Posts by Alphonse

Storage disks now shipping at over 7 Exabytes a quarter

The description of those line graphs confused me until I realised the x-axes are back to front.

Ever wondered how many limp todgers to the mile?

Llamas

It takes an iPad about 6 times as long to discharge as two mating llamas.

I don't know why this knowledge makes my day better, but it does.

Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain

Re: Make it a feature, not a requirement

From the screenshots I've seen, the primary monitor gets Metro, houses the Start window etc. The other monitors have a desktop. This can apparently cause problems when hunting the 'hot pixels' to open the various Metro menus at the corners of the primary screen.

Re: You can turn metro off

Sadly this is for the developer preview only - it has been removed from the consumer preview. I don't know if anyone has figured out a way to get a Win7 style interface back yet.

Boffins build powerful yet 'table-top size' atom-smasher

Wee accelerators

Don't cross the streams!

HP probes 'racist' webcams

A title

I for one welcome our dusky-skinned webcam-insensitive overlords...wait, isn't this the path towards another vampire series?