Posts by Tom Simnett 78 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2007
...that want to charge £10 per month for 8 static IP addresses. Not a /29, but a collection of 8. They'll give you 16 for £20 a month, and again this is a collection, not a block. And this bargain comes to you, the reader, despite RIPE saying "IP addresses are a shared public resource and are not for sale". Go figure...
I've got an HTC TyTn II with a bit of an issue - it keeps turning off my new text message notification sound. Running Windows Mobile 6.1 (that's for Webster). Anyway, Apple would have claimed no issue. Vodafone happily accepted there was clearly a bug and offered to send my phone off for repair. Personally, I'd rather they fixed the issue before I send my phone off, given they have a previous handset of mine with the same bug. Voda said "yep, no problem. We'll confirm with HTC on Monday and give you a call back". Had it been Microsoft, I can't see the same being true. Software houses are notoriously arrogant about their products. Always have been, always will be.
"Mac users make me laugh. I never have security problems like this, because I use Linux, which is far more secure."
I'm a day-to-day linux user myself, and granted, my machine is set up in a fail closed rather than a fail open way, so that ports are a) off by default, and b) turned off if the thing that uses them fails.
However, I don't agree with the primary premise of yours Adrian, mostly because it's unsubstantiated. Linux and Mac OS X, and even sometimes Windows, can be as secure as each other when configured properly. Therein lies the problem, as for the most part, the default configuration of Linux tends to be the slightly more secure than the other two, though this is by no means definitive (NB: I'm not comparing other OS's here, just the three main ones, and yes I know BSD is by it's nature even more secure). On the other hand, a user clicking on a link in an email, or on a website is not safeguarded by the OS in any way, shape or form. This is the realm of the browser, and ultimately the user to ensure they browse safely. Anti-phishing tech just allows the (usually) non-techie users to make an informed choice, which they'd otherwise not be able to do.
Anyone that buys Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, etc etc etc all buy subscriptions in one way or another. Sometimes that subscription is looser defined than others, but they're still in reality a subscrition: MS Office, Adobe CS, Apple Mac OS X, MS Windows, Salesforce.com, and the list goes on.
So, you buy an OS, or you buy a game, even! Even the game has a sequel - a new version, an update, whatever you want to call it. But you go out and buy it because it's new. Well that's exactly the market that SaaS caters for - you want the latest and greatest, but you don't need to go and get it yourself. It just kind of happens.
I'm not here to spark an argument, just showing that there is another side to the story, aside from MS being a money grabbing tight fisted swathe of <insert word>. That's my view of them, but I still see no issue per se with SaaS. I *DO* see the issue with games running on clouds without sufficient throughput across networks for the game to be sufficiently appealing to the users it is aimed at, but this is a discussion really for the software providers and the ISPs to have, and we know how that started, don't we BBC?
If you bothered to read the article, you'd notice it specifically says:
"Toshiba also said the chip is capable of MPEG 2 and H.264 encoding and decoding at 1080p full HD resolution, and those are the applications it's pitching the product at rather than 3D graphics."
So.... no it's not aiming at all that fancy 3D stuff, but more at video encoding/decoding applications that require intense graphics processing but maybe not the bandwidth that 3D requires. There is a wide range in what is considered mid-high end graphics cards, both in quality and in purpose.
Maybe you'd like to take that one back, given you've clearly not given thought to how you envisaged future versions be named.
You know, at least Ubuntu have a naming *convention*, that other suppliers of operating systems seem not to have. Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT 3.51, NT 4, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista anyone? Whatever next.
Also, Rodney Apple is hardly a likely contender, is it? Given that an apple is a fruit, and Ubuntu use animals, and the fact that your alliteration abilities are clearly lacking. Come now, lets learn what alliteration is again, shall we?
Skull and crossbones, for those who type without thought first to what it is they are trying to say.
From the RFC:
Errors due to exceeding these limits may be reported by using the
reply codes. Some examples of reply codes are:
500 Line too long.
or
501 Path too long
or
452 Too many recipients (see below)
or
552 Too much mail data.
Methinks even the error is being reported incorrectly. Come on Microsoft. Email has been a standard since before you even existed!
There is a reason MemTest exists. If your machine is crashing without any valid reason, then there are a number of basic steps that anyone worth their salt would check. I'm not an "IT support tech" because I chose not to be and I can get paid far more to do what I enjoy doing: tinkering with software.
However, I do build my own machines, and I've had a few faulty memory sticks in my time. Always check the memory! Only today, a friend of mine had his machine up (a Dell, yes), trying to install win32. It didn't have it. When I stuck an ubuntu cdrom in the drive, it kernel panicked instantly. A quick memtest later, and it was quite clear that 90k errors and counting between 501MB and 503MB wasn't something to be snorted at...
Come on, really. All of you who think it's hard to diagnose, or that it'll blow the machine by having faulty memory are somewhat deluded. They're errors. They happen. But not to be able to diagnose a simple problem like that, and not to carry the correct tools around when you're in the job, are just not even passable as excuses.
Really...who was actually there to write the Old Testament? Who wrote the new one? And what did people actually believe before Jesus appeared on the planet, then died 30 years later....like most men of the time...
I do find the ramblings of some of these beleaguered individuals amusing - they account for some fun reading the comments on articles like this. They certainly allow for people to sell what was bought for tuppence, spilt, used, abused, walked over and generally made less valuable, to be sold for extortionate sums of money. Oh yes. Extortion.... You'll go to Hell if you don't pray to God! Hmmmm...
The article says... "Pirated ... software, estimated ... to be worth more than $2bn"
It then goes on to say... "estimated that the pirated software it had seized had a retail value of $500m"
And then... "55,000 seized copies".
At $2bn, that would be $36,363 per copy, and at $500m, still $9,091! Either is a ridiculous amount of money for copies of Microsoft Software, unless of course it is the infamous $24,000 per cpu licence of MS SQL...
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