Posts by aliterate

Zuck: Web drones, not balloons (cough, cough Google) are way forward

... and privately held companies.

Sticky Tahr-fy pudding: Ubuntu 14.04 slickest Linux desktop ever

Re: Head to head

>Ultimately, an OS by itself is of little use to anybody.

A bit like an application, a lump of hardware, a mains power supply, a road, a car, a ...

Funny how many things need other things to be of use.

Re: Head to head @1Rafayal

>I think there has been a slight case of fervent Linux fanboism on the Register for a while now.

Maybe.

Or maybe Reg readers tend to be smarter than the average bear, on average?

Re: @A J Stiles

>The odds on sneaking any improvement past the beancounters are infinitesimal.

True. In a way.

But isn't an important definition of 'important', important to the users?

(Rather than to the techies who might have different goals / wishes / criteria which might not coincide with, and shouldn't necessarily / always override those of the users).

Re: re: command line (@ A J Stiles)

>>Shame Windows doesn't have command-line editing to allow you to fix typos.

>What version of Windows are you using? Even DOS had command-line editing.

Even DOS? Or only DOS?

Isn't the only part of 'Windows' that lets you use the command line, essentially, DOS (in a window).

Nothing wrong with that, of course.

Re: Head to head - Windoze upgrade

Similarly, I've had a number of occasions when I've helped someone with an old Word / Excel document that couldn't be opened in or was messed up by a new version of MS Office... by opening it in Open/Libre Office and saving it in the current version of MS Office.

Re: Head to head

>Yes they are - and name a sizable corporation that only uses browsers.

Name a sizable corporation that only uses *any* particular <type of application | software>.

Live in the middle of nowhere? CONGRATS. Some of you can pay EE for 4G

>Bridgend and Pontypool because you need superduperfast broadband

>everywhere when you're unemployed and live in a hellhole.

I thought that hellholes were where people live who made comments about places where other people live being hellholes.

(Unless they are responding to such people, of course).