Posts by Anonymous Hero

Isn't this normal?

"The government has actually hired a team of people known to have committed criminal acts"

One bunch of criminals hiring another bunch of criminals.....what's new in government these days?

@Stuart Duel

" That includes Windows which MS reverse engineered from the Mac OS." - um....I think you got that a bit wrong there mate. Anything Windows with a NT kernel in it had its origins in the design of VAX VMS by Dave Cutler (and a smattering of OS/2).

If you mean Windows 1.0 -> Windows 3.x then you may have a point but it's so totally irrelevant now.

Safety first

I'd rather Airbus and Boeing delayed and got the plane just right instead of having the damn things fall out the sky because the sides fell off after takeoff.

Remember these are machines that will have lifespans of 20-30 years, a delay of two years because of getting these new composite materials and other technologies just so is really nothing.

It's up to the customer to plan for the worst too

To the uninformed....

I've worked in data centres where we've had N+1 and more resilience on every aspect of the infrastructure. However a well placed lightening strike, chiller leak, roof collapse, car crash or other act of nature/technology can cause the unexpected to happen.

Ultimately it is down to the customer to have business continuity/contingency plans for these events, however unlikely they may be. As Eric Hammond rightly states on his blog:

"A well designed architecture built on top of EC2 keeps important information (databases, log files, etc) in easy to manage persistent and redundant data stores which can be snapshotted, duplicated, detached, and attached to new servers."

If your application is mission critical then you need to spread it around.

Backups are not free

I work for a hoster. Backup costs money, this is why we charge extra for the service.

If you don't pay for backup then you don't have any right to complain that your site and data is lost either through the loss of a server or your own finger trouble.

You as a customer/reseller have to assess how critical your sites are and build in the cost of business continuity to the TCO. As a hoster we can provide all the backups and redundancy you require, but it all costs money.

The Real Kev K

@Goat Jam

"That just STINKS of poor OS architecture design to me."

No, that just shows that iTunes is a pile of badly behaved shite.

@Michael W - Not needed..

What was it they said back in the 50's or 60's about just needing four mainframes for the whole worlds computing requirements?....or in the 80's, something about only needing 640Kb of RAM....?

I never thought I'd need a 1GB network in the house...

Paris, because size matters.

Great!

....flat panel pop-up boobies anyone.....?

@Frank - Hobbyist Production?

Kinda says it all about open source really.

Same old tired shit....

"embrace, extend and extinguish".

M$

"stop fucking threatening to sue us"

"Microsoft is fast becoming irrelevant"

yawn.

More lazy bollocks from the linux/open source loonies

Zemlin: "Microsoft does not appear to be a leopard capable of changing its spots."

More of the usual bollocks from the Linux community....yawn.

Whilst the patent system remains in its current form, there will be patent spats just about every day of the week, and not just instigated by Microsoft. As usual Linux community are just too lazy or bigotted to openly challenge anyone not Microsoft. Why isn't there a great outcry about the patents that TomTom hold on sat nav technology?

Sorry guys, but your bozo bits have been flipped to 1.

<3

@Lager and Crisps

"For me Microsoft are the embodiment of pure evil. It's about time those politicians stopped taking bribes and back handers and uphold the law, they expect the rest of us to."

boo hoo...I bet you use apple products...pot/kettle/black...

...and if you're using loonix then shut up and get back to your 0.1%-of-the-market-desktop-broken-driver-always-10yrs-behind rubbish.

Meanwhile I'll get on with my usual highly productive day using my lovely MS tools.

Two years....jings, crivvens, help ma boab!

I've been out of contract with vodafone now for over a year, it's great and I have a drawer full of ex-contract handsets (one for each day of the week) I can dip into if I get bored with the current model, or need a lightweight throwaway unit I can lose in the pub/sea/a drain when rolling drunk.

But why-oh-why do we allow the networks to foist these long term lockins upon us? Finding a good value-for-money 12 month contract these days is like trying to find a 100% mortgage. This is why I'll be hanging onto my Palm Treo 750v instead of looking for something shiney and new.

And as Mark Daniels rightly pointed out....a grand for something I have no control over (unless jail-broken)! If Samsung made folks only watch Sky One on their £1k TFT tellys there'd a riot.

The mobile industry is seriously fucked up.

IT workers no better

It's shocking how bad spelling and grammar has become over the past few years. Here's a few samples of some of the things I see from clever people I know in IT that should know better, it makes my eyes hurt:

The use of 'rediculous' instead of 'ridiculous'.

The use of 'then' instead of 'than'

Seeing 'doesent' makes me weep.

Basic stuff like the mixed up use of 'there/their/they're', I mean how hard is it to get that right?

Other primary school basics like 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' apparently forgotten/never learned.

'wich' instead of 'which' is another howler I often see in business communications.

Don't get me wrong, I failed my 'O' level English and scraped it in 5th year (preferring to study assembly language instead of the English one at exam time) so I'm no genius when it comes to creative prose/comprehension/essays, but I bloodywell knew my grammar and spelling upon leaving primary school.

I don't know whether it's lazyness or our country is just generally getting thicker.

meh...

I'll get me coat.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha...FAIL!

Post office forgets to support noisy minority and failed desktop.....lolz. Stop dreaming freetards and admit that linux on the desktop is a huge FAIL, no shame in admitting you were wrong and coming back to windows.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Man I am laughing my arse off at all those complacent and smug mac retards thinking themselves safe from this kinda blight which is more commonly associated with windows.

So I say again.....Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....

ps: I do own a Mac, I'm just not smug about it.

eh?

This makes about as much sense to me as having a wooden spoon with build in air conditioning.

Paris....even she makes more sense than the Rolly.

Pseudoscience

This reminds me of the psuedo-science crap that peddlers of hair and skin 'beauty' products baffle helpless females with. e.g.

Silk Polypeptides

Protection against free radical damage

Therapeutic antioxidants

Dermalogical Ultracalming (!!?)

Provitamins

Unique Skin Brightening Complex

...

Quantum Physical Information Wave

Not totally useless...

"it's hard to think of an application that wouldn't be better served using a proper mobile client rather than via a shrunken interface on a touch-screen phone"

I dunno....when you're in the pub with your mates and the pager/SMS alerts goes off it's pretty handy to be able to RDP/Cytrix to a box to restart a service or something like that without carrying anything bigger with you. When I was unofficially 'on call' the RDP client on the iPaq I had was great for that kinda thing to help out the guys in the NOC by taking a quick butchers at the eventlogs for example.

Paris....because she doesn't mind a shrunken interface as long as it doesn't happen too often.

@Kevin Bailey

ASP.NET MVC isn't a fork of ASP.NET. It still runs on top of the ASP.NET infrastructure. ASP.NET MVC is just an alternative to ASP.NET Forms which will continue to be a valid model for developers for a long time to come.

Still overpriced

As much as I love my Bluray gear, the media is still overpriced. I rent mine instead because I'd hate to shell out 17-20 quid for a film that might be shit.

The other problem is that the release date for a bluray of a new movie is often a couple of weeks (or sometimes up to a month) after the DVD release. People only have so much patience. Sunshine was a good example of this. I couldn't wait the extra month or so and bought the DVD instead.

Because of overpricing and shitty release schedules I only have 10 bluray disks to my name....and I've had the player and the fancy gear since summer of 2007.

So far they're doin' it wrong....

Paris....'cos she does it right.

Punters and Lapland-land both id-yots

I'm not sure who's more to blame more in this fiasco....the retards to paid 30 quid a ticket to go view this kind of tat or the opportunist who thought he'd get away with coining the lap-tards out of their dosh.

@Fuck that shit

Yes, I used to think that sensible browsing with no AV would be just fine and dandy until one day I browsed across what looked like a sensible site and before I knew it the little turd of a payload was deployed. It wasn't until a few days later I began to suspect something was up.

Took me about 3 days to rebuild from scratch, and a subscription to AVG.

One day the Mac's time will come (I should point out I have one too) and it *will* be necessary to run AV software. Who knows what exploit is lurking in the wings.

Paris, because she's the apple of someone elses minds eye.

Only for some UK customers.....

Upon trying to register for the beta all I got was:

"Sorry ENTANET Customers ...

Your ISP (ENTANET) does not currently support TVCatchup.

In order for you to use the TVCatchup site for free, your ISP must have a free peering connection with us.

We encourage you to email your ISP’s support department requesting them to set up this free peering connection. Full details of the steps they need to perform are located at http://www.tvcatchup.com/isps/.

Once your ISP has established the connection, you will be able to watch the full selection of television channels online."

I can't see this working out real well especially when you look at their peering arrangements

http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=as31715

I don't see that many popular ISP's listed.

@Tezfair and a few other luddites

"I read that in the US all this DVD technology is being ditched in favour of Broadband HD content. Seems that HD style DVDs will end up the same way as the minidisc. Glad I didn't rush out to get one!"

Dewd....get real, we're gonna be waiting a very very long time before the UK's broadband infrastructure can cope with HD downloads that the whole country can realistically use. It's pie in the sky that one. I agree with AC, these so-called HD downloads aren't much better than DVD quality, if at all.

To the rest of you luddites moaning about DRM and this and that (and you haven't even got any HD kit evidently!), sorry guys you have no clue. I got my PS3 hooked up to my Onkyo TX605, a 40" Samsung 1080p with 5.1 sounds delivered by my B&W 620 series, a matching HTM-62 centre unit and a Rel Quake. It's utterly awesome. Hell I don't even go to the cinema any more because this is way better, I can sit in the comfort of my own house with some mates get pished and enjoy some hi-def action all for the cost of a £3.75 rental HD-BR.

Paris....because she probably enjoys some 5.1 action as well.

Who'd expect to see an Audi parked in the fast lane the wrong way?

Whether he was texting or not, on motorways the brain goes into a disbelief mode that the car up ahead is

a) Stopped

b) Pointing the wrong way

c) a + b + in the fast lane

I remember tootling up the M6 near carlisle one night around midnight. There was bugger all else on the road and I was cruising at around 80'ish. I was just slipping past one of those middle lane hogging morons and about to gently slide back over to the slow lane.

Suddenly just about 75yds in front I realised there was a bloody car straddling the fast and middle lanes (no lights) and folk dawdling around. I just missed the bugger and the occupants by inches, fish tailed my car for around 100yds afterwards and nearly soiled my self (eight times).

I'm a biker and pride myself on defensive driving and observation and knowing the police roadcraft book pretty well. But that night I was caught way off guard.

Paris....because I'm sure she'd never have a seepage problem under any circumstances.

Lazy journalism...

"Most of the hacked sites run Microsoft ASP technology and are thought to have been hit either using SQL injection attacks "

John this is another attempt at lazy sensationalist journalism to put MS in the security spotlight for a security issue that can't actually be pinned on them for once. As a hoster we're seeing both ASP+MSSQL on Windows *AND* PHP+MySQL on Linux sites being targetted equally.

Yet again you fail to mention that the reasons for sites being susceptable to these compromises is shoddy scripting practices by the web site developers, not a flaw in the technology.

Paris, because she prefers the hot beef injection....

@Red Bren

"This isn't the first time a wave of moral outrage has swept through a vocal minority of the population that never actually witnessed the event that provoked their vitriol."

Reminds me of the Stallman/Freetard crowd that threw their toys out the pram when the beeb beta'd iplayer. They must all read the same paper.

Mine's the one with the obfuscator, dongles and activation keys in the pockets.

@Mark Milaszkiewicz - iPhone haters

Mark, the difference is that we haven't had it up to the back teeth with all the same hype and bullshit that accompanied the arrival of the jebus phone, and I doubt we'll see the same type of sado shop camping that and queuing that the apple retards got up to.

Paris, because sometimes she likes to have it all the way up to her back teeth.

Religeous numpties at it again

Why is it in the 21st century that, supposedly an age of rational enlightment and scientific discovery, because some brain washed numpties believe in fairy tale fictions like the bible and the koran, it gives them the right to dictate to others what they should say or do.

Feels like we're slipping into a neo-dark age.

Depressing.

Yawn

More moaning and hot air from irrelevant greetin' faced freetards.

Paris, 'cos she always puts a smile on my face.

@AC - Peas and rice!!!

"Perhaps Microsoft would be better off considering the problem that users don't necessarily want to change systems every couple of years"

Could be worse, ubuntu seems to have a release every time I fart. At least MS support older versions for 10 yrs or so, unlike like most linux distros I could mention.

Paris, 'cos she enjoys a good release.

@mark

"And Ford Motor Cars could rule the motorcar industry if they just made the one car, rather than all this "choice" that is so confusing to users"

Comparing the car industry to the PC desktop industry....what complete and utter wank, like comparing apples and oranges.

@James

I agree with you about the scratched disks. I had a sub when they were called screenselect. They were fine for the first three or four months then they started to throttle my turnaround on DVD's. It could sometimes take up to a week to turn a DVD around. They also sent out TV series disks in the wrong order numerous times and towards the end of my subscription the disks were often so badly scratched they wouldn't play.

Their customer services were shit. The only way you can communicate with the morons is by web forms, no phone numbers. The response time to respond to a complaint was appalling, I could pop in a support request at 9am one day and more often than not it wouldn't get answered until the next day, and often the replies were just plain fucking idiotic, sometimes it'd take 3 days to fix an issue that a simple phone call coulda resolved in seconds.

All in all I thought it was a pretty fucking awful experience and I suspect that's why they changed their name to lovefilm. Sadly they seem to rule the roost with regard to this kind of service. A mate had blockbuster's service and he found it equally disappointing.

And...to add insult to injury when I closed my account, they didn't really close the account, they made it dormant and continued to spam me with email and snail mail.

I now just rent from my local vid shop, buy what I like and steal the rest.

Paris, because she enjoys a good movie at home now and again.

@Chris

Blame Tony for secreting a linux turd, in his otherwise interesting article, and attracting the GNU/flies.

Boy I'm angry today.

Other Uses 3

+ Hiding ones identity when withdrawing (other peoples) money with shot gun at the local bank.*

+ Biohazard clean up team finger puppets.

+ Stretchy cat toys **

Paris, because she prefers it 'au natural'.

*Just don't cover your whole face though

** Not when worn for intended use.

Patricia Hewitt

Clearly forgotten what she learned from her previous job experience:

http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/167226/biography

"Before entering Parliament I worked for several organisations. ..[snip].. After Age Concern I moved to Liberty to stand up for Civil Liberties and Human Rights."

Paris, because she enjoys the loss of liberty now and again.

Good for him....

....if a jobs worth doing, do it right. I admire his 'in for a penny, in for a pound' ethics.

Paris, 'cos she knows all about doin' it right.

@iTards - only yourselves to blame

You really are a bunch of sad fanboy retards.

Whilst O2 probably could've handled the release much better, their systems are probably designed with a peak transaction throughput of the kind you'd experience during a very busy saturday on the run up to christmas plus a bit more.

Their systems (and no doubt any moby provider) were probably not designed with the kind of one off locust effect that a swarm of fucking loser lemmings like yourselves create because you just have to be so fucking first and trendy and get one of these overpriced digital buttplugs. If apple announced an iCar and chose your local BMW dealership to sell it through, do you think they could handle potential tripling/quadrupling of sales transactions? Probably not because they're set up to sell x cars a day but you'd still manage to find fault there as well.

I am so glad I work from home and so seldom visit the highstreet these days so I don't have to watch apparently intelligent human beings behave like brain damaged sheep. I sincerely hope your gene pool dies off soon.

If you'd waited a couple of days, you could probably just walk into a store and get one in the space of 15mins.

Jeez.

Where's the Linux angle on this?

Usually we should have two or three freetards chipping in and being totally OT and irrelevant by now....?

Freetards....jeez

@ The freetards...

For an OS that has just 2-3% (and dropping) of the desktop market and for some pretty valid reasons...Gnome/KDE = shite, distro fragmentation (I mean, how many variants of Ubundoo do we really need, and please don't give me some crap about choice, that doesn't even begin to forgive the distro mess) the racket and demands their greetin' faced evangelising bairns make about not having to pay the MS tax always makes me pish ma self with laughter.

So why not take this to the ultimate end. If you're fed up with paying the 'tax' why not demand that you have a freetard BIOS so you're no payin' out a fraction of the cost of the machine to AMI or Phoenix or whoever in licensing....oh and how about the licenses on all the proprietry hardware and microcode on the mobo's. Or how about having a wee moan and greet aboot how awful Intel are for dominating this particular niche with their Atom processor.

FFS...grow up. You're all just the OS equivalent of the chattering classes, me, I'll stick with a machine with XP. You never know when some freeturd breaks the upstream distro and like hey seeds in a broken crypto lib.

MS are such an easy target, but how do you know your shiney new toy isn't being boxed up by slave labour and employed in factories with shitty workers rights? How about having a wee protest about that instead and choosing a manufacturer that gives a shit and has a social conscience?

Yeah...grow up, go have a life, get a girlfriend, have sex, drink beer, have a wash and get outa yer mummies basements and see the sun and the real world once in a while.

Oh finally....I bought an Asus EEE 1000H with XP cos I neither give a shit about MS abusing their monopoly position (they pay my wages, and rather handsomely too) nor do I care about the exploited workers who boxed and shipped my new toy to the UK in some ozone destroying cargo plane or boat. And you know what I love to rub it under the noses of all you politically correct brainwashed opensource plastic bag recycling bozo's. Oh hell yeah!!!

In the words of Daniel Plainview "I'm finished now".

90 Months !?

Why not just say 7.5 years? 90 months, indeed...pfft.

Paris, 'cos she'd have thought you meant until the end of the universe.

But where are the 901's?

So far no sign of the 901's in any shops, online or otherwise, despite "going on sale" on the 1st of July.

Fed up waiting, will probably buy an Aspire one now....Play at least seem to have idea when they'll arrive in stock.

Paris + obligitory 8.9" fnaar fnaar one liner.

@Glenn Gilbert

Agreed, for a regular joe schmoe browser user this has to be the biggest anti-climax since my ex-wife faked her last one.

Kinda makes me think of my new t-shirt -

"I downloaded Firefox 3, and all I got was this lousy new back button".

I also think they cheated by stopping the clock and fixing their servers? No?

@spegru: XP difficult to use?

FUD and patronisation alert:

"but they also have a customised easy to use UI with great big icons and tabs of related application types. easier to use than most PCs"

"XP (or even the enhanced desktop of the eee) have a standard PC-like appearance where even though the screen is bigger, it is still more difficult to use."

Sorry....but my old man who had never used a computer in his life until he retired got on fine all by himself with XP (and now Vista). He's even fancying one of these eee pc's with XP so he can use it on the move (eg holidays) with a vodafone dongle.

XP will do fine on these tiddlers and not some dumbed down interface designed by freetards, who lets face it, still haven't imagined up anything better in Gnome/KDE space (look at all the OSX/XP look alikes/wannabe's). God forbid they're let loose customising 'simpler' interfaces for the eee.

Give 'regular' users a bit more credit regarding their intelligence and tastes in UI.

Paris, 'cos she prefers 8.9" every now and again.