* Posts by Adrian Esdaile

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NASA working on 'open rotor' green (but loud) jets

Adrian Esdaile
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Give aircraft noise moaners iPhones...

...with the volume set permanently to '11'. Solved!

They won't hear the aircraft, and after a month or two, won't even need to use the iPhone! Result!

Funny how you never hear aircraft noise protestors protesting about diesel engines - how else could they drive Portia & Xander to school without their freakin noisy, black soot-belching urban monsta-trucks.

Apollo 11 - The Owners' Workshop Manual

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Dear Conspiracy Freaks

People who talk about the Moon landings as a trick, a hoax or a conspiracy, even as a jest, shal have their geek licenses revoked, that's K-I-L-L-E-D 'revoked' (for those who recognise the authority of the Dolmen-Saxel Shoe Corporation).

Seriously.

internet nut-jobs, crazy dog people, audiophiles all get enough so-called credibility from thier own inane blathering; you don't need to go and pour petrol on the fire. They will only quote the Reg as another source and co-conspirator.

Denying the moon landing makes me sick, it's like denying GRAVITY F.F.S.

Blubber-wrapped Linux kernel 2.6.30 hits the decks

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While I'm on a rant...

"re-architecting"

Could the person who wrote that be taken out and shot, NOW.

I don't care if it is Linus, I don't care if it was Lucy or Charlie Brown, that is a criminal act against language.

Periodic table adding new element

Adrian Esdaile
Happy

If there are only four atoms of it...

...why not name them individually?

I propose: Bertha, Kermit, The Fonz and Rupert.

Webhost hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites

Adrian Esdaile
Joke

More disasters caused by Micro$oft...

M$ really should take the blame for the disasters they cause, with these zero-day bugs infesting their crapplications.

Oh? Sorry? This wasn't Windows-based applications?

Oh, right, I'll stop ranting then.

They should have used OSX. No security holes in that, no sirree!

But seriously, a total bummer to everyone who was on it....

Microsoft takes hard line on Win 7 hardware

Adrian Esdaile
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Wake up anti-trust EU

To be honest , I don't understand anti-trust bullcrap.

BUT it does raise a point, since OSX *clearly* runs perfectly well on non-apple hardware, why doesn't the EU kick Apple in the 'nads (legally speaking) and force them to do OSX for all?

Ah, no, I see, because Chewbacca lived on Endor. Of course!

I'll get my sock monkey.

Triangular buttons key to touchscreen typing success - inventor

Adrian Esdaile
Pirate

A thoussand keys pressed by a running klingon...

I think you'll find the Klingon Empire has been using triangular keys for some millenia now.

They certainly were in Klingon Honour Guard, circa 1998.

Pirate, 'cause Klingon pirates would be something to see, yaaaarrr...

Her Maj honours NZ wizard

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Three cheers for England! oh, and New Zealand!

For being probably the last two places on Earth safe for genuine eccentrics.

Yes, Stephen Fry *should* have one, but even I shy away from his incessant Twitter.

US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go

Adrian Esdaile
Boffin

No magic in this

We already know enough to build one, people.

You need:

1. a bright light source. It will look like a pinpoint, or torch lens at most. So yes, we could use green lasers, but ultra-bright green LEDs will work. Won't get the 2 mile range though.

2. probably a rolling series of frequencies to flicker the light over. Somewhere around the 50-60hz range, plus a few over/under tones. Basically the range that induces epilepsy. Or just project a frantic network game of Doom2 in 320x240 at them, that used to do it for me.

Soldering irons and PIC microcontrollers at the ready!

BBC devs Doctor Who movie script

Adrian Esdaile
Happy

Bring back Blake's 7

Sorry, but quite frankly, bugger the Doctor.

We want Avon! And ORAC, and Liberator & Zen if we can handle it. Liberator was DSV-2, DSV-1 was destroyed as well, but presumably The System built a DSV-3 so there's a another Liberator out there ready for re-use.

You can tie it in to Dr.Who anyway, as if memory serves me correctly, there WAS a Dr.Who / B7 radio show - Kaldor City, which featured psychostrategist Carnell from B7 in an adventure with Dr.Who. I think it is considered 'canon' as the author also wrote B7 scripts.

Zen, Standard by 12, and clear the neutron blasters for firing!

Hiding secret messages in internet traffic: a new how-to

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THE CUSTARD IS ON THE MAT

BANANA DAQUIRI

PURPLE PRUNES SPOKE THE QUEEN'S DANISH PROFFER

ALLO ALLO THIS IS NIGHT'AWK CALLING

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

ALL MY COAT ARE BELONG TO ME

Boffins identify inherited 'werewolf' mutation

Adrian Esdaile

Wolfman? What about wolfwoman?

Another night by the phone,

Another full-moon evening alone

No guys to pet or to please her, awww...

Just the neighbours german shepherd to tease her

"Wolfwoman" by Betty

Not often you get to quote them..

Swivel-shed v polar stilt-scope in Big Bang boffinry clash

Adrian Esdaile
Coat

And its a race because?

Er, silly question, but why two 'teams'? Wouldn't pooling their resources and funding produce one really, really good scope instead of two rush-jobs?

Oh, they're humans, right, carry on.

Mine's the one with the electronic-sub-etha-signalling-device, trying to get off this horrid little planet.

Sims 3 leaked two weeks before release

Adrian Esdaile
Happy

Surely they are professionals?

I mean EA... they do have a secure in-house versioning system, with restricted access to the full build?

So it should be easy to find who leaked it.

Or maybe the lowest-bidder DVD replication fab did it, either way EA will find their leak. Won't they?

I mean, they are professionals, aren't they?

Sophos punts anti-virus for Klingons

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Maybe they should take the time to structure html better...

because the page gave me this:

$Header: index.html,v 1.2 2009/05/08 14:53:14 james Web page status: Draft 0.8. Req action: Mktg to review wording and imagery (better screenshots required etc..), and QA to check links. Expected launch date: July 2009. Software status: Ready. $

I love it when typos give you an insight into the bland grey monotonous lives of cubedwellers out in corporate-land.

Mktg to review. bwahahahahhaahahahaha! Better screen shots. Yep, just use the 'Better Screen Shot' command in photoshop for that one, Mktg knows how to use that. Make it BETTER! Or you get a DEMERIT!

Remnds me of the evil signs by The Midget in 'Illuminatus'

"Lunch hour is five minutes. The Mgt."

Hacked flight sim site in catastrophic crash and burn

Adrian Esdaile
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Avsim wasn't a bank....

Avsim was never exactly cashed up, and despite what everyone here says, proper backups are DAMN expensive.

Avsim had a couple of terrabytes of data, so even a 'relitively' cheap HP Ultrium ($6000 Australian - that a LOT of beer money) plus maybe $1000 in tapes per annum would be nowhwere near enough.

A full backup solution for a site of that size would run to maybe $25,000 min. and for a donation-run enthusiast site, thats just not possible.

Think of Avsim like your local library - it's not mankind's sole repository of knowledge, so it isn't nuclear-blast-proof secure; it is still a bloody tragedy if some 12-year-old ADHD tnuc burns it down.

Which is what seems to have happened to Avsim.

I was a member, some of my files were on there. The Avsim forums had been pretty closely following developments over the last three weeks, though since most of the discussion was on the forums, we've lost that.

The attacks originated mostly in Poland, and for a while were coming from a single IP. The Polish provider was NOT helpful in shutting it down or taking any action, unfortunately, and pretty soon it was obvious the attacks had spread to a botnet. To the more suspicious of us, it looked like a young punk testing attack vectors, possibly as rite-of-entry to a larger network of criminals. The attacks stepped up after the guys running the site started trying to secure it, but remember this is volunteer run, so the guys running it had day jobs to attend to as well. In hindsight, pulling the network cable for a month or two might have been the solution, but this was a community - imagine if the Reg dissappeared for a month with no reason given.

If nothing, it is a sad indictement on the human condition that things like this happen.

I doubt Avsim is going to be the only victim of attacks like this, and not everyone out there is a BOFH with attendant PFY and a large backup budget.

To me it really seems that action needs to come from the ISP-level, ISPs need to be held accountable when they fail to act on warnings of criminal activity. I don't know, maybe that's a simplistic view, but if the ISP in question had acted a bit more responsibly this might not have happened.

Take-Two sues over death of Duke Nukem Forever

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Irony, they has it

Take Two - I guess you could call Duke Nukem Forever (Did Not Finish?) 'Take Two'.

Take One would have been... Battlecruiser 3000AD then?

Great management at Take Two - close involvement with two of the internets most notorious pieces of vapour. At least Battlecruiser 300AD made Alpha (which they released as 1.00)

Somwhere in my garage I have an orginal, store-bought BC3K. I hoping it will one day be worth big money, but I fear that may bee in 3000AD, like it says on the box.

Hacker claims whaling expedition harpooned Steve Jobs

Adrian Esdaile
Unhappy

I'm hurt and upset...

..because this tool went and used my favourite online pseudonym.

Thanks, you moron.

Unless I've suddenly turned into something like Lain and I'm doing it in an alternate reality.

Atlantis grapples Hubble

Adrian Esdaile
Black Helicopters

Didn't they practice fixing tiles a few missions back?

OK, the robot cameras can't get a good look, time to send a human! They're doing spacewalks, they've gone and looked close-up at tiles in a spacewalk in previous missions. Why aren't they doing it now?

All the radio chatter on liftoff about some reasonably serious faults is also a bit odd.

Something fishy is going on here...

Fanbois squeal over Mac OS X upgrade

Adrian Esdaile
Jobs Halo

Apple is perfect

Unlike the bug-fest that is Microsloth Winslows,

APPLE IS PERFECT!

IT IS YOUR REALITY THAT IS AT FAULT!

Apple suggests that if you ARE having "slight" problems with the new software, you should simply THROW AWAY your 8-month old Apple and buy a BRAND NEW SHINY ONE which will work FLAWLESSLY.

IBM files patent for shorter meetings

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Sorry, the prior art is MINE.

In November 2019 I patanted time travel and have since been working my way backwards. If IBM would be so kind as to read their patent law correctly, they will find that I retrospectively patented not only the hour (royalities at modest indexed rates, please) but also the minute, second, femtosecond, 'business-oriented-multi-attendee-space-time-locus' or "meeting" as the plebs call it, time travel, and the concept of retroactive patent trolling.

Small, non-marked low denomination notes, please. In the truck over there, I'll say when to stop.

Microsoft: Don't rush to download Windows 7 RC

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It runs fine

...on an Atom-based 1.4Ghz Asus N10, with 1GB RAM, with the processor clocking down to 700Mhz in battery-saver mode.

Much smoother than Vista, equivalent to XP on the same machine. Sure, I have to clock the machine up to 1.4Ghz to use CAD (and use 2GB ram) but I had to do that with XP anyway, so whats the problem?

It has a smaller footprint than Vista, and *far* better battery management than XP, so - WIN!

BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion

Adrian Esdaile
Happy

Got. Caracker, that one!

A great read.

Following from someones comment above, I re-read it as if it was read by Stephen Fry - great!

I also re-read it as if read by Daniella Nardini and Jaqueline Pearce (the two differing versions of Supreme Commander Servilan) and it become sublime!

Big boost for Aussie firewall

Adrian Esdaile
Black Helicopters

Stupid Australian Government censorship

Those *******!

**** ***** ** ***** **** ***** ***** *****!

*********!! ********** *** ***** ***** *** **** *******

**** ***** ***** **** ** ** *****!

But I suppose we have to expect that because we live in Australia where *** ***** ****** ***!

stunc!

Apple eyes patent for web silence

Adrian Esdaile
Jobs Horns

Patently stupid

Just to warn everyone...

I've just patented the colours FFFFFF and 000000 as used in web browsers, by tradmarking those letter combinations.

Royalties in the marked bucket, thanks.

*cough* Apple? I notice your logo is FFFFFF? That will be... hmmm... make up a number... multiply by 4.... $eleventy billion, please.

Flying-rifle robocopter: Hovering sniper backup for US troops

Adrian Esdaile
Unhappy

Did someone say 'overwatch'?

Outbreak! Outbreak! Outbreak!

I think I prefer to stay inside....

Lotus offers to end e-car silent running

Adrian Esdaile
Stop

It will take...

about 17 seconds for someone to put the ucking fawful 'crazy frog' on it.

JG Ballard — 1930-2009

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Another light gone out

Yet another literary light gone.

I've spent a bit of time in Shanghai over the years, and I re-read 'Empire of the Sun' before I went there the first time.

It helped win a few jobs there, as the locals were impressed that I had some interesting local knowledge - most of them had read some of his works too.

His visons of the future are pretty much spot-on, the only modern authors that come close for me are Stephen Baxter (UK - to be read when feeling like suicide and/or massive civil unrest) and Kim Stanely Robison (US - to be read when feeling happy, he's way more optimistic)

J.G. you'' be missed. Thansk for the stories.

Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what?

Adrian Esdaile
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Wow, big surprise

Well, knock me down with a feather!

A large, obscenely rich, entertainment-industry funded bulldog steamrollered a small, independent party in court?

Next you'll be saying that courts are just an opportunity for the very wealthy to flex their muscle when screaming & spittle doesn't work.

After that, you'll be claiming that ALL civil courts are fundamentally corrupt and pander like lap-dogs to the rich (ie, their shower-room mates).

Ah, but that would be contempt of court!

The courts aren't even worth my contempt, I save it for more worthy institutions.

Fourth antivirus firm buys into behavioural blocking

Adrian Esdaile
Pirate

Prefered protection rackets

How do I choose which protection racket *cough* AV firm to use? Should I use all of them? If I do, can I expect a major turf war to break out in my data?

And what kind of behaviour does it block? Root-level access, boot-block writing, that kind of thing that viruses do... OH, and so does Securom et al. as used by many BigNames(tm). We're not talking games here, we're talking major CAD & graphic design software that comes with FREE! rootkit installation...

Businesses will postpone Windows 7 rollouts

Adrian Esdaile
Gates Halo

Except in Architecture....

"That's thanks to a large number of IT people graduating from college having used a Mac and bringing their skills and experience into the workplace."

Nope, not if they're architects. There's no useful architectural software on Macs these days.

As for Win7, we're migrating our 10 PCs to it as soon as we can. We're very happy with Vista, but are even happier with the way Win7beta runs, so we'll make the jump as soon as we can.

Apple muffles PC noisemakers

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Stop

What? Apple patents "silence"?

Sorry Apple, I can't hear you! I have a G4 sitting here beside me and it's hard to even read it's so damn noisy! Hang on, I'll turn it off.

Ah, that's better.

Right, now lets see, on my desk here I have my SILENT Asus Nova which is my trusty little Windows Home Server, next to me is my main machine with the built-for-silence Antec P20 case, modded with 5 extra fans foor cooling and a Zalman fan control to keep it quiet. I only have to let the noise get loud on days over 35C, and to be honest I'm not usually in front of the PC on days like that.

I built my first silenced PC back in 2001, so RIGHT THERE I've got prior art over Apple, as I was using resilient HDD mounts, fan controls, composite linings to stop reverb and harmonics in the case, and software control over how hard the CPU & fan is running, which for memory came in with the Athlons from AMD with their "Q-fan" system.

I really do have a G4 here as well, (two of them actually) and the aren't even the awful G4MDD models (known as the Apple WindTunnel), and I must say they are very noisy computers. Sure, pretty case for the time, but roaring banshees when powered up. Yes, the fans are clean. Though I did touch the inside of the case without washing PC off first, so I may have un-blessed the G4s resulting in the noise. Oh, and the speakers for them aren't connected with helium-filled oxygen-free copper with mahogany interconnects, so that would be why.

Coming up next Apple patents "gasseous material for facillitating respiration" and "geometric-symbol-based representation of concepts, numbers and speech, facillitating communication storage on physical and digital media"

TFC, Apple!

PETA pitches for Pet Shop Animal Shelter Boys

Adrian Esdaile
IT Angle

Would PETA please change their name to BANAL?

After all, 'PETA' contains the letters 'PET' which is very offensive to late 1970's Apple users, and of course refers to the keeping of beautiful animals as household slaves, when they could be out roaming as free animals as MotherGoddessGaiaNatureHareKrishnaRamaLindaMcCartney intended.

Bloody Annoying Nonsensical Animal Liberationistas makes far more sense.

I could have been much, much worse, I assure you.

I must admit though, it's hardly a bootnote is it?

Sims creator Will Wright leaves EA

Adrian Esdaile
Unhappy

EA FAIL

Spore could have been so good, but thanks to EA it's... well I'm not sure. Confused, mostly.

Likely EA retain the rights to "Sim-x" which is a shame, and we will likely never see a sequel to Spore as I cannot imagine EA letting the rights to that go.

Bloody shame, and to quote the Bard "All are punished"

Sadville besieged by bitey 'spampires'

Adrian Esdaile
Dead Vulture

Simple answer

Are you sure you want to delete the folder 'Second Life' and all it's contents

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Japan talks lunar 'bots as commies go hot

Adrian Esdaile
Stop

What is it with the Japanese and two-legged robots?

I mean, sure they look fabulous in anime, but lunar exploration?

<Kawasaki RV-1 has landed! Japan is on the moon! We are getting first pictures now!>

- image of lunar horizon, rapid disappearing up out of frame, then extreme close-up of dust -

<Kawasaki RV-1 has, ah... fallen over.>

- rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb* -

<Now lanunching Kawasaki RV-2 to help RV-1 up...>

* or Japanese equivalent for muttering noises.

What's wrong with a Twitter degree?

Adrian Esdaile
Stop

Didn't Stephen Baxter predict this?

In his wonderfully bleak and depressing novel 'Titan' Stephen Baxter describes the rise of a new class of society - the high educated unemployable person.

For memory, the person described was only able to be employed as a household assistant, and not a very good one at that. He lived in the garage and spent his spare time making statues of himself, self-felating himself, out of his own lipsuctioned fat and his own feces. I'm not making this up.

If you are considering a degree like this, you would do well to read 'Titan' (don't get mixed up with Ben Bova's 'Titan' - it's rubbish) and see what lies ahead of you.

I love Baxter's work - in almost every book he kills off at least 90% of the human race, and 'Titan' is probably the best - he kills off not just every human, but ALL life on Earth by about 2037. He then goes on to describe Voyager 2 falling apart before it even gets more than 1 or 2 light years from where Earth was, so no-one finds it. Justice for a planet-load of B-Arkers!

U2 song whacked my hard drive

Adrian Esdaile
Coat

Clear case of suicide.

If I was forced to store, and then play, any shite from U2 I'd commit suicide as well.

Mine's the one with industrial ear protection, no poncy sunglasses, and defeintely no poncy name.

Acer sued for shipping Vista-book with GB of memory

Adrian Esdaile
Coat

I bought a Hyundai Excel....

And it was COMPLETELY USELESS as an Amphibious Assault / Helicopter Carrier!

I'm going to SUE Hyundai, because they sais the Excel can do everything!

Mine's the one WITHOUT reading glasses.

WiReD UK: ET found in 19 years

Adrian Esdaile
Alert

Is that the future pluperfect?

" will have been discovered "

or is it past-future tense?

And why nineteen years? Surely they mean by 18.734 years!

Oh, and David, I won a comp here in about 2006 (spotting secret stuff on GooglEarth(tm)) I never saw a T-shirt.... maybe something to do with living in 'strayla

Why no Lego Doctor Who? fans demand

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ZOMG! Dr.Who Lego! DO WANT!

AAAAAHHHHHHHH! YES! YES! YES! OH YES PLEEEEEEEEASE!

Dr.Who Lego! DO WANT

YES! WILL BUY, WILL SELL SPARE LIMBS! YES! YES! PLEEEEEEEEEEASE!

I don't often type all caps, but this demands it.

Not enough thumbs up icons to describe how shiny good double plus excellent this would be!

Oh, and can I has 'Young Ones' Lego set too?

kthnxbai

World's first proper flying car makes debut flight

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C'mon, think about this seriously...

Fact - it's probably MUCH safer than a motorcycle / sidecar on the road, and you can insure those and drive them without dying horribly every day.

Fact - plenty of plonkers fly light planes, and they aren't dropping out of the skies at 1 per sqkm per day. Well, not round here, anyway.

Fact - plenty of light planes out there probably *just* pass airworthiness, but we don't cower in fear about them.

Fact - plenty of HEAVY planes *cough* turkish/africa/indonesian airlines sometimes don't *quite* pass safety standards either.

Fact - yes, we've all seen the idiots we have to drive with, and unfortunately we are still not allowed to shoot them through the head on sight.

Fact - the aforementioned idiots are still going to drive around in their MONSTA-TRUK 4WD OFFROADE TOUROSPECIAL JACCUZZI-MATIC 9 TON CITY SPECIAL taking their kiddies to school at 125km/h while talking on the phone, drinking McDonalds coffee, doing their fingernails and reading No Idea at the same time.

Fact - why is everyone so damn scared of the extremely minimal death-and-injury stats for light aircraft compared to the massively horrendous death-and-injury toll caused by the common car?

Surely we could save more lives and community costs by encouraging people to fly planes than to drive cars.

Maybe we should apply the same tests and requirements of commercial airline pilots to everyday car users - that would certainly produce safer roads!

Personally I think this is a brilliant design, and I want one.

Aussie firewall blocks Wikileaks

Adrian Esdaile
Flame

Positive action at last!

Good, I hope this ACMA witchfinder general can block this piece of Satan-spawned online gambling software that has been on almost every PC, Linux and Mac I have ever seen - SOLITAIRE!

Ban the personal computer! Burn them! BURN THEM!

Reverse engineering Apple's OS X

Adrian Esdaile
Pirate

*cough* Excuse me?

"techniques I use to reverse engineer Cocoa executables"

Er, isn't that like, COMPLETELY forbidden under the DCMA? I seem to recall Apple have very little sense of humour when it comes to reverse engineering their software.

What next, 'How to write keyloggers for OSX?'

Come to think of it, carry on!

Great Aussie firewall claims first victim

Adrian Esdaile
Flame

Hmm, might try to submit these...

www.australia.gov.au

and

www.acma.gov.au

Come to think of it, why not block

www.*

and

*.com

Ex-Star Wars boffins build mosquito-blasting raygun

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I want one.

Now.

oh, and where the hell is my jetpack?

Kraft puts foot in big pot of yoghurt?

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In communist Russia...

ALL logos must be in Bold 20pt Helvetica, black on white. No exceptions.

This puts everyone on a even footing, relying only on the quality of product, not fancy psychological tricks to survive.

Still waiting for the great leap forward.

So, what's the f**king difference between a Netbook and an ultrathin?

Adrian Esdaile

Video ports

The yes/no bits are around the wrong way. Ultrathins don't have video (except HDMI) whereas Netbooks usually DO have at least 15-pin video out.

I think the question there should be does it have 15-pin D-sub video out yes-> netbook or similar branch, no -> ultrathin

There's also no path for 'aircraft carrier' - notebooks with screens over 15"

Drunken BOFH wreaks $1.2m in Oz damage

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@No government organisation would run a major IT system without adequate backups, would they?

Yes, the Australian Government would.

This is the same government currently sending $1400 "recovery packages" to foreigners who came here once in 1963, stayed for about 5 minutes until they found out how fucking god-awful it si down here, then left.

I am assuming they are using the same 'database' or whatever the hell our fat-arsed wombats, er, politicians use down 'ere in gawds ern erf.

MS coughs to hokey-cokey IE8 option in Windows 7

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Flame

Could the EU include Geese with the Ganders?

I don't notice the EU (or anyone else for that matter) bitch-slapping Apple for supplying the god-awful Safari with OSX-Mangy Minx or whatever the latest bug-fix version is.

And what about iTunes - every time you install it you have to play whack-a-mole with it to stop installing the god-awful Safari.

Last I noticed, if you don't like IE, you don't have to use it! Just install Firefox, or Safari or Opera or Netscape if you want, and set it to 'default browser' - heck you don't even have to do that - most set themselves automatically.

Admittedly, some people who are technologically challenged and have trouble using high-tech items (such as doors, knives & forks, pencils, wiping their own arses) might find this difficult so I guess I can see why the EU wants a nanny-state.

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