Posts by Khaptain
991 posts • joined Sunday 4th May 2008 07:29 GMT
Re: Smiling and shuddering...
Nostalgia Zombieman, pure nostalgia.
At that time I was learning how to do Hooks and Chains in Assembler in order to intercept the file read and write routines , Int 13h, AH=02 or Int 13h,AH=03 . I won't go into the details of why, lol.. Lets just say it was a very interesting period.
I seem to remeber that Softice was very popular during that period.....
It was back when IT was fun.
Re: Really?
It also assumes that the user would actually have knowledge of the current/ future systems. Apart from the Tech Savvy very few people are capable of distinguishing between version of OS's.
I asked someone one day which Operating System they have on their work computer and they answered "MS Word I think"....... This came from someone with a degree and who was by no means an idiot.....just a little clueless on IT.
The questions in this survey were really twisted....
Re: Hmmm
@Magister
<quote>Some IT people (and business managers) take the view that staff will have to accept the company view or go elsewhere; guess what, they will move on.</quote>
Have you ever tried to understand why IT or Management might take that approach ?
And I think you might be surpised at how many people are in the position make the decision "to move on" just because they couldn't BYOD..... Would you really refuse a job because of that ???'
Re: the World Bank's slogan
That all depends on whether you mean as a percentage of the current population or as a whole number and also how you define poverty ......
In 1980 there were approx 4.4 Billion people on the earth of which approx 850 Million hungry people.
In 2011 there were approx 7 Billion people on the earth of which approx 925 Million hungry people
The actual Percentage figure is dropping but the actual number of hungry people is still rising. Is that what you call doing pretty well.....
Percentages mean nothing when you don't know if you will be able to eat today.
* Figures : Worldhunger.org
Pussy
Why don't they call it Pussy, everybody loves a good pussy.
Yet another hack at pushing BYOD.
<Quote from Forrester>"
"But we do expect that employees will force IT to have a formal support policy for Windows 8 for employee-owned devices. Windows 8 will accelerate BYOD demand. "
So we have now decided that the only way to make changes in a company is to use a back door/low level trick of getting the employees to "override" the upper management decisions - because the employees "want" to bring in their own devices !!!!!!!!.
Some problems here :
* The employees don't hold the purse strings.
* The employees don't generally understand the importance of budgets.
* Employees will look no futher than the end of their noses.
* The employees do not have to support Device X, Y, Z etccc...
* Companies buy devices in order to get jobs done, not to simply please their employees.
* An employeee bringing their own material probably won't bring it for the purposes of working.
and finally
* Employees are just that - Employees.
Side note : The term "employees" is used in the Non Management, Non Decision making kind of employee.
Who profits from BYOD, probably not the company and definately not the employee. Therefore, this push of BYOD is stemming from whom exactly, the manufacturers, Microsoft, Gartner et al ?
It would be more interesting to ask the employees:
* Would you like to bring you own devices to work : 90% would reply Yes.
* Would you like to bring you own devices to work for work purposes : 5% might reply Yes.
The <ul>majority</ul> of employees probably want to BYOD for their own purposes, Facebook, Twitter et al.. There probably are one or two that have a genuine requirement but it may be more advisable for them to simply change job if the correct material is not being supplied.
Posted in Housewife iPhone mules on trial in China
Re: Visions of a cavity search
That is maybe the real reason for them having rounded corners....
The World Fucking Bank
The World Bank has one goal - TO MAKE ITSELF RICHER.......
* A poor man will go to jail for stealing in order to feed himself.
* A banker will steal for "greed" and then we allow him to buy another Porsche/Yacht/Luxury item.
I am not advocating a communist society but it has become extremely vague where capitalism is heading.
Re: Windows Explorer, my excuse......
And you are probably running the a 386dx and understand the following lines
DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:123
Seriously though, there are some nice keyboards today and the windows key is actually really damned usefull...
Shame that my Thinkpad never had one
or alternatively for the Linux Ladies
xev | gawk '/keycode/{if($0!=l)printf "0x%x\n",$4;l=$0;}'
( et voila you have thewindows key)
Re: Windows Explorer
Honestly there is no excuse for not learning the shortucts for basic system commands
Win = Start Menu
Win + E = Windows Explorer
Win + R = Run
Win + D = Show the Desktop
These are just the basic everday shortcuts using the Windows Key..... The start menu has its role but the shortcuts should not be forgotten,,,,, I try and teach them to all of our staff, they have a complete list though, especially the Ctrl+X,C,V,F,A,Z which are highlighted and in bold ( ctrl+b).......
Re: Typo in my post - Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?
I presume you also meant "etymology"....
Re: It's a moot point, not a mute point.
Mute, moot : I didn't even give it a second thought, my English has gone way down hill......
Lol, when i see the number of mistakes that I have made in that last post, ouchhh.
Re: Ubuntu is not a UI
With Linux it is often difficult to discern what the term OS really means - Linux itself is the Kernel. And most people confuse "Linux" as being an OS, it is not.
The Linux Kernel takes care of the various IO requests, disk read and write and memory management etc. Personally I find it difficult not to consider this as being the OS, after all it is doing all of the operating.
Obviously at the kernel does not provide a UI, nor a compiler, nor the miriad of other programs that we need to successfully make a machine usefull. This I believe is where the border lies as to what constitues an OS.
Ubuntu is a layer around the kernel, Ubuntu does not do memory management , disk write/reads or process IO commands. It merely provides a connection to the Kernel in order that these tasks can be performed. Can it therefore be considered an OS. Just as any other distros......
It is a mute point that could be argued forever but I want to at explain my reasoning behind "Ubuntu is an UI".
PS ( Yes, I agree that the kernel on its own would not be able to do very much)
The article fails to mention WHY
The fact that one distro over another in secondary in relation to WHY.
What does Ubuntu Server improve on or offer that the others don't ?
Ubuntu is a UI, I don't understand why Apache, Mysql would really care about the front end of the OS.
Is it just because the newbies have been fed on Shuttleworth marketing or is there a real reason ....
Nothing better to do
This war has been going on and of for many years; in its current form since 1948....
I get the feeling that Anonymous have very little idea about what is really going on in Israel/Palestine. If they did
1 : They would not be so stupid as to attack Israel who has some of the most technologically aware teams that exist today.
2 : The Palestinians can easilly live without the Internet, they are more worried about Food and Water than being able to Tweet. They are a hardy people with nothing left to lose, they are not a bunch off script kiddies sitting in front of computer screens with nothing better to do than pretend to be the International Internet Law Enforcement Group.
Anonymous is becoming synonymous with Kids with No Ideas or Purpose. What talent they have/once had is slowly disappearing into nothingness..... The original members of Anonymous must be embarrased about what the ideal has become..
Re: Definately a Friday afternoon article
Sphincter control mastery is not a subject that we see to often on El Reg... I am not sure that it is a very common subject outside of the proctologists cabinet....
Ok those that practice their Kegels regulary might occasionaly give it a crossing thought but probably not for the same reason....
Re: @ symbol_soup
And that is only the Australian men, the women can be worse...
Artificial increase maybe
Have these shares been artifically increased by any chance, the brokers need the shares to be traded regardless of whether the price goes up or comes down ?
Just a supposition.
Posted in Pollster predicts mega UK smart TV sales
Doesn't make much sense really
The interwebs are more often than not a personal affair. I generally don't spend "internet" time hunched around a screen with other prople. The fact of the matter is that is very difficult to agree on what site/theme/video that everyone wants to watch/google etc..... The web is "Interactive" and usually requires a fair bit of reading which involves being quite close to the screen. ( Close is a relative term and YMMV)
TV on the other hand is a lot less "interactive", it is a Couch Potato medium that can be enjoyed by several people at a time. It usually involves very little reading and in general is viewed from a distance of 1 - 4 metre or more.
From my personal point of view, ( I don't own a television but have done in the past) the two mediums are very different cups of tea and as such are not really "compatible" from a physical/group effort/ collective point of view.
Desktop boxes already provide a large selection of useless interfaces, will the web really bring anything anymore usefull...
All of this seems more like consumerism than requirement.
Can't imagine that success will be easy
Star wars IV, V and VI were relatively well scripted films which were at the technical forefront when they were released. We quickly identified with the actors, the humour and the desire to understand how the Universe could be saved from impending destruction.
Star wars I, II and III never seemed to hit of on any of the aformentioned points. They were simply "bland" in comparison , they felt contrived and wearying.
Disney now has to the challenge of trying to avoid falling into the same trap of Franchise Produced Efforts. The fact that they now own the rights will definately not garauntee them anything.
I truly hope that they spend more money on script writers than effects, that the actors know how to act and that the series will not become destined for the "younger" generations or try to cover up poor production/direction/storyline with the use of 3D effects .
Disney, if anyone , should have the talent available , let's hope they put it to good use .
Posted in Samsung readies bendy smarties for 2013
Not such a bad idea
I "presume" it makes themn less breakable and possibly more wear resistant.
They will also adapt better when in your pocket, most notably the front jeans pocket... I know the idea is a gimmick but wait until we see what the bofins will eventually manage to integrate them into, could be interesting.
Definately a Friday afternoon article
Are they also noise absorbant ?
Long term bet
And for how long does everyone expect this to continue for Apple? Steve Jobs was the figurehead of a very successful company. Tim Cook is most certainly not a figurehead. The driving force behind Apple is gone and I beleive that we will soon start to feel the change.
6000 today, 3000 tommorrow and then we close shop.
Porn Capital Recruitement
The United States is the largest producers of Porn in the world.
American College girls have lots of sex.
Can we conclude therefore that it is the colleges that are behind the Sex Industry......
No wonder everyone wants to go to college.....
Hang on a moment
This is bad news, Sinofsky will be replaced by Larson-Green. Shit, this is the woman that was reponsable for Program Management, UI and Research. Well, we all know what her research into UI did, TIFKAM ring a bell anyone.
Now we are going to have the Monkey Balmer being seconded someone that probably appears to be a little bit "confused".
Share prices will take a hit, Balmer will blame Larson-Green. Larson -Green will follow Sinofsky and Ballmer replaces yet another chief bod..... There is a connecting element in the affair but the sweaty chair throwing monkey always remains in the same place..
Maybe it is time that the Shareholders stepped in a removed Ballmer once and for all. He must have some good qualities but once thing is for sure, we never get to see any of them.
Re: No Price Rise For Linux
@AlbertH
I can agree with some of what you are saying but reading this and some of the other comments I would like to know how and why you think
linux admins are free or cheap : wrong ( All staff cost money)
linux admins do not need training : wrong ( we all need training and it all costs money)
linux sytems need to be updated : correct ( Yes Linux systems need to be updated like all other systems in the world and systems updates cost money.).
Linux has no bugs : wrong ( The kernel might be relatively bug free but all software has bugs and bugs cost money to fix)
Linux has not security problems : wrong ( All systems have security problems and most of them come from the inside and yes, they also cost a lot of money.)
Linux desktops offer the same of more than MS for free: Wrong ( The users still need training and MS are an industry standard, Linux has no real standards, there are various flavors of the day but that can change real quick in the Linux world. Ubuntu is popular today, it might be Mint tommorrow. Libre office today, Star office tommorrow, Gnome today, KDE tommorrow- Companies can't afford to keep up to date with the bleeding edge. .
I am not saying that MS is any better than Linux or vice versa, both have their qualities, what I am saying is that both systems cost money. Redhat Enterprise support is not free, and we are beginning to see more and more Linux houses requiring funds, these funds have to be paid for by someone, and it almost always means that the corporates will be doing the paying.
Linux is an alternative system but it is not free......
I have been "playing " with various Linux distros for about 20 years or so now, my first distro was Yggdrasil. I know of the advantages and disadvatanges of linux but even after 20 years it still hasn't produced a decent desktop and thats where the real test lies. There are probably 30 or 40 end users for every server, if you want to make an impact you have got to grab the Desktop market not the server market......
( PS: I don't count Android as Linux because only Google can make any real changes which is a shame because it is the best Linux distro out there..........)
<End of Rant>
Posted in Coffee next on climate chopping-block
Welcome to the future
As stock markets begin to lose their capacity to generate income, the investors will flock whole heartily to the last remaining garaunteed sourece of revenue, commodites.
I believe that in the very near future elements such as Sugar, Food Grains, Coffee, Rice etc will become the true gold. In order to increase their values a thousand excuses will suddenly become valid and all in order to make the resources "scarce".........
The "climate" boys will tell us about increasing droughts hence the lack of Grain.
The "climate" boys will tell us about increasing rough seas, lost cargos, hence the lack of Rice.
The "warmongers" will tell us about political problems in south Amercia and hence a lack of sugar..
ad infinitum.....
Re: No Price Rise For Linux
We have in the region of 256 servers within the data centre and anywhere between 10 and 60 servers in the satellites offices spread throughout the world.
Take a guess which OS is not all of these servers, and no Linux is not one of them....
You belong to the poor crowd of IT that still believes that Microsoft is incapable of creating a decent server OS or DB, sorry to inform you but you are wrong.
On top of that I wont even bother to mention the number of desktops within our organisation and again Linux is on none of them. We are not a dedicated MS house it's just that they provide the tools and OS that get the job done in relation to our requirements.
Your belief in what can't be done will definately limit your capacity to what can be done......
I will repeat that the cost of the Software is nothing compared to all of the other elements that must be factored in ......
Re: No Price Rise For Linux
Licencing costs are only part of the equation and can never be judged on their own.
Support, userbase, usability, industry standards, shelf life, customer requirements, in house training and knowledge, staff replacement, hosting, compatibility are to name a few other "thoughts" before using/moving to open source.
There is a hell of a lot of software within industry that simply has no Open Source alternative or viable solutions.
If Linux truly presented a solution to business, they would already be using it. Software costs are usually spread out over 3 - 5 year periods and as such are not a very large line in a budget. Staff costs, hardware and projects developement on the other hand can really blow a budget to pieces.
Re: Porn for the Yanks
"Esther Rantzens' bathroom"
I forgot to mention that the visit was whilst she was using it .
Ruggedised Panasonic laptops
I believe that most enterprises and SMEs are NOT using "Ruggedised Panasonic laptops" within the workplace.
These Panasonic Laptops ( I presume that they are the C2 Versions) have something the most people at work don't have TOUCH SCREENS.
W8 was built for use with Touch Interfaces and people that like Social Networking.
It's a bit like showing off what the latest Military Amphibious Vehicule can do at a 4*4 conference. It looks great but no one is going to rush out and buy one, 1st they are not readilly available, they are costly and serve no real purpose on a daily basis..
Porn for the Yanks
I reckon that the real reason for the condoms is the fact that the film studios are simply shit scared of being sued by the actors.
In any event if you want good porn, there is no point in watching the Yankee stuff, European is the way to go, and if you want real hardcore or just plain disgusting its definately going to be German ( they can get real weird.)
Faffing about with Condoms is about as exciting as visting Esther Rantzens' bathroom.
We know that they have lots of data but
Who are the people buying this shit.
On Tuesday morning at 08:00, George, a 20 year old student from London, stated that he liked eating lemons whilst watching morning television
On Tuesday morning at 08:02, Michael, one of Georges friends, a 23 year old unemployed bricklayer from Berkleyshire, clicked on a button named "Like" in reponse to Georges amazing revelation.
What kind of people buy this kind of information. George and Michael are probably representive of "Nothing".
Do FB just try and hope that their Data Mining techniques will eventually pull up statistiques that might eventually be usefull to a possible startup that is attempting to bring another useless product into the market. Are the major companies also buying into this shit ?
Honestly who is paying good money to analyse what facebook users are doing.
It is so f/****cking sad that FB even exists never mind people buying data from Zuck and Co.
It makes my skin crawl when I look at what society is becoming. The governments don't even need to try and herd the sheep into a corner they are doing it all their own.
Why is there no Angry icon.....
Re: Anyone checked their servers?
I would be suprised to learn that the images were not being intercepted why else would they make such an app.
<--- Big brother probably is watching
I just dont get it
Who belongs to this demographic of people of wanting to bring their own very expensive Mac hardware into a corporate environment ?
I have worked in SMEs on and of for 15 years, I now work for a very large corporate structure and never have I heard anyone asking to bring in or use their own material. All of my companies have always supplied everything that is necassary for the employees.
Please enlighten us as to who all of the people are!
Everytime I hear a BYOD arguement I try to imagine who or what is behind the "sales pitch".......
Walk round the office
After the usual "we are the greatest", "we take everything very seriously"," come work for us" drivel that the interviewee spouted at me, we went for a quick tour of the offices.
I asked if I could see the server room, wooooowwwwww.... There was carpet on the floor, no, not antistatic carpet or special office carpet, just the normal synthetic "static producing" carpet and the servers were held not in a rack, they just sat on the carpeted floor. I was afraid to move, I could just feel the static building up under my feet as we "shuffled" round the back of the machines.........
The interview didn't last long afterwards with this "Very Serious" company. Yes the walk round the office is definately important...
Posted in Tiny Ubi Android machine pre-orders open
Re: What people?
Sorry to annonce this but machines do not possess intelligence, they merely possess small quantities of logic.
If the logic is not complete enough to understand your vocal commands then blame the programmer not the machine.
It really is very important to understand the difference......
Do it the American way
Send the local sheriff round and get him to "Pop a Cap" in the offending piece of hardware.......
Sidekicks
Garry MCKinnon as one of deranged sidekicks, Kim Dotcom as the other....
Consensus - Are you Swedish
I hereby downvote myself for not being Swedish and hence incapable of understanding a single word from the YT vid.
Thanks ElReg, that was about as useful as being RickRolled.
Waterboarding
That last image looks a lot like the American method used for "Data Extraction".
I wonder what's worse , Waterboarding or accidentaly activating TIFKAM.
Not a Thinkpad
Thinkpads are synonymous with quality, durability and usability, this is just way of the mark.
I have a 6 year old T43p at home that is still used daily, 14" matte screen, 1400*1024 resolution with 2 Gb of ram and it runs W7 like a dream. ( I have changed the disk twice and the charger twice though.)
I have dropped it several times, its a little scraped and bashed up but the keyboard still functions like new and it is a wonderfull machine to work on.
I really dont beleive that this "Non Thinkpad" will live up to the same abuse.. ( Ok I paid a lot more for the T43p but it is a true Thnikpad).
Underwhelming.
Not really easy to understand the intended market
Apple appear to be saturating their own market.
Re: What is the market that MS are aiming for ?
Oops that should read.
Professionals do NOT need tablets
Re: What is the market that MS are aiming for ?
"BUT THE MAJORITY of users do not care about running office on a tablet."
I admit to going of on the wrong tangent after making this remark. The point of the matter was the most folks who already possess a tablet only have one for consumption and not for creation , hence the remarks concerning Youtune and Angry Birds.
Office will not be enough to change the minds of those that already have a tablet or a considering upgrading.
There are a minor few that use tablets for professional reasons but again they are not being used for creation, its more "look at my new Powerpoint" ( which weas created on their PC or Portable).
My whole point is based on the fact that Professionals do need tablets as they do not fill in the same role as a portable does/can. I can spend a whole week using just my portable, I would hate to try and spend a whole week with nothing but a tablet ( even if it did have a keyboard/mouse).
MS are pushing their strategy towards tablet computing but I do not believe that the professional world requires/want it and the Public at Large definately don't Need what MS has to offer, some might want it but that's all.
The MS solution does not have the Shiny Shiny that Apple does nor does it have the Freetard/Lowcost/Flexibility that the Green Bot has.
What is the market that MS are aiming for ?
Apple created a tablet that the Shiny Shiny crowd just love for watching Youtube and playing Angry Birds etc without then having to a tech genius - A very successful project.
Google invented the Android platform for the Non Shiny Shiny crowd who love it because it allows them to watch youtube and play angry birds.- It also gave the techies a great new toy to play with - A very successful projet.
Up until here there is a small relation between the two platforms. ( Youtube and Angry Birds is a clue)
RIM, HP - Lets not speak about them -they have failed for the moment.
Microsoft will bring out a new tablet that will allow you to do the same as the other two ( Apple and Google) but that in certain conditions ( Intel not ARM) allow you to also run MS Office.
BUT THE MAJORITY of users do not care about running office on a tablet. I have various office applications on my android Tablet and Phone and honestly it is a PITA using them for this purpose, everything is very fiddly. OK with a keyboard and a mouse things become easy but I don't carry a keyboard and mouse around in my pocket/bag, it would defeat the purpose of having a tablet in the first place.
So in others words the only advantage that the MS platform truly has, MS Office, is a non event. Most of the "commonn people" don't actually require the need to edit Word docs, Excel sheets and macros or Powerpoint slides on the go. That market is tiny compared to the Shiny Shiny / Green Bot Crowd and there is no way that the coporates will supply a tablet for anymore that 2% of its workforce.
I just don't see why the majority would ever be swayed towards the MS platform, they are already seem happy with what they currently have.
Quote Yoda : Tiles, a platform, does not make.....
MS are a huge Marketing machine, they will not fail in this project but I do not for a moment believe that they will achieve anywhere near the market percentages that they are hoping for.
Posted in Apple iPod Nano 7G review
Re: Missing from the review.....
Toxteth - I am sure you would agree that simply printing the specs has no relation to a worthwhile review.
Battery life figures mean nothing on a spec sheet, it would be better to have real world figures ? all that El Reg did was quote the specs.
Connectivity : Bluetooth - Which versions are catered for ?
Radio : Did anyone even turn it on ?
You catch my drift.
Posted in Apple iPod Nano 7G review
Re: Missing from the review.....
This is an Apple product, it has nothing to do with Audio Quality or technical specifications. It's all about how "Shiny Shiny" the item is.
Thinness is far more important than Sound.
Colour is far more important than battery life.
The amazing Home Button is far more important than transfer speeds or connectivity.
What worries me more is the point at which El Reg have arrived at becoming Shills for Apple........ El Reg no longer do technical, now its all about Marketing.
Dear El Reg , please remind us how much of a kickback you guys get for all the Apple advertising.
Net Income was down to 2.97 Billion.........
The 1st paragraph is written as though there is major disruption in the Force.
FFS they made a profit of 2.97 Billion in a 3 month period and thats to be considered as bad news......
