Posts by tony2heads

Mobe-makers' BLOATWARE is Android's Achilles heel

Re: Why all the exitement?

My phone doesn't have an official Cyanogenmod install, but the nice folks on XDA

http://www.xda-developers.com/

may be able to help

RIIIGHT. Sysadmins: Have you ever even MET an overly suave IT guy?

Re: Don't mess with the only constant in IT

What is the official position on neckbeards? Or moustaches in Movember?

Icon: you know you can trust somebody with a moustache

Big Beardie's watching: Alan Sugar robots spy on Tesco petrol queue

Re: Balaclava anyone?

Also Brain's beer (around Cardiff)

Note to self -must buy a Guy Fawkes mask today

SR-71 Blackbird follow-up: A new TERRIFYING Mach 6 spy-drone bomber

@Ian 55

No chainsaws! The internal combustion would pollute too much.

Other stuff should be fine.

'It seems that the OSes and devices are based on the Devil'

Re: Hilarious

The symbol of FreeBSD

From Russia with Code: Edward Snowden gets job on website helldesk

working on a helpdesk

That sort of punishment will show people what happens to whistleblowers!

Mars defends: HUMANS to SEND UFO to Red Planet by 2016

re:tunnel

Go sideways into a mountain. The cave is a well known habitation mode for early human settlement.

UK.gov forks out £250k to rescue EROTIC novelists and pals from PIRATES

Viking porn

But surely vikings WERE pirates?

Ahhh, SATISFACTION: Watch while we set a NAS on FIRE

Re: thermite

No - better nuke from orbit - it's the only way to be sure!

Windows Azure Compute cloud goes TITSUP planet-wide

Re: Msfts

Is that pronounced 'misfits' ?

Re: V

more like #F0FFFF

The Colosseum, Hagia Sophia, Tower of London... and, er, Steve Jobs' GARAGE

Re: There is no god but Apple and Steve Jobs is his messenger.

Circling 5 times clockwise!

Then the true believer might be allowed to pay for a holy relic - perhaps even a MOStek 6502

IBM gives up fight to build CIA's $600m secret cloud, hands deal to Amazon

@NoneSuch

With so many people outside US jurisdiction involved in Amazon, how the hell does the CIA expect it to be secure?

Or is it just a giant honeypot?

Want to go to billionaire Sun kingpin's beach? Hope you're a strong swimmer

@Loyal Commenter

I have seen it many times personally and anecdotes back it up; rich people are far more likely to be miserly that those with middle or lower income.

Has there been any research on this - or would the rich not be willing to join in?

Pirate Bay captain pleads with Swedes: Don't make me walk Danish plank

This sort of warg?

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Warg

I'll put on my gandalf cloak and go on a long journey...

Pimp my office: 10 cubicle comforts

Closed for the Time Being

That is it is closed why Dr Who is visiting us

MoJ fined £140K for EMAILING privates of 1,000 inmates

re:novels

Dostoyevsky's Crime an Punishment ?

MPs to grill Facebook: You're going to let our teens do WHAT?

Re: tut tut...... naughty step for you.

I expect that any party that did that would get a severe thrashing at the next election

Bacteria-chomping phages could kill off HOSPITAL SUPERBUGS

Re: US Patent in ...

Hmm - what about Russian Prior Art

Adobe hackers strike again: PR Newswire grovels to clients after latest hack'n'grab

Adobe Fail

hardly newsworthy anymore

COFFEE AND DANISH HELL: National ID system cockup forces insecure Java on Danes

Re: Don’t They Read?

In South Africa you need the latest version of Flash and the latest Adobe PDF reader (no other versions or PDF reader will do)

Bloody annoying

Alarming tales: What goes on INSIDE Reg hack's hi-tech bedroom

Re: I accidentally trained myself to wake before the clock..

Had the same experience as a teenager with a mechanical alarm clock on a sloping shelf at the head of the bed. As it rang it 'walked' down the shelf and hit me on the head. I woke up the next morning to avoid the same fate.

Later in life I had a cat who came into the room and walked up my stomach to purr into my face to say that it was time for his breakfast.

Jury smacks Qualcomm for UNLAWFUL TECH in iPhone, Galaxy chips

RF mixer

"convert electromagnetic signals from higher to lower frequencies"

If that is all it is then that is the basis of superheterodyne radios since the 1920's

I hope there is more than that

Hypersonic MEGA METEOR pulled from lake, then Russians drop it

re:broken

It was like that when I got here!

'Spotify for TV' Magine terrifies Euro players with smart TV deals

WANT!!

If the price is at all sensible this is the way to go in the future

Feline OVERLORDS ditch camera-toting human servants, film selfie vids

Urban dictionary has it about right

Felis domesticus

Felis domesticus aka the House Cat. The highest form of life on Earth. Has used hypnotic powers of cuteness to enslave Homo sapiens to provide it with food and shelter, and, most importantly, a life of total freedom and leisure.

Canis familiaris saw what great success Felis domesticus had with enslaving the Homo sapiens primates, and almost accomplished the same feat with their similar powers of hypnotic cuteness, however, for some reason, the canines, for the most part, did not end up with the same levels of freedom as their feline counterparts, making them, in our opinion, the second smartest species on planet Earth, followed by Homo sapiens in a distant third place.

Leaky security could scuttle global ship-tracking system

Sounds just like false lights frome wreckers

Now this is real e-piracy, not some petty copyright infringement

Oracle drops shedload of CRITICAL vuln-busting Java patches

Is that the same Oracle that said that open source is crap?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/15/oracle_says_open_source_has_no_place_in_military_apps/

Seems that the biblical saying about the mote in the eye is about right

US parents proclaim 811 'Messiahs'

Re: Britons will be disturbed...

Or even Lewisham - as in Lewisham'Ilton

Icon - a relative?

Can you trust 'NSA-proof' TrueCrypt? Cough up some dough and find out

poor memory

If I am CORRECT you can get on your high HORSE and use BATTERY to STAPLE it into your memory

http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/

(By the way I got this as an answer:

Bare-Miss-Puzzle-Pile-3

It sounds distinctly like the coder had a sense of humour)

Obligatory http://xkcd.com/936/

MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross

Re: @LDS (was: Yes, Word is the worst word processor....)

LaTeX

no, - not the fetish stuff

Name-squatter fails to flog @roma Twitter handle to City of Rome

apathy

can't be bothered to say more

Ye Bug List

@Vimes

Shame on using such bad language

Azerbaijan

I am the future president of Azerbaijan & I will get 70% of the votes

Be prepared... to give heathens a badge: UK Scouts open doors to unbelievers

Scouting

As an old friend said - never trust that paramilitary organization

Icon - scoutmasters

Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different...

Re: Rambling

I knew a guy who was a great engineer, but was promoted to a managerial position - where he was struggling.

During the final year at work he had a chance to do some engineering again, while the new manager was starting up, and was visibly much happier there.

I also know a senior scientist who was sent on a course for prospective directors, but he said to me that nobody asked him if he wanted the job. He said that he would hate it, as there would be no scope for him to do the stuff he truly enjoyed.

advice: find a reliable friend or relation who will help with the business side & keep to your strengths.

'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims

re: nothing to fear

Sorry, but my irony meter just max'ed out and bent the needle at the end stop

So little to fear indeed that the poster stays anonymous.

Congrats on MP3ing your music... but WHY bother? Time for my ripping yarn

studying at the school of rock

But it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll

NSA: Yes, some of our spooks DID snoop on overseas lovers

You mean ~

not localhost

Windows 8 fans out-enthuse Apple fanbois

81

Should have made it 666

Deep inside the iPhone 5s lurk a few surprises

re: biometrics

Reports on the web say that you can use any appropriate ridged surface (big toe or even cat's pawprints), so just bring kitty around with you.

If you are truly paranoid, copy somebody else's prints and bring a copy of them around on a jelly baby. Gives plausible deniability and a delicious snack in one!

Sofas with a roof and Star Trek seating: The future of office furniture?

The cocoon

Looks like some sort of sci-fi monk's cell

Fancy some BEER ON TOAST? Italy invents spreadable booze

SWEET!!

Proper beer is not sweet! I am incensed

Give us a break: Next Android version to be called 'KitKat'

Re: I would have been very surprised if either company had objected.

perhaps lark's vomit garnished over the cornish ram's bladder?

http://www.montypython.net/sounds/sketches/larkvomit.wav

Boffin snatches control of colleague's body with remote control brain hat

Re: The uses are endless

Rent a Paris for my holiday!

Boffins force Skype to look you in the eye

look in the eye

I must remember to use mirror shades when I go on Skype next.

It also helps in my mean, tough image - like Boss Godfrey in Cool Hand Luke

SiriusXM sued for millions in 'unpaid' music royalties

Re: Pay me! Pay me again!

As for the shops - TURN OFF THE BLOODY NOISE!

EXPLICIT VID: Man filmed trying to bang brand new 'budget iPhone'

Re: Bah!

Field's metal is less toxic.

You would not like to make an poisoned Apple, Snow White

'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail

another act of Security Theatre

Surely we must get to the end of this stupid show soon. This drama is poor stuff - I can only hope that the powers that be don't take any of the seriously.

Reg hack battles Margaret Thatcher's ghost to bring broadband to the Highlands

Re: Margin

1dB for rain fade over 10km. Sounds OK outside of the winter period - checkout the nomogram in http://www.philsrockets.org.uk/Rain%20Fades.pdf

Anyone measured it?

Consider also that wet snow really kills the signal

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/16080/InTech-Atmospheric_attenuation_due_to_humidity.pdf

particularly if it is stuck on the antenna!

- make sure to use vertical polarization

But the multipath at this low level must be really bad. How would the neighbours feel about you putting up a mast?