Posts by The Fuzzy Wotnot 1805 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2008
Possibly something to do with having to support SD cards in some devices. TomTom used ( dunno about now ) used have it's primary map base files on a plugin SD card, most carsd will have to travel between PC's and the device, so the cards have to be in a format that can simply whipped in and out of almost any PC type machine, ( for that read 95% Windows desktops ), hence why I believe FAT was chosen by TomTom for their devices.
All crowing about how it's a paradigm shift in O/S technology! No viruses! No Malware!
WTF! Oh so the last 17 years ( yes 1992 it started! ) of Linux have meant nothing then? What about BSD as well? No viruses there either. What about OSX? Not much for the AV to do here either.
Just 'cos it's fluffy Uncle Google, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread then is it?!
Oh bog off you sycophantic Google-istas, you worse than the Apple fanbois sometimes!
Sexuality is a base human need it's the reason we are all here, it's like eating and breathing, it drives the species on and it needs release and attention. Simply laying in laws will not stop that need, it may well force some to seek release in other ways, not always legally and not always in pleasant ways.
Sounds so much like that episode where a Lady turns up at B'stard's office with an anti-smut campaign manifesto, but it's so full of lewd suggestions that B'stard decides to publish it "brown wrapper" style, while telling the author her work will change the country for the better, but abolishing filth and those who peddle it!
At least I can sleep safe at night knowing that our government is back in control of the country. These wishy-washy liberals, with their independant thoughts must be stopped, it's this sort of thing that started the war you know!
I fully support my leaders and their efforts to cleanse the country of "people" who would have us thinking thoughts of our own! They must be detained and re-educated! Open the camps now! The country will not be safe for Daily Mail readers until every last one of them is rounded up and taught not to question, only to obey!
If I have to listen to one more crap chart number being played through a tiny speaker that sounds like its stuck up the owner's arse I will end up in Broadmoor! The quicker we erradicate this modern menace the better! All power to the lawyers ( just this once! ).
Seriously though, I suppose he's right but this is just another example of the "law behaving like an ass", driven by money grabbing scumbags. Even pond-slime are better than this lot, pond-slime is driven by pure instinct to survive, this lot are driven by greed-for-green!
Hollywood wonders why piracy is so high! Does anyone in Hollywood have a) any originality anymore b) any balls to take a chance on a new idea?
Tell you what how about these?
Horace Goes Skiing - Brad Pitt plays the plucky little fluff-ball trying to errm, well ski I suppose!
Ant Attack - Brad Pitt plays the plucky hero trying to avoid, well the ants attacking I suppose!
Roland on The Ropes - Jude Law beefs up in his role as the plucky rope climbing hero.
Lunar Jetman - Val Kilmer ( he'll be in a space suit so we won't have to look at his face! ) comes out of retirement to play the plucky hero destined to bounce across the moon surface!
Me too, I now rent DVD's. If they are any good, then I buy from Amazon or whomever, else back in the post they go for another.
We are in a economic mire right now, people less likely to go wasting money on things like DVD's, more likely to spend on gas, electric, food, the non-essential stuff that media companies would rather we ignored!
Hmmm, they're such a bastion of family values and moraility!
Wasn't it the editor of the Daily Star who was at one point published a picture of topless 16 year old girl, on her 16th birthday?
Hmm, just the sort of people you need looking after our interests, keeping things fun. clean and wholesome!
I know our personal info has never really been anything more than a commodity, but I suppose it was only a matter of time until this sort of thing started happening, given the world economy and the need to claw back every penny when a company goes under.
We all assume that some git has not already snagged a copy of the info and it busy flooging it on some nefarious little forum somewhere at $10 an ID!
Another example of academics desperate to ensure tenure, stop wasting my time reading crap into everything. So what's next, not enough sex scenes between Bolt and Rhino the hamster? For flips sake most of the time me and the kids watch entertainment for a story, not to try to read deep hidden meanings into things, can't we just enjoy the simple things in life without over-thinking it all?
If the plug twisty thingy breaks in the socket, you have two prongs jammed in the sockey that need prying out with something thin like a metal knife. How much that some muppet with do this, but forget to switch off the socket first?
British Safety regs will have a field day on this one, they barely allow the old style screwed up plugs, it's all molded ones now wherever possible!
Before I saw sense and moved to the penguin-side, I had run Windows since the old 286 runtime days ( remeber that with the first release of Excell? ), in all that time I only caught maybe 2 viruses and maybe 1 malware infection! I used to trawl all sorts of sites, good and bad, I always had some form of AV and a copy of AdAware, but nothing else other than common sense not to just wildly click all over every page I came across!
Half this cack would be wiped out in days if people just used some common! You would walk into the woods and stick your hand into any old hole, just to find out what's in their would you?
I believe our top Olympic rowers are technically classed as morbidly obese due to their muscle bulk in relation to their size. BMI is considered in much the same vein as Oracle hit ratios are to modern Oracle DBA's, a nice quaint idea but completely flawed and probably cause more damage than good if you attempt to use them for anything useful.
You're best off getting a really good set of scales with the denisity measurement, they work out your body fat index percentage.
Everyone is jumping on the HD bandwagon, HD this and that, but 90% of the HD offerings I have seen are just ports from earlier releases! What's the point in having HD is the content was shot in normal quality?!
I recently bought Xbox 360 and HD gaming is a great step up, I never realised what I was missing until I upgraded my old original Xbox 3 months ago, but HD TV and DVD, give me a break, it ain't worth it!!!
Tell you what, let's see what effect this has.
Drop over to TPB right now, note down the current activity figures on the front page. Now do the same at regular 3 hour intervals over the next 5-7 days. I'll eat my car if they vary by more than 25% over the entire period.
Mr/Miss RipOff is thinking, "So what? One person got done. Too many of us at it for them to nail everyone. So sod it, why should I stop!"
So Mr Kiddie-Fiddler and Mr Beardy Terrorist sign up to a Satellite ISP provided by a different country and get their yah-yahs that way. Oh yes sorry, kiddie-fiddlers and terrorists aren't as smart as the boys in blue that's why they do what they do, stupidity, duh!
Sick of seeing the peado/terror cards being played everytime some gov wants to find out what the populace are up to. I'll tell you what 99% of the populace do on the internet, shall I govs?
1. Free soft porn
2. Emails to mates about stupid YouTube vids
3. Free soft porn
4. Updating their MySpace/Twitter/FaceBook profiles with more snaps of them pulling a stupid face at last nights party.
5. Free soft porn
6. Paying bills
7. Looking up train/plane timetables
8. Free soft porn
9. Buying from Amazon
10. Downloading the odd MP3 album or last nights LOST/CSI episode!
No plots to blow up schools or public places. No arrangements to meet at playgrounds to entice kids into cars. No plans on how make latest bomb from cake mix, play-doh and lime juice, no idea what that would make apart from a nasty smell!
WAKE UP GOVS! PEOPLE ARE BORING AND DO BORING THINGS! OK?
"The Debian Community in 2008 saw women developers threatened by an individual with a grudge who claimed women were "killing" free software. The year before, systems interface and design blogger Kathy Sierra quit the blogosphere, saying she'd received death threats for her posts."
Irrespective of subject discussed, if you have this kind of attitude in the 21st century, it's pretty safe assume that you have obviously not been taking your meds! The men in white suits need to come out with their big butterfly net, revoke your care-in-the-community order pronto, before someone makes an 18 rated horror flick about your antics!
Why should MS be forced to strip IE out, it's MS's product, they not demanding Firefox be shipped with IE plugins. All this cack might have been relevant when it was obvious they killed NutScrape, but not anymore. Leave them alone for flips sake!
( Oh and I hardly ever use Windows these days, devout Mac user with a Penguin fetish on the side to spice it up! )
So basically you took the Apache code base, rammed it up your browser and now your claiming you have re-invented the web....hmmmm. OK, you just keep telling yourselves that....
Can't wait for the ISP reaction to this. Should be fun when those support calls come in....
"Yeah I turned on my Opera server and my mates can't get to it, what's wrong?"
"Have you port forwarded your router?"
"A what?"
"Router."
"What the little box thing you sent me when I joined?"
"Yes."
"Ports? Oh the holes on the back where the cables go in?"
"Ah...no...."
Much sighing and a very long evening ahead for Mr/Mrs Support person!
"it just doesn't look right" - Years of brainwashing having used MS products?
I have to agree, I use OO more often than MSO at work and I have to admit that I always have the nagging feeling that something just doesn't look right, but I know it's me and what I am used to, years of using MSO, I expect things to look a certain way.
Sadly you're right though, the user's perception of a product is far more important than any other consideration, even if that product may be technically better or worse, cost more or less, makes no odds. When you buy car, you may find that you enjoy driving the £9,000 Peugeot as opposed to the £50k BMW, one just feels better than the other.
When my missus moved over from Windows to Mac, we bought MSO for Mac and she hated it, the buttons are not quite right, the formatting is not quite there. Ended up with 5 months of XP VM running MSO, before finally moving to use OO on Mac! Same company, same product and even after tweaking, almost same look, but MSO on Mac didn't feel right, even OO still doesn't "feel" quite right, but it's nearer to MSO on Windows! Luckily it was student edition of MSO/Mac for her college course, else I would have been severely out of pocket at full retail!
So the government is opening up and wants more "openess" with it's citizens do they? OK so lets start by abolishing the data request tax, the £10 everytime you want to know about your details they hold. I paid my taxes already thanks!
Lets start by booting C**t Ghoulie and his privacy-shagger, PHORM!
Let's try to let someone else get ahead in the CCTV numbers game, see if UK can be pulled back from it's #1 spot!
Let's get more transparency on dodgy government minister's deals conducted with BAE and the DTI, under the cloak of the ECGD!
No, easier to pay lip service to the various demogrpahics, by getting trendy people into the gov's advice bureaus like Sugar and Berners-Lee! Quicker we boot Za-Nu-Labour, the better!
PCW.. so sad...
I well remember my old man thumbing it with great relish around 1987, ringing every supplier in there to find the cheapest place in the country he could get an ECD Amstrad 1640 PC for the family! Then driving 450 miles the next Saturday to pick one up. PCW I thank you, without you my old man would never have got that cheap 1640, I wouldn't have had to listen to another round of lectures about studying hard and getting "a good job working with computers, as it will pay well", just like the first round when we got our first micro, a Dragon 32! I wanted a spectrum, but my old man insisted we get a "proper" computer, not a toy! LOL!
Thanks Dad, I got my well paid job "working with computers" and now I know why I spend every waking hour listening to whinging users and wondering if I will sleep through the night without some gonk ringing me to fix his crap application for the 23rd time today!
Thanks PCW ( and Dad) , you boht have a hell of a lot to answer for!!!
When I was about 13 our chemistry teacher showed us the amazing ability that Coke, Pepsi and other sugar laced fizzy drinks have to clean pennies. He also brought in an animal tooth and put in a beaker of Coke. We came back to science class two days later to pick up our spotless coins, try to find out what happened to the tooth ( experiment on the mixture ) and finally promise we would never drink that crap more than once a week tops!
Apart from the odd lemonade, I haven't drunk Coke or any other fizzy soft drink since then!
Someone called us Mac users simple and unable to grasp complex ideas....well I'll just go back to dribbiling and drooling onto my keyboard in my simple way, while I use my shiny, usable, no crashing 64bit O/S, with a shiny pre-compiz, pre-aero GUI, multi-filesystem supported hardware and O/S, major industry supported application aware, multi-button mouse, Unix based O/S, free developer kit on standard O/S release DVD, only $29 upgrade path to next release, Cider emu Windows game running, Intel CPU, GPL/FOSS/GNU software capable compiling, crap, simple, braindead O/S, while you...oh yeah wait for 2 files to take 6 hours to copy under Vista, crash just at 99% of any job, BSOD, SOB MS O/S on your self-built unsupported, knock-up bargain basement PC!
GO icon, 'cos, ermmm, I got confused as am a bit simple apparently......oh no got confused between red and green now....
One of my fondest memories of camping with Mum and Dad right up on the north Scotland coast, around 1975. They woke me up one night, ask me to step outside and all I can remember is shivers down my spine as I looked up into the clear night sky and saw nothing but millions of stars.
So sad that my kids will not get a chance to see anything like that unless we now go to the back of beyond.
Somewhere, out there, even maybe on your train tonight....the lead developer of the Phorm software will be sitting wondering whether they ( could be a man or woman! ) will have a job the other side of Xmas? They may well talk to you and tell you they're worried about their job in IT, you would have sympathy for them, being in IT yourself, not knowing all along that he was working for C**t Ghoul!
Creepy eh?
...it will only intimidate innocent civilians. The terrorists, if they really exist, will obviously know that these are in a cabs and errr....I dunno, probably use a different form of transport?!
Who thinks up this stupid ideas for discussion papers like this? No Met, you discussing such pointless shite does not fill me with confidence, as I assume it is supposed to do, it simply makes you look like a laughing stock in front of all the other countries! Okay?
"Ozzie also justified Microsoft's decision not to put Windows on ARM"
What we want to know is what Sharon, Geezer, Iommi think of this move away from his core talents of necking any pills within crawling reach and shouting abuse at his kids?!
It's step up from floggin WoW on TV I suppose!
"RapeLay developer Illusion maintains its twisted offering is legal under Japanese law."
Much like the MPs and their "I was within the rules!" claims, it may be legal so, but should it be allowed morally? I don't know. Legality can only go so far before a wider more gray area comes into the discussion.
If Mr Ballmer could somehow cash in his little paper pot, ( What is is now about $35bn? ), I'm sure that would be a reasonable boost to the US economy.
Once again, mega-rich corp, doesn't want to play by the rules, so head start throwing toys out his pram. Grow up Ballmer, the world economy, that's us normal people with piss-poor pensions and next to worthless savings, is in a bloody awful state and a world leader has the guts to try to sort something out without simply blowing hot air.
Shut up Steve!
I have lost count of the number of these useless comms gadgets that seem to come up every once in a while!
Most people go into the kitchen for two things, food and/or drink. That's it! For most people I know, it's a functional place, you go in, you get stuff done ( boiling kettle, checking oven/toaster, sitting in at dining table for meal, etc) , then you go somewhere more comfortable!
We know that 75% of people will either rip it off or not bother buying ( OEM copies, etc ), so we need to try to make some money out of it somehow. I know, the age old money spinner... MERCHANDISING!
Win7 t-shirts : "I upgraded and all I got was this lousy O/S!"
Novelty condoms : "You've been fecked the rest, now get fecked by the best! It's MS!"
Balloons : ( Full of hot air and no substance?! )
Hang on, I have a whole sheet full here.....
OK numbnuts, why don't you go round Sun, HP and IBM and demand that they make a version of their Unix run on my Nintendo Wii!!!
Even better why can't Sony get the PS3 XMB to run on my five year olf Palm Pilot! I demand answers!
Shut up and get back under the bridge you twat-dangle!
The problem is the mindset.
You slap on a copy of Ubuntu Gnome/KDE whichever, then give it to someone with very little interest in computers or very little experience, it will most likely work well. They won't know or care.
Most people's first experience of a PC is Windows, so obviously that's where the expectations start.
I am a devout OSX/Linux user, but Linux is simply not ready for the desktop and I think KDE/Gnome with Compiz is amazing when you consider that a group of part-timers are simply throwing it all together hoping to get it right, but at the moment nothing beats the slick user interface of Quartz or Aero, sadly until Linux looks like Windows and plays exactly like Windows, it will not cut it with more than small number of people.
Like any techy on any field ( plumbing, sparky, car mechanic, etc ) I am prepared to accept the limitations of Linux on the desktop, I use it 9 hours a day 5 days week, I live with it's odd foibles, I know the workarounds, average Joe Punter won't and unless there is someone in a shop or end of phone line who will take a mouthful when something fails to work, then Windows will rule. I hate it too, but them's the facts!
Load Ubuntu onto a desktop and then when little Johnny can't play the latest block-buster game or weird USB device won't play nice without some obscure driver being compiled, then you will quickly learn the curse of Redmond!
OSX/Linux user I am, I only used to play one game on Windows, Fallout 3. It would occasionally crash on XP, so I gave the Win7 demo a whirl.
Very impressed and a big step, credit where credit is due. I wish them all the best of luck, but MS you got my money for a 360 console so I could play F3 without Windows and so I switched to Mr Torvalds and Mr Jobs, I can do all need with their toys from now on.
Best of luck though and thanks for all the fun, it was good while it lasted!
PS. Try to get rid of that rather unpleasant Mr Ballmer or least send him on holiday for the duration of the release, eh?
I only use Ubuntu and I have never come across a more friendly set of forums than those at Ubuntu. People bending over backwards to help, when the questions are sensible and show a genuine need for help.
What annoys anyone technical, no matter what O/S or application, is some complete prat turning up and asking the most idiotic questions and you know full well they haven't even bothered to attempt a simple bit of reading the help pages or Googling for an answer. You managed to get a browser up somehow, on something and you managed to log into this forum, so you can't be a complete brain-dead zombie then?!
Two of the following are genuine questions:
"Can I run this Linux thing in Windows 7?"
"Duh, I got this Linux thing installed, why won't it run run Access?"
"I got an Apple and IE is not installed, why not? This suxxors!"
"I can't find my arse with both hands, am I a complete twat?".
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