* Posts by Tarthen

35 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2010

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

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Heart

Isn't it obvious?

"Apple product are bought by people who have no problem patching a firmware image, or finding buffer overflows in the baseband chip, because that's what you need to do to get things done on those devices."

He's talking about jailbreaking iPhones. Isn't it obvious? The patching a firmware image is to get Cydia into it, and the overflowing the baseband chip is to get it unlocked for use on other carriers.

Apple's draconian developer docs revealed

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Overheating

Don't leave it overnight, let the damn thing air and cool.

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Coat

RE: Macs and 'PC' people

Aren't Macs also PCs now?

...I'll get my coat.

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Linux

Some quick easy steps!

1) Find OS disks.

2) Wipe PC.

3) Reinstall Windows.

4) Install only the apps you need

5) Uninstall WMP, IE

6) Run > msconfig , choose only what you want to start up

7) RTFM on your backup drive.

Also, a few tips - defragging is near useless on today's disks, don't update your Windows box without reading the blogosphere (then you don't have to delete screwups), and why the hell were you looking for Nvidia drivers to stop it rebooting halfway through the night!?

Or, do what I do and use Linux (hey, 50 seconds to desktop from power button > BIOS > GRUB > Xsplash (slow) isn't too bad, especially as my BIOS takes 10 seconds to start and the GRUB default timeout is 10 seconds...). My "wireless backup" is "mount *network drive here*; cp -randomcmdoptionshere /home/* /media/placewherenetmount; umount *networkdrivehere*; notify-send "Backup done :D", in addition to syncing to two different USB devices. All rather good, IMO :) .

HP intros multi-touch tablet

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Happy

Now this, my friends....

...will give us the "full web".

Can't wait.

Old PS3s locked out of PlayStation Network

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Flame

At least

At least we don't have to pay for our downtime :) .

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Troll

And like

And like WinMobile's 2016 bug telling you to get an Android phone.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Xbox hacking

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Unhappy

I tip my hat

You're right there.

Although, my understanding is that IBM, Sony and Toshiba all developed the Cell, from ~2003, working together. So it's not "just" IBM who made it; there are others too :).

I really wish they didn't cancel the project though. I wanted a Cell in my laptop :( .

Tarthen

It's derived from research

It's more or less based on Cell research, yes? If so, it could be called a derivative.

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Gates Horns

What, has it been two years?

I haven't seen any PS3 hacks yet.

Oh wait, Sony designed the PS3 with security in mind. Unlike Microsoft, who seemed to design the Xbox 360 with nothing in mind (hell, they even have a 3-core /clone/ of the PS3's chip in the 360 - you see the Xenon? Well, that's a Cell Broadband Engine derivative).

Plan for top-level pornography domain gets reprieve

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Happy

I suspect

rule34.xxx will sell for millions.

OpenOffice 3.2 - now with less Microsoft envy

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Linux

I just updated

And all seems good.

Ubuntu users - you have to manually remove the bundled OO.org before installing the new, if you want it to work. In addition, remember to install the Desktop Integration package - it adds the icons/listings to menus.

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Linux

Why? Plenty of reasons...

When you get sent documents saved in .docx format (which I do), being able to convert them is invaluable. Especially when the MS Office readers don't work for me - being on Linux and all.

But seriously, try saving all of a working business' documents from one format to another. You will end up suicidal, so therefore it is much better being able to read those documents at the client end, rather than have to convert them all to a different format beforehand (which STILL isn't OpenOffice's default format, and is probably also reverse engineered...).

USB hack connects Droid to printers, video cams, and more

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Happy

I stand corrected...

I assumed that the billion Apple trademarks on it meant that they in some form wrote it.

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Jobs Horns

@ Erm...

Denial: There is an app for that too!

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Linux

The ironic thing is that....

Now this means that the Droid could potentially print - something the iPhone did first, as said by many fanbois in this article's comments.

However, if my suspicions are correct, they will make it run the same printing server as desktop Linuxes usually do, which is CUPS (also known as the Common Unix Printing System). The irony in this is that CUPS was written by none other than Apple - the creator of the iPhone.

Microsoft erases Windows 8 optimism

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Linux

Windows 8

...should be uncluttered, fast, have a decent web browser bundled, the ability to burn .iso images and have a quick startup and shutdown.

The less time it takes to burn the Linux CD, the better. :)

Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone

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Jobs Horns

No...

He said that once he heard it had the now-standard feature, he decided to take the plunge.

It's like an Apple fanboi buying the new iPhone because it has some other feature that's standard in phones since, like, 2003 (MMS, anyone?).

Tarthen

Although...

The iPod Touch doesn't have GPS either, which I believe is one of the reasons why he calls it great. :)

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Jobs Horns

Where is the Phone app on the iPod Touch?

I can't seem to find it.

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Go

WOOOSH

Missing the point.

He said he still hates mobile phones. However, the Nexus One is a winner, due to it not "only" being a phone - it's a multipurpose device. He mentioned GPS as a big thing - and it is.

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Unhappy

LandCruisers don't have GPS

Not everyone has a GPS enabled car. The Toyota LandCruisers (here in Australia, anyway) are an extremely good 4WD - but, shock horror, they don't have GPS.

Most that want it have an individual external GPS, anyway - then it doubles as a handheld one for trekking.

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Pint

Liking beer because it's Barley

...wasn't that the point of the German Purity Law?

Microsoft tests show no Win 7 battery flaw

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Joke

You mean....

...Windows' battery meter actually WORKS now?

(In every laptop I have had, the XP/Vista battery meter would jump around worse than the times in the file copy dialog.)

Delayed Visual Studio 2010 RC due this week

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FAIL

Performance?

It /is/ .NET, after all. Can't expect too much.

Google doppelgänger casts riddle over interwebs

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Headmaster

E = 10^

On graphics/scientific calculators, they display 10 to the power of as E.

So, on a graphics calculator, 1e100 would be equal to the long-hand 1 x 10^100.

Asus Eee PC 1005PE

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Happy

Looks nice...

I still have my 1000H... 4 hours battery life on average, so the 5.25 to 10.5h life is definitely an improvement on the earlier models.

I hope ASUS gets the new Pine Trail chipset right next time. The sooner they get it right, the sooner I replace my 1000H. :)

Dell ordered back to court in laptop dustup

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Linux

And this...

...is why I don't buy Dell.

Linux, because that's what my room-temperature HP runs.

Inside Microsoft's innovation crisis

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We do need VS

Visual Studio 2010 Beta beats 08 hands down. So it's not all bad.

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Linux

Hahahahaha

"Linux? That well-known MINIX clone which has spent the best part of the last 19 years failing to be better than the "mediocre" Windows"

Actually, mine is doing fine. I'm running lag-free and can do more than what my Windows would let me. My Windows 7/Ubuntu dualboot only ever finds itself booting into Windows to sync with my iPhone, and that's it.

"If the general public really wanted genuine innovation in IT, why isn't everyone using the Commodore Amiga today? A computer which came, out of the box, with digital audio support, and a full-colour, hardware-accelerated, muilti-tasking GUI."

As a kid I had one of those. Loved it. The only reason I stopped using it was when the floppy drive broke and I got a (2nd hand) IBM laptop. Unfortunately the Amiga wasn't portable.

"Please: do point out what *your* preferred company / group / pseudo-religion has done that's so bloody amazing."

Created the tools and the kernel that your beloved Apple uses in their OS X and iPhone OS. Go on, get the versions of coreutils - most likely they'll contain a GNU copyright notice.

(By the kernel - the kernel is part BSD, and is released under an Open Source license. I like GNU, and the BSD guys as well.)

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Linux

I disagree.

Xenix was created by SCO. I have a Xenix box on my desk at work. It's loud and crashes.

My experience with servers is that Linux servers are always more reliable. One W2008 box can't even keep PostgreSQL running without failure, although a Linux box on a Pentium 4, and a Windows XP box running on a Pent. D runs fine. And I got a 111 day run time on this one workstation-turned-server, which Windows would like BSODing on (in case you're wondering, it shut down during the aftermath of an electrical storm power-outage - the UPS wasn't that good!).

No experience with MSSQL, but it'll have to do a lot to compete with Oracle, now that they've got some Sun hardware. And I prefer PostgreSQL over all - doesn't need a multi-hundred dollar server and software license to make a table for keeping computer records.

Office is Office. It will always be on top. It's hard wrenching people away from 2003/7 to OpenOffice - they're used to Office, and expect it's traditional niggles.

"Most importantly they need to unbundle .NET from Windows to prepare the foundations to grow into a technology leader for the next millennium." And use it on what? Linux? No. MS wouldn't let you do that.

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Happy

Actually

CSV files are better to open in OO.org than Office.

I used OO.org to open | delimited file, with 4 columns of doubles and 15,000 lines, then made it into a graph. Nearly no lag, whatsoever. Not bad for 2GB of RAM, 2.1ghz Duo, and a free OS ;).

MS hits Office 2010 upgrade program button prematurely

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Thumb Down

It's as "Great" as

...a hole in your head.

Mozilla overlooked malware-laced Firefox add-ons

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Linux

But... don't addons run as user?

What I want to know is - why are people running Firefox under the Windows Administrator account.

Linux, because by Ubuntu box didn't have this problem.

Big Blue demos 100GHz chip

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Thumb Down

Actually....

Crysis' bottleneck is the GPU.

My 2.4GHz quad has no problem with PhysX assisted playing :D .