Posts by Law

merkin researchers...

O.D.F.O... that is all

@ Log Fei

I've got that sort of setup too... but I just have them all auto-forwarding to my oldest/main account - then have my main account label the incoming messages as "Work account" or "Signups account" etc... so to view the inbox of one account only you just click the label link for "Work Account"... it's really easy....

You can also set up your main account to reply-as the forwarded account automatically too, simply based on the account it was originally sent to.... take a few seconds to set up and does exactly what I need and from the sounds of it, what you wanted... ability to manage/use 3 accounts using a single main account...

maybe.....

.... he's not discovered ODFO yet??

noob!

.... with a 360 he could have red-ring'd her.... erm......

mmmmm.... coffee

"Trekkies should wake up and smell the non-holo coffee"

Non-holo coffee... is that a new starbucks blend??

Mines the one with the replicated 20th century nescafe gold blend....

uh oh

Been using iPhoto 7/08 for a while now, I don't really hoard and watch over my files as much as I used to when I managed them in a strict directory structure in Windows - I was dead against anything messing with files, in fear I would get locked in or something.

When I got my mac I wasn't going to use iLife really, but I decided to play with iPhoto a bit, and let it manage a copy of all my photos for a bit, liked it and decided to use it as the main storage app for my photos, mostly because I thought I could always export the entire library to a file structure at any point I decided to move to something else and end up back at square one, my photos in a file structure similar to the events... am I wrong?

I also thought the combination of iphoto and time machine would make sure that even if iphoto died or corrupted the package or whatever, my photos would be preserved in some form or other on my external backup... am I wrong again?

I'm actually asking here... not being sarcastic...

RE@raving angry loony

"Unless it was 'extreme porn' or hentai, in which case all bets are off..."

Don't they still teach sex-education in school? Perhaps in many schools they keep teaching material is on the servers or their school laptops, in which case, the offending "pervert" teachers will all be locked up and the key thrown away.... but won't somebody think of the children!!!

Come to think of it, exactly where is Mr Jobs inserting his head with such glee?? El Reg, you have been warned!!

Google = the Enemy of the Husband

"Thank Christ my OH is a technophobe who'd never be able to figure this out, or those "strategy meetings" at the pub would have to come to an end!"

Lucky bugger... my "OH" is too bloody technical, she's also a gamerchick, and while the gamerchick bit has benefits (Halo 3/GoW2 co-op is fun), she can take up the console alot of the time... but being the "OH" she refuses to spend money on a second tv and console.... :(

I've got a feeling in the next day or two she's going to be throwing "ODFO" at me in texts... *waves fist at Sarah Bee*

Get on with the ODFO icon sarah, chop chop!!

"Can we have a ODFO icon please?"

Seconded!! And since we will have a 3rd row of icons to choose from we will have to have a competition for the new 11 new icons to join the odfo one.

I'm hoping for good/bad JesusPhone (the big J himself talkin on his phone, ).... a Playmobil one... obviously.... and what else..... oooo, a happy looking Bee, and an angry looking Bee impaling a commentard through the head with it's sting (it's a big bee!), it can be used to predict how you will react to peoples comments.... fun times...

Paris... because she's been impaled in the head at least twice...

@sarah, pfft

"And besides it's several inches of snow here. It's hardly a 'sprinkling'.

God."

It's hardly the Siberian apocalypse that londoner's are screaming about in terror either. God! *rolls eyes*

I managed to get down the tiny grit-less snow filled country roads up 'ere in t'north (so probably more snow than that there london) ... no problem in my puny 2 wheeler Ford Focus, although I did get slightly nervous when a lonesome van did a complete 360 in front of me at less than 20 mph....

Mines the one going down the spooky deserted lampless snow-filled country roads with no mobile signal or houses for miles on way home at approx 18:30 tonight.... :(

RE: @grom's

"I think you'll find the residents of Knutsford, Wilmslow etc all swear blind they live in Cheshire."

As do people from Stockport, check all our postal address'... doesn't mean people don't class us as south manchester

"Chav is a class thing, not a money thing. Footballers' wives *are* chavs." Wrong - it's neither class or money, it's a knob thing. I grew up in a typical chav area, yet I've never been one, and I hate them with a passion... nope, what we call Chav now is a fashion/gang thing ... they just like to use class as a way to justify them being complete wankers to everybody else... unfortunately they seem to be spreading... we also call them Scallies here.... didn't even hear the word chav until like 2005 when I moved down south for a bit...

Paris- because that's the level of sluttiness all scally girls attempt to reach, but few do...

Easy solution

I will just stop using the internet, and paying taxes, and working, and just live on benefits... or I might just up and leave, I have a feeling though alot of people will do the same though, so it might be difficult to get countries to take us in.... I hear Poland is nice this time of year...

But the glass is half full?!

Surely we should look at this as value for money... I mean, almost 100% your RDA of salt, fat and 50% RDA of calories.... seems like a bargain to me... *shrugs*

Get Terry Tibs on it!!

Re: Eric Cartman

It's a good job the early affordable bricks I had at college couldn't have mp3's set as ring tones - I'd probably not have made it through to uni.... as my christmas ringtone it would have to be O Holy Night by Eric Cartman too, oooo - of "WHAT DID YOU SAAAYYYYYYYY?" for an alternative text sound... *googles what did you saaayyyyyyy*

RE: Blame.

Bollocks, pure and utter bollocks. I've had several buggy phones, and by time you have bought the phone, or been locked into your new contract the telco's don't care, and say deal with it. I bought a samsung u600 once with my renewed contract from Tmobile, loved the phone, hated the firmware - it crashed constantly, you couldn't turn off the full sms tone after SENDING messages (very annoying in office), and worst of all it was branded tmobile everywhere. I updated it, voiding the warranty, using the generic firmware floating around the net, only to find the official firmware was just as crap. Eventually (few months) I gave up, bought a second hand N95.... which was buggy again, but I then flashed with latest firmware released by Nokia, which didn't void the warranty this time, and it was perfect, didn't have a single crash, battery life was improved, menus and application stability was improved, gps locking was great... so I stuck with that phone for about 18 months until I shifted from tmobile and their crappy custom firmware's, and to o2.... ok, so I went for an iPhone (I was getting the £35 unlimited data contract anyway) so I just got that out of interest.

Phone works fine, most stable phone I've had from initial firmware, but I'm missing the missing features I got in older phones, such as streaming music over bluetooth (saved me money on cd's in the car, as it is bluetooth unit with ability to control music player on the phone), and being able to pass images over bluetooth.... oh, and being able to spell in proper english.... every time I type in realise it tries to correct me, the cheeky b*stards.... I selected English, not merkin!!

Paris - because once upon a time I considered getting the Sidekick... and tmobile laughing at me in store when I asked about it, and them not selling it at the time in uk was possibly the best thing they ever did for me...

RE: Re: More Releases = Better?

I'm guessing they are looking at the glass half-full, which goes against all that is holy in the world of development.

They look at multiple releases as commited developers bringing out new features each release, where as some would tend to see bug-fixes, and/or wild thrashing of the keyboard in a coffee-induced fit at the desk at 3.31am and accidently hitting commit!

Every language has it's place... and every programmer has their prefered language of the moment...

RE: Apple Remote

(Un)fortunately, they have an iPhone application that lets you do all sorts of nice things with keynote, providing you use wifi... but not bluetooth... because for some reason Apple STILL haven't implemented decent bluetooth support... arses...

Had Keynote, and the other bits on my comp for ages, never ever thought of using them, OpenOffice and a tpb'd copy of Office for Mac work alright, I only have them on as the wife insists on using Office for work (she's in the council)... personally I just use Google Docs....

@ Ted RE: @Brutus

Bugger.... you beat me to it, I got so excited I was going to be the one to heckle and shatter Brutus' view of BBC reporting... *waves fist*

@ Lewis - Is there nothing you don't know inside out!! :o You are like the El Reg incarnation of Jeremy Paxman... *awaits ordered flogging from dominatrix*

tried reading em all... gave up...

but imho - they should really rebrand dell-ubuntu machines as Dell Expert or something maybe people wouldn't buy them who didn't have the intelligence to at least know what ubuntu is.... never mind use it... I just don't get why she couldn't just go buy a copy of Windows to install (it's cheaper than a new PC!!)..... if she took her "faulty" machine to something like PC World *spits* then they would charge her, but install it for her... so she wouldn't even need to worry... if she can insert a disk for Office, she can do it for Vista *spits*.... the disc box is normally sat right next to the M$ Office in these places!!

And to end this - Simon, consider yourself flamed sir... anybody who knows about computers knows the problem of sacrificing your evening every now and then to "help" a friend sort out something on their Windows machine, be that it not booting, not accepting a device, porn turning up in popups, failed update/wont connect to internets! .... you get my drift.... and osx/ubuntu/most operating systems also have nice easy gui's now to manage your wifi connection, you don't actually NEED to go through config files.... but you could if you needed too.... just like windows... sort of.... perhaps if you installed a copy you would see... or not having it bottom right going to be too taxing on your fragile ickle mind??

SPAAARRRRTTTTAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!

.... I'm looking forward to bad-guy speeches in upcoming movie...

PS - Khan is one of best ST villians.... awesome actor too

RE: Proprietary. LOL.

"More often that not, the formats that Sony come up with are superior to what others are peddling anyway. Look at HD DVD vs Blu-ray, the superior format won out"

Oh you did not just say that.... you filthy son of a b*tch! lol

RE: (untitled)

Bah humbug.... change your employer, or get an iPhone/G1/Symbian/WinMobile phone with a data contract and youtube app, then you can get it at youtube direct...... some of the geeks on here love to see this crap - just cos you can't doesn't mean we shouldn't, we can't all spend hours imagining how these things look reading 10 pages of "real journalism'", busy lives coding and drinking coffee don't you know! :)

RE: Re: He's acting like an idiot

Hey sarah, you know what else starts with H..... Hoover.... now off you pop love, these plain chocolate digestive crumbs on the floor won't hoover themselves, and while you're up, pop the kettle on and make us a brew will ya, ta! ;)

Flames.. because if my pregnant wife saw this, she'd burn me alive, but if I suggested I be the one getting a year off to sit about the house and play all day while SHE worked, that would just be unfair! :p

PS - my view on the story - finders-keepers losers-weepers... he should man up and just sue for access to the kids, nothing more.

RE: Re: @ Sarah Bee

Is it me or does Sarah Bee appear angrier and less likely to take sh*t from "IT-angle-tards" this year??

I'm gonna wait until I see a few episodes first before saying this lad (oh god... I'm older than a time-lord... this sucks) can't pull it off.... I thought tennant was going to be a majorly stupid choice, and vowed to stop watching it... but he turned out to be one of the best doctors in my eyes... just a shame he got some of the lamest storylines ever... but he at least played them well... and lasted more than a season.

Maybe this is going to be a slightly darker Doctor.... I doubt he will be beheading puppies and blowing up infant schools any time soon though... after all, it is just a kids show still.

hmmmm

I guess it's a good job I had mine flown to me direct from China then! ;)

These things are awesome - I know most people use them to get games for free, but if you fly alot and don't want to have a billion games go missing on the plane/train/hotel then it's great - yes you need to download the rom for it, but it doesn't stop you from owning an original (which I 90% of the time do, since the games are cheap as chips, the other 10% is usually games we can't buy here, and since Sony destroyed liksang, I refuse to import official consoles/games out of principle - my R4 isn't in that list btw! ;) ).

In my mind, it's crazy to have a wifi connectable device but no download service - it cuts down pollution through manufacturing and distribution, so it's green, means you can buy online anywhere in the world with a wifi connection so point of sales convenience arguement is almost dead, memory is cheap so that's not an issue, and they can region lock the devices/games to cope with local law arguements... also cuts out the "parents love this for the kids so don't lose games" arguement.... its a pretty easy solution compared to trying to track the sales of these things throughout the world then sueing them all!

TG are wrong

If it was dramatic effect, clarkson could have just said in his normal sarcastic voice over "and had we listened to Tesla's figures and ran out of juice, we'd have been doing this: " *cue pushing car footage* ....... instead, he made out like the thing had problem after problem on the track, and they were stuck pushing it in.... topgear dramatic lads-mag jokes are funny most of the time, but most people thought it had left them pushing it into the garage, and without a working car to test... that's not on really... dramatic effect is good, but only when it's obvious!

Anymore events like this and I'm just going to stop watching it

RE: Maroons

"... Reflectorized ... " - please, for those who don't speak Merkin, can you put it in plain English please? :)

So is that just reflective number plates? If so - how have you not had these for years anyway??

Unfortunately, it sounds like NYS has got the worst of both worlds - supporting and financing the few who can achieve "The American Dream" in NYC, along with a little "Rip-Off-Britain" thrown in for good measure... sucks to be you... you could always come over here though, but I'm assuming Britain is the most highly taxed US state (oh come on, we practically are!)... so you might just be going to somewhere much more crappy.

@Niall Campbell

I'm assuming you would also say people who were caught out with the trackpad issues on the new unibody macbook pro's at launch also had microsoft and adobe stuff killing it.... before they took it out of the box somehow... maybe just proximity to the install disks for Office did it... you know, because it couldn't possibly be anything to do with Apple, and then if the update Apple released soon after caused more problems than it solved for some then it was somehow the users fault for not closing iTunes or something odd like that - even though it didn't ask them to logout for the update... you know, like they force you to for something as simple as Safari or Quicktime updates.. but not for firmware updates randomly?? ..... seriously, get a life... and stop contradicting yourself, it just invalidates everything you said! At least Webster is consistant in his blinkered views...

Re: @ oh here we go

"The point of both these languages is to allow humans to instruct computers."

Isn't that the point of all programming languages?? ;)

RE: APPLE DELETES WEB PAGE - ADMITS WRONG ADVICE - Story Over

"Whats the official word now?

"""

We're sorry.

We can't find the article you're looking for.

Please return to the Apple Support homepage.

"""

End of Story

"

Unless they got a virus and it deleted the page you are after?! :o

*this was a bad joke, please don't flame me as if I was being serious!!*

This story ALMOST made me think it was time to get av software on this baby... I've been close to doing it since I first got the mac sometime early this year, it just feels wrong not to, but I don't install it on my linux boxes so I fight myself whenever I get the urge to on osx, I run AVG on my windows image because it's fairly light weight and free, but the image only had .net code in there anyway so wouldn't be a total loss if it died... most of my info on osx is password protected/encrypted, and I'm a reasonably cautious browser with noscript and adblock on there, I do use firefox instead of safari, but safari is still installed unfortunately.... I also only use gmail for email as I dont trust local email clients, never have... so the only real way I can get a virus on this machine is downloading and running it on purpose, or if I decide to share a folder with my windows image in vmware, neither are very likely.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes though... even if it ends up being a non-story, it's nice to be reminded that av software does still exist, and the recommended ones for macs.

RE: Anyone remember voting for this shit?

It could be worse - you could be living in the surrounding area's of Manchester - that loverly expensive and useless congestion charge idea will be forced through somehow, and if you look at the ring, Stockport and a few other town area's round about will basically be charged for doing nothing more than going to a supermarket in their own town center.... ok, so it's a shite Tesco, but still... it's not like they are even close to crossing into manchester.... might just move back down to Portsmouth anyway, their council works 10 times harder and for less tax per month than Stockport ever could....

oh dear...

It looks like somebody has eaten a Motorola Razr and an iPhone, and shat out this piece of shite!!

Jobs will be horrified!! lol

*cue deathmarch tune as Jobs walks down hallway to the lawyers room*

Flame - because it's going to be a fire risk...

RE: Does anyone have the guts

Would you believe that the N96 was my first choice, I even considered the HTC handsets too - but I went through every store I could find to play with them to see if it was worth the switch from my N95, but nobody could show me a working version - they either didn't have it, or only a dummy block on display.... I made the mistake of buying a Samsung phone without trying it out first in the past, so decided not to make the same mistake again.

Thanks for the skateboarding tip... ;)

@ Get a life-rs

I'm sure the same would be said to us - after all we are reading comments and replying to them on a techy news website on a subject that really isn't THAT interesting! ;)

To each their own... even if "their own" is trying to rip holes in a fiction-based film they wouldn't have the first clue how to even begin to make, let alone conjure up in their feable little minds before hand.... sigh....

paris, because she's seen her fair share of explosions! SHAZAM! :)

RE: 750GB in my SKY HD box

How the hell do you navigate the awful planner if you even use half the size of that drive?!?! (I assume the HD box uses a similar crappy blue/yellow interface).

I had an odd problem the other day, I set something to record - and it recorded the 30 minute program, then the next day I'd realised it was STILL recording the 30 minute program... it managed to grab over half my drive somehow.... I stopped the recording, deleted the recording, and it free'd the space.... wtf?! Might need to diy my box with a 750GB hard disk if they keep doing it!

funny episode

I thought it was pretty good this week!!

Best sketch they've done though is the piracy warning episode... hilarious and very VERY true.

Did I notice a "the cake is a lie" tshirt near the end, sported by the irish one... god I miss portal...

omzfg!!!!1111one

An article written by Andrew Orlowski that has comments enabled?!?!

*rubs eyes and stares at screen in disbelief once more*

When did you start doing this?? I used to always have something to moan or agree with, and always died a little inside when I realised there wasn't a comment link, and before I even glanced at the author used to grumble your name! lol...

On subject - the freetard in me screams for this sort of blanket license, but your article was too vivid and logical for me to agree it's a good thing... I still think the industry is in need a massive slap up the backside though, the big labels are dinosaurs that need to be replaced, the internet is the tool of their demise... now we have the goal (rid us of the leeches, give artists more money, make cheaper for consumers), the tools (internet, local access points, local gigs) - but no actual game plan.... hopefully it will be solved by somebody smarter than I.

@ simon

As I feared! :) Thanks.

I will start researching ISP that won't be jumping into bed with Phorm... as good as sky bb has been for me so far, I think I remember their name showing up on a list of adopters when all this blew up 6 months ago.

@ Andrew

"This gets round one of the most significant problems of developers working on iPhone applications and goes some way to explain why Google didn't launch this for the Android platform first"

I would say that the snippet from the article there shows author has considered that question... besides, that wasn't what the article was about.

Apple are a big company, I'm sure they can take the criticism without you defending them. sigh... and before I'm called an Apple hater, google fanboy, or M$ 'ho, this is coming from a soon-to-be iPhone owner (delivery tomorrow between 9am-9pm). :)

Aside from the crappy camera resolution on the phone (I have been used to a 5mp that gets alot of use on my current n95) the biggest barrier for me to getting the iPhone was the appstore policing... they seem to be killing applications because they will use the "unlimited" connections that the 3g networks are meant to provide, and they also seem very inconsistent with their decisions on who gets in and who doesn't, meaning it will stifle progress on the platform imho... it bothers me alot... but, in the end, I remember having problems signing applications in the past with symbian, and my other phones before symbian were all closed anyway, so to be honest there won't be THAT many applications I would be buying from the store... it would just be nice for development not to be stifled because some guy in apple is having a bad day and denies an application a release.

erm

I hope that cop in the classroom was fired for what he did - it could have easily had been pointing towards a child... and the fact he was pointing it towards the classroom upstairs when he attempted the first shot is criminal.... I can't believe he even attempted a second demonstration with a bigger gun! lol

Noise, what noise??

You get used to the noise - I just moved next to Manchester airport, and for the first week me and the wife used to stay awake chuckling at how noisy the planes were when taking off in a certain condition (when the jet engine points directly towards you, it's quite bad)..... but these days we barely notice the noise... you just sort of forget it's there. Infact, the worse noise we had this week were all the idiots setting off fireworks in their gardens until 1am... now that's annoying!!

PS - I'm a person who sleeps with the window open - you can't really hear the planes when the windows are closed! :)

@ Mark

True - but then again shouldn't somebody give the parent's a heads up?? lol - my god... think of the children!!