Posts by ByeLaw101

WikiLeaks on verge of financial collapse, founder says

Even if you agree/disagree ... Isn't there some freedoms being curtailed here?

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

It used to be easy, we had Linux haters, Apple haters and MS haters, now we have Linux haters, Apple haters, MS Vista haters, MS Office Ribbon haters, and MS Windows 8 haters.

I can't handle this! Too much... ;)

Email and compliance: How not to blow the storage budget?

IDM?

For compliance, provisioning, risk assessment and auditing of users access and storage have you considered an IDM solution?

Amazon intros $199 movie Kindle

lol .. " into a giant fuck-off web proxy"

Way too technical for me ;)

NHS loses CD of 1.6 MILLION patients' records

""While the breach was unfortunate, I would like to reassure patients that the data stored in the filing cabinet was not current - the most recent information was from 2002"

Oh, phew.. that's a relief!

Ford unwraps Evos cloud-connected concept car

Rust buckets?

My wife has a 10 year old Fiesta with 140,000 miles on the clock, no rust.

I have a 4 year old Mondeo with 101,000 mile son the clock, no rust. Nice car as well for popping up and down the motorway!

I also believe the Mondeo was best in it's class for a few years ... so maybe not that crappy after all?

Samsung outs MacBook Pro lookalike laptop

Re: Re: Eh?

Hi Tony,

"I don't think I mentioned patents at all. Look up 'trade dress'."

I inferred this due to the current legal spat is about patents. In fairness however, you didn't mention "trade dress" either. I did however look it up and "Trade Dress" is another term for IP, of which of course covers patents.

Re: Re: Eh?

Hi Tony,

"I don't think I mentioned patents at all. Look up 'trade dress'."

I inferred this due to the current legal spat is about patents. In fairness however, you didn't mention "trade dress" either. I did howver look it up and "Trade Dress" is another term for IP, of which of course includes patents.

Re: Re: Eh?

Hi Tony,

"I don't think I mentioned patents at all. Look up 'trade dress'."

I inferred this due to the current legal spat is about patents. In fairness however, you didn't mention "trade dress" either.

RE: RE: Eh? ...

Hi Tony,

You didn't mention "trade dress" either, either way I don't see how your assertion that this product will "tempt Apple lawyer" is correct... seems a little ridiculous really.

Eh?

Looks like an laptop to me, and so does the Apple... now what patent do you think Samsung has breached?

Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft

Fick.

For me the Ribbon takes up too much space on screen, and it does clutter things up.

If MS is interested in advance UI, why don't they give people a choice instead of forcing this on them? I've been using the Ribbon interface in Office for years now and I still don't like it!

Maybe I'm just getting old and stuck in my ways?

David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks

Hmmmm

So if Mr Cameron doesn't like what you say, he's going to bar you from saying it?

Yikes.

Seagate's flash-disk hybrid crosses the chasm

Well they do work

I've got a couple of Momentus XT's and they certainly do work, speed wise when loading up apps is similar to a 15k drive. There has been problems though so make sure you have the latest firmware (although I believe some problems still persist for some users).

The SSD part is a read cache and does not enhance writing speeds as far as I know.

Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes

Lol..

The Register pulls the BBC up on .... Grammer and spelling :)

LOL, didn't see that one coming.

People in glass houses.........

Shale gas frees Europe from addiction to Putin's Pipe

Shale gas....is it safe?

One of the problems with Shale Gas is that it's not considered safe by many parties. I live near an experiment being conducted at Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire and drilling has been stopped there while investigations are being carried out to see if the drilling (or should I say the explosions) were the cause of a minor earth quake felt in Blackpool.

There is also the environmental problems this type of drilling can incur, such as the release of methane into the water supply.

Deep inside AMD's master plan to topple Intel

@Kevin

"@ByeLaw101 - what on Earth are you on about? How can you "pronounce" GCN? Are you Polish? They're the only people I know that seem to be able to pronounce words without vowels"

Ah... I see your point, my bad. Although I suppose you could pronounce TLA as "Ta...LAAAAAA!" ;)

Also, you should note that everyone really loves a pedant ;)

Kevin... oh dear, Kevin..

I've always known TLA stood for "Three Letter Acronym", if you stop being a pedant for a minute it acutally makes sense to be called "Three Letter Acronym" instead of "Three Letter Abbreviation"!

TLA is actually a Three Letter Acronym itself, and in no sense an abbreviation!

Iran to attend Olympics, despite 'racist' logo

PM shows understanding...

"PM David Cameron described the claim as "completely paranoid" and said the Iranians wouldn't be missed it they failed to show."

I think the PM has missed the point of the games, it suppose to bring countries together despite their political differences.

Samsung intros 10in Android tablet

Spec is different.

"Beyond these points, the 10in, 1280 x 800 Tab's spec largely matches that of its 7in predecessor. "

I thought it ran on the new Tegra2, which is significantly different from it's predecessor?

Windows hits 25

re: x86 protected mode → #

@beardman

Protected mode was implemented in Win 2.x in 386 mode, Win 3.x, Win95 ... onwards.

BA slams stupid security checks

Manchester Airport

I was at Manchester Airport last week, the security checks although a bit wierd didn;t last long. The thing I was annoyed about was having to turn up two hours early for my flight only to have to wade through a zig zag of shops with the airports synical attempt to grab more money off me.

Do we really need to turn up two hours earlier, for the sake of security?

ARM flexes muscles with fivefold performance boost

Erm...64 bit vs 32 bit address space?

@Mage

The fact that AMD & Intel address bus is not 64 bit has little to do with what the industry is harping on about. A 32 bit CPU can only address 4 gigs of ram, additional memory can only be accessed via some slow paging system.

A 64 bit CPU can have a much larger linear address space which is handy for the big apps like Databases and Heavy graphic manipulation. AMD 48bit address space allows for a lot larger (I think 256TB) to be addressed.

I suppose the reason why a 64bit address bus has not been configured on these processors yet is that there isn't really a requirement to address this amount of ram in the first place.

Rackspace claims credit for shushing Koran-burning 'pastor'

LOL

@James Thomas

Now THAT was funny! ;)

Novell misses Q3 revenue and profit targets

Calm down calm down..

Hi Sean!

I just wish to retort to some of your assumptions if I may.

With SLES and OES you do not need the Novell Client to use it. In fact, for several years now Novell have supported access to their servers (yep, even Netware) via CIFS, AFS and other clients so there would be no need to deploy NCP Clients.

The best file + Print servers in my opinion was a Netware box, not much good at anything else but great at file + print ;). Calling a Linux + Samba the best file servers is a little surprising but hey, I won’t get into a religious argument with you on that one.

Novell Client login scripting is not as powerful as Windows, totally agree. You can break out of a Novell Script and use what you like but it’s difficult to get the scripts answers back in to the Novell script to argument it’s responses.

I’d have to say that eDirectory does beat the pants of AD at the moment. It scales a lot beter (up to billions of objects) and is regarded in the industry as the best performing and most extensible directory out there. The strong partitioning facilities are not “edge”, and are used in every deployment that I’d done (and as a IDM Consultant I can tell you that’s more than a few when deploying Novell IDM!). It doesn’t have silly limitations such as the last login time not being reliable and up to 14 days old. There are many reasons why I think eDirectory is superior to AD… but I have to admit AD is getting better.

Hi Pirate Dave,

You’ve got it totally wrong about DirXML and NDS4NT… and you call the other guy a noob! NDS4NT was basically what we know now as eDirectory but running on an NT box. It was required there to get the rather clunky and basically crap Password Sync v1.0 to run between NDS and a windows domain. DirXML, or as it’s repackaged now as IDM is much more than just an AD-> eDirectory user and password synchronising product, but rather an Identity Management object synchronising engine which is highly regarded in the industry.

Most admins did morn the loss of NWAdmin all those years ago, but coming man… get over it, nobody cares anymore … and try running iManager locally if you’re really pissed about it, much better.

eDirectory by the way has an LDAP interface and supports RADIUS authentication.

OES2 crap? Hmmm… well…. The latest version is fine, but I remember the first version really was crap. Again though, Netware is dead, move on and get your Novell services onto Linux or move to another vendor…. Like Microsoft ;)

Peace and love x

eh?

@ Sean

As an admin I did not like Netware, but GroupWise scaled much better and more reliable than exchange, and Zenworks is an excellent set of tools for, especially for desktop applicatgion deployment...much better than SCCM! Imporperly implementented Zenworks can be a hog, you just got to know what your doing!

So, there's at least 1 Net Admin that like Novell stuff ;)

AD better than eDirectory?

@Sean ...

"and frankly, I'm not sure how they could change enough to compete with Active directory"

You don't think that AD is a better directory over eDirectory? Do you? ;)

HMV takes on mighty iTunes with 40p promo

Bit rate?

Soooo... whats the bit rate then?

Southpaws up in arms over iPhone 4

As a lefty...

I'd want the very expensive phone to work when I pick it up... not a big ask.

I wouldn't put up with it, I wouldn't work around it, I'd demand a fix or money back.

'Completely useless' Windows 3.1 hits Google's Android

Not quite right

"Windows 3.1 added support for long file names, virtual memory, and the ability to share devices"

It did bring virtual memory, but it was stuck with 8.3 naming convention filenames (DOS) and it was Windows 3.11 that had network support to share devices.