* Posts by Andrew K Jones

7 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2007

Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe

Andrew K Jones

correction

When Microsoft dissed the competition last year, we were HOPEFUL that a benchmark-off might kick off, and sure enough it is time to load up the popcorn machine.

FTFY

LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

Andrew K Jones

Re: "Maybe the current outage is a sign"

And both of them are needed to stay in the air.

The Police Chief's photo library mixed business, pleasure and flesh

Andrew K Jones

Not NT 4.0

Merry Christmas and all that... also posting from work :(

Inquiring minds want to know what they were running that wasn't NT 4.0 that their 'techie' thought was more or less the same?

Lloyds TSB's online banking system shows no love for Firefox

Andrew K Jones

It can work ...

... if you go into private browsing mode.

It still works on 2 of my pcs - xp home & pro with FF 3.0.14 - without going into private mode.

However on my other 2 pcs - xp pro with FF 3.5.3 and Vista 64 Ultimate with FF 3.0.14 - it only works in private mode now.

Hundreds of US fighter aces reassigned as drone pilots

Andrew K Jones
Coat

Mostly @Fred Gumby

Anyone remember this:

"Greetings Starfighter,

You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko'dan armada"

Mines the pressure suit with the fishbowl helmet.

Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

Andrew K Jones
Dead Vulture

cheap flying dino

Perhaps he saw one of these:

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/toys-games/remote-control/pterosaur-rc-dinasaur/index.html

After all, Pterosaur/Pterodactyl ... what's the difference?

Hopefully someone will tell me.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 & MSI P35 Diamond mobo

Andrew K Jones

P35 where is it?

Odd that I can't see any mention of the P35 chipset or mainboards using it on the MSI website...