Posts by FreeTard
256 posts • joined Tuesday 1st July 2008 12:01 GMT
Re: More and better support for 64-bit ARM chips
My granny uses a linux laptop, and she still gets me to "program" her telly - two remotes was incredibly confusing for her 86 years.
And by "linux" she means firefox, as that is all she can use, and only with the bookmarks I added to her tool bar.
Still, it runs fedora.
Re: It is a pile of turd
Correction - I don't actually remember what the BSOD's were, so cannot say for sure if they were the same. I seem to remember the bitmap being difficult to read as it was not at all clear, but it was a freshly installed machine with all updates and no apps installed, this should not crash - since MS provided all the software.
Re: It is a pile of turd
Yes I did, and they were different BSOD's each time. The laptop has been running constantly, only using sleep mode for the pas couple of years, running various virtualisation technologies, xen, kvm, vmware workstation and also the one from SUN that the name escapes me. I managed to run lots of windows flavours on this host for testing apps and running other scenarios.
The machine has never crashed before, yet with windows 8, it would BSOD just idling. Also ran memtest86 over night and other diags. Never an issue found.
So it is not a hardware issue, is a shit OS.
It is a pile of turd
I installed a licenced copy of windows 8 pro on my thinkpad x61s, installed every update available. Installed a single app - avgfree and I had 8 BSOD's in two days.
I re-installed it, did the upgrades, installed defender instead of cvg and the BSOD's continued.
I then nuked it and put fedora18 back on.
I wanted a windows machine as I have another thinkpad and didn't really see the point in having two almost identical OSes.
Using win8 was fairly painful, as the UI makes no sense unless it is on a tablet or a telephone, so they are right to vista it. Whether I'll try blue when it comes out in another question.
Re: Mach 1.2?
Good safety record all the same, bar the one hiccup that killed it off. Concord was cool, please don't diss it.
There has never been a cooler plane, not even the military has a cooler one.
Re: Go ahead Carl Icahn
Speaking as a (minor) Dell stockholder, I couldn't disagree more. Dell have done great strides to become a great services company, I see a great future with them. If Mickey D gets to go private, I'll get my cash back, and if not then I'm keeping them for the long term.
Anyway, you are wrong. They are no longer a "PC" company, times have changed mate, look at the acquisitions they have made and look at their service offerings.
p.s.: I'm also a HP share owner, but I'll likely ditch them soon as they have seem to have made some serious fuck-ups recently.
I pity the fool
This is so going to end in tears..... time for the popcorn.
Two laws potentially broken here
One, the receipt of stolen goods - against the law in Britain, don't know about Iran.
Publishing pics and address of people without their express consent - this is a breach of the UK's privacy laws.
Both are likely now invalid since the new 'owners' offered to return it when they discovered it was pilfered and the pic poster has removed the pics from his site. However, the Daily fail still has the pics up so this one may be too late.
p.s.: That Iranian chick is quite fit.
Meh
ebooks are shite, give me a real book any day of the week. This is an entirely personal opinion of course as these kindle things seem to be very popular with both my inlaws and my dad.
My mother, kids and wife are with me though, and have zarro interest in them. Feck the trees, I'd rather pay full whack and provide the jobs and the joy of turning real pages over.
I can understand using technical books in e-format though, as there is no joy in reading them in either format, and I prefer being able to CTRL-F for strings of relevant text. But when would you ever do that for a novel?
Seriously google?
They cannot control language use, and neither can any company out there. Things like this make me think about no longer using their services. Thumbs down to you google!
Re: Why do they throw back the rest of the shark?
Indeed, the best meat I have ever eaten was baby horse in the Pyrenees. Unbelievable flavour and tender as you like - as babies tend to be no doubt. I do not know why we don't sell it over here.
Re: Fantastic!!
WTF?
You've even got it wrong mate, it would be the other way around since Israel have several hundred nukes, and Iran have none.
Still, WTF?
Arn't they lucky....
... that they didn't won real farcebook shares, as they could have lost even more money!
Re: I'll have a bloke's number 6 please
Hang about, is that not how all barbers do hair styles? Everyone I've ever been to they ask you how you want your hair cut, and then do another one entirely.
Lately I've taken to answering "meh", amazingly I've been getting the best cuts ever!
Object storage?
Caringo comes to mind.
If she wasn't so fat you mean.
Disability?
I inherited my 92 year old granny's car, and she used to say it "flew away" on her when she drove it, meaning that it would suddenly accelerate when she was trying to brake.
The first time I drove it I discovered her issue. She was a 92 year old woman.
Re: Before some of the usual suspects get too exercised may I reiterate what the article........
Redhat, Suse, VMware, Citrix, appasure and all the other middlewear stuff comes to mind.
Never mind the SAN/Networking stuff
How much income do Dell make on desktops compared to server, storage and services revenue?
I'd wager a lot...
this.LinuxUser
...purchased a dell RT at Xmas and loves it. It's a great little system for use as a fondleslab for home use.
Yes it is annoying with it's windows homegroup crap, but that aside the battery life is great, the camera is great for skype calls etc, and lastly the video is great for watching flics in bed.
As for the target market? People like me who are bored of droids?
Thanks for the downvotes :)
Re: Does it work on Linux?
Only for users of said webservers that also have the libjavaplugin linked to the browser - when's that going to happen? It's a webserver, not a workstation :)
Saying that, I only installed the javaplugin three days ago so as to use webex on my laptop, it is now disabled.
Re: Surprised Prometheus.....
+1 mate, really disappointing movie. Has Scott totally forgotten how to make a decent flic?
Alien was brill - and actually scary - Blade Runner was excellent. Even today both movies looks as fresh as you like, yet this was tripe. Why??? Too much CGI maybe?
Yer man Fassbender was truly excellent though - where did this guy come from.. every movie he's been is has been class. I'd watch it again for him alone.
Re: Battleship?
Should get an Oscar as It was well entertaining. A beeelion times better than that tripe avatar....
Yes it was totally unbelievable, but hey, its a bleedin fantasy/sci-fi movie.. get over it!
Myself and my son came out of the cinema well happy, and that is a rarity these days.
Posted in Which qualifications are worthwhile?
Do a BSc at night
I'm currently doing a BSc in IS & IT - management, project management, databases, coding along with the usual sciencey bits. Even though I have another degree, and many multiples of industry certs, I have found what I have learned so far to be of great help is my job - in IT.
One year to go for the finals and then I'll likely do an MSc in something, or another degree in yet another field (for a laugh). Sure it gets me out of the house!
If you want to advance in IT then it is a great start. Plus employers will take you more seriously.
Re: Lenovo Thinkpads are not IBM Thinkpads
I cannot speak for the newer lenovo's but the X60s & X61s's are rock solid.
Case in point - my daughter dropped BOTH of them down the stairs - from the top, yet they work fine.
I've dropped them off the coach many times, no issues. My son is a disaster zone and manages to drop things when you tell him to be careful - yet they still work flawlessly.
My daughter dropped my ibook ONCE, it died horrifically - the screen came off completely, parts across the floor - this was the same drop that the thinkpads endured with hardly a scratch.
As for Dells, I can only speak of their business range, but I am very happy with my latitude, only complaint is the screen is too big for my liking - but feck me the battery lasts long... I managed en entire day of almost constant use. That's bloody amazing for a laptop.
+1
Did the same myself, but it took me 5 months to get through all the seasons. Great show - apart from the season they were stuck in a void or whatever it was (The water starved system of planets). That season was shite enough. Loved the rest though.
Re: Trek downhill since then
Couldn't disagree more. I did enjoy voyager, but didn't really like Janeway. She was far too much Dr. Quinn for my liking. As for Enterprise, now that was an excellent show. OK series one started off a bit pants, but the rest of it was great.
Mixed feelings
I didn't like some of the actors, notably Cisco - the way he spoke just pissed me off.
Same goes for the one with the wierd nose, she was shite.
I think the entire show would have been better if they just killed that planet of moaners with the noses.
Basically the entire show was shite - although I did watch all the seasons...
Loved the Ferengi and Odo all the same.
Re: So what do you say to Microsoft
Bollox, I'm a Linux only user for the past 10+ years but this Christmas I bought a Dell XPS10 - my first windows since NT4.
I'm quite impressed with WinRT, the responsiveness is excellent, switching apps - and I launched a ton of them - was very fast. The only thing that annoyed me was the network sharing. Yes I could manually plug into to a samba share via //servername/sharename but it didn't integrate as well as expected. It wants to use something called a homegroup. I didn't bother setting it up as I couldn't be arsed.
Re: Hasn't it been done ?
Indeed.... Meego...
$ uname -a
Linux Nokia-N900 2.6.28-omap1 #1 PREEMPT Fri Aug 6 11:50:00 EEST 2010 armv7l unknown
Re: I disagree, it's the legs not the shoes
Cannot believe some eejit gave you a thumbs down. So what if your missus likes you in heels, if you get more sex out it job done. Thumbs up from me mate.
Still on LXDE
LXDE here on fedora 17, didn't actually know that gnome2 was available in fedora, cheers for that.
I probably read it wrong and it isn't. Here's hoping all the same!
I left gnome when gnome3 came out, coz it's shite.
On the plus side, my 4GB laptop has 3.odd GiB available all the time, not that it was bloaty before though.
28C on Dec 1 2012...
Great place for a temperature sensitive FAB!
Still, it's a nice place with nice people.
Re: If i upload something that i don't own
I couldn't agree more. My sister uploaded pics and a video of my baby pushing her new toy pram around the kitchen and I made her remove them. Now I'm not even on farcebook for this very reason - but how to police such things...???
You need an account to know about it, I only found out as the wife is on farcebook, but I don't let her upload pics of the kids, and the kids themselves are banned from the site.
Facebook/instagram, you're a shower of bastards.
Oh thank Jesus
Dear Jesus,
thank you for putting this bastard behind bars to get rogered for ten years. His crime was well worse than rape which you get less time for, because me putting naked pics of myself on the internets should be a safe thing to do, even though it is really childish and stupid.
Please could you fix it for me to have him killed as well, that would be great, but not until he has done at least 9 years the bastard.
Thanks in advance,
A. Celebritard.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Kate eh?
Didn't know about it till this article - I guess its because I never use KDE.
I used geany for a year or two, but ultimately I have retured to VI, or VIM X11 as of yesterday...
Think I'll give kate a try out and she how good she is.
John Macafee - not a mentalist
Totally normal behavior. Nothing to see here, it's the rest of the world that is mental.
Had a go at the launch
It's shite.
Not a fanboy
In fact, I don't even own a mobile telephone. But I have replaced an absolute shed load of them for my wife and kids. An awful lot of these smartphones seem to be quite flimsy, drop them and the screen cracks, battery life is shite etc etc.
i base this entirely on observations and having to fork out the cash for poxy new phones all the time.
My daughter has a crack across the screen of her brand new galaxy S advanced. Luckily I have it insured, but she wants to wait until she "really" breaks it before putting the claim in.
When the wife broke her 5th telephone, I sellotaped up her old broken nokia e71 and that's that.
She is "very" "happy" now, embarrassed to bejaesus mind, but meh.
The one thing that the jesus phone has going for it is that it seems to be more knock resistant.
I'm still not buying her a new one mind.
Posted in Happy birthday, Compact Disc
Re: time flies ...
> on the MD player: the Sony rep removed the disc and reinserted it without a break in the music.
Just tested that, doesn't work mate, it just plays from the start again, which would be expected I'd day.
Maybe you mean when you press pause? Coz that definitely works.
My memory of TW was the jamming, but I also seem to remember an ad on the telly with the sex pistols driving over a CD. Or did I dream that? I could google it but cannot be arsed.
Go USA milf
Bachmann for president, and Palin for vice. I'd even listen to their theocratic preachings.
I Like!
Sat BB is great
Unless you wish to use VOIP, or online gaming, and love throwing away you cash.
I suppose you could do walkie talkie type calls. Hi friend, over. Hi back, over. etc etc.
40 quid for that? I get 50Mbit for the same price here in Dublin.
Posted in Ten backpacks for tech-heads
What about us bikers?
I've found the kriega ranga to be actually waterproof, as have done long journeys with their tail units (I have a US-20 plus the side attachy bits whatever the model is) in torrential downpours - you know the type that gets your goretex kit thouroughly soked, yet opening the bags I find 100% dry clothes and laptop.
My mate has their backpack jobby and his kit was also dry. Would any of the listed bags be trustworthy in a similar downpour? i.e.: is water resistant the same as actually rain proof?
Re: Or...
What? The pi uses less than 4 watts at full tilt, and a quad-core macmini uses 85 W
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468
64 * 4 = 256 watts
4 * 85 = 340 watts
So your wrong :)
Plan to add security you mean....
As Mckinnion discovered, most machines had/have no passwords at all. This "war" was lost a long time ago....
Rectangular eh?
It seems to me that all mobile telephones are rectangular, and have rounded edges - think all the ancient Nokia telephones.. that argument should be rejected as basic functional design.
Posted in Ten phones for seniors
This is a great article.
My 62 year old mother has/is on the lookout for very, very old style Nokia phones as they are the only ones she is comfortable with - her current one is held together with gaffer tape, and the calls drop often, but she still uses it.
Same goes for my granny, I took her shopping for a new phone a few months back, and it was some struggle I'll tell you.
More of this ageism stuff please!
Re: Gold Medal to the NASA team!
It is a great achievement, but more inspirational than the Olympics? Not a chance mate.
Re: Due to lack of experience he didn't get "the jitters"!
I hear ya mate. Anytime I go near systems for which operations I have done thousands of times, and have a number of backup procedures in place - I still get the shits.
