Posts by Captain Scarlet

You thought slinging Photoshop into the cloud would fail? Look who's laughing NOW

demonstrating acceptance of the new offering

I think it should be reworded to Demonstrating people and companies who rely on their software are being forced to the new offering.

Everyone's waving their 5-inchers: BlackBerry outs new supersized Z30

Re: Z30 ?

Ah I see, they plan to trick people getting a Z80 before they realise they paid more for it!

Former! Android! Open! Source! Boss! Takes! Job! At! Yahoo!

Yahoo products

Yahoo has released hundreds of products recently?

When was that?

It's Grand Theft Auto 5 day: Any of you kids remember GTA the First?

Re: No PC Version...

Keyboard and Mouse ftw

KVM kings unveil 'cloud operating system'

Wow

Right better get my copy of Windows 2.0 ready

Google cooks web dev teaching tool for Raspberry Pi

Re: Pi still a miss.

Children don't get a choice.

Anyway the biggest problem for the Pi is the speed of your SD cards and if you use up all available memory, for how cheap it is I still think its a bargin.

iPhone 5S: Apple, you're BORING us to DEATH (And you too, Samsung)

Re: Used to be innovators?

"They always did the GUI that bit more slickly than anyone else. Even back to Mac vs Windows 2.x"

Remembers Mac OS9

/me runs screaming from the building

First rigid airship since the Hindenburg cleared for outdoor flight trials

Engine Lift

The bit about if an engine is used to provide extra lift, if it fails it will have a softer landing?

If an engine fails then when it does crash can't it be put nose first to act as a large crumple zone?

Re: and most of the energy is used on forward momentum.

Sky Docks so they don't have to dump as much gas, TO THE FUTURE!

Apple quietly revives iPhone charging and syncing docks

Docks

I assume the more rounded dock is for the feature phone?

The less rounded one will likely cause Apple to get sued by another company who has patented less rounded objects.

New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'

Console like graphics

My lord so its as powerful as my Mega Drive!

Opera unveils iPad-only browser

Re: See it in the flesh

I would agree but after dumping their own browser engine (At least open source it Opera and give the browsing engine a chance) it started to feel more like one of those early IE browsers (Other early browsers based on Netscape and others also available) which tries to be a better browser than IE.

Microsoft does a U-turn, releases Windows 8.1 to developers early after all

Re: Scary and unbelievable

"The future is touch and gesture"

Hmm I feel bad for using a usb mouse and keyboard on my android tablet now :'(

The bank that likes to say... crash: TSB's online banking goes titsup on launch day

Re: Outdated?

But to who, they are still all as bad as each other.

Peugeot 208 GTi: The original hot hatch makes a comeback

Re: It still looks

Agreed, havent they seen what they have done with the smart or even the Suzuiki Swift?

Re: Huh...

Erm fifth gear more like

No wheel smoking

No Stig

No baffon shouting "POWER!!!!"

No explosion or crash at the end of the article

IP telly upstart stuffs Comedy Central, MTV in Freeview box

Pricing

Fingers crossed it has stuff I actually want to see without requiring a Virigin/Sky/BT box and it costs less.

Fingers crossed again its cheaper.

Microsoft: YES Windows 8.1 is finished, but NO you can't have it

Well...

Have sensors to detect what configuration its in and when in Tablet mode change the interface to tablet mode. Its only a shell at the end of the day.

Boffins' keyboard ELECTROCUTES Facebook addicts

Blast

So because El Reg has Facebook buttons I can look forward to being shocked :(

Pimoroni PiGlow: Rainbow LED swirls for the Raspberry Pi

Hangon

I have searched for sites like this before, why does my Google skills suck so much these days :(

Oh noes! New 'CRISIS DISASTER' at Fukushima! Oh wait, it's nothing. Again

What about morning breakfast

Couldn't get away from it that morning, someone was in a boat on either BBC or ITV one even claimed it was the worst disaster ever (At which point I turned off the TV).

Cisco goes public with major vulns

Oh thats not good

My monitoring system is possibly going to cause most of these all in one go when I least suspect it :(

Pinch to Xoom: Motorola settles trademark suit in confidential deal

Xoom

Hmm I remember Xoom.com as a really old free web host.

I feel really old now :(

SQUEEEEE! Microsoft goes retro with pay-by-squawk NFC tech

Picture

Not a bad picture, made me feel young when some of my colleagues spotted it and started talking all about it :D

Card-cloning crooks use 3D printers to make ever-better skimmers

Hmm

Interesting Video, lets hope scammers dont use No More Nails!

Apple erects measures to stop app-happy kids splurging parents' dosh

Ok so Kids are sorted

But what about Children?

YouTube Wars: Microsoft cries foul as Windows Phone app pulled again

API

Hmm I am aware MS was forced to open their API's to everyone, was it ever locked down to the you must access this API in a certain way?

BOFH: Backup server's failed? We have a backup backup server

They are brilliant

We have one from when our server room was an "IBM Mainframe Room", but the halon system was stripped out before we brought the place so ours no longer does anything :(

Telefonica and Arqiva set to mop up BILLIONS in smart meter cash

Re: Automagic cutting of power - oh noes!!!

More like smart billing, when you using it raise prices, when your not lower prices.

Claim increase on prices is due to wind farms.

Possessed baby monitor shouts obscenities at Texas tot

Re: British or European

Why do Americans always think we British are Evil (Look at Total Recall the remake), I mean come on it would literally be minutes before I would require a cup of tea. Although slurping might not sound right over a baby monitor.

BlackBerry hits 88MPH, goes back to the future with NEW old 9720 mobe

Re: I miss my berry

*Rubs salt into wound*

The Q10 is lovely

Correction

*But somewhere along the MD spotted the iphone and said I don't want to pay for my own, the company should get it for me This then followed with other managers going :O gimme.

Skyera unveils rival-crushing 21PB-a-rack flash monster

Re: Apart from the NSA...

You have not seen Powerpoint presentations by Marketting departments recently have you?

Still waiting for them to figure out I am still to cheap to buy high end projectors.

20 injured at LG phone giveaway as PR stunt turns into riot

Knives, bb guns

What no crossbows?

I think if I saw members of the public with that sort of stuff I would think, something I can sell on ebay plus missing body parts (If I ever caught the thing) or yeah I think I'll leave.

Titsup Apple app dev nerve-centre hauled back online after hack scare

The Guardian notes it was unable to contact any of the 29-odd developers

Hmm,

Apple Swat team of lawyers have attacked them

Enormo reseller Insight smacked by software licensing slide

Declining License Sales

Hmm MS jack up prices of Licenses in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/windows_server_2012_r2_price_hike/

I wonder why less people buy software licenses

'Hand of Thief' banking Trojan reaches for Linux – for only $2K

Re: will the Linux Trojan have the same value as its Windows counterparts?

I can't agree with that, the only issues I have ever had has been due to other programs running on the OS (Where by the program is not used how I would expect) or me being a plank when configuring something (I can equally configure something wrong on Windows like a plank as well). I think at least some examples should be provided to back your statement.

Child abuse ransomware tweaked to tout bogus antivirus saviours

Re: Whats New?

People only tend to find out about it when it happens to them (And they frantically require an IT expert to check as they dont want to be arrested).

Like Phising unless someone actually experiences it they won't take notice.

HP plugs password-leaking printer flaw

Its only the small ones only MD's have

Ah thats ok then, they'll break before someone attempts to hack (Or even print) one of them.

Blogs with 'weakest of the weak' passwords hijacked for bot army

Nasty stuff

One of the reasons I finally put down my long dying website powered by the php CMS e107, I would get days where bots would bombard the site trying to find a vulnerability or simply to spam everything with an input.

Chrome, Firefox blab your passwords in a just few clicks: Shrug, wary or kill?

Re: Can I choose 'All of the above'?

I second, a bit of everything.

I can't understand why its even needed, if I can't get on I use the password reset features of whichever service it is.

Obama cancels meeting Putin in Russia, says Snowden 'a factor'

I see it as:

"GIVE ME CANDY NOW"

"No"

>HERUMPH<

Internet giant you may still remember (AOL) gobbles vid ad biz Adap.tv

Hmm

I ran out of coasters a while ago, I wonder if they will ever start them again.

Tough luck, bumpkins! Blighty broadband speed gap misery worsens

Re: WiMAX coming to my village...

I can't see why more companies havent done this, smaller companies can fill in the gap here offer decent wireless for users without the cost of running cabling to everyones household.

Re: Why?

Odd I thought Virgins broadband was still delivered via Coax whether the advertising says shiny fibre or not (Exactly the same as BT Infinity saying shiny fibre and giving new copper lines to the house)

End of an era as Firefox bins 'blink' tag

Flash

I have fond memories of Flash animations back in the day (Yes ok Flash is evil now but it gave us Weebl and Bob and Adventures of the Blode!)

Did a bunch of bankers fax a stranger's sensitive privates to YOU?

Re: ****ing faxes

You will be surprised, although the majority of ours just disappeared (When I found they were used once every year and though screw it take em out and see if anyone complains) we still have to keep a few as many customers still send orders in and legal financy things.

Sad shop-shelf-clinging BlackBerry Z10 AXED ... in price, contracts

Re: Q10

Its user preference, so far noone has said anything bad about my Q10.

The app store is laughable but then again I havent seen the need for any apps and am not interested in gaming or watching stuff on a small screen.

Terror cops swoop on couple who Googled 'backpacks' and 'pressure cooker'

Re: Thank god for the war on Terror

We all just viewed a post with the words backpack, pressure cooker and bomb.

I have a feeling noone will be commenting later.

Weekend project: Mulch your old PC to save the world

Hmm

So all I do is put my P4 (Other processors available) Machine in water and I save the planet?