Posts by Jamie Jones

Oracle and SAP are Big Software, but for how long?

Doesn't he look.....

....like Dave Gorman!

India joins list of nations vetting Huawei, ZTE

Yet the sale of IBM's PC business to Lenovo doesn't even raise a few eyebrows.

See title.

p.s. Posted on a Lenovo laptop, via a Huawei wi-fi, so I guess I'm screwed!

AT&T drops Facebook phone to 99 cents

Re: Before any says "Still $0.99 too much"

That implies the user gets zero amount of use/value in return.

Notebook sales to surge, says notebook seller

Re: Lets attack Intel a bit?

Oh yes,I want to play games, I am 12! (easier than lecturing people 500th time about why you shouldn't run a crap graphics chip in 2013)

Wash your mouth out with soap, young man.. And posting at 3am? Your parents will hear about this!!

'Liberator': Proof that you can't make a working gun in a 3D printer

Re: Won't someone think of

Actually there's a Supreme Court ruling from the 1800s dealing with that.

Ahhhh. Quaint Americans clinging onto laws hundreds of years old as if they are relevant today.

No wonder so many of you guys still believe in the bible

Degenerate dwarfs tear neighbors limb from limb

Re: Yawn

No.

American spelling irregularities != International

40,000 Chinese workers say low-cost iPhone coming soon

Re: Brand devaluation

O2 have GiffGaff, AOL has TalkTalk,

You mean Talk-Talk has AOL!

Annular solar eclipse LIVE!

When??

Simon! Give us a time-check please!

Israeli activists tell Hawking to yank his Intel chips over Palestine

Re: Israel's naked selfishness is gross to behold

Yaffo (Jaffa) is an Arab dominated part of Tel Aviv which contains a thriving Muslim community complete with Mosques, and calls to prayer etc.

Most Israeli-Jews and Israeli-Arabs life peacefully side-by-side.

It tends to be those (on either side) that quote religious dogma as if it means anything that are usually the ones intolerant of the others.

@Ian: Re: Israel's naked selfishness is gross to behold

I stayed in Tel Aviv for 3 months, with my Israeli Jewish girlfriend, and her opinion (and her peers) matched yours.

As with all situations though, it's the fanatics (on any side) that shout the loudest and get reported by the media the most.

Re: Israel's naked selfishness is gross to behold

How the hell is it tolerated at the government level. How do they get away with it.

They have the backing of the US because of the strong influencial Jewish vote in America.

Israel are in conflict of UN resolutions - The US (and UK) have attacked other countries with a much weaker mandate

Re: Mr Hawking, you should listen to “Palestinian academics”

Asher, you know full well that there are many Israeli-Arabs living in Israel without becoming terrorists.

At the same time, how would you feel if your land was invaded, house bulldozed, and the invading force kept building settlements on your land?

Re: fair enough

You basically just wrote what I wanted to write, but a lot more eloquently.

Though I think the 'Davros' comment may get you a few downvotes!)

Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy

Re: @Roo @Tom 7

An anonymous thumbs-down without any refute. And you MS fans say that Linux people are fanbois

@Roo Re: @Tom 7

Finally! Someone says it!

Hard disks are quieter and faster now, but that's the only thing that has somewhat hidden the fact that the MS OS still makes the hard disk thrash like hell for no real reason.

I recently used windows 7, after a windows break of nearly 3 years, and couldn't believe they have the same crappy IO and memory/swapping routines that they always had.

Apple's head bean counter boasts WORLD'S BIGGEST PACKAGE

Really?

I'm surprised that each of these people reported earnings above $1.00 !

NEW ITV Player app IS HERE ... for Samsung fandroids only. Ha ha

...proclaims the release, in Samsung's trademark capital letters..."

Eadon should sue!

Brit adventurer all set to assault ex-Reg haunt Rockall

Re: Rockall Times

You beat me to it!

The Metro experiment is dead: Time to unleash Windows Phone+

@ShelLuser: Re: That's not what happened...

Now that Microsoft bigwigs have realised that cramming their desktop operating system into a touchscreen tablet format was unwise

No they haven't. The problem was that they crammed a mobile platform onto the desktop and expected people to embrace it. You're now twisting the events around.

It's not twisting the events at all. They *did* cram their desktop OS into a mobile format. Your response is more or less saying the same thing, in that I think you are saying they crammed a mobile format onto the desktop OS

Wireless goliath bankrolls wireless-free super-hackfest in Blighty

Re: Booze Ban

The article says the booze ban was at last years Berlin show. It doesn't mention whether there is a ban in the O2 show

Windows Blue preview to land at end of June

@AC: Re: MS admits FAILURE (Reads between lines)

Correct, Sir!

And I must say, Eadon is the first person I've seen on here who gets more downvotes than upvotes on a pro-linux post. Even the Linux camp are fed up with him!

@jake: Re: @AC 05:37 (was: If Microsoft is actually listening to customer feedback ...@jake)

Have an upvote, Sir.

And, if you've really been in the industry for over 40 years, perhaps I should say "HAVE AN UPVOTE, SIR.. WANT A CUP OF TEA WITH THAT?"

:-)

Net darkness in Syria

Re: DNS question

I'm guessing the DNS examples used were just to show that the syrian country couldn't be contacted. Routes to and from *all* Syrian nodes were down, not just the DNS.

Self-assembling robot inches towards WORLD DOMINATION

Re: Ninja business cards

'ear 'ear, me ole china. Those bloody septics are gettin' everywhere!

Queen's Speech: 'Problem of matching IP addresses' to be probed

Re: /32

Ummmm. They'd just trace your /32 and then ask you who (other than yourself) in the household has access to any of those other 4.2 billion addresses.....

Re: Steve Brooks

Not true. NAT and DHCP are relatively new to the internet. Before them, every system had a static IP address, even if it was not permanently connected.

On dialup/broadband, changing your IP would cause your service to stop working.

On fixed networks, you could only change your IP to an unused one that falls within the range allocated to your lan.

No MACS to be seen here. Was: Re: The police are as bad

Unless your computer is connected directly to the ISP via ethernet, its network card MAC never leaves the house. (And if you do connect via ethernet, it has to be 'native' and not some PPPoE setup)

Even if you don't use any sort of wan facing nat/router modem, if you connect via ADSL or via cable, your outgoing connections will not use your pc MAC. The 'virtual interface' created to tunnel the connection may have a 'virtual MAC' but that's not the same. In the case of cable, the cable modem will have its own MAC which is what some cable-isps use to authenticate you.

TL;DR: Even if you don't use a NAT router/modem your computers MAC address is never likely to be 'leaked' anywhere unless on (say) a corporate network or maybe a student/university network. So MAC tracing for home users is a silly thing to think useful - and that's even before you get into how easy it is to spoof MAC

Stealthy, malware-spewing server attack not limited to Apache

root?

For a binary such as httpd to be rewritten, either the attacker has managed to get root access, or the servers have been set up by idiots.

Do people really run servers under the same id that own the binary files?

Vodafone slurps MEELLLIONS for redirecting police hotline calls

456999

I always thought "456999" was a general number to get through to the local police force, but a quick googling shows I'm mistaken, and it only appears to apply to the main Swansea cop shop!

Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back

Wow, I didn't think the situation was THAT serious! :

From the article:

"Reller conceded that Windows users have been struggling with the Widows 8 Metro touch UI"

PLAGUE of SEX CRAZED MONSTER GRASSHOPPERS to hit East Coast

Reminds me of students...

" Larvae hatch from the eggs and chew into nearby foliage, before heading back underground and getting some shuteye for the next 17 years, before erupting for yet another insect sex-fest."

lucust?

p.s. I didn't downvote you

Look ma, no plugins! Streaming web video with just JavaScript

Re: @dognolegs Application Virtualization...

It's funny how with successive variants of the 'next big thing' we are invariably going around in circles

@dognolegs Re: Application Virtualization...

you mean x-terminals?

YouTube channels at $1.99 per month could launch this week

Maybe.....

..... when I can get truly unlimited broadband.

Greenhouse gases may boost chances of exoplanetary life

Re: In as many cases

"We define hospital zones basically as places where the natural formation of liquid water is possible,"

Well, I'm currently in hospital(*), tucked up in bed, and do have a large jar of water on the table beside me. I guess it originally formed naturally, though I think it came from a tap"

Nurse!

* Yes, I'm allowed to use 3G here.

DreamWorks spends millions on teen YouTube network

Re: What he said vs What he thought...

p.s. A "network" with 55,000 channels? Sounds like spam a fragmented market to me

Re: What he said vs What he thought...

I use youtube a lot - never heard of awesomeness TV, though I'm not exactly their target market.

Surely if dreamworks started their own channel and advertised Shrek etc. they'd get the number of viewers they want for far less dosh?

*shrug*

Move over Radeon, GeForce – Intel has a new graphics brand: Iris

Re: No thanks. Still don't have a reasonable linux driver for the original one

The sandy-bridge 3d drivers on xorg on FreeBSD work fine

ISPs: Get ready to slurp streams from Murdoch's fat pipe

Hmmmmm

I dropped Sky TV because of Murdoch (I've never been with a Murdoch owned ISP).

I do wonder, though, how many of the anti-Murodch brigade who have posted here subscribe to Sky TV, or watch Sky channels via Virgin?

Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger

Rant of the week, Trevor!

I feel your pain, and ironically had an advert for office 365 on the screen whilst reading your post.

Here, have a beer, and a thumbs up!

Brit horologist hammers out ‘first’ ATOMIC-POWERED watch

Re: Radio controlled watches render this timepiece redundant

There are far more transmitters than that. I know, because the cheapy radio clock I bought from a market stall syncs with the germany signal, although I'm in the UK, so it's an hour fast :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock#List_of_radio_time_signal_stations

Chinese cops shutter PRC's biggest pirate movie site

Re: @Jamie Jones: @turtle: "its 1.4 million members not 140 million"

:-) Any time!

Apple's next OS X said to be targeted at 'power users'

Re: forced obsolescence, Apple douchebaggery

"Anyway, I always carry when I do a Craigslist deal and I only take cash."

That's ok then

*rollseyes*

Apache attack drives traffic to malware

Re: Backdoor on cPanel based servers

People run cpanel under the same owner as the httpd file ???

Serial killer hack threat to gas pipes, traffic lights, power plants

From the article....

"An attacker therefore just has to wait for a valid user to authenticate before hijacking the machinery by firing his or her own commands at the open TCP port."

Firstly, this implies a stateless mode of operation - else surely the box would drop the serial link / require re-authentication on a continuous tcp connection being dropped (as would happen if a bogus command was received from elsewhere)... So.... WHY????

Secondly, connected to the internet? WHY????

Next Xbox to be called ‘Xbox Infinity’... er... ‘Xbox’

Don't forget your legal rights

A lot of people saying "they might stop this" or "they might stop that" but whatever they can do technically, they still have to abide by consumer law

Peak txt: 1.5 billion more chat app msgs sent than SMSes a day

Re: Glad to see the back of them.

I've been using SMS back since the days you couldn't message someone on a different network, yet I've never received a spam text of any sort......

if you top up £15 with tesco PAYG , you also get 5000 texts, and £30.00 of voice/data free for the next month.

Granted, international and non-geographic numbers don't count