Posts by zanto

Patent wars: Apple attacks Samsung in Japan

@ anna

"Another day, another tech giant starts a patent lawsuit."

Another day, and the same ol greedy, megalomaniac company decided to start a patent lawsuit.

there fixed that for you.

No pain, some gain: Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot examined

what's the big deal anyway?

just install whatever WM you feel comfortable with and stop whining.

i use enlightenment e16, have been for the last so many years and cannot imagine working without it.

anyone who whines is just a sore windows/mac luser who still doesn't "get it". linux is all about choice and freedom to choose.

and if freedom to choose is too much for you to handle, just go back to being told what you can and cannot do.

The real reason Google bought Motorola

geez....

and there i was thinking that the only reason google bought motorola was to give us milestone owners our regular fixes of android updates...

Apple ejects FT app from iTunes

ok, that's it.

just hand over 30% of whatever you own to apple and let's all just get on with whatever else needs getting on with.

Lenovo chiefs chortle over decision to buy IBM's PC biz

not bad kit at all

i've used the t410 and t60 with the lenovo badge on them and they rock!!

if only they didn't continue the screw up with the placement of the left ctrl key.....

Cops tweet about cuffed twits who incited violence via Twitter

why??

isn't one Australia bad enough?

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s 14in Core i5 laptop

gnu screen users

since i use gnu screen a lot the lower left ctrl and fn key layout drove me nuts as well.

but after a few days of using it, i got used to it. it really is not that big a deal if you give it a try.

Microsoft nails second Android device maker

hmmm

can i trust a company that claims to manufacture "rugged" computing products and yet are so testicularly deficient when dealing with a bully?

'Dodgy Android apps are breaking our phones' - Motorola

here i go

and feed the troll

Milestone owners

Motorola have released froyo for the milestone. just updated my phone yesterday, except for one single reboot, no issues so far. also syncing with exchange server works much better than before.

i still have some wifi connection issues specific to my el cheapo modem/router. so i may still go the dark side. however with my current work load that would be a few months away at least.

surprised how the reg could have missed the froyo roll out from motorola though.

Apple to support reps: Don't confirm Mac infections

funny.....

this shit never happens on my linux box

Official: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5bn

skype on linux

i just wonder how long it will last.

probably time to take a closer look at ekiga or other alternatives

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Android smartphone

lucky bugger

"My missus' phone is due an upgrade soon and I've already convinced her to have my San Francisco so I can have her Xperia Play!"

your missus is worth her weight in gold. you'd do well to also hand over a bunch of roses and a big box of chocolates along with the San Francisco.

waiting for a review on the xperia pro

with just the milestones and the dezire-Z for a qwerty android with a decent screen size and resolution, i'm waiting for the xperia pro to see which phone i should be buying.

to give nokia credit, the n900 still looks like good value.

Lasers set to replace spark plugs in car engines

an article on lasers

without the word frikkin appearing even once?

stick a fork in the reg, she's done

i want my frikkin article on frikkin lazers done the frikkin el-reg frikkin way

Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

eating crow

while basking on a yacht is still eating crow.

Middle East questions get under RIM boss’s skin

yep

you are naive

Nokia gets touchy-feely with two new Symbians

sync between android and outlook

syncing between android and microsoft exchange client works like a charm on my wifes milestone.

if that works, there's little reason to sync between outlook and the phone over bluetooth.

having said that, i have used bluetooth to sync with outlook, but not any more. using the exchange client is just a better way of doing it. the data usage is very reasonable, works with wifi so that office and home are covered, and it's fast even over normal gprs/edge connections. even company directory lookup works like a charm for both android and my e71.

given how well opensync works with my e71 and evolution for the calendar and contacts over bluetooth, i'd say it's just a matter of time before syncing an android phone to a pc using bluetooth becomes run of the mill.

Pre-release Windows 8 code hits PC makers

looks fugly

that's all

then again, i'm spoilt on enlightenment e16 so anything else would be ugly.

Microsoft man riles update-hungry Windows Phone 7 users

simple math

two times zero is still zero

Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped

bring it on

not american, but as a christian, I see hate, disdain and insults against my religion all the time. one just learns to let barking dogs bark, or in this case down vote your posts. no big deal.

having said that, any thing that incites hate should be censored, the world has enough problems as is.

Jon Bon Jovi accuses Steve Jobs of murdering music biz

but

"It's my life

It's now or never

I ain't gonna live forever"

Xperia Play gets UK debut date

@eclairz

"AWSD only works with a full size keyboard, but with a small phone keyboard, where your controlling a game character, you might be mishitting the wrong key as you should be looking at the screen and not the keyboard. Keyboards just suck for simplifying the layout of a system in a hand held."

you're holding it wrong.

--

sent from my iphone

yep

but that would be ok see because most of the fanbois would not be using it to make calls. those that do would just be a disruptive minority like them no good scum trying to run linux on a ps3

now ain't nobody forcin you to buy this here fine fone sonny boy see? so if you do, you make damn sure you uses it the way we tells ya to uses it or you don't uses it at all.

now, hand me ma beer and then bend over and take it like sport.

and quit hollerin!!

Apple sells 500,000 iPads, runs out of stock

if i were a conman

i'd be weeping tears of unabashed joy at the sheer numbers of rich suckers in the world.

Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari

lynx

shirley you mean elinks?

tabbed browsing, scroll wheel support (yeah yeah, even for a text browser), ssh support, better formatting. plus all the usual goodies that lynx offers like tying into mutt to display html mail etc.

maybe lynx also supports some of the above, but it didn't when i made the switch many a fortnight ago.

unless, i am a complete dodo and you are referring to browsers only available in ios.

beer cos it's friday and you deserve one for mentioning lynx.

it's called conditioning

iphone users are conditioned not to know any other browser but those authorized by his magnificence.

Apple patent foresees ultra-svelte iDevices

i want to patent

"A Means or Method to Listen to Audio or Other Media Players Less than 2 mm thick"

Method 1:

use smaller Jacks made from Metal or an Alloy of Metals or Any Other materials that is yet to be discovered that gets the job done"

Method 2: use in-line connectors

Method 3: use separate connectors and "poke" the device in more than one slot.

Method 4: use magnetic contacts

Method 5: use Velcro or any other adhesive like fastener

Method 6: Anything else i forgot to mention

Fujitsu relieves Ballmer's iPad pressure

executive-class?

yuck! i wouldn't want me one of those.

call back when you have worker-class

but then again, tablets were supposed to be for "consuming" data and not "creating" data. what they really need is to call it "parasite-class"

dumbfaqs!!

Sony threatens to ban PS3 jailbreakers from network

waaa!

"we are protecting our business and preserving the honest gameplay experiences that you expect and deserve"

the first part could be true, the second is pure hogwash.

you lost sony, now stop acting like a spoilt child.

Intel demos MeeGo 'tablet user experience'

intel should just hire the meego engineers from nokia

they can then drive meego in a manner of their choosing. even if anti poaching agreements exist between them at least for the alliance, i don't see nokia in a position to enforce such an agreement now.

dear mr. elop,

meegone.

sincerely,

meego engineer

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

thank you nokia

the 5110, 3315, 9300 and e71 will be cherished. i wish i got me a n900 and 6310i as well, now i just can't get myself to shell out any more money on you.

you built some truly great phones in your day. no wonder that i cannot get my self to part with my 9300.

now not only are you on a burning rig staring at the frigid waters below, you also have a fat balding man about to hurl a chair at you. have a nice day, bye bye.

bought a milestone for the missus

now it's either the dezireZ or milestone2 that i'm considering to replace my 6 year old 9300.

as a long time nokia user, i'm disgusted.

the n900 will remain the "smartest" phone that nokia ever built.

Israel and US fingered for Stuxnet attack on Iran

amehaye

you get an up vote from me.

having said that, i also believe that even one Palestinian killed in one too many as is the case for even one Israeli killed. judging who is worse by numbers killed or who started it first is futile and childish. in the end, we all lose.

i do wish that we all could one day just learn how to get along.

life's to short to waste it on hate.

just think, even one of those kids killed could have one day found a cure for cancer or aids. now we just never will know. like i said earlier, we *all* lose.

China's 'stealth fighter' flies – brown trouser time, or not?

RE: Also how many of these are China going to sell to india, pakistan, et al?

go back and read on current affairs, china and india are engaged in a border dispute.

Motorola uncloaks 10.1-inch Xoom fondleslab

i hope

the build quality is as good as that of the milestone.

Fedora gets nips and tucks with 14 release

why not try debian

there's a lenny version for PowerPC

i installed Debian a long time back on a 486, it wasn't too difficult and aptitude is a breeze once set up.

you could probably run your G5 till the hardware grinds to a halt which hopefully is a long way off.

what Fedora needs

is a free LTS release for old fogies like me who are too long in the tooth to upgrade every year.

well, the beauty of linux is the choice. and as soon i configured e16 on ubuntu 10.04, i've decided to stick with it.

however as a long term redhat/fedora user i'm sure that this release will be top notch as always. i'll download and install it on a usb disk the first weekend i get some time to play around.

Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs

long way off

first you'll need a mobo with a general purpose fpga on it with the ability to download a bitstream onto it. Then you'll need the bitstream or the design. Then the drivers.......

And after all that effort another fpga will come along and render your baby obsolete.

Android phone sales up 1,309%

not so sure about nokia

they need to either bite the bullet and embrace linux, or work a miracle with symbian. They've already pretty much given up on chip design preferring to concentrate on software. And right now apple and android are mopping the floor with them.

Tech grads least likely to find a job

happened to me once

it's not just managers, you get arse wipes even in the engineering ladder who are not sound technically and yet conduct interviews. These are the type who can sweet talk and make it seem that they know more than they do. this particular specimen had his crosstalk concepts all wrong and I told him as much. I didn't get the job, but in retrospect it would probably have been worse to get the job and suffer the fool everyday.

Sometimes though, if you really need the job it may be necessary to actually appear less capable then you really are especially in this era of insecurity.

if you're really good at your job though, you will still get a job cleaning up the mess primates such as the specimen quoted above make.

Opera Mini 5.1 goes native on Nokia S60

opera mini

is the default browser on some of their s40 phones.

opera does rock!

LimeWire (finally) dies under judge's gavel

nope

them sheep will feel even more safe, warm and protected.

Apple wipes smile off FaceTime in the Middle East

do you have kids and need to travel for work?

being able to see my daughter is a huge plus when i'm away from home. albeit she's still at the goo-goo ga-ga stage and perhaps when she can speak i can talk to her and not want the video so much, but for now skype and it's video rule. and putting this on the iphone is a biggie.

having said that, i still do not like being told what i can and cannot do. or having his holiness decide for me. sorry greedy stevie, face time is uber kewl an all, but you're not getting any dosh from me.

Motorola sues Apple over - what else? - patents

how long before...

some of these monkeys get confused and sue themselves?

Samsung shuts out Symbian

low range

is series30 i think. the recently launched nokia 1280 is listed as s30 on the mobile-review website.

Apple iAds soar as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! sink

of course

as an advertiser, where else could one find a bigger collection of people who are relatively wealthy and most importantly, are absolutely fine with being told what they can and cannot do?

Smartbook done to death by Apple iPad

nokia n900

hmm, I sometimes login to my office server to run scripts, do some minor editing in vim, and this on my nokia e71 running putty. i'm seriously thinking about the n900 or milestone simply for the wider screen and the fact that running x means I can do a lot more.

Would a tablet pc work for me? I doubt it. But then as stated above, my requirement is different. I was skeptical about cloud based computing at first. But now as bandwidth is more freely available and cheaper I may need to rethink.

In it's present form I don't see tablet pc's including the ipad lasting beyond the fad value. Unless they come up with a ''thought to text'' method of data entry, I simply don't see the demise of the physical keyboard, which is why I think that devices such as the n900 or the milestone are form factors of the future. They just need to hit the sweet spot with regard to the screen resolution and battery life. They're almost there but yet not quite.

anyone who's had a communicator knows what I'm talking about.

AMD, GlobalFoundries, and the Intel gap

It's not just about size

i wonder how their yields per slice compare even at the higher nodes like 40 and 65 nm.

'Eternal' sun-plane still aloft after 7 days, aiming for 14

let me be the first to declare that...

i for one welcome our sun juice sucking, eternally high overlords