Posts by Mark Fenton
65 posts • joined Thursday 31st May 2007 12:24 GMT
Works for on my machine
...(I know I shouldn't say that...I slap testers for saying that...)....but still...I bought my iPhone 4s because it is the only modern device that works with my in car bluetooth. I'd rather be having a....that is a different story.
Anyways - upgraded through all the various OS incarnations through to 6.1 - and all is still well. WiFi can be switched on/off no problems. In fact I'd never even heard of this issue before.
That said, if it had happened to me - I'd be right royally ticked off. And yes - Apple are supposed to be about standard hardware/firmware - so this shouldn't ever happen!
Getting my coat for saying "it works on my machine"
Posted in Vauxhall Ampera hybrid e-car
In the winter count on electric range being <10miles
In normal British weather you need a heater of some sort in the car. Try powering that from a battery and see how far you get on a charge...
Fixed the iPhone version yet?
Please fix the iPhone version. It really does blow. The app, not the phone. Well, maybe the phone too, but the app certainly does.
Patent?
How the **** is this patentable? It is not a new concept - infact I had a mobile about 10yrs ago with 2 screens on it.
Neil Young singing.....
...he sounds just like the old creepy guy from Family Guy.
The only way to make him sound better is to turn it off. Quickly.
Posted in Kindle Fire gets root access
Not only don't Amazon care about folks rooting their Kindles - they don't de-root them when they issue an upgrade. I had installed a screensaver hack on my Kindle - then the s/w updated itself and I was all prepared to have to sort out the screensaver again - but no - the update preserved the original hack for me.
Very different from "other" suppliers.
Agency rates
...are usually 30% or above.
I like to call them pimps.
And yes - I know what that makes me - but hey, pay me enough and I'll code it and smile whilst doing so.
Posted in Apple iCloud pricing revealed
What is the point of storage where...
..the seller monitors what you store there and stops you storing music and photos?
Posted in dabs.com says sorry for delivery debacle
Shipping costs vary
I wonder if now they'll stop the practise of charging more for shipping for business customers?
That reason alone was enough to put me in the direction of Scan. Who give excellent service.
Erm, mono on iPhone?
Surely this breaks the editct "thou shall only code in what we say" ?
@Piro re logo...
..yup, once you've envisaged young Ms Simpson on her knees, that is all you can see.
Paris...obviously!
Just like Ticketmaster et-al...
...it doesn't work properly (at all) on WIndows 7 x64...
Posted in Cable vendor slapped for unproven claims
Actually...unlikely to be a kettle lead...
...more likely to be an IEC power lead - a kettle lead has a slightly different connector on the end.
And, I imagine the Russ Andrews would be charging £2k for one of those - due to its high power handling in extreme environments!
Mines the one with the bag full of snake oil in the pocket.
Posted in Windows Phone 7 gets unlocked
Android...
You said <<Android tries to sidestep the problem by providing a tick box to switch off the security mechanisms that prevent rogue applications being installed, but what proportion of users have ticked it we don't know.>>
At least on my HTC Desire, you have to find the check box and select before you can install non signed apps. The default is to not allow it.
Posted in Phone 7: Another Vista or another XP?
I was going to buy one...
...but no. I don't want a toy phone. I want to be able to mount as USB drive on any computer I go to, I want to sync with Exchange and I don't have a Facebook account. I don't want a "social phone" I want a smartphone that I can use to do the tasks that I want it to...
I had high hopes for Mobile 7, but this really blows.
Posted in Opera Mobile for Android: Nearly there!
Will it support NTLM?
If it supports NTLM authentication, which the current Android browser doesn't, then I for one, will welcome our new operatic overlord.
At the moment I can't access my intranet due to the lack of NTLM on Android...
Posted in RUSE
This may be what I've been looking for...
..I've been looking for a Battlezone replacement for a few years...hopefully this will be it!
Radio 4 on internet is waste of bandwidth...
...I have internet radios all through my house. I listen to stations from all over the world, usually at 96Kbs - and this gives fine quality. However, why is BBC Radio 4 256Kbs?! It is only talking, and doesn't need the huge bandwidth required.
My neighbour has an internet radio similar to mine - where if you cycle the power it automatically starts playing the last station (Radio 4) - and there was a power cut when they were on holiday. 2 weeks later, they had used all their internet download allowance...
Posted in Whatever happened to the email app?
re re Zimbra
Zimbra would replace exchange....not act as a client for it.
I want an outlook replacement - which Zimbra isn't - unless I am missing something.
Posted in Whatever happened to the email app?
Exchange client
What I want is an alternative to outlook to act as a proper client to Exchange...I would buy that in a shot!
Also...Amazon wanted a monopoly on eBooks...
...they wanted to have a contract such that MacMillan couldn't charge less (through any other distributor) than whatever Amazon wanted to charge - and MacMillan would have no say over what Amazon charged - so they could effectively give the books away
A lot of complainers here...
...seem to be bitching cos Derby saved £250,000 - surely we should be complaining when councils waste £250,000 rather than just assuming that the saving wasn't a good deal?
That kind of thinking leaves us with a government that spends money and spends and spends and any suggestion of money saving is all about cutting services...
Oh, wait.,...
Posted in Lightning catches up with Thunderbird
When can we have an open source Exchange Client...
....then I'll ditch Office and go OpenSource!
Please someone....
Posted in Brown says the 'C' word
I like how he has changed history...
...keep saying the lie long enough and everyone believes it.
"The 'downturn' is the fault of America".
Oh...so spending *way* beyond our means for the past umpteen years would have no impact at all...and didn't Northern Rock nearly fall before Lehman Brothers? The USA could even blame us for the start of it!
Clarkson was right in his description of Brown..."One eyed Scottish idiot".
Posted in Peugeot to offer in-car Wi-Fi in 2010
Excellent! This will kill DAB off good and proper!
I can't wait for an internet radio in my car...no more listening to boring deary UK channels...
Search on Outlook 2007...
..is hidden. The "advanced find" context menu option is no longer there. You can still use it though by press ctrl-shift-F. Why MS have hidden it I don't know.
I know this because I disabled Desktop Search on my vista installation (I have never had any problems finding my documents -so I don't need another service slowing my machine down) and then the search options went awol in Outlook 2007.
I've since gone back to Outlook 2003 because it is way faster...but that is another story.
BNP not far right...
..their agenda is actually far left, but with added racism.
They want centralised / nationalised pretty much everything - which makes them far left. It is just their racism that folks equate with the right...
Posted in Plod called in on MPs' expenses leak
Oh good.
So...something embarrising happens and the police are called in? The police force is becoming increasingly politicised (sp?)...how long before the country ends up like that in the Gred Mandell novels.....
Posted in The A-Team flies into Hollywood
Pitying the fool....
If Mr T isn't involved I personally shall be taking up my pitchfork and flaming torch and getting the mob roused...
Posted in UK scientists hit by lack of brains
Real request for help - or a cover up of a zombie outbreak?
I'm sharpening my axe, that's all I'm saying.
Posted in Microsoft Live Search goes Kumo?
Wasn't Kumo...
..a large slobbery dog that also killed people in a horror fim?
Again, one more reason not to trust them...
the whole "one rule of us, and another for the proles" is getting very monotonous from the government.
Why are the kids of MPs so special? If they are that concerned about the database for their kids - then we shouldn't have ours on it either.
@Steve Evans
"If anyone has a simple way (i.e. fits on one page) of explaining these model numbers I'd be very interested in seeing it."..
Me too...
Posted in Microsoft dishes dirt on IE8 'pr0n mode'
@index.dat
If you reboot your computer and login with another account, say the local admin, you can delete the index.dat files of other users.
Posted in Beeb to resurrect Reggie Perrin
"hoped to slightly lower the average age of BBC1 viewers"*,
Oh hurrah. Yet more pap aimed at the youfs.
Posted in Grazing cattle display animal magnetism
Hurrah!
Finally proof of my sanity.
For a fair while now, my family and friends have quietly, and not so quietly, mocked me about my growing paranoia over who cows are always aligned when I see them.
I shall use this article as proof of my sanity.
It is still, quite obviously, some bovine conspiricy mind you.
Why not just use the Boston Dymanic Robot Dog Thingy?
That would scare the wossnames out of the kids and whilst we are at it - why not use one of those robo-dog thingies for the Mars explorer vehicles. It'd give the little green men the heeby-jeebies!
:)
Bl**dy Hell! That was quick!
Had a quick google on "Fused Multiply Add" and looked at the Wikipedia page - and it referenced this article!
So either you guys are updating wiki *before* telling us stuff (shame on you! We should come first! :) ) or we have some real avid Wiki updaters on here....
+1 on the docking connector
I've got a D820 (after having a D800) and because the lappy is for use outside of the office only (or in the garden!) - I have 3 docking stations situated around the office and house - wired up to big screens and proper keyboards etc.
If Dell don't use the existing docking connector on the new series, then I'll be looking to buy somewhere else.
I'm gonna wait to upgrade though, till I can get a quad core lappy with the Latitude docking connector.
The English in this article is appalling
Two easy examples - missing word "that" in "Most people recognize **that** developers should not build their own encryption mechanisms"
And, I think you mean "you're" not "your" in "Now your talking. Organizations that ..."
Doesn't anyone proof read these, or shall we all just strt txt spkng?
Posted in Naomi Campbell charged with assault
"Expeditiously"
Would she even know what it meant?
<Paris cos they are the same class of useless people>
How much?!
6Gb in 5 hours!
Bloody hell! I didn't know that there was that much porn out there!
<Paris for obvious reasons>
Seriously - who buys these?
If you can afford to spend £1k+ on a guitar - surely you can tune it?
Sorry - but that person is not male
I don't care what "gender reassignment" the person has undergone - she has female chromosomes and the fact that she is pregnant kinda defines the person as female.
Wouldn't it be better and easier...
..if neither the buyer nor the seller could see the feedback till both had left feedback? This would stop tit for tat feedback.
Or is that just too obvious?
Or......seeing as the buyer's commitments are done when he/she has paid for the item, the seller should really leave feedback at that point - so hows about making it so that the buyer can't leave feedback till the seller does?
No...you only need one word ...
SNAFU
Posted in Reg readers bring down HMRC website
@Your own fault
....so what you are saying is that we should submit before the deadline?
Isn't this bringing the deadline ahead?
It isn't their fault at all - if a deadline is given, then you should be able to submit right upto that deadline and not have some "fake hidden" deadline imposed on us by an anonymous coward.
@The German Tourist
...but that is what they now do in England...there are plenty of roads with signs saying "uneven surface" and "danger potholes".
Still..at least the NHS is safe in this government's hands...
Oh...wait.
