Posts by h3

Re: You almost had me...

It will be getting removed from my mothers phone if this is real.

Don't think Google will let it happen if it was just pushed to everyone with a homescreen replacement by default. (Or even offering next time you press the home button).

I am surprised we ended up in this situation. (If Murdock had said in all his owned media that Facebook is only used by young kids and the people who pray on them before it got big (When he owned Myspace) it would never have happened like this it is somewhat out of character for him maybe he is just getting too old).

That is the advantage of the old Apple and Sony Ericsson connectors (That I know about at least) you bypass the phone / mp3 player dac. (Seems like lightning does something pointless to try and achieve the same thing).

Even more stupid is pulseaudio which is really poor locally might be tolerable if you could just set a phone or tablet really simply to output over wifi using it.

(Might still be not worth it but a minimal on demand type version of it perhaps I could tolerate.)

Re: What ever happened to multicast?

People seem to be trying everything possible to not use ipv6 (Where multicast just works unless it is specifically and deliberately broken).

Re: Ofcom decided that Net Neutrality is a non-issue in the UK

It won't the only thing that might make a difference is if someone with influence grills Osborne at the right time about it and it is made a big issue.

(We don't have world class broadband and we are not going to get it. The government u-turns on stuff all the time so it is possible for it to happen.)

The government loves Google so why cannot we get Google Fibre here (Whatever is necessary to make it happens is worth it - don't care one bit about BT or Virgin Media but they will actually have to actually try to be half decent not just deliberately being none "world class").

Re: Rumour mill amplifies simple mistake

Never he was willing to send spinach to Britain before America would even enter the war.

Re: Not just the UK, France also

The French Orange is owned by someone completely different the only things the two have in common is the branding / name.

Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2

Afaik there is no bsd licensed assembler or linker. clang isn't enough if it is still using binutils.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/

Re: Horses for courses

Depends cloud is probably pretty good if you are Amazon. (Or Rackspace).

Re: Maplins better than nothing.

You can have it all i.e I go to Farnell use the company my grandfather worked for for the account and then do a cash sale.

It is weird you can buy from Farnell online without an account but not in the shop.

Re: Despicable

Yeah look what happened to those day traders who did what the banks did/do better than them they got it all reverted and them jailed I think.

Another thing is that libor thing Barclays came clean about it got 200 million fine and their CEO left but our government owned RBS didn't come clean nothing happened and then the taxpayer lost 400 million basically that says to CEO's don't come clean about it you will keep your job and the fine will still be pretty small (So it won't even probably affect your bonus.)

Be interesting to see what happens (In my lifetime) when China becomes the main world superpower.

Not going to happen IBM could make something better than either VMware or anything Oracle could do but it is not in their interests to.

If there is a startup who might be able to then it would be bought by IBM even if they don't do much with the technology at all.

Transistive could have really been interesting if not for the IBM buyout.

What a useless article - doesn't say whether it affects 6.1-RC? or 6.0.1

Re: No suprises in any of that.

Depends what type of games - Stuff like Super Meatboy or Streetfighter sucks with a keyboard.

I like stuff that is hard so you can play it for just a bit of time. Or fun (I will probably play it through once).

e.g Contra 4 - DS game / Space Invaders Extreme - DS game / Super Hexagon - PC (Or tablet - the iOS version is better than the Android one but I don't use iOS) / Super Meatboy - PC / Streetfighter 4 - 3DS / Super Mario Bros lost levels - 3DS Virtual Console. (You know playing it online in the none kiddy mode that it is fair (Someone using an arcade stick will almost always win otherwise because it is just as easy to do hard x than the other two).

No interest in FPS's really - used to like Action Quake and Unreal Tournament - Serious Sam is ok.

Play some JRPG's (Snes style though not the 3d ones that are all cutscenes).

Phone / Tablet games tend to be all graphics and awful AI (And stupidly easy and hence boring).

I won't touch adware either.

Most of the ones that are actually decent games are in the Humble Android bundles.

Super Hexagon is great.

(Dunno whether I am serious or not probably not I play games to keep my memory working / reactions quick.)

A game would have to be really good to make me want to use a keyboard / mouse when it is not work related.

Any game that has or needs a tutorial I won't play either. (If I want to kill a bit of time the last thing I want to do is use it to complete a snails pace tutorial.)

I will probably play Arodyne when I get my steam key from them.

Re: Coming to a wallet near you...

Visa processed 44 trillion last year it is a drop in the ocean what they could do to it (Or Mastercard).

Re: I'm gonna start up my own social network

Maybe Assbook would sue you. (Things are overly broad these days).

Re: Hey, leave the bots alone!

Yep anything that makes ad network lose money is 100% aok with me.

Re: Should be nice and hackable...

Sony are not really that good for hacking either they use the qualcomm in secure mode that makes it much easier to brick and if you unlock the bootloader the official way then you cannot use Sony's tool to resurrect the device. Updating the radio's is much more painful than it should be. (It was as if they deliberately made it as easy as possible to break things once the bootloader was unlocked thinking people will have to pay use to do a hwconfig. In reality the money goes to Setool creators and users). It is much safer to do a testpoint unlock as it doesn't break your recovery methods.

I would say Samsung are more pro hacking

Qualcomm are not pro hacking at all QAEP is available (But the really useful bits are not available except to licensees) but it was them who wouldn't let the binaries for the CDMA devices be distributed by Google. There is still lots of closed binaries the only reason it is easier to hack Qualcomm is there is more devices so you are more likely to be able to find a suitable closed library or binary.

ZTE (And to a lesser extent Huawei) devices are much easier to hack than Sony - ZTE gives you fastboot a full diag mode / TPT and the qualcomm is in the most permissive state so it is almost impossible to brick no matter what you mess with. (You can even TPT a broken bootloader with and it has an extra copy).

(I don't like Sony as a company no other company I know treats their customers with such contempt and tries every trick in the book to not issue warranty replacements or all the other well publicised stuff they have done (Not updating the Xperia Play to ICS / OtherOS Removal / Rootkits.). I dunno what they are I used to think they were a reasonably decent Japanese company but I think the only one left that is good is Panasonic.

(I read an article in an engineering magazine about engineering headphones to fail after 18 months. Monster and Sony were part of the for camp and even provided information on the methods. Panasonic said we would never do that it is wrong. (My current Panasonic (Technics) headphones needs a new lead but they are 10 years old and you can actually buy the part.)

Kind of sad Panasonic again left the international mobile market. (I think it is more likely only the Japanese have any taste in what is good.)

Re: So if I had bought a Windows Phone 8 on day of issue [1] ...

No remember it resets at each point release.

You will probably get all the point releases upto 8.5.x or 8.7 or whatever.

Same way XP SP3 is still supported but the RTM Windows 7 is not (Or is shortly coming to EOL).

Cannot believe that this story has been posted anywhere. (Slashdot first then here).

They are better than Google in that they actually fix bugs whenever they find them not randomly.

Re: Any coicidence here that yesterday was patch tuesday

Not much of the time in the real world.

I would say none RHEL Linux (SLES is probably alright as well but I haven't used it) is patched in such a way that it breaks stuff far too often.

Windows gets broken by the actions of Microsoft far less often.

Patching AIX and Solaris 10 is pretty annoying. But it won't break if you can read and follow instructions.

Freebsd when you are using something that is no longer supported (So you have to backport security fixes yourself and make sure they work) is fun but it is definitely not easy. (If you are managing stuff still using Freebsd 2/3/4 then you will know what I mean).

Dealing with a fancy modern Linux that is past its 6 month EOL or whatever and doing the same thing would be even harder but I don't think people using such things do. (Maybe I am wrong I dunno).