Posts by Anonymous IV

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

The reason for Ubuntu's fall from grace?

I wonder just how much of the current dissatisfaction with Ubuntu can be laid at the door of Mark Shuttleworth's increasingly stupid release names?

Techie to Managing Director: "I think we ought to investigate installing Linux on our desktops."

ManDir to Techie: "You mean the thing known as Rabid Rhino or Sizzling Sausages? You must be joking - I'd be laughed off the golf club committee!"

Remember the old tagline: "Can Compaq be any good at making PCs when then can't even spell their name correctly?"

Virgin Media's blighted SuperHub NOW comes with extra squeal (oink)

"...customers may be able to hear a subtle noise whilst in use"

Love the use of the word "subtle", rather than "infuriating" or "suicide-inducing".

Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin

What do people get so worked up about operating systems? Surely they are just a necessary background to enable you to run Real Work.

And, just like London buses, "There will be another along in a minute."

UK.gov tries to close site giving home addresses of badger cull figures

Re: because, experts claim, the animals spread tuberculosis among cattle.

And probably also in front of "cattle."

Wanted! 4m-plus PC purchases to halt industry decline

Re: Damp SQUID????

So you'd prefer a *dry* squid?

'Small' upheaval at McAfee, not many fired

Re: I assume this has to do with...

"Revolutionise how we think of security?"

It will make people think of AMD.

Natwest's Get Cash app pulled, but NOTHING to do with frauds

Unfounded allegations?

"According to a Natwest spokesperson it was likely that the fraud victim interviewed on the BBC's Moneybox programme had given out his details to phishers which is how his account got hijacked."

The fraud victim denied this, and Nat West put forward no evidence to support their allegation. I have no evidence that Nat West's security precautions are unbreakable...

Don't delete that email! Why you must keep biz docs for 6 YEARS

Social media messages?

How are Facebook information and Tweets to be saved for six years, then? It's not just email and paper documents any more...

Boffins: Our memory film is like your girlfriend - transparent and cheap

Re: I already have transparent memory

Possibly you are thinking of that well-known 1st April patent, for Write-Only Memory (WOM)?

Skydiver Baumgartner's 120,000ft spacesuit leap delayed by bad wind

Re: helium

Perhaps if the price of helium for frivolous use was multiplied by 10 then what remains could be sold at normal price for MRI scanners, and the like.

Man charged over alleged April Jones Facebook trolling

Re: Freedom of speach means the good, the bad and the evil.

Indeed, hence the maxim "hard cases make bad law." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_cases_make_bad_law

LASER STRIKES against US planes on the rise

Re: One major question I have..

"Please put me over your metaphorical knee and spank some not so metaphorical sense into me."

Perhaps you should consider whether prolixity reduces coherence.

(Or are you in "Fifty Shades of Grey" mode?!)

Re: How about the Reg doing the experiment under safe controlled cirumstances

Looks like a case for MythBusters?

Viewsonic buries fondleslabs for punters, flogs biz tabs instead

Verbal garbage

"Viewsonic said it has "made the strategic decision to focus our future tablet initiatives in [...] niche verticals"."

So it's not just ME who is suffering from niche verticals?

Virgin ramps 4G to a whopping 90Mbps - and switches it off

Re: No matter how much bandwidth you generate

Just the two spelling mistakes: "apostrophise" and "separate".

4/10 See me...

New benefits website at risk of hackers, no Plan B - ministers

It's George Santayana time again!

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Virgin Media STILL working on fix for SuperHub corrupt downloads glitch

"...the problem was a firmware one and nothing to do with the SuperHub's hardware."

Well, that's a relief, then. How does the customer separate the firmware from the hardware, then?

In modem mode, for me, the SuperHub hangs about once a month and needs a power-cycle to fix. Identifying that the SuperHub is dead (and that lack of internet connectivity does not involve some other arbitrary problem) requires me to run a monitoring program after each logon.

As far as I can remember, my previous Scientific-Atlanta WebStar cable modem was rock solid. Pity it wouldn't run at 30 Mbps...

(Memo to Virgin Media: don't give extravagantly-inaccurate names to your hardware.)

iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'

Re: Oxymoron ?

That doesn't *define* an oxymoron; it is just a *good example* of one!

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iPhone 5 adaptors goldrush begins

"Keep feeding your £20 notes into the slot"...

... or was there another reason why that graphic was included?

Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack

Re: It's the same for every Windows version.

Golly - surely Microsoft will immediately take note of your wise words about patterns, and cause Windows 10 to be given version number 8.3, or anything which isn't n.0. That is bound to guarantee its success!

(This producing operating systems lark is dead easy, isn't it...!)

Re: Hmm

Some decades ago, in the heydays of IBM mainframes, we were chatting to our IBM support rep about some new and expensive kit IBM had just announced, and he was rueing the fact that he didn't support Rolls Royce (aero-engines, not motors, I think) whose practice was to buy at least one of every bit of large kit that IBM produced, just to 'evaluate its usefulness in their environment'.

I wonder they also would fall within the 'forward-thinking' category?

HTML5 still floundering in 'chicken and egg' era, says Intel

@AndrueC

> It even extends to device drivers. I never use the disc that comes with hardware - I always give Windows first chance and if it already has drivers those are the ones I use.

What an inverse piece of logic, which is the opposite of that usually recommended! Who is likely to know more about the operation of a device, the manufacturer or Microsoft? So who is the more likely to get a device driver correct?

If it's a generic product, like a USB Flash Drive or a hard disk, it isn't likely to matter one way or the other, but if there is any degree of unusuality about the device, then you want the manufacturer's device driver.

More 'iPad Mini' tat pics leak ahead of Apple's big unzip

"The world's fanbois wait with bated breath."

I suspect that this is one of the very few cases where the word "baited" would be more accurate.

'GNOME people are in total denial about what their problem is'

"They took all the syrup and put it in a maple museum"

(apologies to Joni Mitchell)

I wonder how much of the stock of over 4500 metric tonnes of maple syrup the (New England) Maple Syrup Museum in Pittford, Vermont, has in stock? There is also such a museum in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

With such riches available, I cannot see why people are complaining about burglarizification.

Google gets hands on 'glove-cam' patent

Watch out, Max Bygraves

Fingers Ain't Wot They Used T'Be...

British Minister likens Anonymous to fascists and racists

Re: Anonymous - what a joke

Shows you just how illiterate the Ancient Britons were.

Try "Romani domum eant" (subjunctive) or "Romani domum ite" (imperative).

But you're a couple of millennia too late!

UK.gov's minimum booze price dream demolished

Economists sink case, addicts will always sink cases

Congrats to the sub-editor!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6

Re: *dies laughing*

Please may I flame you for mstitling Ms Stob as Mrs? And, even worse, adding a full-stop.

Surfing ROBO-shark hunter stalks great whites along US coast

"This place is one of the last wild places left on Earth." ®

Or at least it was until Dr Barbara Block and her henchpersons turned up!

Capita bungs staff £250 if they cheer up, smile for ad snaps

Everyone has their price

But £250 seems a bit cheap?

Assange calls for help from … Quakers?

Re: One thing I know...

"We should do what we do with any spoilt child, and just ignore him."

Ah, but you reckon without journalism's need to fill a newspaper, do a piece to camera, etc.

Deadly domino effect of extinction proved by boffins

Re: too simple a study

Was it an old Monty Python sketch, where a confident geologist was standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an enormous dinosaur based entirely on the discovery of a single tiny tail bone?

Australian Police want in-house social network

"A comprehensive online phone book is also on the agenda."

<slaps head> Of course! Why didn't we ever think of that one?

Office 2013 to eat own file-format dog food

Re: Need a suitable email footer

"If you cannot open the attached OpenDocument/s please upgrade to ..."

You don't see this as a teensy, weensy bit arrogant, quite likely to annoy the recipient?

Or is that your business model?

Climate change blamed for rise of life-draining horrors*

Doomed! We're all doomed...

Is there anything else that CAN be said?

Google may face grilling by MPs over 'immoral' tax avoidance

"Don't be evil" is in the Google Code of Conduct

But there's nothing about "doing good"...

Curiosity's new OS upgrade ready to go live

Transmission data rate

Does anyone know what the average data rate is for the transmissions from Curiosity?

Just curiosity, you see...

Why women won't apply for IT jobs

Verity Stob

Perhaps Reg Mangers (sic) could suggest that she writes an article on this topic?

Curiosity snapped mid-flight by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Verification

Playmobil - or it didn't happen!

Curiosity success 'paves way for Man on Mars by 2030s'

Re: Please could you run this past me again?

Thank you! Enlightenment dawns...

Please could you run this past me again?

"The parts are all designed to last three times their expected working lifespan."

No, I still can't make sense of this...

Microsoft RTMs final Windows 8 and Server 2012 code

The sound of wishful thinking...

"Microsoft is advising IT managers to start evaluating the code on Windows 7 machines first and then roll out any deployment side by side to minimize disruption, and to leave upgrading XP and Vista systems on the to-do list."

Yeah, right! (We start Monday...)

Skydiving daredevil Baumgartner leaps from 96,000ft

Re: What a view

Can't be long before Richard Branson tries the same thing. It would be a good distraction from giving his name to increasingly dysfunctional companies...

Australians receive SMS death threats

Precision extortion

Exactly $5000.00 - not a cent more, not a cent less (thinks: there might be a book in that?)

GPS-equipped sheep prove herd mentality exists

"More research is needed..."

Obligatory final sentence of any study report.

Microsoft promises Metro developers 'fame and fortune'

Re: The thing is

"Microsoft will report fantastic sales figures of windows 8 as it will be shipped on every new laptop and desktop and the shareholders will be happy and the price will go up

What they won't tell you is the amount that is being used in the wild as they will know only too well corporates and any savvy home users will be removing it before they've even setup their new laptop or desktop"

I wonder how soon there will be "Downgrade Rights" from Windows 8 to Windows 7, like there were for Vista back to XP?

Except that the customers will insist on calling them "Upgrade Rights"...

Yes, yes, the Olympics are near. But what'll happen to its IT afterwards?

Lightbulb moment!

The vast quantity of kit required for the London Olympics is probably the reason that the Cisco [charity] Donation Programme has been suspended.

"[We] will not be processing new donation requests at this time because increased demand for Cisco products has exceeded the programmes inventory."

There's always a reason!

BSkyB punches Virgin Media in ads watchdog fist fight

<modifier> unlimited

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

Microsoft offers beta of Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Re: Windows Server 2003 continues to suit me just fine

One assumes that you have investigated (or already use?!) BackupAssist to manage your tape backups?