* Posts by zanto

233 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2009

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HP 'delays' Android tablet after death of Windows slate

zanto
FAIL

why so negative?

at least HP seem to have the intent of making good on their acquisition of palm. maybe oracle can learn a thing or 2 from them.

India to place $11bn order for AIP hi-tech submarines

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Pint

wow!!

what a dignified and eloquent post......Not!!!

you sir, are living proof that myopia exists on both sides of the atlantic. i.e. assuming you're british based on your spelling of "programme". otherwise i had you as tobacco chewing, sheep and or sister chasing, inbred.

oh and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Security bug bites 64-bit Windows 7

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Flame

i agree

i'm forced to use win7 because that's what my IT dept installed on my t400. the first thing i did was switch to classic theme.

on my dual boot home laptop which is a 2 year old acer, winXP feels a lot faster than my t400.

the specs are:

t400 / 4GB ram / 7200rpm hdd / win7

acer 4720z / 2GB ram / 5400rpm hdd / winXP / Fedora Core 12

needless to add, Fedora on my laptop whoops anything MS can throw at it except maybe games.

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx stalks PC and Mac converts

zanto

wine works just fine thank you

and it's free. i use it for word and exel. i do have virtualbox also installed just in case.

Microsoft's Linux patent bingo hits Google's Android

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Flame

it's not long before

you buy the phone hardware, come home, connect it to a pc and load whichever fucking os you want it to run. give phones the ability to boot of a flash card and no pc required.

Chattanooga devil dog eats cop cruiser

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Coat

it's obvious

that the cops car was "packing meat"

Whatever happened to the email app?

zanto

fix your mailcap

ever here of elinks or lynx?

i seriously doubt it takes more than a fraction of a second to read html email in mutt.

Microsoft slams nails in Windows Vista, XP SP2, 2000

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Linux

@Henry Wertz 1

"Secondly, I think vmware at least does provide hardware acceleration, including for 3D -- but maybe only for Linux."

AFAIK, virtualbox also supports 3d but it's experimental, and since i don't play games, i don't really know how good it is.

i run virtualbox on linux as the host, but i see no reason why this wouldn't work with windows as well.

zanto

i should hope not

i wouldn't want ubuntu to become slow, clumsy and failure prone.

Let us legally rip discs, campaigner tells govt

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Pint

screw 'em

hypothetically speaking, if i were to "rip" a cd, it's purely to ensure that should a catastrophe render the parasites data to be lost, i would still have a "copy" to share with the world.

surely such noble ideals are not against the law?

Microsoft finally debuts Euro-choose-a-browser screen

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FAIL

sigh

"Microsoft have earned there way ......"

it's "their" and not "there"

Too fat to fly: Kevin Smith and OpenOffice

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Thumb Up

hurrah!!

the beach girl is back.

Intel joins Nokia in Android attack

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Linux

that must be way cool

to have root access on a phone.

heck, i'd be happy to just get a shell prompt through which i can ssh to my other machines.

Miranda Kerr backs Oz porn-surf banker

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Thumb Up

who cares about the wank... err banker

Miranda kerr is hot!!! can we please get a miranda kerr icon?

Google reveals nonexistent Chrome tablet

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Stop

no thanks!

"

"While its primary focus is netbooks, Chrome OS could eventually scale to a wide variety of devices," reads Google's form factor UI post. "Each would have vastly different input methods, available screen space, and processing power."

"

i'll settle for a regular linux distro like Fedora or Debian on my desktop/netbook/laptop

Too much sitting can kill: Official

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Grenade

this is more serious than it seems

think about it, even those who exercise regularly but still spend a lot of time on their bums are potentially in for a nasty surprise.

my "expert" advice would be, to drink around 1-2 liters of water while at work, that way you at least need to take a piss break regularly.

Catholics slam PETA nude adopt-a-mutt poster

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i agree with Mark

the catholic church is too soft a target for anyone looking for cheap publicity.

and speaking as someone who actually loves animals, PETA is a fraud. but then again so are greenpeace and other organizations who hoodwink intellectually insecure people into supporting them just to appear to be smart and kewl.

The Options for Virtual Desktops

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For a home user

with linux as my primary os, but with a requirement to run winXP for office work, virtualbox is just about perfect. Thank you very much.

FreeBSD version 8.0 lands

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Linux

yeah usefull

what a nice thought to start the weekend!

for the record fc10 runs so well on my laptop, i'll be arsed if i going to upgrade soon.

Sh*t the bed, it's Comment of the Week

zanto

damn!

that's why i love this site.

Sony Ericsson admits 'PlayStation phone' woes

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FAIL

layoffs not such a good idea now

how does it feel knowing you screwed up twice probably because you fired some of the people that actually get the work done as opposed to the fuckwits you call managers?

this is what happens when you let bean counters try to run a tech company.

Android to overtake iPhone in 2012 - analyst

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Linux

Linux will be dominant by 2011

Simply because it's better. It may be fragmented, but linux on your smart phone is the way forward.

MS plasters Ballmer's signature on Windows 7 special edition

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Grenade

excuse me...

i need to barf

Crucial CT256M225 256GB SSD

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Happy

@ Anonymous John

smooth.... very smooth my friend. i wish you luck with "vulture central"

ALK CoPilot Live 8

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Unhappy

phone GPS

the only thing i use my phone gps for is to find out how lost i am. other then that, it's a pain to drive and pay attention to the damn thing!

Mozilla free-love coders caressed by Palm

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credit where credit is due

webkit is derived from kde's khtml

Nokia E55 smartphone

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E series

nokia had a winner with the e71. Apart from them forgetting about timed profiles. Does this phone have it?

Microsoft howls as Google turns IE into Chrome

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ie8 is not bad

i quite like ie8. it's got tabs, it's fast, looks better than ie6.

i tried chrome once, and i never bothered to use it or update it again. i use firefox or elinks most of the time.

google should stick with the relationship they have with firefox.

Packard Bell dot m/a netbook

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Flame

@ cornz 1

my acer aspire 4720z running fedora core and xp on top of virtualbox is a gem. i'd call it the best value for money deal you can get.

1 year later, i see other greenhorns such as you, pay double for a big brand laptop with vista, and they still turn green at my old acer. and xp is needed for the odd occasion when a client insists on me connecting to their network from home using a windows machine or when i need to edit an office document that has lots of graphics and tables in it.

i take it, you are not aware of how to actually use / configure a computer.

Nokia brings Braille to SMS

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i'm impressed

i hope they allow other phones to provide the same features without charging any licensing fees or such.

Ageing Google supersizes its search box

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Linux

mostly for i.e. users

i've stopped going to google.com for years now. i just use the search box in ff. and on elinks, it wouldn't matter anyway.

Church altar smites devout Catholic

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IT Angle

i suppose

they had wi-fi in the church or the lift was controlled by a compooooter.

or is this yet another for the "i'm so dull, let me bash religion to prove i've got a brain" series?

Japan torture flick sickens UK film censor

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Good

no money to the sick shitwipes who made this then.

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