Posts by Mark Aggleton

Singapore nightclub offers booze for boobs

Of course it is

It's our prison isn't it?

But

in reality they are Singapoeans of Chinese origin, much the same way there are Brits of Jamaican/Bangladesh etc. origins.....

Why an embedded OS is like a mammal

I find that difficult to believe.

Surely OS/2 isn't supported any more so wouldn't pass PCI compliance.

Hackers pluck 8,300 customer logins from bank server

PCI?

Us retailers have to be PCI compliant - I hope the standards council takes them to the cleaners.

2010: The year PC prices go up

Eh?

I'd have said they are irrelevant to 99.9% of corporate users and only used by either gamers or in vedrtical markets. In reality a bog standard Celeron is more than enough for most corporate users.

Next-gen iPhone rumored for April

Zzzzzzzz

Nuff said

Major helicopter reorganisation for RAF and Navy

Rainforest?

It's a jungle - get over it

All-in-one PCs to replace desktops, claims Asus

@Stuart Archer

That's being a tad vertical in your opinion. We have around 4500 desktops in our business and I reckon possibly 100 of those have multiple monitors. Can't see any reason not to go All-in-one if the price is right - unless the VDI market actually settles of course.

Office 2004 for Mac granted extended run to appease VBA fans

OO

Excellent - crap. Also surely it's either iFanboys or Fanbois?

Microsoft plays ads-funded Office 2010 Starter gambit

@The BigYin

And the 'Save As' 'PDF or XPS' is so dificult? Everyone else - get a life, interfaces change. Do you really want to go back to dosshell and Lotus 123 2.4 WYSIWYG attempts?

Apple tablet will 'redefine print,' says rumor mill

Help

Apple and Adobe in the same sentence. What a terrible pairing.

World's nastiest trojan fools AV software

Simple solution

Don't bank online.

Database containing 1.8m UK postcode locations leaks online

@Thad

By having to pay for things such as QAS and GB Address......

FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign

Compliance

And their suggestions are PCI compliant???

Incompetence a bigger IT security threat than malign insiders

@Gannon (J) Dick

What about those who are both idiots and thieves - so somewhere between 100% and 200%.

As it happens I'm in the POC stage of a DJP project at the moment so it isn't exactly news.

Microsoft banks on Windows 7 double holiday hit

@AC 22:24

We're still buying them that way and buy around 300 PCs a year....

Sony widens its e-bookshelf

@Alvar

And your average customer wants to go through the hassle of stripping DRM and format conversion? I think not.... They wouldn't even know what DRM is.

Retailers prepped for Windows 7 family pack

An hour

It took almost an hour for a Linux pratboi to make a comment????

Microsoft renames netbooks 'low cost small notebook PCs'

I can't believe....

.... it took 6 comments for somew Linboi to get his word in. Seriously though MS do know how to make up names that don't really roll off the tongue - currently looking at Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - what was wrong with WePOS?

What Exchange 2007 can't do

@AC 02:55

Bet you used FartFux to post that comment.

Microsoft rolls Netflix into Windows Media Center

Help

No anti MS comments yet, where are you all

Microsoft IIS hole fells university server

@Mark

Hear, hear.

Anyway it's only a university - who gives a fuck.

The Sun points bazookas at MoD killjoys

@AC 18:33

That's the Navy - not the Army

McAfee buys whitelisting firm Solidcore

@AC hmm

Working in an environment where I'm seiously looking at Whitelisting (POS) I'd really hope that a bank or retailer would have an accceptance testing area that would iron that kind of issue out - I know we do.....

Intel braces for billion Euro fine

@Heff

"That AD was 30-100% subsidised by Intel"

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about - that's a hell of a percentage range.... Complete guesstimate

Kent council plans giant 'Hollywood' erection

@ Vincent Ballard

and the sign is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/in_pictures/gallery/sign_language/ham_pop.shtml

Dell dives as Western Europe PC market stagnates

@Stephen

Exchange rate? What was $2/£1 is now $1.50/£1

New Kindle: Wider, but still no broadsheet

@Wow AC

Hear, hear. I'm surprised no-one's dissed Microsoft, though of course Linux got a look-in

Mozilla releases final Firefox 3.5 beta

@Jake

No, Fartfux has some more security issues and has a 'new version' rather than patches....

Carphone Warehouse linked to Tiscali buy-up (again)

And the problem is?

I've been with Pipex about 5 years and have never had cause to ring them for service issues and the one time I did call (to change the package from a 1Mbps one) it was no problem at all. However I really don't want to go near a company that uses a dumb Irishman and his 'mobi' as an advertising theme...

One third of workers open to bribes for data theft

I thought DLP...

.... stood for Data LOSS prevention.

Unisys scratches labels off Dell Nehalems

@AC

Having had a loan R710 for a few weeks I'd say the quality was actually fairly good.

Police, Cameras, Inaction!

@Sillyfellow

The shift key is that funny one below Caps Lock with an upward pointing arrow.

Microsoft cries netbook victory against Linux

@Goat Jam

Don't entirely agree, I've got a EeePC running Linux but at work we are trialling A Dell Mini 9 and a Dell Vostro A90 both with XP on SSD and they are nearly as quick as mine. And unlike mine they can access our portal which is rather important....

As far as XP's death is concerned when Win7 comes out, wasn't there a leak that there will also be a 7 to XP downgrade option till 30/4/10?

Street View caught taking the piss - again

That's no Opel

It's got the big 'V' from the Vauxhall corporate front end. The Opel one is just at the top of the grille. Anyway is the camewra hidden in the rooftop box?

Firefox went ton up in bugs in 2008

@ Various

Obvioulsy the last version of IE BMW drove was 5.01. Have a look at 8.

Chronos doesn't seem to realise that most people just want a browser that works, not one that they have to faff around with to make it work.

Remember Fartfux sucks.

Dell introduces 10in netbook

Dell marketing?

Get the Vostro A90 @ 199 + VAT. Can't see why notionally businesses get a better deal on netbooks (ok it's onbly got a .3Mp webcam but who cares....)

Airline pilots told to switch off mobile phones

Is it just coincidence

that this story appearded on El Reg the day Ryanair allowed use?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7899446.stm

New attacks on IE7 go wild

Oh so predictable

I'm surprised we've only had Firefox-boi comments and no Linux ones yet.

Of course Firefox 'never' gets patches, just a 'new' version.

Samsung NC10 netbook

Head in sand

'Virus free life'

I appreciate there are far fewer than with MS but they do exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses

Firefox 3.0.6 fixes yet another JavaScript bug

Upgrade????

Upgrade??? It's a patch FFS. Call it what it is, can't FF users accept they use an insecure browser.

Microsoft to act on IE8 'show stoppers'

Oh dear

@ R Callan - Office for Mac.

@AC - Ctrl-F? and No never had that problem

However why doesn't it work with SharePoint explorer view - it's their own product FFS. Also why can you only raise queries if you're running in a non-domain environment?

The Netbook Newbie's Guide to Linux

@David Hicks

"Bah, I don't really care. Linux is making huge inroads into the commercial desktop market now, and that's much more important. because when you're at work you *have* to use whatever you're given, and learn to make it work"

Really???? Whilst your asleep in the South Pole with all the other penguins?

Kodak unwraps CES cameras

Surely not

Kodak and 'must have' in the same article.

Vodafone knocks English cricket for six

@Simon Ward

Surely 3 is the number of days a test lasts when England are playing

Pret customers get free Wi-Fi

Pret who???

According to their website my nearest on is 60.4km away in Bristol - though I bet that's as the crow flies as most of those calculators think you can drive from Somerset to South Wales across the Bristol Channel. Don't think it's worth the petrol/train fare for free wi-fi.

Google removes Chrome beta wrapping

@Alex Hooran

No...

Daft list names Firefox, Adobe and VMWare as top threats

I'll run

Firefox fanbois are as bad as Jesus phone ones. You're NEVER allowed to say anything against their beloved 'visually styled by a 4 year old on acid' browser.

Amazon intros early VAT cut

@Phil

However, I pre-ordered a DVD from Amazon which was released on Monday. As the supermarkets were selling it at a significantly lower price than Amazon they have given me a fiver refund.

Microsoft unveils 'lightweight' Office for Web

Opera?

Firefox - Sh!t

Safari - slightly better

Why no opera?