* Posts by dogged

4790 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2009

Xamarin chucks Apple fruit at Microsoft mobe wobblers

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Cool.

Nice work, Miguel. Anything to avoid Objective-C.

Just what does BT have planned for its 4G licence: We drill into UK LTE

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WTF?

Re: in-home LTE?

er...

shurely shome mishtake?

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" something the network operators should be concerned about"

Not really. Only EE ever approach anything like BT's outrageous pricing so Voda, Three and O2 won't be worried at all.

New blow for Microsoft Surface: Touch Chromebooks 'on sale in 2013'

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WTF?

Re: Different kinds of products

You can dislike the interface if you like but if you can name something Win7 has as an OS feature and Win8 doesn't, I promise you an upvote and a mark of approval.

Note - "start button" is not an OS feature.

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FAIL

"Blow"?

Don't see how. Entirely different markets.

Adobe punts fix for Reader, Acrobat holes battered by PC, Mac hackers

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Re: Question for the *nix crowd

In theory yes, if not actually slightly more secure due to the BSD nature of the Mach kernel, as nicked by his Jobsness while he was failing at NeXT.

In practice, considerably less so due to a) the way Apple are slow beyond belief to patch anything, b) a longstanding refusal to accept that their product is vulnerable in any way and c) a growing awareness on the part of malware writers that people who buy Macs have been assured that they don't need AV software, have a relatively very high disposable income and are so gullible that they were prepared to pay Apple's prices; a good sign in any prospective mark.

OS X is, mainly because of a) and b) considerably less secure in the hands of somebody who understands computers than any linux distro.

PunkSPIDER project founder defends 'Google for web app vulns'

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Unhappy

Obscurity is cheap

The problem - as companies see it - with highlighting their vulnerabilities so that their developers can remedy those vulnerabilities is that they have to pay developers.

I approve of PunkSPIDER but I fully expect to see it banned and the creator arrested and/or otherwise forcibly silenced. Money rules the world and that money doesn't like things that sway its risk/costs assessments.

Sony promises PC-based PlayStation 4 for Christmas

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Re: Lightbar

It's going to make Barry Shitpeas' head explode. All this time he's been going on about how crap Kinect is and now his beloved Sony have copied it.

I hope it happens here, live.

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp support Oracle against Google

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Re: Huh??

The look and basis of the character Harry Potter is based on the character of Ponder Stibbons and the actual story is based on a story by Neil Gaiman

Uh, no. I don't think anyone can claim derivative works based on the description "speccy nerd". If they could, about 80% of the Reg's readership would be in violation.

I don't think Gaiman ever wrote a story about a school for wizards being exactly like Tom Brown's Schooldays+wands, either.

Survey: Bosses are DESPERATE and GAGGING for Linux skills

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Will it? What will you be developing?

"linux skills" is so nebulous a term as to be effectively meaningless, is the problem. Do they want you to write device drivers or do they need you to install Hadoop or manage an LDAP server? I keep getting sent emails asking me to go back to working on embedded linux for the building industry - sorry, not going to happen because the skills involved -although moderately well-paid (less than £55 though, by a long shot) are a long way from my skillset gained while working on RF base station firmware and that was 10 years ago. I've been doing other stuff since then.

There is literally SO MUCH other stuff that the odds on finding a job doing exactly what you do are minimal and the odds on having the required experience for the big money are vanishingly remote.

Android 4.2.2 slides up skirt slightly, reveals a slip of fishnet

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Re: 4 comments so far...

wasn't me.

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Re: 4 comments so far...

I can't see that working out well under Android.

"The radio is unusuable. Too many processes in this house - switch off the washing machine, somebody. And the central heating/"

Microsoft exec: No 'Plan B' despite mobile stumbles

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"They are not usable on the lap" - endless youtube videos of people using a surface on their lap say you are wrong.

Not that this will stop you from continuing to make this claim.

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Re: Microsoft isn't Apple...

Personally, I reckon a smart move would be to bundle a dev unlock with XBox Live Gold.

That way you'd get people interested in games able to write and sell code. And games really sell.

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Pretty much this. And if RT is the way forward, at least give us a fucking development environment on it.

I like the idea of convertible laptop but my major use case for a laptop is software design. Not possible on RT as it stands.

Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'

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Boffin

Re: Microsoft are in the mobile phone business?

Discredited almost immediately.

For reference, since "Bob Vistakin" loves this one, the Bing Toolbar - not Bing, not IE - sends URLs to Bing for analysis. Bing can then reproduce those results. In other words, it works exactly the same way as the, er, Google toolbar.

Ready or not: Microsoft preps early delivery of IE10 for Windows 7

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Boffin

Re: Making me sure to turn "auto updates" off then

I thought that, and had despaired of protecting my mum from this nonsense - she can't seem to keep using Firefox no matter how many times I install it and Chrome just sends all your traffic to Google so fuck that - but then I was lucky enough to discover Tracking Protection Lists.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/p3p/Default.html

Throw EasyList and Fanboy's List on there and it's like you just put AdBlock on IE.

Former co-CEO Balsillie has cashed out all his BlackBerry stock

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Re: same difference?

Precisely. He's only got one stomach and only one cock and there's a limit to how much he can do for either of them.

Nokia's Elopocalypse two years on: Has Microsoft kept its side of the bargain?

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Meh

Re: Welcome to the Muppet Show

Upvoted.

I should really just let him spew his bile everywhere and either never read comments or find a different site, I guess. The sad part is once upon a time, I would probably have agreed with him (although not with his rampant obsession). At age 43 with less idealism and more realism, I can admit that I was wrong about MS. They're just a company that makes and sells software and Bill Gates is not the devil; he's a man doing his best for people. The older I get and the more I learn, the more I think that even Steve Ballmer is just a guy who loves Microsoft (I don't think this can be argued, actually) and just wants it to make the best stuff.

Oddly, I prefer that to a company that collects and sells data about people so although I can't see that I'll ever replace linux/debian as OS/distro of choice, the whole new "ANDROID IS THE WAY AND THE TRUTH" thing disturbs me. For a start, it's the least "open" linux distro ever created.

Second, its job is to be spyware. I'll take MS over that any day of the week. At least they don't pretend their code is open source.

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Re: unknown details on Microsoft Nokia deal

Several long time experts in the field of business cooperatives of this nature

all of whom wear hats made from tinfoil, by any chance?

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Re: 'Nokia has started to deliver very attractive products again'

Does it?

How many Androids were sold in the first two years of the OS's life?

Fashionably slate

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One wonders why they're not making, er tablets. Since those seem to be popular.

Apple: iOS 6.1 network overload caused by our Exchange SYNC OF DOOM

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In before...

some 'tard blames this on Microsoft.

I have a list of likely 'tards right here.....

Forget wireless power for phones - Korea's doing it for buses

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Meh

Re: Wet blanket time

It might be a way to make the bastards actually use the money from the "road fund license" for, y'know, roads.

Instead of pissing it away on MP's expenses like they do now.

Microsoft! Bing! must! make! Yahoo! more! money! moans! Mayer!

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Re: And here is the fault.

An email provider with a shitty IMAP implementation?

Alas, even this still looks desperate to be like Google.

Clash of the Titans: Which of you has the greatest home lab

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Re: Maybe some more detail on my setup

I'm seriously impressed at how capable - and cheap! - HP Microservers are.

Mine was around £140 including the rebate before adding HDDs.

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Re: OK own up

Good thinking. My two small, square boxes look pretty sad against the lists we're seeing here.

I have no idea how they made the article, to be honest.

Samsung laptops can be NUKED by ANY OS – even Windows: new claim

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Stop

Re: I'm not Eadon...

MS shills

Hate to pop your paranoia but I don't believe there are such creatures on the Reg boards. Even RICHTO is pretty much a reaction to Eadon, Bob Vistakin, Barry Shitpeas and Mrs Barry Shitpeas (I only noticed the other day that "Philomena Cunk" is another Charlie Brooker character, insert facepalm here).

The "shilltards" here seem to be confined to linux and Android.

For the record, I work for a small development company in South Wales at the moment.

Eyes in the sky: UK.gov's CCTV code to IGNORE MILLIONS of cameras

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Re: " ENGLISH citizen"?@Spanners

Not really, I lived and worked in Scotland for a couple of years. It was great.

Glasgow > Edinburgh, btw.

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I'm English.

You're annoying.

I don't want to be watched all the time. I support kids wearing hoodies to avoid it. Good for them.

Also, I hope they shit on your doorstep.

BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month

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Meh

Re: The next big thing?

yeah, truly unthinkable

George Bush's family emails, pics ransacked - and spewed online

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I daresay daddy has some publicly-funded things he'd rather keep out of the spotlight too.

Oliver North could probably say for certain.

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

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I normally drink coffee. Tea is maybe a once-per-month thing.

On the other hand, my gran used to make leaf tea in a teapot when I was a child. Somehow, the whole kitchen smelled of it.

At some point, I'm going to have to make some, if only for that smell.

(misty nostalgia icon, please).

About to outsource your IT? Read this first

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Meh

Re: "About to outsource your IT?"

I was hoping you'd misread the I as an F.

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IT Angle

"About to outsource your IT?"

Then shouldn't you be reading the FT instead of the Register?

Good news! UK IT jobs up. Bad news? They're with a bunch of bankers

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Headmaster

Re: Are they all different jobs?

I don't know, but Anna and the reporter who compiled the list seem to have an issue with the technologies involved.

C# and C round out the top three. .NET was the fourth

Mono aside (it's a vanishingly small percentage of the C# platform), you can't do C# without .NET. And yet .NET is fourth. Except that it can't be, because C# is second.

So what we have here is either a) the .NET figure actually refers to VB or .NET is actually second, being C#+VB or the stupid recruiters get their data from equally stupid HR departments and thus the whole table is pretty much meaningless.

The Register Android App

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Windows

Re: "Responsive Design"

rear wheel drive?

Microsoft sails into Africa with White Spaces and Huawei phones

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Re: WP8 phones in Africa

The whitespace availability should negate the double-SIM issue, I suppose.

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Re: WP8 phones in Africa

Out of interest, why is it funnier than any other smartphone OS?

Expense? This is a Huawei Ascend - it'll probably match any price available on handsets running a different smartphone OS. Huawei are good at low cost.

Why you need a home lab to keep your job

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Re: Luckily for most who will even consider having servers at home...

There are ways around it. Many NAS boxes are capable little servers. I have two HP boxes, a Mini running two debian VMs and a Mediasmart 495 (hardware hacked for decent chip and 8GB of RAM) running Windows Server 2012 with one extra 2012 VM for exchange and SQL.

These are quiet, quiet little boxes. Low-power, too. And the hot-swappable drives are a real bonus.

Review: Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet and dock

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Maybe it's less crashy and malware-prone than Android?

(Note - not saying it is, just that it may be).

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Is there a reason you've totally hidden the "comments" box?

On topic, I'd quite like one of these. I'd like one even more if MS had been good enough to compile an ARM port of VS2012 I could download, or even buy if necessary.

However, if I have to buy my productivity software or if (as now) it simply doesn't exist, £699 is too much money.

What happened to the link to the Hardware site?

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FAIL

I defy anyone to find the "Comment" link on the Raspberry Pi article.

Here, try for yourself -

Link to Model A article

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Given that they've reviewed the Surface Pro and a Dell WinRT tablet, it could just be an Eadon-suppresion measure.

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I notice the last Hardware story has no comments. Probably because there's no visible way of adding one.

When open source eats itself, we win

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MySql

Matt,

MySql has less features than a proper database, agreed. Being a proper bloody database, for a start. However, it certainly isn't faster by any measure at all.

Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server all make it look like it's emulating a 286 to run on.

Microsoft to open 11 new retail stores by summer

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Meh

" Microsoft is following Apple's lead"

in opening stores where it's been proven that people want to buy computers?

How underhanded and generally awful of them.

US military advisor calls for McKinnon pardon, recruitment of "master hackers"

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Re: Master Hacker ?

I was expecting it to be Matt Bryant who called McKinnon a "script kiddie".

This story's going to make poor old Matt's head explode.

Socket to 'em: It's the HomeGrid vs HomePlug powerline prizefight

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Stop

Re: Crud generators.

Mountain Rescue != Radio HAMs.

But nice try.

Basically, if you can set up a full HAM kit somewhere then you've got power. If you've got power, a landline isn't surprising. If you can't have a landline you'll probably have a satellite phone.

What you won't do is spend weeks upon weeks listening to static and truckers and growing a beard you could lose a goat in.

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Meh

Re: Crud generators.

What, is a 999 call from a landline too easy for you?