Posts by Peter Gordon

Ten... high-end Android tablets

Thumbs up...

..for using a TouchPad running webOS as the icon on the top stories on the homepage :-)

HP offers devs £130 32GB TouchPad tablets

@ Ancient Oracle funkie

Oh, an HP employee? Any chance you can have a word with Meg and get her to reinstate webOS devices?

Not a stock clearance

"Perhaps HP doesn't care, and is simply trying to get rid of its few remaining stocks of TouchPads."

This theory doesn't make any sense at all. HP promised more TP's would be built, and they were. They had a backlog of orders for this second run, and most of these customers were sent away empty handed because HP didn't have enough stock.

If these TPs weren't reserved specifically for developers, why didn't they just allocate them to existing orders?

Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores

Sad to see them go.

I hate the DSGi stranglehold on the high street for electronics.

Good bye Best Buy, and thanks for letting me reserve an HP Touchpad before the price dropped, and pick it up that evening after the drop.

The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out

I'll keep this bookmarked

but for now i'm sticking with webOS

Farewell then, Sony Ericsson

I liked SE phones

The K750i was the phone that lured me away from Nokia. Then I had a K800i. Then I tried a return to Nokia with the N95, which I absolutely hated, and moved on to a C902 as soon as possible!

The Palm Pre finally lured me away from Sony Ericsson.

HP pushes out OS update for 'defunct' tablet

Well, I don't like Android

so webOS updates, especially ones that make big improvements like this one, are very welcome to me.

And lets face it, only a small number of TP purchasors are going to be installing Android.

RIM BlackBerry Torch 9810

Hmm...

Blackberry's recend ads push "Touch. Type. Together", which is what the Palm Pre and its successors did well.

The playbook, and likely BB's future QNX based phones, have a copy of webOS's cards.

And here, they're launching a portrait slider.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the original Palm/webOS team should be feeling very flattered ;-)

Chocolate weighed in Schwarzeneggers: Official

I'm still hoping

the Reg will adopt the millifortnight as the standard unit of time.

Samsung shifts 10 millionth Galaxy SII

If it ran webOS...

i'd be all over it ;-)

Gorgeous screen on those things, though.

HP may NOT spin off PC biz

"No such reprieve will be given to the webOS hardware unit"

Can you really say anything with such conviction?

Who knows what they'll do. Hell, maybe they'll try and resurrect PalmOS. HP's behaviour since hiring Leo is so bizarre, anything is possible.

It makes me wonder if Leo was on Dell's payroll all along, and if he arrived in a giant wooden horse...

Samsung 'mulls bid for' HP's orphaned webOS

Well...

I take this rumour with an articulated lorry full of salt, but if it turned out to be true, I'd love it.

I love webOS on my Palm Pre and my HP Touchpad, I don't want it to die...

HP's UK PC boss: We're going nowhere

Well.. you can fix some of those problems...

> Terrible video codec support

Only in the bundled player. There are apps in both preware and the app catalog that play most formats.

> Laggy scrolling in the browser and occasional lock ups.

Set logging to minimal, then install all the log disable patches from preware = speedy, non laggy tablet.

> The full price simply wasn't worth it.

This is true.

> Now it's dirt cheap, I have one!

Me too :-)

Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm

typing this

on my £115 32gb touchpad. Got it from the bristol best buy store. I popped in on my way home from work, and it was full price, but they let me reserve one to buy if the price did indeed drop. It dropped, and they kept their word!

Coders breathe Android into dead HP fondleslab

Well, i got a firesale touchpad

and tbh, i couldn't care less if android is ported.

The browser is great, email is great, iplayer works great, the UI is lovely. I'm really happy with what it does right now.

Good luck to the team, though. Choice is always good.

HP murders webOS tablets, phones

RIP webOS

I love my original Pre. I was going to get a Pre 3 early next year.

You know what, I probably will anyway, and I reckon it'll be much cheaper.

But i'll be a lot less happy about it.

RIP webOS. You kicked ass, but HP kicked yours.

Mega-colossal space raincloud found at moist black hole

Standard Units...

I was just about to ask for standard units myself... :)

Which SI prefix would fit the best? Tera/Peta/Exa/Zetta/Yotta-olympic sized swimming pools?

Gamer claims complete console collection

Missing...

Magnavox Odyssey-2 and Amiga CD32 are missing, at least.

News of the World TO CLOSE

same s**t, different name

http://www.whois.net/whois/thesunonsunday.com

Atmos 2.0 now shipping

Oh. I was hoping for a new Oric machine :)

That would have been much more fun.

Android Marketplace starts cleaning house

Misleading article

If an emulator doesn't ship with any BIOS images or copyrighted game ROMs, how is it in any way in breach of copyright?

FTP celebrates ruby anniversary

Re: Worst protocol in history #

Having written an FTP client completely from scratch, I agree with a lot of what Lee says.

Still, happy birthday FTP.

Naked at 30: Osborne 1 stripped to its chips

If you can find a TTL monitor...

... hook it up. The computer might still work.

South African dam sluices 609 elephants per second

Oh no....

1209.6 seconds is a millifortnight! A microfortnight is 1.2096 seconds!

Microfortnight?

Oooooh... I love the "microfortnight" as a time measurement. 1 microfortnight of course being 1209.6 seconds.

HP gives Lou Reed a right shoeing

Well, i'm a huge webOS fan

but that ad is dreadful. What the hell were they thinking?

Next Palm smartphone out early 2011, says HP

Well I love my Pre

and i'm glad to see Palm haven't given up yet!

Yahoo! Japan! turns! wing! against! Bing! in! Google! deal!

Keep up the exclamation mark titles

I like them, even more so now that I know it annoys that Rexx guy!

Southpaws up in arms over iPhone 4

Apple have a solution!

http://www.b3ta.com/board/10104077

Apple bins iPhone covers

Well...

why don't they just make the screen out of solid diamond? Apple customers will love it, they seem to like expensive gadgets.

Billionaire-funded e-car gets showroom date

So... when they've been around for a while

will they be known as "Old Byd-es"? ;-)

Spider-Man 4 washed down plughole

His roots?

But he got his powers in the first Spider-Man, so if you go back before that, he's just some nerdy kid with no special powers?!

Twits twitter while driving

The best version of that PSA..

...is this homage to Waynes World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggEvJAlV1s

(IMHO)

US Federal Trade Commission shuts down ISP

@Neoc

You've totally misunderstood. The text on the site promised horrible pictures. The guy didn't find the text promising.

Western Digital slips todger to horrified Brit

So....

is it a hard drive or a floppy?

Woman sues EA over 'secret' Spore DRM

*sigh* When will they learn?

It never ceases to amaze me that the software, music and movie industries never realise that copy protection and DRM only inconvenience their legitimate customers. Every copy protection method and DRM gets broken or worked around, and the pirates never even see it. They don't see the warnings, either, just the content.

The software industry has had decades to learn this; no matter how clever the DRM programmers are, there seem to be a huge number of very clever people out there with too much free time on their hands who make it their mission to break the protection.

I remember when Robocop 3 came out for the Amiga, the publishers claimed it was "uncopyable". It took something like a day for the pirate copy to spread.

I've not looked myself, but i've heard that DRM-free pirate copies of Spore are relatively easy to come across.

So all this effort, all this legal trouble, all this customer discontent, for a system which has proved a total waste of time and who only their paying customers have to deal with.

Nice one EA. Well done.

Teens admit to Grand Theft Auto-inspired petrol bombfest

GTA taught me not to mess with petrol bombs

Whenever I tried to use one, it set my charactor alight!

Paris, because she's probably also rubbish at GTA IV.

AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic

This is clearly the wrong approach.

Why not do the following:

1) Place a link next to search results saying "Scan for malware", and the user can then optionally scan the links he is actually likely to visit.

2) If malware is found, make it possible for the client to send a report back to AVG to add that URL to a known malware database, which is sent out with the updates.

Microsoft gives XP an extra two years to live (kinda)

Re: IPv6

I doubt ISPs forcing IPv6 on everyone will cause any kind of problem for people with oeprating systems that don't support it. I have several Amigas connected to my broadband, and i doubt they'll get IPv6 in time, but i'm not worried.

Right now my ADSL router maps internet connections to local machines via NAT. This could still work even if the machines on my LAN are IPv4 and the routers WAN IP address is IPv6.

Sky Broadband puts the fault into default Wi-Fi security

ISP provided kit has to be secure out of the box

I've had Sky broadband more-or-less since it launched. The first thing i did when i got my sky broadband router was put the manual and CD in a draw (i never install ISP provided software), found the IP address of the router from the IP it gave my laptop via DHCP, guessed the admin login (admin/sky), changed from WEP to WPA, changed the SSID, changed the WiFI password, changed the admin password, disabled DHCP, enabled MAC filtering etc. etc.

But how many of sky's customers even know how to change router settings? A lot of folks get the box, plug it in and trust the ISP to know what they're doing.

Microsoft rides PCs and Xboxen to rich Q2

Re: Apple should make a console

They did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin

AmigaOS 5 surfaces... sort of

@Graham

Very true. "The Krays to market stick-on Talbot badges and claim that any car with one on is a genuine talbot" would be closer :-)

Yeah, right.

What a load of crap. AmigaAnywhere never had anything to do with AmigaOS, and AA2 won't either. No part of AmigaOS boots up inside AmigaAnywhere. The two things are completely unrelated other than the fact that Amiga, Inc. have slapped the Amiga name on AmigaAnywhere.

Gutting of Amazon patent was helped by Amazon-owned company

Ermmm...

Why the hell would anyone challenge their OWN patent? What sort of idiot would go looking for prior art and then use it to revoke their own patent?

I don't get it.

Manhunt 2 leaked by Sony Europe employee

This is nothing new.

Games have always been leaked by unscrupulous employees to cracking crews and the like since the days of the C64. It was common for pirate copies of Amiga and Atari ST games to be in the playgrounds across the country days if not weeks before they hit the shelves.

Microsoft vs. Google – the open source shame

What has a CD or disk got to do with it?

"a problem caused by an archaic notion of distribution as being tied to a diskette or CD"

If I was to make my own branch of a GPL webserver called "Super Banana" and hosted a website on Super Banana, people could retrieve webpages from my Super Banana server. However, I havent given the binaries of Super Banana to anyone, be it by disk or CD, *or even over the internet*, so would I have to make the changes public?