Posts by Mark Aggleton

Ten... in-ear headphones

RHA

As one of the winners of the RHA 'phones I can confirm the sound quality is excellent for the price-point. Definitely better than the Sennheisers I was using (CX400s)

Dragon-owned Expansys bemoans weak UK gadget lust

I disagree

The kind of people who buy suits in Savile Row aren't affected by a recession. It's the people who buy ones that cost in the low £100s that are

Hacking scandal starts to spread beyond News Corp

I think

LPF has used Google Translate from English to Urdu to English

Adobe releases lengthy list of Apple Lion woes

No

Apple - FOAD as soon as possible

Apprentice runner-up becomes Greggs bigshot

Eh?

Do people actually watch that garbage show beyond the first episode?

Ordnance Survey, other gov databases move to Biz dept

Though...

... I do like the way the link for OS OpenSpace Web-Map Builder is a 404.

Website FAIL flings freebies at Kiwi punters

I can't ubnderstand

Why anyone would pay even $4.95 for an Apple product.

News of the World TO CLOSE

As it's..

... registered by an individual I reckon it's just cyber-sitting.

Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover

Thanks for that

I thought the battery life wasn't as advertised, I'll give it a go and just put it in the case when I'm reading and OH is asleep.

Harry Potter Web-2.0 'Pottermore' offering unveiled

Email addresses

can't cope with email addresses with more that one dot after @. i.e. dsl.pipex.com. Had to crearte a gmail account for the OH

'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz

No

it's because it's raining e-coli the whole time.

New PlayStation Network hack hijacks user accounts

You could...

.... always use it as a games console with one of those disk things!

Northants cops blow up suspicious school play prop

I thought

the second PS was PPS.

Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures

Not necessarily true

The corporate I work for issues Nokia as standard. No smart phones, just phones - what they are intended for in a work environment. Those who need more get a Blackberry - and there aren't that many of those.

iPhone 5? You might be waiting till 2012

I don't....

..... have a smartphone, and don't particularily want one.

Updates galore in Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday

Any reasonable size business

Won't be exclusively running MS - it's horses for courses. We run Windows, SLES, i5/OS, AIX, SQL, Oracle, DB2, Netezza and a myriad of others on appliances etc. MS has it's place as to many others.

Leicester unloses key data

Vegetables

I thought paring was something you did to vegetables, not laptops and USB sticks.

Windows 7 gets the Star Wars treatment

However

I actually quite like it.

BT reveals fibre-to-the-cabinet plans for 156 exchanges

In actual fact

Not exactly the same price, a lot bloody cheaper. I live in a small town in Somerset that's not unbundled at all therefore slow speeds and expensive....

Watchdog backs Top Gear in war with Mexico

I thought

the crappy nacho things sat on top of the sick

Pot, Kettle

You mock his 'quites'. WTF is gonna?

Pre-release Windows 8 code hits PC makers

What?

8 hours and no Linux/MAC/Firefox comments?

Avon and Somerset police launch online crime tracker

Increase

As a resident of Somerset having received my council tax bill this week the only increase is in the town council precept. None for the county or police

Lenovo flaunts ThinkPad with 30 hour battery life

Inspiron

is not Enterprise, Latitude is.

Mozilla: 'Internet Explorer 9 is not a modern browser'

and

as far as I'm concerned FF is shit, why does it take 16 hours to load (with no add-ons - I don't do Lexus lights I'm afraid)

IE9 seems relatively ok though El Reg is a bit odd sometimes.

Smartphones 'out sell' PCs for first time

Agreed

It's almost impossible to buy a 'non' smartphone now - surely they should now just be called phones?

Mozilla plans four Firefoxes in 2011

I thought..

.. that in FF each new release was a bug fix release - in any other world it would be called a patch.

Yet another delay hangs over release of Firefox 4

Waiting for the flames

I'm quite happy with IE9 - though El Reg pages are a bit odd at times

Reg readers offered discount tickets to internet future

I though

It was short for Company

Murdoch, The Daily, and life without the web

City Slicker

No - Metro doesn't come to anything other than cities - and you can stick them where the sun doesn't shine.

Antique Nimrod subhunters scrapped – THANK GOODNESS!

Please...

... can we include Lewis in the cargo as well?

Lush website hack 'exposes credit card details'

SAQ

Not sure what Tier Lush are but may not be able to self-assess.

Intel touts 'Sandy Bridge' video chops

Who

gives a damn?

Doctor Who to marry Doctor Who's daughter

If being born

on 27/3/02 makes him 10 he definitely is time travelling....

MS warns over zero-day IE bug

A vulnerability in Firefox

Never.....

Toshiba charges up battery equipped LED TV

It's not made by Apple

Of course they will be user-replaceable

E-book reader demand boom near

More?

I haven't paid more for a Kindle book than it's paper equivalent. Ok, if it's only available in hardback it will probably be more than it would be in paperback a year later however that price will drop when the paperback comes out.

Brits now spend more on debit cards than rustle or jingle money

@ragarath

I think you are the one joking. In outlets that don't have a proper network connection (pubs for example) I find it ridiculous when someone tries to pays for a cup of coffee (£1.50) with a debit card and it takes ages to auth.

US woman @theashes stumped by cricketing tweets

Not New

Northern

Brits blow millions on over-priced ink

Eh?

And you're Enterprise? As it happens the company I work for is and we don't extend warranties at all.

The alternatives to password protection

Not quite true

8.5.9 states change it every 90 days (at least) - we do 32

8.5.10 states 7 characters, not 8

8.5.11 states Numeric and Alphabetic (their words) and there's no mention of Upper/Lower case or special characters

Fox News outs Beatles as 'Manchester's favorite mopheads'

But

The iTunes release has been added.

Steve Jobs no longer Eggman as Beatles hits iTunes

This is why it's hype

You may need a cached version but it shows why it's hype as at time of posting http://www.apple.com/uk/

Social levelling with the iPad

Affordable

Personally I think it's a POS but I understand people who don't. However even the Register shows you can pay as much as you want to differ from the oiks with 'standard' ones: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/15/diamond_ipad/

John Lewis pitches 80-quid colour e-book reader

Case

By a case with a light for the Kindle - easy.

iPhones go on gobbling mobile sales

White box

Give me one - it's a phone, why do I need 3G?

Firefox 4 'feature complete' beta debuts after Jager shot

The web is just more fun

???? WTF.

Wales loses 'dot-cum' domain to tax haven

Isn't...

.... that reserved for BMW drivers?

Times celebrates disappearing readers

I agree

All the news stories on the web mentioned the Kindle - not sure who issued the PR for this but left arm/right arm?

Eh?

I was watching Sky News in Oman recently and have never seen such agenda driven interviewing on any channel on the day of the spending cuts. The reporters weren't actually listening to anything said to them. Total garbage.