* Posts by luxor

39 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?

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Re: English Independence

When England elects a party that wants independence.

Bigger than Twitter: Opera releases rebuilt Chromium-based browser

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Re: Disgruntled but very vocal minority of power users.

Bullshit!

No wonders you are posting anonymously.

There are many, many posts by a hell of a lot of users just asking for the return of bookmarks. Definitely not a minority.

This joke of a pretend browser isn't even worth installing just to laugh at. If they can't even get the basics right then it has no future.

Wii-U boat torpedoes Nintendo's '¥20bn profit' into ¥20bn loss

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Re: I own one!

So do I and your post pretty much sums up my experience with it too.

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

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Re: Assimilation in progress?

None of the above I'm afraid.

My Opera under DDoS attack.

http://my.opera.com/devblog/blog/2012/05/03/my-opera-under-ddos-attack

Opera retires Unite, widgets in latest browser cut

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Re: Pull the plug

"Nobody uses it, nobody will use it"

Really? Speak for yourself. I know more people using Opera than using any of the other 3 combined.

But there again you already knew that since you know what we all use or don't use.

Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83

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RIP Jack

Without you I may never have started tinkering with computers.

That first VIC-20 started me on a life of pleasure.

Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies

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The best of them all.

Indeed Tony How could you forget Slade in Flame.

The best one of them all.

Flame icon because it seemed apt ;)

Compact Disc death foretold for 2012

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Load of bollocks!

Those of us who like to hear every note of the music will still buy CD's

Lossy formats are OK if you are listening through the tinny headphones of your media player but garbage through a decent Hi-Fi system. The record labels know that and I'm quite sure I will be buying them for years to come.

Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat

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FAIL

Now I'm an Ex F1 fan

Thank you BBC and Bernie.

You have just lost a lifelong F1 fan and viewer.

I have no interest in watching only some races, poxy highlights or listening to it on the radio.

Seriously who would listen to it on the radio?

Give us all the races or piss off completely.

Morons!

Nintendo takes control with next-gen games console

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Reply to Reply to post: cracking and Homebrew-enabling your Wii is the only way to make it useful.

Exactly! It's a games console for playing games on, not for watching boring films on.

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Only one controller.

Those of you who are worried about the price of additional controllers have no need to.

Wii U will only come with one controller. You will not be able to buy more - one controller, one machine.

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/NGamer_mag/status/78222736253648897

As to the Wii U itself. I want one now.

Facebook planking game claims its first victim

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FAIL

Anyone mentiond Darwin yet?

Oh they have. No point in me posting it then.

What a plank.

The Sun still not shining on Nintendo's 3DS

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FAIL

Who buys the sun anyway?

If you do, stop right now.

Buy The Beano or The Dandy instead. They are much funnier and the stories have more factual information than anything the Sun will ever print.

Mozilla to ship Firefox 4 on 22 March

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WTF?

Re: The Red pill cures all?? not really..

"at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/ scroll to the bottom, and try to select the parts of the UK.. works ok in FF.."

It works fine here Opera. I can select any part of the UK no problem.

What's the matter is Opera too difficult for you.

Radiohead goes out on a limb with 'newspaper album'

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FAIL

Stating the obvious but...

It's Radiohead it's supposed to be shite.

UK tech retailers are rubbish

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No surprise

"Staff at UK electrical retailers such as Currys and Comet know nothing about the products they're selling"

This is news? I thought that was common knowledge.

Virgin demands ISPs end broadband speed 'con'

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Hey Virgin I demand the speeds I'm paying for.

I'm sick of their oversubscribed service that means my browsing speed at peak times is abysmal. Then they have the nerve to come out with something like this.

Virgin get your own house in order before you start commenting on other IsP's misleading their customers.

Fecking joke of a piss-poor company.

Nutter repairmen scale 1,768ft TV mast

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WTF?

Yikes!

That is one job you could never pay me enough to do.

Mozilla stokes Firefox 4 with first beta build

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Cheers for that.

It saved me having to type it all in.

England beat Germany - what are the odds?

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Got what they deserved

They were lucky to get out of the group stage.

Now I can enjoy the rest of the world cup without in-ger-land being mentioned every 5 minutes during any match that they are not involved in.

UK hot-swaps leaders - Brown out, Cameron in

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No future

No future for you. If you are old, sick or disabled you might as well end it all now as there will be nothing for you from the rich kids.

Labour shock pledge: 16.8-meg broadband for ALL by 2012!

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I don't believe it.

Because Virgin media would throttle it straight away when you try to use it.

Well for us poor ADSL saps anyway.

Pink Floyd remastered for Nintendo Entertainment System

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Top stuff

What more can you say.

New Reg comments system ready to launch

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Was Flo PolarI the author of this piece.

You guys are just so silly :o)

Virgin Media to demo 200Mb/s broadband tomorrow

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Got your priorities wrong Virgin.

Fix your bloody ADSL service first so that we who use it can get more than the pathetic 0.5Mb/s we are getting at peak times at the moment. Get that fixed you morons then you can do other things.

US broadband seeks ISP speed stickers

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Good idea and I wish it was adopted here.

If it was then Virginmedia would be in big trouble at the moment as they are throttling us customers on their ADSL service at peak times and have been for over a month now.

If you get speeds over 0.5Mb/s at peak time you're doing well

It would be nice if something like The Register would take them to task on this issue. (hint,hint)

Whatever happened to the email app?

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Pocomail for me.

Been using Pocomail for years now, excellent mail client. Can't stand web mail.

Opera 10.50 goes from pre-alpha to final in 10 weeks

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No problems here

Downloaded, installed and no issues with menu bar text. No problem with any sites. No problem with text fields being visible. So I don't understand the ones who are having these problems.

What's the matter, Opera too complicated for you? Or just FF fan boys having a dig?

Google Toolbar caught tracking users when 'disabled'

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WTF?

What's a toolbar?

Just joking. I know what they are and if I get my hands on a PC with them I uninstall them.

Never had one on my PC though as an Opera user it's something I never have to worry about.

No World Cup anthem for England football heroes

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IT Angle

They will be coming home

After the first round anyway. So no point in wasting time on some dirge that nobody can stand anyway.

Spider-Man 4 washed down plughole

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WTF?

Yawn!

Spiderman 1,2 and 3 were crap. So who cares?

Firefox 3.7 to feel need for speed with multicore boost

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FAIL

Re Pandy06269

You don't pay for Opera.

Epic fail.

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Who needs addons?

Adblock in Opera just use the built in blocker.

Noscript a simple javascript sorts that out in Opera.

Opera link for bookmarks,,,,, etc.. etc.

3 billion have suffered Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'

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Best Xmassong ever.

It's just a pity Slade are remembered for this one song rather than any other of their great tunes.

Hard to think it was way back in 1973 when it went straight to number one and still sounds fresh today.

Give me this over any of that X factor crap any day.

Opera plugs hole in Great Firewall of China

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@Dazed and Confused

"No one is forcing Opera to bow down to this enforced censorship".

Really? what do you think would happen to Opera's Chinese staff if they did not comply. They would probably be imprisoned or worse.

Firefox nabs 30 million users in eight weeks

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Stop

Did he just pull that figure out of the air?

"over 30 million unique users " but how many new users? 5 or 6 I would imagine.

I'm glad I left it for Opera years ago.

Opera stretches vocal cords with v.10 release

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Sweet.

Great stuff.

A happy Opera user.

Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance

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Rubbish

That is all.

Opera FTW.

RIP Personal Computer World

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Bye,bye PCW

I have enjoyed reading you every month for years.

You will be missed.