* Posts by Pookietoo

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Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad?

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Facepalm

Re: "GET A LIFE!!!"

Do you not think perhaps that some of those tweets were taking the piss?

Study finds fraudsters foist one-third of all Tor traffic

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Black Helicopters

Re: want the NSA & friends to keep the fuck out

You're assuming that the NSA isn't running a significant proportion of the Tor network?

Microsoft relents: 'Go ahead, install Windows 8.1 on clean PCs'

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Black Helicopters

Re: someone to write a particularly nasty piece of Code

I expect MSFT has that well in hand.

Pookietoo

Re: how many home users upgrade their OS?

Well Tesco seemed to be doing a roaring trade in £30(?) upgrades when it was first released.

Mach 8 Scramjet flies but sends no data

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Re: A painful expensive mistake.

That nail on the window sill?

Windows Phone overtakes Apple's market share ... in India

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Coat

Re: just sour grapes

But, but ... we're still a world leader in banking ...

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Re: No need to stop calling them Nokia Lumia's until they *want* to.

All the signs are that MSFT is still intent on unified MSFT branding for (Nokia) product as soon as it can be achieved.

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Devil

Re: don't see Google becoming the new Microsoft

It's no secret that users of Google products are the meat for the sausage machine, rather than its valued clients. But Google needs willing victims to sell, a whole different deal than the prisoners that MSFT relies on.

Pookietoo
Facepalm

Re: Ok lets be pedantic

SHould prpbably use the specllechecker then. :-)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7

Pookietoo

Re: Why should they change?

Because they've introduced an "economy" model to the range?

Apple to uncloak new iPads, iMacs at October 15 event?

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Re: expect that software ... will run on all the others

Apple doesn't care about other manufacturers' hardware compatibility - they sell their software on their hardware.

City of Munich throws Ubuntu lifeline to Windows XP holdouts

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Linux

Re: Well..

"* AMD's Catalyst graphics drivers for Ubuntu are utter crap" Working just fine here.

"* WIFI never really works properly" "It just works" here.

"* KDE is very buggy" I heard it got better, but I haven't used it lately.

"* Canonical ...half-finished idea" I'm on 12.04, so haven't used some of the latest stuff, but a happy Unity user.

"* There are way too many fucking distros." Just go to Distrowatch and pick one off the top of the list.

"* Installing drivers is way too difficult" Menu>Hardware>Additional Drivers and up pops a list of drivers you can choose to install.

At least try to sound like you're keeping your FUD up to date.

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Linux

Re: I bet a lot more people would switch if...

[1] Wubi installs Ubuntu to a Windows filesystem - dual-boots without repartitioning.

[2] should be quite easy to do, but Linux copes pretty well with finding shares and printers itself as long as the printer manufacturer plays fair with drivers

[3] PlayOnLinux is doing good work automating installation of some popular Windows software.

[4] Wubi uninstalls with Windows Add/Remove Software.

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Linux

Re: the previous version worked out of the box with my 1366x768

You need to specify 1360x768 (actually works out at 1360x765, vertical is calculated from horizontal and the 16:9 ratio). The horizontal pixel count must be divisible by 8 - this is a restriction imposed by the EDID standard rather than something peculiar to Linux or this implementation. Workarounds are possible, but not with all hardware combinations.

Dyson takes Samsung to court in UK over vacuum cleaner

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Re: it will not sit on an average stair

Mine doesn't need to sit on a stair - put it at the bottom of the stairs and the hose easily reaches to the top. The carpet beater is easy to clean. It fits under radiators, chairs, beds etc. None of the bits has ever dropped off. I enjoy the good design every time I use it (which isn't as often as it should be).

Pookietoo
Thumb Up

Re: Nowt wrong with Dysons.

My DC03 is still going strong after about 15 years - maybe the newer ones aren't so good?

Bin half-baked Raspberry Pi hubs, says Pimoroni: Try our upper-crust kit

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Linux

Re: make the case big enough to take a Pi

Then you'd have to allow access to all the ports and pins, which would probably end up a bit of a mess.

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Linux

Re: I like to see cables all heading in roughly the same direction.

Indeed, the cable layout would put me off this design, but I think it's nice apart from that. Although maybe they should have put a couple of "keyholes" on the bottom so you could hang it on the wall, side/back of desk etc..

Pimoroni PiGlow: Rainbow LED swirls for the Raspberry Pi

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WTF?

Re: And the purpose for this is.....

To make Raspberry Pi as cool as Dr. Theopolis, of course.

Anatomy of a killer bug: How just 5 characters can murder iPhone, Mac apps

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Re: Why are they using signed integers

I though the main point of this exploit was passing -1 (which should never occur) which then gets interpreted as unsigned int ridiculously large number (i.e. 2's complement of -1, to 32 or 64 bits).

'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail

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FAIL

Re: This government is bullying you. Into working for a living

Especially those people at the bottom of the pile who are chronically ill or disabled, and realistically unable to fully support themselves - reduce their benefits and make them pay more taxes, because they're not going to be able to fight it. How long before they bring back the workhouse?

Tat bazaar eBay takes a rest for 'scheduled maintenance', goes offline

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login via ebay.com seems fine

It's just ebay.co.uk that's a bit poorly.

Lawsuit claims Microsoft misled investors in Surface RT fiasco

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Re: they LIED about its sales figures

If they'd come right out and said "everyone thinks it's crap and we can't sell it" what are the chances the investors would have sued them for devaluing the product?

'Hand of Thief' banking Trojan reaches for Linux – for only $2K

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Linux

Re: then one click on an unlabelled "open" icon ...

... is all it takes to launch ClamTK.

British boffin muzzled after cracking car codes

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FAIL

Re: it isn't normally in the specifications ... a "disable brakes" instruction

How do you think ABS works?

You MERCILESS FIEND... you put that audio file on AUTOPLAY

Pookietoo

Re: youtube

SmartVideo For YouTube - a plugin that downloads the whole video and doesn't start playing until you tell it to.

Dear Linus, STOP SHOUTING and play nice - says Linux kernel dev

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WTF?

Re: this is the kernel and not Linux itself

What do you think Linux is, if it's not the kernel?

Microsoft lathers up Windows 8.0 Surface RT for quick price shave

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WTF?

Re: Can you even still buy Surface RT?

I get downvoted for being able to find information on a website?

Pookietoo

Re: Can you even still buy Surface RT?

"Buy a Surface RT now for only $349" http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-US

I'm using Chromium on Ubuntu.

Pookietoo

Re: only £150 less

£220 less - Surface RT costs £279 in the UK, that's near half the price of your £500 laptop.

Man sues Apple for allowing him to become addicted to porn

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re: misgivings

ITYM shortcomings - and I should probably make a joke of that ...

El Reg Playmonaut soars to 113,000ft

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Who thought that it was a good idea to have lines dangling ...

... where they could snag things? I'm guessing the drogue was to stop the glider going into a flat spin - did it have a cut-away mechanism?

Analyst: Tests showing Intel smartphones beating ARM were rigged

Pookietoo

Re: Just saying

If i never gets used again there's no point setting it.

HP storage: more possible backdoors

Pookietoo
Big Brother

Re: Virgin media modems also ?

That's a device that belongs to Virgin and is connected directly to their network - of course they want to manage it remotely. If you don't want them snooping around "your" LAN then put a router in the way.

Pookietoo

RE: when hardware gets nearer end of life ...

... you rip the cover off and short the two obvious solder pads that used to connect the reset switch?

Universities teach us a thing or two about BYOD

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Linux

Re: no open source RDP servers

xrdp has been around for a while, looks like it might be quite usable now.

Microsoft to switch off MSN TV

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Re: could not afford a computer

Raspberry Pi. Could even hitch a ride off a friendly neighbour's WiFi.

Elon Musk's Grasshopper tops 300m, lands safely

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FAIL

re: Wings ... very simple ... an enormous fireball

Columbia.

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FAIL

Re: THOUSANDS OF YEARS EARLIER using ONLY A CHISEL

Clay, yes, thousands of years, yes, but chisel - on a soft lump of clay?

Win 8 man Sinofsky's 'retirement' deal: $14m shares, oath of silence

Pookietoo

Re: I am a fucking mechanic

So how would you like it if someone came into your workshop, removed the size markings from all the sockets and spanners, and stuck them along a wall out of reach of the bench?

Tickle my balls, stroke my button and blow the fluff from my crack

Pookietoo

Re: GEM without a mouse?

At uni, when there was high demand for the Windows machines in the computing centre, I could usually find one that had been abandoned by a business student because the mouse was dead or missing. I'd occasionally get incredulous looks when I started using one, having been told "that one's not working"..

Judge nixes Microsoft SkyDrive name in BSkyB court ruling

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FAIL

re: LiveDrive rhymes nicely.

I expect that's what the people thought when they launched livedrive.com

Pookietoo

Re: Microdrive is an Hitachi trademark IIRC.

Inherited from IBM, who made tiny hard drives that masqueraded as compact flash cards - I have a few somewhere.

Pookietoo
WTF?

Re: MS's cloud product isn't in the Broadcasting market

So you've not heard of Sky Broadband, or don't think that an Internet storage provider's product might reasonably be confused with an established Internet service provider of the same name?

What's the difference between GEEKS and NERDS?

Pookietoo
Headmaster

Re: Affect - the verb Effect - the noun

Except that affect can be a noun (like affectation) and effect can be a verb (to effect change).

Ecuador denies granting asylum, safe passage to Snowden

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The lack of valid travel documents ...

... is an assumption based purely on the invalidity of the published document - this could be a deliberate distraction, or just irrelevant, as Snowden has apparently disappeared and could be pretty much anywhere by now, including Guantanamo.

Microsoft talks up devices, Windows 8.1 at developer shindig

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Re: The Win-NT line OTOH

We know you desperately want us to forget Vista, but we won't.

Korean doctors: Smartphones really ARE doing your head in

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Re: you will tend to not use your memory, calculating skills

Well my memory has been crap since I can't remember when - I find Google incredibly useful for finding things that I only partly remember. However I was always rather good at mental arithmetic, and now I'm more likely to use Google for calculations than doing them in my head, which is probably a downside.

Throwing arms let humans rise above poo-flinging apes to play cricket

Pookietoo

Re: "hullo clouds, hullo sky"

Hello daisies and ladybirds. Happy days. :-)

Pookietoo

Re: I'd think the pitchers throw is more efficient

Depends how you define efficiency - the rules prevent chucking in cricket, so I suspect pitchers dissipate a lot more energy in their elbows than do bowlers. The run-up is more about getting the limbs swinging in the correct coordinated manner, rather than adding a slow jog to the top speed, I think.

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