Well they're partly right

"The suit alleged that WGA was falsely advertised as a security update."

As far as I'm concerned, that's true. Every time I go to Windows Update on an XP machine that little fecker appears in the "Critical Updates" list, otherwise reserved for security updates, service packs and anti-virus/anti-malware kit. And of course, there's no link in any version of WU I've seen to "not show this update again."

Been using Shiretoko by accident

Hooked the wrong repository into Ubuntu, got nightly builds by accident, and I have to say, if not for the different name, I wouldn't have noticed. Even under development it's been stable. Haven't really noticed any speed increases yet, but to be honest my machine at work desperately needs a nicer GFX card for the res it runs at, so it's probably down to that.

20GB limit

Bit cheeky to call it "Infinity" and then limit it to 20GB...

Admittedly for a fiver more you get "unlimited" (which won't be) and a much nicer upload speed.

But they won't be rolling out near me for a few years yet. Which is good really, because after Phorm I don't want to be tempted back to these bastards.

We downloaded the server, oh yes

That gave us the wave protocol and absolutely nothing else. Not having Google's own front-end (which it pushes as being Google Wave, even though it's not) is what you'd expect, to be fair, but from the polish of their preview to the command line hackery of the server was a jolt. It's actually not a bad protocol, and we will integrate it with our products at some point.

Looks

I think it looks quite smart, myself. It's not overly flashy - it's just neat. Each to their own. :-)

About time

Why does it always take a monumental embarassing failure to get governments to do things like this?

Ha, and indeed, ha

</Posh_Nelson>

BBC Request?

Was this from a Mr J. Clarkson? (Associates R. Hammond and J. May?)

Good in RAID?

It's a pity you couldn't test it in RAID. Sure, a mechanical spinny drive isn't going to saturate the interface, but they still have the highest/most cost effective storage capacity by far. Sticking 4 of these in a RAID array could make for some impressive speed increases. Looking at upgrading my 2TB RAID 5 array this year, and if someone makes a PCI-X SATA3 RAID controller, that could be quite good.

Want want want want want

But it seems the only way I can get it on contract is to switch to Vodafone for 24 months @ £35/m. I'm used to T-Mobile's more flexible pricing, where I could chuck them £100-£150 for the phone and pay £25/m instead.

Vodafone, on the other hand, are being arseholes about it - if you drop below £35 a month, you don't get net access. WHAT?? And that's on top of reduced call/text allowance! Plus, there's a 500MB/month cap on the net connection, as opposed to 3GB on T-Mobile.

Still, I really like that phone...

- About to become a Vodafone customer. :-(

Scratch that

Just noticed after writing that, Nokia's own store has more flexible pricing options than Vodafone will offer you. They still abuse you in the anus, though. Go anywhere below £35 a month and try to keep your "unlimited" net access - you either have to pay £200 for the phone (even on £30 a month) or you lose everything else, or both.

So hang on a minute

They claim that the images created are not pornographic, but then decline to scan anyone under 18 in case they're done under child porn laws?

How does that work then?

I smell a fork...

You can take my Firebug from my cold, dead hands.

That keyboard

Would get smashed to pieces in my pocket if it's on the outside of the device all the time.

Other than that, nifty kit.

Grrrrrr

File copying and boot up times are still busted for me in Win7 on my desktop - if you ask me it could do with an SP sooner rather than later.

Title my achin' ass

Pretty sweet, but a bit laggy.

I like it

When I read "AMOLED" that got a reaction - the screen on my Cowon S9 is similar and looks amazing (S9 owners, watch Wall-E on it - wow!). 1Ghz sounds fun too, but there are things about Android that still get on my tits, so I'm not sure... No physical keyboard either - I hate onscreen keyboards.

It'd be a toss-up between this, the Droid, and the N900. Personally, I'm swayed toward the N900 - makes absolutely no fashion statement, has a proper keyboard, and runs full-fat Linux. Aw yeah.

That said, if the sound quality out of this is good enough, I wonder if it would be possible to finally stop carrying a phone *and* a media player...

Never seen the point to be honest

Truecrypt offers higher levels of encryption, and on my cheap-as-I-could-get-it 16GB stick I easily get 45MB/s benchmarks. If there's a problem like this, I just upgrade the encrypted container, and I can split the encrypted/unencrypted sections of the drive as I see fit. Little more of a fiddle to set up, but every machine I have access to has Truecrypt, so that's not a problem for me.

Given that the 16GB DataTraveler Vault is £188, and my flash drive cost me £17 - to hell with that!

HD is the new i

Blegh.

Well the ladies have got it right

Can't stand anorexic stick women, all straight up and down. Curves are sexy, simple as, end of.

Shocker!

Software in not-on-time shocker.

Easy way of calculating how long a software project will really take:

1) Figure out how long the project *should* take under good conditions.

2) Double that figure.

3) Add a bit. ;-)

Give it chance

"At time of writing, just 86 people had signed the "Save MySQL" petition 24 hours since it was launched."

And that number has tripled in the past 3 hours. (Perhaps El Reg had something to do with that.) Petitions always start off slow. Give it chance to grow.

That said, how often do petitions achieve anything?

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=downing%20street%20petition&results_per_page=20&site=&psite=0&sort=rel

Fail!

So it's got quite a few features less than the US edition, is missing several formats from its repertoire, has crippled web browsing, and the books are still ludicrously expensive (an e-book should not cost the same as a paperback, end of).

Riiight. No ta.

Have they actually developed anything?

Or can you patent "future stuff"? It astonishes me that the patent system allows you to think of something futuristic that may be cool, and patent the mere concept of it, without doing any real work whatsoever.

In which case I'm putting in a patent on the 40W phased plasma rifle.

Sick? Distasteful?

I shall buy some immediately. I do love winding up the thick-skinned. Come on, Titanic was a century ago. Even their children are dead. Plus, we regularly make fun of WW1, a far greater tragedy of that point in history (Blackadder Goes Forth?)

"How long will it be before this firm makes ice cubes of the Twin Towers to commemorate 9/11?"

You're on. Give me an afternoon.

Apple might have their brand

But Google have theirs. Even amongst the Joe Bloggs population Apple are often seen as a bit smug, whereas Google are just...well...Google. Do no evil and all that garbage.

Apple are well known for making stylish kit, but Google are equally well known for making a lot of bloody nice toys that work really well. Who provides the map app on the iPhone again?

I think if anyone has a chance of catching up with the iPhone (which, TBH, I still think is an overly fancy, overly expensive shiny toy for executives, not a smartphone), then Google are it.

Generally for development

We've found that virtualisation works really well for development kit, testing/demo sites and the like. It's saved us the cost of additional servers because we can just fire up and tear down exactly what we need, when we need it, which in a flexible development environment is great.

For anything customer-facing (ie, production servers), we still do it old-school, simply because you tend to have fewer actual apps on that end (one app might be tested on a whole range of machines, but our hosted version only needs one), the user demands on them are far higher, and you are far less likely to want to mess with it.