Posts by Will Godfrey

4K-friendly Thunderbolt 2 WILL ship this year, Chipzilla pledges

?

Maybe I'm missing something, but once you get into the real high speed range, why bother with either? Surely bog-standard (fast) Ethernet becomes more practical, and is a darned sight simpler to manage.

Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB

And Again

Does Oracle still have control of anything of value that it got from Sun?

So WHY does Huawei's enigmatic boss shun the West's spotlight?

Have one of these, as well as an upvote!

Apple ships new iPods in 'SPAAAAACE ... Gray'

O realy

Well, my H300 (still going strong) is Space Black. What's more, it's shiny and has rounded corners.

NIST denies it weakened its encryption standard to please the NSA

I really don't see any way out of this for NIST, they seem to be in the same fix that ISO was after MS debacle. Anyone with serious stuff to protect simply can't take the risk with them anymore.

For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF

Whether you like him or not. Stallman has has a remarkable track record of making correct predictions. Fortunately, in this particular case it's not an issue for me. I will never have an i-{anything} and am unlikely to have any other 'smart' device.

Brazilian TV show accuses NSA of spying on oil firm based on leaked docs

Remember when your mum said that if you find a loose thread on your fave pullover you mustn't pull on it, or it'll fall apart? I think Edward pulled.

First rigid airship since the Hindenburg cleared for outdoor flight trials

Although hinted at by a few other commentards, I think leisure trips (air cruises) could be the greatest money spinner for this. It has just about everything going for it. Quiet smooth travel, lots of room, stunning views, and can comfortably go where absolutely no other form of transport can.

I'd never entertain the idea of a sea cruise, but I'd certainly pony up for a week over Europe.

Should Nominet ban .uk domains that use paedo and crim-friendly words?

Curious

How do they know these are code words?

Boris Johnson floats idea of 'London visa' to attract tech talent

I have a better idea

The should require anyone from London to have a visa to get out.

Headmaster calls cops, tries to dash pupil's uni dreams - over a BLOG

Late to the party

I am astonished that there is a single person on here who supports the headmaster, yet there seem to be quite a number.

How can anyone justify a deliberate attempt to ruin a youngster's life? The headmaster should not only be removed, but should undergo a medical examination. He sounds dangerously psychopathic to me.

UK investor throws £14.8m at firm that makes UNFORGEABLE 2-cent labels

Just wait till GCHQ and the NSA get to hear about this.

Re: Hmm...

Two upvotes from me then!

LOHAN cops a faceful of smutronyms

Angel

Asynchronous

Networked

Gravity

Enhanced

Liberator

Universal Credit CRUNCHED: Dole handouts IT system to be rebuilt

Re: Bah!

New one of these please!

Trough divers were seen happily slurping away, just waiting for the next feed truck.

Intel readies server-grade Atom for microserver ARM wrestling

Bad Move

If they feel they need such a cringe-worthy advert I can only assume they are aiming it at the PHB not the BOFH

It's official: Apple sends out invitations for September 10 event

Re: @ Will Godfrey - Sorry, can't stop...

You are from GCHQ, and I claim my £5.

Oh, and I upvoted you too.

Sorry, can't stop...

I have some drying paint to watch.

Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?

I hate to say I told you so.

Actually, no. I'm quite happy to. As, it seems, are a lot of other commentards here and all over the 'net.

Behind the candelabra: Power cut sends Britain’s boxes back to the '70s

Re: @AC, 17:16 - Most UIs are crap

@TechnicalBen. Spot on sir!

This exact situation was the only time in my life when I lost all patience with a piece of electronic equipment and threw it at a wall.

Tor usage up by more than 100% in August

Fun times ahead

I remember that in the bad old days when geeks were playing around with stacked up anonymous remailers they came up with a two-pronged action that would totally defeat traffic analysis - provided you really didn't care about time. The first part was to break up the messages into a random number of random sized parts, then randomly (maybe) add junk to the ends of the parts and encrypt them all separately. The next part of the process was to send them out with varying time delays - up to several hours - and via different routes.

I had a play with this myself, but you had to do a lot of the graft yourself in those days, and not all remailers had a time delay facility, so though it was interesting I pretty soon got bored with it all. I would imagine things are much more streamlined and pointy-clicky these days

I wonder if the Tor people have considered this. I'd be rather surprised if they hadn't!

Bradley Manning is no more. 'Call me Chelsea,' she says

I can't help wondering if 'they' just totally scrambled his brain.

'Congressional watchdog' reports patent trolling rising fast

Talk about stating the bleedin' obvious. How much did this 'in depth' report cost the long-suffering taxpayer?

Our Vulture 2 spaceplane sprouts sleek pointy beak

I feel I should make a pointed comment.

Nasty BOFHses. It burns us! It burns...

Re: Bah!

Neither did the poo

Acorn’s would-be ZX Spectrum killer, the Electron, is 30

Fond memories indeed

On a slightly sadder note, what challenges do today's kids have that they will remember in years to come?

UK micro pioneer Chris Shelton: The mind behind the Nascom 1

Re: An inspiration for a generation

Nascom, Henry's Radio, Edgeware Road - Ahhh. The memories!

Marissa Mayer in Vogue fashion shoot

Re: I don't see what the big deal is.....

Never mind. You probably have no need of one anyway.

'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail

A word of caution

A bully that is scared that they are losing control is probably the most unpredictable and dangerous one you can have.

I'm expecting to see some really nasty stuff bubbling up soon.

In case of LOHAN flight emergency, gobble THIS Iridium-Arduino sandwich

Not going to try to compete with the suggestions, but noticed that this is now a real D.I.Y. jobbie. There's nothing like a piece of copper stripboard to reveal a dedicated home constructor.

Essential maintenance website down for, er, essential maintenance

Liar!

You don't seriously expect us to believe that do you?

Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Getting pop stars wired for 30 years

And many more birthdays I suspect.

Still a happy MIDI user connecting various hardware synths to my DAW. Never had any significant problems with it unlike most 'modern' comms. The only thing I've ever found simpler and more bullet-proof is RS232.

British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport

Re: Why anti-terrorism legislation

Interesting that you are the first person I've seen that mentions the guy was just in transit. That was something that grabbed my attention instantly as it add yet another layer of evil intent to what is already quite inexcusable. How long before they start forcing planes down.

Oh! They've already done that haven't they?

Amazon DISAPPEARS from internet

But this is different Amazon has got previous form where major outages are concerned.

ZTE's $80 Firefox OS mobe sells out on eBay

That was three words.

Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic

Re: Explanation

In the same way...

Nobody thinks about the effect of a real virus. What happens if your entire office staff are laid low with a particularly nasty flu virus?

Curiosity looks up, spies Martian double-mooning

Disgusting! Will nobody think of the children.

Oh, wait - That's rather cool actually.

Microsoft cuts number of countries that will have Xbox One by Christmas

I can't help wondering which are the unlucky countries that will still have this thing dumped on them.

Microsoft SkyDrive, Outlook stricken by cloud outage

My level of surprise asymptotes to zero {Ooo I lurve that word}

Lawsuit claims Microsoft misled investors in Surface RT fiasco

Translation

We took a chance without a proper risk assessment and now want someone else to pay.

Peak Apple? HOGWASH! Apple is 'extremely undervalued,' says Icahn

If it was my company I'd sooner see the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the horizon than Ichan

No distro diva drama here: Penguinista favourite Debian turns 20

Another debian user here. Experimented with a few different distros in the 90s, but have stuck with deb for at least the last 10 years.

NO, ELEPHANTS, it's we DOLPHINS who NEVER FORGET our best pals

Maybe I'm silly, but I can't help wondering what the dolphins feel like when they seem to hear the calls of long-lost friends that aren't actually there. Seems rather cruel to me.

Penguins, I give you: The SOLAR-POWERED Ubuntu laptop

Re: Interesting

In this particular instance I was thinking of carefully filleting out everything I didn't want so as not to disturb things like power control or networking.

Normally I install the basic debian with no desktop or 'standard' stuff, then apt-get openbox and ROX. That pulls in all the graphical stuff I actually need, and minimal gtk libraries. From then on it's just installing what I want on that particular machine.

Interesting

I'd like more info of course, but it certainly looks promising. I wonder how easy it would be to remove the Ubuntu crud and restore the machine to a decent lightweight fast debian.

End of an era as Firefox bins 'blink' tag

I seem to have completely missed this. Maybe I blinked at the wrong moment.

US feds: 'Let's make streaming copyrighted content a FELONY'

Don't panic Mr Mannering

Well, I just enjoyed some streaming music, and was watching a streaming vid last night... However both were CC licensed and as good - if not better - as the commercial stuff others seem to get.

Top Brit biz giants love to outsource IT so much, they're gonna do it more

So when you remove all the marketingspeak it resolves to:

You're fired.

Gov: Smart TV bods must protect users from smut-riddled badness

Re: Groundhog Day

Maybe. Perhaps my thinking it can't get worse creates some sort of psychic resonance in their empty heads.