Posts by Kwac

Windows

There were some stories about the RN running Windows weren't there?

The combination of crap pre-war AA guns and crap post-war OS makes me glad I've left the UK

@Lee

"But my mother uses IE, she can't be bothered with downloading / installing anything else and as long as she can get on the web she cares not which tool she uses."

I know several people that use/used IE, but not through choice - because they don't know any different - and have been surprised, confused, concerned ("won't FF break Windows?") when they discovered there is an alternative.

The same with many other applications - including Office.

'Illegal downloading'

David Lammy, Minister of State for Intellectual Property, said, "Illegal downloading is not an issue confined by national boundaries."

Doesn't inspire confidence in the powers that be when even the tit-in-charge doesn't recognise that there is a difference between 'illicit' and 'illegal'.

Here's hoping he's on the Daily Torygraph's expenses list.

@AC

Re advice for Windows users - transpose items 3 & 4.

Apart from that, makes a lot of sense.

Number 12

about publishing user data.

This is MS vs Phorm.isn't it?

Still shackled

by Digital Restraints Management?

Ah, takes me back

to the days of Wolfie vs The Three Pigs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn8MmcLEXH8

@Mike Powers

Its true alright, but all this story demonstrates is that developers are human.

Oh, and if the source code is available others can find out any nasty little surprises an application might have.

@Henry Wertz

"I don't expect soldiers to be 100% "precision" when they are ambushed."

You seem to have missed to words central to the story regarding the ambush and those killed - 'after' and 'captives'.

@James O'Brien

"I'm still waiting for a Linux distro to show up that I can pop on my hardware, then go to Best Buy and pick up a game that will load without tweaks to 20 million lines of code."

No, I won't insult your intelligence - I'veknown severeal very, very intelligent people that have had no common sense at all.

However, I doubt that even one of those would try to install a Windows game on a Linux box.

Unfortunately, its the mindset of the average fanboi that if it doesn't tun on Windows it must be crap.

@mark

"Head meet wall."

"Ah, I see you've already met".

As previously explained the trial was NOT about a crime, it was about whether a crime had been committed, i.e. whether the defendants' activities were or were not criminal.

There are two polarized views.

Being associated with one side in the case it is not clear that the judge was able to decide impartially WHETHER THEIR ACTIONS WERE OR WERE NOT CRIMINAL.

The law not only needs to be impartial, it needs to be seen to be impartial.

Doh.

Suburban Inmate

As I haven't used Windows since Windows 98, would you advise me how much shorter a period of time I would have to spend setting up a Vista box. Where would I find drivers, how do I set up RAID on Vista.

As you spent a whole 11 hours, and Windows is so much better in every way, can I plan on spending say, an hour?

BTW, I will have a full office system, and all that sort of thing installed during that time, won't I? I've heard that I'll also need something called 'malware'. How do i get hold of that?

Sony Music - How to increase music sales

Stop taking the piss, basically.

Wander along to wikipedia and look up the name of one of your new range of 'superstars' Leona Lewis.

You expect fans to go out and:

1) buy the album

2) buy singles from the album so they can listen to the B sides

3) buy the re-released album AGAIN, so they can listen to the album, listen to tracks already released elsewhere in the world, listen to the B sides of singles that you've already bought (plus an extra track) and watch promotional videos of the singles.

Whilst simultaneously blocking stores selling copies of songs she released prior to her appearance on TV - where one of the 'mentors' in the X-Factor was your 'A&R Executive'.

As an aside, as the costs for a download doesn't include transport, packing, storage, manufacture how much extra does she get for every copy downloaded from iphones, Amazon, etc?

As a further aside, would I get a reduced sentence if I downloaded on a Sony computer, recorded on a Sony disk, watched via a Sony DVD player on a Sony TV - or is that a completely different thing to assisting 'pirates'?

The banks

didn't need monitoring, either.

But MS is an entirely proper business, unlike those folks that were selling mortgages.

Snopes is your friend

http://www.snopes.com/photos/space/eyeofgod.asp

Not one photo but a composiye - with colours 'enhanced".

July 2006

Command line

To all you Wintards complaining about using the command line, how about this:

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.VirtualMemorySize -gt 104857600}

You too can have more control; just install MS 'Windows Power Shell' - works in Vista too! I wonder why they developed it?

Of course, you no more have to use this (but you will need commands like like 'FIXMBR" or "/SFC" sometimes) in Windows than you have to use command line in Linux - but don't let a little thing like that get in the way of your prejudices (ignorance?).

@Charles King

"But still, we have clueless MS-bashers weighing in with their ignorant opinions. I'm disgusted."

looking throught he messages, comments can be broken down into one of 2 groups:

1. 'you're too late, MS have said they'll fix it already" and

2. "Thomas says "Untrusted code should only be run on dedicated test systems." "

Where's the MS bashers?

@ lack of Linux is a good thing.

"Considering the 2133, lack of Linux is a good thing."

*ALL* forum that report Windows users' experience of notebooks/netbooks/whatever bought with Linux have plenty of reports saying Linux is crap.

Purely because they look on Linux as a replacement for Windows and don't recognise that it is a different O/S .

"I can't even install Norton on it".

News?

Of the first Windows 7 virii seem overdue.

@ ac -And no mention of

A hint of desperation?

No mention - possibly because it had minimal significance when considered along the items reported in the article.

Problem found and quickly resolved. Other items mentioned went on for years.

Move along - nothing to see here.

(possibly the merest hint of sarcasm in the avatar)

HP + CIA?

Superb plan to overwhelm the Iranian infrastructure - obviously the HP mouse on pallet, memory in oversize boxes were consignments bound for the foreign devils but accidentally sent to native consumers.

tech-savvy

"Many people who use IE are not the most tech-savvy people.... It's more ignorance than anything else."

Someone from MS in touch with reality?

Lets hope it spreads so the company recognises it has a duty to provide a secure OS for its customers who are not 'tech-savvy', rather than expecting them to clean up the mess.

@FreeTard

'Kernel' is the clue.

Yup, I restart if I patch the kernel.

Not when I moved from OpenOffice 2.4 to OpenOffice 3.

@Paul

You bought a license to use what you thought you bought.

The CD and its contents don't belong to you - they belong to Microsoft.

Read the EULA.

sfc

So Windows leaves Linux in the dust because it uses command line?

Surely the paytards have clicked on 'Start', then Run' types 'cmd' followed by

'sfc /scannow?

Or do they just take their box down to PC World to let a 'professional' sort it out?

Must confess, I don't use command line in linux much, just click like the Windows' users.

El Reg...

"...why don't you stop with the bullshit about McCain not being physically capable of using a damn keyboard already? It isn't funny; it isn't clever."

The man who invented the Blackberry can't use a keyboard?

I suppose it'll take even longer than the 'Al Gore invented the internet' to lie down and die; after all - (unlike McCain) nobody actually made the claim.

@You *can* make a liquid bomb

The BIG problem is not making it explode until you want it to (usually a significant period *AFTER* you start pouring it into a bottle).