Posts by The Fuzzy Wotnot

Can they come back again?

I found my parent's house, I must have been visiting when Big G went past as my car was parked outside. The odd thing was that when you look from one angle the car is there, when you "turn around" in the view, my car is missing. I can only assume they didn't simply upload the pictures as is, they must do something when they blend them.

Could they come back to my house again please as I was out and would like appear in person, just get my 15 mins as it were?

I quite like StreetView, it's been very useful for planning my photography trips as I can find really useful places to park in town streets!

Stop worrying

Why worry, I'm sure Wikileaks will have a copy up very soon!

FFS! "Caving runts", the lot of them!

If those were the important bits, I dread to think what the rest of it was like! A serious snooze-fest by the sounds of it!

Indeed...

Yep, we have no idea how to explain the fact that the priests cannot keep their hands off the alter boys private bits...hmmmm....hey I know, we have this ready made excuse that no one can argue with! We'll blame Satan! You want to know about Satan? Listen to BBC's Old Harry's Game by Andy Hamilton!

George Carlin's great quotes...

"God, the all seeing, all wonderful being that he is. has a set of 10 things he does not want you to do. If you do any these things, he has a special place full of pain, misery and eternal torment, you will be made to suffer for eternity! But God does love you!"

"I was a Catholic, until I reached the age of reason, around 13 years old!"

Thunderbird is still the best on all three platforms!

I remember long ago using CCMail client to dial into the CCmail servers directly and pull down mail...

Thunderbird is still best, I have moved my mailboxes from Windows, to Linux, back to Windows, back to Linux, then finally to Mac. Not once, not one single time, did I ever lose an email in Thundebird over a 3 year period of chopping and changing! All I ever did was simply ZIP up the mail directory and copy it about!

Hardly surpirsing is it?!

Keep an animal that roams thousands of square miles of open ocean in a 50m wide pool of water and it goes a bit mental!

Doesn't take David Bellamy to work that bloody obvious fact out!!!

Oh for flips sake!

I have a LG GW520 and it has loads of similar gestures to my wife's Jesus-phone, like swipe-smooth scroll in picture gallery, twist and tilt to rotate the on screen orientation! I use Apple desktop kit, like it but Apple can be very, very short-sighted and childish about things like this.

What's next? Suing the UK pound stores, seizing the kiddies plastic toys that look a little like the J-phone?!

Hmmmm...

To bend and old saying, "Quality Assurance is not assurance of quality"!

Almost side with them...

' The study says that 15 million Americans think that broadband access is irrelevant, calling the internet "a waste of time" and saying there's no content of interest to them or that they're satisfied with dial-up. '

To a certain extent I can well believe that's perfectly true. Apart from the odd bit of software like a Linux distro or some new Oracle release, quite frankly I download about 3 MB and upload about 2MB each day at home!

I hate Face-Twat-mySpac or whatever it's called and YouTube is full of chavs in Slough, setting fire to each other! Somehow, a world with without Twat-Space-Book and Chav Video Central sounds quite nice actually!

Italian decision

This and the Italian decision to convict Google managers over YouTube videos of bullying, things are not looking so good for the chocolate mountain mob!

Bears/Woods, etc

Manufacturers in defence of own product shocker! Well blow me down!

Hardly surprising they are all ganging to together, there must be a very tidy sum to be made punting these little boxes that attach to practically every till in the western world!

Bears/Woods, Popes, etc

' The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has launched an investigation, adding "we believe the passports used were fraudulent." '

Well bugger me with a fish-fork! Jesus, with brains like that it's no wonder we're number one in the dopey-kids league in Europe!

Typical

Now sit back and watch all the finger-pointing begin, as everyone blames everyone else for the problem and we, the customers, continue to get fleeced by inadequate security.

What's the fuss here?

All storage array vendors do it. Heck even NetGear with their cheap'n'cheerful ReadyNAS boxes, issue a list of drives that will be supported anything else and they can refuse support on your unit. Let alone when we get up to the big boys like EMC and HDS!

Bloody MS fanbois!

You MS fanbois are worse than the Apple ones! The merest whiff of a new mythical MS product and you're all wetting your pants in anticipation! You then have the nerve to take a pop at Job's acolytes when they start getting excited.

Sit on the fence with your popcorn and enjoy the show!

Really make a difference though?

I feel like most here, a good model that was working well, just punched in the face by Warner's greed.

However will it make any difference? Doubt it!

Most of the shit that Warner sell is sold to supermarket checkout plebs, wandering around TESCO or Sainsburys at the weekend during the "Friday big-shop", they will still pick up Warner DVDs of the latest US TV pap, they will still pick-up the latest X-Factor/Talentless screecher cack, so Warner's sales will still carry as usual.

Personally I listen to death and black metal and hate TV shows, so baring a handful of bands, Warner's snub doesn't bother me much as they wouldn't touch my music with 15ft barge-pole!

WGA works! Well done!

I want WGA to carry on being used, it's fantastic! Treating genuine customers like dirty little freeloaders while the rip-off merchants get around it! It forced me to drop MS and find something far better, hopefully if they keep using it others will do the same!

BRAIN! HURT! BAD!

UK Gov statement: Kids mustn't drink or play video games as it kils brain cells and is anti-social.

UK Gov statement: Kids can get a plastic card that lets them buy drink and computer games.

Brain! Confused! Need to lie down....

Calling Oracle DBAs!

Anyone who has had the pleasure of using the new, revamped Oracle Metalink Support site will know the joy that an entire Flash enabled support site brings. The joy of restarting your browser while researching very important support calls. The deep pleasure that resubmitting support cases over and over 'cos Flash decided it had had enough and wanted to scramble the uploaded text files!

Oh yes, Oracle support is a real buzz now it's 100% pure flash website!

I don't get the fuss here?

So what, big company cannot deliver on brand new product, people get disappointed. Where's the story here? It happens to us all, we want the latest and greatest whatnot and 'cos it's bleeding edge it has problems. Fact of life!

Sorry, but irrespective of product or company, if you decide to get the latest major incarnation of the product, due to rapid development and rush to market, it will almost always go wrong, not work properly, breakdown, etc.

Good system and database admins always abide by the mantra, 'Never install GA point release of any software! Always wait for at least .1 or more preferably, .2 release, before upgrading!", this applies to hardware gadgets too!

Always makes me laugh...

The worst most insecure browser demanded, usually by banks, to access the world's most secure sites!

Quelle surprise?!

Really such a surprise given the fact that any company in the hardware game is currently knocking-up plans to put out a tablet! They all want to get on the muppet-bandwagon, fanbois will buy anything, so if dopey, more-money-than-sense fanbois buy the gadget of the moment, then surely there is a market for the more financially challenged gadget collectors to buy a similar gadget.

I wish some people would rememeber that these companies don't make gadgets to improve humanity's evolution, they do it for cash, pure and simple. If that means jumping on someone else's bandwagon, so be it!

Of f**k off!

I am more worried about a world my kids will grow up in dominated by a company so overbearing that they will soon own the "common" internet and have enough power to build their own private internet!

This bullshit from a bloke who trotted out the tired old mantra, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from Google."

I encourage my kids to learn to read, but more importantly I encourage them to think for themselves. Reading is a skill it can be learned as required. Thinking individual thoughts has to be developed from an early age, very hard to develop later on in life when you're more set in your ways or brain-washed by corps like GOOGLE!!!

No one else?

OK I'll say it then....ahem, "Clean up in aisle 6 please!"!

What a world!

You can download this cack, alright historic documentation, about a bald-headed looney-toon who looked like Alexi Sayle, yet some bloke couldn't flog his Dad's Army board-game on everyone's favourite tat-market, 'cos it had a swastika on the front!

The app-store let this through? Yet they routinely stop a little bit of page-three nudity, I think I find a fascist nutter inciting people to bump off anyone he doesn't agree with, far worse than a pair of soaped-up jubblies!

What a world, what a world!

First in line!

"There's gold in them thar hills I tells ya!"

They all want to a) convert their old apps or b) knock out some shitty naff app that will run on the iPad, but be the first in the queue to have an app available for the thing!

When the first people to buy iPads they want stuff to run, so if you're app is first in the queue on launch day, you're quids in!!

Either way, it will take 2 months and 16 submissions to break get your app through the diabolical AppStore vetting process, they want to get started now, so you can't really blame them!

Whining maggots!

Bloody Linux people, bang on about getting some attention, then as soon as they get a chance at some, they're still sodding whining!

It's just a browser setting, they haven't ripped out the kernel and put the base O/S on Win32/64 for flips sake! Alright so it may be the beginning of the end, but let's cross that bridge when come to it, eh?

I use Ubuntu as my main desktop to work on very critical systems, 7-8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it damn good. To stay good costs money and Mr Shuttleworth is not worth millions by simply giving it away. He's a businessman he needs to ensure his business can keep going, if that means getting some new sponsorship, so be it!

Oh look up there, the sky is still up and the sun is still out ( your region may vary on that one! ) and the earth is still turning...now back to moaning about this naff, new thing from Apple!!!