Posts by TrevorH
22 posts • joined Tuesday 22nd September 2009 11:44 GMT
Naming a product after a fictional glop made out of ground up human bodies sounds a little silly.
It's £399
Within 3 hours of the announcement I had SPAM in my inbox trying to sell me one for £399.
I expect more from the Register than this
Please, I expect the Register to at least take this sort of rubbish with a large pinch of salt. One of your commenters digs deeper into the reasons for these ridiculous numbers yet your writer seems to have just taken them at face value. Classic case of "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
Posted in Review: Google Nexus 4
No mention of call quality
All the other online reviews that I've read say it's great as a computer and crap as a phone with most comparing call quality to a dalek. No mention of using this as a phone!
You can't trust version numbers
You report that the site is running RHEL with apache 2.2.3 and php 5.3.3 and say that both should be upgraded but RHEL does not use standard version numbering so 2.2.3 could already be the latest apache version on RHEL5 with all known security bugs fixed. Likewise for php 5.3.3, if they're running the RH supplied php53 packages then they could already be patched to date.
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/
Never trust a version number.
Less of the CRAPITALS please
Putting CAPITALS in your subheadings was amusing the first time you did it. When you do it all the time, it becomes childish and annoying. Please stop.
Wait...
But the bits that are missing from Thunderbird are the same bits that have always been missing: no calendaring and scheduling facilities. And, yes, I do know about Lightning but that's a very poor relation to the sort of thing that's in (shudder) Outlook. To get widespread adoption of Thunderbird as a fully fledged replacement for anything that's useful in an office environment needs this sort of stuff to be included.
The entire open source calendaring landscape is mostly bare and what little there is doesn't work properly. Not just clients but servers too. It one area where there's nothing to touch the proprietary systems.
Posted in Red Hat pumps up Enterprise Linux to 6.3
Release notes URL wrong
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Release_Notes/index.html
Posted in The best April 1 gags … or were they?
I see that this year even the government joined in the April fool's frenzy with their new monitor everything everywhere law.
Oh, wait...
I bought 4 of their crappy 'Green Power' drives and have RMA'ed all 4 plus one of the replacements so far. The reduction in their warranty presumably reflects the fact that they're disposable rubbish.
http://www.acronis.com/pr/2010/11/24-13-53.html
Posted in Farewell then, Sony Ericsson
Your pic of the Sony Z5 brings back memories - one of the nicest phones I ever had (and the first too). I regretted changing it for years and I still have a soft spot for it now. I think it's probably still the smallest phone I've ever seen.
identical connectors on the top edge
Errr, wouldn't that be because it's a PCIe card?
Posted in Firms are RUBBISH at payment security
Too many false positives
Since this is failing the initial compliance audit then it will include huge numbers of false positive results from the security scan on most systems. I regularly see things like openssh version must be >= 5.whatever complaining about the 4.3 that's used on RHEL5 systems even though Redhat backport all the security fixes to their version.
All that effort for so little reward
He went to all that risk for roughly 9k a year? You sure his name wasn't kermit?
Posted in Samsung Wave smartphone
Bada Bing
So... is the search engine on it by Microsoft thus giving us Bada Bing?
Sorry, someone had to do it...
Posted in Sony Vaio P netbook
Ugly ugly ugly
That has to be the ugliest laptop that I have ever seen.
Posted in RHEL 5.5 - extra lube for your KVMs
Yes but where is RHEL6!
RHEL6: Only a year late and not even in beta yet!
Seamonkey
It hates Mozilla Seamonkey on all platforms!
Does not affect phones,only servers
A bit misleading, it doesn't commandeer your blackberry, it goes for the server not the phone.
Ridiculous
Oh, please! 85g. Who are they kidding? My phone weighs 85g and that lot looks more like 850g of complete stupidity
