Posts by Toxteth O'Gravy

Re: Why not the Netgear N900?

Free stuff LOANED to them, you mean. I suspect even El Reg's budget doesn't run to buying ten routers just for a one-off test.

And the loan thing is why there's no Apple Airport Exteme - Apple doesn't knowingly lend The Register hardware. Recent MacBook reviews suggest they have a covert source.

Re: No mobile broadband

Eh? Why pay extra to have a 3G modem built in when you have a perfectly decent one in your smartphone you can connect to over Wi-Fi?

Re: Oh FFS!

Jeez, it's a poor day when a hack can't express keen enjoyment of or interest in something without being accused of being in a company's pocket. What, journalists supposed to say everything is shit, you cynical sod?

Re: Link

Sorry, but the OS X version is PowerPC only, folks.

Re: Pin compatible you say?

Yes, if you don't mind disassembling the S II, unsoldering the CPU, soldering in the new one, and maybe writing some extra Android code to support it...

Or perhaps you own a smartphone factory?

Re: Tasimo

Amen. I have an Italian espresso maker - three-part decagonal aluminium thing bought dirt cheap in a Rome hardware shop - a plunger and a shed-load of Lavazza in the cupboard. Instant? Fuck off and drink water, I say.

Re: Or I could stick with my diesel

Maybe, but when they tax the buggery out of you because of the CO2 your car's pumping out, don't come running to me!

Re: Interference

You seriously expect me to believe relatively small companies like Devolo in Germany, and D-Link and Netgear in the US have so much clout with Ofcom that they can get the anti-powerline evidence supressed?

Gimme a break.

There's no mileage whatsoever for Ofcom in doing anything to conspire against radio users to keep powerline kit makers happy.

And let's say they did ban them. People would still use them, and, like low-range FM transmitters a few years back, there's nothing they can do about it because actually they don't bugger up licenced radio users' spectrum.

Sheesh.

Re: "how can we make a story out of nothing"?

Well, what's your agenda here that you blissfully and uncritically accept Sony's word that 'only a small number' of phones are affected? If any other company said that, you'd be calling them liars.

Or are you really saying that Sony has shipped so few Xperia S handsets that hardly anyone is affected by the problem?

But kudos to Sony for admitting there *is* a problem. Not like a certain other smartphone maker 'i' could mention...

Re: And a nice part of it is...

So what you're saying is that the US pre-tax price is the same as the UK pre-tax price, give or take a pound or two? What the heck's wrong with that?

Save your spleen for the many instances where UK pre-tax price is way more than the US pre-tax price - and there's still VAT to pay on top of that.

Re: Sorry, but... Steve Erwin jokes

Crikey

Re: IPTV

Sorry but I'm too bone idle to tell you.

[Couldn't resist]

Re: Gosh. Well, well, well

And, well, the folk out there thinking of buying an iPad, don't you think?

Re: why?

Well it's a bloody sight smaller than your average wireless router and accompanying power brick.

FWIW, I use an Apple AirPort Express as a compact travel router. Works a treat and the power brick is built n.

Re: Errm...

Are you mad? It's terrible. A parody of the previous two, that turns IJ into an idiot second-fiddle to a tedious old git.

Ex-Bond he may be, but Jones Snr is still an old git.

I had a Time Capsule once, but the internal power supply unit died. Getting the drive out was a pain. Gorgeous kit to look at and - when working - to use, but I'd not buy one again.

No.

Diesel

Want to pump even more toxic shit out of your tailpipe? Buy a big-ish diesel.

Cough, cough...