Posts by MrWibble

Google puts Nexus 4 back on sale, sells out pronto

Simply that when you get it out of the box, it connects to google for you - saves you typing in your details / time on set up.

Plus, if you've already got an android, it'll automatically download your apps for you.

Ordered at 1705 (in a bit of a rush, as I was on a train with free wifi, and had to get off at 1708!). Order processed and sorted within 2 minutes, and expected delivery within 3-5 days... We'll see how true that is!

BOFH: Cannot terminate PFY instance... ACCESS DENIED

""They signed it! Although I do admit after you've read a contract that's been revised 47 times there's a fair chance you get clause-blind after a while and rely on the other party using tracked changes. When you really shouldn't.""

My boss has a habit of only looking at tracked changes....

Kobo Mini 5in compact e-reader review

It's currently £50 until the end of the month:

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/eReaders/KoboMinieReader.aspx

GPU-powered Chrome lets you watch YouTube longer

Re: Power consumption

Only one thing more rabid than an Android fanboi is an Opera one.

Ay caramba, Ubuntu 12.10: Get it right on Amazon!

Sticking on 12.04 for now.

Yes, the amazon crap can be removed (sudo apt-get remove unity-shopping-lens, or something like that - but it should be opt in, and in it's own scope, rather than the home page), but it's buggy as hell for me. Sound is screwed (on a system that's been fine with Ubuntu sound for the past 4 years), Unity is slow as hell, and well, there's nothing here that makes me want to upgrade.

Maybe I should look into Arch. But I do actually like unity as it is for now...

Ubuntu 12.10: More to Um Bongo Linux than Amazon ads

If the lens was just that, it would be fine (i.e. if I wanted to go shopping, I'd click on the shopping lens and search. Great.).

However, this puts it into the default home "dash". So everything you try to do on your local machine, will also have an advert for something possibly connected to your "search". So open dash, type in "sound" (to maybe open the sound controls?) and you'll get a load of amazon adverts for headphones, soundcards, and lots of other irrelevant (to the task I was trying to do) shite.

That's where the problem is to me.

Freeview kit to require retune tomorrow

Still a mess. Why is shopping classed as "general entertainment"?

Google asks YouTube commenters to stand up and be counted

Youtube Comment Snob

Solves pretty much all comments - I barely see any!

http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/

Google Nexus 7 Android tablet

"The Nexus 7 is going to be the only tablet running Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, in the near future"

Apart from the Xoom, which is rolling out over the next week or so

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120695/jelly-bean-ota-update-galaxy-nexus-xoom-nexus-s-july

Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet, Android 4.1 and Nexus Q

Re: I have no Google+ account, and will never have a Google+ account.

As far as I know, you do have a Google+ account, you just don't use it. Having a Gmail / Play account has automatically created you a + profile. All part of Google's "streamlining" logins policy...

Apple Passbook card-'n'-ticket app paves way for iOS e-wallet

Why does a ticket need to be animated? The paper ones aren't.

UK websites: No one bothers with cookie law, why should we?

Re: While we are on the subject...

Various iterations of:

theregister.co.uk###RegCCO

(for each domain - I suppose I could probably wildcard it, but I was too lazy!).

Firefox add-on "Element Hiding Helper for Adblock" helps work out the correct filters.

Re: While we are on the subject...

I gave up and adblocked the notification message instead...

Yes, I clear all cookies automatically on close, so it probably deletes the "OK" cookie, as well as the nefarious ones...

Microsoft crowd-sources next Win Phone apps using Android

Sounds just like Tasker...

Oh, and needing a facebook account to use? No ta.

Digital music sales beat discs for first time in UK

Maybe I'm being thick

But that graph clearly shows "Physical" being far in excess of other income sources.

BBC uses lifted Iraq war photo to depict Syrian slaughter

Pretending that nothing happened...

So they didn't post about it on Tuesday?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/05/houla_massacre_picture_mistake.html

Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group

Virgin Mobile fail

On a new Virgin Mobile PAYG phone I found this block when trying to find the lottery numbers!

The resulting "you're blocked" page contained an advert for "sexy lady wallpapers", provided by Virgin themselves (or at least branded by them), which wasn't affected by the block. Hmm...

London's Oyster card website still down after 12-hour outage

Re: "now I have to walk an hour to work"

Or indeed say hello to that man behind the window at the place where you get on the train. You know, the "ticket office".

BOFH: Siri, why do users lie?

"PIN" not "PIN Number" Grr...

Olympic champ ad blitz dents Virgin Media despite £1bn sales

I'm guessing it's meant to be "MRPU" - monthly.

Fake Instagram app slings SMS Trojan onto Android gear

Android malware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

Only to idiots who download apps from random websites, rather than the easier route of one of the app markets available (Google, Amazon, getjar, etc).If Instagram wasn't free, then I could understand why some would want to download from a dodgy source, but a free app?

Met issues mug-shot gallery mobe app to finger wanted crooks

Re: Highest density of CCTVs in the world

Perfectly legal to record public places. Search for "Section 44" photography.

Laptop computers are crap

Take it you didn't read the whole article then?

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension

Re: It's all a scam!

So you'd rather stick with a slower connection (11mbit) all the time, rather than a much faster connection (30mbit) some of the time, and a bit faster (15mbit) the rest of the time?

Makes sense to me.

Apple, Google, RIM plaster privacy warnings on prying apps

Re: Re: Not a solution

So just like Android does. And most people ignore.

GPS jamming rife, could PARALYSE Blighty, say usual suspects

What the hell is a "Challenge Delivery Manager"?

iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war

correct...

Didn't take long to be overturned!

Orange Tahiti 7in Android tablet

Vanilla Android a bad thing?

"Those wouldn’t work on a tablet but I’d have liked some other Orange specials. "

I'd much rather have Vanilla Android than Orange "customisation" on anything, after all the Orange Crap I had on my San Francisco - it slowed it down something rotten.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Yes

TomG (CM dev for Blade) has already started on it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDmcdPUVnbc

Why your tech CV sucks

""Over the next few years you are asking to be paid more than the cost of a Ferrari "

Er? How many people in IT (who actually do the work) are paid more than the cost od a Ferrari?

give £170K....

Well at my current salary that will be nigh on 4 years."

I would have though 4 = a few, give or take...

GNOME emits 'head up the arse' desktop update

Nope. Ubuntu uses Gnome with Unity over the top.

Gnome Shell is the travesty that most people are on about...

Googlenet runs on '900,000 servers'

Can you say "margin of error"?

"Google estimates that it accounts for less than one per cent of the energy consumed across the world's data centers, and Koomey uses this figure to extrapolate Google's worldwide server count. "

So in other words, a figure has been plucked out of the air, and then someone else has plucked another one out, thinking it may be related.

Gamer claims complete console collection

Except...

This one:

http://colecciones.elotrolado.net/fotos/9919

Or this one:

http://colecciones.elotrolado.net/fotos/8635

South West Trains puts squeeze on commuters

no shit...

"these trains, when run as 12 cars, provide 142 additional seats per journey compared to a 10-car Class 444 train."

So a train with more "cars" can carry more people? Wow, I never knew that....

Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool

But...

This malware isn't available in the market... Only from external sources.

Cornish pasties awarded protected status

Don't joke!

"Devon cream teas":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8692662.stm

why?

What difference does it make where something is made? Surely quality is a better thing to be protecting that some arbitrary geographical boundaries.