Posts by Dan 55828 posts • joined Saturday 13th June 2009 12:15 GMT
If someone objects to being tracked, there's the Do Not Track option. It could be one of the basic configuration options shown on first run.
Session IDs in the URL are madness and got dropped by the end of the 90s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_n and the same person a day later Using Mac OS X for the First Time.
Just like Vista didn't do Apple any harm, Windows 8 won't either.
Well I've stumbled across this video and it's painful to watch...
My Nan Tries Windows 8 For The First Time
But not because she's a granny who hasn't touched a computer before, around 11-12 minutes in when the VM dialog up (as it was Win 8 running in a Win 7 VM) you can see that she's is familiar with Windows 7, that's to say the standard desktop GUI that we've all been using for the past 30 years, and she mentions that her own computer runs Windows 7.
I think we're on to something. How about 'Windows Muerto' (Spanish for dead?)
Maybe in the days of Netscape 4/IE 6 'something had to be done' but now every browser under the sun now comes with a reasonable set of cookie controls and if that's not enough there's Do Not Track which appears to be gaining traction and add-ons like ABP/NoScript/RequestPolicy et al...
This is why politicians shouldn't be allowed to legislate in technical matters. Just because they can't find the cookie options in the preferences dialog it doesn't mean that an area with a population of 400 million people + everyone who visits from outside that area should be badgered with fecking annoying pop ups saying 'ooh, we use a feature of HTTP headers that's been in use for about 15 years, are you really okay with that? By the way, if you can find the cookie controls, see you next time!'
And so the next popular add-on for browsers will be a technical solution which will identify the 'are you okay with that?' cookie and preserve it while disabling the rest or letting them get wiped when the browser closes.
No idea but there's a new euro note design appearing on the scene from 1/1/2013. If Germany, Holland, etc... can hang on that long then they can just call it a new currency, press a few buttons in banks, have a change-over period similar to how the euro first was introduced in 2001 for legal residents, and bugger off and leave the PIIGS to roll around in their own filth.
Go to a branch of DB (there aren't many in the UK) and ask them to open a non-resident account in Germany I would have thought.
But the best bet would be Norway though since they're not reliant on importing energy and don't owe anything to anyone.
When the marketoids took control of the asylum and renamed Symbian Belle to 'Nokia Belle' in their infinite wisdom they didn't realise that there would be nothing to indicate in the name that 'Nokia Carla' is the next version of 'Nokia Belle' and most things compatible with Belle would be compatible with Carla. So they scratched their heads and thought a lot and so Symbian Carla became 'Nokia Belle FP1'.
As for Symbian Donna which is the dual core version, the chances of that seeing the light of day are fairly slim given that Elop appears to be happy to stick with the burning platform du jour, Windows Phone, and the best developers that Nokia had decided that Accenture is not the place for them.
Belle and Belle FP1 are actually fairly pleasant experiences, unfortunately until Elop is fired (probably when Nokia is on its very last legs and therefore beyond help sometime next year) they won't get the exposure or the marketing they deserve.
... at least take the time to research the difference between S40 and Symbian Belle FP 1.
Should I post something witty comparing between Metro and the car smash look Channel Reg or has everyone else already thought of that already?
Still not seeing the difference between HTML5 and Mac OS X Lion/Windows 8.
I had not one but two 'opportunities' to install Chrome, once when updating and a second time in a pop-up window after reboot. Rather surprised at Avast doing that.
However it seems that if you've already got Chrome it appears to mess up your install and profile, Maybe this is an initiative funded by Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera.
Does this mean 'slide to unlock' is an innovative invention which can be used by only one manufacturer or can it be used by used by everyone now?
Not bad at all... I'm sure El Reg could pick up the ball and run with it up the flagpole to see who salutes (add comments, etc...).
By the way, for anyone who wants to try it, you have to download it using Nokia's browser, not Opera Mobile/Mini.
Well someone's got to say it.
You could at least use Nokia's App Wizard to do something with RSS.
Certainly so in the case of Google Updater. It's in constant connection with the C&C server uploading private data and waiting for orders.
If it's escaped your attention, GIMPShop is GIMP with Photoshop's UI. Could be useful if you want to convert.
We've had local telly before and it eventually turned into a half-hour news regional news bulletin. Is there really any need for anything else?
Just get a Nokia Series 40. Battery lasts forever, it runs Java, the writing fits on the screen, and it doesn't have that bug where the right-hand-side of the screen never gets repainted.
@JDX: This is my point, however I got a little carried away and it was poorly expressed.
There should be a laptop/desktop Windows 8 that uses Aero as a UI and runs on x86 and ARM.
There should be a tablet Windows 8 that uses Metro as a UI and runs on x86 and ARM. This could probably be as locked down as much as Microsoft likes since it doesn't have a monopoly, although restricting the browser to IE is rather annoying.
There is no need to have any transmogrifying Aero/Metro UI 'feature' at all, however the same installer could contain up to four binaries to make life a little simpler for the user (unless Microsoft wants to lock down the tablet version to their own shop).
But it's not getting good press round these parts...
Handbrake (freeware) could probably convert it for you. The only problem with the later versions is they've dumped .avi and xvid to be all modern.
Super AntiSpyware running alongside Malwarebytes.
CutePDF and Unlocker (just echoing those mentioned above).
Eclipse, grepWin, and WinMerge if you're into that sort of thing.
No, they'll go up to compensate.
MS could have made the WOA platform as open as Wintel and even thrown in x86 emulation since most Wintel programs just sit there in an event loop waiting for the user to click something. Instead they assume that on ARM == tablet, make Metro the only option as a UI, and lock it down to within an inch of its life and as a result locked themselves out of any fledgling ARM latop/desktop market.
Not content with that they also manage to pollute the Wintel version with Metro and bring confusion to the Wintel API.
MS have never known how to split things up, it's all a huge interconnected mess, just look in the C:\Windows directory...
Yes. Funny how Unix systems manage to get by even so.
You have heard of shared libraries?
I'd have thought by now with the amount of dlls scattered about the system that they'd actually be used for what they were originally designed for.
Or how about not using copy and paste to write code in the first place?
OTOH the way things are going, the way things are at the moment more-or-less suits the big players just fine. Software patents have to have to reach such a level of absurdity before something is done about them and this ruling helps achieve.
Um, Mac OS X is supposed to be a certified flavour of Unix.
Certified flavours of Unix shouldn't go logging passwords in clear-text to log files in /var.
What, none at all?
Those countries have just moved to the top of my relocation list.
Cyanogen usually gets better battery life out of a Samsung phone but unfortunately it'll be yonks before it'll have the drivers for the new hardware in the SIII.
Shirley Samsung should know how to get better battery life out of their phone than people hacking away at Android in their free time???
I believe the more powerful Model Bs or Masters did PC emulation via Tube. There was also PC emulation software for the Archimedes. Finally RiscPC had PC compatibility with a card. None of this would have convinced you if you were really set upon having a proper 80s-early 90s masochistic PC experience though.
First the UI, now DVDs. Next week I look forward to news about keyboard and mouse support being removed from the PC version.
And from the headline I thought it was a marvellous new way to power sat nav and mobile phones while travelling from A to B.
Icon is for me.
RISC OS is still a going concern. There will supposedly be a version of RISC OS ported to the Raspberry Pi. I might try it, just because.
Back then I was a Spectrum fanboi and everything else was crap, but looking back the 'right way' of designing those 80s systems was arguably Acorn's way.
Can we have an 'old codger' icon, please Reg sir?
Having squinted at both Samsung Galaxy and N8 screens, I think most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between 640p and 720p.
I suppose Nokia want to reduce fragmentation. If they do decide to do a new set of Symbian phones they decide to go 720p, until then if you want to look at nice photos there's always the TV output.
Answer to "What was my first car?" is "123apple456wwmfc789".
Repeat as many times as required. It's probably the only reliable way I've got of remembering hundreds of annoying security questions.
I also had the INPUT magazines, although I don't have them now. They were probably the best way of learning BASIC, seeing if you could debug the code in this issue before the issue next week which had the Erratum came out. What often help was seeing the listings for other computers although towards the end of the series when they dived into machine code with pages and pages of DATA statements it wasn't much help.
The orange book was probably the best book at teaching a programming language that I've ever read (despite it teaching Spectrum BASIC which is fairly restricted). I think the best decision Amstrad basing most of the +2 manual on it after Sinclair's + and 128K+ manuals which can only be described as failures. The +3/+2A was worse than the +2 one as they decided to introduce more of their own material.
Guess which one was coded by a company later bought by Google and guess which one was made by Google's own fair hand.
Jack the Nipper, Sabre Wulf, Chaos and Laser Squad by Julian Gallop (I think), Tornado TLL and a few other games by someone who I can't remember right now but who had a strange name, the Don Prestly (I think) games... must raid World of Spectrum and see if they're as good as I remember them...
None of today's OSes can compete against a Spectrum and a copy of The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly. Must be something about a system small enough to be able to be completely understood and big enough to let you do more or less what you want.
To any critics of the final part of that paragraph, I point them to HiSoft C.
They might be interested if they could seriously nobble Apple's push e-mail and iCloud.
I don't think Nokia can be accused of skimping on the advertising budget, sadly for them WP7 is just not selling the phones for them.
Icon is the new burning platform.
There's also the 38mpx photo mode, which is not the same as the 41mpx sensors, but it's verrry big.
The usual I'd expect. Custom firmware, fewer models, higher prices...
The laptops they supply their students (well, the laptops the students' parents forced to buy) use Dropbox to store homework. I suspect their definition of "good enough" was "free", in the same way that every student gets a gmail account.
