Posts by KenBW2

Ubuntu

Maybe i should read the article first

Erm,

"At the top we have the real-time tweets coming in. Beneath that we have the top articles on a particular keyword. Beneath each article we pull in the most reputable tweets about that article. We calculate the reputation on how often people tweet, how often they're tweeting spam, how often they're re-tweeted."

In english?

"not invented by Microsoft yet part of the W3C's HTML 5: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did SVG become part of HTML5?

SVG = XML image format

HTML != XML

They killed the idea of images and the markup being integrated when they stupidly decided to kill XHTML

On another note, SVG competes with Silverlight too much for them to implement it. Bastards.

OS Debate

Linux = a kernel

Ubuntu - ships Linux, so is an OS

Fedora - ships Linux, so is an OS

Chrome OS = ships Linux, so is an OS

Chrome OS is no different except the fact that it has less/different parts between the kernel and the browser. It still runs in its own right, so it's an OS

Good article

This should become a regular feature for those of us who see our El Reg RSS feed as a to-do list

Maybe add a few headings so we can filter out what we don't want

+1 for intense-staring-monitor

Title

"Google's UK search tentacle has decided to ignore the fact that 4 November marks the day in 1890 that Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurated the City & South London Railway"

So some railway in London is more important than something loved by people all over the country? Would that purely be because it's in London?

Not the centre of the universe you know!

Speed up development?

Does that mean Skype are planning to slow down their own work on the Linux version and hand it over to the FOSS community?

PS: Where can I get some of these distributives they speak of?

Why is it

whenever I see the Penguin on an El Reg comment you know it can safely be dismissed as fanboi comment?

This coming from a hardened Ubuntu user!

From Google: "The WiFi's on Us"

So they're capitalising themselves now? Close to God-like aspirations :S

4OD in a cross-browser format

At last!

I hate to sound cliche but...

where's the IT angle? El Reg is getting too many of these sensationalist articles that belong in The Sun or The Mail that is so often bemoaned around here.

Please focus at the back

Screw contracts

I'm just waiting for a sub £150 Android on PAYG. Maybe on something like 3's £5 for a month of unlimited* internet.

Suprised no one else has said...

This is one patent Apple is welcome to

What about other methods?

I have a completely blank desktop (what good is it when it's behind all my windows?), but everything gets dumped in my Deposit folder and organised as I see fit. So am I tidy or messy?

Uttter bollocks

To all the people moaning about low-end headphones

Some of us use them on cycles, buses etc where they inevitably end up snagged and broken. Wouldn't want to risk £200 of my hard-earned like that. Just because you're music snobs doesn't mean everyone is.

"Chrome not built by design to handle multiple processes"

Wasn't that one of the main selling points?

See http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_04.html for details

Protected eh?

<insert comment about still not being able to protect against viruses here>

What happened to SCC?

or is that not relevant since they started making not-so-cheap and not-so-small SCCs?

The Trekkers weren't particularly capitalist

are you sure they'd be affiliating with Microsoft?

@R. Callan

Try getting Rhythmbox for Windows. what do you expect them to do? And more to the point, why do you want IE if it's not open source or Linuxy enough for you?

Oh, and learn to use apostrophes properly.

Idiot.

Disclaimer: I use Ubuntu

Erm

School pupils aren't allowed phones, games consoles, laptops etc at school...

RE: Bigger better faster

Thank you for that infoormative comment for you to willy-wave how big your collection is

2008: The year of Linux

Last year was a good year for Linux - particularly on SCCs. But that ship has sailed - the SCC makers (Asus included) are starting to flock back to Windows-onlyness. Had Canonical/Red Hat/Novell/other capitalised on this and done some marketing for once (instead of relying on word-of-mouth, Linux might've got some higher brand awareness.

But no...

Shame really, as an Ubuntu-only user I'd have liked to see Linux flourish. Maybe if they're *really* quick we might just have time.

@Jeff

<quote>

By all means don't count the computers people chose to spend THEIR OWN hard earned money on... yes, count the computers they're forced to use at work - that's how to count personal preference.

</quote>

No, the point was that less people are at work, and therefore do more of their surfing at home.

That is, of course, you know of a way to tell a work computer from a home one?

Paris, cos it makes no difference where her noxt victim is

MS anti-piracy associate general counsel David Finn

That has to be the Longest Title Ever.

And can I be the first to say, did I read "High Quality" and "Microsoft Software" in the same sentence?

Paris, because she likes things to be long.

@AC

I've still got my Casio Remote Control Watch handy :)

Was much fun playing with the TVs mid-video at school all those years ago, teehee

Must get a new strap and battery

I think the writer of the article missed the point

If someone wants to do something they *enjoy doing* (and that's the key part) then who are you to stand in their way?

If they want to do it they're obviously getting something out of it - even if it is just a warm fuzzy feeling.

On another note, he's being a tad hypocritical not CC'ing his own portait is he not?

Paris, because she enjoys giving herself away

Quite a good scam

but y doo they allways rooin it wid bad speling?

Essential Inspiration

My two biggest annoyances for the year. What do they even mean now?

@AC "the smaller the fontsize, the lower the saving."

Perhaps that should read:

the smaller the fontsize, the lower the saving*

with this in the Small print:

* When compared with Vera Sans of the same font size

to sort the idiots from the rest of us.

Paris? That's the sort of comment she'd make

Damn my new phone!

If I was in the market for a new phone I'd be *very* interested. Maybe it'll be good to see other cheap alternatives spring up now :)

@carlos

Yea, you are.

W3schools is for web developers. Generally Web Developers don't use IE as much (since they know how much grief it causes). So you get skewed results.

I've always thought Google's homepage would give a good all round representation of market share

@Big Al Re: The Germans

I can concur that it works great - I did that on a 3-connection journey from Berlin to Leipzig, and then back again

Who the hell

buys a £1000 computer for a christmas present?

Food choice and OS preference

I use Linux

I buy ASDA's SmartPrice products

Can't say I agree with the theory...