Posts by Gilbert Wham
408 posts • joined Friday 6th April 2007 02:00 GMT
Posted in Jim Westwood, home micro revolutionary
I had one of those pocket TVs
A device badly crippled by its choice of battery; a flat Li job that was almost entirely unobtainable, and cost a bastard fortune.
Ineresting points...
...very well made. Thanks for that.
Posted in Ten... festival survival gadgets
Alarms? ALARMS?!
Being as I have been mugged at Glastonbury by a bunch of scousers, whilst hundreds looked gormlessly on, I don't think a piddly electronic alarm will do any good, as no-one will give a shit.
What to take: money, drugs, spare pair of pants. That's it. Anything else is a waste of time.
Nope.
Got to go elsewhere for that, now. Been that way for a while.
Quality
Any torrent site worth its salt will have a range of formats far superior to 256kb AAC available...
For relative values of 'better'...
There's a public safety issue there, though. Personally, I'd prefer it if wannabe terrorists of any stripe didn't blow themselves up, you know, downstairs or whatnot.
No.
No, you don't. This is the same horseshit that is trotted out *every* time.
Not another one...
You REALLY think it's easier to live on housing benefit and JSA? REALLY? As opposed to minimum wage (~£200 after tax, PLUS ~$50 a week working tax credits)? Really? That's what you think? And your unemployed 'friends' would rather do that would they? If they were real people?
Posted in Cloud in 2011: A bright new dawn...
"Why have malware on your server if you can do it in the cloud?”
Why indeed? Let's get it out there, where EVERYONE can share it!
Posted in Desktop Linux: the final frontier
Horseshite
"Download it legally for free."
don't kid yourself pal.
What? Linux IS downloadable for free. All over the bloody place. WTF are you on about?
"Run it on a clapped out old PC"
ever heard of something call Windows for Legancy (sic) PC?
No, I hadn't, but upon googling it, it's hardly a fully-fledged OS now is it? I can think of at least three distros I'd rather use (you can get ones that will cheerfully run on a 486/dx266)
No, I haven't as
"Give it to my kids without worrying they might break it."
suppose you don't run Linux as root, then Windows only does it better if you don't run it as Administrator.
That's the *whole point*; Windows is hardly ever run as anything but Admin for home users, cos it's too much of a pain in the arse for them to use like that.
If your argument was, 'You can't run high-end games on it' then I might kind of agree (there's no reason it COULDN'T, it's more to do with a dearth of money for development, as the market is admittedly tiny). Or, '[specific software 'X'] doesn't work on it'. Again, fair enough, but your counters to the above arguments make very little sense.
"I suggest a basic UNIX course"
I second that. Not because I think it would help (it won't, most people are fucking stupid whether they know UNIX or not), but because I am a misanthrope, and I know it'll most likely make them deeply unhappy. I'd mandate it by law if I could...
/Slips off into happy reverie/
"two factor authentication"
Or, a way of ensuring they've managed to extract a working mobile number from you to add to their data pool...
"free access to paid-for content"
Hang on a minute, how is that possible? Surely if it was *paid-for* content, it would be behind a paywall a la Murdoch, and therefore all Google would be doing was driving traffic to their door (assuming you wanted Belgian new written in French that is)? Or am I missing something? I'll admit I rarely if ever look at Google News.
Granted, if it's on a freely accessible website then they're going to lose ad revenue if Google reproduce the article verbatim on their own news site. However, if they're linking to the actual site (which they generally do), that's an even larger crock, more replete with horseshit than their 'paid content' claim.
'Twas Ever Thus.
My Brothers-in-Law, both doctors, have been making this point for bloody years. It's all very well going private for elective surgery, but if you've got something seriously wrong with you, all they'll do is pay to use the NHS's resources to fix you anyway.
Pony
It's 'one trick pony'.
Too late
Remember when people (well, idiots) were paying money for Gmail invites? Not going to happen here.
Wais, what?
I was frequently ecstatically happy listening to music. Or maybe that was the ecstasy?
Why...
...must this degenerate into *yet another* Mac Vs PC debate, when we really should be reaching a consensus that killing every last MP and senior civil servant and starting from scratch would be easier, cheaper, and infinitely more satisfying?
We could have kangaroo courts, where they are asked simple questions about what they purport to be their purview, and then hang them when their answers are irredeemably stupid.
Posted in Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Air speakers
Lossless + ipod?
I understood it that the DACs in Ipods weren't up to spec for playing lossless anyway? Mind you, I do like B&W (except for this weird-looking egg thing); I got given a pair of '70s era B&Ws about 15 years ago and have loved them dearly ever since.
Yes, yes you are.
There's a thing called 'due process', which includes something called 'trial by jury', where things called 'evidence' are presented, for the perusal of the presiding judge and the assembled jurors. It's been around for a while now, so one assumes that it's generally though of as a 'good thing'.
Whereas giving police carte blanche to shoot people because they suspect they may be about to do, or may have done, something reprehensible comes under the heading of 'a fucking stupid idea'.
Posted in MPs now free to surf and tweet
Debate Unattractive?
Don't 'debates' tend to be mainly the (now two) factions of the house booing, catcalling and insulting each other? Followed shortly thereafter by the party with the majority doing whatever the fuck they like anyway?
Shame they're not allowing laptops as well. At least then there's always the faint chance of one of the buggers electrocuting himself plugging the charger in.
Posted in Apple bashes 'gay cure' app
!= doesn't equal letters and/or digits
"Christian B&B, Christian Florists, Church Ads, Christian foster carers all being told what they can do and cant do"
I've always found such headlines, on further inspection, turn out that what the poor, downtrodden christians are told they *can't* do, is be absolute arseholes to everyone else *all the time*. Telling other people what they can do and cant do and what they are and are not allowed to think or have opinions on being something of which they seem inordinately fond.
And 'struggle with their sexuality'? And an app produced by those wackadoodles is going to help, is it? With the struggle seeming to be worrying that massive swathes of the population are going to be irredeemably awful to them expressly because of their sexuality, a thing that makes their fucking TELEPHONE give them shit for it as well seems like overkill.
As an aside, El Reg, can we not at least have BB Code on here? It's *very* hard to emphasise *exactly* how much of a dick someone is being without the use of italics. I'd have thought you'd have *noticed* this by now, you *utter* swines.
a useless cnut with no idea of economics...
I thought that was de rigeur for a Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Minimalist!?
Oh, God, they're not hiding buttons like everyone else, are they? I hate it when they hide the buttons. Why does 'UI Design' = 'Spitefully hiding things' so often?
Weird.
My last two Droids here in the UK have done this out of the box, with no extra fees. Data plan is shit, mind.
Well...
Arguably, it's the employer's fault for not being capable of weeding out fuckwits at the interview process?
Posted in York Uni exposes students' private info
versiunity
Since I have seen similar vulnerabilities exposed with no more than a bit of URL hacking on my university's website (a university which offers a degree in pen-testing, I might add), I'll wager this will happen again.
Hmmmmm.
Being as you get your yearly dose of background radiation anyway, what they're *actually* saying is you're getting an extra 9 months on top of that. Clever bit of figure massaging though.
Posted in Microsoft rallies IE6 death squads
IE6?!?!
I've worked in banks (Regal Scottish ones), that are still using IE4...
Ahem
'Favour' has a 'U' in it over here on the righ side of the pond...
Ah...
RT'ing the f'in A might have been a good idea. Well, there you go. Funny video though.
Did he really?
Anon say it was them. Hmmmm.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/24/anonymous-hacks-west.html
Fields of green...
lot of 'turf in here....
Posted in Samsung Wave II Bada OS smartphone
one day...
the wrong person's going to walk past as you're taking yet another picture of that post box, panic, & report you to the Old Bill as a terrorist. You mark my words.
Posted in Capita to get fat on govt cuts
"not all costs are linear"
Not when bloody Capita's involved they're not, no.
Good
Keep changing their desktop from KDE to Gnome & back at least once a week. And try to swap out any productivity software at least as often. Keep 'em on their toes, the fuckers.
Posted in What sealed Nokia's fate?
IOS/'Droid/Symbian/WinMob:
My choice with these four was simple (WP7 I ain't tried yet): the one that connected seamlessly to *whatever computer I happened to be at*, without making me install idiotic software so it could 'sync' (god, how I hate that word) and/or make me want to punch myself in the face with frustration throughout the entire process, and I am looking VERY HARD in your direction here, WinMob.
I used to love Nokias, till they became buggy, unusable blobs. I'll reserve judgement on WP7 till I've had a go of someone else's whose been crazy enough to gamble on one.
"The Socialists of the 1930s would be proud of you"
What, the people who kicked the shit out of the fascists at Cable St.? The people who had the courage to stand up to Franco, and went through hell for it? The strikers Churchill ordered troops to fire on? I doubt I, or any of the others here who (quite rightly) think you and your ilk are dicks, could hold a candle to them. Fuck, if I managed to do things that would gain their accolades, I'd be proud of myself. Crawl back under your rock, eh? There's a good chap.
Let's just see...
Cocaine with a nice, friendly, Fairtrade label on it for sale cheaply in the chemist. Then, no bugger will be building submarines.
Posted in Dutch get wound up over invisible SMS
Bad tradecraft.
Phone, sim & battery should be kept in separate pockets, only being reassembled when messages need to be sent.
LP4FOT?
Yeah, but who wants to deal with the backlash from Andrew's wildly inflammatory articles?
What is it?
With the Australians' propensity for doing stupid shit with the Internet?
Posted in ICO drops BT, ACS Law probe
I...but...bheheheh...
I had to read that article three times to figure out EXACTLY how fucking stupid they were. It's so completely wrong in every respect, it simply skims over the brain on first perusal.
Posted in MozyHome stiffs unlimited users
$(X),or £(X)/month...
...seems like money that could usefully be set aside for your own backup architecture, ,surely? Given, as people have pointed out, the time it takes to upload a HDD full of data, I'd rather mirror it at home.
Laying Cable?
You've got no chance. Maybe if they got another round of handouts.
Well...
As off-topic racist screeds go, that was very well constructed (a rare occurrence, I'm sure you'll admit). Top points for grammar, but an 'F' for generally being a dick, I'm afraid. "little Mo, the clever one out of a family of knuckledraggers"? Fucking hell.
Seems a little complex
Why not just divorce his wife & marry a younger one with a better memory? Then we won't all need to be borged into some kind of world-spanning Mac interface.
Stuck in the past...
You need a *modern* unit of measurement, for, as any fule kno, the Bronto has now been replaced by the Apatosaurus. If you carry on like tah, all our spaceprobes will crash...
