Posts by Andrew Moore
1129 posts • joined Friday 2nd March 2007 21:07 GMT
Posted in Guy Kewney, pioneer, guru, friend - RIP
Fuck...
I've known Guy for many years on CIX. Always a good person to chat to. He will be sorely missed.
I go for the alternative...
I always use the same password- However the username often changes...
Still I'd like to test one of Symantec's "secure passwords" against the latest rainbow table doing the rounds...
Luckily...
...she was a colleague- I'm sure if a member of the public put up that amount of fuss they'd be strong-armed away by airport security and arrested on some trumped up charge.
Posted in 'Racist' job ad sparks investigation
Maybe...
...it's because they are tired of hiring cowboys...
@jimbolauski
Using the term "St Patties" instead of "St Paddy's" is also ignorant. And I'm not even going near your lack of knowledge regarding the IRA.
All-In-One-Guestures...
I did this quick hack:
1. Go to %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\YOUR DEFAULT PROFILE\extensions\{8b86149f-01fb-4842-9dd8-4d7eb02fd055}
2. Edit the install.rdf file there (any text editor will do or XML editor if you want to be fancy).
3. Find the maxVersion element. It is currently set to 3.5- Change this to 4.0
And viola. The only thing I've noticed is the mouse "trails" have disappeared but I'll live with that until the update is posted.
Posted in NY chef offers mam cheese canapes
Ah, the septics...
...confusing breastfeeding with sex again.
That's all well and good...
...but is she working on a cure yet?
Posted in The Hurt Locker sweeps Oscars
The 2 best films of last year were not even nominated-
Neither Moon nor Ponyo got a nomination- but given that Slumdog swept the board last year, this years Oscars was all about keeping the American film interests happy.
Posted in Street View spymobiles invade CeBIT
The Onion are in fine form again:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/google_responds_to_privacy
Posted in Sellafield gull cull mulled
eh?
Surely gulls aren't the only creature that can access those pools- How soon before we see swarms of radioactive midges?
Posted in BOFH: The PFY Chronicles
Sorry- not swallowing that one...
he's going to turn up in the shower at the end of the series isn't he.
I'm surprised...
...that no one's pointed out that it appears to be running Windows XP.
Posted in Next from Apple: The Pocket iPad
Wrong direction...
Apple are looking to increase the size. The next gen will be called the Max-iPad.
Posted in Scott McNealy signs off in style
Nostalgia...
Sun to me will always be the company that sold me a £5 serial cable for £80.
Posted in Irish board hack prompts password reset
They should change their slogan...
From "now ye're talking" to "now ye're hacked"
Posted in Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora
Is it me...
or isn't Pandora already a mildly popular name anyway. I do seem to remember one in the Adrian Mole diaries.
Posted in Star Trek to boldly go (again)
Really???
The Borg??? Not in James T's time- His foe du jour was always the Klingons.
Posted in Zuckerberg: 'I am a prophet'
I am also a prophet...
And I predict that in the near future Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook will be as relevant as Geocites, AngelFire, Tripod, Friendster and every other "flavour of the moment".
Hmmm...
Satire is at it's most brilliant when it cannot be distinguished from reality:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/internet_adds_12th_website
Posted in The Avatar storage effect
Yes it's a must see film.
Okay the plot is very Dances with Wolves meets Ferngully. However the plot takes a back seat- It's just a device to hang some of the most immersive, spectacular and realistic visuals ever seen. This is a film that has to be experienced on a massive screen (pref. IMAX) in 3D. I liked one comment I saw online- "This film is for all those people who have ever bought a graphic card to replace the one their computer came with".
Apparently...
In Ireland Vodafone are already offering it to entice defectors back from O2- Available now.
Okay...
You've got the sponsor and the logo. Now where's the merchandising???
Posted in Chumby internet-connected alarm clock
Already superceded...
...by the cheaper and better looking Chumby One.
BFF???
I'm seeing this everywhere- I presume it does not stand for "Big Fat Fuck" anymore.
Well done...
All round. I've been on Patrick Byrne's side since El Reg managed to teach me how naked short selling works. The plus side is that now I know what's happening at the end of Trading Places.
Posted in The return of the Psion-sized PC
Fail too
It's a eKing mini tablet:
http://www.pocketables.net/2009/10/eking-s515-mid-priced-and-shipping-from-amazon-china.html
Here's a more effective method of parental control:
don't give your child a mobile phone in the first place. 2 children in my 8 year old daughters class have already got mobile phones- so the rest of the kids are putting their parents under pressure to get them one too- The way we parents have reacted is to put pressure on the parents of the 2 phone owning children to remove the mobiles from them and to agree a minimal age whereby it should be allowable for a child to have one.
Posted in US data firm blows s**t out of server
Hmmmmmm...
It appears to me that there wasn't any active comms to that server (or electricity for that matter) so I'm wondering how it was being backed up???
Posted in Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR
FD?
Does this model still have Face Dectection/Red Eye removal???
Please
can someone send me Mr Slavins email address??? I have a large amount of money in a Lagos bank that I think he might be able to help me with.
Finally...
we have an explanation for Mac users.
What?
"With his SPACE machine, Underwood remembers, you could calculate the powers of 2 with a mere nine instructions. "Today, you'd need tens of thousands," he says. "That's terrible.""
What- has someone removed Left Shift instruction from modern processors?
Posted in Edward Woodward dies at 79
and star of my favourite joke:
"Why does Edward Woodward have so many D's in his name?"
"Because otherwise he would be known as E-War Woo-War"
So...
What are the red rectangles tracking in the CCTV footage???
*SirTainleyBarking
"Must be an election soon"
Bravo sir, bravo.
The rose...
...so was it a Violet Carson?
Posted in Fifth of iPhone users watching porn
hmmmmm.
Isn't a "intellectual iPhone owner" a oxymoron? Certainly any I've met have failed to impress me with their intellect.
Interesting...
An article about fruitbat fellatio and yet nothing about Stephen Fry leaving Twitter (I'm sure there's a connection between the two somehow)
Posted in Windows 7 - the Reg reader verdict
Crashed during install.
And to add insult to injury suggested it was my fault because I had removed a USB device (I hadn't).
Oh well...
As long as there isn't a law banning us from chucking harpoons at them...
Posted in Sky confirms telly-on-Xbox launch date
Hmmmmmm...
Shouldn't the tag line read "The Simpsons, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Simpsons, The Simpsons..."
Posted in iPhone saves woman from bear
Well...
...at least the bear had the good sense to render the iPhone useless (well more useless than it already was).
Posted in MySpace replaces disks with flash
Why???
It's not like they are relevant anymore- They are soon to go the way of Tripod, Angelfire, Geocites et al (and Facebook & Twitter to follow soon after)
Methinks...
...Carl4 is just jealous- he thought he was the only transvestite in the village.
Posted in CCTV website recruits video vigilantes
So???
How do they award the £1000 when the max score anyone can have per month is 3???
Posted in Apple chokes on Woolworths logo
There's fun to be had...
...if we can get Sir Paul and Ringo to give Woolworths the thumbs up.
I wonder...
if Harriets just a bit touchy because she received such a low rating on PunterNet?
