Posts by diodesign

Keep your Playboy mansion, Supermicro is my nerd vice palace

No, it's a rare moment in which a Reg writer expresses a positive opinion.

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What happened to Odds & Sods?

Re: epic fail...

Odds and Sods, that Register staple, is now just simply Bootnotes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/bootnotes/ It lives on in the section page title, but do feel free to email the bosses if you're upset by the change.

We'll still be covering odds-n-sods-grade news.

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Apple MacBook Air 13in review

Re: Re: So like the new iPhone

"Don't blame me for El Reg mods laziness."

With that attitude, I can't imagine why you were at the back of the queue :P

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Guardian's Robin Hood plan: Steal from everyone to give to us

Re: Re: Bootnote

"So what's the numbers for El Reg?"

Our latest audit: http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/17591287.pdf We're due another in November.

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Re: JustaKOS

Comment of the week.

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McFlurry McMisdemeanour costs Welsh lass McJob

Re: Re: That's it, I'm done...

Lester has been writing for The Reg for years, if not longer than a decade. I'm not sure you can tame his amusing tabloid style.

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Re: That's it, I'm done...

"The standard of writing here is driving me to distraction..... why /must/ you keep writing in the style of crappy tabloid news papers."

Um, we are a red-top tabloid news outlet.

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Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears

Re: Re: Is this a reaction?

"There have been a number of stories in the past that feel the need to explain small details that surely everyone here knew."

There lies the agonising balance between explaining too much and alienating very techy readers and filling an article with jargon and driving everyone else away. It's really, really difficult to do.

Obviously with a story about, say, an IE exploit, you know programmers will read it so you can get down to the nitty-gritty. Really depends on the story. And there shouldn't be anything wrong with expanding the readerbase. How else will we pay the bills?

Also, I'd be surprised if we're publishing less. There's something like 40-45 articles a day most of the year. Forgive us if you can't love every piece.

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Re: Re: Is this a reaction?

"the number of stories where the comments are of far more value than the piece itself is growing worryingly high"

I think there's some sort of skew involved here. Here are my own quick thoughts on it.

An article that everyone agrees with sadly generates little comment and people move on. It may be hard to add more value. No one remembers the comments on those.

Articles that spark debate and polarise readers generate a lot of comments, as expected, and if you disagree with the writer then you're bound to find someone in the forum who agrees with your PoV - so suddenly comments "with more value" appear on your personal radar.

Finally, all our writers are working as fast as possible to file their thoughts and findings in a timely manner before a story dies out. They may accidentally miss something or for whatever reason neglect to make a particular point. Hours after someone made the decision to hit 'publish', a thought may occur to someone reading the article and they post a comment. Value is added in the aftermath.

Generally speaking, referring to nothing in particular, terms and conditions apply, your mileage may vary, etc.

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Neil Gaiman’s saucy pop wife agrees to pay her musicians in money

Re: Irk

"Yet again a writer can't bother giving a lick of any credit to a woman"

Actually, it's because Neil Gaiman is much more well known to readers than Amanda. Pure and simple. Neil is more of an attention grabber than Amanda. There's nothing sexist about that.

Perhaps a few more stunts like this, she'll have a headline to herself.

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Google Go language gets used: For file-scrambling trojan, though

Re: Who edited this?

Gah. That is annoying. It's been fixed.

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Apple begs ex-Google bods to fix crap maps app

Re: Open Street Map

"They are not credited in the provided link"

They are, but possibly not visible in your browser unless you resize the page - or look at the source. There's an attribution to OSM.

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Apple demands $707m more from Samsung

Re: FOSSPaitents? seriously???

"how does this guy have any credibility left"

How does that detract from what Florian has said in this particular instance? Yes, he is/was paid to write things. We do know this.

Whenever we quote the guy, all I seem to see in response is "I HATE FLORIAN RAGE RAGE RAGE", and (personally speaking) that makes me less inclined to pay attention to the comments, because such outbursts seem far more biased than the very pundit being attacked.

Ironic, isn't it?

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'Apple's iOS 6 maps app is SHOCKING, rushed and half-baked'

Re: Keybaud

'Quotw' is our weekly Quote Of The Week.

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iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl

Re: Here's An Idea

Re: OsricTheGreat

Says the guy with only 3 posts to date, hm? :-)

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Latest iPhone hacked to blab all your secrets

Re: nigel 15

Yers, very good. But before you reach for your pedantry badge, consider that the latest developer preview - the gold master - is what will effectively ship to fanbois anyway. Huzzah!

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Re: AC trash talk

If you're referring to the deleted comment, it was removed for the anonymous abuse. Let's stick to technical discussions.

One thing we forgot to add is that the S III is set to get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which has had a lot of NFC fixes and is not the 4.0.4 compromised by the team . Anyway, both hacks are significant in terms of security and skill, and a second story is in the works.

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Inside the guts of a fiendish Internet Explorer 0-day attack

Re: Drumming For Sappeur

Mr Memory Safe: Surely you're not talking about the MMU in the processor?

Who queues for an iPhone 5? Protesters, hipsters and the jobless

Re: Intl. talk like a pirate day?

Re: Jorba.

It's international talk like a pirate day. Yarr!

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Publishers, Apple bend over for EU eBooks probe

Re: They'm scurvy price-dogs, arr ??

Avast! Talk like a pirate day tis always the 19th day of the 9th month - today no less.

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How to be a Puppet master: Make Amazon, VMware dance for you

Re: The plural of box...

It's a play on 'oxen', as in, plural of ox.

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The perfect CRIME? New HTTPS web hijack attack explained

I'm with Lord Voldemortgage on this one. I don't think the Reg has gone bonkers over it, and it's a pretty neat trick.

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VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz

Re: At least businesses on Richmond Hill can apply for funding

Well, popping the Vulture Central postcode into the site reveals The Reg is eligible for cash. Trebles all round.

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New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa

Re: Where's the blue ass photo?

It is too distressing to show in this family newspaper.

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Apple: Thanks for the iPhone 5s, China, now get to the BACK of the queue

Re: Eight?

I cannot begin to explain the frustration in seeing a figure, double checking it and FORGETTING to change the copy in the rush to get it live.

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Apple's iCloud goes titsup, email evaporates for unlucky 1%

Re: Anon

"Does that merit their customers getting a slagging"

Speaking as a complete and utter fanboi, everyone who buys from Apple knows they're paying that little bit extra just because Steve said so. Citation needed? Take a look at the price of RAM on the Apple Store.

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HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

Re: re "I HATE YOU"

Well that escalated quickly.

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Phone-hack saga: Prison officer cuffed in cop bung probe

Re: Why the phrase "illegal payments"?

I guess 'bung' wasn't good enough for you. I'll bear it in mind.

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Everything Everywhere swept away by its own 4G hype tsunami

Re: "the assembled press were told, inferring that we should rejoice"

I am sorry that we can't catch every error while under pressure, but we do try. You are quite right, and the article has been tweaked. Thanks.

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Virus lab blogger collared by blundering copyright cop bot

Re: Re: encrypted?

The zip files are password protected, so it's highly likely the bot either was told the password, managed to grep the password from the blog or simply compared filenames and/or a hash.

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Mars probably never wet enough for life, nuclear bomb crater indicates

"FWIW, you Register folks use the word boffin WAY too much."

No such thing as too much boffinry!

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The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Re: Re: pensioning off your ipod?

"an Orbital album to hear the whiney, grating tones of David bloody Gray"

Oh come on, Illuminate wasn't /that/ bad an album track. Gray's voice was so distorted and edited in the end you could hardly tell it was him ;-)

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Re: It's not thicker actually as the hands on states.

"how is that you glossed over NFC, dual-core processing, a much better screen resolution with motion mprovements and more choice in customization"

If it means anything, this was mentioned in Andrew's previous piece on the new Lumias, published this evening.

No doubt a full review will cover such stuff.

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Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet

Re: Steve Hosgood

In fairness, the commenters above were probably looking at an old version of the article - the wording was qualified soon after go-live.

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Re: "Ceres, our solar system's only dwarf planet"

Ah, the key distinction is inner solar system: the others are wildly far out (man). Sorry!

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Android spat loser Oracle ordered to toss Google some change

Re: Oracles amazing mutating claims caused the $1mil bill

"Oracle did not place great importance on its copyright claims until after its asserted patents started disappearing"

Yes, I've reinstated that quote. It was too hastily lost in the edit.

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UK's non-x86 server sales dive off cliff, vendors take a hit

Re: Arghh! My eyes!

There are no italics in the article.. this sounds like a browser thing.

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Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket

Re: "Good afternoon, Mr. Amer. Everything is going extremely well"

I admire your pedantry - but in my defence (for I did proofread it) rocketing can generally mean "move or progress very rapidly".

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Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site in a link

Re: But, but, but ...

No, the shortened URL redirects to the data URI that the shortener has stored against the hashed short URL.

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Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection

Re: Re: Why blame Java at all?

Yes, it was added minutes after publishing in what was a slight oversight on my part. I thought I'd added that detail in.

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Re: Why blame Java at all?

The article does say malicious JAR files were involved - certainly other people infected tell of Java activity in their system tray before the rooting occurs.

I double-checked with Trevor on this point - because there is little gained in attacking a technology without basis - and he said the thing was originally detected as malicious jars - which spontaneously ate themselves. Flash was not installed on the PC at the time; Firefox, Chrome and IE were completely up to date. Acrobat wasn't in the browser. Those last two plugins are alternative vectors for delivering the malware, leaving just Java. And the mystery .jars.

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AMD snubs hackers' tiny package, will fix raided blog

Re: department of redundancy department

I fear for your blood pressure.

Chemical biz 'Nitro' hackers use Java to coat PCs in poison ivy

Re: "Bobby-trapped" web page?

No, as in typo'd by me :(

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Sharp's slim screen factory 'flogged to death' by Apple

Re: Re: "Cupertino idiot-tax giant"

"It's probably just rose tinted glasses, but the Reg seems to be getting worse for this"

I'm not sure I can imagine a Reg that isn't rude about a large corporation. If you want to understand where the Apple teasing comes from, bear in mind that a number of Reg hacks are Apple users and we've suffered and enjoyed Cupertino kit over the years.

Plus, have you seen how much Apple charges for RAM? How is that not a tax?

"The other day they were going on about a Samsung Cameraphone that wasn't even a phone"

Which one was that? Did you mean the Samsung SH100 camera-with-Wi-Fi? There's no mention of it being a phone :-)

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A load of Tosh: External hard drives the new 'personal clouds'

Re: "The box only holds 3TB - USB sticks will hold more and you can carry them in your pocket. "

Yes, oops. I did intend to fully qualify the USB stick quip by referring to what we'll be carrying in our pockets in the future. Brain fart in the morning. Apologies for the stupid oversight.

Chris W (not Chris Mellor).

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

Voting system

It's not entirely surprising given that the number of votes is a tiny fraction of the number of visits to the article.

Also, it was posted late on a Thursday evening UK time, but daytime US time.

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Robot rover Curiosity sets out on first long Mars trip

Re: Nuclear raygun tank on the prowl

Hi, you must be new around here.

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AMD to double up cores with Jaguars

Re: Re: pronouncing "Jaguar"

It's alleged that the original reason Steve Jobs personally banned all contact between Apple and The Reg is because, way back in the day, we poked fun at his pronunciation of "Jagwire".

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Official: Google's brazen domination of Earth nearly complete

Re: Deeper Meaning.

Well, it is August. And, er, it's odd that there are more google.tlds than nic.tlds.

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Superworm Crisis eats Macs, VMware and - shock - Windows

Re: Worm? Virus?

There's no trickery involved if transfered by an infected drive, AIUI.

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