* Posts by Pete 48

31 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Meet 'Moz://a', AKA Mozilla after it picked a new logo

Pete 48

Re: The next Big Thing

CHRΩ surely...

Microsoft's cringey 'Hey bae <3' recruiter email translated by El Reg

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Shit

Bæ/bae is a Danish word for shit.

Translation:

"Hi Shit Intern with less than 3 IQ"

Good to see Microsoft still has a high standard of recruitment, theyre only looking for the shit interns.

Australian boffins say Quantum Pentiums are on the horizon

Pete 48

The old IT addage

Turn it off an turn it back on ag... wait, its both on and off... shit

Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back

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Change in tune

OS X doesn't look so bad now, does it, windows fanbois

Disclaimer: Windows developer for nearly 20 years

Microsoft's HoloLens: Here by 2016, mere three THOUSAND dollar price

Pete 48

Re: Useful for "reading emails on the plane"?

AssHolo

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Pete 48

Lifes Short, Have an AffHAIRY SPIDER!

Big trouble in big China: Crashing economy in Middle Kingdom body slams US tech stocks

Pete 48

they get...

SHINY!

Drone delivery sparks Ohio prison brawl

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Business Model

Amazon and Craigslist merger?

Jurassic World: All the meaty ingredients for a summer blockbuster

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Coat

a summer blockbuster?

I'll be sure to go and see it in 5 months when it's summer here.

Mines the one with the finger sleeves and bear ears

Swordfish fatally stabs man after man stabs, fatally, swordfish

Pete 48
FAIL

Big Heart

Ironic that 'he had such a big heart', Perhaps the fish knew that too, then aimed for it.

Rejoice! Sysadmin day is... TODAY. Now get in here and win free stuff

Pete 48
Meh

Re: Over in Australia

Australia is a large country, with an East Coast and a West Coast, just because it over for you in the East, doesnt mean its over for Australia.

We still have 30 minutes of working day left here in the west, and im still waiting for some acknowledgement.

Obama calls for study into games ‘n’ guns link

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Joke

Re: Plan B? Plan C?

The right to bear arms?

All of those poor, innocent, limbless teddies.

iPads improve image of IT industry

Pete 48
Stop

Too soon...

Too soon man.

Seagate sued for 'fraudulently hiring engineer'

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Joke

Time Wasted

He owes me 2.7m for the time i spent trying to pronounce his name.

Apple reckons light shines between iPhone customers' ears

Pete 48
Flame

A what?

a "faulure" to spell failure, methinks.

Apple debuts Safari 5 for Mac and Windows

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FAIL

And yet...

They still havent fixed the folder redirection loss or settings problem.

iPad to become inflight fatcat fun-slab

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FAIL

Um...

you do realise there is a YouTube app included OOTB right?

Mafia Wars dons deprived of pit bulls

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FAIL

Analogy Fail

"If the game featured iPads being used to beat people to death I'm sure Apple would complain"

Uh, PETA dont own the COPYRIGHT TO ANIMALS.

Pete 48
Go

fuck quietly

for the purpose of irony, have them set upon by vicious pit-bull's

Steve Jobs spotted not hating Eric Schmidt

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Joke

Gay Couple

"They're going to see it all eventually, so who cares how they get it."

Photos of jobs and Schmidt in an erotic soy bean porno...

2 men 1 cup... of soy been latte.

Oz songstress: Record label 2.0 abandoned me

Pete 48
FAIL

Fosters...

Australians don't drink it.

Payment card skimmer secretly planted in gas station pump

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Thumb Down

A massive $11,000?

Last year in Perth, Australia, a skimming operation operating within mcdonalds netted around $5 million.

Apple bets on Mac-only photo land grab with Aperture 3

Pete 48
FAIL

Even More Research Required, by you.

"So if you're a Mac Pro user still using a Power PC G5"

Theres no such thing as a G5 Mac Pro, Mac Pros are and always have been 100% intel (woodcrest xeon being the first)

The Powermac G5 was the ancestor to the Mac Pro.

Steve Jobs in secret NYT meet

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Joke

Rejected 2.0

We're sorry, you can not install food onto your plate that has not been reviewed by the FoodStore (tm)

Aussie ISP beats Hollywood on 'copyright' rap

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FAIL

Fosters

No one drinks Fosters in Australia champ.

Apple preps touchy-feely iMac

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FAIL

You mean...

You mean the HP Apple Macbook Pro 15" ?

US Air Force orders 2200 Sony PS3s

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Joke

The first calculation entry...

'Exit Strategy'

surely will all that power they should be able to figure that out now.

Apple preempts Win 7 with fresh iMacs, Macbooks

Pete 48
WTF?

Bastards!

I just bought an iMac 4 weeks ago for AUD3,000 and now they release newer, faster, bigger screened versions for $400 less!

My goat has been gotten :(

Facebook enables apps to peek at mail

Pete 48
Flame

@Mortal - 20th Century?

Seeing as facebook wasn't launched until 2004, that would make it 'so 21st century' would it not?

US music publishers sue online lyrics sites

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Paris Hilton

Pussy Monster

LOL @ Pussy Monster

Paris Hilton for obvious reasons.

January's Windows 7 hole still open

Pete 48
Dead Vulture

Windows 7 Development Stage

Windows 7 _is not_ Beta, it is RC1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

please refer to the diagram on the right.