Posts by TeeCee

Re: wait a minute

"It seems to me that by naming it Basilosaurus they are inferring that it evolved from a dinosaur..."

Either that or they reckon it's actually a hand puppet with a penchant for rotten gags....

Ha ha ha ha ha......Boom Boom!

Re: Antenna?

Easy one.

Imagine you've just blown a load of R&D time and money on making a new antenna and it proves to be a heap of shit. Do you:

a) Take a deep swig from the Flagon of Fail, write it off and consider it a learning experience?

b) Patent it in the hope that someone nicks it, so you can sue the living crap out of them and recoup some of your costs?

Re: It's all true

Seconded / thirded / whatever.

I'd like to think that the advent of MSE would be a massive boot up the backside of the A/V vendors to slim down their bloatware, improve efficiency and eliminate the upgrade nagging on the free versions.

However, it looks like they are going for "Plan B": Cry foul, moan about anticompetitive practices and sue MS for daring to park its tanks on their lawn. Bastards and they deserve to fail.

Note to the incumbant market leaders: MSE is actually taking your market share by the simple expedient of being a damned sight better at what it does than your shit is.

Re: No it won't.

"It flags legit sites because they have an ad banner that is hosted on the same provider as a dodgy ad."

Good. They have my wholehearted support on this one. Just maybe the owners of said sites will get pissed off with the traffic loss and dump their shite ad peddlar in favour of one who's prepared to vet the shit they pump out before they do so and will insist on hosting the material themselves rather than linking to it, so they know damned well they are serving what they vetted.

The moody ad pushing tossers richly deserve to go bust and this might just be the lever that causes it. Bit of a shame that one of the major offenders here is DoubleClick owned by, er, Google. I wonder if DC ads will have an exemption* here?

*Which would be evil of course.....

Re: Bah!

Suit yourself, don't get 'em then. Just don't come crying to us when your fridge collapses into a post-tumescent heap on the floor.......

Re: Stop it.....

".....due to 'strict' NAT, whatever that is."

Port forwarding is inadequate* and I never got it working reliably the hard way either.

The easy way of making this work 100% is to enable uPNP at the router**, works a treat. Took me a while to cotton on to that, but I kicked myself good 'n hard when I did. It's actually more secure too, as the Xbox gets the router to open the ports to it on request and the router closes them once the XBL session completes. Thus you only have the necessary ports open to the outside world when they are allocated and in use.

*Presumably it *could* be adequate if MS would tell the truth about which bloody ports the thing *really* needed....

**Or if it doesn't support this, junk it and get one that does. If you're happy to lash out that much on XBL, it's a trivial investment.

Re: Just what do you want ?

Ah yes. But the chair and spoon industries (along with the chair wheel makers etc) don't all go titsup if you dont buy a new chair, spoon or whatever every year. Thus they don't have to keep dreaming up ways of making you think you must have the latest spoon to live.

Someone's gotta pay Intel to keep making ever better specified Atoms and that someone is you and me.

Back in the day, Intel and their cronies just used to bung MS a few quid to add some cruft into the next round of updates and force everyone to upgrade. These days we all howl like SOBs when a new OS release drops a clog onto our systems and they can't get away with that one any more.

Re: I don't understand...

Too right you don't. It's called "compatibility mode", it's been there for some time and it has every feature you listed!

I have yet to find anything written for IE6 that couldn't be used with IE8 in backwards-compatible mode (even our shonky old internal crap). There really is no excuse at all for using IE6 these days.

Re: eww

You are assuming that he was getting his jollies from the book, it ain't necessarily so. One of the things one would need, if one were the sort to jack off in a public place, is something to clean up with. There's only one thing more antisocial than performing the five fingered shuffle in public and that's leaving jism all over the place afterwards.

Name something else found in a Public Library that's a more suitable substitute for bog paper. I have to assume that the Mandelson memoir was out on loan (which would suggest an even more vile perversion is going on - someone, somewhere's reading the Mandelson book).

Re: I appreciate

Seems to have come up a few time recently too.

I reckon El Reg are trying to provide us with something new that we can all look down our noses at while shaking our heads sagely.

Let's face it, iPhones, Twitter and Facebook are getting a bit stale.

@Goat Jam

Ok, would you care to explain the difference between:

"That Assange. He's a good bloke, fighter for truth and all. Must be a put up job, girl's obviously lying, we should brush it under the carpet. Tell you what, give her a grilling and point out she'll be made to look a tart in court. She'll drop the charges."

And:

"That Harrington-Smythe chap. He's a good bloke, Eton and Oxford and a rugger blue too . Must be a put up job.......etc."

As it escapes me. Is Wikileaks the new "old school tie"?

@John Smith 19

EE Smith also solved the problem of how you deal with humungous levels of weapon power that burns the beggars out in the Lensman series. Treat the barrels as disposable and fit an autochange system........

Re: Err...

Read it again. The OP has patched up 25 servers to the latest version of Exim that lacks the vuln.

He then goes on to say that if, for whatever reason, you cannot upgrade then these settings are supposed to mitigate the problem. But he hasn't done that and cannot confirm that there aren't any nasty side-effects in doing this.

Simples.....

Re: And where's that?

Well in my garden it's climbing up the fence next to the shed......

Re: Your (sic) pulling my crank

I'm guessing that the whole shebang is still the V8 engine and Crankshaft is the adaptive compilation bit.

i.e. A V8 has a Crankshaft in it. Geddit? We'll probably see bits called "Piston", "Big end", "Sump" and "Gudgeon pin" soon.....

Re: "Starting with Hip-hop, house, acid, techno..."

Not for the first time do I thank fuck that Goth came along and saved us from *that* shit.

Re: HEAD ASSPLODES

Is that a snide reference to ACPO?

Re: Re: Am I the first?

Apparently the new Ferrari looks stonkingly quick when compared to the Ford Anglia too.....

Re: "Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) "

Contractor Owns The Stack?

Re: But what about.

Why don't you ask that nice Mr Assange how he feels about that Brussels construct, the EU arrest warrant he got for Christmas?

I think I'd rather have the reindeer and boars meself.....

Re: How long are people going to put up with this?

Ask the iTards. The only reason that MS, RIM and so on know damned well that they can get away with this is 'cos Apple's locked down and pwned products are such a roaring success with the masses.

Just be prepared to have to explain that again several times, very slowly and using shorter words. Also, be aware that a thoughtful appeal on behalf of personal liberty is difficult to make to a background of amusing fart noises.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the war's over and freedom lost.

Re: Surprising,...

All done on time and on budget along with that too. Both of these aspects are such rare occurances that you have to suspect a connection.

Maybe getting your stakeholders involved in leveraging those paradigms to provide a 360-degree solution is what really pisses the money and time up the wall folks!

Re: Looks like they cropped it now...

Gosh, that brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.....