Posts by b166er 1469 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2007
Windows 7 ties in with 2008 R2, in particular, RemoteFX, to give meaningful 3D acceleration over WAN links and that's just for starters.
Windows Live (25GB online storage) domain/email hosting/publishing Word\Excel online.
Bing, compared to what went before is a huge improvement.
I use my BlueTrack mouse on ANY surface quite happily which is great when travelling/on the couch/in bed.
Disclaimer:I don't care either way.
It's really is hugely entertaining to watch you all shoot Microsoft down in flames, so first of all, thanks for the laughs.
Steve Ballmer IS a colossal doofus, however Microsoft continues to be relevant. Examples?
Xbox, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Office Live, Bing, BlueTrack mice, and that's just on the surface. So it really is humorous when you write them off because they're having trouble in the mobile sector.
I personally don't get the iPad and will have a sportsmans bet that they end up the iFad. (prepares to eat iHat)
It's too cumbersome to be of any long-term use. Sure, we all want something LIKE that, but it's going to end up on a coffee table at best.
If Microsoft want to get back into mobile, they need to hurry development of the folding/scrolling screen, because that's where true portable computing nirvana lies.
However most accidents are caused by driving without due care and attention; not speed.
Therefore, start booking drivers for behaving like such c*nts on the road and our roads will be that much safer.
I'd like the technology to 'blacklist' cars whose drivers have exhibited fuckwittery, so I can refuse to let them out of side roads/merge in the future etc. I suppose that technology already exists in some respects; BMW, Range Rover, Mercedes Benz, Volvo XC90, people who look like they think they're more important than anyone else...
From Wikipedia:
In March 2008 Portsmouth City Council introduced a 20 mph (32 km/h) speed limit (reduced from 30 mph (48 km/h)) on 410 km (250 mi) of the City's 438 km (272 mi) of roads. The scheme cost GB£570,000 to implement. The Department for Transport commissioned a study to evaluate the impact of the speed limit reduction, using before and after data for traffic speeds and casualty data. The main findings of the study were that at 0.9 mph, the reduction in traffic speed was not statistically significant and that although there was actually an increase in the number of crashes resulting in killed or seriously injured (KSI) road casualties in the year following the implementation of the new speed limit, that was not statistically significant either. There was no overall change to the number of KSI casualties and there was a 15% reduction in the number of slightly injured road casualties
Original source;
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme4/interimeval20mphspeedlimits.pdf
the Desire is not a geek phone. Sure, it can be, but out of the box it's as user friendly as the iPhone.
In fact it's selling so well, that HTC are having to use a different screen in newer models as Samsung can provide enough AMOLEDs.
Let's not get confused and think that Apple are the only company that can do good UI. It seems they have difficulty with hardware sometimes too.
At the end of the day, the market will show whether the iPhone 4 has an antenna problem.
Just run Linux and Windows.
Use linux for anything remotely risky and windows for games, photoshop, proprietary VPN software etc.
Why can't we have a VM hypervisor that lets us Atl-Tab between OSes?
I don't care about hardware, it's cheap and would be easy to have a machine that could run 2 OSes side by side.
Online vs Brick:
I went into PC World with my mum because we had seem reasonable Microsoft webcams on the PC World website for £15 and as I was only there for the weekend I thought I'd go in and get them so I could configure it for her before I left.
Once in the store, we headed for the webcam section and to our surprise saw the model listed on the website for £15, marked up at £26.
I checked on my Desire and sure enough, £15 online. I asked a sales droid and he confirmed that the online price is cheaper as it's handled by a different company. He said you could reserve it and collect in store, but the Windows machines don't have internet, so use a Mac (you'd have thought they'd have locked the Windows machines down, but heh).
So I used a Mac and reserved the webcams for that store. We then went to the checkout, where our webcams were brought for us, paid £30 and left!
So if you're a regular punter, it would cost you £52 and you'd have to carry the goods to the till yourself, whereas, if you reserve them online in the store, you pay £30 and have someone take them there for you...madness!
I assume it's a ploy to advertise cheap prices on the web and then rely on people blindly purchasing in the store expecting it to be the same 'bargain' they saw online. Buyer beware1!!111!!!!!
You do realise that TMO and 3 share masts at the moment, don't you?
That coalition will grow to include Orange masts later this year.
If you really want better reception, perhaps you'd better go to Vodafone, besides, I hear they're offering 500MB for only £5 a month :P (I get 3GB with TMO)
Instead of spending a fortune trying to protect their software with a system that would have its pants pulled down, they could have made the game cheaper and consequently sold more copies.
You may say that then more people would have downloaded it if it had no copy protection...that's rather moot now isn't it.
Regarding decompressing SoftPaqs, you can always use Virtual Floppy Drive (vfd).
BIOS' can get flashed from USB (providing the BIOS supports it) or CD. My copy of XP hasn't needed F6 for ages, thanks to DriverPacks.
Now if only a large conglomerate hadn't invested all that money in a brand new optical format, we could dispense with this spinny stuff entirely.
I see you're new here, so I'll offer a few tips.
Anything in 'Bootnotes' is fair game.
Anything written by Lewis or Lester will likely be male chauvinistic in nature with liberal helpings of double entendres. I hasten to add that this is mostly tongue-in-cheek.
If you're likely to be offended by this, I would stay away from articles by either in Bootnotes!
Maybe NSFW shold be redefined as Not Suitable For Women (JOKE, OKAY)
Some of you.....well, jake....think these bozo's had some kind of plan.
Yeh! That's why they stole the bike the first night and then returned TWICE in the hope of taking more.
Google spokesman "The imagery on Street View is no different to what anyone could readily capture or see by travelling down the street " OK, sure, but most people don't have photographic memories. It's also a lot less obvious casing establishments from your living room!
Hopefully that was just a troll.
You see, rural users have been paying the same as town-dwellers for their broadband and receiving a lesser service. IE subsidising town-dwellers getting better broadband. Now it's time the favour was returned and townies contributed to get the rural users up to speed, see?
Simples
Isn't this like the bus shelter scam? You know, win the contract (nudge, nudge) to once again fit bus shelters with glass panes so there is a huge aftermarket revenue driving around replacing them all the time. Then all you need is the contractors who replace the glass to go on a pub crawl breaking some as they go.
This works for car windscreen/shop window replacement contractors too. Take a few car windscreens out of an evening, chances are you might get some work tomorrow!
So with this story, cable installers go around nicking copper (or glass under the guise of copper) so they get scrap money for the cable and the contract to replace it. At a couple of quid per splice, it's good money. Potentially double if VM are telling you to get it done in a hurry because it was an 'unplanned' outage.
Cynical, moi?
I'd say that's a great example of gross negligence. Employee cocks up due to poor management. It's not like it was a typo, this firm failed to follow clear procedure.
Besides, the work being carried out was core to the business conducted by the firm. Surely getting DNS right is central to running a the business of a hosting company?
If a bank failed to verify me properly and moved all my money to another account, wouldn't that be gross negligence?
i installed Windows 7 on a Presario in 12 minutes the other day, from boot to desktop, using a USB key. Why the hell would I want to use a DVD drive for this purpose. Seriously, optical drives are old hat.
I might at a push, have a Blu-Ray drive in the living room, but I'd rather download it (legally) and, using the money saved not buying the physical item (???), to buy extra storage for the media server.
Still, the Vostro is eye-candy I suppose, but a single core sucks.
