Posts by Stuart Halliday

HGST brings PCM to flash show, stuns world+dog with 3 million IOPS

5Gbits? Only 5 measly Gbits...?

Thirteen Astonishing True Facts You Never Knew About SCREWS

Slow day or drop in Hits hmm?

BEST BATTERY EVER: All lithium, all the time, plus a dash of carbon nano-stuff

Re: New batteries...

That's no big deal. They swapped Lead acid batteries for Lithium.

5 years ago we were promised x4 capacity batteries using nanotechnology. Where did they go?

Jurassic squawk: Dinosaurs were Earth's early feathered friends

Norwegian blue dinosaur anyone?

Time to re-run that campaign to get Mr Spielberg to make T-Rex fluffy! It's only good science!

DAYS from end of life as we know it: Boffins tell of solar storm near-miss

Time to dig out my Valves. I knew there was a reason why I kept them.

Major problems beset UK ISP filth filters: But it's OK, nobody uses them

When I got my Internet account found YouTube Web site was blocked.

Well that was that. Turn off my ISP filters. Why bother with this kind of lunacy?

Seagate chances ARM with NAS boxes for the SOHO crowd

Goodness. My phone runs faster and has more RAM!

NEW Raspberry Pi B+, NOW with - count them - FOUR USB ports

Re: Composite Output

Maplin sells two types of 3.5mm leads with 3x RCA. A Sony or Panasonic lead. So at least 2 standards. :)

Adobe Flash: The most INSECURE program on a UK user's PC

Re: What IS Flash?

Do people seriously still use Adobe PDF Reader!

Let me reexamine the year on my calendar...

10Gbps over crumbling COPPER: Boffins cram bits down telco wire

Let me guess....

It's 10Gbps over 30 metres of straight wire with no corners or other cables next to it...

Yeah, that'll work in the real world...

The Windows 8 dilemma: Win 8 or wait for 9?

Real people don't know how to use Windows.

They just want to know where to wave the mouse, when to click and which mouse button to click.

The other 1% (ie us) know how to work our computers regardless of which OS it runs.

To tell if your workforce is ready for Windows 8, try this. Move the taskbar to the right-hand side and see how long it takes for them to figure it out.

If its more than 10secs. They're not ready.

If it takes you more than 5secs to figure out how to do this. You're just playing at IT.

Printed diode can slurp power from phone signals

You can make a diode out of a piece of coal and a wire.

Colditz prisoners did this during WWII.

Would it be bad if the Amazon rainforest was all farms? Well it was, once

So the hundred of thousands of species of animals, plants, fungi and insects just came from where exactly?

Xiaomi: Hidden Android dragon is growing fast, despite being unknown in the West

Well, maybe then you should review their products in future?

Virgin Media struck dumb by NATIONWIDE DNS outage

If you're sensible, you add a OpenDNS and a Google DNS line to your router...

Nuff said.

Using Android 4.3? Don't let malware snatch your private login keys

Let's see how long Samsung takes to fix it's Galaxy S3 Flagship phone of 2012 which sold millions!

We're counting Samsung...

New research: Flash is DEAD. Yet resistance isn't futile - it's key

They've been saying that for the last 10 years....

London teen charged over Spamhaus mega-DDoS attacks

Re: Suitable punishment for him

Make it an Acoustic modem and you'll have a deal! :)

Well, he'll now have his pick of jobs for life.

Maplin Electronics sold for £85m to Rutland Partners

Re: How the sale went down

Well, you'd cry otherwise wouldn't you? :)

Office website hacked: Passwords, addresses, phone numbers slurped

Re: Ubiquitous passwords

Last shop that did that was Tandy.

They got very upset if you refused. Needless to say they are no longer trading...

I suspect Foot Warriors from Brontitall...Hopefully just an advanced scouting party?

Did hackers scoop source code from DayZ zombie game brains?

Do players still play the Mod?

It's so full of hackers and cheats, it's not worth playing.

ARM exec: Forget eight-core smartphone chips, just enjoy a SIX-PACK

Can I just get a phone or Tablet with enough RAM to deliver consistent performance of my current quad core? 1GB isn't enough by a long shot. :(

Google forges a Silver bullet for Android, aims it at Samsung's heart

Google is trying to do the right thing.

Software and 3rd party developers would enjoy a far superior and cheaper platform. Users would be able to pick up any Tablet and just use it.

Hardware Tablet developers would just have to concentrate on hardware design and not be bogged down by software fluff that may impress a corporate CEO but means nothing to their customers.

Let's get back to hardware reliability and leave the software fixing to the people who care about fixing that.

Surely everyone benefits?

Och aye! It's the Loch Ness Monster – but only Apple fanbois can see it

Due to the shape of the loch (you don't call them lakes laddie!) it is common to see dark standing waves on the surface long after the ferry and other leisure boats have gone past. The water is always murky as its full of peat particles and floating trees that have been blown down in storms.

So don't get too excited yer eejits!

Qualcomm uncloaks new chips for 'ultimate connected mobile computing experiences'

Nice to know that my new phone that I'll buy next year is already obsolete before it's launched yet.

Such is progress. :)

Spooks vs boffins: MIT bods say they've created PRISM-proof encryption

Just need to encrypted the Syslogs next. Oh they can't...

Boffins power wearable tech with body static

Just rename this company to 'kaled' and we have the birth of something sinister? :)

Windows 8 BREAKS ITSELF after system restores

Re: Is Windows 8 fundamentally broken?

Windows 8 is just fine. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

I've used computers since the Cambridge Mk 14. So I'm well used to using all OSs across all hardware patterns.

People would tell me how wonderful XP was. But it had such a horrible USB stack. I lost count of times it would mess up and don't get me started on its lanmanger system. Awful!

Windows 7 was a welcome improvement. But Windows 8 is even better.

People just need to get their 'finger' out and adapt.

(Oh and read up on how to use it might not be a bad idea?)

Re: This issue occurs because ..

Errr...Windows 7 is a version of Windows NT. Most are.

Cute. But it's sorted which is the main thing.

I remember when XP came out. Someone discovered a HTML help file bug within a month of the launch that could nuke your computer if they so desired.

So people, don't condemn a OS for bugs. Or we'd still be using Windows 3.1

Your 'funny' cat pics are weighing down the web, so here's a better JPEG encoder from Mozilla

Re: Good for the *whole* web

And just how do we get this improved encoder into every graphic program?

Duracell powers into cloud storage market

Re: Low bat

Maybe they run off 6x D cell Duracell Ultras with a free bunny thrown in?

Yes, the BBC still uses FTP. And yes, a Russian crook hacked the server

If you allow uploading. Make the account write only?

I love it when Hackers try to get access to my FTP server.

They always try 'root' or 'admin'. As if I'd be so stupid.

I also change the welcome message so they think it's an ancient Server running ancient code.

BBC IT staff in charge of their Server needs to be flogged or user who left their login at a cybercafe needs strung up? :)

Samsung uncloaks 'industry's first' one-terabyte mSATA SSD

Put us out of our misery, how much?

How STEVE JOBS saved Apple's bacon with an outstretched ARM

Sophie once said, "we wanted to make a processor fast enough to run BASIC so that we wouldn't have to work making games in machine code like we did on the BBC B."

High motives indeed and one that is still carried out to this day by computer engineers everywhere!

Re: Taking a byte at history

I used a 6502 second processor on my Electron. Does that count?

XBOX ONE owners rage as HDMI SNAFU 'judders' Brit and Euro tellies

I guess a Microsoft distributor was having supply issues and thought to use stock destined for USA to the EU?

Or people are finally paying the price for buying ultra-cheapo TVs from a Supermarket rather than from a decent electronic shop?

I mean who buys a TV with only 1 or 2 HDMI sockets!

Samsung and HTC face Android 3D graphics test chart removal SHAME

Re: Benchmarks, Schmenchmarks.....

Who let the Dinosaur in?

Time to be sent to the Farm...? :)

How about a line that says "Removed for suspect of cheating"?

Much better...

What, no one has an oscilloscope they can pin on the CLKs?

Shame...

90% of the Chinese tablet/phone market use overclocking to boost performance over lifespan.

We flew our man Jack Clark into Facebook's desert data tomb. This is what he saw

Re: Expansion

Us IT engineers aren't getting any thinner you know!

Use Papyrus we know that lasts for thousands of years!

Can the Register writers use up to date international standards and get the Editor to proof read it?

In Britain we use Centigrade, we threw out Fahrenheit with the dinosaurs guys. :)

Or is the author the only IT journalist still using units from the Stone Age? :)

Alternatively use both units please.

BBC's 3D blunder BLASTED OUR BRAINS – Doctor Who fans

Come Register, don't go all 'American' on us.

Only USA fans are Whovians.

Don't PANIC, but these SMARTWATCH-stuffed boxes are going NOWHERE

Hardly surprising.

Most young adults carrying smart phones no longer wear watches.

Or didn't the manufacturers notice this? :)