Posts by Irongut

overlaying jobs onto the landscape

There's an AR app that shows you what a scene would look like if Steve Jobs were there? The fanboys must love it!

Proud to be non-human!

CAPTCHAs don't recognise me as a human either but I don't have much problem with that when I look at the dregs of humanity that surround me. A better solution is required but email verification links are not the answer, writing a bot to monitor the email address and follow any links is trivial.

Keith Vaz

I'm increasingly radicalised every time he opens his mouth. Mr Fawkes had the right idea.

Personally I have a media centre next to the TV and consume quite a lot of video content online. But, I still intend to get a Chromecast dongle when they are available in the UK.

Why? Well sometimes I might not want to turn on the media centre and find the mouse and remote, I'd like to see what Chromecast is like and as a developer I'm interested in checking out the SDK. My reasons are not those of a typical consumer but then the typical consumer does not have a media centre, Raspberry PI and three other computers in their living room so Chromecast could be a cheap alternative for them.

Call Big Dave!

Social media is corrupting our children and must be blocked, by default, at a network level. Anyone wanting access to social media must contact their ISP, MP, local Police chief and Bishop by post and have their name added to the Facebook pervert's register!

IT'S FOR THE FREAKING CHILDREN!!!

I stopped reading at

"For years in PCs, Apple was the R&D lab for the entire industry"

Should say for years Apple copied other companies in the IT industry and passed their innovations off as its own.

McAfee have customers?

And they might consider buying something else because McAfee was bought by Intel?

Who are these people? I have a bridge and an iceberg I'd like to sell them.

"Company chairmen and chairs of audit committees will be asked to complete a questionnaire"

So the group of people that know the least about IT. Useful.

Interesting

I already have a media centre but at such a low price I'll pick one of these up to play with. It could be useful on the main TV if I don't want to fire up the media centre or on a bedroom TV.

The newly-revealed features will be welcomed by Windows users

Most Windows users won't know wtf is going on. They'll just know that their files take a lot longer to open & save on this damn computer and ask some poor sap to fix it. And the savvy ones will turn it off asap.

The only Windows users that will welcome this are the two people with Surface RT who might actually need to save storage space.

"look over their shoulder the whole time (which limits their freedom in other ways, and becomes impractical as the number of children increases)"

How exactly does it become impractical as the number of children increases? As the number of children in the world increases so does the number of parents. If you mean the number of children in the family then I say if you can't properly care for 2 or 3 children at once you shouldn't have them!

Did anyone else read that headline as "€400k-a-head Iberian Linux mainly threatened by Spanish politics"?

Maybe I need to get out more...

The real question is...

What is little David Steel doing in Colorado and whose pocket is he living in these days?

Whenever I hear the ridiculous stats for how many mobiles are stolen I always think most of them are "stolen" so the owner can get an upgrade.

Metawatch’s hardware is impressive and attractive.

No it bloody isn't. That watch in the picture looks like a cheap peice of Chinese crap, they all do. The Pebble is better than the others but not by much.

Come back when you have something that looks as good as a Tisot.

And presumable it doesn't open your data up to PRISM. That's not something Dropbox does officially.

I've blocked 3rd party cookies in every browser I've used for about 15 years. I think the first was Netscape Navigator 4. And that includes browsers from his friends at Microsoft.

These days I use Ghostery as well and not only stop their insidious tracking and profiling attempts to reduce the human race to a book of numbers but rarely even see their adverts. If they hadn't stooped to such depths I wouldn't have been forced to respond in kind and they would have made more money.

Ah Netware. How I enjoyed the many hours I spent learinging your obscure commands and admin apps.

I used Netware 3.x in several jobs at large and small companies. I never really had the chance to try Netware 4 or 5 because everyone upgraded from 3.12 to Windows NT 4.

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.

This bug is not related to Media Player so using VLC will not prevent it affecting you. It happens in a lot of games as well as video editing software. I'm going to be uninstalling that patch from a lot of systems today. :(

As my Kerbals will tell you this rocket surgery thing is real tricky, especially the flying part. Up, down, left, right... they're all relative and when you get into a spin you could end up going in any direction.