Posts by Steve

Did they have something worth watching?

This is no great loss, their target audience wont be people using "Alternative" OS's like OSX and Linux, C4 isn't that kind of company any more. They seem to be under the impression that they provide some kind of 3rd choice, but they have slipped into the Dave/Bravo/Living genre and they aint coming back.

Channel 4 is no longer doing it's job, lets kill it and start again!

In their defense

Bank tube is on a very very tight angle, I'm guessing that too much friction could cause a derailment! What with the derailment on the DLR earlier that day perhaps they were a little nervous.

They need to stop using...

...those stupid tinyurl links, those are phishers delight those are!

@Don Sinclair

LoL. Give that man a sausage!

/Paris, well she loves a bit of polish sausage too init?

Clearly mental

They remind me of the "Don't look at me" maid off that naff TV show...

I think it's a good idea

People will not opt-in, BT have taken the right decision, as long as there is no security problem, I think all ISP's should do this!

So not much change to the mini

Looks like they just cut the low-end version and added ports and dedicated graphics.

Phew! So my 9 month old mini is still as fast as the new one, not counting the gfx upgrade, I like my full DVI port, could do with that Firewire 800 port tho'. :(

Big jump needed

They need to stop pressure selling software and extended warranties to get me back in there, and training their staff to recognise something more detailed than a cardboard box would really help them!

Their stores are barns full of box shifting sales morons. They should just shut up shop and do us all a massive favour.

Ofcom! Like they will do anything!!!

BT won't listen to Ofcom unless they are forced to, I'm stuck in this rolling deal, I've set myself a reminder to opt out since I don't believe BT will send me a letter!

What makes me distrust them, well I was not notified of the auto-renewal until I received a letter from BT post-ordering / pre-installation saying that if I was not happy with the deal I could cancel the whole order.

BT use dirty tricks, but I still prefer them to Virgin Media...

All marketing and no delivery

They clearly don't have the bandwidth to deliver what they sell, why else would they throttle everyone?

Yup yup

Give us more of the hardware stuff I loves it!

Not much better

My Mac mini has 2GB of RAM, a dual core 2GHz CPU, Firewire400, DVI video output.

So this isn't much of a jump, if they were to update perhaps these would be the features...

*Allow more than 2GB or RAM

*Firewire800 or external Sata

*Larger HDD option

The Mac mini is cheap, that's why people buy it, Apple no doubt want to keep it that way, so if the optical drive works out cheaper as sata they would so do it!

Lenny without the straitjacket

But what about the rabbits George!

Maybe Paris would get the reference...

Wacqui Jacqui

When will she learn, the Internet isn't as simple as she thinks...

Paris? Well, even she could understand what's going on...

Excellent article

El Reg needs more stuff like this!

Any chance you could cover getting a USB HDD working with the Apple TV?

Nothing new

My first home built PC was incased in a cardboard box, all parts scavenged from old PC's, eventually I felt it would be better to use something less flammable. :)

Power consumption

I hope they thought about handset power consumption this time... Prolly not eh?

French!

I'm sure I hadn't heard it was going to have French text up to now.

Paris, well I'm sure you could make your own joke...

@ Ted Treen

Erm, some of them /are/ the current government http://party.coop/co_operative.php?article_id=33

Dom Joly style!

"Hello! No, I'm at the World Economic Forum! No it's shit!!"

Hey El Reg!

Thanks for reporting on this, I doubt if any other tech sites would.

It's the only way to be sure!

Yep I'm for that, I can always tell when the car in front has it's driver on the phone, the tell tale slowness and late signalling, not to mention the close calls.

How about some detail

That was the worst review El Reg has done in a long time, show features, how does it function as a phone? What did you tell us there?

Lilly Savage?

Sorry it was a bit blurry, was that Lilly I could hear?

Sound's like she has a cold coming on or perhaps a slight Manc accent?

Seriously though, Paris could do a better impression than that.

They can shove it up their arse's

I pay for the bandwidth as specified in my contract, to use how I decide.

Bravo indeed!

Good one Mr Haines, you are the best journo at El Reg!

Paris sends her love...

baaaa baaaaa baaaaa

Off you go to the slaughter, I'll laugh when you whine about not 'getting' youtube on your current net package.

I agree with Alex.

lets make a new one, this ones f**ked!

El Reg does it again

I the last couple of months I've noticed this BBC style jorno trash appearing.

Give us the full story! Is this an import tax?

Hahahahaha

Oh it's not April, well why would they announce this?

I <3 Be Too and so should you!

I've been with Be* for over a year, and love it, my connection is consistantly fast, it never drops and they aren't about to ban any protocols/websites. Plus they are lovely, they text me when my bill is due and always answer the phone, oh, and their telephone staff are technical.

First in Holloway I got 14Mb/s now in Hackney I get 19Mb/s with real world transfer of about 17Mb/s Down and 1.2 Mb/s Up, I was with Virgin before that and spent out on a BT line to get rid of their excuse for Internet access.

Oi Virgin! What's the point of 50Mb/s if you cut the bandwidth down to a trickle if we dare use it in the peak hours!!!

Brand loyalty

My first phone was a Nokia, so was my second, these were the days of green backlights.

I switched from there to the SE T610 and never looked back, since then I've used the K700, K800 and now the G900 which has both touchscreen and keypad, perfect for not looking like a smart phone when texting on Dalston High Street late at night.

HTC is the choice of my workplace, they weigh a ton, they have a brick like feel in the hand, the battery life can't really be called a life, they crash (Phones should not crash), and you look like a knob using one in the street, you know like the blackberry/pull-trolley people.

I think it's a great move to use Android as it promises to be a popular platform, and as we all know it's the popular platforms that get applications. It is however a bad move to have HTC build it, SE are great at designing phones that feel nice to hold, HTC are not.

Paris... Talking of nice to hold...

Cool

Something to boot into when Windows gets broken...

I'll use what they sold me

If they over sold bandwidth that's their problem and they need to increase capacity or not sell so much that they have to cap...

So does this mean...

..the Tower of London will need to do some re-branding?

http://www.toweroflondontour.com/bloodytw.html

Hahaaha bad coders make software go boom!

VAT is changeable, get your software in order. I don't see where the problem is.

We aren't talking about a decrease in the number of days per year or something as unreasonable.

Paris?

Oh she understands taxes change you bozo's.

are they MCSE's or sommit?

Not accurate. Now if the users were a bit dumber and the IT staff of normal intelligence or above that would be a start.

Bzzzzzz bzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzz Why is the freeview freezing

For the under 18's?

Ok what about when it rains?

Hairdriers look like those disabled scooters anyway, you won't look any worse with a big antenna sticking out of yer arse!

Serves em right

Who goes to Channel 5 for tech news anyway when we have El Reg?

Ok El Reg don't do video reviews, ...yet? Until they do I'll stick with Revision3.