Posts by Nick
16 posts • joined Tuesday 4th March 2008 13:48 GMT
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Re: BEWARE, I LIVE
I used to play this while working night shift as an underutilised mainframe engineer at the Midland Bank computer centre in Brent, N. London.
Wasn't good for much else after an hour of this... but it did keep me awake.
Latest firmware update
I'd be interested to know if they've fixed KB33694, or when they plan to:
"When an incoming phone call, message, or a general notification is received on the BlackBerry 10 smartphone, no sound is played, the LED does not flash, and no vibration occurs despite having these options enabled under Settings > Notifications."*
I was quite enjoying my time with the Z10, but it not actually functioning as a phone put an end to that - I sent it back. I wonder how many others have done the same?
*I believe that this is a bluetooth related issue, but even so...
@ Kevin7 - re. E72
I know what you mean... but more and more I've found myself putting up with the N8 for its great camera and hdmi output. Opera on a nice big screen is also nice.
But the foibles of any Nokia smartphone pale into insignificance when compare to the steaming turd that is Ovi Suite...
Posted in Nokia N9 joins next month's mobile match
New Nokia phone...
...and only 5 comments?
'nuff said.
Posted in Nokia E6 smartphone
What about the message alert light?
I've read reports elsewhere of this being so dim as to be useless unless in a fully dark room.
But...
...enabling Opera Link hangs the browser every minute or so. Just as it did in the previous version. No real sign of help from Opera techs.
I'd love to love Opera, but they make it so difficult.
Skype?
I was disappointed to find that there were no proper drivers for Windows, so my old Jawbone couldn't be used for PC VoIP.
I wonder if this is still the case?
Ovi Suite was confirmation enough to me that Nokia was doomed
A pile of bloated garbage that can't even sync a phone reliably - great.
Posted in Nokia N8 smartphone
It's about more than the phone
It seems that I'll have to use Ovi Suite if I upgrade to the N8 from my E72, and that's a no-go for a start.
Ovi Suite just doesn't work.
My particular favourite feature is that it will silently connect to the Internet via my phone's bluetooth connection, even when I'm connected by wire or Wifi.
That and the fact that automatic syncing is pretty much impossible.
I've just cancelled my N8 order.
yeah but...
(unfortunately) no one uses Opera.
24 hours later and there are only 10 comments
New range-topping smartphone announced and barely a murmer from Reg readers? Surely that says as much about where Nokia are now as any other metric.
At least...
...Sinclair is famous for originality.
He probably wouldn't stoop to pinching an uncredited line from Mrs Merton (while interviewing Debbie McGee).
Posted in How FBI, police busted massive botnet
Re: They didn't get the head, they got the tail
I think that you're right there. I'm not at all sure that the criminal/technical mastermind behind this would have just lost the plot and connected from a traceable location. Sounds more like a patsy who's trying desperately patch things up.
I can't help wondering whether the US would have been so happy to co-operate with a foreign country to put away a US citizen though.
Send-a-Smile?
Ye gods, we're all doomed.
@Joe
Amok or amuk? I think that you'll find that's a mute point!
<sigh>
Posted in El Reg decimates English language
"ignorence"?
Is he seriously commenting on other people's literacy?
Cretanism, usuage, predominently... sigh.
