10 in roman numbers is XP with the P extracted
Posts by Forget It
474 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2007
Microsoft WINDOWS 10: Seven ATE Nine. Or Eight did really
Apple's Watch is basically electric perfume
Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC
iPlayer from overseas - harder
Since Jan/Feb BBC iPlayer has black listed known TOR exit nodes in the UK - so you can't watch Dr Who from overseas using TOR (not TOR friendly anyways).
But it shows how they've smartened/tighten up.
Some paid Proxy service/VPNs are blocked too - I've heard.
Bear Tunnel worked for me though last week.
CNN 'tech analyst' on NAKED CELEBS: WHO IS this mystery '4chan' PERSON?
Brit Sci-Fi author Alastair Reynolds says MS Word 'drives me to distraction'
Galileo, Galileo! Galileo, Galileo! Galileo fit to go. Magnifico
What's in your toolbox? Why the browser wars are so last decade
Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots
Senate introduces USA FREEDOM Act to curb NSA spying excesses
SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon's deflationary cloud
Auntie remains MYSTIFIED by that weekend BBC iPlayer and website outage
Mozilla fixes CRITICAL security holes in Firefox, urges v31 upgrade
UK government officially adopts Open Document Format
UK Parliament rubber-stamps EMERGENCY data grab 'n' keep bill
May: UK data slurp law is fine, but I still need EMERGENCY powers
British and European data cops probe Facebook user-manipulation scandal
Cambridge Assessment exams CHAOS: Computing students' work may be BINNED
Tech talk bloke compares girlfriend to irritating Java tool – did he deserve flames?
Marc Andreessen: Edward Snowden is a 'textbook traitor'
FSF slams Mozilla for 'shocking' Firefox DRM ankle-grab
Thanks for nothing, Apple, say forensic security chaps
JavaScript guru slots into Mozilla CTO seat left empty by anti-gay marriage ex-boss
meanwhile elsewhere on the web
I encourage all Mozillians to keep going. Firefox OS is even more daunting, and more important. Thanks indeed to all who have supported me, and to all my colleagues over the years, at Mozilla, in standards bodies, and at conferences around the world. I will be less visible online, but still around.
/be
Got Windows 8.1 Update yet? Get ready for YET ANOTHER ONE – rumor
Next Windows obsolescence panic is 450 days from … NOW!
It is a panic if (for no reason of your own) your update repeatedly fails - as it did for us:
MS admits the problem here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/kb2919355-windows-81-update-fails-800f0092-and/4d4d23a3-695a-4bd4-b340-d2ce9c75919d?rtAction=1397851607789#ThreadAnswers
For me the fix in that thead eventually worked
Record labels sue Pandora over vintage song royalties
NSA denies it knew about and USED Heartbleed encryption flaw for TWO YEARS
Anatomy of OpenSSL's Heartbleed: Just four bytes trigger horror bug
Chrome makes new password grab in version 34
Siri set to rival Windows beauty Cortana after Apple eats Novauris
I QUIT: Mozilla's anti-gay-marriage Brendan Eich leaps out of door
Microsoft in 1-year Windows XP survival deal with UK govt
Don't look at Maria's SQL, look at MY SQL, pleads Oracle
MPs attack BT's 'monopolistic' grip on gov-subsidised £1.2bn rural broadband rollout
'I will not work with Facebook... they seem creepy to me'
FINALLY Microsoft releases Office for iPad – but wait there's a CATCH
The Reg's desert XP-ocalypse aversion plan revealed
Bruce Schneier sneers at IBM's NSA denials
JavaScript mastermind Brendan Eich leaps into the Mozilla CEO seat
It's 2014 and you can pwn a PC by opening a .RTF in Word, Outlook
ElReg writes:
Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and Office for Mac 2011 are vulnerable, according to Redmond. Microsoft Office Web Apps, Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2010 and 20103, and Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013 when using Word as the email viewer, are also affected.
Legacy code or what!
Their latest Web Apps replicate a bug of Word 2003???
Code review any one?