Posts by spiderwebby

Virgin Media nukes downloads after SuperHub 'upgrade'

What's UI efficency again?

They've also managed to break the page for adding reserved IPs, as well as changing the UI from annoying to fucking horrendous.

PFsense here I come!

London CGI firm scores DON'T-HIT-the-PEDESTRIAN test contract

They curretly use videos recorded from roads in normal use.

You get to watch them on an 800x600 crt and have to click the mouse when the blob of pixles that looks vaguely like a cycleist moves around the stationary blob of pixles that could be a parked truck.

The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest

guide to whatnow?

suddenly h2g2 sees a massive spike

BT's gift to Google: A patent war over ads and Android

They're probably trying to make up the profits lost due to their shoddy broadband.

Ten... remastered videogame classics

frames per minute

Since when did 30fps become acceptable? and how can they get away with labelling that HD?!

Win 8 haters are just scared of change, say MS bosses

"What is it with designers recently and screens littered with icons?"

Seconded.

If MS where to kick the salesmen out of the UI design department and start employing engineers, I bet we'd end up with something closer to the win98 interface.

god I feel old..

Apple tightens screws on hardware hackers

landfill you say..

since apple are dead against home repair, do they offer to dispose of your de-magic-smoked equipment when it's no longer viable to repair?

Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses

how stupid can germans be?

what people dont realise is that wireless routers have several MAC addresses; one for the modem, one for the LAN (and one for the WLAN(?)), so its actually fairly useless for anything other than a gps replacement/supplement.