Posts by davidp231

Glacier's hot butt melts ice, boffins say

Re: No boom today

It won't just go boom... it will go BOOM.

NeoPost: This is how you DON'T do PIN security

Security by obscurity?

Remember Anna Kournikova? Come with us on a tour of bug-squishing history

The name of the blob..

Is Krang, as I remember correctly. :)

iPhone-stroker-turned-fandroid sues Apple over iMessage text-slurpery

Re: Prediction

Technically you can upgrade whenever you like... you just have to pay through the nose if you aren't due for an upgrade, to the tune of whatever is left on the contract.

Re: Oh FFS

And even then in the 300 volumes of addendums.

US broadband providers holding last-mile traffic ransom, ISP alleges

Misread

Am I the only one that misread it as "trolls" and not "tolls"?

Epson takes on Google Glass with wired 'augmented reality' glasses

Re: IR version

Nah he'd just erase them instead.

The amazing .uk domain: Less .co and loads more whalesong

Backwards?

Generally, anti-clockwise symbolises going backwards, so if according to them, they are starting from the dot....they are taking backwards steps in innovation etc?

Granny's Guardian: Acorn BBC Micro hero touts OAP watchdog kit

Elite

I would have thought that would be first-party... since it was originally published by Acorn's software department, Acornsoft.

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

You want to go with Opera? It's based on Chrome these days.

Re: So what's different?

Bookmarking with the star has always dumped it into the 'recently bookmarked' submenu. Not really useful when you expect it to appear in the actual main bookmark menu. You have to do it the old fashioned way for that.

Re: Nearly

Installing that brilliant addon also lets you remove the stupid "firefox menu" if you are sane and use proper menu bars (which renders said silly menu pretty redundant). By default you can't get rid of it, even if you turn on the normal menu bar.

Apple inaugurates free OS X beta program for world+dog

Re: Plucking disaster from the jaws of success is back again.

We're pretty much already there aren't we?

iPhone 4S, 5, 5S, 5C

And most of the Performas I believe were just rebadged versions of other models anyway. Performa 200=Classic 2, Performa 400,450,475=LC2,3,475 (with the 475 essentially being a Quadra 630 without a full '040 processor), Performa 600=IIvi. And that's just the UK models.

Got Windows 8.1 Update yet? Get ready for YET ANOTHER ONE – rumor

Or there's "Desktop Experience", which was a small update you could get on NT3.51 that made it look more like 4.

Windows 8.1 Update 2

Surely Windows 8.11 would make a better name for the update?

New Facebook phone app allows you to stalk your mates

Re: Opt-out

And you need to be lucky with the Infinite Improbability Drive in order to reach the right menu option.

Nokia halts sales of Lumia 2520 Win RT tablet over zap-happy charger

Sounds like they were built by BOFH Industries.

BOFH: Oh DO tell us what you think. *CLICK*

Yup..

"Like Vista and Windows 8," the PFY says.

"OR, You could make the upgrade so appalling that when you gave their old crap back to them and they'd think THAT was an upgrade!" I say.

"Like Vista and Windows 8," the PFY repeats.

Microsoft lobs pre-release Windows Phone 8.1 at devs who dare

Re: Damned if you do

The app store issue affected, from what I gather, all users - including those still on WP8. Most likely cause being everybody downloading WP8.1 and it updating everyone's apps from the store at the same time. It just fell over.

Store came back up sometime late last night I think - working fine today too.

Back off, Siri! Microsoft debuts Halo beauty Cortana

Re: Queeg 500

Six.

Re: Queeg 500

"Well - it has a 6 in it."

And it's not 6000.

David Cameron defends BT's taxpayer-funded broadband 'monopoly': It's a 'success story'

Yet there are still many places where carrier pigeons are still faster at transferring data.

Chinese company counters pollution by importing fresh air

Re: China = SpaceBalls?

"12345"

That's the stupidest combination I've heard in my life! Only an idiot would use that combination.

Artists install Monty Python silly walk signs in Norwegian town

Re: Beware what you wish for!

"Why am I suddenly feeling nostalgic about TISWAS and The Dying Fly?"

Because it was on channel 5 on saturday night (and sunday on their +24 channel)?

Brit game devs WILL get tax relief for, er, EastEnders Game and Legend of Slough

Re: Eastenders Game

"Get me to Manchester"

And star in Coronation Street. Who either end up going abroad or to London...

As WinXP death looms, Microsoft releases its operating system SOURCE CODE for free

Re: @ Vladimir Plouzhnikov (was: Xtree.....)

"To be fair, over-the-top Windows (what is plural of windows - windowses? :-) ) "

Win-die?

Re: Trend?

I think it was DOS 3.3 where you could have a hard disk as big as you like (to a point), but your partitions couldn't be larger than 32MB. DOS 4 removed that restriction and 5 (I think) brought in support for up to 504MB until DOS 6 let you play with 2GB partitions, if you didn't mind having 32K clusters and your BIOS supported said size, or you were stuck with only being able to use a quarter of your disk.

Re: – a trend it finally broke with the sixth version of the operating system.

It's also a major contradiction lol... Vista was NT6.0 and we all know how good that was...

EE...K: Why can't I uninstall carrier's sticky 'Free Games' app?

Carrier pigeon

Faster than .gov's minimum broadband speed in some parts of the country.

Reminds me of the last Orange branded Android phone I had - it had an Orange Maps app, Orange Games and I think Orange Store - all needless, useless and unable to be removed without arsing about. Left space for about 3 user installable apps - less if you installed Facebook, which (at the time, as far as I know), doesn't let you move it to the SD card.

Ended up flogging it after I unlocked it, which is when I switched to WP8 and have never looked back.

BOFH: On the PFY's Scottish estate, no one can hear you scream...

Best way to start a Friday.

Bad luck, n00bs: Mozilla to splurge ADS inside empty Firefox tiles

Re: All I want to know is...

I think it will, since Iceweasel is built on Firefox code, but without the branding. To all intents and purposes, it's Firefox with different logos.

But no doubt somebody will do a newer version that doesn't have this "feature".

Elite Systems pulls ZX Spectrum games after deluge of 'unpaid royalties' complaints

Re: What's really missing here is a BBC film crew.

Playmobil film crew would be better.

Facebook app now reads your smartphone's text messages? THE TRUTH

How long...

...before the app starts showing you adverts based on the content of your SMS messages? Yet another reason I'm glad I jumped ship to WP8 - I don't even need a facebook app.

Nuke - simply because they're cool.

Candy Crush King went 'too far' when it candy crushed my app – dev

Re: Upside

Streisand Effect, anyone?

Lifesize, driveable AIR-POWERED LEGO CAR hits the road

Re: Surely...

"I'm told the Railway engine version was very distinctive sound. Very powerful too."

See also: Paxman Valenta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxman_Valenta

http://youtu.be/8q2o7QUzY6k?t=4s

It's true, the START MENU is coming BACK to Windows 8, hiss sources

Windows 8.2

Surely it should be Windows 8.11?

BOFH: One flew over the PFY's nest

That's how you start a Friday off.

Happy BOFH day!

Internet Explorer 11 for Win7 bods: Soz, no HTML5 fun for you

Re: Oh Microsoft

I use FTP (from the command prompt) in Windows to download a real browser... much more satisfying.

Samsung touching up ROUNDED, CURVY plastic enhanced MODEL

Re: Been there, done that.

Good old Nokia 8110.

MPs blocked from ogling 'web smut' 300,000 times – while in Parliament

Or maybe..

They spent too long on the daily fail website and it picked up the right hand column.

Give us a break: Next Android version to be called 'KitKat'

Re: I used to like KitKats

Herschey stuff is in Asda most likely because Wal-mart own Asda and can stock them with American goodies.

Python regurgitates Dropbox secrets to boffins

Re: Leaving n-factor authentication aside for a moment...

You could even add a couple of extra commands that will keep the copying running in the background after logging out of the console. Something to do with "nohup" or something like that I think... it's one of the BOFH stories.

Microsoft to fund Blake's 7 return as Xbox Live exclusive

Re: Nooooooo

"I spent hours trying to get my BBC micro to make the same noise. There's probably an app for that now."

Should write to them.. I mean they used a Beeb for most of the sound effects and graphics for series in that time. Dr Who being a prime example.

Japan's unwanted IT workers dumped in 'forcing-out rooms'

Re: Wow they are lucky

It's not a nice thing to happen. I experienced it myself a few years ago and it wasn't pleasant... suddenly my best was no longer good enough after 12 months so they started moving the goalposts, telling me I had to improve or go bye-byes. How does one improve when they keep raising their so called standards?

The fun things that can happen when your team leader and then line manager decide to leave for no real reason and HR take over running your department...

Microsoft SkyDrive, Outlook stricken by cloud outage

Oxymoron...

Microsoft Works.

Does Gmail's tarted-up tab makeover bust anti-spam laws?

Re: Optional... for now

And add the fact Jellybean users *will* be getting adverts in Google Maps too. Poor sods.

"Unsubscribing"

That's the worst thing anyone can do with spam. It just confirms the address is active and automatically gives the ok to send more.

Carriage return pixies invading?

Re: If you run an ad blocker, you're gonna have a bad time, OK?

Have made the necessary changes and it looks like everything's working properly now.

Virtual beer for your patience in dealing with my self created mistake.