Posts by present_arms

Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open

Re: Can you hear that sound?

Sigh, ya need to re-read the article

Apple's new iPhone 6 vulnerable to last year's TouchID fingerprint hack

Blu-tack worked on my sons 5s

anecdotal and just saying :D

Bono: Apple will sort out monetising music where the labels failed

Re: I used to think he was a tosser

The man is an eejit, he reckons he can make music un-pirateble, I guess he'll block every analogue output huh? dumbass. I'm willing to bet the first "album" he releases as "un copyable" is copied and put on Pirate Bay (or another site) within 3 hours of release :P

And now ... pre-recorded from London: It's the NEWS!

That was cool, the presenter looks to be an egg head.

Mines the one with the spoon in the pocket.

China: You, Microsoft. Office-Windows 'compatibility'. You have 20 days to explain

Of course it's okay to make their Office work with their Windows, that's never been up for dispute, what is up for dispute (and yet to be proven this time, hence the investigation) is if Microsoft are using underhanded tactics to make sure that any other office suite has the same advantages as their own brand.

Re: Can't imagine

The problem isn't that Microsoft is making Office work nicely with Windows, the problem is HOW they are making it work nicely with windows at the detriment of other office suites. Of course they have done this kind of underhanded tricks before going back to early windows days when they made 3.1 more unstable or even not being able to run on anything but MS-DOS. Thus leveraging themselves.

Brit Sci-Fi author Alastair Reynolds says MS Word 'drives me to distraction'

So what is wrong with...

Edlin...

Mines the one with the bullet proof lining

The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The Weekend

Re: Excellent

He's using voice recognition, Oh wait no, it's formatted properly. *shrugs* I have no idea how he manages it.

Microsoft: We plan to CLEAN UP this here Windows Store town

Re: Gee, d'ya think?

"Cleaning up the Windows Store is akin to the Fifth Labour of Hercules."

If only it was that easy.

Is it an iPad? Is it a MacBook Air? No, it's a Surface Pro 3

Re: @Arnaut the less RE"......... but for the mass market it just costs far too much....."

simple answer is no glossy screens are a balls ache to keep clean compared to a matted screen

UK fuzz want PINCODES on ALL mobile phones

Re: All well and good...

if on android it's Cerberus. cerberusapp.com i think

Pop-up ad man: SORRY we made such a 'hated tool', netizens

Re: Karma remains balanced Channel 4

Yeah I watched Utopia, I did have to kill my adblock and gave me a countdown timer before the accept button was lit, I tried a few times without turning off adblock but it just did a "if, then, else" loop on me until i crippled adblock, I notice CBS do it to (i have hola installed)

Microsoft throws old versions of Internet Explorer under the bus

Re: Best Browser

I found it Yum(my)

NO SALE: IBM won't cash in its chips with GlobalFoundries after all

Re: 300mm (= 1') fab

gotta see the socket for that

ISPs 'blindsided' by UK.gov's 'emergency' data retention and investigation powers law

Re: Back to pen and paper then - no records of that!

And this is how the bad men will now communicate, snail mail or even knocking on the door of his/her "brothers" and do it behind closed doors, this bill is for the stupid people who will still use phones/internet to communicate.

Siri, did we just take a hit in that voice-recog patent fight?

指针 seems to mean Pointer

Office, IE and Windows in line for critical fixes from Redmond

I agree, if a service has been updated in Linux (cups for instance) then that service is restarted, I was thinking more of userland apps,, say firefox, i can be typing this now as apt-get purges firefox from the filesystem and still be able to use firefox until i close it. Don't get me wrong Windows does do some things nice, updating isn't one of them.

Re: I wouldn't class having to reboot...

The thing that gets me about Windows (I do have 7 installed) is that you have to reboot after IE gets updated, i mean wtf. I understand that IE is tied to the OS but dayums, this includes having to reboot for office, also wtf. then you get to the reboot it shuts down and it updates what it can, then you have to wait on the boot process to update what it couldn't during the shutdown sequence. although compared to XP it got better with the number of reboots needed for an update cycle. This is why my linux machine has an uptime so far of 8 Months and my windows box seems to be rebooted monthly,

The only time you should reboot a Linux box is after a kernel update, there is no reason what so ever for there to be a reboot otherwise, or even close the programs you are using while updating. Some Distros however do ask the user to reboot if a propietry video driver has been updated, the isn't an necessity however but it is easier for the not so tech savvy from dropping to a command shell and using rmmod and modprobe after the update and restarting X. (I am aware that you can boot one kernel from another without rebooting the whole machine, but i don't know of a lot of cases where this is done outside of a server room) so i do find it suspect that Fedora would have needed 2 reboots after an update.

Apple may debut low-cost iPhone for emerging markets in 2013

"The difference is Apple still support their stuff (a 3GS runs iOS 6 just fine) whereas how many Android handsets from 3-4 years ago can run the latest version of Android??"

I have a Samsung Europe running jellybean and an HTC Desire HD running jellybean... your point is? okay I'll admid they are not from the respective manufacturers however that's the advantage I have as I don't actually need htc or samsung to actually make a rom :)

Is this the sleek new BlackBerry mobe that will save RIM jobs?

that photo

on the main page looks like my LG Optimus 3D except it has Blackberry where my 4 Capacitive buttons are

Ten Linux apps you must install

Re: 'you must install...'

+1 For pclinuxos I love this little distro, I also use lubuntu on the girlfriends machine but on my own box i just love the familiarity of pclinuxos I personally prefer it over the *buntus, oh and i dual boot with debian :D. Linux mint is quite nice and it least doesn't have gnome3 or unity as a gui front end :)

Microsoft 'didn't notice' it had removed Browser Choice for 17 months

Honest guv, it was a simple mistake :P yeah riiiiiiiight

Another Microsoft Windows Phone exec legs it to Amazon

Re: ...

i almost threw up in my mouth at that thought

Eurozone death spiral forces Microsoft to ease UK licensing price hike

Re: Dyslexia

no just wishful thinking

Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit

I had to look

I had to look twice at the top screen shot because it looked like my Linux Mint screen with the way the top right hand side of the tool bar with name and all :-)

Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK

Re: Besides the point..

I saw this today http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46b_1328121189

Linux Foundation chief dubs MeeGo 'unstoppable force'

As a N900 user

I can't think of any phone er sorry to me it's a computer with phone functionality, and seriously overclockable , it has a gig ram and 32 gig for storage + whatever sdcard u wang inside it, I run the maemo that came with it, or i could just boot to meego or debian, i can even plug it in to ma tv and use it as a desktop using bluetooth mouse/keyboard. damn i love this phone and something special will have to come along b4 i give it up to. I'm looking forward to see where meego, goes from here, good times ahead :D

HTC 7 Pro WinPho 7 smartphone

yep

Y and Z are reversed, maybe a euro keyboard layout (just surmising) :)

Debian 6: Have your Debian and eat your Ubuntu too

re: The Gnome desktop sucks

there is Kubuntu if you don't like the default gnome in Ubuntu. I'm a pclinuxos user myself on KDE, it's faster than *buntus and more stable on this machine, my Nokia N900 runs debian fine though

debian needs

I can tell you that from my POV that Debian is a lot more stable than Ubuntu :D