Posts by James Owen

Orange mobile data chucks punters

well that'll explain it!

performed a radio update on my Villainrom running Hero yesterday, and thought I'd bricked it! Spent most of today rolling it back to the new Orange Eclair release hoping to fix it! Thank god for El Reg keeping me informed, because there's nowt on the Orange website!

Splinter Cell hack smells more like publicity stunt

doesn't even look like a real hack

Far to arty

And why post the co-ordinates for the Kazansky Cathedral in St Petersburg in bottom corner?

Is Amazon censoring anti-DRM reviews?

fishy

better keep an eye on the FarCry2 reviews then as well, because the DRM is getting slated too.

When are the software publishers going to realise that incorporating DRM onto a disk is going to alienate more potential purchasers, than put off hackers/crackers.

Sony updates PS3 firmware, again

In Game XMB access???

Didn't the last FW (2.41) start providing this? Cos I can certainly access my XMB when playing a game!

Blighty's electro-supercar 2.0 uncloaked today

Cross between ....

It looks like a cross between a Lotus Elise, and Chrysler Crossfire, but will obviously have the power and speed of a Prius!

Desktop Eee PC spied on web

Surely White means DVI?? not VGA

White = DVI when I went to school

Oz video rental giants go Blu-ray only

Do numbers really compute?

102241 Blu-ray Disc players (including PS3s) and 609 HD-DVD Players - are those figures right?

Can those figures really be correct?

Google Earth unearths crashed Darfur gunrunning plane

2 or 4 Engines?

Count the number of engines on the planes. The ones one GE are clearly only twin engines, so the plane in the UN photo must be at a different location