Posts by GNoMe

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation

Mondays WhoMe?

Who's waiting for Mondays WhoMe from Crowdstrike?

WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

Actually "anonymize" is the American spelling, the correct UK spelling is "anonymise"

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

chromebooks suck

I bought an asus chromebook and it sucks.

had it 2 months before the touchscreen died, not repairable, no longer in stock even though it was only build 10 months ago and half my android apps wouldn't work on it.

Got a refund and bought a cheaper large android tablet which just works (and is faster) so the chromebook is now going to the waste skip.

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

This is the correct method for using abbreviations. The first time it is written in full with the abbreviation in brackets afterwards, from then on you can just use the abbreviation.

This is correct grammar, something normally missing from news sites.

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Recently used 'Reach out' in an email. Felt dirty sending it.

Re: COP/EOD

never heard of COP (close of play) before and apparently neither has Google.

Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator

Re: [TI & HP] were allowed into college entrance exams and various standardized tests

I've still got my casio College fx-100 had it from school days. It's 40 years old this year and it still works fine.

Think your smartwatch is good for warning of a heart attack? Turns out it's surprisingly easy to fool its AI

So...

Crap in -> Crap out

Convenient switch hides an inconvenient truth

Here's my On-CALL

many years ago working as an IT apprentice I had to spend a week in each department. During the week in the tendering department they were showing me how to use the system on the old green screen terminals. After several minutes of them trying to get it to work they said 'hey you're IT' at which point I walked over and pressed the On button on the front and watched as the screen came to life.

is that it?

That story kind of peters out.. So I assume that when the remote was used to turn the projector one the old 'Big Red Button' circuit was tripped and all the computers upstairs turned off resulting in the barrage of expletives.

Magnets to stick stuff to tablets: Yup, there's an Apple patent application for that

Prior Art.

My Sony Xperia Z1 has a magnetic dock and power connection, so Apple is stealing other people's ideas again.

Windows 8.1 becomes world's fourth-most-popular desktop OS

the better list

I don;t why what happened when I copied the last list but this is the correct one

Windows 7 47.49%

Windows XP 29.23%

Windows 8 6.63%

Windows 8.1 3.95%

Windows Vista 3.30%

Mac OS X 10.9 3.20%

Linux 1.60%

Mac OS X 10.8 1.48%

Mac OS X 10.6 1.44%

Mac OS X 10.7 1.19%

Mac OS X 10.5 0.29%

Windows NT 0.07%

Mac OS X 10.4 0.07%

Windows 2000 0.03%

Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.01%

Windows 98 0.00%

Full list of OS percentages

For completeness here is the full list of OSs

Windows XP 59.80%

Windows 7 20.34%

Windows Vista 13.04%

Mac OS X 10.6 3.03%

Mac OS X 10.5 1.60%

Linux 0.96%

Mac OS X 10.4 0.47%

Windows 2000 0.36%

Windows NT 0.21%

Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.08%

Windows 98 0.05%

Windows ME 0.03%

Mac OS X Mach-O 0.02%

FreeBSD 0.01%

SunOS 0.00%

WHO ate all the PIs? Sales of Brit mini-puter pass 2 MEELLION

MEELLION ?????????

What the F*** is a MEELLION?

Google to axe IE 8 support, cuts off Windows XP lifeline

Re: Silly old google!

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

Windows 7 42.76%

Windows XP 42.52%

Windows Vista 6.15%

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

IE8

"People on Windows XP are still using IE 6 or 7; IE 8 and 9 won't run on Microsoft's 11-year-old operating system."

I think you'll find the IE8 runs perfectly fine on Windows XP.

iPad factory towns in China to finally get Apple Stores

Jaundice is caused by the liver not the kidney. :)

Boffins cobble up phone-powering footwear

This was done over 10 years ago.

This was done over 10 years ago.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-hardware/2000/01/12/brit-inventor-designs-in-shoe-mobile-charger-2076250/