Posts by bofh80

Stop replying! pleads NetApp customer stuck in reply-allpocalypse

Nah probably just work at the reg.

They don't seem to bother blogging or apologizing when their marketing dept does the exact same thing.

Google: Mmm. Tab-free Gmail desktop client? We won't DENY it

PGP

there was a rumour mill that a redesign was in the works and going to include PGP too.......

ZTE Open C, the Firefox OS mobe you'll almost want, now on eBay

Apparently Andy Prough can't actually show those plans. (no we can't find em otherwise we wouldn't ask)

And Wang N Staines can't show you the 8gb for £99 either.

Just saying.

Still deciding if i want to buy this as you need to root it to put a PROPER (as advised above) linux distro on it... :)

Re: Won't wow?

in fact, show me the plans,

Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background – seriously

Re: Royalties please

I think i'm turning Japanese, i really think so....(and the rest of the world too. heheh). At least you won't get a patent passed for rounded cornors and a touchscreen tho, ey, oh wait, but according to a certain el reg journo, that's a valid patent......what's worse?

Flying Toaster screen savers return on GitHub

Screensaver Burn IN

My first VGA monitor was really cheap. When i got home i noticed some writing on the screen, with some other ascii characters for decoration around it. It was a square repeating itself over and over down the screen with the fabled words(or rather similar):

"This screensaver has started to protect your screen from damage"

El Reg's contraptions confessional no.2: Tablet PC, CRT screen and more

Re: Model M

Oh yeah, gotta agree with the compaq rack keyboards. While not a mechanical, i still use the old compaq desktop keyboard KB9860 , which has a very similar feel to those rack keyboards. I can't use another keyboard, when this one finally goes again, i find em on ebay or amazon with the model number. Also the mouse, the logitech mouseman wheel M-CW47 big ergonomic, comfortable and has a 'back' button . PS/2 rules. :)

Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII

This guy needs a new job

In journalism. Oh my this is refreshing, please more from this guy, give him a spot and pay for his articles. Much better! :P

/ducks

Google cripples Chromecast third party replay

As per mk802

chromecast is just the first of many for those who haven't heard yet. For those who have heard (which should be all of you reading this) spend a leetle more, rk3188 (up to 1.8ghz quad core). enjoy. ebay or amazon, course it ships with droid, but linux compat is on the up and up for rockchips, a month after i emailed them (to the day) they released some linux code. whoot.

APPLE: SCREW YOU, BRITS, everyone else says Samsung copied us

pulls out a fresh box

and hands another kleenex to andrew

Hitachi claims glass data storage will last millions of years

Re: A nice shiny thing for a pendant... (ASCII code system got lost along the way...)

lol @ SG reference.

Verizon CFO: 'Unlimited' data is just a word

Re: Well, this is the type of idiotic, incompetent, parasitic scumb...

at least one of those people saw your post it seems . ..

Everything Everywhere's 4G: Why I'm sitting this one out

part 2

nice work.

which phones work atm?

when will tmobile / orange EE actually be selling 4g, still nothing on their website

how will this affect three, who have boldy gone into the 'unlimited' but not 'tethered'(£5 add on) data arena.

From literally £10 a month, (100 mins, some texts) you get unlimited internet. Which is good.

note i'm on voda, have been for years, and am about to switch to three.

Microsoft: MED-V won't help you escape WinXP end-of-life

The blind leading the blind

So, no one notices microsoft's idiomatic tendencies at work here?

They created their own browser to lock people into windows.

And it WORKED.

.APPLAUSE.

How is that microsoft can have a compatibility mode to run windows 95 apps, yet somehow getting IE9 to run them is 'impossible'. Or simply recompiling ie7 on windblows 7.

.APPLAUSE.

Stupid is. Stupid does.

Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review

If only world + dog had listened.

When we told them vista was a pile of <EXPLETIVE>

Ten... Androids for under 200 quid

Wow What an article

No conclusion, no summary, no actual COMPARISON of phones and features for money. At all. Wow. Did a ten year old write this.

UK.gov cloud is 'biggest breakthrough' - UK.gov cloud CIO

let me guess

they have storage in the US? :)

All of Europe's data in US servers? We're OK with that - EC bod

seriously? securely?

would all the security experts with proper full stops and letters after their name, please step forward and explain that there is no such thing.

Let's ask RSA first.

W3C: 'Do not track' by default? A thousand times: NO!

Re: Cookies

Once turned on the technology would stop the "if you continue we assume Yes"

"OH BTW we couldn't be asked to code in a NO button, please click this long winded Read about how we track you button to turn this feature off"

And ofc the sentence would be a hell of a lot shorter if sites like El Reg had already coded in a NO button. I'm NOT fine with this. DUH.

But tech savy readers wouldn't be bothered by that lameness.

Keep up biting, err chewing, i guess tickling maybe.

Tosh puts 1TB in the palm of your hand

style-ish

Better not put a screen in the middle of it, otherwise apple will sue for copying the iphone 'design' . . . . .

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

Lies, Lies, Lies

Viewpoint Media Player is a very viral dvd player that comes packed onto loads of DVD movies, and it installs itself without asking.

I have seen XP come to a crawl just because of this stupid thing, not on my XP build tho, i disabled those Security flaws for my customers over 2 years ago. I get the occasional person I have to explain to double click on my computer. Apart from that and ofc the stupid 3g sticks and their stupid modeswitch.

I wouldn't mind, it's just another of the 500 to 1000+ registry entries that are wrong by default. How else are the MCP's going to make any money? ::)

Assange lawyers fume over leaked rape case docs

Black and White - Welcome to the Gray area.

So IRONY. IRONY. IRONY. go on say it again.

Now to all the folk who've been with the US gov on this, who are saying that this stuff should be leaked on assange, his bail address should be given out. To you people who are reading this.

You are AGREEING WITH ASSANGE.

You are AGREEING that the information should be free and open.

Welcome to the free world, i'm with ya.

Oh the IRONY.

And to the people leaking it, to the judges who condone the current behaviour. You are simply proving his case.

Chew on that for while.

US Navy achieves '100 mile' hypersonic railgun test shot

Good to see

That american scientists still have little or no idea how to use the tesla tech they are sitting on. Maybe one day they can share what they have classified (hmm wikileaks could do it mebe jaja). And the rest of the world could explain to them how it works. Before they blow themselves up with it.

“C = E/R”

Maybe one day.

Microsoft backs NASA's open source cloud kit

Interesting

Nice article, well written, and let the commentators speculate about conspiracy theory's.

Excellent stuff. !

Two-year wait for Windows 8, MS blurts

Biggest luddite ever.

The Times They Are A-changin'

Biggest risk they've taken so far is actually Vista, and that paid off so well.

Their idea of a risk was use all the computers memory for the OS.

All that Gloss.

Even 7, when you turn off the useless crap, can do 300megs of ram. That aint bad, and if the services and bumf where coded correctly you should not go over 4/5max. 7 is 7 .

So at least another 6 months until 7 works correctly. Businesses implement test in the mean time, then rollout, then windows 8 comes out.

Sounds very familar to the nt4 > 2k push. They don't innovate, they just keep forcing the same old manure, and you keep eating it. Funneh.

Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

Ahh Cmon.

Why do El Reg no longer sink their teeth in.

If memory alone serves correctly, this is a little different to the usual story.

This is not a simple, you used an idea I patented.

Microsoft had access to the source code for this, then they refused to buy it, then they stole the software. I mean it's how the company began, and it's how they will carry on.

But i don't want to make these points. El Reg used to it properly.

Sigh.

How do you copy 60m files?

Total Commander

Total Commander

I would have liked to have known how this held up.

With the synchronization feature it would have taken a while, but i'm sure you'd end up with a perfect working sync, and really good reports for failures etc.

How can 50 comments miss the one tool that's capable of this that's been running for years ? (1993 - same time as winrar.)

Do IT people even read this site anymore. Let alone write for it.

'Larry and Sergey's HTML5 balls drained my resources'

Almost 10 years to the day

El Reg never made such a hullabaloo when i sent the same wondrous problem with using THEREGISTER as my home page. Why? FLASH ADS.

Would they listen, did they even report it? NO

In fact, with all these quips from apple about flash posted here, it's fun to note at the time that EL Reg though that Flash worked fine, and it was obviously a problem with the 3 different pc's i was using.

funny how things go innit.

Paris for sheer wonderous humor.

Google opens Chrome Web Store to devs

Wrong Title

Google to cash in on free ubuntu

Your just thinking, "oh OK, yeah i see where you coming from. Redhat Ubuntu debian et al have missed a huge cash puppy that google can cash in on from tablets to pc's. ( = iphone store / steam)

But your missing the real point here, unlike other companies who made the road google is using, they did not bite into the 'capitalism bug' with OSS software, you do not, as many have done, need to buy out the main company behind the software. (ie from googles point of view a company like Xandros would look very appealing)

(There are some exceptions here, but lets go with the MASS percentage of sheer stupidy .)

And on another related side note, while google does not seem to treating the OSS community rather well, (various technical aspects to android and chrome etc) they have caused a huge surge in developers on Linux to create free AND commercial software.

It is just possible that google could make 2011 the year corporate applications finally start coming to linux 'en mass'. Here's hoping.

btw, incase you think i'm some kind of fanboy, i'll point out that i've liked google less and less over the years, if microsoft is the devil, google is just sheer evil. :)