Posts by Ged

'Evil' Windows 7 campaign goes global

Low point

A very low point for the FSF, I've lost any last piecesof respect I had left for them since RMS decided to become insane and blow the rest.

A bit of a laughing stock now, which is a shame

iPhone rescue girl gets head stuck down bog

I was there

Not once whilst I was stood there laughing at this girl did I think 'I bet this story makes in onto El Reg' ....

Firefox users flip out over sneak MS add-on

Let's get the facts right

It's not difficult to remove at all.

There was originally a 'bug' in firefox which disabled the uninstall button for extensions installed for all users. The Microsoft extension installed itself at this level which highlighed this bug.

Microsoft has since rewritten the extension to work around this and it's now able to uninstall like any other extension.

Another case of attacking Microsoft without finding out the facts first .....

Red Hat sticks lawyers on non-neutral Switzerland

I agree with the swiss

If they Swiss government are already set up for a full MS infrastructure then surely it makes sense to continue with existing practise.

I can't imagine having to retrain all admins with 20+ years of experience on Windows boxen, programmers and network admins too. migrate all the proprietry Windows software to open source equivelents and somehow retrain all the end users how to use this software.

It just sounds like a nightmare, and a very expensive one at that.

Microsoft trades goodwill for TomTom Linux satisfaction

slashdot?

A patent is what it is. It's rather unfair to tun a blind eye to patent infringment of companies just because they use open source software.

Has Gavin Clarke been plucked directly from slashdot? These article reeks of a linux fanboy scent

HP loses top PC spot in Europe

RE: So..

"In Europe, the Middle East and Africa PC sales grew 25.9 per cent to 28.8m units. Growth was largely down to netbooks - because of this HP lost its number one position to Acer - Acer secured 20.6 per cent of the EMEA market compared to 18.7 per cent for HP."

How government will save you from P2P deviance

So...

permenant encryption it is then.

Tesco causes couple condom catastrophe

linked?

Is this also linked from The Sun?

Asus Eee PC 900 Linux Edition

Tony Smith should be ashamed

It's considered criminal offence for El-Reg to to write about the eeepc and not link the BOTB pic.

Bring back the noose...

Dead bird pic or obvious reasons ...

iPhone tops smartphone market

ancient smartphone

It may be classed as a smartphone in America, but to the rest of the world it falls short. Excluding the touch screen, it has the functionality most phones had 5 years ago