* Posts by Havin_it

1227 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2008

Facebook simulated entire data center prior to launch

Havin_it
Alert

Of greater concern

...is that this suggests it was very possibly *built by* /b/tards.

Then again, some might argue that FB's corporate ethos and attitude to their audience has always suggested as much.

Linux kernel runs inside web browser

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Coat

All very well, but

Can it run Crysis?

All right, I'm going

CATS to be saved by BLASPHEMERS after the RAPTURE

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Paris Hilton

Perhaps I can help

I'm doing a special right now on Satanic Horde Repellent. Four cans for a fiver, ten for a tenner. Lifetime guarantee!

Also whether intentional or not, the phrase "up the heaven" is full of win. I just have an image stuck in my head now of Jesus turning up in a rickety Routemaster with a fag hanging out his mouth, saying: 'Op in then.

Will Paris be "taken up the heaven"?

'Upgraded' Apple iMacs lock out hard drive replacement

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Alert

Er

I notice this user's last 3 posts have been along these lines. Turtle, are you still a human, or have you turned into some curious sort of praise-bot?

Havin_it

Bit harsh?

>>>Oh my god, that's so innovative that I'm flabbergasted. You can actually remove covers and CHANGE the hard disc and the ram? And furthermore, there's a PIECE OF PAPER that tells you how to do it? Perhaps it even has a diagram showing you which end of the screwdriver to hold?

Well, personally I've never come across a laptop that came with teardown instructions. Is that common?

Boffins herald end of stiff screens

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Welcome

And... Problem?

As far as I'm concerned, we cannot call ourselves an advanced civilisation until everything is soft and wobbly enough that we can all just throw ourselves around the place with gay abandon while engaged in any other activity, without getting hurt. We can spend all day zorbing without the big polythene ball, and amidst such mass ecstasy man will never care to make war again.

Goodyear blimps to be replaced by German Zeppelins

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Coat

In The Light of this news...

It was a real Heartbreaker when Zeppelins fell out of favour as mass transport. Like a Custard Pie in the face, really, and left me with a Black Dog upon me for a long time, as I'd had a Whole Lotta Love for them. Even so, I couldn't help thinking: Your Time Is Gonna Come. And now, just when that belief had almost been Trampled Under Foot forever, You Shook Me with this news. Hot Dog! I can hardly believe it, I thought I must be Dazed And Confused for a moment, but after chewing through Four Sticks of gum I accept that this is no Communication Breakdown. This is a real Celebration Day for Darlene and I, and though our Dancing Days Are Over, I suspect We're Gonna Groove tonight. I look forward immensely to the future, Good Times, Bad Times or whatever may come, and the first Night Flight will be exciting (as long as they don't fly it into The Ocean or a Black Mountain Side, and it doesn't Rock And Roll too much). Will one be Going To California? I'm Gonna Crawl to see one In My Time Of Dying if necessary, or more likely drive out to the airfield in The Rover, even if it's Over The Hills And Far Away - hell, Kashmir wouldn't be too far for me. Anyway, I could Ramble On all day in this fashion, but I expect it's becoming Wearing And Tearing, and I'll get No Quarter if I don't pack it in soon. Good article, Reg. Thank You.

Oracle U-turns on Hudson open source control

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Open/LibreOffice, Take 2

This development seems much like a retread of what's happened with OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice so far: Larry gets heavy, the community forks taking everything but the name, gains momentum rapidly, then Larry panics and sticks the original out on the porch.

The OpenOffice U-turn happened weeks ago, and we've heard sod all to suggest any reunification is likely (please correct me if you know better, I'm not widely read). The forkers seem quite happy with the new position they've arrived at, and probably aren't ready to believe that Larry's shenanigans are at an end yet.

I'd be happy enough to see OOo/LibO reunify (make life a lot easier from the advocacy point of view), but only on the Document Foundation's terms, not Larry's. LibO is already benefiting from its escape from corporate heavy-handedness in the development process, and I'd hate to see them backslide on that.

Although I haven't used and know little about Hudson/Jenkins, I hope the same for them too.

Facebook fails webmail tests

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Coat

Who did the research?

No, Who is the president of China*. Which? did the research.

(Or is it When? I forget)

The one with the Little Red Book in the pocket, ta.

Oracle subpoenas Apache in search of Google smoking gun

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Headmaster

Godwin

I hope you were expecting more comments in before yours, 'cause you just Godwinned (Godwon?) far earlier than is seemly even when discussing Crazy Larry.

Icon: lose the hat, thin down the 'tache a bit...

Seagate to unveil 'perfect iPad companion'

Havin_it

Perfect ipad companion?

A hammer?

Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?

Havin_it
Pirate

That explains everything

The SEAL team were actually in the employ of UbiSoft.

Pakistani IT admin leaks bin Laden raid on Twitter

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Coffee/keyboard

Pffffffft

For some reason I now really really want to touch /bin/laden.

Maybe I could put a shellscript there that tells me when my Wastebasket is full...

Havin_it

Hmmm

Not convinced this is going to change anything much tbh. It might be "one in the eye" for al-Qaeda but I'm sure they have equally clever types waiting in the wings.

Unfortunate that they couldn't take him alive ... that, and chucking his body overboard hours later, are sure to delight the conspiracy theorists and could even add a new dimension to his "legend".

Now's when I need that :| icon.

Mozilla answers Google's Crankshaft with IonMonkey

Havin_it

Well, it's simple.

Once they have enough monkeys, they start buying typewriters. Soon the results will be torturing English Lit students up and down the country.

The Sandy Bridge Hackintosh

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WTF?

This

This threw me a bit too. Is the author saying that when an SSD fails you can reliably still read its contents, without dedicated hardware or limited-availability software of any kind? Some better explanation of this point would be most welcome.

MySpace bids expected this week

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Terminator

Tila Tequila of Facebook?

I believe Zuckerbitch kept that position in-house. They even made a movie.

Icon: Celebrity boy-droid

Calling all readers: Want some new icons?

Havin_it

RE: Facepalm

I'd prefer *HEADDESK*, more visual.

Fast-fingered oldster relieves shop worker of iPhone cash

Havin_it

"...flat black cap and blue shirt."

You sure it wasn't blue and white stripes? Perhaps accompanied by a mask and large sack with SWAG written on it?

Scottish news site hit by 'DDoS attack' in run-up to elections

Havin_it
Headmaster

Are you trying to say...

"Saor Alba"?

If you must spout Gaidhlig in these pairts, do try to get it right, tapadh leibh awfully. That percussive sound you just heard was a million^H^H^H^Hhundred^H^H^H^Hdozen^H^H^H^Hcouple of teuchters facepalming.

(I agree with your post though. Apologies if the mangling was deliberate)

XXX domain names go live

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FAIL

RE: easier than that

Incorrect. Wildcards don't work in the Windows HOSTS file (nor the Linux one either for that matter).

GNOME 3: Shocking changes for Linux lovers

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@E 2

"This is a problem because (for example) I still cannot set the task bar to be a nice easy to read low key non-shiny light grey color with black font. I find the KDE4 black task bar hard to read - which genius dictated that such ergonomic details were not important to end-users?"

What distro are you using? The default KDE theme (I assume it's default, I'm on Gentoo and haven't changed anything) has had a pale-grey (or translucent) taskbar with black text for the last couple of versions (currently on 4.6.2).

US Army inks $66m deal for Judge Dredd smart-rifles

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Grenade

'sokay

We can still claim it, most of the writers and half the artists on Punisher in recent years have been British ;)

And the last guy to play him on film was British IIRC, though not much in that mess to be proud of :(

Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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WTF?

lolWHUT?

Purple is GHEY? Who's going to break this to Prince? Rather you than me!

I'm mystified by your colour-sexuality thesis, but just to run with it for a minute, what then is the sexual orientation of the old brown livery?

WTF is... 3D printing

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Terminator

BAAAD idea

Icon should say it all.

Dunno why some miserable twunt downvoted you though - humour in short supply today is it?

Middle England chokes on Nice Baps

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He'd be OK in Edinburgh

...where nobody in the Old Town raised an eyebrow when a chap renamed his gift shop to The Mutt's Nuts. And that's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, don'tcha know.

O2 tariff rejig bundles tethering with data

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Alert

Clarification

Article seems to suggest you get no data access at all on the basic tariffs, which isn't true: you get metered data usage with the cost capped at £1 a day. Worth being aware of for those who only occasionally need/want access to t'internet via the phone.

And tethering? Meh, JoikuSpot always worked for me ;)

Fukushima: Situation improving all the time

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Thumb Up

Hyper Rescue and Super Pump Truck

I love Japan.

That is all.

Pervasive encryption: Just say yes

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Thumb Down

yeahbuhWHAT?

"After finding the enrichment-inducing 69p that someone dropped on the floor, the bored till-jockey stuffs it into his pocket and continues watching pr0n."

There, fixed that for ya.

If you have (a) wifi turned on at all on a machine that lives "in the back room", (b) a fucking LAPTOP in this role to begin with, and (c) employees you characterise as so untrustworthy yet still allow them unfettered and unmonitored read, let alone write, access to any sensitive data whatsoever, then you may as well pack it in now.

By now even the most piddling of small businesses (the kind I'm sure you are stereotyping here, for whom IT is a burden and nobody cares as long as it "just works" or they can call someone when it doesn't) have had PCI DSS rammed up their arses to such extent that pleading ignorance of the concepts of data security just will not wash any more.

Havin_it
Boffin

A more salient point might be

That there is no such thing as a ten-year-old MacBook, as they only came out in 2006!

Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close

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Headmaster

Pernickety ... and wrong

The judiciary doesn't own the word "fine". In fact most of the "fines" you encounter in day-to-day life (parking, library etc) are not judicially enforced unless a case is brought over non-payment.

Wi-Fi security befuddles clueless home users

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Unhappy

2 in 5

I wish the ratio was that good around my local, the airwaves there are locked up tighter than a nun's ch-

astity belt.

Teen charged for Facebook birthday hoax that drew 200,000

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Pint

So...

When's the party?

Nah, I don't need the address, I'll just follow the sound of sirens and popping teargas launchers.

From Scotland.

Intel: 'We ate McAfee to slip security into silicon'

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Flame

Oh tremendous

Try uninstalling it now, sucker!

I can only assume this is the work of some subversive anti-determinist movement within Intel trying to invalidate Moore's Law by making each successive processor perform half as well as the last.

Kill it! Kill it with fire!

Site-saving workers evacuated from Japanese reactor disaster

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Balls...

If I were working at a nuke plant I'd have drained them and frozen some long ago, just in case.

True sentiment though. Even back when I was a kid and the Kobe quake happened, I remember thinking "The Japanese have been through more apocalyptic shit than pretty much any country/area their size - they must be the hard(i)est bastards around by now." After this week I think that lead is unassailable.

HP uncloaks wristwatch 'aggregation point'

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Boffin

Not necessarily

Plenty of existing watches are powered by regular bodily movement; I'm sure the form-factor could support a 3G wifi router, groupware server and streaming media centre with realtime video chat.

You'd just need to remember to oscillate your wrist vigorously every couple of minutes, which shouldn't be an issue for anyone who actually wants one of the things.

Icon: I'm now blind

Google insists it couldn't have been British. Excuse me?

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Coffee/keyboard

Metaphor Police, nobody move

"...the elephant in the room ... is the 800lb gorilla."

I always wondered why they'd never been photographed together.

Thanks Andrew, that made my day.

Discovery poised for final mission

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Terminator

That is one badass-looking robot.

If it were silver not gold, it'd be pretty close to a Cylon tin-can. And the glowing finger-joints: Electro-nux(TM)? The Spartan-looking helmet and white (otherwise rather pointless shurely) space-jerkin do make it look kinda heroic though, so fingers crossed.

Also, is this the last Discovery mission or the last Shuttle mission full-stop? Request for clarification.

Man admits hacking into NASA, e-commerce servers

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Oblig.

Now let's see how easily them damn Yankees get him extradited across the Mason-Dixon...

Obama in private confab with Jobs, Zuckerberg, Schmidt

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IT Angle

What's telling is who's absent...

In particular, Gates or Ballmer. How times change...

RoboCop statue fundraiser hits $50k

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Stop

Best thing to happen to Detroit?

I think Berry Gordy might disagree with you there...

Icon: ...in the name of love

FOSS maven says $29 'Freedom Box' will kill Facebook

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Pint

Forget the box

Not sure why the "box" has to be part of the offering TBH. I suppose it's nice (and probably necessary for most of the technofear crowd) to get the whole thing as a turnkey appliance, but I'd hope that the software will be readily available for install on other hardware. Some of us already have always-on devices that would do the job just as well. As others have mentioned, this is pretty much what Diaspora, and that Peerbook thing that sadly sank without trace were getting at.

I guess there'd be a homogeneity angle: one user, one box, with the same spec in capacity and grunt, contributing the same and getting the same in return. But then again, parity in connectivity is impossible (for the foreseeable future in the current consumer comms world) so all boxes cannot be equal anyway. What if the peer (or, I assume, peers) housing your data nuggets all happen to be housed on boxes that are on dialup, or in the home of a massive bandwidth-hog?

Dr Moglen, if you can pull it off, this pint's for you.

Boffin breakthrough doubles Wi-Fi speed

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Boffin

I'm no engineer but...

I'd have thought the point here is that the noise-reduction doesn't have to be done by the hardware, but rather takes advantage of a natural phenomenon so that work is done for it. That has to be an economical approach, dunnit?

As for receiver positioning, the unit's own receiver has to be precisely positioned (at the, uh, nexus(?) of the two signals) to take advantage of the destructive interference, so surely that's true throughout the broadcast area: there's just a precise beam (or is it a plane?) in either direction perpendicular to the two transmit antennae where the same effect occurs (i.e. where the wavefronts hit each other). Much easier to avoid than to hit, I would think, but I took 2 years to get my Higher Physics, so I'm ready to be re-educated ;)

Sex offenders will get a review – after 15 years

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Headmaster

Really need to be sure of your shit before grammar-Naziing

You missed:

MP's => MPs

aught => ought

sex offenders register => Sex Offenders' Register

Knife-waving knob nabs fat stack of jazz mags

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Coat

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH! (Dummmm, Dum Da-Dum)

Had to be done.

Card surcharges face super-complaint

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Stop

GodDAMNIT!

That was a considered and illuminating post, but you ruined it with that bit of ad-speak (I can't even repeat it) and NOW YOU MUST DIE.

Can I entreat you to please issue a "meerkat warning" at the top of your posts so we can try to avoid looking at the last line?

Oracle spurns Ruby devs for Java love

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Alert

^This!

I dearly hope they don't go down the same road with the PHP support, which has really flourished in a short period and made NB my PHP editor of choice. It's the only one I've tried yet that handles a script containing PHP, HTML, JS and CSS without the features you want from a full-fat editor (completion, folding, syntax highlighting) crapping out on one or all of the above. Autoformat templates are dead easy to hack on too, to accommodate my personal style quirks. It's also faster than anything else I've used on find-in-files and class/namespace completion in large projects, even on a measly 1st-gen Atom.

I tried to like Eclipse, but it was too much effort just to glue together the right grab-bag of components for my desired workflow (and keep them glued through upgrades) - life's too short.

If this behaviour starts to look like snowballing, I sincerely hope there will be enough committed developers to fork it. Oracle must be getting used to it by now ;)

Single complaint sparks police raid and total ban on rental movie

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FAIL

RE: advacting?

Dude, you had "some what", "tounge", "arguement", "destrying", "industies", "completly" and "in the vain of..." to choose from and you singled that out?

@ph0b0s, no offense; I don't grammar-Nazi any more (well, only at the Reg journos and copy-editors who are paid for their command of language) but I hate to see someone else doing a half-hearted job of it ;)

O2 to fling out free Wi-Fi for all

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Heart

Good article

Gets closer to the real detail than any of the other articles I've seen this morning. Well done on not just parroting the press-release.

Still two questions though:

(A) Will the spamming be in the form of SMS/MMS to the authed phone, or injected into web content via the inevitable proxy that your wifi traffic will go through?

(B) How easy will it be to reassign your number to a different device? (It must be possible, what with mobes being short-lived things.)

Aussies demand Poms cough up first 'Australia' map

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Pirate

Why don't they just

pay tribute to their founding fathers, and nick it?

*ducks*