Re: C'MON MAN....
XP: The old version of Windows that people want to cling on to to avoid Windows 8
360: The old version of XBox that people want to cling on to to avoid XBONE
Title seems legit.
Posts by Lockwood
422 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2009
Can Microsoft's U-turn stop the Xbox 360 becoming another XP?
Thursday 20th June 2013 13:05 GMT
Devil's Advocate
"Microsoft's got a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality. On the one hand it can be intensely pragmatic and rational - Windows 7 - but when it's got a new idea between its teeth that's when the beast takes over and when common sense is jettisoned - Windows 8."
Or Vista, the most loathed thing since ME and before 8.
Which laid the foundation for 7.
Sometimes these polar opposite views come together in ways you don't predict.
Culture Sec: You - Google. Where's the off switch for all this filth?
M&S shoppers make quarter of a million NFC payments a WEEK
Google tool lets you share data from BEYOND the GRAVE
Cop an eyeful of that: Moto bungs 5-megapixel cam into plod radio
eBay: Our paid Google advertising was a total waste of money
1 in 7 WinXP-using biz bods DON'T KNOW Microsoft is pulling the plug
Monday 11th March 2013 15:42 GMT
The "beloved" XP is the same OS that had a load of problems when it came out?
Companies not liking the Fisher Price interface.
Applications not working due to the differences between the 95/98 and NT kernel and application compatibility not being good enough for them.
How many of these people clinging to XP were clinging to 98 for the first few years of XP's life?
How many were clinging to WfW, rather than going to this new Windows 95 thing?
World's 'smallest' mobe unveiled in Japan
Review: Britain's 4G smartphones
Satanic Renault takes hapless French bloke on 200km/h joyride
Friday 15th February 2013 18:09 GMT
I've been in a Merc Sprinter with runlock.
That got into a possessed mode where I could not turn it off; I was able to select a gear, raise the handbrake and apply power with the keys in my pocket.
Luckily, there was an isolator switch. Failing that, chucking it into 5th and trying to pull off should have stopped it quite nicely.
As people have said, think outside the box to find ways to regain control.
Boffins find 17,425,170-digit prime number
Kids as young as FIVE need lessons in online safety - NSPCC
Axed staffers hijack HMV Twitter account: 'We're tweeting LIVE from HR'
Apple users: Only Apple can track us! Not Google
Victims of 'revenge pr0n' sue GoDaddy, smut site
Crap security lands Sony £250k fine for PlayStation Network hack
This week's BBC MELTDOWN: Savile puppet haunts kids' TV
Potty-mouthed Watson supercomputer needed filth filter
A pre-ticked box in web forms should NOT mean consent - EU report
Look out, world! Are you ready for John McAfee: THE MOVIE?
Microsoft licence cops kick in TWICE as many customers' doors as rivals
Linux kernel dumps 386 chip support
Wednesday 12th December 2012 12:07 GMT 
Evil Linux dropping support
How can you people support an OS raising its minimum processor requirements a whole generation?
It's an outrage to think that they can just axe support for the 386 like that!
Where will it end? The next version requiring a 486 with 487, not just a plain 486?
The line must be drawn here! This far, and no further!
Apple, Samsung patent judge: 'I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day here'
First pic of Ashton Kutcher as the great Steve 'jOBS'
Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU
Hearts, minds and balls: Microsoft's Windows 8 Surface gamble
Ten weird Chinese mobile phones
Badges for Commentards
Wednesday 28th November 2012 11:32 GMT
Woo shiny Yay
I take it going forwards that badge assignment is going to be automatic from now, rather than El Reg staff having to hack through the assignment process every day/week/month/when they remember.
AC stuff should count towards your score, or the My Posts page should be updated (You have 100 upvotes, 20 downvotes total. (AC 10 upvotes, 19 downvotes)) Actually, that'd be pretty cool to see anyway. Do people react better to me or my mask?
OR AC could still show the right badge for the commentard. AC, gold badge... "Well, I don't know who this was, but we can narrow it down a bit!"
Exec responsible for Apple iOS map fiasco walks the plank
Just bought an Apple product? Need support NOW? Drop an F-BOMB
Italians deploy fearsome SPY MANNEQUINS to win Fashion Wars
London Underground platform Wi-Fi set to cost £2 daily for many
Evildoers can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits
NSW Information Commissioner sends email to wrong list
El Reg mulls Forums icon portfolio shake-up
BBC in secret trial to see if you care about thing you plainly don't
Naughty-step Apple buries court-ordered apology with JavaScript
Avira 'fesses up: Our software isn't compatible with Windows 8
Tuesday 6th November 2012 15:12 GMT
Something which the home market would use, like AV should be tested on something which OEMs are going to provide.
Whatever your views on Windows 8 are, there will be a lot of Windows 8 machines on the field from new hardware purchases.
If I were making a game (not the Big Game of Twenty Thirteen (TM), but Simulator-game Simulator) or a niche app, I might consider holding off.
If I were making a potentially widespread app (AV/Backup/PowerLink/etc) then I would want to try and maximise the coverage.
An AV causing BSOD is more likely than another app doing a BSOD, since it pokes around more than Notepad, for example.
It is though another non story: Developer didn't prepare for next Windows launch, Developer gets bitten by incompatibility.
Windows Phone 8 has a secret feature which may activate at any time
Tuesday 6th November 2012 15:05 GMT
Re: or record how someone connects manually for the benefit of other users.
Riiiiiiiight.
So, this thing which connects to OPEN wifi will broadcast the WPA key, since open points have WPA keys.
I'm confused by your logic.
It's going to autofill in the O2 WIFI/The Cloud/whatever forms for you. Nice and tinfoilhatless.
Ten... Apple iPad Mini alternatives
Tuesday 6th November 2012 11:59 GMT
Re: Ten... More Apple iPad Mini alternatives
7: Zip lining down OHLE
8: Running around the dodgier Middle East countries wrapped in an American flag
9: Running around the dodgier states wrapped in an Arab flag
10: Nothing
"Woah", I hear you call. "Nothing is better than an iPad Mini? Doesn't that go against your list?"
Nope. Having "Nothing" is prefereably to having this iProduct.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
