* Posts by unklehomered

4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Nov 2011

Inside the mind of a Bond supervillain: Psychotic, autistic - or neither?

unklehomered

We searched in vain for any really good female Bond villain examples.

Xenia Onatop surely...

"She always did like a good squeeze" - so she was a linux fan too.. #IGMC.

Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain

unklehomered
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unusable nonsense...

This article is exactly what I wanted to say yesterday after 45 minutes of Metro in a VM, but unfortunatley it just came out as a growl/whimper, some swearing and forced killing of the machine... Why hide everything? why make it unusable? what's so very wrong with a list of choices? Why could i not make anything go away?

When I installed it, for 3 minutes it was just a picture of a fish. Had that been all it did it would have been better.

I wish MS would look to linux and see different UIs can serve different people with different hardware better so everyone wins... But i've drifted into the realms of fantasy there haven't I...

Microsoft explains bland new Windows logo

unklehomered
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huh?

"Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate the idea of a window, in perspective.”

Kill me...

Why your tech CV sucks

unklehomered

well that was dissapointing

2 years ago i was made redundant from the consumer finance sector and since then i have been trying to gain the skills to get an IT job, i get frequent call backs from recruitment staff, but never the interview. I was genuinly hopeful this article may help me understand why.

No, just told me what i already know,l recruitment staff are all &£$*($s. ( i knew that years ago!)