Orange
Looks like Orange have now also blocked The Pirate Bay. Good job there are other Torrent sites out there!
Posts by mfraz
104 posts • joined Wednesday 8th July 2009 06:57 GMT
No Android version?
This is one app I'm happy isn't also available on Android. Who at Orange thought this would be a great idea?
Fibreglass?
At least that'll mean that I could take it into work and repair the case if it ever crack, or I could replace it with a proper carbon fibre case :)
Wonder if I can justify it as an upgrade from my 3 year old SC-LX80?
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Almost forgot about Burn After Reading, just glad I only rented it.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Attack the block has to get my vote. Really really poor film.
Re: iLavatory
Does it have rounded corners too? Then it must be a new Apple product!
Re: What kind of div would stand in the rain...
£1000 for an ElReg photographer? I'll take 3!
So OFCOM have found that LTE interferes with more devices, but because they'll get lots of money from the auction they basically don't care?
Re: Re: Polluter Pays
Ofcom should never have decided to sell of the spectrum to mobile phone companies, plus this whole digital TV and radio thing is becoming a pain in the behind. How long before we all have to buy a new receiver/aerial to cope with the next change?
Posted in Space: 1999 returning to TV?
Not holding my breath
Considering the poor remakes/reboots etc that have come out recently - Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, The Prisoner, Hawaii 5-0 and the Thunderbirds film - I'm not expecting much.
T&Cs
"One solution, admittedly a bodge job, is to create GMail accounts for the children to use themselves, but don't give them the requisite passwords."
Isn't it in Google's T&Cs that you can't have a GMail account if you're under 13? If so, wouldn't doing the above violate it?
Araldite
Yep 10-1 mix of AY103 and HY951, but I prefer to use Hysol EA9396 these days.
The real reason
"as consumer appetite for big electronics flags"
I'm sure that it is more due to everyone realising they can buy the same product cheaper on line and Comet haven't got a clue about the items they are selling.
Plus they seem to want to sell you Monster this-and-that with everything.
Posted in Jamo S 426 HCS 3 home cinema speakers
Not bad
The 5 speakers that make up the speaker package don't look too bad, but that sub looks like it belongs in the 70s.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company. I'm sure I'm not the only one who hope this ban happens.
Orange
How long after that will it take for Orange to release the update - shall we say 6 months?
Novilty items
That would include Windows, Windows Phone 7 and the Zune?
Posted in Ten... all-in-one inkjet printers
This is the reason my last 2 printers have been from HP - their HPLIP software is excellent.
I think the dictionary is still American - there are things like Personalization and Airplane mode in the settings menu - even though language is set at English (United Kingdom).
Posted in Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV
All the phones I've bought have come with a memory card.
Posted in Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV
I looked at the manual on Sony's website and to use BD-Live, I have to "Connect a USB memory to the USB jack on the rear of the player".
How much would 1GB of memory add to the cost of the player?
Posted in Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV
So Sony still haven't managed to produce a blu-ray player that has its own internal memory and instead have to purchase a USB stick before we can use BD live?
Posted in Windows 8 to boot in 8 seconds
What are the chances that they'll be able to install the updates during normal use and not part of the shutdown procedure?
Posted in Sony drives DAB+ motoring
DAB+
Why is everyone promoting DAB+ radios at the moment? They aren't going to work any better over here as we're still using the old DAB standard.
Acorn were there first?
How about the Acorn (ART) NewsPAD - http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD?
Posted in Ten... outdoor gadgets
Garmin
The bottom right icon on the Garmin GPS watch is obviously not from Somerset, otherwise it'd read "where's it to?"
Local TV?
We used to have something called regional TV from the various regional ITV companies until the Tories allowed them to merge until Granada and Carl(t)on were left who then became the ITV we know it as now.
Website
times.co.uk isn't the website of the newspaper it is thetimes.co.uk. times.co.uk is owned by Giant Games Ltd.
Also seen
This has also been shown in the promo video for Nintendo's WiiU.
FCC or OFCOM?
Looks like FCC are about as useful as OFCOM is on this side of the pond. i.e. completely useless.
Posted in Do we really want 100Gig Ethernet?
Maybe not
Maybe he didn't say that, but he did ask what a network was when being shown computers connected using Econet at Acorn's HQ in the mid 80s.
Saving?
How can they say that "saving of some £85 million over 25 years" when they'll have to go through the same process and spend more money when the next version of Windows comes out and the next etc?
Marathon Facebook scam
Thought they were called Snickers now?
Too much choice?
If that is true then why do Microsoft release so many different versions of Windows each time?
Hackers?
Open source software is created by hackers, I think he meant to say crackers.
Headphones?
Surely you won't hear lots of speakers because they'll be listening on head/ear phones. This because - at least with all mobile phones I've used - the headphone lead acts as an aerial and won't even let you use the radio app without them plugged in.
Posted in Microsoft's IE9: Don't believe the hype
HTML5 Test
IE9 RC scores just 116, that's bad as even Firefox 3.6 scores 139! BTW, what is CCSS3?
Posted in Doner kebab saves bloke's life
The Sun
Knew this story was from the Sun without looking at the link. Only they would tell you how much the kebab cost.
Posted in MSI tabulates WindPad Windows tablet
Etch-a-sketch mode
Wonder if it comes with an Etch A Sketch mode so that when it BSODs you just shake it and it reboots.
Just need..
Them to support the last remaining platform - Linux.
Seeing as it seems to be taking ages for them to update Amazonmp3 for Ubuntu 10.10 I will not be holding my breath.
Think I'll stick with my HP
Going to stick with my HP C309g for now as it has a proper network connection, bluetooth which means I can print from my phone without any extra software. Plus it works with Linux with HP's HPLIP.
Posted in Hacker unshackles Kinect from Xbox
Sales
I think that the reason Microsoft are concerned is that they are selling Kinect at a loss and hope to make the money back on software purchases.
If everyone goes out and buys a Kinect and hacks it to connect to their computer, they won't be buying any software.
Personally I can't wait for this to be included in the Linux kernel so we can all use them.
Posted in iPad hits Asus Eee PC sales
No sympathy
I have no sympathy for Asus. They had a great product with the original eee pc, and then ruined it by making successive models bigger, more expensive and then sticking Windows XP or 7 starter on them.
Posted in Philips BDP3100 Blu-ray player
Makes a change
It makes a change to hear someone in the USA complaining about not getting something we are.
Posted in Philips BDP3100 Blu-ray player
Not buying another Philips player
Bought a Philips blu-ray player earlier in the year, but could never get it to connect to my Belkin router. The router could see it as it appeared in the DHCP list of the router.
Maybe this one is better, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.
Here is the list
http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/13/millions-of-home-routers-vulnerable-to-web-hack/
Or this link might take you straight to it
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Aupu_01ythaUdGZINXQ5Vi16X3hXb3VPYkszNXM0YXc&hl=en
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