Posts by Anonymous IV

Reddit: So very sorry for naming innocent man as Boston bomber

Re: Call me sceptical if you will, but...

So what happened to "where there's blame, there's a claim"?

Get a move on, you lawyers - there's an ambulance that needs chasing!

DDOS strikes BitCoin exchange Mt.Gox

Re: Qui bono ?

If someone is going to quote a Latin tag then they should spell it correctly - here Cui bono...

Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?

Re: diurnal cycle

I think the medical name for what you're suffering from is "teenage"...

It's official! Register hack is an alcohol-flushed cave dweller

Repeatable?

One assumes that you've done the test twice, with different names and postal addresses and other details?

Let us know the comparative results!

Manual override: Raspberry Pi beginners' books

Re: Heh

Right now my RasPI runs:

root@rpi / # uname -a

NetBSD rpi 6.99.19 NetBSD 6.99.19 (RPI) #4: Sat Apr 6 13:27:49 BST 2013 sysbuild@....:/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/evbarm/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

which I cross-compiled myself; presently it is slaving over pkgsrc compilations:

root@rpi / # pkg_info | wc -l

115

(doing some Common Lisp ATM...).

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why most people prefer to run Windows...

Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and El Reg

Re: Job title

Reed isn't asking you where your current job is located!

I understand from an insider that the alleged BBC job title from many years ago:

Engineering Information and Electrical Installation Officer

never existed.

Job title

I was thinking of applying, having filched the South Parks Studio job title:

E-mail, Internet and Electronic Information Officer.

Logitech launches MEGA-PRICEY 15-in-1 remote

Who are they kidding?

A remote control for the price of a small TV.

Or perhaps you can save money by watching TV programmes on the remote control's screen?

Sophos picks up axe again, 'plans to DECIMATE staff'

Re: Decimated? Decimated!?

@Androgynous Cupboard

There is a pandemic of inappropriate word usage which greatly pains the pedants among us (but we are not outraged). However I fear the correct use of 'decimated' is a lost cause.

Sorry that you didn't get "its" right, though...

Rotten spam causing more infections than ever – study

Re: I may be downvoted, but...

I usually complain about the insularity of Americans, but surely the suggestion that "no driver should be allowed to do their driving test in a car with automatic transmission" reinvents the Luddite?

In the US you'd have a hard job actually finding a car with manual transmission, unless it's a sports car imported from Europe.

And if the statement "we have automated spam filtering to the point where they protect even the more stupid of us to a relatively good degree" were true, then surely the spammers would have given up in disgust by now?

It would be unkind to downvote you...

Finance bods probe RBS over bank-crippling IT cock-up

Re: Not outsourced

"No wonder you never got promoted to management!"

The correct word should be "demoted"...

Malware-flingers target gullible corporate bods with office printer spam

Re: Hmmmm....

So it is not just the circumstances which are extenuating?!

World's first petaflops super dumped on scrap heap

Re: Just checking in

"Crysis? What's Crysis?"

(apologies to James Callaghan, or, more accurately, The Sun's deliberate misreporting of what he said...)

Rubbish IT means DEATH for UK Border Agency, announces May

Ooh goody!

Another opportunity to see how well the government can manage a Big IT Project!

Feds cuff ex-NASA boffin at airport amid state-secret leak scare

"An entity of concern"

Don't you just love the straightforward and jargon-free plain English that they use?

Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! are! back!...

Same problem as psychonaut, but only with yahoo.co.uk compromised accounts, with the person's name as the subject.

The other variant is the url, with the person's name, again, and an American-format date and time beneath.

Until the spam furore dies down I'm just quarantining *@yahoo.co.uk.

First C compiler pops up on Github

Re: mixing your metaphors

So no possibility that the author well knew these two metaphors, but mixed them for comedic effect?

"Metaphors be with you..."

Torvalds asks 'Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more?'

I've looked at the Chromebook Pixel website...

... but there's no mention of being able to wipe the hard disk and install Windows on it!

Pity - we'd have then got a Windows laptop with a decent screen resolution...

Judge slashes Apple's pile o' cash Samsung judgment

Re: Obligatory

"In British English the normal spelling in general contexts is judgement. However, the spelling judgment is conventional in legal contexts, and in North American English."

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/judgement?q=judgment

Best Buy takes axe to touchy Windows 8 PCs - lops $100 off price

@AC 14:11

Just install StartIsBack http://startisback.com/ on the WIndows 8 PC, and get all the advantages of Windows 8 with the GUI you know and love from Windows 7. (A swingeing $3 for 2 PCs.)

BBC Vision and Audio tossed on bonfire, replaced by 'TV', 'Radio'

Re: Helen Boaden

Ah, BBC job titles! It was alleged that in the Sixties (or thereabouts) an engineer at the BBC had managed to get himself awarded the title of Engineering Information and Electrical Installation Officer, so that he could, quite validly, answer the telephone with "EIEIO?", but checking a few years ago with someone who worked at the BBC found no trace of this.

An episode of South Parks apparently recycled the same idea with "Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer."

Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard

The "ambitious" user interface design...

One presumes that in the UK, following Yes, Minister, the word that would be used instead of "ambitious" would be "courageous".

Foxit outfoxes fiendish flaw to fix foxed-up Firefox PDF plugin

Re: useful

Possibly Reg-ers are appalled by the default acid yellow background of Sumatra PDF?

Fix it by adding bg-color to the shortcut, as in

"C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -bg-color 0xF2F8FD

(a delicate pale blue in RGB).

Facebook testing $100 fee to mail Mark Zuckerberg

Re: Cheap at..

How ironic if the maximum message length to Lord Zuckerberg was set at 140 characters...

30 years ago, at flip of a switch, the internet as we know it WAS BORN

No mention of token ring?

I was always told (probably by IBM customer representatives) that Token Ring was a much more efficient protocol than Ethernet. What a pity that the implementation was so awful, with clunky Media Access Units and thick coaxial cabling. Ended up rather like BetaMax vs. VHS...

Re: The Internet always existed...

"It just had zero nodes."

Hence the old joke starting: "My internet's got no nodes..."

It must be the end of the world... El Reg man thanks commentards

Error: no address supplied...

... to receive the mountains of goodies that grateful firms will doubtless shower upon the author, following favourable mention in El Reg...

Hacking bazaar ExploitHub gets hacked, database leaked

@Adze

And to that I say "Ita, esto - quidcumque".

(Perhaps "Yeah, right - whatever...")

Another Apple maps desert death trap down under

Re: What's with the Apple fixation?

"The laddie doth protest too much, methinks..."

(accurately misquoted from Hamlet, Act III, scene II)

Mother of All Whistlers: Virgin Media superhub. Listen to recordings

Re: Maplins

So you never watched Hi-de-Hi when you were young?

Review: Samsung Series 9 super slim notebook

Re: 1600x900

Why not 1920x1200? Probably because the laptop screen would be enormous at current pixel densities - this is the resolution of the excellent 24" Dell U2412M monitor.

Samsung printers have secret admin account

It doesn't follow...

“The vendor has stated that models released after October 31, 2012 are not affected by this vulnerability.” Which will be welcome relief for those who acquired a printer in the last month."

The welcome relief will happen only when all the models released before 31 Oct 2012 have been sold - which could perhaps be anything up to a year later?

Scoop! The inside story of the news website that saved the BBC

Fascinating article

Bienly fait, Andrew!

Troubled OCZ now has feds up ass with microscope

Re: I am no reader of this article (just passing through...)

This should not even be nominated for Headline of the Article - it is poor for several reasons:

* "feds" should have been "Feds", since there is presumably no connection with "fed up" nor with " 'fess up"

* "ass" is American usage, our AngloSaxon word is better and less easily confused with equus asinus

* a microscope would be an entirely inappropriate instrument for anal insertion - a colonoscope, sigmoidoscope or even endoscope would be of more use (trust me)

I'm happy with "Troubled OCZ", though.

Assault on battery

Re: Back in reality

You never thought of carrying your own set of batteries for this eventuality?

Asus VivoBook S200 11.6in touchscreen notebook review

Re: USB ports?

And can anyone explain why it doesn't have gigabit ethernet? How much extra would that cost?

How spreadsheets (nearly) conquered and killed the financial industry

Re: Fast, Cheap, Right

I understand the choice has been reduced to one, because of the recession...

Retailers report slow Windows 8 sales, low demand

Re: The problem is this....

"the new slightly confused interface" [TIFKAM, or Metro]

One of the glories of the English people has been their skill at understatement.

Ten Linux apps you must install

"RAR extraction, an archiving option popular in the Windows world"

Really? I think I saw a couple of RAR files in the late 80s or early 90s in MS/PC-DOS, but not since then. ZIP files, however, are endemic.

Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs

Re: Was the vulture logo created by a jiffics artist on jiff paper?

And the Noble British pronounced DOS as Doss, whereas Americans said D O S...

Telefonica stirs up clouds, offers steaming mug of Instant Servers

Impressive

99.996% uptime means no more than 3.456 seconds per day downtime. Believable?

Are you an IT pro? It's no longer safe to bet your career on Microsoft

Re: Please...

Remember that the article was written by the IT equivalent of an estate agent.

Firm-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's tax dodge profit shift? Totally legit

Re: Nope

"No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or to his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel into his stores."

James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services and Ritchie v. IRC (1929) 14 TC 754.

Surely the same applies to companies, however immoral it might seem?

Re: So...

"If living were a thing that money could buy

Then the rich would live, and the poor would die."

All My Trials, sung by (say) Joni Mitchell

Avira 'fesses up: Our software isn't compatible with Windows 8

Impressive!

I suppose Windows 8 RTM came as a complete surprise to them, and they hadn't noticed the Developer Preview, the Customer Preview and the Release Preview.

Virgin close to releasing long-delayed TiVo app

Par for the course

Virgin Media has previous for (very) late delivery. Just the three other items I can think of:

1) announcement of "speed doubling" with a timetable for various areas of the country, then delivery times for many places put back perhaps 6 months

2) all Blue Yonder and NTL email addresses to be transferred to VirginMedia.com or similar - still waiting for this after at least two years!

3) SuperHub firmware is dire, to the extent that they don't dare roll it out to business customers, who are still staggering on at 10 Mbps and 20 Mbps maximum

Welsh council's unused mountain of 2,400 laptops

Obvious disposal mechanism

Leave them, one at a time, on trains, or in the back of taxis.

(Don't you just hate it when someone gives you 2400 laptops?)

Facebook won't pull unmarked police plates page

Re: complete nonsense

All fascinating stuff, no doubt, but hardly vital information for El Reg's overwhelmingly British readership?

The hoarder's dilemma, or 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

Re: It's the suppliers fault

"The other day I needed a radiator bleed key and they come in packs of 2!!! Why the hell would I need 2 these!!!"

One downstairs, one upstairs? You would be amazed how many people have an upstairs and a downstairs vacuum cleaner, to save carting their sole one up and down the stairs. Usually they are called Henry or Hetty.