Posts by Ralphe Neill

Apple admits to iPhone 3GS heliophobia

35 degrees??

Earlier this year, in Melbourne, Australia, the ambient temperature hit 45 degrees. It was a time of major bushfires. Would the iPhone have failed? So much for emergency communications!

The best netbook-friendly Linux distros

KDE with xandros

It's worth remembering that getting KDE running on the Eee PC is somewhat trivial using the original Linux installation.

And you can switch between the so-called "full desktop" and the "easy" GUI without difficulty.

Everything works without any tweaking and I haven't felt tempted to bother trying different distros.

Apple boasts record Q1 as revenue tops $10bn

He doesn't get it, does he?

"He summed up his disdain for "the netbook space" by simply saying: "We think the products there are inferior."

Methinks he's missing the whole point of the netbook! I have three of them now and I wouldn't be without them. But I don't want to do graphics-intensive work on them ... I want to use them for the tasks they were designed to do well. And I want to be able to take them anywhere ... any time.

Mind you, in an emergency I did use an Eee PC 701SD to get a PowerPoint presentation on to a 30-foot video screen ... no other system would run it properly ... and it looked great.

Chromefirexplorer girds loins against rich and closed

Has anybody told Bill Gates?

But like so many others, Allen still questions whether web openness will succeed in the mobile world. "On the internet, there's no central party that controls the bandwidth," he said.

Lovely to hear that coming from a M$ person!

NZ chaps' sperm not quite up to scratch

Are you sure?

"Trust us - that's the proper collective noun for fertility researchers."

Are you sure? According to the OED, "fecund" is an adjective ...

Not sure what your IT angle is ... unless it's I/O ...

Symantec nabs PC Tools for added street cred

PC Tools? Not impressed!

Can we hope that PC Tools will now improve its security and accountability?

They keep credit-card details on-line and use them to renew a subscription even when you say you don't want to! They then ignore repeated e-mails.

And, despite the fact that they have my money, without my authorisation, Registry Mechanic STILL tries to get me to renew!

Anecdotal evidence from other users suggests that this was not an isolated incident.

Apple iPhone 3G

Boring ...

Who was that boring man waving his hands around and stroking his ego instead of "stroking" the 'phone? Boring ...

Judge points laser dazzler man towards prison

Pork-chopper?

Buzz-Fuzz

Asus Eee PC 900 flips one at MacBook Air with multi-touch input

Oy!

Where's the picture of the Eee PC user, then?

Asus CEO: Eee PC to get HDD options, Intel Atom CPU

Tut, tut!

"Eee PC 701 and friend: looking forward to a hard drive"

You just couldn't resist it, could you!

But, apart from even more excuses to run that pic, the news is more than welcome

Asus to offer Linux-less Eee PCs globally

Sigh ...

I suppose it had to happen. Let us just hope that Asus doesn't make Linux the second-best option!

BOFH: Vampires!

OK ... so I'm paranoid ...

... but am I paranoid ENOUGH??

Elonex punts £99 Linux laptop

The more the merrier!

Asus identified (created?) a market and now everybody is scrambling to get on board. The more the merrier! Laptops, notebooks, sub-notebooks all sold with Linux on board - heaven on a stick.

Here is Australia we have seen a rash of "manufacturer's cashback" deals as makers try to bring the low-end laptop price as close as possible to that of the Eee PC.

It's a good thing!

Maxdata Belinea s.book 1 sub-notebook

Will Asus catch the Windoze disease

Let us just hope that Asus doesn't get seduced by the Beast of Redmond and abandon the Linux installation when the "next generation" Eee PC comes out!

Heathrow 777 crash flattens servers

Media beat-up

Burkill has since been praised for gliding the stricken airliner over houses and managing to belly-flop it 50 yards inside the perimeter fence ...

I have no wish to denigrate the pilot's ability (I'm a commercial pilot here in Australia) but he wouldn't have been able to put the aircraft down onto the houses even if he'd wanted to. And ANY, normally-stable aircraft can glide. What the pilot did was do what he's supposed to do which is follow the first rule in any emergency - FTFA (fly the flaming aircraft). Training and experience!

I'm making these comments only because I'm tired of all the media hype and hysteria (not to mention ignorance) surrouncing aviation incidents.

Presenting the inaugural Vulture Central Hall of Lame™

IT's Flying Pigs

"My site is no different to something like Google." and the "flying pig" brought back some happy memories of the launch of Windows 95.

A huge advertisement was mounted in Melbourne, Australia, behind a city-sponsored sculpture of a flying pig. Brilliant juxtaposition and a classic example of unintentional "truth in advertising." Pix available ...

El Reg fires up online standards converter

Punishment!

... that well-known and oft-used unit, the width of a gnat's dick? And what about the maximum speed of Vulture when heading to the pub?

Reg Developer goes West

Moving to the dark side

And what, one wonders, will happen to all the UK happenings (things do happen in the UK, don't they)? Let us hope everything does not become Americanised (apart from content)! Sigh ...

Movie pirate forced to ditch Linux

Punishment!

Clearly, the authorities understand that Windoze is a punishment!

IBM and Novell team up for chunk of open source market

Run that one past me again!!

*IBM* wants to offer business customers an alternative option to avoid them falling into high costs by relying on a single vendor such as Microsoft???