Posts by Russ Tarbox

Apple posts Magic Trackpad drivers for Windows

I agree

I don't think they're going to lose a Mac sale because a Windows user REALLY wants to use this device, and yet could make hundreds of thousands of extra dollars by allowing PC users to buy it. Bizarre.

Beeb reinstates teaboy in Pestogate scandal

What a bunch of miserable c*nts

I'm guessing so many Reg readers are bitter, social outcasts who long to lose their virginity that they can't laugh a light hearted story like this.

Go spend some of your salary on a haircut and some acne cream instead of Star Wars life size replica figures and cheer up.

Korg NanoKey MIDI controller

Thank you El Reg for reviewing a product that's been out for over a year.

Next week: the Pentium 4 processor - time to upgrade from PIII?

Beeb sacks teaboy, hires Press Association

This is brilliant

That is all.

Brace yourself for 4TB drives next year

I'll be glad to see the back of tape backup

It seems such an extremely dated, slow and expensive technology. With products like Microsoft DPM making restore so much easier, and the abundance of cheap discs, we should be backing up to hard drives and putting them in fire safes/off site instead. Can't happen soon enough IMO.

Fake IBM playboy pleads guilty

£360 a day for shovelling shit?

I'm in the wrong industry...

First MeeGo Linux needs love and scrub up

Interesting article

I installed this not long ago on my Acer Aspire One (which I've now sold) and my experience was far better. The boot time was well under 20 seconds and resume from standby was instant (save for the inevitable wait for the wireless to re-establish a connection). I'm also pretty sure the tap-to-click option was configurable, although I like this feature so would have left it on anyway.

I had previously tried Moblin and MeeGo was much more polished; also Moblin's mouse sensitivity was terrible, MeeGo has sorted that completely.

Apple's iOS 4 beams into unprepared world

Just jailbreak it

and edit a .plist file ... done ;)

It does exist...

...helpfully, when you "agree" to the installation in iTunes. However I couldn't find it online anywhere either, when I was trying to work out why my 3G seemed exactly the same after the upgrade

Well I spent hours last night battling with my iPhone 3G

In the end, iOS4 is not worth it on this model, as most of the noticeable features are disabled. Some are irrelevant (video). Some of the new features such as the e-mail stuff are pointless for me as I use GMail. And let's face it, digital zoom on the camera? What is the point...

Jailbroken 3.1.3 is definitely the preferred option for 3G owners, in my opinion.

Google morphs Chrome OS into netbook thin client

Hmmm

So effectively this will end up making Chrome OS a thin client with a web browser? Which isn't exactly unique. Also running these remote desktop systems isn't always the smoothest experience in the world, even in a LAN environment.

It'll be interesting to see how this works.

Alt rock diva's nude snap 'leaked' to tweetosphere

Nice tits.

Now where do you want the blinds?

IT Crowd gets fifth series run

Haha

Great to see someone manages to squeeze in an anti-apple comment.

Now we just need some Linux loser to moan that they only use Windows or some other bullshit.

Great show.

They got all the cheesy jokes out of the way early and now it's gone the way of Father Ted ... absolutely bizarre, brilliant and not really a lot to do with the IT aspect at all. I love it - never fails to make me laugh.

6Music in numbers

WFMU

They're still providing a stream in "Real" format. I didn't know anyone was still using that!

Woman loses Bebo privacy case against lad mag

Come on Reg!

I had to open a new tab and spend 5 seconds Googling to get to the good stuff. Must try harder...

Norks 'have answer to humanity's greatest problem'

"Taepodong"

That is all.

Google screws Scroogle

Am I the only one that doesn't "get" this whole privacy thing?

I spend with my debit card, my bank knows where I've been and what I buy. I order things to my address, dozens of companies know where I live and what I buy. My car number plate is logged all over the country at petrol stations, my phone company knows where I've been and who I've called. My search provider knows what I search for.

Big fucking deal. It's not like anyone real actually looks at this information; it's really used for targeting ads. And get this - it means that when I do see adverts they're actually useful! Sometimes it's even allowed me to find a great deal on an item. Which my bank knows I bought.

50 years ago, my Grandad's butcher used to know his favourite type of sausages...

Yours or clean ones?

lol etc

T-Mobile Pulse Mini

Touchscreen and SatNav for under £100?

That is unbelievably good value.

Internet Explorer drops below 60% market share

What about the browser ballot screen?

Surely with this in force across the EU, you can't easily link IE browser share with Windows 7 sales...

BOFH: On the couch

I was about to write the same thing.

You saved me the bother.

Apple admits to eating 'iPad chip designer'

Am I the only one that had to look up the definition of "borged"?

I thought it was something to do with Swedish chefs...

Stick a fork in floppies - they're done

Sometimes they still rear their ugly head...

...especially on older hardware and operating systems. For example, as recently as last year I was trying to install Windows XP onto my RAID array, but hit the rails as I didn't have a floppy drive to load the drivers and so of course the installer couldn't see the controller...

Also some of the old Compaq SoftPaqs insist on decompressing to a floppy drive.

It's been a slow and painful death but it won't be missed. But I'll always remember you enhanced 1.6MB capacity under RISC OS :)

Opera for iPhone: The review

It's replaced Safari on my dock...

...so so fast, especially as I'm on the original iPhone it was a no-brainer! Now, if only they'd implement a proper autocomplete feature on their desktop browser as well...

Young people are lazy, think world owes them a living - prof

In our computerised age...

...I suspect we are achieving more, even with more days off and having our washing done for us by our employers.

Lenovo intros ThinkPad X201 series

They look so old fashioned.

Pretty much identical to when IBM were churning them out 10-odd years ago.

TomTom Go 550 Live

*yawn*

That is all.

MPs, Lords ask if Mandybill is human rights friendly

Looks like...

... I'll have to start buying my dodgy movies off that bloke down the market again ...

Brits left cold by mobile internet

"To connect to the Internet"?

To me this sounds more like "browse the web". A large number of Blackberry owners I know regularly receive their e-mail (which last time I checked arrives "over the Internet") but never bother to "surf the web" as we said back in the nineties. OK maybe I'm being pedantic (fine I definitely am) but from a technology site like The Register I expect a little better use of terminology...

Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug

Probably because...

...they have a finite number of people working on the code and testing, whereas millions around the world get their hands on the product. It's the same reason that books and magazines go to print with typos, some electronic products have to be warranty repaired, etc etc. But because it's computer software, and Microsoft in particular, all hell breaks loose.

US gov Photoshops bin Laden wanted pic

I'm pretty sure he's working in my local chippy...

He and Elvis make a great team.

Swedish Weight Watchers bring down the house

Probably because...

...half the users here could do with a diet ;)

Google to mobile industry: ‘F*ck you very much!’

Last time I checked...

...a "private Internet" was called an Intranet.

Aiptek MobileCinema D10

Next week...

El Reg review the latest Fisher Price CD player...

Google 'open' memo betrays deep corporate delusion

*facepalm*

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Am I the only one tired of this kind of angle?

Blah blah blah Google is bad, they rule the Internet, etc etc. Yet to be honest, since they arrived, my Internet experience is far improved, they offer lots of useful stuff for free, and their advertising system actually works. How about El Reg stop attacking everything they say with the "Google is evil" attitude?

Blu-ray Players

So let me get this straight...

The PS3 has built in storage, blu-ray, fastest disc load times, iPlayer and much much more at a decent price point but because it has a "gaming remote" El Reg is practically dismissing it out of hand? Despite an official Sony Blu-Ray remote for PS3 being available for £14.99 online (a 10 second Google search BTW).

Americans promised all you can eat Twittering for $99

I'm speechless.

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Ohio armed robber asked victim for a date

Obviously...

he was thinking with his dick rather than his brain!

Microsoft pimps bogus Windows 7 'launch parties'

Re: VISTA, Server2k8, & Windows 7 HOSTS & NDIS6/WFP issues

Thanks, I got some much needed exercise frantically scrolling my mouse wheel through that drivel.

Well I've applied...

Free copy of Windows 7 and eBayable goods, plus an excuse for a piss-up? I can't see the downside.

Windows 7: Microsoft's three missed opportunities

Run command...

The staple of every support technician, the Run command on the start menu, was present in the beta but appears to have been disabled by default again in the RTM. WHY? It's essential for over-the-phone diagnosis and so on. I know it can and will be enabled through group policy in corporate environments but it's just another step to talk a home user through to get the damn thing back where it belongs.

Other than that I <3 Windows 7

YouTube injects cash into US F1 team

Is that Tarantino in the pitlane with the shades?

That chin looks pretty striking.

Google money machine defies common sense

I wish I had shares in Google.

They really know how to make money. Good luck to them I say.

Google's AOL stake walks the plank

Does anyone still sign up to AOL?

Does anyone (apart from techies wanting 50Mbit and fixed IPs) really care which ISP they go with these days? So long as they get a free wireless router and they can get Google as their homepage I doubt it very much.

Unlucky Google on this investment, although it's probably chump change to them.

I'd be glad to see the back of AOL with it's bizarre proprietory systems and irritating configuration.

Google AdWords: 11 herbs and spices revealed

Google is evil...

blah blah blah. They're also a damn good search engine which helps millions every day, and I've used adwords and it generated good business. Rather that than banner ads, popups etc.

Can't The Register find something else to bleat on about, these stories are all pretty much the same but seem to have little point to them.

Google - your source for FREE Adobe gear

Scroll down the page...

And there we have "Ads by Google".

I'm just surprised that The Reg which, by and large, doesn't seem to have a good thing to say about Google Adwords, still places them on its pages (presumably as they provide a reasonable source of revenue).

Women turn on to a throbbing Maserati

I'd be interested to see...

the results after fitting a stupidly loud "bean can" exhaust to the Polo :)

American man too fat for execution

Boo hoo

So his death is excrutiating ... tough sh*t. He deserves it.