* Posts by purplefloyd

15 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2010

Apple MacBook Air 13in Core i5 laptop

purplefloyd
Linux

Re: "deserves a decent OS"

[tux@air /]$

Telstra cozies up to small end of town

purplefloyd
Dead Vulture

Telstra? Who?

For the sake of non-Australian readers, surely the opening paragraph should be prefixed with:

"The Australian telecoms giant ..."

Ask yourself, Sir El Reg Australian Editor, what percentage of your readership would have a clue who Telstra are or why they should / should not give a toss about them?

Man knows when you're signed in to GMail, Twitter, Digg

purplefloyd

Or one browser with multiple profiles

firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote

Hacker warning over internet-connected HDTVs

purplefloyd
Pint

Vieracast

It's definitely Panasonic Vieracast, not Samsung. The URLs in the linked-to article make this a certainty.

Beer, coz it's now Friday evening.

Google eyes search result preview window

purplefloyd
Paris Hilton

I'm confused!

Do you mean the AC at 2259hrs above your post or below it?

... Paris, obviously.

Microsoft and Adobe talk acquisition and Apple

purplefloyd
Jobs Horns

Somehow..

.. I doubt that

How do you copy 60m files?

purplefloyd
FAIL

rsync -a

like cp -a. Preserves metadata. The a is for 'archive'...

tar preserves metadata by default...

Whether the Samba client can do a good enough job of preserving permissions when talking to a Windows host is perhaps another matter...

purplefloyd
Pint

Downvoted...

Downvoted because free software is never hard to get your hands on.

<-- Beer, since RichCopy is only free as in...

I'd also suggest using VirtualBox OSE instead of VMware since it's free as in speech/libre.

Sony net-connected HD TVs get BBC iPlayer access

purplefloyd
Pint

MHEG

It might be worth mentioning that this is an MHEG implementation of iPlayer, which means that once other devices get their Freeview HD MHEG engines up to scratch the service will work on them too.

Beer 'cos it's that time of day...

Steve Jobs lectures devs, dodges antitrust action

purplefloyd
Jobs Horns

Ain't gonna happen

...that's about as likely as iTunes supporting multiple music retailers.

Unless Jobs gets his cut of the sales it ain't gonna happen.

Firefox 4 beta gets hard on Windows

purplefloyd
WTF?

Java? Applet? Winamp?

Did you post that from the 1990s? The FF4 beta adds _javascript_ API to the _browser_.

And wtf is http5!?!

You're kidding right?

The Reg guide to Linux, part 3

purplefloyd
Linux

nvidia.com?

Have you tried downloading linux drivers from nvidia.com? I've never had any (major) problems with 'em, but I do run Fedora on the machine that has an nvidia card.

The Reg guide to Linux, part 2: Preparing to dual-boot

purplefloyd
Linux

%TEMP%

Can't stand Windo$e and kudos to those experimenting with dual boot. Just remember to blow away the NTFS partition when you're finished ;-)

However I do remember back in the day I used %TEMP% to locate the temp directory. That would simplify the instructions on page #1 somewhat, don't you think El Reg?

Aussies rage at 'strings attached' iPad sales

purplefloyd

"Telstra Sims"

Will Wright must be clutching at straws if that's the latest addition to the series.

But I guess it still sounds more enjoyable than Farmville. Though in all likelihood most of the game would be spent controlling your Sim who is playing Farmville on Telstra time...

Brits turn to web for World Cup action

purplefloyd
FAIL

5%?! More like 50!

According to digital spy Freeview HD coverage has reached 50%:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a224768/freeview-hd-reaches-50-percent-uk-coverage.html

I guess you guessed wrong :-)