Posts by saif

Who can forget SOHCAHTOA?

I say sock-it-to-her. This China OS probably closed source and filled with Chinese government back doors to replace the NSA back doors. Lose-lose situation but which loses more?

Did it fall or was it pushed?

Methinks there is more to this...Martians playing skipping stones rather than rolling stones

Deja Vu

Ok not long ago an evangelical guru was appointed to migrate the NHS to open source.

Microsoft responded by making their licensing terms more generous.

The NHS accepted hinting that this was the plan all along.

NHS procurement is a corrupt, incompetent, bunch of bureaucrats who get things that they do not use themselves (software, drugs, implants) by putting out a tender, and waiting for the vendors to do their marketing. Those with the fanciest presentations and the biggest kick backs get the deal.

Ref: NP4IT, Microsoft NHS deals, Darent Valley and Pembury Hospital PFIs etc.

Profound changes?

New to the Foundation, but both already well established Linux companies. A significant change would be when a non Linux company joins the foundation...e.g. the NHS, the NSA, or Newscorp,

The opposite of Gaffa...

Might be an idea to let the rockets escape...setting them off on a diverging, ascending directions and taking a wide angled picture as they head off into space. Advantage...also get an indication of thrust, acceleration and an idea of optimal launch angle...

Well it stops people forking around, going where they shouldn't, unless they are Google

Makes sense to me. Seems it is the only way to get a unified, unfragmented platform experience, with hardware manufacturers differentiating with strengths of the hardware, and software developers having a consistent API to work with. Having a core that updates across all devices rather than at the manufacturers' or service providers' whim would be useful. Of course you might have some concerns about privacy...

Of course, Android could run on a windows kernel

just like Gnome, KDE etc can run on Windows. It appears to be a way of getting the established android app ecosystem with a trajectory to have a windows internals in the future. Stage one of the good old Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish ideology

Even Russian hackers need inside info...

..and with no access to the back doors in American software, provided by the platform (windows, IE etc), or physical access to the networks of websites which mostly hosted in US (google etc) they have a tough time doing any effective cyber spying. Money is not the limiting factor, knowing the weaknesses (deliberate or discovered) is more important.

A tiger never changes its spots

Microsoft has a history of this kind of behaviour, deliberately crippling cross platform compatibility. Producing error messages that alarm users hoping to use non-MS products is certainly not new... avid reg readers will recall http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility/

and making people attempting to use Linux VMs uncomfortable clearly a key objective

Ruskies annexe the ISS next

If the only folks that can maintain the ISS with people, fuel and equipment...they could claim squatter's rights...

Crimea river...

Wonder if the Russian thought of counter-sanctions against the ISS. Without Soyuz that $150 billion dollar space station is toast

.New-OS-talgia def. pain of installing a new operating system

It does not make sense to migrate a desktop system running XP into windows 7-8. For windows 7-8 you need a hardware upgrade with more memory, more cores, better graphics card bigger hard drive etc

1) Buy a new computer, 2)extract your old drive and attach it to your new computer running the drive in a virtual machine (e.g. virtual box) and 3) migrate gradually into your new OS, while retaining the continuity in you existing environment, copying the useful stuff leaving the cruft in old drive as a back up.

If you have to keep the old hardware, Linux is the ONLY way to go. Win 7 will run on old hardware but t will not be fun. I would dual boot, and then as above clone the drive to work under XP in a virtual machine...I did that 6 years ago...haven't looked back since, and use my old XP environment for the nostalgia...

Makes harpooning one more rewarding

Fed up of the hard bodied fish robots getting away every time...try a c manoeuvre escape from that one, matey. But what wrong with an ordinary electrical actuator used in every other fish robot...sometimes engineers over think.

Transparently Two-faced

I have got eyes at the back of my head, but can still see one screen at a time...if have to flip the phone over anyway then...what's the point? It may save money having a front and a rear camera as the same camera...but then Apple != economy. Oh hang on...the first screen is transparent so you can see the second screen THROUGH the first screen? Genius!

Sudden change?

"My mission is to protect competition to the benefit of consumers, not competitors. "

Hang on a mo is that an oxymoron?...wasnt his goal supposed to benefit competitors, by eliminating "abusive monopolies".... But clever that he can protect competition, but not benefit competitors. I must be confused about what "anti-trust" means. Any way always glad when legal wranglings end...and that never happens.

Is it a vulnerability if I let the burglar in?

"The bootkit operation of Oldboot leads Dr Web to suggest that it's being distributed via corrupted firmware that victims are using to reflash their devices. "

So, devices in which the user himself has installed dodgy firmware from unverified source..is that really a vulnerability in Android? No mention of specific devices, so probably targeting the no-name Chinese tablets, the android fragmentation protecting the rest of the population. Being relatively open source, easy to create malware, and then easy to detect and later easier to deal with.

Android in Tablet Mode?

Would be really interesting if the product behaves like android in tablet mode and a chromebook in laptop mode.... with the option of using crouton to run a desktop distro for off line work it becomes a true all-in-one device. With 3G/4G, I can just picture me holding the 11.6 inch device to my ear.

Pronounced "minna"

They already have a Google Plus (a popular social medium I am told)...now for Google minus

Whose side are they on?

What's going on here? Security advice from the Syrian Electronic Army...these guys are clearly dedicated to public service

final front ear

All we need is warp drive to make these discoveries useful....seriously though, the image seems to helpfully draw in the orbits...it looks peculiarly like a diffraction pattern....would be shame if 10 years of research mistook a speck of dust on a telescope for a exo solar system.

free software + high price = high profits

This is the inexplicably high price of freedom...and the value of something that cosys nothing. Realising people value freedom, the manufacturers inflate the price, without spending any extra on software development, and make greater profits. Are people who buy this freedom fools, rebels or just victims of commercial exploitation?

The world's biggest sinclair microdrive

Do the borders flash black and yellow stripes and do you have screeching, pinging noise when your restore from back up?

Landfill included?

I suspect that the stats do not include the majority of the unbranded tablets that appear to dominate the e-stores at least in the UK.

Deliver products not promises

The rouble is that it is possible that convergence will occur on other platforms long before Canonical delivers a usable product. Despite Shuttleworth's evangelism, they neither have the marketing power or a cohesive developer base to deliver the product in time, while others will simply borrow some ideology and claim it as their own. The interface-that-used-to-be-called-metro is already on PCs, XBoxes and Phones

Croutons anyone?

Folk who use Chromebooks regularly, will want to dual boot it or at the very least have a chrooted second OS using crouton. This gives a fully functional touch enabled platform at fairly decent price, combined with a fast booting browse only OS

The "glamorous lifestyle." vulnerability

OK, you got me, best come clean..I have been leading a glamorous lifestyle, and even on occasion have used balsamic vinegar on my chips ordered online. I suppose having been so discredited I can't put on any of you guys to pass the salt eh?

Evolution

Here we see the primitive start of what evolves into the quintessential hallmark of the modern day selfie....the "duck face"

Problem with being third to market

Essentially WinRT tries to reap the benefits of an iPad like system with its walled garden and locked down hardware. But there is the problem - iPad being first to market (ok I am not inclding desktop tablets that Winodws had but never took off) with innovation has inertia. iPads premium price allows some competition from cheap android. With neither inertia nor competitive pricing a third entryinto an ecosystem just can not succeed.

Doh...it's how they make money...can we back to REAL news now?

Any innovation that Google make may benefit some users, and may therefore be used or experienced by users and bring an audience for ads. This is not news, this is the modus operandi for crying out loud...it is a business model that everybody is well aware of.

Thought so...This is patently copied form the Gherkin opposite Vulture Central.

Wait, you tried Gold and Silver first?

What is it with scientists always trying out rare earths and precious metals before the simple stuff from thier can of fizzy pop...

Set your alarm clocks for....

August 9 (2014)...talk about advanced warning...that due date is a gestation period away...