Posts by Irongut

Cruel Microsoft will drive us into arms of iOS, Android, warn resellers

What a load of bollox

How exactly will reducing partner bonuses for selling SQL Server or Lync cause them to sell iOS, Chrome or Android instead?

Inside Lord Sugar's 'you're fired' YouView bust-up with TV baron

I'm always amused when everyone and their dog proclaims Murdoch unfit to own Sky yet they never say a word about Dirty Desmond.

Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc

Re: Pardon?

That's nice for you Richard22 but as you say yourself it recognised all your hardware. The problem comes when harware is not recognise or is recognised incorrectly. And at 15m I'm guessing you accepted all the default options so if it were a current version of Ubuntu all your searches would be going to Cannonical and Amazon.

I have a monitor that multiple Linux distros refuse to recognise. As a result I can't get it into it's native mode of 1280 x 1024 and have to settle for a very ugly non-native 1024 x 768. I have spent several hours searching the web for a solution, and tried several supposed fixes, but there does not appear to be one. So I've wasted hours and ended up without Linux on that system.

Windows has recognised my monitor just fine from Win2k to Win7. (haven't tried Win8 with it)

WHY would survey-slingers give YOU a free $1,500 Google Glass?

Re: A novel idea

Any girl that would be receptive to your advances while wearing Google Glass is either not cute or will turn out to be a bunny boiler.

Japanese govt: Use operator-run app stores, not Google Play

Electronic Darwinism

Anyone who installs "sexy fresh girls wallpaper" that wants access to everything deserves what they get.

Apple 'insider' explains why vid adapter hides ARM computer

Re: Are you kidding? (jai)

I've got iNews for you jai, Androids have one port that they use for multiple functions as well. Charging, USB connection and HDMI output... all on the same connector without needing an expensive cable that has a computer inside it. Now what was the benefit of all that extra iMoney you spent?

Microsoft parts clouds over Bing Maps with massive sat pic upgrade

Re: Bing Maps?

Definitely better than Apple Maps, and sometimes better than Google. In particualr their orthophotos taken by aircraft are very good.

Evernote joins the notably hackable club

Re: Macs?

So you've never heard of OS X Server?

Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads

cost of alcohol... £7.5bn for Scotland

Or about a pound a year per head. Cheaper than a deep fried mars bar.

Arise, Lord BONG

Stop the world!

I want to get off.

Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal

Re: Where to go then?

I think I read recently that they're part owned by Sky.

I can't remember where tho.

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!

BT keep putting back the dates for fibre in my area and our office has 3 lines from BE. The last thing we want is to be shunted on to the Sky network.

Microsoft Surface Pro will land in UK in WEEKS*

Whoever you're buying your laptops from has been ripping you off if you think you need to pay a lot more than a grand for a decent one. In the last year I've replaced all our directors' laptops, got two for the price of a Surface Pro and they're very happy with them.

Google open sources very slow compression algorithm

3% better than zlib? Pathetic!

7z is still king.

And look it's open source too!

Facebook buys bits of written-off MSFT adware

"It's like some one is watching you in real-time when you are browsing!"

No they're not. Thanks Ghostery & my own foresight not to buy in to the FB craze.

Mobe networks test-drive punter-tracking kit to sling 'better' ads

is that any worse than Google harvesting the same thing?

No but I don't want them doing that either which is why I use Ghostery, DuckDuckGo whenever possible and don't use Chrome.

This article makes me glad I do almost all my mobile surfing via WiFi. Mind you Vodafone think I'm a female, 7 years younger than myself with completely different first and last names. Having a phone on your gf's contract has some advantages! :)

So much noise on WinMob, but Microsoft's silent on lovely WinPhone

"Only its existing Windows customers like Compaq and HP nibbled - oh and HTC"

I must have imagined the Motorola flip popne I had running Windows Smartphone 2003 then. Actually not a bad OS at the time although not as good as PalmOS.

Microsoft unwraps sysadmin-friendly Office 365 for biz update

"versions of the service for business customers also bundle a complete version of the Office desktop application suite for the first time"

I must have imagined them offering this when we signed up for Office365 last year then. We chose not to take them but they were definitely offered.

Microsoft finally ships Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

Re: I have XP here so no use (N2)

So what exactly do you think a web browser is if it is not an application?

And where did he say upgrade to Win7 for IE?

Nokia opens Maps to rivals, flogs uber-budget €15 phone

HERE

Be Dragons

Razzie voters drive stake through Twilight

Django Unchained ... Original Screenplay Oscar

Isn't that film a remake? Like everything Tarantino does, very little of it is original. I think the Academy need to buy themselves a dictionary so they can look up the meaning of the word.

Microsoft latest to 'fess up to Java-based Mac attack

Re: Mac perv's visit porn and gambling sites at work, this is why they are getting 'attacked'.

Except this attack came via an iPhone developer website.

Firefox to spit out third-party cookies

Re: Although I don't use IE as my main browser

Indeed and FF has had the ability since before it existed. I've had 3rd party cookies blocked in Mozilla based browsers since v1.0 of the suite. Of course I also use Ghostery which blocks all trackers and had the nice side effect of removing the advertising that goes with them as well.

4G in the UK? Why the smart money still says 'Meh'

Re: Why 4G?

And funny since they originally advertised 3G as allowing you to watch TV on your phone.

I was amused at the time and wondered why anyone would want to watch TV on a mobile and no one really did. Now I'm amused again at Kevin Bacon telling me I should get 4G so I can watch a movie on my mobile. Why the hell would I want to do that? Movies were designed for huge screens with great sound systems, not 4" ones with tinny little speakers. He seems to think watching a movie while walking home is a great idea but if you tried it you'd stand a good chance of getting run over crossing a road without looking.

Rid yourself of Adobe: New Firefox 19.0 gets JAVASCRIPT PDF viewer

But does it work for local PDFs?

Not much use unless it opens when you double click a local PDF, you'd still need Reader or whatever.

Apple FINALLY fills gaping Java hole that pwned its own devs

Re: It's pretty hard to keep up, it's not like they are exactly loaded with money.

My heart bleeds for this poor little company who have so few staff it took them 3 weeks to release someone else's patch.

Review: The ultimate Chromebook challenge

12s... enough difference to negate a feature

"The C7 takes 22 seconds to start, the S3 just ten. I’d argue the 12 seconds difference is near irrelevant in the real world"

Except my Win7 desktop can boot in under 25s so the Acer has lost that supposed Chromebook feature. That's with an HDD, if I fitted an SSD to my desktop it would be faster.

I still don't see the point of these things. They aren't a capable laptop/desktop replacement and a smartphone/tablet can do everything they can. Why do Google produce ChromeOS as well as Android?

LogMeIn uncloaks cloud storage bypass

Journo Fail

"only available to those who stump up the $US6.99 required for a paid account"

Is that 7 bucks for life? Or is it paid monthly, annually, whenever there's a blue moon? Telling us the price isn't much use without saying how often it needs to be paid.

Silicon Roundabout worthies in £2m UK.gov cash battle royale

Wouldn't it be more social (by the government's definition) to invest this money on startup in areas that desparately need jobs? Places like Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, etc where the rents and the staff would be cheaper.

Oh silly me, I forgot there's nothing north of the Watford Gap.

Traceroute reveals Star Wars Episode IV 'crawl' text

Re: Great to see someone using the internet in the way it was intended....

Superb. The creators of that deserve a pint too!

Re: A few corrections

Good Man! I'll raise a glass to you tonight.

The official iPhone actually runs Android - in Brazil

Re: um Steve Todd

Can you read?

The article states that Apple applied for the trademark in 2007, not 2006. It also clearly stated that the Brazilian company have 5 years to use their trademark from the date it was granted, in 2008. Which they have done. It makes no sense for them to have used the name before 2008 because it was not protected by a trademark.

The reality distorsion field seems to impare fanbois' reading ability.

Re: um @JDX

Since when is common sense on the side of the company that is using someone else's trademark that they applied for 7 years before the infringing party?

Forget wireless power for phones - Korea's doing it for buses

Re: Wet blanket time

It wouldn't work on UK roads anyway. Our roads are so full of potholes there is no way the infrastructure for this would last five minutes.

Oracle wants another go at Google over Android Java copyrights

Interesting choice of example Oracle

Harry Potter itself is plagiarism.

Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium

Only Redmond left drinking out of own browser plumbing

So when did Mozilla stop writing Firefox?

Register reader Ray revs radio-controlled Raspberry Pi race rover

Re: 2 Year Elec Eng Project

"based on a PIC16F84, which should tell you something about how long ago I was at uni"

Last week? When I was at Glasgow Uni we used discrete logic chips for that kind of thing. Or an interface to a PC where we'd write the code in Turbo Pascal. None of these fancy newfangled PIC things. ;)

Men's rights activists: Symantec branded us a 'hate group'

Re: Err...

Time to go back and read the article, white anglo-saxon protestants are not mentioned. This group quite clearly state that they are promoting men's rights whether those men are white, black, red, yellow, green, brown or purple with kinda orangey spots.

I've never found a single one of these Anonymous Cowards to be credible in any way.

UK financial watchdog bends Autonomy over for fresh probe

Deloitte

KPMG

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ernst & Young

So we're in no doubt that a crime was committed then.

iOS 6.1 KNACKERED our mobile phone networks, claim Vodafone, Three

Re: Am I being stalked by a bunch of fanbois?

Only time I ever have problems with Vodafone's network is when the Huns come to watch their team play 3rd division football. Before and after a match I do have some trouble sending texts but voice and data still work. Once they're gone everything works perfectly again.

BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month

Re: I'm unsurprised (AListair 6)

Maybe your company doesn't want all their data to be read by Google. Maybe they don't want all their data to be stored in the USA where it will be subject to the Patriot Act. Maybe your company doesn't want to break the Data Protection Act by storing all their data in a country with lower data protection safeguards than the EU.

Maybe your company IT people understand their jobs and don't just assume that the latest shiny from Google must be good like you do.

Re: Pay for my own device, and have them lock it down???

And this is the problem with BYOD.

If you want to use your device on my network then it should have the security software and settings that I stipulate. Otherwise we might as well forget security leave all the doors and windows open at night and write the company secrets on billboards in the street.

The business mullet: Cool or tool?

Re: Steve Jobs

I always thought Jobs was the archetypal management type trying to look cool. And, just ending up looking like Jeff Goldblum's uncool brother.

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

Tea should be strong and milky. FULL FAT MILK ONLY! None of this hemi demi semi skimmed shite. Sugar to taste, for me half a teaspoon.

As for choice of tea bags, in recent years I've decided that the standard Tetley, PG Tips or Scottish Blend just isn't good enough for me any more. I prefer Organic Fair Trade, various brands are decent including Tesco's own brand.

I make too many cups in a day to mess around with tea leaves.

Paper computers: Not mere pulp fiction

Could have been

If Ferranti or Marconi had been willing to listen to my father 25-30 years ago we could have had paper PCBs for decades now. We were printing them by standard offset litho techniques but no one was interested.

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

Humility

I don't think I have ever seen that virtue in anything GW have done and I first ventured into one of their stores 25 years ago. It is clearly missing from this debacle.

It looks to me like they've gone after a lesser known author because she is less likely to be able to defend her work. If they win they can then use this as a precedent to go after other authors.

I don't remember the last time I was willing to pay GW's outrageous prices for their derivitive products. This just puts me off even more.

Now UK must look out for crappy SPACE weather - engineers

Re: 200 to one?

1,000,000:1 Which makes it guaranteed to happen.

200:1 is much less likely.

Why you need a home lab to keep your job

Re: The Catch-22 Secnario

In my last job the IT dept gave me local admin rights for all the PCs on the factory floor because I could fix them when they couldn't. Technically I was a developer in a different dept. They used to phone me to suggest fixes for the office PCs too.

My current job is for a small company so I do a bit of everything and I decide who gets what access. :)

The Register Android App

Why?

I've never seen the point of these website in a box apps. El Reg works perfectly in Android Chrome and if I want to download stories to read offline I can open them in tabs. I'm almost never out of wifi or 3G reception when I would actually want to read the site anyway.

I tried the last Reg app and it was so bad I've never used a website in a box app since!

Don't Menshn the snore: Chick-lit queen's jabber site killed in its sleep

mountain-sized buckets of cyber-shit I got for my association with Louise

No, it was because you're a dick who didn't care and didn't understand the very real problems with your site's security and the risks you were exposing your users to.