* Posts by mr0c

11 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2011

Mr Cooper cyberattack laid bare: 14.7M people's info stolen, costs hit $25M

mr0c
Facepalm

Lovely

I’m a customer, acquired a couple of years ago from another vendor, I did receive an email initially 3 days after the breech but absolute crickets since then…

Glad that El Reg can keep me informed … smh

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama

mr0c

Opensolaris anyone?

Kind of similar to what Oracle did to http://www.opensolaris.org/

RIP

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

mr0c
Pint

Where’s the regisizer extension?

I’m still waiting for an extension that translates any sites apparent sizing into what we all know is the pinnacle of sizes: The Register’s standard sizes, of: double deckers buses, brontosaurus, linguini and obviously the newly crated truss.

Samsung's Bixby assistant fails English, gets held back a month

mr0c
Coat

me fail english?

that's unpossible

Analyst dons Tim Cook mask, thinks: Glass went well for Google. Let's do that, too

mr0c
FAIL

For what it's worth, Gene has been forecasting the release of the Apple TV soon for the past five years.

I'll pass on any advice he gives.

Office 2013 hits RTM, will ship starting in November

mr0c

Barge pole? That's too good. I wouldn't touch it with your (insert fondleslab preference here) !

T-Mobile and MetroPCS mobile minnows merge

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Go

Will be interesting to see how they end up merging the CMDA and GSM bands.

FWIW, here's a user driven map showing the current 3G/HSPA+ sightings: http://www.airportal.de

BBC 'would not kill off the internet even if it could'

mr0c
Joke

Should have called IT support

Where's Stephen Fry when you need him ?

Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

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Go

Seems the Italians still have Oracle Office love ;-)

http://www.oracle.com/it/products/applications/open-office/index.html

Probably not for long ...

Hawaii boffins: Aerosols add to Amazon rainfall

mr0c
Joke

Sounds like a mystery only ...

... Magnum PI could solve along with his chums, TC, Rick, Higgins and some hilarious chase scenes with Zeus and Apollo!

Facebook offers 500 million users SSL crypto

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FAIL

From the FB blog

"We are rolling this out slowly over the next few weeks, but you will be able to turn this feature on in your Account Settings soon. We hope to offer HTTPS as a default whenever you are using Facebook sometime in the future."

Sigh ... With service like this, they seem more like Microsoft everyday ... Maybe their next big thing will be a helpful paperclip type assistant ;-)