* Posts by serviceWithASmile

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Police told terror ads too terrifying offensive

serviceWithASmile
Joke

@sarah

going on the abnormally high number of posts you've made in this thread, it looks to me like you've got a "Bee" in your bonnet!

*nudge* *wink*

don't you go reporting me now just to get back at me :P

serviceWithASmile

or

"Plod's Entirely Accurate Description of Terrorists."

P.E.A.D.O ?

sorry - reading too many DARPA articles :)

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wtf

all that is needed is a reward for ratting on your neighbours and we are repeating past mistakes, comrades.

700,000 Saudi BlackBerrys go silent noisy

serviceWithASmile

I don't know how things work in saudi arabi

but isn't this grounds for a class-action lawsuit?

700,000 people who paid money for a service that has been banned by a country for reasons unknown smells a little fishy...

Extreme porn law on the ropes

serviceWithASmile
Unhappy

re: almost

Much like a certain hunt for occult magical practitioners in days gone by.

The more things change....

Want to use WD diagnostics? Buy Windows

serviceWithASmile
Dead Vulture

this is a non story

A device manufacturer not supporting bundled and unneccesary software on linux.

what exactly about this is news?

While I appluad Mr Edmunds for furthering public awareness of Linux, and personally I would like ALL hardware manufacturers to support Linux, he's just whining because he can.

There are PLENTY of disk monitoring tools available for Linux, as every tech worth his salt knows.

Not only that, but WD were quite honest and upfront about the state of affairs, and polite enough. Why do they need mud flung at them?

Not trolling, just my opinion.

Alien spymobile menaces Street View

serviceWithASmile

4 years?

17 million miles in 4 years is fairly good going, if its the only one :D

serviceWithASmile
Alien

i for one

welcome our google-defying privacy-apathetic pulsed laser-armed overlords

just so long as they aren't snooping data packets and storing mac addresses at the same time.... *shuder*

Superhero game beta sucks boobs into honeypot

serviceWithASmile
Unhappy

sad

i only read this because of the headline....

ironically, el reg seem to have made a boobsucking honeypot all of their own

Pirate Bay owners fined by Dutch court

serviceWithASmile

i for one

consider myself scottish not british.

you could argue, but regardless of what our german queen writes on my passport that's what country i am from.

I have the impression that britain is more an alliance than a country - in some ways a bit like the U.S. I know some texans who wouldn't call themselves american, as they are from texas.

besides, I thought that britain didn't include northern ireland, but the UK does. So what do they have on their passports?

</digress>

Apple iPad – the 'Tickle Me Elmo' of 2010

serviceWithASmile
Megaphone

yes

BYE MOAR!!

shun the non beleivers

sssshhhhhuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnneh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus

Cyberpower Ultra Scylla six-core AMD PC

serviceWithASmile

not a mac fan either

but i have had the oppertunity to take an old G4 powerpc apart, and I have to agree with your comments.

Apple pc's are very well designed and tidy inside, with dedicated cable runs, ducting etc and other cool features.

there is one thing that puzzles me though.

the mac that I took apart was 10 years old. there were a few features inside that I would have expected to start seeing in normal desktop cases by now - one of them is a wireless antenna that runs round the outside of the case on both sides, and (i think) uses the actual case itself as an antenna. this cable ended in a standard fit connector, placed on the inside of the case in a convenient spot (i assume where you would put the airport card extension).

Now unless apple has a patent on all of this (which may be the case I admit) why, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't anyone else done that?

SCO rises from the dead (again)

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

surely you mean...

the TENTH or so installment of a hollywood slasher movie franchise that's lasted for > 20 years and JUST WONT DIE,

much like the Bad Thing (tm) that the often retarded plot centers on?

i'm thinking JasonX, Freddy vs Jason, more recently Saw 1-7 (or whetever it's up to), and of course, the necromancer cult horror-drama series SCO vs Novell - This Time It's Personal II - The Sequel - The Undead Strikes Back

Student's brilliant idea: A peer-to-peer social network

serviceWithASmile
FAIL

apache tomcat anyone?

"but also that it's written in Java, which will rule out access from several types of modern Internet client"

From the concerned students brilliant idea (tm) page:

"A user downloads a small (Java) program, runs it, and then has access via their web browser to a local web server acting as a gateway onto the PeerBook network"

Let me quote that for you again:

"access via their web browser"

just in case you didn't read it the first time.

sounds like apache tomcat ( a java web server ) with his application loaded, installed on the user's local machine and accessed via a web browser.

how compatible.

i wish writertards wouldn't misrepresent what java is....

http://tomcat.apache.org/

Dixons renames itself Dixons

serviceWithASmile
FAIL

pissywerld

once refused to sell my brother a PSU.

Long story short, he's not *that* techincal, and needed a new one for the comp I had mostly built for him.

We were in the big city, so while I rummaged around Maplin for an AM2 heatsink and fan (got one aswell, and the attendant even knew what I meant!), I told him to head over to pissywerld to get his PSU as Maplin had run out (was a pretty small store).

He came back emptyhanded 25 minutes later and told me what happened.

He went in, and asked for what I told him to ask for - a 300 Watt ATX PSU.

The drone asked him "What's it for?"

He answered "A PC"

The drone asked him more questions - clockspeed of the CPU (but not what type), how much RAM (but not what type), whether or not the PC had a DVD Drive... some fairly fucking irrelevant questions considering the ATX *standard*, and that he knew how many watts he needed. The answers wouldn't have been much use either, considering...

This went on for a while, with my poor brother getting increasingly pissed off with the flangebag he was dealing with and, because I had built his PC, not able to answer all the questions fully.

So, the twatbucket said "OK I'm not convinced you know what you are doing so I can't sell you this".

There is no minimum knowledge requirement for buying something, beyond knowing what you want and that you have to hand over money for it.

Yes he could have killed himself with the PSU if he turned it on while taking a bath with it, but FFS there is such a thing as too much cotton wool.

This guy was just a jumped up "I do IT, me" type, with a little knowledge.

It's a dangerous thing in small quantities.

AMD muscles Nvidia with fanless GPU coprocessors

serviceWithASmile

@cooling

aaaahhh it makes sense now.

thanks for the explanation - last time i was in a server room i didn't notice the temp as i was mostly drooling over the hardware :D

either way, i still want one

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i wonder

if this tech will be applicable to gaming level cards in the near future?

my x4850 x2 is currently why the ice caps are melting... I would love a 2 teraflop 58xx that requires no cooling.

mmm graphics *drools*

Samsung NB30 touchscreen durable netbook

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

@frank ly

I'm not trolling, but if it formatted both your disks then you must have told it to.

Or you had them in a mirrored RAID.

There is not an option in any ubuntu (non CLI) install I've seen (the earliest version i've used is 7.04) that will format more than one disk, although I could be wrong.

As for the wireless driver issue, it was an unfortunate situation for the original poster. Some hardware manufacturers not being as open as they could be with their drivers might not have been the actual problem for the original poster, but I am not wrong in mentioning it. For reference, look at ATI. Granted they have become alot better at supporting linux, but not so long ago they didn't really bother much. The result was if you had an ATI card and wanted to use 3d graphics in linux, you could pretty much forget it unless you like tinkering with driver source code.

However your problems don't seem to have much to do with Ubuntu not installing a driver that it thought it didn't need.

Fair enough, you have had problems with Debian, but disagreeing with me is not the same thing as me being wrong.

I think the fail icon is a little much.

serviceWithASmile

how many

routers (and laptops, with the exception of your one) do you know of with no RJ45 ports?

besides, ubuntu can be run as a live os straight from the CD, allowing you to check hardware compatibillity. Doing that first would probably have highlighted the wifi issue, allowing you to boot up the laptop's original OS to download drivers for it before you wipe the drive.

if not, you could always borrow / beg / steal someone elses machine.

i'm all in favour of this nonsense being sorted out, but tbh it's the hardware manufacturer that is, more often than not, the reason that it isn't sorted out.

there are many companies that don't make the information required to support their hardware freely available, especially not to us linux-types.

Newsweek: 'Zombies rise from grave, invade US'

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

dont you see!?

THE ZOMBIES ARE COMING

this is just a cover story! el reg is in on the conspiracy!

the staff at el reg are probably zombies by now, motivated to write and release articles by nothing more than their sick hunger for BRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS

it's only a matter of time! flee you fools!

*runs away before the moderatrix notices*

Mystery startup uncloaks 512-core server

serviceWithASmile

ask

and you shall receive

will it run crysis 2, metro2033 and left 4 dead 2 AT THE SAME TIME?

HA! bet u didn't expect that :D

Ubuntu 'more secure' than Windows, says Dell

serviceWithASmile
Pirate

ubuntu working well

it's what it does.

i think the credit for it working well with your old dell has everything to do with ubuntu and linux, and bugger all to do with dell.

even though alot of their (especially older) hardware is proprietary, it still mostly adheres to x86 standards.

saying well done dell for ubuntu is like saying well done intel for fallout3.

it's the software doing the supporting here.

Drinking coffee offers no real benefit, say eggheads

serviceWithASmile
Heart

this article is why

i love the register

keep up the good work :D

and damn those truth-deniers

EA imposes used games tax

serviceWithASmile

title

poor PC owners like myself have been victims of secondhand game nerfing for years, what with limited game activations and the practise of tying .. and now it's spread to consoles too?

poor show, ea.

Green Berets to get Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

wow

roflstomped.

3TB Seagate disk drive ahoy

serviceWithASmile
Heart

re: eh?

I think the author was talking about the 600GB model being replaced with a 750GB model, not 750GB being the highest capacity for the savvio.

But it's all good, looking forward to a couple of 3TB drives when they become nice n cheap :D

iPad users are young, rich geeks

serviceWithASmile
Joke

so....

ipad != chick magnet?

Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke shown the door

serviceWithASmile
Pirate

hey jakey

fuck off you crazed bitch.

oh, she did

HA!

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: A (free) Mactastic experience

serviceWithASmile

you can change the min max and close buttons

by looking under system > preferences > appearance and selecting another theme other than the default.

changing to darkroom or human puts the buttons back where they should be.

it annoyed me too :(

but well done to them overall, very nice release :)

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atheros...

i hear ya. have a similar problem with my samsung n140 (my particular one has a wireless card that its not meant to have.... no idea).

I got around it by installing ndiswrapper, which allowed me to use the xp wireless drivers for that card under ubuntu 9.04. I have upgraded this to 10.04 with no problems in regards to wireless drivers.

Might be worth a look if you haven't tried that already.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page

this aside, after this latest release i can see ubuntu really starting to compete with the big boys now. before, they laughed. now they ridicule.

ubuntu must be doing something right :D

after upgrading my n140 netbook, it boots in 22 seconds (5 more to login) and runs full 3d compiz desktop effects without so much as a complaint.

n140 has some function key issues with ubuntu which haven't been resolved yet but everything else is just better. whole system runs faster

XD

Feel.me up for grabs in dot-me domain auction

serviceWithASmile

good old godaddy....

i see an incoming spate of smear campaigns.

on that note, is bobarsons.me registered?

State senator eyeballs smut during abortion debate

serviceWithASmile

oh noes

think of the unborn children

oh wait.....

Hackers crack Ubisoft always-online DRM controls

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well done

Tip of the hat to them for showing that game DRM, nomatter how extensive, is fundamentally flawed in its implementation, and at the end of the day the 'pirates' win regardless.

I pay for my games, but on more than one occasion have not bought one I would have bought otherwise due to reports of OTT DRM. Atleast not after getting GTA IV and having it refuse to run on my system, after installing all the mal<cough>software that came bundled with it. Was it Securom or something that did the DRM on that? Ended up having to enter into a long and extremely frustrating exchange with them to basically circumvent their own system using their own workarounds so I could play my bought and paid for game.

Finally did so, and got it to run, only to discover that the game was pretty shit anyway.

Just another case of DRM making a game unplayable for the people that buy it.

Sun sat sends stunning solar snap

serviceWithASmile
Troll

so which anal twat is it

that keeps thumbing down posts that aren't really thumbdown material?

the pic is awesome. red being hotter than blue and green DOES make sense.

if you are religious THATS OK, if someone ridicules it grow a pair and stand up for yourself.

downthumbing is equal to passive aggressive notes on my windscreen pointing out that my car is parked next to some other cars and my neighbour has apparently parked there all his life and really doesn't appreciate my car either existing or being parked on my street, you young ppl with your rock music etc etc.

oh and i thought the post about the sun being sentient was a little funny, not WRONG unlike the phantom anal downthumber seems to think.

if you don't like this post, why don't you thumb it down? that'll really show me. then I'll be sorry.

</rant>

More 'Son of Nehalem' details leaked

serviceWithASmile

just have to....

AMD r so much bettr then smelly intel rawr rawr AMD wooyay

FLAME ON!!

Microsoft slams coffin lid on Vista

serviceWithASmile

well

I kind of agree.

Except that your description of games only really covers Call of Duty series.

There are still alot of games out there only realeased on PC, and also pretty much every new game made is either ported to or ported from the PC.

True there is some expense involved but those who game on PC's usually have a PC to begin with. A modern system usually has plenty oomph and enough horses to run an Xbox360 port without too much trouble.

If you want to run crysis warhead at the speed of light then yes a £300 gfx card would be warranted.

However, on the topic of expense... it is true that my gaming system cost alot of dosh, and I could just go and buy an xbox 360 for about 120 quid. However, I would then need an HD telly to play it on (no point putting it through a scart plug on a tv or analogue monitor, looks terrible - i've done it) which usually cost upwards of 800 quid for a nice big one. Granted I could get a 25 inch one for about 300, but then I could build myself a capable system for that (£420) too.

You talk about DRM, but have you ever played an Xbox360? It's there, it's just more well hidden.

I *do* hate the DRM, but again there are alternatives. I have a fair number of games on Steam, I find that getting them from steam usually means that the only DRM is your steam account and the normal restrictions that go with it. Otherwise, I don't normally have any problems with typing in a CD key and letting the game phone home to activate it. Although activation limits are a completely different kettle of fat retarded tosspots with delusions of fighting piracy.

Lastly, game makers are well aware of the failures of and popular opinion on Winblowz, and usually code their games to suit.

You will find the latest game may use DX10, maybe even DX11, but it will also run on windos xp with DX9 and use about 2 thirds of the RAM while it's at it. Only upgradetards really spend that much on new stuff every year.... and I got my copy of win7 for 30 quid and my gfx for 160 - and that's all the upgrades I will need for atleast another four years.

How long till Xbox1080 comes out and you need a new telly to support the latest "High" definition?

serviceWithASmile
Flame

um....

wtf!?

Did you just finish reading feersum endjinn too?

Or did someone nick ur laptop before you got too pissed to remember about punctuation, or how to construct a comment relevant to the topic of the thread you post it in?

Overzealous Orange cuts off customer, still bills

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

+1 for that, here's my tuppence:

I did that once with BT. I was disputing what I considered an unfair bill, and after repeatedly ignoring me I told my bank to recover the payment as I considered it unlawful - they clawed back every penny of it and I told BT where to go.

Ended up paying them anyway but it got their attention (long story).

I've also had similar issues with Orange... after setting up a Direct Debit for them they never used it and billed me (which I assumed would be paid by the debit), cut me off, and then one of their customer service gimps phoned me up to ask "why haven't you paid us?".

After telling the clueless bint that there was a direct debit set up for just that purpose, she lectured me on the various ways I could pay my bill and that it was my responsibility, etc. I told her not to be so bloody stupid, you abrasive bitch, slammed the phone down and moved to Vodafone the next day.

If she listened / had some manners I would never have been so insulting, and they would probably still have a customer that wouldn't tell everyone they know to steer clear and never use them again.

Up yours Orange.

Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot

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normally i would side with opera

but this just looks like nitpicking to be honest.

microsoft deserve a good kick in the balls for the way they conduct their business imho, but arranging things so it is possible to cover one dialogue with another and then pointing out that this isn't particularly fair on the other browsers seems disengenuous.

I'm sure windows could be made to cover any amount of dialogues with other less relevant dialogues; this is a non story.

Third of UK students would strip their way through college

serviceWithASmile
IT Angle

wait a sec....

"Perversely perhaps, only three per cent would carry on once they'd left college, reinforcing the view that much of what you learn at college is not much use in the real world."

If only 3% of the girls who would work as strippers to fund college would carry on afterwards, shirley that means that 93% think that whatever they will learn in college would be useful enough to get a job with, and will not require stripping or escort work to get by?

US Navy plans self-building floating fortresses

serviceWithASmile

im 22

and I agree.

you are way more optimistic than me :D

serviceWithASmile

im 22

and i meant to say "pessimistic".

language fail.

Victorinox offers hackers £100,000 challenge

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i bet

firstly, it gets access to the net from the pc it gets plugged into.... if it's online of course.

victorinox would be utterly retarded to even consider *not* encrypting it. and even more retarded for thinking of using windows.

my bet is, they have an embedded linux kernel on it, and a most definitely encrypted partition.

so it will run itself, and determine whether or not to nuke itself without the need for a certain type of OS on the host computer. that's the only way I see it working as they claim it does.

just one thing, why would it be easy to decrypt an encrypted drive?

the software won't be able to decrypt the drive. you have to give the *device* a fingerprint reading to decrypt it, or a password, not the supplied software. again, mostly betting.

If some guy wins the hundred grand by reverse engineering victorinox's windows software in under 2 hours I'll admit youre right.

in conclusion, sir, i call bullshit.

Man could face prison over six second 'extreme porn' clip

serviceWithASmile

Yes, probably.

you are already halfway to the sex-offender's register if you DO have thoughts out of the ordinary*.

all we need now is a way to record them so they would be admissable in court....

after thinking about it, i've decided on my opinion for the whole basis of this law and what it represents.

my opinion is: it's bullshit.

certain drugs are illegal. the coppers usually go after the dealers and importers as a priority.

porn is made illegal. so the coppers go for the people watching it, not the actors doing it, or the guys selling it.

considerations of nationality / country of origin aside, the government should not legislate against something they cannot control. by doing so, they look like weak bullies when hauling some poor pleb up for it. I'm not saying they should control it. Just that firstly passing this law, and secondly acting on it, are wrong.

*as defined by government brochure #23535625622-A, titled "How we want you to think", subsection 43, heading "Sex - Don't."

Chinese gamer survives knife through skull

serviceWithASmile
Grenade

well done el reg

for noting the discrepancies in the various other news reports, and china's suspect motives regarding games and the internet possibly being at work.

I know why he isn't dead. He got the kevlar + helmet armour, it helps protect you from headshots.

those guys did a shoddy job if they only hit his mate once, and in the arm at that.

you don't win the round till all the CT's are dead.

bet they are kicking themselves now that their score hasn't gone up....

Blunkett: 'The dog howls when I whip out my ID card!'

serviceWithASmile
Black Helicopters

democracy

never mind the vigilance or free press. (no offense el reg)

what has deomcracy got to do with our *government*, let alone the home office?

yes we can vote... but it's only ever the lesser of 3 (or 2, depending on whether or not you believe BBC breakfast news) evils.

i vote for anarchy. let's face it, it has to be better than a rectal map. ID not required.

black helicopters because I know they are coming....

Microsoft renews vows with JQuery Javascript

serviceWithASmile
Dead Vulture

embrace, extend.....

extinguish.

rip, jquery. it was short but sweet.

you will be missed.

IBM super is Met Office's 'chief weapon against British cynicism'

serviceWithASmile
Flame

its gotta be said

FLAME ON!!

Wreck of 1930s flying aircraft carrier dubbed 'historic'

serviceWithASmile

AFAIK

the two that died in this crash drowned.

I'm sure if you totalled up all who died on airships vs all who died on planes, there would be a clear winner.

from what I've read, the real reason the macon went down was more pilot error than the storm, the captain overcompensated for the tail dropping. but I got most of this from wikipedia so insert pinch of salt here.

I reckon airships would totally rule for moving stuff, although they are more subject to weather conditions than the traditional helicopter approach.

Dell servers block un-Dell HDDs

serviceWithASmile

dont be so naiive

its just vendor lock in, nothing to do with whether or not someone has the right to moan about it, or indeed whether or not the HDD's are any good or not.

also, if dell only told people about it via their mailing list, I don't think that counts as "obvious"

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