Posts by melt
125 posts • joined Friday 14th November 2008 08:30 GMT
So they're not a search engine and they're not a social network. Tell you what Yahoo!, call us back when you've decided what you *are*.
Re: Excuse me?
...you'll have fun trying to replace Safari with IE9 on a Mac too.
Posted in Europeans turn backs on Ultrabooks
extra 10%
I guess it's because at the price the PC Ultrabooks are going for, I might as well spend the extra 10% and get the Mac. The PCs just aren't cheap enough.
Colin - it was a joke.
I had pretty much the same experience.
The point of the high street is that it satisfies an instant need. If I was willing to wait a few weeks for a delivery I would've ordered something from the internet!
oi!
° not <sup>0</sup>!
You need a satnav on a track? Who are you, James May?
It shouldn't be up to the user to care about where the internals are hinged; it's a sign of poor design that it's more difficult to press down in some areas.
Posted in HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
I found out what's going on:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1300656
:)
The only people who have something together and vaguely ready for production are VMware, XEN, and MS.
Everything else that sits on top is a jumbled mass of buzzwords and loose ends.
(o/t)
Aaaa! How did you do that link?
Posted in HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
It's because this attitude is pervasive throughout the OS. It's not just the WM baby they threw out with the bathwater, it's now the menu system they're tinkering with.
Every time they touch something, they throw out n*10 years of work and bugfixes and smoothed rough edges.
The last improvement I found was that init scripts have been moved to Upstart, a dependency-based bootup system. It's done nothing for usability, it's now not immediately obvious what will start up on a system and it's different to everything else for zero gain (I mean, who /cares/ about bootup times any more?).
Maybe i'm getting old, but I find myself agreeing with jwz a lot of the time.
"But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again. "
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Posted in HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
What "how to make a link" code?
The comment box says "plain text only", we've all been posting plain-text links for years...
the moon is *not* infinite!
The glaringly obvious point you've missed is that it shouldn't be /law/.
Posted in Australia, US agree to space junk talks
Yes.
"ALMOST 30 years after fining NASA for littering the local area with debris from abandoned space station Skylab, the Shire of Esperance has received a $US400 cheque.
American radio station Highway Radio paid the fine on NASA’s behalf, raising the funds on variety breakfast program Barker and Barley in the Morning. "
http://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/news/local/news/general/littering-fine-paid/1488319.aspx?storypage=1
Posted in Bookies set odds on Apple NYC launch
If so, it'll be the ePad
Like the eMac. Remember them?
Neeeeeeeeeyowwww....
Try xplane.
http://www.x-plane.com/desktop
Moog Instrumentation
I know the place - it's Moog Instrumentation. Founded by two cousins of Robert Moog, the synth guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_Inc :)
You write like Cory Doctorow.
Fix. The bloomin'. Superhub.
Still not bad for what it is
...has it got a resistive or capacitive screen?
Hmm...
Does it have the Android Marketplace?
Posted in Apple iPhone 4S
> You wouldn't accept that level of inaccuracy on the touch interface;
> imagine clearly pressing the icon for Weather and getting Angry
> Birds instead because the interface made a 'mistake'. People would
> be up in arms!
Sounds like my Nexus' back/menu/home keys...
Posted in Apple iPhone 4S
I couldn't see anything in the site FAQ that said The Register needs to have an editorial preference towards one type of smartphone?
That '.....feeeeeeeeeEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee.....' sound wasn't an electric car overhead.
Ah, spaghetti. How times haven't changed :)
Posted in Obama+world pays tribute to Steve Jobs
*golf clap*
did you think that one up all by yourself?
Security by obscurity is false protection :)
There are not "at least 20 different frameworks for Javascript". There is One, and it is called "jquery".
stop
I've had a load of problems with mine, and i've just about managed to make it stable by turning everything other than the basic NAT off (stateful firewall and wireless spring to mind) and hooking up an AP to a network port.
I don't want to be another post-beta tester; is there any way to stop VM from pushing this latest update?
str_to_lulz()
Does it also cover 'p3t3r'?
That's great
Let me know when you can have custom POIs again.
Posted in UCAS website collapses - on results day
Re: 8olloux
I think if the internet connection between you and "duh internet" was down, you'd have problems accessing UCAS's normal website as well...
Posted in UCAS website collapses - on results day
cloud
Need to serve simple database content to very bursty levels of users? Sorry for the buzzword, but this should've been a prime candidate for hosting "in the cloud".
QR
I recently went to an exhibition put on the the University of Sheffield's engineering department.
Each exhibit's card had a QR code in the corner that took you to a web page with video and further URLs to departments or companies involved, journals talking about the work etc.
It was quite useful, and more relevantly, it was open to any smartphone with a camera and probably didn't cost much to do.
bah
Such a shame; the BBC's coverage over the last two years at least has been absolutely fantastic.
It's going to be very difficult to keep that going. I'm certain that Sky Sports won't be able to generate the same feeling.
I'll be watching on BBC, and I guess i'll have to find a motorsports-friendly pub somewhere that my friends and I can adopt on Sky-only weekends.
Posted in So what can't you do with VMware's VSA?
Yes.
Yes, here you have it.
To me, as someone who has used a lot of NFS on NetAPPs as the store for VMs, this announcement from VMware was quite clear.
The product doesn't quite stack up against other NFSy solutions, but the intent was clear enough.
Store the VMs on here instead of faffing with local (on-vmhost) storage or iSCSI; let the VMs keep believing that they are real machines that keep all their own data on their own virtual hard drive. Fantastic for virtualising entire Functional Test environments at once.
H
Hydrogen's cheaper - have you considered using that in the balloon?
Posted in Comet in bad way after big losses
Warehousing
How about they actually hold stuff at the branches? I went out to buy a dishwasher a year or so back, under the misguided and old-fashioned belief that they would actually have stock at the big out-of-town outlets. How wrong I was.
If I want to wait three days for a missed delivery, i'll just buy something off the Internet, thanks.
Posted in Jaguar hybrid supercar gets green light
I agree
Kinda ugly guppymouth thing going on at the front.
Really ugly unfinished backside. The interior's a mess of materials and finishes.
Give me a jag MkII and a Gallardo instead.
gnome-screensaver
Hooray! Perhaps now we'll be able to configure each screensaver's options again.
LTS?
Eek, what about LTS?
