* Posts by Justin 9

47 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Sep 2010

Labour Party proposes raising UK Digital Services Tax (so Amazon can pass the hike on that, too?)

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This will be passed on straight to the consumer

12% DST + VAT.

'My entire company is without comms': Gamma's Horizon cloud PBX goes DOWN

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Still no service in Cambridge

Phones are randomly connecting and disconnecting

With phone twinning I am able to get calls.

BOFH: Welcome to Helldesk, ma'am, may I take your bags?

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I sought help.......

Another good one. The most IT illiterate person ringing in has already sought help for the 2nd most IT illiterate person in the company making nothing else than a desk visit the only choice.

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Re: Paper CVs??

thats the job justified for HR, handing you the printout

Doctor Who to land on the BIG SCREEN and in 3D in November

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Why not 4k

Better to film it in 4k res. Future proof the recording.

Samsung vs Apple: which smartphone do Reg readers prefer?

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FAIL

Re: Support

After the first year its a replacement device at £120. unless you stump up the £70 applecare

Nokia and samsung have a 24 month manufacturer warranty...

Rackspace attacks Amazon with new cloudy clones

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Not too much to worry about

Amazon will be able to beat them on price. Rackspace are notoriously expensive.

Samsung under fire over copy-paste bricking

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Bit old that software

I'm running jellybean 4.2.2

UK way behind pack on broadband speed in Europe

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FAIL

4G is the way

4G will be a better alternative that any BT/LLU provided adsl. Probably be rolled out quicker too than BT infinity.

Satnav blunder sends Belgian granny 1,450km to Croatia

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FAIL

What about her Passport

I can understand traveling between Belgium, Germany and Austria. But Croatia is a non-Schengen state. She would have needed a passport to pass through to Zagreb

BT in ad slapdown after 'misleading' punters on fibre deployment dates

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FAIL

Re: Exchange only updated

same here no virginmedia on my estate and guess what no infinity.

across the road, 100mb virginmedia and infinity2.

Microsoft Surface priced up for Blighty

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Re: An HP Touch rerun

My Trilby is the oven gas mark 2 for 10 months (from release date).

I just hope it goes to the dog ;)

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Re: Not surprising

So did HP and RIM

Bad price points. Apple products still have a sense of awe about them to most, If you are going to spend £399 on a tablet which would you go for an Apple or a Microsoft?????

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An HP Touch rerun

Look out for a surface tablet flash sale in 10 months time.

Intel CEO: PC market slogging along at half speed

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Re: that which is too terrible to speak aloud

Exactly what i were thinking.

Arm have the mobile market. While intel where playing with mini notebooks, Laptops and Desktop chips and trying to . Arm blitzkreig the mobile computing. I guess consumers rather than refresh that laptop, bought a tablett o fondle with.

Even Nokias new Lumia 900 Windows phone runs with a qualcomm CPU.

Axe falls on Directgov as GOV.UK launches

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FAIL

Not all directgov.uk

Apply for a tax disk takes you to........

https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app/home/intro?skin=directgov

Facebook offers just a week of free Android AV

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FAIL

Use AVG on my Android Mobe

I would never put Norton or McAfee on a PC unless you want it as slow as a computer from 1986. I expect these mobile packages would do the same for you mobe.

Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears

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Childcatcher

A new iPhone every year.

Apple have them sucked in.

Device iphone iphone 3g iphone 3gs iphone 4 iphone 4s iphone 5

Launch Price £269.00 £299.00 £349.00 £499.00 £499.00 £529.00

Launch Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Base model 4Gb 8Gb 8Gb 16Gb 16Gb 16Gb

Launch price is based on base model.

I believe these prices are correct.

Third of iPad owners want smaller slabs

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FAIL

Third of iPad owners are T**T's

Third of iPad owners are imbeciles

or

Third of iPad owners will say they want whatever a market analyst propmts them to say.

10" is a great size for the iPad or any tother tablet. I had a 7" tablet prior to the iPad, hated it. To big for a phone and too small to do anything usefull on.

Samsung puts Police on trail of AWOL OLEDs

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Joke

55" apple oled tv's soon to be on the shelf

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

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Mushroom

Re: Next up - English speakers!

Close but no cigar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6332319.stm

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Happy

Re: I have a Note.

I have to agree that the iPhone interface is nice. The new ICS and JB are nice too.

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WTF?

Yawwwnnnnn

Is it just me or does this whole Apple asking for competitor devices removed from the shelf seem so boring.

Makes that iPhone 5 look unattractive now.

Love my Samsung Nexus though, always use it over my Work provided iPhone 4.

Goldeneye

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Great Game on Wii too.

I have this for my Wii and came with a gold handheld controller.

CSC UK waves ta-ta to axed staff, sharpens axe for next round

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FAIL

Wouldn't want to be a commuter now

CSC website says: We have also just signed a new IT outsourcing agreement with Transport for London (TFL).extending the existing contract by twenty-seven months. The contract extension was signed during CSC’s fiscal 2012 third quarter.

Ooops. These cuts will have an effect, moral will be low for all working within the UK.

Google ditches the bits in the bottom of the box

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FAIL

This is a sad day for me.

All my news at a glance, eben el reg is there.

Even my todo list is there at a glance, which my wife updates.

cannot see any reason for google to bin this other than no ad revenue.

BT to fibre up another 98 exchanges, puffs 'FTTP on demand' offer

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Stop

still needs work, but,

http://www.cooper-marsh.co.uk/fttc/

Hoping to include the new exchnages today/tomorrow.

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All well and good upgrading the exchanges

Still does not mean your street cabinet will be upgraded. Unless you are in a cabled virgin or other provider then there is a good chance. But those of us who can only use BT are left on the shelf.

Google launches field force management tool

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Go

Where my Delivery

Couriers need this.

"I Need to nip out on the school run, lets see where my parcel is"

Ten... Star Wars videogame classics

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WTF?

NO BAttlefront

Star wars battle front gameplay was awesome.

Virgin Media mauls UK.gov for pumping millions into BT

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Paris Hilton

Re: Epic Fail

Chris 211 rename your account to naive 211

That fact is that my whole estate of nearly 600 plots are at the mercy of BT wholesale, LLU and SKY. Just to MOVE! may not be an option. How clear cut your world must be.

Why paris because Chris 211 has no where near the brain capacity of her.

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FAIL

Epic Fail

F**k them both

Cannot get Virgin on my estate and cannot get inifinity. And both exists in my Town over the road in fact on the other estate.

as i Already said F**k them both.

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension

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FAIL

Epic Fail

BT have enabled my exchange, but no FTTC for me. still stuck on my shitty 6mb (if im lucky) line.

Why, because im nt in a virgin enabled area. bloody con artists

Google adds Chrome finish to Android

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So far So Good

Installed ok on ics. works a treat.

Bit-part actress slings sueball at IMDb over age gripe

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IT Angle

Watch out

She may sue the reg yet for claiming she is a "Bit part actress".

She is the leading actress in "The Gingerbread Man 3"

Dish Networks looks forward to 'seat at the table' in wireless

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Facepalm

Why use satellite's

Surely Point to multpoint Microwave back haul is better to reach rural Areas?

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Epic Fail

I can go in to a newsagent and buy a copy of the Sun for 30p no questions asked

www.page3.com on O2 and they want me to prove my age.

HP has another crack at fondleslab market

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Linux

My touchpad is a dream to use

only after i overclocked it.,.............

now running at 1.9Ghz the webos much better for it, silky smooth.

Unix based OS much better than any windows one.

Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm

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Got me a 32gb one home delivery from pcworld

Couldn't believe my luck when it was available for a split second online.

Still give it to the other half so she can play her faceybooky thing without loading up our aged laptop.

Jesus Phone saved from being man-in-the-middled

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Updated already

Update for my iPad was available last night. Just checked the version running on, happily at 4.3.5 (8L1)

Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat

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FAIL

Did you miss that.

F1 will be awful to watch on sky.

How it will happen.

What was that Hamilton and Vettel battling out in to the last corner with 3 laps to go.

Cut to the 50th commercial break of tosh.

Welcome back with a clip of a red bull and Mclaren being lifted out of a gravel trap.

Back to the dark days of ITV F1 coverage.

Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work

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NO Maemo

Article misses out on the N900 Maemo device, another flag ship, nokia next best thing that has now been left with linux geeks and third party updates.

which I own.

This will be my last Nokia.

O2 boots up boobies blocker

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FAIL

Epic Fail

I can go in to a newsagent and buy a copy of the Sun for 30p no questions asked

www.page3.com on O2 and they want me to prove my age.

Roberts Stream 63i

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Go

DLNA?

A great bit of kit but,

Is this a DLNA certified device?

What streaming software would be required for a NAS?

Dixons warns on crap Christmas

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FAIL

Not Surprised

You can get pretty much any of their non-exclusive stock cheaper on the internet or other high street stores.

Rather than spening money keep tarting up the stores, reduce the prices.

Customers paying more and putting up with mobes for longer

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Fanbois

Apple fan bois self promoting there very expensive toys never heard of such a thing.

Nokia, Will they ever convert to android?? Symbian is dead forget maemo and meego and plump for Android.

Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'

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FAIL

"Pod"uct Launch

Does that mean that apple will eventually write a 873,000,000 page document on how thaey would like exclusive rights on every word on the english lanuage because they might actually use it in a "pod"uct launch at some point in the future.