and you are able to gently heat the gas inside the ballon without it bursting, then when the ballon is twice the size, it will be half the denisty for the same given mass.

so this thing is having half the mass of jupiter, is twice the size of jupiter, so maybe its structure is carrying about 4 times the heat energy of jupiter, if it has the same material composition.

given that it is so close to the sun, from what my skim reading told me, it's orbital period is under four earth days, an increase in planetary heating i'd think is a given.

but then if it had the same mass as jupiter, its gravitational effect would be twice as strong, and so it would be half its current size? ie, equal to jupiter? i dunno. maybe at room temperature, or in the bath big enough to float this monster - rather than the hostile irradiated vaccum of space maybe?.

what i think is amazing is that the planet's magnetosphere is still strong enough to maintain a gasous body this close to the star without it being blown away by the solar wind/radiation.

but then it is probably also driven by the same tidal forces from within the star that have given it such a funky orbital disposition in the first place.

but then, i have the mental capacity to be entertained by an elastic band untill home time

AMD beta seeks CPU-GPU harmony

to AC at 00:19 GMT

no such thing as a Zorro3 Ethernet board , the nearest you'll get is a deneb zorro3 usb2 card and some USB to ethernet dongles. works well enough.

Samsung R522

802.11n

i know it is horses for courses etc, but why does not having that "n" standard wifi seem to be such a repeatedly bemoaned issue?

if it's such a problem not having the fastest connection, go for a wired hook up. i bet a bit of benchmark testing in a mixed b/g/n mode environment shows that there really is no advantage to "n" at all.

paris failton, cos she knows her multi in multi out, while being in promiscuous mode on all open ports with no built in virus scanner.

Oz cops turn to wardriving to fight Wi-Fi 'jackers

WEP?

wah wah wah WEP is vulnerable shocker. Film at 11.

think for a second here. who is this aimed at? sure, for you or i, WEP is no real problem to getting in. but for average person in the street, anything that stops their windows machine successfully auto connecting as enough to stop them using it.

and for that WEP is fine.

99.999% of people are not going to bother learning how to crack keys, or spoof MACs. plus the people that do know how to do it will probably have better net hookups anyway.

plus my DS and Amiga Wifi drivers only support WEP

Magno stimulation makes brain learn skills better - boffins

what kind of motor neuron interactions?

so when can i learn the piano or guitar in 30 mins not 30 years?

Sir Alan Sugar hits eject button at Viglen

Sinclair Loki?

if you want Loki hardware, you'd best be looking at the SAM coupe' as that's want got the benefit of the designers ideas, then they were on the Atari Jaguar program after the abortive and mysterious Janus system... didn't the Jag have a custom chip named Janus?...

PH cos her chesticle hardware is MIA too.

MacBooks afflicted with SATA 'degrade'

so?

the only places people are going to notice is in the benchmarks.

plus SataII controllers have a higher current draw. this may be a consession to conserve battery life perhaps?