Posts by ISYS

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

Advertising works

I, like possibly millions of other people, had never heard of Geico until now.......

This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace

Re: What's that in square fettuccine? And who owns the patent on the file format?

At last! I have always thought it was me being the odd one out. I too think the intuitive way to drag these images should be the reverse of what seems to be the norm - there are certainly enough comments to suggest we are in the majority.

Anyway - What a great photo!

Now UK must look out for crappy SPACE weather - engineers

Update required

Somebody needs to inform the Royal Academy of Engineering that the Space Shuttle is very unlikely to be affected these days ;-)

NASA deep space probe sends back video of 'Comet of the Century'

I thought...

Comet had already gone bust!

I'll close it quietly behind me.

Bring out your dead: Reg readers reveal filthy, filthy PCs...

Smoking kills

Look inside a smokers PC - All the above but welded to the components with tar.

LOHAN teases with quick flash of spaceplane

Aerodynamics

I think all that purple text will make it unstable........

Sorry

How to build a BONKERS 7.5TB, 10GbE test lab for under £60,000

Which OS to use?

Suerly if the end game is to build a test lab, then you will need to install an OS appropriate to what you are testing. Depending on what you are testing, this could be all Linux (various flavours), all Windows or in most cases a mixture. In my experience (20+ years) - a corporate network is Windows based, webfarms are Linux, Databases are MSSQL if you are using relatively small amounts of data and Oracle if you are using more.

Linux is also the weapon of choice when it comes to firewalls and proxys.

Like somebody has already mentioned - WIndows is used in corporate environments because it is easy to install, use and maintain. There are a lot of people out there who know it and therefore it is relatively cheap for compainies to hire people to maintain it.

Microsoft: We're SO SORRY for Media Center TV guide titsup

Re: well thats a surprise

Totally agree with you. I used WMC for years. I found it to be a nice, fast interface that had the advantage of linking seamlessly with my music collection and picture archive. One day my media pc died and in a moment of madness I thought I would try a Humax Foxsat HDR (as every review I read said how good it was). What a piece of crap! It is so slow I don't know how people put up with it. The menus and EPG are a nightmare to use. This is supposed to be the best commercial unit out there which makes me wonder how bad the rest are. As soon as I have time I will be building a new WMC and going back to a nice, slick viewing experience.

SPUDS ON A PLANE! Boeing boosts in-flight Wi-Fi with tater tech

lets call the the root nodules

eyeSpuds and sit back and wait for the lawsuit

Why Oh Why Oh

did they not call it Coverage enHancing In Plane System CHIPS?

Harley allows Apple to use 'Lightning' brand on 'playthings'

Re: Prior Use

I assume the Met Office will have to come up with a new term for the weather phenomenon associated with thunderstorms now!

Humax HDR-1000S Freesat+ recorder with FreeTime

Boot time and menu speed

I hope to God that this unit boots quicker than my current Humax Foxsat HDR. I am not exagerating when I say it takes a good minute from power on to actually being able to get to the EPG.

Then once there everything seems slow and clunky.

Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs

Re: Silly Con Valley reporting in ...

Ah the English language is a wonderful thing!

When you clever chaps invented the device that you call a 'rowter' you decided to call it a router - because it routes packets. Route is pronounced 'root' - it is from the French word 'Route' which means route/road/pathway etc.

As you correctly point out though - Beer.

Star Wars VII: The Disney Movie signs Toy Story III script genius

Voice Actor

Does this mean John Ratzenberger will be voicing some of the characters - like he does in every other Disney film made in the last 10 years?

Wales: Let's ban Gibraltar-crazy Wikipedians for 5 years

Re: D'oh!

It think the Reg need to do a readers poll:-

Every time you see a headline mentioning Wales and Wiki do you

A: Think 'Ah this must be referring to that chubby Steve Jobs lookalike'

or

B: Think 'What the hell are the Welsh complaining about now!'

Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale? Vote now for the best Bond film

Re: the book is largely a poker game

I stand corrected!

I meant a card game - Honest. I was so busy admiring the lady's neckline that I failed to notice what game we are playing ;-)

Re: I really want to like the Daniel Craig films

Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) is an hour long poker game because the book is largely a poker game. I admit that is a lot of time to be sat there watching some people stare at each other (even Bond and Le Chiffre kept dashing off to change their shirts and restart their hearts etc) but a necessary part of the plot.

Fleming describes Bond as a damaged, detached killer. I think DC has portrayed this well and the directors are giving us fans all the gadgets, action and beautiful women that we expect.

As for Quantam of Solace - WTF

Sanitary towel firm's 'CEO' sets traumatised man straight

As they say in America

Funny - Period!

Ballmer's lightened pay packet is the least of his problems

Most of them

Windows 8 doesn't look like a business desktop. Everyone knows the XP desktop and would not find Windows 7 a massive leap forward. Most of our users have just been 'upgraded' to Office 2010 form 2003 and you should hear the trouble that has caused - mostly 'Where the fuck have all the buttons gone?'

Eventually, after a few years of people using iPads, tablets, iphones and smartphones, I'm sure businesses will be ready for the Metro interface. Just not yet.

Edge-of-space skydiver grounded by ANOTHER bout of bad wind

Learn from PARIS

The team sponsored by RedBull are spending all day fannying about waiting for zero wind so that they can get the balloon inflated.

I seem to remember that when PARIS was launched, the team sponsored by whatever guest ale was available assembled in a layby and a bunch of slightly hung over blokes (one of whom was smoking a cigarette) were struggling to inflate their balloon in quite windy conditions.

Once launched they waited until the balloon popped and then all jumped in their cars and drove around Spain for a bit until they eventually found PARIS in amongst some trees.

They are rolling the balloon out now. Preparing for launch!

Whopping supersonic-car rocket rattles idyllic Cornwall

Re: Not really a ‘car’, is it?

The word car comes from carriage - a horse drawn vehicle with wheels. The definition of car does not mean the wheels have to be driven by the engine. Just a thought.

Re: Wing Commander.

Yes he is a Wing Commander

?

Proud to be British

I say chaps - l've swung it with the Wing Commander to 'borrow' one of the engines from his kite. Why don't we strap it to tricycle and fit an extra rocket for a bit more oomph and see how fast we can make it go?

Brilliant - I can just see them all stood there as he taps his pipe out on the side of the cockpit before getting in, drinking a livener from a silver flask and setting off on this Jolly whiz.

There will be somewhere a black labrador waiting patiently for his master to return.

Brighton marathon munchers banned from all-you-can-eat diner

Service Charge?

As these restaurants are self service why pay a service charge?

Hackers break onto White House military network

hmmmm

Ok so the email got past the filter on the perimeter and in to someones mailbox. What the article does not say is how the malicious email was then identified. This sounds like a massive media storm over nothing.

I suspect the computer running the mail client that the email was delivered to picked this one up or that the end user recognised it as suspicious. Either way the system worked. This is why there are layers of defense on networks; the first layer won't always pick up a problem.

As to why the PC was connected to the Internet. I suspect it wasn't on such a sensitive part of the network as the article suggests - probably just an office machine.

Tacky mobile ad networks could kill publishing, survey shows

Re: Adds on mobiles?

Start angry birds with the phone in Flight mode - No Adverts - Woo Hoo!

Made for each other: liquid nitrogen and 1,500 ping-pong balls

Re: Spelling - See me!

Do you mean a metric litre?

Spelling - See me!

What is a Liter?

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

Careful

No matter how long it takes to get to the destination planet make sure you are NOT in the advance party to be beamed down there - it will end badly for you!

New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster

Very nice but what have they actually done with it? How fast is it?

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

Apply this logic to cars

If we apply Apple's logic to cars then everyone owes Mercedes Benz a lot of money for building motor cars with four wheels, a steering wheel, seats, an engine etc.

Why women won't apply for IT jobs

Re: I must of missed

Try using 'must have' and not 'must of'

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

Inhumane but they deserve it....

How about making them watch an endless loop of the Un-necessarilly long pause between 'And the winner is......' and the anouncement. If the video could contain a close up of the orange presenter with expression that says 'I am about to anounce the exact date of armageddon' so much the better. Be sure to include the 'fake smile through the tears' of the loser informing everyone 'you haven't seen the last of me'

I'm sure the convict would rip out their own eyeballs and stuff them in their ears so that they could no longer see or hear the above!

Anonymous turns its fire on China

Mis-leading photo

Please stop using the photo of the girl with the large **CENSORED**

I always fall for it and end up in some boring story about bored teenagers trying to save the world by breaking in to websites!

Thankyou

LOHAN checks into REHAB

Acronym not selected!

Do you mean to say that I wasted an hour of work time coming up with an acronym only for it not to be selected. Next time I will continue to watch the Rugby and not bother ;-)

LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed

Good luck with your...

Cooled

Low pressure

Uniform

igNition

Generation

Experiment

Reg readers ponder LOHAN's substantial globes

update on the cat

If we don't use the cat for directional control we could always use it at ground level - it would boost team moral and provide useful pest control in the command centre. As to the pet cats name - it has to be LOHAN's Pussy....

Go on moderator - I dare you!

Two balloons - One half inflated

As the baloons rise and expand, the first one will eventually burst and the second one can 'take over' lifting duties until it has expanded to bursting point therefore acheiving more height before launch. I don't know if this is scientifically possible but I thought I would add my 2 pence worth.

As to how to fire the rocket - Fire it sideways. As long as you have a piece of buttered toast attached to the top (butter side down) it will naturally point skywards. Now I know this is scientifically correct - I would suggest using a cat (same scientific principal) but the RSPCA may take a dim view of this.

Virtualisation soaks up corporate IT love

Virtual expert?

I wonder if the author of this article has actually ever implemented a Virtual infrastructure. Firstly you don't have to loose all your client machines whilst updating a host - you migrate them on to another one, it takes minutes. Secondly, you don't virtualise services that require high end performance so sharing resources with all the other clients on a host is not an issue.

'virtualising your server will make it no quicker '! It is not supposed to be. You virtualise to create more density in your datacenter (rack space and cabling costs money too you know) and to make management easier.

I agree that Virtualising services shouldn't be your only strategy but it has certainly saved a lot of time (that costs money too btw), energy and space for a lot of companies. Perhaps that is why so many of them do it