Posts by Suhana

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

And for those of you wise souls running a non-windows setup...

Is the world really that firmly entrenched in the "Windows is Best" rut?

Duff Mars probe's flaming shards to rain down mid-January

Hang on .... They (Nasa et.al) are reputedly capably of tracking objects as small as my earing so they don't small into the now defuct shuttle, yet they can't tell where or when a 200Kg lump of rather warm and probably slightly damaged bit if metal travelling at sill speeds is going to land?

Come on guys... Fire up another ZX spectrum already ! :D

Met to push rape warnings over Wi-Fi to Xmas partygoers

Call me a cynic, but if I were to open up my nice shiny laptop to recieve alerts from the Police, who it has to be said, have a less than sterling ability when it comes to IT, doesn't that lay me open to a number of ""interesting"" attack vectors?

Personally, I'll be keeping my lappie fully locked down thank you very much.

Anybody got any spare pepper spray? :D

Linux Mint moves to Gnome 3, keeps Gnome 2 MATEy

""keeping an open mind and an ear for the community"" - Well that will be a first. As an OS, it has many fundamental flaws and idiotic design decisions which actually make it far more difficult to use than it should be.

The bundled mint tools have been very shoddy, often requiring levels of skill well above that which the OS is aimed at to tweak, and I know from hard experience that a number of them simply do not work at all.

Testing was a joke, with testers including myself spending a large amount of time testing each and every ISO only to have our test reports ignored or in one case actually deleted. The tests were far from comprehensive with only 50 or so different items looked at.

As for being the ""the fourth most popular desktop OS in the world"", that is simply worrying. For one, I suspect that laughable statement is taken from DistroWatch's rankings which to my knowledge are page-hit based (and therefore easy enough to manipulate). No matter what, re-releasing a product every 6 months complete with bugs just to keep it in the public eye does not make for a good OS.

Mint is at best, a toy; at worst, I feel it is actually capable of turning people away from *nix due to its design. Me, I'll be sticking to a decent OS thank you.

Plods to get dot-uk takedown powers - without court order

Failed again

Gosh, I'm so happy the world at large is going to be a safer place because Plod can take down a .uk address.

Although, I have to ask, isn't it remarkable easy to get a whatever-ever-you-bleeding-want address within seconds thus negating this faster than said Plod can apply to Nominet?

Shh, don't tell teh crooks there are .cc addresses to be had for free.