Posts by Andus McCoatover 2969 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2007
Try....
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/05/gartner_nokias_market_share_still_falling_2606139.html
"The pecking order among operating systems was significantly different during the first three months of this year than it was one year previously. In 2010 Symbian held pole position with 44.2% of sales, followed by Android with 9.6%. During the first quarter of this year, Android had 36%, followed by Symbian with 27.4%,
Microsoft's share was 3.6%, down from 6.8% "
Then decide.
That'll be the chips. I think, on reflection, I'd rather eat afterbirth...
But, what's in a name? Just applied for a job here where they use microwave to measure water content of 'biosolids'. Turds, to common folk, from compacted sewage. They call the resulting putty-like 'product' - cake. Shudder.
(from the Nokia blog) "The transition should be a smooth and seamless one."
and this..
(from ovi.com) "Get started today - sign up is as easy as 1-2-3. Register your new free email address today! Sign up for Ovi Mail now "
and this..
(blog again) "Each of the services under the Ovi umbrella will simply be rebranded as Nokia, with no planned disruption to the service roadmaps."
I'll no longer be 'fluffybunny69@ovi.com', but 'fluffybunny69@nokia.com'.
Yeah, I luuuve the new branding!!!!
A reply from Jerri DeVard, (EVP and CMO) will make interesting, if not keyboard-coffee-splattering reading.
Get the CIA to somehow put some twitters about that it's about to reveal the identities of muslim ter'rists who have been shagging hookers, camels, goats, young boys, etc.
Then wait for the fuc*kers to take out 'super-injunctions'. Stamp all over Blighty's laws in the interest of National Security, and get their names and ID's.
Piece of piss.
For example, sinking of the Lusitania. From "Wikipedia*":
It was in the interests of the British to keep US passions inflamed, and a fabricated story was circulated that in some regions of Germany, schoolchildren were given a holiday to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania. This story was so effective that James W. Gerard, the US ambassador to Germany, recounted it in his memoir of his time in Germany, Face to Face with Kaiserism (1918), though without substantiating its validity.[107]
Nothing like a juicy bit of porn being found on a 'devout muslim' to discredit him...Mine's the mac. with the dyed beard and stilts in the pockets.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
I still have my Agenda. You remember, £200 for 32K RAM, a 5-key chorded keypad, and two little sockets for ROM packs on the top. These were for 'apps' - and (although I can't put my hand on it) were IIRC referred to as such in the manuals.
(Still works, as does my Commodore SR7919 calc. after 35 years...)
"It added that Microsoft would "continue to invest in and support Skype clients in Non-Microsoft platforms."
Linux SKYPE? Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish.
Skype on Symbian phones (Video promised, not delivered)
Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish. Another nail in Symbian^3's coffin.
Icidentally, "Luxembourg"?? I thought Skype had its roots in Estonia, a country with a population of 1,4 million. Christ, Birmingham comes close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#History
Also, the stable release versions are interesting...
5.3.0.111 (Windows)
5.1.0.922 (Mac OS X)
2.2.0.25 (Linux)
Perp referred in SOA. "he intentionally exposes his genitals". Always 'he'. Searched using (sp)she(sp) in case there was a proviso, but no
Sect. 2: "(1)A person (A) commits an offence if—(a)he intentionally penetrates the vagina or anus of another person (B) with a part of his body or anything else,."
Women are capable of this. Ask Rose West.
Wonder if this would be grounds for appeal? Human Rights or something...
Had massive problems with Kubuntu. Default screen res. was something I needed a microscope to see. Tried different res., always ended up with scrambled screen. Found a fix, which was to open a terminal, with "sudo reboot" ready (as root) but not hit return, and size to the left-half of the screen. Change screen res. to what I wanted, (screen scrambled) but before timeout move cursor to where I estimated the terminal was, click and hit return. It worked, a hell of a cluge, but....
I dumbped KDE not just for that, but the flakiness of handling my wifi modem. Forums said use nm-applet, but I decided to go back to 'vanilla' 10.10, thence upgrade to 11.04.
I digressed. Suspend seems to work OK, haven't tried 'hibernate'.
Ubuntu 11.04 and VirtualBox (VB) and Windows -XP. Dual-boot.
'Native' XP had problem accessing my 3G modem, which is my only connectivity. Worked on install, but when I put all the XP updates (downloaded with same dongle), and rebooted, couldn't get dongle - either (E220 or E160) working, no matter what I tried. In desperation, I tried VB.
Installed Windows - a breeze! Ran XP under VB - worked a treat! Modem accessed via Ubuntu, but connection accessable with XP.
Goddammit, I swear the windows in 'guest mode' is niftier than native. Apart from having to hit the 'guest key' (Right-shift), it's seamless.
Forget Royal Wedding, I'm hosing my ancient T30 to remove native Win-XP completely and go this way. The installation was as simple as calling Elop a ****.
First time in my life-of-messing-with-computers, nothing, bar Nothing has worked as seamlessly as this.
Gobsmacked!
Well done, folks.
(H/W? IBM T30 lappie, 512Meg ram, 30G HDD.)
..there should be an "App for That"™
Or a game. Call it "One Angry Bird". Basic idea: Said A.B 'flies' out of Westminster Abbey, identified in the multitude only by a long, flowing white dress.
Spunky Prince prances to Clarence House, nabs his ol' man's Austin Martin*, has to goto RAF Valley as quick as can be whilst avoiding green pigs strategically placed, to grab another 'bird', fly back and use his massively powerful chopper to rescue her before James Hewitt gets his wicked way...
Nah. Probably get a 'super-injunction' just for thinking about it.
*Unlocking the wheelclamp first, natch, given a series of clues.
Whata trip down the annals of music! Thanks.
Funny how one of my friends stated "there's nothing that can produce the music (of the time) as accurately as a Linn Sondek".
Given the limitations, sampling rate, etc, I think he had a point. After all, what did I spend hundreds on a Pioneer (?) CD deck for, when my 'Sondek' would give me the same (and, with an 'Ittok' arm, cost a shedload more?)
Why didn't the 'Prophet Synthesiser' get a mention?
It's white, no-one - not even its dual mothers love it, but what now?
Of course, I'm talking about Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint drain on both parents.
One wonders if that half-Auzzie git Beresford-Wylie and successor hadn't shovelled tons of Nokia's wedge into the NSN coffers to keep the bleeding-to-death animal alive, Nokia (and methinks Siemens) wouldn't be neck-high in this - well, SHIT.
Seen the figures?
Nokia phones Net profit. 704 mil. margin 6.8%. staff 60,000
NSN Net 3mil, margin 0.1%, staff 66,000
Now, let's mention the elephant. And see if Huawei wants it.
Someone at NSN must be crapping themselves.
NB IANAA, so I might have misread. Corrections ever-so-greatly received....
Yup, until a couple of weeks ago was my main machine. Now replaced with a TP30. Ubuntu 10.10 /11.04 respectively, but the Compaq had two faults - one fixable, one not. Bloody noisy fan, the missus hated it, and max. 512M RAM (unless someone had a hack - the BIOS got in the way.)
TP30 seems (in a cradle, at least) seems to let the USB '4-port hub' go AWAL with Ubuntu from time-to-time. Pesky fix, delete the Wifi modem from network manager, and add it again. Minute's work, but..Methinks the TP's single USB (in a cradle, that's all you've got...) hasn't got enough 'grunt'.
But then, as I was given both machines, can't really argue...
http://www.erenta.fi/en-home*
'Course, if you don't mind driving in a car that advertises "I've got a Big Whopper (jr) with frenchies on the side".
Still, no publicity is - well, no publicity.
*Yep, I'm offering to revamp that website. Children should be allowed to drink beer, fight for their country, but never allowed to use Javascript, much less American English (as if there were such an animal)
Leeds-based company. Was effectively silenced for the innovative way they pioneered direction-finding (D/F) with (IIRC) 8 antennas, and phase-shifting the gain of the antennas with FET's.
Of course this in the annals of history, (1975?).
They were almost bankrupted by Her Insidious Majestic Muppets because the MOD wanted exclusivity on the project.
Took the company a year to clear it. It was an Amateur Radio design/project.
PGP? Similar. However, they (Dr D.A Tong & co.) seem to have done quite well out of the debacle. http://www.datong.co.uk/Company_Overview
So did Wood and Douglas http://www.woodanddouglas.co.uk/ for whom I (G4GKB) and Robin Scadden - G3TFM (sk) tested their prototype 2M synthesized transceiver.
(Citations very welcome)
Sorry, John, I thought you were pulling our collective plonkers with this story.
'Till I read:
http://www.halifax.co.uk/aboutonline/whats-changing/?tag=hpc_p9_pr_hea_r1
I dunno whether to weep or laugh.
It seems to have been because the number of droids sacked, to save money.
Oh, God. Thankfully, I'm not in UK anymore.
As a tip from a recent poster, I gave Pinguy a shot.
Nice, but it's a pimped-up Mint, which is a pimped-up Ubuntu, which is a pimped-up Debian. How much pimping to get to MINIX?*
Pimp my disty!!
"Big fleas have little fleas, on their backs to bite 'em. Little fleas have litler fleas, and so ad infinitum."
Nah, I hated Gnome on RH 7,3 - the "Standard to Salute" - which some buggers still swear by..or at.
Kinda like it now.
*Don't want a "joke" icon, but a tongue-in-cheek would be usef....ah...
#rm -rf /*
do it? less than £5 million/character.
I'd do it for half the price.
('course, Id probably need to be of non-UK origin to pass the stringent security and P.V tests, but...)
Sorry, I've never used that command. I'm told it's surprisingly effective. Especially (given tomorrow's date) to leave it - as a text - on the BOFH computer first thing tomorrow morning...
but one quote.. [I don't like the idea of using Google Docs because it is bad enough that Google is reading my office email, does it have to read what I am writing as I am writing it?]
Odd, I wrote an e-mail awhile ago, and in the mail I wrote "attached is my CV...".
Gmail stopped the send, because "You've written 'I have attached', but there is no attachment."..It was right..
Now, send a letter to your 16-year-old girlfriend about a meeting and will Gmail pop up with "It seems you're meeting a lady tonight. See ads on the right for all-night chemists"
-Erm?
at http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eulnd.htm
That proboscis north of the Urals 'looks a bit like a thingy' in full readiness
Amazingly, as it's tip is in permafrost.
Yet that bit above the 'n' in 'Scandinavian' looks like it's about to become a serious mouthful.
Damn Ruskies....And damn you, Lester. I can never look at an atlas again with a straight face...!
Dear oululife,
We are informing you that we have removed the following comment from your account in Ovi Store:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/03/18/new_att_tethering_policy, under my 'nick' of Andus McCoatover in the comments...
(re. Tethering)
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
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It means, "It does what it (i.e., the description) says it does."
No more, no less. i.e., it works!
I'm suspecting that an English 101 might well be called for.
As to the rest of my comment, if Theregister.co.uk okay's it, then, as Sara Bee (the moderator) is more strict than the mods. at OVI, I suggest you look again.
If You have an issue with this, make it plain.
I await your response.
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?? If all I said was "it does what it says on the tin" does that make my response Spam??
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