Posts by Natalie Gritpants
308 posts • joined Wednesday 9th May 2007 16:43 GMT
Oh dear
I have no icons and a plain pale cream background so it loads in VNC very fast. Does this mean that people think I'm a paranoid control freak?
I am, but I was hoping no-one would notice.
Posted in Yes! It's the cardboard PC!
How big is the shipping container?
After all cardboard is quite fragile so it will need a big reinforced box to prevent it getting squashed by the postman. I know, you could use the metal box you're not using for the PC.
Posted in Asus Eee keyboard opens CES
Nice as a NAS?
If the ports are up to hanging a bunch of USB drives and Linux works with the display it might make a nice NAS with it's own UPS.
Where's the I.T. angle?
Even P.H. is asking.
Good job Microsoft
Please make it so that our leaders are stuck, unable to make things worse for as long as possible.
Posted in BNP leaked list claims first victims
Ambiguous title
There was I expecting a juicy story on how the first `victims' were claiming the BNP leaked its own list for publicity.
@ John Imrie
Agreed, every record should be protected and only once all the children of MPs (and Lord Adonis) have been unprotected, then maybe some others could be unprotected after seeking their parents consent
Posted in Banks to share data on promiscuity
As a former credit tart
I'd like to thank all the credit card issuers for a decade of interest free balance transfers that I put in my savings account. Actually, thanks to their long term customers who actually paid for it all. I look forward to it all starting again as soon as the lemming like rush for growth starts again.
Only one kind of business will do this to its customers
And that would be a bank.
Solid gold?
How can the electronics work then? There must be some semiconductor material in there or it would just fuse the USB port you plug it into. Oh, you mean not gold plated. I think you should just call it a "gold USB stick" in that case. The lack of "-plated" means it's not plated. I'm totally 200% annoyed by your lack precision.
What a nice place Keswick is.
The kids there don't do drugs, don't throw bottles, don't burn cars and don't drop bricks onto trains.
It'll also discourage all but the wealthiest.
And the porn industry.
Pairs? try www.onenightinparis
Posted in Vista scrabbles for X Factor
Probably won't see it
I'll be viewing the lovely Cheryl using MythTV on Linux precisely because I can skip over the ads with the handy 30 second skip button on the remote (it's the only button with any signs of wear).
Posted in US satellite returns first hi-res snap
Prince fans?
Lots of purple cars in that car park. Was Prince performing there ata the time? Might explain the empty spaces.
Shame about the doors
It looks nice but what happens when you get back to the car park and find you can't get the doors open because they need about a yard of clearance. Not very cool climbing in through the sunroof.
Posted in Aaaagh, there's a thumb in my USB port!
Any prints on it
Might be handy as a backup in case identity thieves steal you own.
Paris is used to thumbs in odd places.
Posted in BT seals free Digital Vault
Your data. it's precious, but only to you.
Nip down to your high street gizmo shop, buy an external USB drive, plug it in, copy your stuff, keep it in the garden shed, greenhouse or take it to work.
Posted in Boris boots Transys off Oyster contract
How many customers do they have
£100m per year for the ticketing system seems steep for Greater London (pop 7.5m in 2006). How much would an old fashioned system cost (you know, with humans on trains and at barriers)
Start with kernel.org
Their banner is 7 months out of date.
Re: meat eating fascists
If you eat meat you might be strong enough to hold down the shift key a bit more often.
Posted in El Reg net closes on Street View fleet
In Brizle in the drizzle
Just past me on The Triangle at 12:10 today (11th July) but the camera was covered up prolly due to the weather. It should be used in the drizzle since that would give the rest of the planet a fair representation of what Bristol is actually like.
Shame it was covered, there goes my 1.5s of fame. I was even carrying a laptop and a bar of chocolate.
Look on the bright side
After a few cold miserable gloomy days in winter you'll be protected from motorway pile-ups in the fog since your car battery will be flat.
Mine's the nuclear powered one thanks.
Posted in El Reg procures OGC mousemat
Nice logo but.
they should have spent less money on that monster glass table and then, maybe, the budget would have stretched to a laptop for the woman. Or don't they count?
Posted in Pinnacle Video Transfer
Did you try it with VHS?
Complaining about compression artifacts is a bit rich since it's intended for VHS and not for decompressed MPEG.
Much cheaper would be
Felching a cow.
What women want
Is a man with an eight inch tongue that can breath through his skin.
Computers don't think.
As mysterious and baffling as they seem, they're not really thinking. Yes we are. Hey, who typed that?
Not until flash gets a lot faster.
10GB for an HD movie plus all the other stuff that the content provider will want to force you to watch. How long will you b prepared to wait at the shop? Probably not much longer than than it takes to process your credit card.
Maybe if BlockBuster rented you pre-filled flash cards it might work but then you've gone back to the inventory problem.
Posted in Copyright levy under EU spotlight
Green light to piracy?
What with ISPs offering unlimited downloads and now a copyright license with every storage device. Hmm, £500GB for £75 in PC World = £0.75 per dvd image, £0.07 per CD image - bargain! How much is this license going to be?
How about this
Sh!te
@Neil Hoskins
The reason I want lossless is that you can convert it to any format (present and future) and it will be as good as that format.
Wake me up when someone sells FLAC
Or something similar.
Couldn't fail to win
Have you seen the competition it was up against?
Paris cos she wins similar awards.
@JeffyPooh
Don't you mean 378 miles south?
Posted in The OLPC XO laptop
Wrong age to do the review
What did your kids think of it? I doubt they'd be bothered by lack of Firefox or MP3 playing.
Interstellar travel, Only for Billy nomates
OK, so you might get to other places using antimatter before you die. But when you get back your spouse, kids and mates will be long dead. Not my idea of a happy life.
Farmers ARSE is not for aliens.
It's directly opposite a house and aligned with it, methinks it's intended to be viewed by the occupant as they open the bedroom curtains in the morning.
Reminds me of the story of a landscape gardener that took revenge on a nightmare client by planting daffodils in the lawn as specified, the trick was that they didn't come up until the next spring and then they spelt out exactly what the gardener though of the client.
Posted in UK gov greenlights 450MW wind farm
CF lightbulbs
Whoopie doo, now can I continue to use tungsten light bulbs please?
Baron Spithead!
Is it panto season already?
Principal eh? not for long
".. co-educational high school that challenges students to develop spiritually, academically, socially, and morally in the Catholic tradition."
With a head like that, I bet it is a challenge.
@ Daniel B
> How ugly things get down there.
So you think south is down? It's further from the earth's axis than you are, so I'd call that up.
@Stuart byrne
No direct root between the stations! How does the train manage then? Does it take the bus?
Saw a brave soul on the M4 this morning.
Driving a GMC Novolo (ugly, pointless 2+2 flatbed). The plate on the back was a square one and he had a tow bar beneath it. On top of the tow bar was an arrangement of metal things that neatly obscured all the writing on the number plate. Very clever mate, but even if the cameras were all rear facing, just how many GMC Novolos are there in the UK?
Unspent farm subsidies!
Thanks, I'll have those back (cash, cheque, lower taxes, I don't care)
Scam the scammers
So is it possible for me to hook up a pronouncable password generator to the domain query site?
Dying isn't a way out
Expect to see them take over the cemetaries too, then they'll be digging you up to get the latest bio-id data from your corpse.
@ Mike Richards
It might improve the beach at Weston-super-Mud. No tides mean nothing being washed up by high tide, no reason for joyriders to dump cars on the beach for a laugh, and no danger of idiots/toddlers getting into difficulty in the mud when the tide comes in faster than you can walk.
