Posts by RICHTO

Microsoft releases JavaScript alternative

Re: They just killed .NET for Windows 8, why this now?

.Net is still supported in Windows 8. The is just an optional newer CLR - in WinRT.

Re: What...

Microsoft have the best over all development language and development tools products over a long long history than any vendor by miles, so probably not a lot...

I would cite Powershell as an example - far more powerful than the legacy shell scripting languages that were the only previous comparable option, and fully object orientated - developed from scratch - and being rapidly adopted all over the place. For instance by VMWare for ESXi.

Key evidence in Assange case dissolves

Re: Just some actual facts

He is not being accused of rape. They want to question him about allegations that don't amount to rape.

Re: Matt, did you have too much prune juice this morning?

I think the two ladies pubically available witness statements are good enough thanks....Whatever he did it wasn't rape as neither of them told him to stop and they both confirmed consent.

Sharp punches out über-retina phone screen

Re: And in a private message from Samsung to Apple

And Apple are beaten by Nokia on screen brightness, black depth, refresh rate, contrast, colour range, and touch sensitivity with the 920....

Nominet mulls killing off the .co from .co.uk

The border in question being the Watford Gap?

Re: Hmmm

Bagsy f.uk, m.uk, y.uk and s.uk....

Democratic congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans

Re: Fits in with Republican Ideology

I am well aware of what The Onion is. If you read the article it is pretty clear what I am getting at...

Re: Fits in with Republican Ideology

I expect he moved so that he can rip off gullible Americans with overpriced dentistry. They are after all used to paying rediculous amounts...

Re: Fits in with Republican Ideology

You mean like all those hard working Americans that dont earn enough to pay taxes?

I see the Republicans have been working hard in Florida: http://www.theonion.com/articles/florida-to-experiment-with-new-600lever-voting-mac,29699/

Finally you have a president who has done something about your third world health care system - you have a health care system that costs twice as much as Canada's - but produces inferior results. For that alone (and not starting any wars) I hope he gets re-elected.

Re: Fits in with Republican Ideology

Everyone knows there are only two type of Republicans - Rich ones and Stupid ones.

Both being characteristics commonly associated with hotter looking fluff...

Pair face £250k fines for spamming mobes with millions of texts

Maybe they need some legal advice? ICO can we have their mobile numbers please - i have some helpful text messages I can forward to them....

Climate sceptic? You're probably a 'Birther', don't vaccinate your kids

Re: I don't...

You are about a decade behind the times. There has for years now been no longer any reasonable doubt that climate change is at least partially man mad. This is supported by overwhelming observable evidence.

Re: There has always been a tinfoil hat brigade

Not really a 'force multiplier' for the Tin Hat brigade - Linux market share is still at ~ 1%....

AMD launches Android app store for Windows PCs

Re: linux?

Does it come with all the Android security vulnerabilities too? Presumably running on Windows will sandbox it to a large degree....

Tibetan STATUE found by 1930s NAZI expedition is of ALIEN ORIGIN

Re: photos?

No it doesnt:

extraterrestrial: outside, or originating outside, the limits of the earth.

alien: a creature from outer space

Re: photos?

Extra-terrestrial origin does not equal Alien....

Google spikes old MS file formats

Re: Which doc format would that be?

As far as I am aware all versions of Office are fully backwards compaitible with at least the last few generations. I have never ever had an 'incompatible' doc format in thousands of documents. .Doc is a fixed format and just works.

I can only assume your career is a professional Adobe arse kisser, or Microsoft hater then. No job webiste i use even supports uploading PDFs, and not many recruitment agents would accept a CV they can't reformat to agency standards.

Re: Download =/= upload

Hand Writing?! That's rather obsolete in the 21st Century. Cant remember any time in the last 3 years where i have needed to use a pen at work. That's what One Note is for....

Re: Download =/= upload

Then those organisations must rely on recruitment agencies to regress documents to their requirements.

I have never ever in dealing with several hundred agencies over the course of my career been asked for my CV as a PDF.

Re: Download =/= upload

I havnt yet come across a job site that requests CVs in anything other than .doc files. Office 2013 can edit PDFs anyway, so you are talking crap....

And paper copies? did you just get out a Delorian?

Re: Download =/= upload

Google Apps already cant reproduce many Office documents properly anyway and using it is a joke. I can't believe that some people try and run a business off it. They must not have to exchange documents with any other companies.

I guess Google are just admitting defeat here and concentrating on the latest format only. For those that need proper Office compatibility, Office Web Apps can be accessed free via SkyDrive.com....

Nokia lops UK Lumia prices ahead of Win 8 phones

Windows 8 can run Android apps anyway.

Politico's locked room mystery Linux install crime solved

Re: Pay An MCSE

MCSEs earn more on average than Linux admins...

Events in stratosphere can affect Earth's entire climate

Re: I hate to piss on anyones parade but...

Its complete garbage by people with no expertise in Climate change - and who were mostly adminstrators:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/NASA-climate-denialist-letter.html

Re: I hate to piss on anyones parade but...

Almost all my posts are factual and verifiable. :-}

Re: I hate to piss on anyones parade but...

Presumably that's why they are no longer at NASA.

Every single scientific representative to the UN from every country in the world agrees that global warming is at least party a man made problem....There simply is no credible doubt anymore.

Re: I hate to piss on anyones parade but...

No. There really are not enough. There is now no doubt whatsoever that climate change is being caused by man made emissions of CO2.

The only thing we don't know is exactly how much of the rapidly accelerating global warming might be due to natural cycles. Looking at known geological and meterological history versus the massive changes in the last decades tells us that likely almost all of it of it is due to man made changes to the climate.

However there is a very small chance statistically that natural cycles might be playing a more significant part than is generally believed by scientific experts.

Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5

Re: It is a popularity contest

This is because the types that are involved in 'creative' trades - you know - the ones that got a single GCSE in Art and then went on to do 'Media Studies' - are too stupid to use a real computer, and so Macs are endemic in these areas. Same with journalists...

Mnd you, with the new 'even stupid people can cope' interface in Windows 8 maybe Microsoft will now take back these area by storm....

Re: "obsessed with Apple's marketing events and Apple's branding".

I would say Android are more like Skoda - taking someone else's technology (In this case Microsoft and Apple) and selling it under a different brand....

Re: Bing?

Nokia maps is far better than Google. It is what most of the car manufacturers use (NavTec).

Re: Bing Maps are Nokia/Navteq Maps

Nokia do have the best mapping software. Just go to maps.nokia.com goto the Capital - anywhere near the Thames for instance - and select the 3D view on the top right!

Ten external battery packs

Re: amprere hours

Wh = mAh × V / 1000

Re: erm

Rediculous that you havnt even covered the market leader - Power Gorilla. I have two of them for festivals, etc and they are awesone - and far in advance in terms of capacity of anything covered in this review (21,000 mAh)

https://powertraveller.com/_code/download.php?f=VS_powergorilla_data_sheet_09.pdf

Nokia out $99 dual-Sim Asha

I guess these are mostly for the Chinese market - everyone who is anyone has a mistress - and they want to keep their texts / calls off their main phone bill so they buy a second PAYG SIM to keep it secret....

Fans revolt over Amazon 'adware' in Ubuntu desktop search results

Re: Big deal....

Probably it will detect you are on Linux and offer you an upgrade to Windows 8 lol....

Re: If MS did this with Windows...

Well you do get Bing search results and those are quite annoying....A few clicks to change to your search engine of choice, or turn off auto search though....

Win8 tablets may cost MORE than iPads – AND LAPTOPS

Re: Maybe...

Just look at the amount of nasties on Windows Phone (zero) - Fixed it for you

Re: Maybe...

Maybe but who would want to buy a premium tablet and then downgrade it to an insecure OS with an order of magnitude more security vulnerabilities? Just look at the amount of nasties on Android...

Re: Asus Vivo Tab

Behind all the Apple fans already used to queueing for such 'bargains'

Re: who cares?

Well it still worked - Xbox now outsells both the PS3 and the Wii every month....

Re: who cares?

And Sharepoint, Exchange, Lync, Windows Mobile (had over 50% market share at one point)....

Re: Seriously?!

Nokia ads would be from Nokia....And Apple copied the Tablet and Smartphone ideas from Microsoft - it didnt do them any harm!

'Your app will work on Windows 8 - but please rewrite it anyway'

Re: "simply doesnt exist in Linux"

(and just to complicate the Linux mess, you have Tomoyo and Smack as well!)

Re: "simply doesnt exist in Linux"

No, AppArmor is just like NTFS file permissions for file paths. Its basically a less effective version of SEL and can be bypassed simply by creating a hard link. It is also specific to a single box, unless you start copying text files around.

Try reading the link above and you will see that AppLocker is an enterprise distributed system with lots more functionality....

You mean you cant understand the model that most enterprises are actively running on Windows / AD? There are plenty of Windows admins happy to show your employer how it's done....

Yes we know that UNIX is crippled with a realy limited permissions model out of the box, and that to get proper ACLs is a bolt on after thought. And advanced features from Windows like claims based authentication simply dont exist in Linux without third party applications....

>>An OS should provide a "virtual machine" for a user application. It would be nice if we had some controls over what software could do. For example, "this application should *never* access the internet"

Thats already been in Windows for years, and can be controlled down to the port / protocol per application level.

>>or "this application only needs access to these libraries and this particular data directory,"

That's been in Windows since Windows NT.....

Plus you get the sort of full enterprise application control solution that simply doesnt exist in Linux for instance: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449491(v=ws.10).aspx

Apple begs ex-Google bods to fix crap maps app

Re: Open Street Map

They should license from Nokia - they have by miles the best Maps and navigation on a mobile...

Critical flaw exposes Oracle database passwords

Re: Except...

Password lockouts are not relvant anyway. The problem is worse than that! "potential attackers only require the name of a user and that of a database file; they can then abort communication with the server and launch a brute-force attack on the password offline. This method does not cause any failed log-in attempts to be recorded in the log files."