Posts by Hans 1
283 posts • joined Tuesday 11th August 2009 06:36 GMT
Re: TicketMaster "Ticketfast" Charges
elCheapo, maaaan ...
Ryanair its 40 euros "to print the tickets!", yes sir, that was about the same amount as the fare, one way ...
As for the icon, no, this is not funny, it is criminal!
Re: Believe it when I see it
Well, did you not say "Sir, I have an admin fee, too, £35 please?"
Re: Linux support techs
There is this "myth" that Linux support techs are better at administering Windows boxen than Windows support techs. Just my two cents ... it makes a hell of a lot of sense, though, if you ask me. Linux administration requires a certain level of technical expertise most Windows admins lack. I remember laughing coffee out of my nostrils when Powershell came out ... I kept reading articles, blog posts etc about it with sentences to the tune of:
“You know, you really ought to dot source that script when you run it.” If that doesn’t impress your colleagues then nothing will.
Seriously? No, seriously ... I guess the idiot who wrote that had never heard of the "set" command (cmd.exe), SET/ENDLOCAL or ksh.exe.
The only thing that I can think of that will confuse the Linux techy are the different regular expression implementations in Windows (VB[A|S], findstr, powershell), but they also confuse hardcore Windows admins as there is no standard Microsoft implementation and none fully adhere to Perl regular expressions; powershell regex implementation being the worst, imho. Maybe one other thing as well, on a 64bit system, the 64bit binaries are in the System32 folder and the 32bit binaries in the SYSWOW64 folder.
The command line beats any mouse user most of the time, if you know what you are doing. This is why I install sshd on my Windows systems. I access that from UNIX systems, because cmd/powershell terminals are crap, been cursing them since Windows NT days. Maybe that is the reason why the Windows User icon on here is an image of a poor sod, BTW.
Son tired of unstableness
My son, 18, had a Blackberry, until he threw it against a wall (he had mitigating circumstances ). He wanted a Sony Android device as replacement and got it ... a year later, he went into a Phonehouse and changed it for an iphone because Android was just too buggy.
Guess that explains this ...
BTW, for what it's worth, we parents have Blackberries, now. I used to have an iPhone 3G up until early this year, no apps available for it anymore, no updates, and dog sloooow with latest iOS for 3G phone etc ... serves as ipod, now ...
Who cares what his car looks like? I he likes it, fair enough, he's driving it, isn't he ....
Tesla S? cool shit man ...
Re: Bullet proof, but not B.S. proof.
previous post was for asdf
Re: Bullet proof, but not B.S. proof.
You are sooo right .... but why did it take over 100 years to be thought of?
Re: Oracle is a software company
No, they want to push SPARC sales. Larry's wet dream is to see you all move to Oracle DB/SPARC. In chess you call that a gambit move. SPARC needs to regain traction in the industry, Oracle's takeover meant that many SUN customers moved off of SPARC - they want them back.
Oracle provides the only real enterprise-worthy database, that is why they are so big in software ... they wanna use that to leverage more hardware sales. They do not care if they cut their margins slightly for hardware, because the main goal is to inflict pain on the competition.
Traction, traction, traction ....
Microsoft Windows to Blamer
Did they not move to Windows some time ago ? Self-immune DDOS attack sounds like Windows, to me ...; -)
Posted in France demands Skype register as telco
Skype ? LOL
I have a freebox, like the bloke above, and it is amazing. Not only do I get a bluray player, 250gb harddrive, 100+ TV channels with recording, vlc support for viewing on the PC, I also get this "phone" service. Call all French landlines and mobile numbers for free, unlimited number of times, calls cut off after 1 hour, but I can dial again. I can also call 40 countries, landlines only (except us and canada where I can call mobiles as well), same duration. Also have sip credentials to use that service wherever I am, so I can use that to call when I am out of the country via Wifi ... On my mobile, I am on a 17 euro/month contract with Free mobile, unlimited data, same calls as above unlimited, call duration is 1 hour also.
Who needs Skype in France anyway?
BTW, Skype used to kill my Xorg server every now and then ... until I dumped it. For vid conferencing, you can use a multitude of stuff ... ichat on an ancient ISDN line beats skype, anytime.
Re: Discounting the cheap boxes
You don't work in a shell a lot, then ...
Azure runs on FreeBSD
... like hotmail used to ...
Posted in Review: Britain's 4G smartphones
£31-a-month deal with 500MB
What do you want to do with 500mb? With those "theoretical" download speeds, your monthly allowance will only last a couple of minutes! Ridiculous.
NB: Theoretical in the sense of "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory; in practice there is."
Re: So, will this get rid of...
When will Windows for Warships EOL ?
Re: Im not an investor but....
You really need to get a clue ... what happens to all those billions in a bank ? They are lent to poor bastards like us so we can buy our houses - so they do end up in the real economy.
"There is place at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill" The other way of describing capitalism.
Investing in the stock exchange, or working for a quoted company is murder.
Posted in Microsoft brings Azure back online
Re: Cron job needed and, er, why didn't they renew the cert for longer?
So true!
They could have used RunMyJobs (runmyjobs.com) which is a cloud-based scheduler that leaves your data in your data centers and does not rely on Microsoft to get their cert renewed ... it runs on Amazon, iirc.
Re: hmm
First generation Intel Mac Pro? That came out in August 2006, in 2013 it is outdated ... Note that most Windows running crap from that year is probably on a dump somewhere today .... so you could consider yourself lucky.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
There you have Cameron threatening to leave the ship and the average Brits here, I assume you guyz are mostly Brits, are all proud of European Union's Market muscle ... So, are you guyz leaving EU to end up skull ucked by US or are you staying in EU SuperWonderland? Would it not be easier for EU to show USians the middle finger with a proper central government?
As long as you believe your politicians, you are getting nowhere ... all across Europe, local politicians are complaining about the loss of sovereignty EU has caused, when it is in fact just "them" who are losing the said sovereignty, the EU citizens elect their European parliament members to carry their ideas and policies ... EU citizens don't lose, its the local (as in country) politicians only ...
BTW, the decline of the US superpower has already started... USians are not aware of it yet, though.
Re: They should declare him a HERO instead
Manning was a whistle-blower; this will most likely not be taken into account during his trial and he will get to ride the lightning.
As for Assange (Assange, Assange, is that so hard to spell?) he should also be considered as a whistle-blower.
Wikileaks has allowed us to see the truth behind many international interventions, the war crimes that have been committed, the US intervention to protect US companies across the globe, the dissimulation of evidence and fabrication of false evidence... I could go on ...
I think you still live in the 80's, have missed the information age and all that goes with it - just like most of the gvt's around the world.... I guess it's time you wake up, don't you think?
BTW, I thought you worked for HP and not the MI6 ... in any case, from your comments you seem not to get out much and believe everything you hear on BBC news ...
if (maxFood !== AllYouCanEat) {throw new LyingBastardException()}
Seriously, while I understand that this guy has a business, he should not have an all you can eat policy if he throws people out for eating too much.
When it sounds too good to be true ... I avoid all you can eat places because the quality of food there sucks biiiig time.
On a side note, I prefer my food cooked while I am waiting, not heated in a microwave oven - so I avoid restaurants with many different dishes on the menu.
Re: Penny wise, pound foolish. @Charles 9
"Nuclear plants are by their nature "baseload" plants because they output continuous steady power. "
That is truly a great feature, if we were using the energy evenly spread over a 24 hour period. Unfortunately, 70% of our energy is used over a 12 hour period. The other 12 hours, nukes "pump" excess electricity into the ground. That combined with an average of 60% loss in transportation (official EDF figures) ...
"[...] I'll stand outside the walls and have a choice of hundreds of phones, dozens of MP3 players, tablets galore and set top boxes from a whole host of manufacturers."
Which don't play well together !
There, done, sorry !
Financial Crisis and Luxury goods
"Apple has been the notable exception, with Mac sales showing modest gains despite luxury-item pricing."
Don't you know that luxury goods are not affected by financial crises, since the people who have the cash to pay for luxury goods are the same that take advantage of the financial crisis ?
Posted in Key evidence in Assange case dissolves
Re: The smoking gun..
"Now I am wondering how this behaviour is this any different to those idiot Muslims who are busy running around with "Behead everyone that offends the prophet" signs at the moment."
I upvoted, but don't like this sentence as it lacks a crucial adjective, namely "extremist".
s/idiot/extremist/
IE? Who uses that shit ?
Seriously, we have prime-time adds on TV for that pile of shit - it is clearly the most widely known bad, broken, and bloated piece of software.
Don't use, don't use, did I say don't use ????
Re: Smart?
"They take from a variety of places around the world."
Surely you mean New World or more specifically USA ...
Re: Coveted item
Android tablets? Nobody wants them, so why steal them?
Re: @Bruyant - POWER & SPARC Comparison
"They are - IBM makes a massive profit off Power and has for years, whereas uncompetitive SPARC killed Sun and is still making peanut (if any) profits for Snoreacle! And the reason is because us customers, after years of Sun failure, just don't believe the Sunshiner hype anymore."
1. IBM will have to deliver something to catch up
2. Have not heard anything about HP-sUX on iTanic, Matt, have any news ? Have they dumped HP-sUX yet?
Sorry, I did not mean to hurt you ...
Re: elReg biased?
"Giving the chooks room to run around outside rather than packing them into a windowless shed at a density of a dozen per square metre certainly isn't."
BOTH VARIANTS ARE IN THE OPEN IN MY EXAMPLE!
Compared to Auschwitz chicken, it is more like 6 to 8 times the price .... where do you live?
Re: Why it's "better"/
The reason why it's better and why I seriously doubt the results of this research is not that it is more nutritious, nobody knowledgeable in the matter ever claimed that, BTW, but that the stuff contains significantly less pesticides (There will always be pesticides everywhere for centuries to come). The fact that they use manure for fertilizers is pretty damn logical, that is exactly how the planet has been doing it for billions of years - anybody claiming this has any negative impact should be shot on the spot. Note that the excrements are composted for 6 months before they are used as fertilizers, pathogens cannot survive that.
Since the article does not indicate any reason for their conclusion, just a simple "we read through numerous reports and can say" I call BS, probably funded by Monsanto.
Do we have a link to the report? I could do with a good laugh this week - want a new keyboard.
elReg biased?
"This tends to greatly reduce yields from a given amount of land, making organic food very expensive compared to the regular stuff."
I cry BS and would like to see a report on that. The price difference is merely because of the hype. Previously, organic food was produced by little farmers, sold in specialized shops. Now, supermarkets have seen that ppl are eager to pay 1.5 or 2 times as much for organic variants, and are laughing all the way to the bank.
The best example is chicken ... organic chicken must run around in the open and be given "natural" food, other chicken that are "produced" in the open can be fed anything - the organic variant is priced twice the price, although "natural food" is cheaper ...
Windows Phone 8: What Nokia and Microsoft MUST do ?
Quit it .... thanks!
Re: "Cupertino idiot-tax giant"
DIE Bildzeitung, aka Bild .... not das ....
Re: As with all
Your phone seems to have a hardware fault - rebooting when attempting to use the camera sounds like an old samsung I had that did the same.
I totally agree on this, though: "For the record I'm running iOS 5.1.1 (the latest available) although I wish I hadn't upgraded to iOS 5 as it wiped all of my music and TV programs and it's a PITA to put them all back (so much so that the phone remains largely empty over a year after I "upgraded")."
So ffffing true!
The future of Java
OpenJDK is the reference implementation for Java 7. What this means is that OpenJDK, the open source code of the Oracle JDK, will be maintained by the open source community with fixes. You should, I think, use OpenJDK for your JVM.
Oracle has thus killed of GNU ClassPath ( waste of time), Harmony (an embarassment for Oracle).
Both IBM and Oracle are working together on OpenJDK, it is the future.
Unfortunately, icedtea is a pile of crap of a web browser plugin, or better was, last time I tested it.
So, please, stop your diatribe on Oracle, please ... jealousy gets you nowhere.
Re: Yep
Yes, I would love to, if it could load other Java applets than the standard test applet on java.com.
Re: Apple just proved that Samsung is as good as Apple but half the price
Have you ever used an android? It crashes all the bloody time, more than Alpha-quality iPhones a year before their release ...
Re: Just because you disagree with the verdict, doesn't make the verdict wrong!
Oh, so we have an anonymous judge here, what is your jurisdiction, sir ? Have you really read those big thick books on patent law ? I doubt it ... Next !
I love this ...
PS: I love it how any comment anti-Apple gets loads of upvotes, are you bitter, my friends?
Re: Enterprises expensive loss? Posted Thursday 30th August 2012 10:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Your re 1: single power supply is the only valid point there, mate ... and yet, that can be overcome.
Your re 2.
Anecdotal, sorry.
Your re 3.
You clearly do not have a clue what you're talking about, go back to your mouse and sh..t ..p, let real men talk. I mean seriously, you are the guyz that make Microsoft laugh all the way to the bank paying 4 to 8 times what you should be paying, and all that for alpha-quality software. What you're criticizing is all the open source tools like apache, mysql, Bind etc - you know, the stuff that makes the internet work, not crash, like your primary domain controller (sorry, old outdated joke, I know) ... but what are you doing in IT anyway?
When it comes to database servers, please, Windows is a pile of crap, don't get me started on file/print servers, please, even for Windows clients ... The only so-so stuff they do in a server room is Exchange ... unfortunately, for that, you have to cough up tons for AD and it does not work well with other platforms ... I know, webmail has come a long way, but still ...
In today’s world you wanna use the right tool for the right job .... I could not live without sed, awk, vi, ...., and proper ksh terminals - I know I can get them on Windows as well, but they never work right there, not even on cygwin ... besides, Windows Update stinks, and that affects the whole platform.
Grabbin' coat, on me way to the pub ...
Re: For some value of 'hint'
Congrats, you found a woman who does not use her kid's name in a password ! I have not, yet ...
Re: Excellent DrXym
File Copy is far better implemented !
What, you mean ie will no longer download files to %tmp% first then move them over to %WhereEverIWantedToPutTheFileInTheFirstPlace% taking ages doing so for "big" files? Naaaa, I do not believe you ... simply cannot be true.
Re: Mouse travel
It is brilliant ... As others pointed out, you just flung the mouse up in the direction of the menu item you want, cannot go past it ... cool on laptops as well, just swift the finger - on large screens, max out acceleration !!! Besides, Macs have standard shortcuts for most things and an easy edit screen to create new ones ...
What most ui designers do not get is the fact that we have plenty of horizontal yet limited vertical screen real-estate. All ui's I have seen on a computer so far have menus at the top .... put them to the right-hand side, you morons, coz makes much more sense as that is where the eye is trained to look first anyway for most (sorry Israel etc).
Re: As an Apple fan I'd just like to say.....
Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinMe, WinXP, Vista, 7
/me runs screaming from the building
Funny? did not think so - lame? yes, just as lame as your comment ...
Re: Typical journo rubbish
Well, I am old enough to know that what you write could have been written back in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2007.
While I do not think they can grow indefinitely, they have quite a lot of new kit up their sleeves, just waiting for the proper moment to come out.
As for SJ, the first time he left the company was a completely different story - the sales guy was in charge back then.
Re: If they banned devices that look like another
1. Cars all look reasonably different - you can often even see which make it is simply by looking at the design, no need to read the make sticker - this was the case for Apple kit as well, before ...
2. Cola? From what I heard, the copies taste like shit - I think all Colas taste like shit. Still, nobody is stopping people from creating a phone/tablet. How can you compare phone designs to beverages ???
3. There were smartphones before apple came into the market, all looked different to Apple's model back then, now new smartphones all look the same, like Apple's smartphone ...
4. Most Hollywood movies are crap anyway ... how can you compare phone designs to movies ?
Cannot see where you are coming from ...
"if we ban all devices that look like another, then innovation really will stifle"
Since when is copying a design innovation ? Do you work for Microsoft?
Re: Funny
How do pennies amount to half the price of an iphone ??? Does Samsung have 10 000 applicable patents?
Posted in Assange calls for help from … Quakers?
Re: He's mad
I suppose you live just opposite the embassy and could clearly see no police entering the building from any side at that very moment ... Ecuador have a lot to win, they are, like other American states, oppressed politically and economically from the crazy USians, who usually take the decision on who is allowed to govern which country through petro-dollars or CIA intervention.
As for the poor Swedish woman, has she taken an HIV test? Is it negative? If the answer to both questions is yes, what is all this fuss about?
By principle, you usually do not extradite people for minor offenses (especially if it is just for a fine - you send the bloke the fine, period) and you certainly do not do it if the other state is demanding extradition on a basis that does not constitute an offense in the state he is in. That the judge took a tangent and apparently re-interpreted the extradition request without taking the local Swedish case into account strikes me somewhat - IANAL, my wife is ... ;-)
Posted in Assange calls for help from … Quakers?
Re: I don't understand
"Question: Why haven't the US authorities tried to pick him up in the UK? Our government is even more likely than the Swedes to bend over for the Americans."
That would mean we stood up to the USians in the last 72 years, which, clearly, has not yet been the case - Blighty simply is an inflatable sex toy to the US.
Besides, I think since they cannot really trial him in a court in the US as they have absolutely no ground to stand on, they wanna kidnap him Guantanamo-style ...
Posted in Assange calls for help from … Quakers?
Case dropped, pressure, case re-opened
This whole story is pretty simple, his case was dropped & closed, then few weeks later the case was re-opened.
What is wrong with you ? Can't you smell fishy cases or what ?
Besides, the fact he engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman while she was sleeping is not the problem, the problem was, apparently, that he was not wearing a condom. One female Swedish judge dropped the case - in 99.9% of cases this means you can leave and are free - however, for some 'unknown' reason, another Swedish judge re-opened the case and wanted him for hearing. Him being Assange and all makes me paranoid.
When it comes to WikiLeaks - we elect our governments to act in OUR interests, however, a lot of information is withheld from us "for security reasons", which simply SHOULD NOT BE. Anytime they want to fuck us, they claim it on security reasons ... like H2O, nail-clippers, phones etc in planes. If you believe that shit, I invite you to leave our gene pool. Humankind will appreciate!
