Posts by Kotonoha

Is it art or is it pr0n? Australia decides it's ALL filth

What? No loli?

Poor aussies...

Microsoft boots modders off Xbox Live

@GottaBeKidding

No one wants to download 50 GB.

Windows 7 - The Reg reader review redux

Diskeeper

is the answer for Windows 7 slowdowns. :)

Everything as a service

Wait what

I was expecting an ad for FireDaemon :V

Googleplex menaced by giant cream cake

@VoodooTrucker

It's "couldn't care less", not "could care less".

If you could care less, you do care.

BT to push fibre to 1.5m more homes and businesses

Which major cities will be included?

They better bring it to Belfast.

Google tests clipboard in the sky

@Matt Bucknall

Completely and utterly agreed.

The most popular web services always have some sort of desktop client, because so much more can be achieved than in the horribly restricted browser environment.

O2 Broadband puts brakes on BitTorrent

I will care...

...if this ever affects Rapidshare, Megaupload and similar sites.

Also AOL/CFW/TalkTalk don't seem to give a shit what I do :D

Beeb unveils new Doctor Who logo

The old logos:

http://www.throup.org.uk/doctor_who.php

PC tune-up software: does it really work?

Tuneup Utilities

Registry "Cleanup" causes more problems than it solves (and has left PCs unbootable more than once for me), but otherwise it's a solid set of tools. Especially the System Control, which goes way beyond the normal windows control panel, and the disk usage analyser.

Microsoft howls as Google turns IE into Chrome

@I hate vista.

DRM has never noticibly intruded upon my usage of Vista, and the Office 2007 interface is a huge step up from 2003 and previous versions. Once you've designed a few user interfaces, you will learn to appreciate how incredibly versatile and compact the Ribbon is.

Saying you prefer toolbar spam simply because you know where things are is incredibly ignorant.

Seagate reveals 1TB FreeAgent

@Alex

Maxtor all the way - I've knocked my external disk about 3 feet to the floor while it was running and it continued to do so happily. :V

Mozilla plans to tie Firefox 3.7 pigtails in pretty Ribbon

Office 2003?

I thought Ribbon was introduced in Office 2007 :V

Also Ribbon is awesome compared to toolbar spam :)

Google Apps sics crawlers on public docs and sheets

In before

Inb4 someone misunderstanding this as a bad thing or some sort of invasion of privacy.

Brute-force attacks target two-year hole in Yahoo! Mail

Epic fail

Yet another reason to run your own mail server.

Lucky iPhone developer gets very own App Store hotline

LogMeIn?

Nothing can ever match RDP. Everything else is just a souped up feed of screenshots.

Sony Ericsson's Pureness set for pre-Christmas launch

Wait a second...

It's a colour screen, right?

Microsoft harries XP-loving biz customers on to Windows 7

VNC?!

Why on earth would you want to use VNC when RDP is available?

It hooks directly into the OS and sends the contents of windows, not screenshots of them (VNC).

And Windows 7 has added some pretty nice video playback functionality in its new version of RDP.

Mono swings .NET development into iPhone

I'll be getting this

...as soon as I get an iPhone.

Wii web update wallops BBC iPlayer

MPlayerCE

Get MPlayerCE for Wii and enjoy every video format under the sun streamed in full quality via standard windows file sharing.

Multi-gadget recharger launched

Cool

Looks like a genuinely useful gadget, unlike the wireless thing.

Bank of America demands thumbprint from armless bloke

Wow

Wow, a whine that was even remotely justified for once... I think.

Music industry cooks UK government's piracy stats

File-sharing?

You don't need to share files to pirate them. There are many services out there where you can simply download a file - no need for and uploading (sharing). This also arguably makes it less illegal.

Dell boxes VGA cable to within an inch of its life

@DarkNerd

"Who uses VGA cables anyway"

People who prefer the superior colour, response times and pixel density of analogue CRT monitors.

Microsoft at a loss in Word patent case?

What the...

Could that jury be any more retarded?

Man blames cat for child porn downloads

I'd like to see

someone that can prove his cat didn't do it.

Will Google regret the mega data center?

@Phil 33

Wasn't that Google?

Telco offers 911 by txt

Yes

This is actually a really good idea.

Robotic personal photographer unveiled

Great...

In theory.

XML flaws threaten 'enormous' array of apps

Fail

JSON time

Cisco website down

Lol'd hard at the last line

Only when Cisco start selling their own HTTP server will a website error be detrimental to their business.

When routing hardware goes wrong, you don't get a fancy error page.

UK teens bullied into sending sex texts

Sexting ftw

Sexting ftw.

Planned 3D web graphics standard taps JavaScript

Google O3D?

- Plugin based.

- Works in Internet Explorer.

- Powered by V8.

Therefore, it is better than anything WebGL could ever achieve.