Posts by eurotrash

Tablets and Chromebooks are hot, towers and desktops are not: El Reg combs through Q3 PC numbers

Re: Who NEEDS a desktop?

That's right, you can't save the world with a laptop.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Re: ABP Evil?

Except that when you surf the web, you are choosing to stay in a peep show, not a hotel. Selling naked videos of you is their business model. So it's nice of them to let you opt out.

That said, if you use uBlock Origin on Firefox and watch no TV, you can live ad-free. When I do see ads, they seem... extra peculiar.

Owl in a day's work: Commvault picks up software-defined type Hedvig for $225m

"The startup's staff will stay in their Santa Clara HQ, five minutes' walk from Commvault's office there."

How do you know? No-one walks in Santa Clara.

Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores

Personal nuclear - overrated?

My pebble-bed reactor is well on the way to paying for the entire house, thanks to FIT. The turbine is a bit loud, but 20MW is 20MW. Also, since it's in the cellar, the washing virtually dries itself. Maintenance is just like for a data centre during an argon extinguisher event, but only every few years, touch wood.

Apparently it's completely safe as long as you don't post its location on social media.

Four more years! Four more years! Svelte Linux desktop Xfce gets first big update since 2015

Re: Better than a tablet? Disposable?

"where zero'ed first, then fresh install" boxen are preferred..."

Those very rare North Korea white hat conferences?