Posts by Captain Scarlet

Move up, Siri and Cortana: BlackBerry's new... 'Assistant' is here

Does anyone actually use these?

I always find it annoying when someone uses voice stuff like this, the user also finds it annoying when you then randomly shout words to confuse it.

Microsoft swings axe at 18,000 bods in its largest ever round of layoffs

Synergy

Reminds me of the Dilbert episode, I wonder if this is where Wally currently resides.

Wham, bam, thank you NAND: SanDisk SSD sales soar

Re: 4TB SSD's

I think for consumer devices SATA is ok, even an SSD cache on my machine with SATA2 saw a huge improvement.

Seagate chances ARM with NAS boxes for the SOHO crowd

Re: "Marvel ARM 1.2GHz processor"

What type of ARM processor?

ARM have loads of different types of processors from fast single threaded to slower multi threaded designs.

Ok I'll bite, how much does it store?

ALIEN BODY FOUND ON MARS: Curiosity rover snaps extraterrestrial

Re: That's not a rock...

Well I can't just leave my Mysteron devices unprotected.

Don't put that duffel bag full of cash in the hotel room safe

Re: Taking you to the cleaners

Ah you have not seen Murder She Wrote or Columbo then, always feels like the crown jewels are nicked from them whenever one is present.

We SO DO support Java on XP, maybe even JDK 8, says Oracle

Re: Eh?

Except maybe web browsers on legacy OS's (I'm talking about Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 here which had browsers and can use TCP/IP)

El Reg nips down IKEA's 'I've Got A Screw Loose Street'

Re: I have your missing bits...

I also do, as well as someone to tend to me when I manage to hammer my big thumb, thankfully screwdrivers are not normally required instead hex keys which arent as sharp :D

LG unfurls flexible SEE-THROUGH 18-inch display

What about Folded Displays

Would prefer a folded display, that way it can slip into a laptop case and be unfolded when required.

BT slapped down by BSkyB over O2 broadband 'switch off' porkies

Assuming the downvotes are because your line speed negotiated with the exchange didn't degrade?

Sounds like an issue with your phone line degrading as it gets older

Software giant CA Technologies dumps arcserve biz

Arcserve

I remember those days, it was fine until it decided to eat its own database and I would wonder why no backup tapes were ejected (My fault for relying on the inbuilt database).

Dubai to get huge climate-controlled domed city and giga-mall

Walk...

Oh I thought they would have travelators everywhere

Virgin Media goes titsup AGAIN. The cause? Yet MORE DNS strife

But you pay for an Internet Service which in my books means they should provide a decent set of DNS servers as well as the connection.

Fridge hacked. Car hacked. Next up, your LIGHT BULBS

Re: now lightbulbs need a firmware upgrade?

Hmm if I could get an IOT front door and windows I could just make up stuff like oh sorry I am late for work, my door decided to update its firmware and lock me in until it was done.

Top ten car gadgets: Get your motor running with new shiny-shiny

Re: Rather expensive versions chosen

Have to agree with the Car Dashcam, more decent car dashcams brands are becoming more available in the UK with a price range of around £70 to £120 for a decent 1080p camera.

Girl gamers sexism row: Top e-sports federation finds reverse gear

Women Gamers Only Tourney

I just see this as a way for males to droll over women and its just tacky

Start packing your bags for a Windows Server 2003 migration

I wonder how many further servers are 2000, NT they have

Windows 7, XP and even Vista GAIN market share again

0.1% down

Yeah I fail to see how this confirms Windows 8 is a complete disaster, I would have thought if 0% of people were using it then it would be a disaster.

VSANs choking on VMware's recommended components

Re: Bad software engineering

I think you will find the majority of makers are on the list (Although I don't see Supermicro).

Travel website Hotel Hippo yanked offline after data leaks spotted

Re: What authority did you have...

What, you don't even check sites if abuse requests or requests from the customers to look at something? Thats pretty poor service.

Windows Server 2003 end of life: Plan your WS2012 migration now

Sigh

/me fire up several Windows NT4 Servers just to troll the MS Marketting Department

Although plugged into a mini hub with several NT4 workstations so NER!

BOFH: You can take our lives, but you'll never take OUR MACROS

Its better than letting user have access to SQL, running several queries at once which deadlock and lock and wonder why the Information Something department is yelling at them to stop it.

Spreadsheet nightmares

Sounds like our days, regret giving everyone ODBC links (10 years ago mind you) to everything now can't get them removed (Lynch mobs form with fire and pickaxes).

Spend goodness knows how much on reporting software and in the end everyone just uses 50 million different versions of a spreadsheet no-one knows how works because the person who designed it left years ago.

Patch looks like Microsoft FAIL, quacks like FAIL, is actually quite good

Re: Vista?

MS will care about Win 7 as it still makes money from it, when it drops off like XP then it'll all change.

WORLD CUP TRAUMA? Just Streaming Stick a Roku in it

Re: Soccer fan?

Agreed, STOP IT!

Daddy, what will you do in the new security wars?

Re: HELP

I normally find it in %userprofile%\Desktop\passwords.txt or written in permanent Marker under the keyboard.

Microsoft is still touting Android smartphones – meet the new Nokia X2

A Microsoft branded Android App Store?

ARRRRR. Half world's techies are software PIRATES – survey

Re: Interesting

With the unannounced checks of software licensing we've had from IBM, Microsoft, etc... yeah right

Microsoft tests HALF-INCH second screen to spur workplace play

Re: H&S Nightmare

Where I work foam missiles would mean I would have to raise a near miss, lord knows what will happen when they find the shock tanks we now can't take out for fear of someone pointing and yelling UNSAFE!

iFind: Critics slam Kickstarter campaign for miraculous battery-free phone finder

Kickstarter for me has been great, I have only ever put towards projects I actually cared about rather than simply trying to buy stuff early (Although unfortunatly I think the majority of been computer games such as Carmageddon).

France frostily foists flat fizz fear on ICANN's .wine plans

reallygoodwine.eu

Yeah its not like any other TLD could be used to peddle fake wine

'Heartbleed-based BYOD hack' pwns insurance giant Aviva's iPhones

Ouch

I would hate to be on Helldesk in the morning after this occured (Although if it was used as an alarm might be more balanced as staff wakeup realising their alarm didnt go off).

The cute things they say

Printer Mayhem

Happens at least once a week

User: Printers Broken

Tech: Which one?

User: Erm they are all broken

***Tech goes to printer room*** Finds two wanting toner, a copier out of paper and another one asking for B5 because someone told the printer to print B5

Waiting gamer slams no-show show: E3 – was that it?

Grim Fandango

Screw console gimme now for PC!!

It better be a remake much like the The Secret of Monkey Island as I think that remake captured the game in all its glory and took me wayback but with nicer graphics (Or classic graphics if you hit the hotkey).

BOFH: On the contrary, we LOVE rebranding here at the IT dept

Currently at IS, waiting for the directors to realise we do still use and manage technology so I can get a proper job title.

Re: Time to rebrand HR....

In our mid sized company they have a cupboard full of Whisky although to blow your nose you have to use some ilness forms

Intel pleads for €1bn EU fine to be overturned, is denied

Re: @P010nium "They paid it when........."

AMD brought you Beer, man all i got was some commission for selling finance contracts on Maxx PC's which was then removed and no incentive for it at all (Forms took forever to fill out and often the customer could not get the finance package so were often turned down).

Re: To be quite honest I had not realised that the beggers.......

Reminds me of SCO v. Novell

The moment you think its dead something tries to kickstart it

SLOW DOWN: Insecure-by-design software on road

Re: Not to mention-

@hplasm Have to agree, always find large stretches of motorway have random queue or go slow messages and 7 out of 10 times nothing. The M11 is particularly annoying as it feels like for several junctions the same message is displayed and when you do get to an actual accident or something in the road everyone has sped up again.

Freeview's rumoured '£100m YouView killer' is real – and it's yet another digital TV thing

Re: No

Yes, but you may have a lot of times where its buffering

Samsung's 'OS of Everything' Tizen still has little to offer

Re: Its the Apps Stupid!

"iOS sells because nobody ever got fired for buying Apple"

Last company I used to work for which made me use Apples went under, yeah I can see why now.

Facebook, are you listening? Fusion-io chucks 6.4TB 'Atomic' flash kit at world

Re: So what does Facebook have to do with this?

They were two of Fusion-IO's biggest customers

New software nasty encrypts Android PHONE files and demands a ransom

Re: Safety

Any walled garden app store may miss something when going through the thousands of fart apps that are sent in everyday, unless the source code is provided analysis of compiled objects may miss things.

AMD tops processor evolution with new mobile Kaveri chippery

Re: Hmmmm

*COUGH*Processor on the PS4 is AMD*COUGH*

Microsoft's NEW OS now runs on HALF of ALL desktop PCs

Re: Wot no Vista?

@JW 1

*Shrugs Shoulders*

Copy Command in Vista is fine, also make use of Robocopy

PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD

Re: Stop!

My preferred measure is pints of Ale, or if its something on the floor Crunchie bars (Because they are easier to get to than my tape measure which always decides to disappear when I require it)

TrueCrypt considered HARMFUL – downloads, website meddled to warn: 'It's not secure'

Re: Uh-oh

"One more reason people should ONLY use Free software and even then, they should not trust it"

Unless you coded it in binary yourself on a machine you designed from scratch I don't think you should trust it.

New dashboard gives eagle's-eye view of Microsoft's security flaws

Re: Reboot?

@vahid

DOS??!! Do you mean the Windows Command Line Interface or Powershell?

I am very confused by your post, you install Windows, remove it then place the Linux kernel in Windows and replace DOS with BASH.