Posts by Karl Proctor

Hull's City of Culture firework freebie flares up

The whole process was a complete nightmare. Once through the queuing system, I was presented with a page with no links to the event. After finding the link, I had to edit the URL for the page to load.

Not a good user experience, although I did get my tickets

Microsoft, Google cosy up in the Skia lodge: 2D lib added to build tools

Does this mean Microsoft is starting to mothball Visual Basic?

Wind turbine bonanza expected in Hull

Yes Please

Any jobs in the area would be welcome.

All gov jobs to go online

Spot On

People should keep up with the rest of society. Most people can afford to get on to the internet.

Apple preempts Win 7 with fresh iMacs, Macbooks

Good Value

I've bought a Mac Book Pro in the last 6 months. Best machine I've ever bought. Works very well. Runs Win XP (using VirtualBox). I'm sure it would run Win 7, but who cares. I develop web solutions for a living and it works just fine.

As to the new mouse, if it works as well as the MBP touch pad then it will be a winner. Multi-touch is amazing.

As to price, you can argue about that all day. While you're doing that I'll be enjoying myself in Mac land. There's not a massive difference in cost at the end of the day (and remember OS/X needs less resources than Windooooze).

Tories would scrap 50p broadband tax

Tax

Any tax is bad. There's nothing else you can say.

If you live in the country and don't have broadband, move. It's as simple as that.

With it being a tax, it'll go up every year without fail.

Parallels woos Apple cult converts

VM

I've just purchased my first Mac (a Mac Book Pro) and now wish I'd done it years ago. All I can say about Apple products, is that they work.

I use Visual Studio everyday and have found it to run perfectly well on a virtual machine. I don't run either Parallels or VMware, instead I use Sun's VirtualBox (with no problems).

You can run Linux with VirtualBox.

O2 updates Orbit to WM6

What about the upgrade for the Trion

When will O2 get round to updating the software for the Trion?