Posts by Sharpy86

Yes. App that lets you say 'Yo' raises 1 MEEELLION DOLLARS

I just checked the Terms and conditions, guess what?

They don't actually exist. Stock 404 errors when clicking for either the Privacy policy or the Terms of Use.

I smell a viral prank.

Atlantis computer goes down: Fixed by 'nauts

think with portals

Just needs to play portal 2.... I'm in spaaaaaa-

Yeah, i'll get my coat

HTC says smartphone bootloader unlock software out next month

Good news for me

I just got one of these yesterday so thats one less thing I have to do. Got to say so far im not unhappy with my move away from Apple. Flash on a mobile with Java is more then a little nice. Forgot how much I missed it.

Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE

Not with IE6

I just tried this on a Windows XP virtual machine with a standard restricted account. I tried to run the installer and it said I needed administrator rights to install it. Interestingly when I tried this on internet explorer 8 it worked. Wow Internet Explroer 6 led to better security. The world has gone mad.

Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can't lock down its booty

Eset have some offerings

At the moment Eset are doing free Beta software for Linux. I believe it will be paid for after release but it seems to work from the testing I did on a ubuntu based system. It can be downloaded from http://beta.eset.com/linux

They also do Mac software which you could use a trial to check, but after 30 days again its paid for software.

I think a few other AV companies do Linux/Mac software but as much as I like the idea of ClamAV it isn't very effective according to reviews and AV tests.

Not surprised

I am not surprised Mac users would get a higher infection rate. Mac users are told over and over that macs CAN'T get a virus. Us in tech circles know this isn't true but the average Joe has to use what they are told. They are told Macs are safe so they buy a mac and are misled into believing they can click on anything and have no risk of getting infected so they do. The same goes for a lot of Linux users to be honest, that being said Linux tends to be more robust and a lot harder to infect properly but it is still possible. The rules of being careful what you click on still apply.

Mozilla plots February Firefox 4 release

Speed isnt everything....

I am tired of the major argument being speed of rendering.... seriously there is more to a browser then raw speed. For example Opera has a lovely 'feature' of not displaying pages properly often failing to render parts or display videos, put ads in weird places, etc. Chrome is pretty good if not a little basic on the plugins and options level for my taste, yes its fast but I like being able to customise and tweak. I also don't like giving Google much more power over me then I have to. IE isn't all that bad now. I don't like it myself but it isn't terrible, it works. Firefox is bloated yes but also has hundreds of add-ons. Those add ons are rather handy. Examples being Ad-block plus and and no-script between those two I can customise what I do and don't want to see on the internet. there are other handy ones but those two are my favs. So in short why are we all judging browsers simply by how much RAM they use and how fast they load benchmark pages? the difference on a decent machine being a second or two at most! What do you think you will do in those two seconds?!

Oracle revs Sun's VirtualBox hypervisor

Simple....

I have to say I use a bridged connection on the virtual machine and use file sharing on windows guests and SAMBA on *nix guests. The shared folders just always seemed to crash out on me.

Didn't Connectix virtual machine (NOT the Microsoft version) used to do drag and drop file sharing?