Posts by jason 7

Re: Just wish

And then after you'd tested it with Linux..you'd be told you used the wrong distro.

Let them stump up the £900 and find out for themselves.

Re: False sense of achievement maxed out...

...and if people are having fun doing it though...

Re: Glad this doesn't happen everytime someone forgets to pay the bills

Oh yeah I remember Eve Shaky Hand (and body usually) Syndrome. Made accurate split second clicking to get your pod out all the more difficult.

Interceptors were a godsend for running the gauntlet.

Re: I'm surprised that more vendors aren't involved

Or more than AMD would spend in a year!

Re: EMET - a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software blah blah

No it does work and works very well. Unfortunately a lot of companies and domestics are using old software and old code that isnt approved for use with modern memory security standards and other standard techniques that EMET employs. Most of what EMET enforces should have been standard coding practice for the past 10 years or so.

If MS installed it as standard set to maximum there would be mass carnage and complaints as corporations found that Office 2003 and other such vintage software or even their own badly written in-house application would no longer work. Sure you can tweak EMET to allow them to work but it would be too much for Joe Average.

I wish they would install it as standard but the IT press would slaughter them. Damned if you do....

I've been using it on a lot of my machines for about a year now.

Re: Yep amazing.... erm, you need to rethink that.

Never mentioned using colour lasers for home. But nevermind. Also I'd say we've mostly moved on from actually needing to print in the first place. I see it as a sign of faliure if I have to print something nowadays.

Bottom line is for most people, if honest, a decent mono laser gives them less hassle, lower costs and better overall printing than the usual crappy £50 or less (or higher) inkjet.

In 20 years of computing I've yet to have a need for a printout that HAS to be in colour at home. Those flight bookings, invoices and Pizza Express coupons just dont need it.

"Oh oh its that one day of the year I want to do a colour print on my inkjet! Oh the cartridges have dried up/expired/run out (delete as applicable)!"

Medium runs of colour printing at home? What are you doing counterfeiting?

Plus you can get ethernet capable mono lasers with Duplex if you really need it for just over £100.

Makes inkjets look like toys.

Re: Yep amazing.... erm, you need to rethink that.

Well all I can say is I've moved many of my domestics over to lasers and the feedback has been great. I tell them the costs before they go that route but they all agree.

None of them would go back to crappy inkjets now.

For a lot of domestics they don't need colour printing so a £80 laser with a 1500-2000 print toner lasts them 4+ years and then they can either buy anther toner for £50 or just buy another laser this time for £70. Much better than inkjets that 'expire' as and when the like with 60% of the ink still in it.

Crappy inkjet is crappy. Plus why do people still need to print so much at home? I often ask those that say they need colour printing how many photos etc. they have printed in the past year.

"Ermmm hmmmmm none I suppose!" is the usual answer.

Perception and reality.

Yep amazing....

...that people still buy inkjets.

I've pretty much managed to move all my folks over to laser. If they want to print a photo once a year they email it to Snappysnaps(?) for £2 or whatever. Results are usually better.

I've just told all my customers I will not support wi-fi inkjet issues either. Driving out 15 miles there and back again to type the WPA key back into a £40 printer isn't really worth it for anyone.

Mostly junk.

Re: a great victory for the feminists

Erm a lot of kids go to university now. The fact that 80% of them probably don't need to though is another matter.

University education isn't the same as what it was 20+ years ago. Now it just means the equivalent of maths and English O level.

Re: I'm waiting...

I've always said if you don't have the guts to say what you want to say to someones actual face then you don't have the right to say it whether enshrined in law or otherwise.

Re: Top Gear, QI, Mock the Week, Horizon,......

Horizon hasn't really been Horizon for some time.

A faded photocopy of it's old self.

Mock the Week hasn't been the same since Frankie left.

QI is getting a bit long in the tooth as well.

As for Top Gear, the joke wore thin long ago.

Re: Content Generator

Watch this space as Netflix becomes a major creator of drama and content over the next 5 years.

They have already got off to a good start. Plus as they state, they don't have to pander to advertisers also.

Re: Metro-whatever is SO difficult to use?

But the fact remains that you don't have to use the Modern/Touch bit if you don't want to.

If thats the case what is the issue? I don't like using Modern/Touch because like most people I have zero use for it. But that doesn't stop me using Windows 8/8.1 in desktop/normal mode just I like I do with Windows 7.

As I mentioned earlier I don't see Modern/Touch when I use Windows 8. Its 100% desktop. Simple.

I'm not saying that some people don't have valid issues, but a lot sound like they are punching themselves constantly in the nuts for no reason.

Which is both bemusing and amusing in equal measure.

Re: defunct PlayBook

Well essentially you got a premium built tablet for £130 (well thats what I paid for mine) and compared to a lot of tablets you can buy today, it really shows the difference. It's not a penny pinching design.

The audio quality from the Playbook is one of the best I've experienced.

I must admit I use Windows 8 on two machines and once I'm in the Desktop I don't see the Modern bit for the rest of the day.

In fact I really don't notice I'm using 8 anymore. I guess some take more convincing.

Different strokes and all that.

Re: OEMs lack of innovation

Yes indeed, try to find anything vaguely interesting below £700 in the PC/laptop world is hard work.

I do however, wish a plague upon the folks at Oberon Media for wasting so many man hours removing their crap from laptop after laptop.

Re: defunct PlayBook

My 64GB Playbook still does sterling work as a media player on the go. Just stripped it down to the bare essentials and thats it.

Re: I'm not a fan of Sinofsky

Trouble is there is a hands off approach when you bring in some industry wunder-kid hotshot.

"Don't embarrass him Mr Ballmer, we can't afford to lose him!"