Posts by Anonymous IV

Screen idols: higher resolution means better laptops

Re: 1200 pixels!

Dell U2412M, 24" IPS panel, 1920 x 1200, height adjustable, about £220. Quite good.

RBS IT cockup: This sort of thing can destroy a bank, normally

Re: Hmm...

So that's one good thing about Fred Goodwin. I doubt there is more than one.

CAPTCHA-busting villains branch out from spam into ID theft

Re: ... Intelligence report, A CAPTCHA in the Rye ...

Oops! Must have missed off

[/irony]

from my previous post.

... Intelligence report, A CAPTCHA in the Rye ...

Good grief, aren't these report-writers well read, and witty with it!

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

Re: The Internet still works!

Mildly interesting to note that, for the villains of the piece (not villeins of the peace), Argyll & Bute Council, an anagram of 'Argyll Bute' is 'Great Bully'...!

WD beams in 802.11n Wi-Fi stations

"WD also launched today an [sic] £50 eight-port Gigabit switch"

Super. You can buy *two* TP-Link 8-port gigabit switches for about £52...

Girl Geek Dinner lady: The IT Crowd is putting schoolgirls off tech

Re: "lack of women in IT is a worldwide problem"

Ah, "The Principle Language"!

One of my former bosses advertised for a "Principle Secretary", which all us workers thought was a jolly good idea, since he didn't seem to have any principles of his own...

Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it

Re: When does thing launch again?

You are amanfrommars and I claim my £5!

MoneySavingExpert.com founder flogs website for £87m

Re: Independence

If anyone is interested in the often virulent responses of many users on the MSE forum thread discussing this sellout (oops, takeover) take 20-or-so minutes looking through http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=53495201#post53495201 .

UK music-rights collection: Where does all the money go?

Re: Rip off indeed

Perhaps the [b]actual performers[/b] get paid (or are supposed to), and not Bach or Mozart?

EE splurges £50m on OS-specific experts

Re: On the subject of dynamic typing

Surely it's better than "hunt and peck"?

UPS death in Pulsant data centre knocks out websites

Uninterruptible Power Supply

The Revenge of the Oxymoron...

Samsung Galaxy S III

Send in the cavilry

"There are cavils from critics who complain that it uses Pentile Amoled instead of the newer Super Amoled Plus technology..."

Gosh, yes, certainly I will complain - at that sentence's pretentiousness!

How I went from Unix engineering to flogging Google apps

Re: "The" cloud - pure mythology!

I wonder whether the original author is familiar with [b]The Cloud of Unknowing[/b]", "[i]an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century.[/i]"?

All the cloudy woffle of its proponents makes me think how prescient was the medieval author in choosing that title.

Migrating data from storage arrays

"Perhaps the long-term answer is to move the data into the cloud..."

Lots of interestingly-speculative calculations about how long it would take to move oodles of data across several interfaces locally.

But no calculation of how long it might take to move, say, 15PB of data into the cloud across the average ADSL2+ (or even fibre) link? Is it in the order of years? Lifetimes? Millennia?

Possibly the author got bored with the subject in the last few paragraphs, and thought he'd try to sneak in a bit of nonsense?

Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013

"the navigation is streamlined and intuitive..."

Not a use of the word "intuitive" that I recognise!

BOFH: Siri, why do users lie?

Someone complains about "PIN number" when Simon uses "pinnochio" as a verb?

What is pedantry coming to?!

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

Re: Openoffice?

Yes, and so does LibreOffice!

But LO is working to eliminate the need for the Java Runtime Environment... (yippee!)

Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers

Intellectual Property or Internet Protocol?

In these articles, please could we have a clue, preferably in the subject, but certainly early in the first paragraph, whether we are talking about IP or IP!

John Lewis Broadband - genius or foolhardy?

Isn't this scheme almost as expensive as Zen, but without Zen's proven level of ISP customer service?

Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS

Re: Related?

In the Google email address model [e-mail] can be written as [e-mail], or even [e-mail]. all full stops in the section before the @ sign are ignored...

6.45pm (Pacific Time)

Couldn't the author have gone to the effort of telling us what time that is in BST? It would save the rest of us having to work it out, or ignoring it.

French perfume house bottles 'Eau de new MacBook'

Re: Instinctive but strange

There was the instance of the chap who had just gone to collect his new company car - but rejected it because "it doesn't smell new", and told them to get one which DID smell new!

Student's Linux daemon 0-day triggers InfoSec Institute outcry

Re: The solution is obvious: Make root access forbidden!!!!1!one

There's also a lot to be said for write-only memory...

Windows XP support ends two years from now

Re: "We're not willing to classify Windows NT Workstation as a mainstream desktop OS."

So why did at least one well-known bank run Windows NT workstation on tens of thousands of their PCs?

PLASMA GERM BLASTER GUN invented for cleaning skin

@ArmanX

Yes, brilliant idea - irradiate anything which moves, or stands still!

Not dissimilar to the idea of putting fluoride in drinking water throughout the land.

BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH

It was a card day's night...

I still have about three trays of unpunched punch cards. They're bound to come in useful for making notes on.

8,400 email addresses spaffed by Student Loans Company

Re: Easy solution?

They can - but the recall might work only if the target email server runs Exchange. Emphasis on the "might work"...

Mobile banking security bypassed in fiendish malware blag

Three letters

If we're really going to get pedantic (we are! we are!) then there are very few TLAs (3-letter acronyms) but a preponderance of TLIs (3-letter initialisms). An acronym has to be a meaningful word (like CAT, DOG, etc), so most of the 26^3 possibilities are necessarily initialisms.

And no, I'm not going to finish with the usual deeply-infuriating concluding phrase, "There, sorted it for you"...

Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit

Re: Itt's been bugging me...

Surely it wasn't named after a small car, but a free newspaper? I agree that both were/are rubbish.

Ten... in-car gadgets and accessories

Re: The best [mount] I've come across by a country mile is 1½" of Velcro ....

But do you mount it on the dashboard with the furry side up or the hooky side up? One way must be better than the other...

The true, tragic cost of British wind power

Ecotricity

It would be interesting if you contacted Ecotricity for a view!

LulzSec SMACKDOWN: Leader Sabu turned by feds last summer

Re: Who the hell writes it "a/k/a"?

Presumably Americans? Remember they still put full stops after abbreviations like Dr. and Mrs..

Intel joins The Document Foundation, pushes LibreOffice

If only it (LibreOffice) didn't have such a terrible name

You mean more terribler than the silly and childish names given to the releases of Linux? Mangy Meerkat? Felonious Ferret? <etc>

Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard

That's meaty o'right!

So NOW we know where all the pieces of meteorite lost by NASA have gone!

Any guess as to how much an Apple keyboard with meteoric keys might cost?

Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

Tard and feathered

The Urban Dictionary defines "tard" as "someone so retarded that they do not deserve the 're' prefix".

And Couche-Tard is a large Canadian chain of convenience shops.

Just thought you'd be interested!

Toy Story: Mystic Met needs swanky new kit, swoon MPs

Mystic Met

Brilliant!

Anglo-French nuke pact blesses 4th-gen reactors

How to make it all green

How about getting the nuclear power stations, rather than heating up water to produce steam, to drive enormous "fans" sited in front of wind-turbine farms? Then you have all the kudos of green wind-driven energy and the reliability of nuclear generation together in one package.

Attention tweeters: Your chance to win undying GLORY

@Admiral

Perhaps because they feel that a comments thread is a rather more intelligent communication mechanism that the others you list? Remember what happened to Citizens' Band when all the idiots got to use it...

It beats me why a supposedly intelligent organisation such as El Reg should have anything whatever to do with twitter. A more pointless waste of time has yet to be invented.

Could we ask the BOFH to set up some opposing AntiSocial Media mechanisms?

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

Perhaps use anti-climb paint AND stinky gunk!

Scientists weave battery into clothing

@Phil O'Sophical

Conversely, I thought the sub-head was the best I've seen for a long time!

The Register Comments Guidelines

Touchy?

"And - this is what you are getting at - articles which many commentards use as platforms for ad homs against the authors.

I will not countenance anyone attacking our staff. It really is very simple - kick the ball not the player."

Not at all - I have no real idea why this author has chosen to go non-commentable. It's just a noticeable difference from all the other authors.

For heaven's sake, he can't be ALL bad, for he likes Verity Stob!

Will ALL articles now become on-commentable?

Even those written by the initially-alphabetic author? You know who I mean...

It would produce a level playing-field.

Samoa takes day off to skip International Date Line

If they'd waited until 28 February...

... they could have just lost this year's leap day, and gone straight to 1st March.

Minimal problems?

UK cops disciplined, sacked, quit over Facebook misdeeds

@Posts_are_Long

Somehow I don't think it was the good cops which were being condemned - it was the bad ones stupid enough to brag about their stupidity.

So at least there's ONE good reason for FaceBook's existence!

Merry Christmas, Stratfor

"Who would have dared to run enterprise systems on something called "Freax"?"

Agreed - so why the childishly-stupid names for each version of Ubuntu? Would you run an enterprise system on something called Manky Meerkat or Fascinating Ferret? The ability to alliterate is no excuse.

Dell flees netbook market, dumps Minis

@Sir Wiggum

So the demise of netbooks is All Microsoft's Fault?

No problems with the useless screen size/resolution, the minuscule keyboard, the lack of an optical drive? Oh, OK, then.

Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS

ONLY 16% discount?

So why didn't the Cabinet Office negotiators suggest that they were engaged in a study for the implementation of LibreOffice government-wide? 16% is loose change to Microsoft.

<sarc>No wonder our NHS is the envy of the world.</sarc>

Fake anti-virus victims in line for slice of $8m payout pie

History repeating itself?

I seem to remember a series of scam emails offering me £lots in recompense for previous scam emails...