Posts by AbortRetryFail

Re: "Nerd alert"

I had a pristine example too. My ex asked me to let her son have a go, and I said he would lose the rockets. She assured me he would not. With crushing inevitability, he immediately did. :o)

I rather think you are missing the point of the game if you think that.

It's not meant to be realistic; it's meant to be a laugh. And it is one - a brilliant one.

Re: Please Stop it.

Every time I turn my telly on it says that new channels are available and do I want to retune the telly. I gave up saying 'yes' after a while. It's really annoying.

Re: Not this "pin everything to the taskbar" argument again

I'm the same. But I also enabled WinXP's Quick Launch bar because that happens to work for me. Many people don't realise that Win7 still has it, but disabled.

I have to use WinXP at work and I choose to run Win7-64 at home, and I have to say I miss an awful lot of Win7's features when at work.

Re: What is lacking in the controller space

You mean something like the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator, Clive?

Re: Old RPGs

We need a film of The Dig.

Considering it was originally going to be a film and was instead made into a video game, that would be do-able.

Not entirely sure Day of the Tentacle would work as a film, but I have very fond memories of playing it. Brilliant game.

Re: Pump and Dump ladies and gentlemen

Yup. I've been saying the same from the outset.

Yes, indeed. But the point I think Gary was making is that it was originally called XBox Media Center and was originally for the XBox. You're quite right that the only way of running it on an actual XBox now is to use the xbmc4xbox fork though. In fact I did just that only last year for a bit of amusement and even got it outputting in HD. Then, once I actually had it running fine, I lost interest and never used it. D'Oh! :o)

@AC 09:02

Ok, that's a fair point. I guess trading is a lot more fast-paced than online banking.

Clearly he didn't take enough care of his computer's security, but also Spreadex allowed an authenticated session to persist for too long. The article suggests he left his machine at his girlfriend's and it was accessed in his absence. The logged-in session should have been dropped by Spreadex, surely?

I think both parties are guilty of lax security really.

Re: Very sad

I agree. I've been with Pipex since the mid 90's and each time they get bought out they get progressively worse. It's getting to the stage now that I'm seriously considering moving.

It's a damn shame because, as you say, they were originally one of the very best.

Re: one problem

Totally agree. The Fn key being in the bottom left is a major issue for me.

I'm told you can swap their functionality on software, but unless you can physically swap the keys themselves too then it's still a show-stopper.

Yes, I know it doesn't sound like a compelling reason not to purchase but it is for me personally.

Re: TRS-80 Model 1

Also, I don't understand why someone down-voted me for such a non-controversial and matter-of-fact post.