Posts by HipposRule
118 posts • joined Monday 8th August 2011 14:34 GMT
Re: Colour copies of passports illegal ?
Indeed it is - had to do some research for travel money bureaus and scanners recently http://www.hmso.gov.uk/copyright/guidance/gn_20(old%20format).htm
Posted in Review: Nokia Lumia 520
Re: Windows 8 TO INFINITE FAIL AND BEYOND
@AC 12:10 26/4 He has NO taste in UI - look at his website.
Embedded
And if you can get hold of a copy of POSReady 2009 that is supported till 2019 and is basically XP embedded.
Re: Why bother?
@AC - and POSReady 2009 (which is based on XP Embedded) till 2019.
What worries me..
... is that people actually notice by-lines so know who she is. Downvotes ensue - I'm pre celebrity generation so don't really care about fame.
Re: Good luck
@Silverburn
What sad person could possibly have downvoted your post?
Re: Paradox resolved
@MelniboneanAirways
God, wish you hadn't pointed out it had a web site, what a load of absolute stylistic crap!
And people diss the Surface Pro price
When it has an i5 processor so can do real work
Maersk's own measurements
Obviously they haven't heard of baked beans, they say 3.64 billion iPads. (http://www.worldslargestship.com/)
@AC 02:46
If you haven't touched any MS stuff since XP what makes you think you are qualified to judge what it's like now? At least I've touched Firefox 18 and think it's shit.
French
doesn't work for me and the language pack won't download...
Re: Samsung took over the Nokia market
Nokia destroyed? 85m phones shipped worldwide in Q4 as against 43.4m Apples.
Sorry - had to feed the troll
Re: Missed the Clinton Cards announcement
There are still 2 in Taunton. From memory (can't be bothered to search) they were bougt out by American Greetings who were one of their creditors.
Re: So the IE10 'Pre-Release' for Win7 passed you guys by then ?
I've been running it since the date it became available and would never go back to 9.
Give me the down voters
OK, I'm not a power user but I've been running 2013 for a couple of months (RTM version) and I definitely prefer it to 2010. A lot cleaner looking and some bits I've been bemoaning for years (tables in Word for example) greatly improved.
Re: Family Friendly
As cigarette machines are now behind the bar, if they exist at all - and it shows when you were last in a pub, the over 16 sign doesn't tend to exist
Re: Virgins
Not outside cities methinks? I don't know anyone on it, actually I do know one person in Bristol
Re: You get what you pay for
@allegoricus, not if you are a 'shock horror' Sky subscriber
Re: @Graham Marsden
@illiad - someone who actually watches adverts rather than fast forwards - God forbid
Posted in 2012: The year that netbooks DIED
Re: Ultrabooks with "premium specs"
@Stacy - how can anyone downvote your post?
Re: Amazon at least has a perceived upside to the consumer (vs Starbucks)
I thought I was the only person in the world who thought their coffee tasted burnt!
Re: So much for Bing
I use it for maps quite often as it has an Ordnance Survey overlay so you can not only see footpaths but also work out which route a road actually takes in the country rather which is impossible on country roads on Google.
@Timbo
"with typo's" Not a possessive methinks.
Peronally
I use an atlas and maps
Re: Another "fresh bottle of bubbly"
@Test Man - Not until 2014 if your using office on an in-scope device for PCI - then you will have to move.
Been using it for about 3 weeks now and I must be unusual in that I like the uncluttered UI - have seen people complaining about it on the web. As I'm not using anything in the cloud it doesn't seem much different to 2010
Re: Talk about useless security
Could be linking to LDAP/AD but still have it's own password database.
Where's the helicopter icon when you need it?
Can AgustaWestland sue?
Posted in Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review
Re: Shameless Amazon advert?
@what's a handle - Buy the effing books then cheapskate
Re: Does it mean IE10
Well it hasn't on mine
Posted in Ten... Apple iPad Mini alternatives
Help
No-one's yet commented that El Reg has missed 'my favourite tablet'
Someone I work with (who goes through gadgets like no tomorrow) got his Mini, thought the resolution was crap and made £40 profit at CEX - then bought and iPad4
Re: NEWSFLASH - American mag likes american "company-critical" car
@John Brown - I was under the impression the date on monthlies was the 'remove from shelf' month
Posted in Apple updates iOS 6, Safari
Re: Well..
Why the flip are you using a map app to drive near your home - are you that dumb?
Re: The writing has been on the wall for years
Don't know where your PC world is, but the one in Taunton is utterly depressing. Linear footage utilisation is so low it's unbelievable and makes it just look like an empty warehouse.
Posted in How to get your bust in good shape
Re: Oh, *that* kind of bust.
I thought it was something else you 'loosed' over busts.
Posted in Kindle Touch bites the dust
4 to 6 weeks?
Just checked my account and the Paperwhite is due for delivery on Thursday.
Re: Anonymous Cowards & Android Fanbois
And you've tried a production 920 have you?
Re: Nexus7 comparible with the Kindle FireHD? Gime me a break...
Out of date apps service? I presume it runs Amazon's current app service
Posted in IE10 coming to Windows 7 sometime, maybe
Re: Can we get one thing straight please?
@AC 07:03 - Tell that to Firefox/Chrome etc. No way they are all major version changes in each 'new' number. Haven't they heard of point upgrades?
At least
The South West of England now has weather with the weather app.
Posted in Windows System Center 2012: The review
Re: Done
For our HO infrastructure of around 2500 clients over a couple of diverse locations MS said we'd get away with 1 additional server (we use WSUS on a different server but don't use MS for DNS/DHCP etc.)
I can't belive it's taking so long.
I know I wasn't in the first area but I haven't seen analogue since May 2009 - that's 3½ years ago FFS.
Re: mainstream support
Not completely true: We've rolled out a solution in 160 sites that was 2008 as the app is only 32 bit. The app is in scope for PCI and we normally have a 10 year life on it so the extension to 2020 is really handy. IE6 - again, not quite right as Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 (based on XP embedded) is supported till 2019 (another bonus for a 10 year in-scope PCI project) so notionally IE6 should be supported on that - ok we use IE8 - but even with us that's over 6000 devices.
Was No current plans...
.... now future. yeay!
Posted in HP unzips slim Windows 8 notebooks
Though
I'm actually pretty impressed with the build quality on the new Sceptre ultrabooks.
Re: Relativity
No, I don't like jumping off tall buildings but, in reality, there's b all that's on my phone that I would shed a tear over if it went AWOL. A few photos (if I'd really cared about them they'd be on a NAS somewhere) and some contacts that wouldn't be that difficult to get again.
Posted in Tiny trackers untangle bee secrets
Re: Never mind that
Instead of being a complete and utter prat have you actually ever thought how important bees are to the food chain. Oh sorry you though the supermarkets made it all in factories.
Re: But no Paperwhite
Not sure how an upvote would be interpreted (Good thing they aren't importing it, or agreeing with the comment), but I agree with the comment. And they won't ship it to a UK address. Any thoughts as to whether there would be a problem getting .co.uk books on it (and no Calibre/DRM free/why would you pay comments please, I'm quite happy to spend less than £10 a month for books I actually want)?
The PITA with 2012 and VMware
is that it doesn't appear to run on ESXi 4.x (and we've only just managed to get our infrastructure up to that) - tried to install it last week on a 4.1 standalone host and it errored with a screen that wasn't viewable.Looks as though we'll have to wait till we upgrade to 5.1 then
