Posts by b166er

LIVE TODAY: Windows 8 licensing - Speak your brains, believe your eyes

Re: Brand new PC?

Or just go here?

UK link for Windows 8

Maybe that's been 'overlooked' :)

Use your loaf, Europe! Eat more fibre - high-speed web lobbyists

All I can say to that, is man up!

I spent 18 months pulling cable at T5, sometimes in the snow, on an airfield, and you know what, that kind of work is good for the soul sometimes.

If we're going to compete with the chinese, we're going to have to re-evaluate your kind of attitude!

Openreach should have become a public instrument when BT were forced to fracture. Then the cost/benefit calculations would be ours and not in the hands of parasitic profit seekers.

I don't know about my fellow readers, but I would actually give a weeks labour free to help pull fibre to the local houses if that's what it would take to get Britain a decent service, and I know plenty of people that would do the same. But the point is, we shouldn't have to do that, BT should be hanging their heads in shame over this, but it suits their business model, which has always been trading on the name and precious little else.

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

I always though crabs were what you got when fishing in another man's pond :)

Re: It's not all good though

You feeling lucky? :)

Swedish school puts Minecraft on the curriculum

The scandinavians are, on the whole, a savvy bunch, aren't they?

Is this possibly the worst broadband in the world?

Personally, I think it's serves you right to a degree, for paying BT any money whatsoever. Whilst you may not have an option as to whom you pay your line rental, you almost certainly have a choice as to whom you pay your broadband subscription, yet you choose to pay that money to BT.

I've been aware for 15 years to pay BT as little mind as possible.

Review: HTC 8X Windows Phone 8 handset

No Gorilla Glass? I like to just chuck my phone in my pocket. Don't want a case to bluk it up.

Is the glass as toughened, but just not Corning?

BT in ad slapdown after 'misleading' punters on fibre deployment dates

Re: Quit moaning people!

Yup, you are SOL aren't you! :/

Our exchange WSDUN, was, until recently also off the roadmap, but popped up just before Xmas.

Keep checking here: OpenReach fibre when and where

and here: 21CN availability

Can't see Essendy mentioned anywhere at the moment :(

Boo Hoo BT!

How about fuck off you twats?

Seriously, our exchange last had an update 6 years ago, we had an RFS date of 03/11 for 21CN and then you pulled it in favour of upgrading exchanges competing with Virgin Media and forgot all about us. In the last year, I've had multiple faults leaving me with 2Mb or worse for weeks at a time. I've come to the conclusion that you send all the second hand gear to the smaller exchanges where there are less people to complain.

So, my heart bleeds, stop whining and get on with it.

Bite us, Apple: Samsung hauled in $8.3bn in Q4

Re: They should feel so proud

8 of your 9 posts are pro Apple, suck it up fanboi

/I was not trolled

Re: Is it time for Apple...

Nexus 4 is LG I think, who are having a big marketing drive at the moment, staring at Samsung with envy.

Guitar-playing keys enable extremely thin keyboards

I don't want my phone to be thinner 8.5mm is fine for me.

I thought Microsoft have a Surface keyboard with feedback?

'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8'

Re: Bill Gates

I'm sure you're not as smart as Bill Gates if you think he left because Microsoft might have a fight on their hands.

I imagine he left because he figured out that, as world's richest man, he might be able to do something a whole lot more useful for mankind than run a technology company.

People with drive and vision, rarely leave in the face of a challenge (even if that is sometimes detrimental to the facing of the challenge).

It's a good point about netbooks, that gave people a lacklustre Windows experience for a very cheap price. But I don't think people are short-sighted enough not to realise that. I now know several people who have the new interface and are getting to grips with it OK. Some in fact prefer it to the desktop version of Windows they've been used to. Times are changing, which is good, and Microsoft are learning to share, which is good. All Microsoft need to do is keep focussed on writing good code.

Which qualifications are worthwhile?

Re: Don't bother....

Have to agree with that. Although it wasn't IT related, I pulled cable at Heathrow T5 for 18 months and while it was reasonable money, it was also real work (which I enjoyed actually).

The Cisco lot just breezed in once we'd made the comms rooms ready for them, sat on their arses, earning in excess of twice what we were, for lighting a few ports!

Bear in mind though, that the CAD technicians were earning at least double again, sat in a warm comfy office on the other side of the apron from the freezing airfield we were working in.

Intel bets the farm on touch-enabled 'convertible and detachable' Ultrabooks

"absolutely all-day battery life, where you just don't have to bring your power brick at all anymore."

Holding him to that!

Intel uncloaks 'no excuses' smartphone for emerging markets

Hopefully dual SIM means dual antenna and they make their way here at some point.

Bob Dylan's new album is 'Copyright Extension Collection'

The mugs that are buying this are letting the rest of us down.

Mega-res telly demand to boom, say ball-gazers

People will blindly buy this.

Same as they blindly bought HD Ready.

Fact is, lots of people still have a standard (SCART) $ky box connected to their HD TV.

Let's face it, people buy laptops with 8GB RAM, a 750Gb HDD and a Celeron CPU because of the large 8 and 750 and the small price.

US Dept for Homeland Security shafted by trivial web bug

Surely if the permissions were properly set on the file system, requesting wp-config.php would have been denied?

Can PHP totally undermine a file systems permissions?

Anyway it's a fail for running old versions.

Bendy screens are the future, screams maker of bendy screens

Sony did this 5 years ago!

Youtube video of OLED flexible screen

And this at least 2 years ago (according to youtube upload date)

Youtube video of rollable display

So WTF! where's my bendable screen?

It only needs a 10mm bend radius and we're done.

Because you can easily have a 10 inch diagonal screen that folds in half onto a 5 inch diagonal rigid body that then fits in MY pocket, genius!

Windows RT jailbreak smash: Run ANY app on Surface slabs

They could just do what Google are doing with Android, allow private Store's.

Scottish Highlands get blanket 3G coverage

I'd like to see these frequency antennas built in to common-or-garden routers by default.

Cellular network augmentation via femtocell in normal operation and 3(+)G failover for broadband outages.

Ofcom looks at contract opt-outs as users rage over price hikes

Brand new customers only!

I'm almost completely contract free now. Come April I will be! No more thieving bastardry for me.

Victory on mobile belongs to Google in 2013

Re: Using Android reminds me why I stick with the iPhone...

So you're judging Android on a device that you interestingly fail to name?

There is a clue where the problem might lie though, you're comparing a mid-range nameless phone with a very expensive phone.

How is anyone supposed to take you seriously?

Ubuntu for smartphones aims to replace today's mobes, laptops

I like the idea of your personal computer (for work and play) living in your pocket and being considered as your main form of communication.

This make sense because people are less likely to lose their phone than any other gadget because they know they can rely on it's communication ability in an emergency and like to remain contactable by friends and relatives.

As long as data storage remains on this device and/or some cloud somewhere, then data loss and theft can be kept to a minimum.

I will be interesting to see if this class of smartphone can be clustered with a large tablet device (or Smart TV for example) for use in a 'docking station' style scenario. You could use the already quite powerful smartphone's CPU/GPU/APU, in tandem with the CPU/GPU/APU in a tablet to produce a realistic desktop experience when docked.

Just keep the data off the tablet.

It would be awesome if there could be a standard similar to DLNA for pairing a smartphone with a large format display device designed to augment the smartphone. This could be incorporated into all display devices. In fact all devices, imagine being able to fire up the XBOX too and have it contribute its processing power as well.

30 years ago, at flip of a switch, the internet as we know it WAS BORN

Isn't multicast supposed to fix the congestion problem sometime soon?

MEGAGRAPH: 1983's UK home computer chart toppers

Graph was plotted on a Speccy, that's the problem you see, not enough colours!

Man I loved my Spectrum, spent most of Xmas that year writing code to do firework displays on the TV, whilst simultaneously playing classical Xmas music. Wish I could find that code now, it must have sounded awful!

There's a free Raspberry Pi education manual now available for budding programmers. Has good Scratch and Python sections so far.

Raspberry Pi Education Manual

Official science: High heels make you sexy

Happy New Year everyone.

Thanks for the fireworks, Reg!

NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft

Re: Crime rates

After a quick scan of the link you provided, the majority are related to production which is only a crime because cannabis is illegal. Of the violent crimes with links to cannabis, the majority also mention other drugs and dealing. There will of course be some people who like both a drink and some pot (and who knows what else) and who behave violently towards others but I wouldn't class that as being the fault of cannabis.

I call bullshit therefore.

The majority of cannabis smokers are more likely to chill than their alcohol drinking brethren. That's from 20 years of personal experience.

Still, you're an AC and quite probably trolling for all I know.

Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?

tl:dr, just reacting to the sub heading. That WAS the intention, right?

If it is really true that teachers, firemen and nurses took all my money, then I'm happy about that.

In fact let's abolish government and give all that money to teachers, nurses and firemen too.

We'll be healthy and well educated with no unemployment and consequently, there won't be a requirement for government anyway.

Rocket 'Grasshopper' leaps higher than tall building in single bound

All kinds of awesome

The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be

Re: I still don't get…

Nice nick :p

You might like one of these:

Narcissist t-shirt

"Pair a Linux tablet with a hardware keyboard and mouse and you'd have a great little three-piece laptop replacement"

Or do the same with the Windows 8 one you've got (which would appear to be Microsoft's intention, certainly when the Pro ones arrive) and you'll have that too, surely?

Either you want a tablet or you want a laptop OR you want a SMALL laptop with consequences (the evolution of the netbook).

I would have a small laptop with consequences personally, but I'll wait for the Surface Pro. Although the Lenovo Yoga does look interesting.

Now, Santa, where's my folding screen?

iPhone tops US market, but trounced by Android in world+dog

Re: How Convenient ....

Yes, but while you were in John Lewis, watching bucket loads of iPads being bought, I suspect truck loads of Nexus 7s were being bought elsewhere.

Are your landlines buried in the stone age?

Re: Spoilt for choice...

Thanks for the pointer there!

Can you recommend any literature for getting these things all wired up correctly? (I'm a noob)

Are you familiar with the older Panasonic TDA systems? Perhaps it's largely irrelevant what the PBX is.

Presumably you connect one end to an ethernet switch and the other to the PBX connections that usually go to BT's ISDN boxes? Is it as simple as that?

Was just looking at a TDM-to-IP gateway the other day, for an old but still very capable Panasonic TDA30 PBX.

Anyone got any pointers for using one of these gizmo's?

UK.gov stalks jobless online to axe work refuseniks' benefits

So does this mean unemployed persons won't have to go through the charade of filling out the 'What I did' book?

Brits are so outraged by Amazon, they voted it TOP for shopping

Re: Sure I'm Not Alone

Whoops, missed an o in what I meant to be too.

How does one earn an 'edit' button round here?

Perhaps start with 10 edits per year? Hopefully I don't make more typos than that in one year.

Re: Sure I'm Not Alone

That would be true democracy. Distributing your taxes as YOU see fit. I'd be all for that personally (healthcare, education, energy, transport and communication networks, in that order).

Wish Thatcher had given us that but then she was just a bat-shit crazy old bird who no doubt had her fingers in to many pies like all the rest.

Under our tree, 70% of the parcels arrived from Amazon.

I bought everything from Amazon because I had access to the free Prime trial offer (as well as being able to find what I though people might want) which meant free next day delivery for everything. Which came in handy as I'd left it late this year.

Still it would be nice if Mr Bezos added his name here:

The Giving Pledge

Merry Christmas all

BT ordered to pay £95m to rivals it overcharged for FIVE years

Re: What have BT done to upset El Reg?

Who knows, but given BT's track record, 'something' is highly likely.

BT have always been a company that seem to not require any excuse for sticking the boot in.

When you sign up with BT, they ask for a question/answer pair to identify that they're speaking to the account holder.

Mine is 'What's the worst company in the world?': I'm sure you can guess the answer. It certainly breaks the ice with the BT representative.

Kickstarted mobe charger 'kicked to death by Apple'

Boycott Apple?

Outlook 2013 spurns your old Word and Excel documents

Erm, you have heard of virtual machines right?

What is your universal access with long term viability proposal?

What a bunch of tight-fisted cry babies.

Microsoft Office is a good suite of software and has been since Office 4.2. I personally think Outlook is worth £100. (£33pa on a 3 yearly release cycle (£16pa if you skip a version))

How much is Adobe Photoshop or AutoDesk AutoCAD? That's right, more than Office 2012 Professional in its entirety, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Publisher and OneNote.

I wouldn't upgrade every version, but skipping a version seems fair to me and I don't feel the slightest bit ripped off buying it.

Microsoft releases first Windows OS in an original American language

Re: Just let it die already.

Stop being square (since we're telling people what to do/do not do)

The pleasures in my life are not decided solely on their practicalities!

St Zuck gives half a BEELLION DOLLARS in Facebook stock to charity

Awww, he's not all bad then, thumbs up chief.

Microsoft 'surprised' by Google Gmail 'winter cleaning'

Thankfully it takes about 2 minutes to change the MX servers for my domain and if I do it at 1am, I probably won't notice anything at all except the reconfiguring of a few clients.?

I thought Google got paid via advertising? Why are they making me now pay for ActiveSync? They'd better get their grubby mits off my Inbox if they want to keep that shit up.

Re: i have to use outlook.com

Oops!

Bet you feel silly now :D

Have another whisky, it's Xmas!