* Posts by Mikel

2643 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2008

Microsoft's Azure goes TITSUP PLANET-WIDE AGAIN in cloud FAIL

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Cloud down

Fog.

Patch NOW! Microsoft slings emergency bug fix at Windows admins

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Patch

And patch again. There are more where these came from.

LIFE, JIM? Comet probot lander found 'ORGANICS' on far-off iceball

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Re: why not here?

Billions of suns for eight billion years before Sol's first light. Stars born and burned out their life before there ever was a man to look into the night sky and ask, "are we alone?"

Nvidia doubles Tesla grunt at SC14

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only $5000

What a great card. Xeon Phi looks sharp enough to compete too.

FCC: Gonna need y'all to cough up $1.5bn to put broadband in schools

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Mandate his bosses products

Thinking of the children I am sure.

Microsoft: It's TIME at LAST. Yes - .NET is going OPEN and X-PLATFORM

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Re: Ah Miguel

The devil offers a good salary, but the retirement plan sucks.

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Ah Miguel

The cost of loyalty becomes apparent.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza

Walmart's $99 crap-let will make people hate Windows 8.1 even more

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Make mine with Linux

Am not sure what possessed Intel to make a 64 bit CPU that only supports 1 GB of RAM in 2014 but whatever. A Linux tablet for $100 with these specs would not be too bad.

I would still feel bad about swelling the Windows sales figures. But at least Microsoft isn't getting any unearned profit

Thing is, we put 2013 Nexus 7s under the tree for the whole family last year. Dealing with these crappy screens might consign even a Linux tablet like this to the hobby projects bench now. Robotics applications might be interesting, or balloons. Multipoint cameras and the like. It's Raspberry Pi for folks who prefer a more complete kit.

Philae healthier: Proud ESA shows off first comet surface pic

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Way to go

I hope they get it enough light to do some science. But landing on a comet alone is amazing.

SCREW YOU, net neutrality hippies – AT&T halts gigabit fiber

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Poor Leawood Kansas

Leawood was going to get Google fiber, then it wasn't, then it was going to get AT&T fiber, now it isn't. Maybe Verizon should come tease them with their FiOS as well, then pull it away.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article3540109.html

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Fiber to the press release

Now no fiber to the press release.

AT&T really dodged a bullet here by not ever putting their money where their mouth was. Unless they never intended to. /s

Roll on Google Fiber! Light that pipe. Go rainbow bunny, go!

Dodgy thruster won't stop Philae hurtling toward comet showdown

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MT @esaoperations: Harpoons confirmed fired & reeled in. Flywheeel now be switched off. @Philae2014 is on the surface of #67P #CometLanding

8:12am - 12 Nov 14

Obama HURLS FCC under train, GUTPUNCHES ISPs in net neut battle

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Help us Google Fiber

You're our only hope!

I'm all in favor of granting Tom Wheeler extended accommodations at Guantanamo Bay Resort. President Obama did appoint the top cable and wireless industry lobbyist to chair the FCC though. It isn't like he can pretend to be surprised.

I think I am going to go with my original comment on this. "If they can't get no regulation at all, muddled unenforceable regulation will do. Heck, it might even be better as they can tie up potential upstarts in red tape and sue them into submission."

Firefox decade: Microsoft's IE humbled by a dogged upstart. Native next?

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Third party app crashes on Windows. Check.

Competes with Microsoft product. Check.

Shocker! Shades of Borland and Lotus.

Now buy Office for your Android. What could possibly go wrong?

Elon Musk and ex-Google man mull flinging 700 internet satellites into orbit

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What better use for reused rockets

Than low cost laser commsats?

I still have latency concerns. In some places kites or tethered balloons might be better. 4 Km up has quite a ground footprint without ruining the latency.

Microsoft's 'loss leader' Office 365 pricing strategy? NO THANKS

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We are altering the deal.

Pray we don't alter it further.

All but full-fat MS Office to be had on iPads, Droidenslabben for NOWT

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Re: Linus once said...

Yes, this counts. And we already had this discussion when they released the phone version.

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Microsoft software on my Nexus?

What could possibly go wrong?

Why solid-state disks are winning the argument

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Re: Fail and fail hard

If you are relying on HDD soft failure modes preserve your precious snowflake pictures it is you who has hard failed. Redundancy.

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Re: Reasons for traditional HD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=mini%20pcie%20ssd&Submit=ENE

Secrets in Seattle: Apple opening base on Microsoft's doorstep

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Since the settlement

Since the settlement of Apple V. Microsoft in 1997, the two have been secret lovers.

Microsoft's Bing hopes to bag market share with ... search apps

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Re: I fail to understand

They are trying to cut off Google's air supply. It is not working out.

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Re: The only good thing about Bing

Yes. Bing Is Not Google.

Windows 8 or nowt: Consumer Win 7 fans are out of luck

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Merry Christmas

The PC market is doomed, fourth year in a row.

Samsung says teaming up with mobe-maker Microsoft could violate antitrust law

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Re: good faith and fair dealing

Sorry if I disappointed the down voter, but we are talking about the company that invented the knife the baby strategy.

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good faith and fair dealing

At they sure they know who they are dealing with?

Desktop Linux users beware: the boss thinks you need to be managed

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LTSP

Over fifteen years now. Hmph.

More Microsoft staffers shown the door in Round 3 of job cuts

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Trustworthy Computing Axed

Mission Accomplished, go home everybody!

Forget WHITE BOX, it's time for JUNK BOX NETWORKING

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Flea bay for the servers

Hold out for the Storinator for storage though.

Microsoft has Windows Server running on ARM: report

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Re: intel license ARM technology?

Intel still has an ARM architecture license.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/intel-we-have-arm-license-no-plans-to-use-it/5845

Nokia STORMS back into profit, FREE from phones and Windows

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Totally unrelated

Microsoft profits dip 13% for the same quarter, driven by losses in recently acquired phone unit.

Comet Siding Spring revealed as flying molehill

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Amazing pics

Still a killer if one like it were to hit us.

Yes, yes, Steve Jobs. Look what I'VE done for you lately – Tim Cook

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Let us reflect

It is a great time to be a nerd, and Apple has a lot to do with that.

Don't shoot – I'm un-ARM-ed! Samsung whips out Intel Chromebook 2

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Gah

Still less resolution than my year old 5" mobile phone. This is just not enough pixels. What is it with these guys?

Of COURSE Stephen Elop's to blame for Nokia woes, says author

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We told you what would happen

And while it was happening we reminded you that it was happening. And it happened like we told you it would.

And now an author writes a book to say it happened.

All righty then.

Gates and Ballmer NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS – report

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Ballmer did his job

And that was to hold the price up while Gates converted his shares into the maximum amount of real money. Mission accomplished.

Shoppers shun slabs to give Gartner's Q3 PC numbers a rosy glow

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I'm not dead yet

He doesn't want to go on the cart.

Meg Whitman: The lady IS for TURNING. HP to lob printers'n'PCs OVERBOARD

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PC is not profitable

Has not been for many, many years.

Researchers bypass Redmond's EMET, again

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EMET was always the wrong end of the problem.

But I expect nothing else.

EU dangles $6bn threat over Google in endless search abuse probe

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Relevance

Google is the most popular search engine because its results are the most relevant. All else is fluff. Of course Google's competitors would like a court to demand Google results be less relevant.

Google has said they will honor network neutrality even if it were not required.

I sold 10 MILLION iPhone 6es at the weekend, says Tim Cook. What did you do?

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Minor note

That is 7 billion dollars in sales in one weekend, at 60% profit. Not bad.

Net Neutrality? Hold my coffee, I got this: FCC says it's still considering all options for Open Web

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After carefully reviewing millions of public comments

We are going to go ahead and sell the public down the river, as we promised the Administration's loyal cable industry donors we would do before we were appointed to these positions at their request from our lucrative jobs on their staff. Now if you will excuse me public service is a horribly tedious burden and it is time to take my government paid sabbatical before returning to my position as a highly paid cable industry lobbyist.

Lumia rebrand begins: Nokia's new UK web home is Microsoft.com

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Time for a relaunch event

Splash out a couple billion for big name artists to show up at stores and give free tickets to concerts and endorse the brand again. And maybe another three story dance club and open bar with live acts at Burning Man. Add a few hundy mil for product placements on prime TV shows and movies. Gotta spend money to make money right? How about a half billion or so to become the official phone of the NFL or WWF? That would be great! Whole hog or none, I always say. We are "all in" on mobile, right?

Gigantic bazaar Alibaba WILL turn share price up to 11, er, $68 for biggest IPO ever in US

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Marissa Mayer wins

Looks like she booked an easy ride on the gravy train.

SUSE Linux owner Attachmate gobbled by Micro Focus for $2.3bn

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Wait, what?

Have I lost the plot? Did not Attachmate also wind up owning Unix?

Microsoft staff brace for next round of layoffs – expected Thursday

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Mojang is not cheap

Gotta cut back somewhere. No, just kidding. This is the old Stack & Sack routine with a new name.

Register journo battles Sydney iPHONE queue, FONDLES BIG 'UN

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They look like amazing devices

Still no mid market device though.

Sony says year's losses will be four times deeper than thought

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It isn't commonly known

Sony is an insurance company that dabbles in consumer electronics as a hobby.

One sixth of the ENTIRE PLANET will buy a new smartphone this year

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They are stating the obvious

And over a billion Android devices will be sold this year. It is an abundance of technology. The real winners are the customers just joining the game: they haven't had to pay for the long slog to affordable devices being sufficient. Some of those early devices were maddening.