Posts by A. N. Other 1

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

Re: The wolf enrobed in penguin feathers.

"Buying GitHub was just the start."

Excellent point - so how about MicroGit - includes both Windows and Linux users!

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Re: Go, little duck

Thank you for naming that which I have been doing for the last few years: "Great Disengooglement".

Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

"Pricey? I would say so..."

I couldn't resist this deal:

IF You're in the US

AND You have a working Note 4

THEN T-mobile offers a $250 trade-in credit on Note 9 pre-orders

You wanna be an alpha... tester of The Register's redesign? Step this way

The only feature I don’t like....

...is the feint grey box around the article headlines. The lines should be slightly thicker and/or darker. Also, they could be colour coded depending upon the subject.

(Reading on iPad Pro 9.7)

Dying! Yahoo! writes! off! half! of! the! $1bn! it! paid! for! Tumblr!

Positive Thinking

Look on the bright side - the global shortage of exclamation marks will soon become a non-problem!

Now if only we could solve the apostrophe shortage caused by illiterates who don't know the difference between it's and its. Of course El Reg commentards are, by definition, literate!!

(insert annoying grinning emoji in your chosen colour)

The designer of the IBM ThinkPad has died

Re: Track points are much better than touch pads!

I agree entirely!

I bought my first ThinkPad - a T40p - in 2003 and ever since, I've only bought notebook computers with a TrackPoint. I find it far superior to a pad - I never know in which area I'm supposed to fondle, stroke or prod it and how many digits to use!

As for the last part of the article: "... and still features the red nipple - a somewhat retro feature in 2016." the author has obviously never owned a ThinkPad. There's nothing "retro" about a brilliant innovation which works as well now as when it was invented.

RIP Richard Sapper.