* Posts by nickrw

94 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009

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Facebook bug spills name and pic for all 500 million users

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Re: What email address?

yay.for+suffixes@facebook.com

Hotmail still not working? Use Chrome to fix it, says MS

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Grenade

Re: Never thought...

I believed her right up until "Yes, I have the same problem if I use another computer", assuming up to then that she was using an old PC that just couldn't cope with the idea of New Things. We've all had to explain that one while performing family tech support.

Nope, sorry - pass your nearest BOFH your account credentials and they'll show you it logging in nicely, though you might not see those 'important emails' afterwards.

Hoax Facebook virus makes more trouble than a real virus

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FAIL

Numpties

See title.

PARIS pumps up a Mk 2 release mechanism

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Re: Clever

And where's the fun in that?

Leicester City councillors eye up iPad to save £90k a year

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FAIL

Printing

Please do not print this comment unless absolutely necessary.

Fake Firefox update used to sling scareware

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Re: Just to be clear

I don't think so - I got a similar update message recently after a real update, and the 'you should update flash right now' link took me to adobe's website.

Google switches on Buzz firehose

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Go

But when...

When will they switch on buzz for google apps users? When will I be given the opportunity to look at it once, lock down the privacy settings and never use it again?

I feel like I'm missing out here!

'The internet's completely over', declares petulant Prince

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Unhappy

Ow.

Ow. Ow. Ow.

I initially thought that it was prince that had eschewed the apostrophe as well as the internet. How wrong I was.

Pass the eye bleach, please.

Google's remote Android app installer explained

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Re: apps over the internet?

From what I gather from this article, the new method would be browsing the marketplace on your PC and clicking 'install', which sends INSTALL_ASSET to your phone.

This is not the same way as the app store. If you want to download an app via iTunes on your PC you need to physically connect the phone. You are free to browse and download apps from the app store on your iPhone, but can't "remotely" install them.

Apple, AT&T slapped with iPhone 4 lawsuit

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Boffin

Loose signal

Orly?

MIT boffins exhibit self-forming 'programmable matter'

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Paris Hilton

PARIS

They're obviously working closely with the Vulture 1 engineers. If it has to land over water it can just transform into a boat!

Also, where's the RoTM tag?

iPhone 4: Perfect for everyone, except humans

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Hmm

I seem to recall something about the 4 jumping around 3G frequencies to find the least cluttered / best quality, regardless of actual signal strength - related?

I can't reproduce it on my shiny new handset, but I can see the signal jumping around with it just lying on my desk. I think O2 might actually be having 3G problems here as it dropped to all-bars edge for a while too.

Fans fall in to await iPhone 4 arrival

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Re: Proof...

I'll be queueing early tomorrow morning (Glasgow Apple store) for the 8AM opening. Why? Because I *do* have a job, and 8AM is before 9AM.

It most definitely isn't because of the applause you get when walking in / leaving. Hate that, excruciatingly embarrassing.

iPhone 4 preorder system exposes private user data

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Re: bad bad bad apple.

Did you read the article? s/apple/att/i

New York Times bans 'tweet'

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E-Mail

Make sure you send me an e-mail to-morrow.

Vodafone UK iPhone tariffs leaked

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Re: Well let's hope

The only reason I jailbroke my 3G was to get around O2's tethering charge? Why should I pay so much extra a month for something I only ever use in emergencies*?

Considering that I have pulled only 3GB of data (in total, not just tethered) from O2's network in almost two years, I don't think it is asking too much.

* An emergency = home internet connection not working. Came in handy last night when VM went down in my area.

Google hints at native code in Chrome Web Store

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"Legos"

There is something about seeing / hearing the American pluralisation of lego that grates. (Sheeps!)

Secret US spaceplane spotted in orbit by hobbyists

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Space-war desk

Is El Reg's space-war desk a single desk, or a cluster of mini-desks which would survive an attack from across the office if just one was taken out?

IT failure downs Stansted systems

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Alert

Oh no!

The public know about our greatest secret... The Reboot.

We'll all be out of a job!

Reader Top 10s: an experiment in crowd pleasing

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Boffin

"but for boring reasons, we can't easily add voting on stories already published."

Have you forgotten your audience?

We demand to know!

Spotify adds Web2.0rhea

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Go

@JonW

Again, we come back to the "Don't enable it" point.

I don't really want to use the 'social' aspects of this update, except for firing off tracks to one other person I know who uses it.

Very pleased about external library integration, something I've been hoping for for a while.

Labour shock pledge: 16.8-meg broadband for ALL by 2012!

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A title with letters and/or digits

I have thiiiis many gibitypes

<---------------------------->

That's a lot!

Facebook gives you the clap: Official

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Title Title

If you were "further fingering facebook" I'd be surprised if you didn't catch far worse than syphilis.

Telegraph trips over the Large Hardon Collider

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Just for a second there...

... I thought it was Friday

More doubt tossed onto iPad numbers

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Joke

Oh dear me

"A light flow"

Ho ho.

Microsoft spits out 'browser choice' update to appease EC antitrust probe

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Equivocal

*splutter*

You know ordinary folk who use keyboard shortcuts?

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Yes

"The pop-up window will only appear on screens where users have IE set as their default browser. So the ballot box won't be made available to surfers using, say, Firefox or Safari on their Windows OS."

Silicon Valley hypegasm for miracle shoebox powerplants

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Grenade

Bah

You don't see enough bashing of the BBC's "tech journalists" and I often wonder why.

Vodafone Ireland admits pocketing dormant PAYG cash

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Unhappy

Mimi?

I got a T-Mobile PAYG number a good few years back and straight away started getting calls looking for "Mimi", I can only presume she was an idler. Still get the odd call nowadays, having ported the number to a contract on a different network.

Google Energy gets OK

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Title title title

It's in beta, may not be compatible with all your household appliances.

'McDonalds' burger-lers making millions

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WTF?

Title title title

You think people might stop and think when they saw "mcdonalds@aol.com".

Guess they're the same ones falling for the 'facebook login' article.

World of Google zombies mistake news story for Facebook

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FAIL

" login"

Guess if you're taking the long way round to reach facebook you might as well do it thoroughly and search for "facebook login" and not just "facebook".

Don't assume IT professionals understand the address bar either though. I asked someone to "browse to <ip address> on port 12345, https" and watched in horror as he typed in "https://192.168.1.2port12345".

Steve Wozniak, your time is up

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Black Helicopters

Geeks

Is there a secret industry club of Steves? Seems a very common name in IT. There are two of them in my office as well!

Parcelforce to drop Windows 7 compatibility through letterbox in New Year

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Go

User agent

Has anyone tried faking their user agent string to look like XP on a 7 machine? I get the feeling it would work just as well, can't imagine why.

Virgin Media network goes titsup in Brum

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Boffin

Nah

The NetEnforcer boxes that Virgin Media use for throttling aren't capable of that - the worst (!) that happens if it makes a whoopsy is that traffic would go unshaped.

... Assuming VM have them hooked up to bypass units.

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Flame

Hiding behind the real news story

...that I lost my VM intertube last night for 20 minutes (Glasgow).

An outrageous cover-up!

Malware cleans out jailbroken iPhones

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Nice to see you Rick!

Bet the people stuck with Mr. Astley as their wallpaper have never been so pleased to see him given that the ikee worm disabled SSH after infecting the phone.

@AC 13:10 - "kinda like setting up remote desktop on your PC with no username or password."

Not really - you can't log in to an account over RDP if it doesn't have a password set

Digital River makes total hash of Windows 7 upgrade offer

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Coat

Workarounds

The unpack itself doesn't fail (though the error message implies that it does), all the files necessary for the installation get pulled out of the BOX files. Once you have these it is very easy to create a bootable ISO and burn it to a DVD.

Stop grumbling, my Windows 7 x64 laptop runs fine, it was previously Vista x86. While Digital River should obviously have seen this coming and I am not defending them, a quick google solved the problem.

Barclays computers suffer Monday morning meltdown

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Crossed off the list

I'm shopping around for a new bank account at the moment, guess who I won't be choosing.

Win 7 users shout: Where's my bloody ballot screen?

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Alert

XP and Vista too?

Am I the only person who thinks this is going to confuse the hell out of anyone who isn't expecting it on an existing system (Read: Joe PC User)? I'm all for it on a new system during first start up, but serving it through windows update to *all* IE users seems like a bad idea.

I know plenty of users who will just click wildly to get rid of any dialogue they don't understand (not that they stopped to read it in the first place) who will demand to know "where their internet has gone".

Apple posts iPhone update

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Megaphone

"Sporadic"

Sporadic my ass.

Google (finally) adds protection for common Web 2.0 attack

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WTF?

Web 2.0?

What exactly makes CSRF exclusively a 'Web 2.0' vulnerability?

Bank sues Google for identity of Gmail user

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@AC 21:37

It means the bank employee was an outlook user - it has a 'recall' facility for sent messages but it relies on the recipient using outlook too. I believe you just see an email referencing the original message saying "XYZ wants to recall message ABC" if you're using another mail client.

Todger-chop woman's sentence depends on hard evidence

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WTF?

Understated Ouch

I don't understand why the punishment for dismemberment should be any less severe just because they could reattach it. I'd say she was having a good go at ensuring it couldn't be by throwing it on the neighbour's roof, no?

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