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* Posts by Korev

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Moron is late for flight, calls in bomb threat

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Oi, Apple fanbois. Your beloved Jesus Phones are pisspoor for disabled users

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Re: complaining ... rather than picking something suitable in the first place

With all due respect to the author and The Register, complaining here about Apple is pretty pointless, they're not exactly best of buddies.

An article like this is excellent to read as it provides insight into the problems that some people have using technology; it may mean that the devs and designers on here can design products so they accommodate this people with disabilities.

A broken leg earlier in this year was a very rude awakening as to what it's like to struggle to do "normal" things for me; I'm pretty much ashamed to have not given this much thought before.

Behold the fruit of your techie utopia: A $43 San Francisco fog-infused martini

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That looks totally f***ing Mexico

Lethal 4-hour-erection-causing spiders spill out of bunch of ASDA bananas

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Re: Did someone ID the spider

<iYes, that sounds fishy..</i> I'm pretty sure fish don't live in banana trees - you asda be certain before posting stuff like this

She cannae take it, Captain Kirk! USS Zumwalt breaks down

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You're going to love this then :)

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Re: Displaced, by gad.

The Royal Navy "only" spent £1billion on a destroyer that has engines that don't really work very well. The Zumwalt cost thrice that so maybe that's where they got the figure from...

A-dough-be: Photoshop flinger pumps profits 50 per cent

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Adobe's model works for amateur photographers like me; I would have never paid the kind of money they used to ask for Photoshop, Lightroom etc but have subscribed to CC. I can see how trying to manage the "Cloud" side of things would be a royal pain in the arse for people administering the systems that have the Adobe products in.

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Re: Given a capative market..

In the corporate world photoshop is so ingrained into workflows that it is hard to see it ever being replaced.

People used to say that about Quark

Naked, drunken Swede assaults chicken shed after 60th birthday

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Re: When in court ...

"Sorry your Honour, I was a bit of a cock that night"

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I thought it was eggcellent

Radar missile decoys will draw enemy missiles away from RAF jets

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CSC straps another 100 jobs to redundo cannon, lights fuse, walks off

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Cynical question: Are CSC firing now because the HPE staff have better terms and CSC don't want to "upgrade" the payouts?

Good luck to all those affected by this.

Wanna prove you’re a Tech Trailblazer? Entries close in a week

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Re: Uhm...

$295 + maybe being unable to patent it as it's "prior art"

Sorry Nanny, e-cigs have 'no serious side-effects' – researchers

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Re: NRT

Upvote for linking to Cochrane

Using a thing made by Microsoft, Apple or Adobe? It probably needs a patch today

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Re: brilliant idea MS

""Microsoft's update for Adobe Flash Player on Windows and Windows Server." - exactly what true server needed."

For a database server, no; for VDI etc it could make sense.

Bug of the month: Cache flow problem crashes Samsung phone apps

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Re: Mono

Ta

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Mono

Dumb question: is this the same Mono as in the open source .Net?

'Jet blast' noise KOs ING bank's spinning rust servers

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Backup DC?

Don't most banks have some form of backup DC for failover?

33 million CLEARTEXT creds for Russian IM site dumped by chap behind Last.FM mess

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Last.fm

This would explain why I seem to be getting a lot of spam directed at the lastfm address on my domain again recently.

BT needs to ditch its legacy to be competitive, says chief architect

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Fibre to the premises not copper?

Maybe BT can put fibre to the premises rather than faff with copper...

HPE crams unloved software down Brits' throats – then charges them $9bn to swallow it

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The techies doing the work?

"The merged company is expected to have more than 4,000 salespeople" - no figures on how many people there will actually programme and support the software :(

Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

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Julian Clary?

As there's no vodka-martini icon ->

Wikibon sticking to server SAN takeover idea

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3D Pie Chart?

Just say no...

YouTube breaks Sony Bravias

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Chromecast O'Clock

I've been using a Chromecast 2 for a while which is waaay better than my Samsung "Smart" TV. They're cheap enough that if Google changes Youtube again then you can just buy another without getting your Bank Manager excited.

Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses

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Wikipedia suggests that the River class was sold to both Thailand and Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River-class_patrol_vessel

Sysadmin sticks finger in pipe, saves data centre from flood

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This shed used to protect the JANET* POP for the East of England... http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/misc/shed/

* UK academic network