Posts by Conor Turton 130 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2008
D@v3 wrote "I have a TV that will run on any kind of leccy, but neither a TV or a Mac has a service contract, like so many mobile phones, most of which are tied to one network for the duration of that contract"
Yeah but your TV wasn't subsidised by up to 60%. If you want an unlocked iPhone from the get-go you can buy them but they're a damned sight more expensive than a subsidised one on contract.
I've yet to work out who the hell thought that having a small toilet cubicle with a door that opens inwards was a good idea. Common sense would surely tell you that if the distance from the door to the toilet wasn't that much larger than the width of the door then unless you're Peter Crouch or the Pepperami stick man, you're gonna have issues if it opens inwards.
Sounds like more grasping at straws meddling. They'll do that, the phytoplankton will thrive and then there'll be unforseen consequences which will then require more meddling.
The simple fact is that climate science is at best a guess. Nobody has a clue of ALL the factors that affect it and new ones are being discovered on an almost monthly basis. Therefore meddling with one thing can have serious repercussions elsewhere.
"I'm a regular reader of the titless wonder in quesdtion, but I must disagree with its stand on this case. He has committed offences in the USA, despite being on British soil at the time, so it's to the USA he should be made to go to answer for it."
Wrong. He is a British Citizen. THe crime was committed in Britain, therefore he should be tried in Britain. If he ever set foot on American soil then they could arrest him over there if they wanted. But he should absolutely not be extradicted to facilitate that, especially as it's all about the US Govt trying to save face over their shambles of a security system on their military servers.
If the firmware upgrade was to enable >1.5Gb/s, Apple don't actually fit any 3Gb/s drives and won't support any third party drives at all, then what the hell was the point in bothering with a firmware upgrade?
Oh, I get it...silly me. Apple will now come along and sell a 3Gb/s HDD upgrade, complete with Apples hardware tax.
I am currently a victim of this farce. I submitted a P50 in February for a tax refund made slightly complicated by having 3 P45's due to agency work. My tax records travelled round 3 tax offices but in the meantime, I claimed ESA so they finally ended up in Leicester, office number 4. Leicester now want some confirmation from one of the previous tax offices so HAS HAD TO WRITE TO THEM requesting it. The office supplying the information as of last week WAS STILL OPENING POST FROM THE END OF MARCH. So that's added another 8 weeks delay.
So for the tax rebate I put in for in February, I'll hopefully - but they can't guarantee it - see a refund some time in August. Had it been all linked, I should have had my refund in February or March.
Interesting to note though that if they owe you money, they co
The problem with ubuntu is that when it ships, it ships with massive problems.
Some examples:
8.04 shipped with broken Windows network share browsing which worked in 7.10. It was still broken in 8.10 and is in 9.04 although simply adding "wins" to the hosts: line in /etc/nsswitch.conf fixes it.
8.04 killed laptop hard drives. They released a partially working fix in 8.10 and it's finally been iradicated in 9.04
9.04 ships with knowingly broken Intel drivers which is a problem when a lot of stuff it is being installed on has Intel onboard graphics.
I could go on but Bugtraq is listed with lots of posts about show stopping stuff found in pre-release which are listed as show stoppers and still make it through to final.
I'd rather an OS, which is the base on which your computer was built, was released when it's as ready as feasibly possible without any of the monumental stuff Ubuntu releases have which really shouldn't make it out. IMO it shows piss poor quality control.
As someone who has actually read the judgment and the reasoning for why the verdict was given, it was completely fair. It was based on a legal precident set several decades ago where someone can be found guilty for assisting a crime - in the case that set a precident, it was someone who was found guilty of aiding a person to commit a crime by holding their coat.
Their defence would have to be that they did not know what the site was being used for nor were they in a position of responsibility at any level - both of those they cannot use due to their positions and the notices they received from copyright holders.
If it were only just about the money, Linux would have won ages ago but it isn't. The simple fact is Linux is just not as user friendly as Windows. If Linux is so good, how come so many people would rather put a pirate version of Windows on their computer than Linux when it's free?
I think there's plenty of people who are sick enough of "The unique way the BBC is funded" as it is without the TLA pursuing people who might watch the BBC on their iPhone or whatever. It is absolutely reprehensible that someone can actually be sent to prison for not paying a forced subscription for a set of television channels that they might not even watch.
I think this was a good article if it does nothing more than educate people to use Windows Update. If people had, Conficker wouldn't have had the devastating impact it has had as the exploit was patched in a Windows Update months before Conficker came out. Likewise the same with Sasser and all the other major attacks.
Thanks to the programme, there's now up to 22,000 unsecured computers which will get updated and their users educated.
"Intel's mobile marketing director Karen Regis kicked off an update on the vendor's mobile roadmap by saying that 37 per cent of the installed base of PCs was over three years old, and that 38 per cent of installed PCs are desktops. This meant that users were excluded from rich content, she said, as well as stuck with flakey networking and security."
I could have sworn my 3 year old desktop was running a fully patched Vista, gigabit LAN and playing all my favourite FPS's at my LCD monitors native resolution with all detail maxed up to full. I'd love to know what rich content I'm supposedly missing that requires more than a X2 4800+ 2GB RAM, a nvidia 8800GT and 8Mbit broadband.
What Ms. Regis misses is the fact that even if you're a gamer, what was high end 2-3 years ago is more than enough now.
If you look at the home version of this, opt into Fon as a BT Internet user, you get access to other Fon hotspots as well as the BT Openzone ones using the minutes in your internet plan. Basically it gives BT internet subscribers a way of getting a comprehensive wifi coverage at little cost to everyone. For example, my town is a small one in the middle of nowhere with a population of 11,000. Looking on the BT Fon page, the amount of hotspots there are gives nearly full wifi coverage of the town. Handy for those of us with wifi enabled smartphones and netbooks.
Sadly the implementation through the back door isn't exactly the best way to get people on board. As in the title of my comment, it's a good idea poorly implemented.
Currently running it. Yes it is faster than Vista but not massively so. A few GUI tweaks seem to have done a job of making it feel quicker.
The UI is just bollox. There's now too many places to launch things from. Stuff like the enhancements in WMP have been virtually hidden away and can only be accessed if you're lucky enough to work out that you need to put it in mini player mode then press the playlist button and then there's an icon for it.
The taskbar is a fucking joke. Either you end up with a load of icons where the only way to tell the difference between a running app and a shortcut is the fact that one of them appears slightly raised, or you alter the option to show text for running apps and end up with a mish-mash of window switching tabs and shortcut icons all mixed up. Even worse is messenger if you use the show text as it no longer puts an icon in the system tray so you have a windows switcher button and if you click on it to show the contact list, you end up with two window switcher buttons for it. As for the system tray, we won't even go there.
People are raving about the power button on the menu. It's the same as Vista except it uses words instead of icons. Wow.
Aero peek. Has there ever been a more pointless thing to put in an OS?
People have commented on how much simpler the Networking Center is. Are they fucking blind? It is the most busy looking window of the lot. As for homegroup, it's broken. If you want to change the password, it'll tell you you need to be in a "Home" location even though the location says you are. So you delete it and go to recreate another only to be told you can't for the same reasons.
Yes I know it's BETA and to expect things but it has been widely bandied around as being feature complete, completely stable and ready for release etc when the truth is that it isn't anywhere near.
Good things? The Library feature is nice if a little confusing at first - stick with it. Err...err...err.....oh yeah, it's quite a stripped out OS - no mail, messenger, movie maker etc. There was something else....ah Device and Printer manager is a nice touch.
In short, it's not worth bothering with yet. Stick with Vista. I've used vlite to create a customised stripped out Vista installation and I swear it feels as quick as Win 7 does once you've got rid of the crap.
Why are they doing this when Ubuntu 8.10 already has full netbook support and in Synaptic, there's a netbook front end you can install with a single command line entry? Seems like just yet another pointless Ubuntu fork.
More here with video:
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/nbr
Not really a shock. Virtually all of bittorrent usage is for illegal filesharing and P2P accounts for a very large amount of an ISPs traffic. That costs the ISPs real cash. P2P isn't free - someone has to pick up the tab somewhere.
In addition to that, Virgin Media sell the very movies and music that are being pirated. It seems a bit daft to expect them to support the very thing that denies them sales.
When they're selling the Linux PC at exactly the same as the Windows one, companies will go with the Windows boxes because there's no retraining time or costs involved.
Also, many companies have a carte blanche Windows volume licence as well so the bigger companies would just shove a drive image onto it so that its already configured as they want from power on.
This is not going to achieve anything.
Personally I can't understand why people didn't think this would end up happening. After all, piracy is being done via the internet on a massive scale and that's easy to solve with the unticking of a box on a screen of the account that's been used to download and share the media.
For those who bleat on about it being unfair, you can't cry about a law being unfair when you're wantonly breaking the law in the first place which is the reason this has been brought in.
The account holder will get two warnings before a strike which is more than enough. Now considering that many of these account holders are the parents of the person who has been breaking the law, maybe it'll force them to exercise some parental responsibility for what their kids are doing online instead of using the computer as a free babysitter.
They can't even provide 1Mbit throughput on the high speed service they offer at the moment so how the hell they think they're going to provide 14Mbit is beyond me. Just because you can connect at it doesn't mean a damned thing.
Also, I'd like to have coverage in my area. The nearest coverage is 15 miles away. Orange are providing HSDPA in my area, so why not 3?
And I found it hilarious. Obviously all the complainants failed to see the joke. Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper was a lorry driver - hence the comment.
AND WHY DO THE BBC STILL INSIST ON SAYING STEVE WRIGHT WAS A LORRY DRIVER? He wasn't. He drove a forklift truck. Just because it has the word truck in the name, doesn't mean it's a lorry. Another typical example of the low standards of BBC journalism.
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