Posts by Michael Habel
360 posts • joined Tuesday 21st August 2007 11:46 GMT
Can it be hacked to put a working OS on it? Say Android? Then perhaps, then again perhaps not. Give it time and we'll have 20mp Camera-phones everywhere.
Just exactly how...
Is it evil when you pay your Tax Debt down to the last dotted "i" and crossed "t"? I for One need some explanation on this One. Ya sure these Corporates ~could pay more~ BUT WHY THE FECKKING HECK SHOULD THEY?! Cause the Plebeian classes can't afford to hire a CPA to sniff out these "Holes" in the Tax Code that would be of a benefit to you?
I for One am sick to death about hearing about this "immorality" FECK YOUR MORALITY! Instead of winging on about how evil Google are. Perhaps such energy should rather be detected towards Government to fix their broken Tax System. Then perhaps you might then find this fableland of morality that you are all seeking so much. This might come at the expense of Jobs though.
In the fantasy relm of Corporate __________
This Article make sense, but One would think that the like of Seagate, HGST & WD would be making their Bread & Butter in the White-Box OEM / OTC Market to Retail. So in the real World a what are we up to know? 960Gib? SSD would set ya back by about the same amount as Two, Four Terabyte HDDs?
Long term storage may not be everyone's Tea here, and sure SDDs can have their place too, but Prices need to come down to their HDD equivalents. OR LOWER! before (the like above), would begin to take further notice in this Tech. But then perhaps I just have different storage needs then those of who'd likely down vote this.
Posted in Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD
Again this is like buying a Tesla when a Vauxhuall would do
Yeah you may get to your Destination faster in a Super hyped-up e-Car, but, don't expect to get vary far in it though. This thing needs to be about a 3/4 of the price and have about 4x the Capacity to be of any relevance to us mere mortals who still have to pay rent, an ever increasing Power Bill and food. really ca~ £500.00(GBP) for something that just scratches the One Terabyte level of storage? One suspects, that One could kit out a NAS with Two Four Terabyte HDDs for that kind of money.
How the Hell anyone could justify this 5h!t is beyond me.
My understanding was...
That Microsoft would be leaving the "decision" of always-on DRM to the individual Developer(s). So if it just happens that 99.95% of all the Dev's just happen to decide to use it, then so be it.
Re: Sorry, Master Yoda.
>Implying that the dark side will be cloudy?
I have to tend to agree with you on this one.
Re: NOW I feel old...
"Just yesterday I heard that when visiting a pharmacy in Helsinki (and had a flashback...). I have no idea why they use modems any more, good and affordable ADSL service is available from several operators, not to mention the 3G dongles + data packages you practically get as freebies in cereal packets. Perhaps their payment processor insists on landline modems for security reason."
Ya know it could've just been something as simple as a Fax Machine.
Re: Office 365's licensing model
"At a guess, everybody who has heard this claim repeatedly for the last decade or so, without any evidence of this so called "stampede" ever happening. But hey, you carry on telling us all that "Next year is the year of Linux on the desktop" and we'll all just quietly pretend not to be giggling at hearing the same thing repeated year on year."
Yeah great point there...
Save that these "claims" were made ~way way back~ in the days of W2k, XP and to some extent Vista & W7. All of which were just a facelift with some tinkering (Likely updated bug patches in so far as Vista was XP SP4 and W7 is Vista SP2.), under the hood.
Nobody with any "sense" of style cares for WP7 & 8 and, by proxy Windows 8 (e.g. TIFKAM) WHICH IS JUST PLAN UGLY by anyone's standards! And the fact of Microsofts overwhelming success with its great experiment is enough proof of this. Add unintuitive, and obstructive "Touch Gestures" into a Keyboard & Mouse dominated Desktop ecosystem. All the while proclaiming that no ones giving 'em a fair shake. While striping the last of there user-rights out from under 'em.
You were right about the "Year of the Linux".... Up to a, and only to this point! This is not the same as card blanch for Microsoft. If Microsoft can not, or will not react to these problems immediately. Then things like Linux or BSD, and by that proxy OSX will suddenly have a greater profile.
I can't wait to see...
How Microsoft deal with outta warranty Fondle Slabs when there update Firmwarez start to massively brick owners said Devices. AFAIC LULZ will surly ensue!
Re: Windows XP was considered a failure when it was first introduced
So how much longer can your Brother count on his Anti Virus Software. 'Cause once Microsoft calls time on XP, you can bet the rest of the World will follow suit in due process...
Re: Linux Mint
"Those that only use their computer for browsing the web and writing documents should have no trouble going over to Linux"
Whats so specific to your task that you must demand Microsoft Windows for anyway If One might ask?
Re: Feature removal in newer versions keeps XP going
Pry tell me how you managed to get a Full Screen Dos going in Windows XP, 'cause I never could. At least not on the Command Line Interface any way. How it may have been for actual DOS Programs though? I can not say.
Re: @GregC - No. It's not better.
"Have you considered using a start menu replacement? I use one and boot straight into desktop. Win 7 functionality, all my software (office, games, etc) and driven by mouse + keyboard."
Again whats it with all these 3'ed party Commercial fixes or some Open Sourced fix (if the Shrills can trust it!), that are needed to fix a problem that shouldn't have ever existed in the first place!
Re: won't happen!
"However, the result will be a wave of Windows 7 installs instead of the Windows 8 (or Blue) that Microsoft wanted, and it will be reported as yet another nail in the Windows 8 coffin."
We live in hope. This is in fact the most likely scenario, if Microsoft still want to be relevant to there Corporate Customers. but, something tells me they just don't give a flying f**k anymore. Then again neither do I.
Dude just use Mint
I feel your pain towards Windows 8. Really I do! But, really its about time to let go and try Linux. It just might surprise you!
Re: Windows XP was considered a failure when it was first introduced
"As to "Run those machines as long as possible just to piss them off. I know I am." - Microsoft don't care - it's just you that will be suffering - every PC that you buy to replace failed / outdated ones almost certainly already comes with a Windows license....."
While sadly true, I still down voted ya, I have a perfectly serviceable ATX Case, I can replace Mobos, and HDDs as well as the Odd Graphic Card now and then. The BIGGER challenge going forward will be UFEI Secure Boot.
Re: Windows XP was considered a failure when it was first introduced
Or just find something like Cinnamon Mint install Wine on it then Office 2k3 (Which will also go EOL the same time XP does), and continue on! What's that ya like to play your Ego Shooters? I'm sure Valve will have ya covered pretty well by then with Steam for Linux!
Happy Cinnamon Mint user. Flying the Bird at Microsoft!
From what I've been hearing People are using this format to bypass paying Taxes, and protecting themselves from having there savings seized. We could argue over the morality of the First, the the Latter seems to be (On the face of it), a good idea. But for Bitcoin to "work" it has to be transferable into a "Hard Currency", and I fail to see how this doesn't transfer into a got'cha for the above. As your likely to need to transfer it to an Account somewhere.
Until I can walk into a Tescos, Asda, Lidl or Aldis and pick-up some Milk and a Head of Lettuce with my Bitcoins, its completely worthless to me as a Currency.
Ok I gather you can, or could buy into this Bitcoin thing. But, how many hoops does One need to jump though in order to re-convert those Bitcoins into something more universal like €uros, Dollars, or Pounds?
Seems to me that only One getting fat off this is the cat the came up with this scheme.
Re: Fail == Fail
"M$ still have a 56.32% market share so they don't need to worry what they call their next OS or how it performs, it will still be part of the biggest herd. Only just mind."
Yeah, but for how much longer? Nobody with a single braincell rattling inside their heads, would touch it [sic] Windows 8. Corporates can still flee to Windows 7 (FOR NOW!!). Whats gonna happen once Microsoft has had enough of Windows 7 too? I can't see Window 8 in the workplace as it is EVER!
Now that Linux has Steam (e.g. Valve) on-board things can only get better for Linux. Given that Microsoft would rather you pay then a yearly subscription to their HTML5 wonder Office. Well WHO THE HELL NEEDS WINDOWS?!?
Lol a HTPC awwwwww Hell no!!!
Any Linux with MythTV (or better yet) Video Disc Recorder (e.g. VDR), with XBMC can and WILL DO a better job of running a HTPC then anything Micorsoft could do.
Lets take DVB-C (Digital Cable TV), for example. If you want to watch this, or are forced to watch it 'cause your Landlord doesn't want you to put up a Dish, or you just happen to live on the wrong side of the Building. Then your forked, as you'll need a CAM (Common Access Module), and a Smartcard to access your Subscription(s). Granted Microsoft have done some work to get DVB-S2 (With CAMs?), to work since Vista / 7. Its little comfort to me,
Now take VDR for example its compatible with everything DVB-T(2), DVB-C and DVB-S(2) OotB, It boots straight into the last Channel viewed. No need to muck 'round waiting for Windows to load, then clicking the Media Center Icon. Full CAM support. Linux is just full of WIN here.
Windows on the other hand is just full of FAIL!
Re: 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0
Says the Man who's never tried Cinnamon Mint...
Re: 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0
Only problem is by the time Windows hits revision 8.1.17. Hopefully most People will have moved on to Linux by then. One has to wonder what will happen to Microsoft once they pull the Trigger on Windows 7? Where will all the Corporations go then to Windows 8? HAHAHA not likely. I wonder if those asshats in Redmond understand this?
Re: Numbering
For all the hate it generates I think most of us would agree that Vista > Windows 8.
At least this is my hope. Vista was actually a pretty decent OS if you managed to run in on decent Hardware. Which was the problem, given that the OEM thought that they could run it on any old Hardware. You couldn't run XP on a Pentíum 75Mhz, w/4mb or EDO RAM either. Nobody cried back then either. The fact is if you can run 7 your machine probably could run Vista as well, and Vista had some pretty cool stuff in it that got dropped in 7.
Re: Numbering
Actually IIRC XP was Version 5.1, AND NOT 6!
Re: Low Sales Does Not Mean It's Bad
No it just means that crapy just off Screen Tiles look like total utter shite to my eye, and I for One ain't having any of that. I've got no other problems with the tillyness of WinPho7 & 8 but those hanging tiles on the edge need to go! YUCK!
Re: How to LIE witih selective STATISTICS
And when was the last time Blackberry were relevant to anything 2007. MOVE ON!!!
Re: Help!
mv: inter-device move failed: `test.jpg' to `/dev/null'; unable to remove target: Permission denied
LOL no wonder you forgot to say sudo!
ya should've used:
[me@smtp ~]$ sudo mv test.jpg /dev/null
Re: How to LIE witih selective STATISTICS
I don't mean to join the herd of other Eadon defenders, he doesn't need us. You arse clowns banging the Microsoft Drums are becoming more, and more pathetic with each passing day.
Take this comment for example:
"Eadon, your posts are beginning to sound desperate now. We will be successful with WinPhone. We are successful with all of our major investments. We have time, money and experience on our side. Just saying...."
This just reeks of MASSIVE delusions, and desperation now....
But, when Windows Phone manages to actually break a *Real Market* (e.g. A Western European / US/Can One!), then fell free to come back. Till then no One gives a toss about Inda, save the Indians, and the poor bastards that have to call the Micorsoft help line.
Like I stated a few Posts above...
Microsoft it would seem are doing a splendid job of keeping People of Windows 8 by themselves, and need no further help from the like of the Free Software Foundation.
To the Micro-Shrills, before ya'all down-vote me in you knee-jerk reactionary flames. Just answer me One very simple question first.
If Microsofts vision of the TIFKAM is sSOo great and wonderful, why is it that no One outside of Redmond has picked up on it yet? Ok I think we can all agree that Tablet Lite (i.e. Windows RT), is a joke so we'll gloss over that for a sec. Perhaps they'll have more luck with all those Ultrabooks that we've been hearing so much about lately. Its hardly to be marvel at the fact that Windows Phone is the best selling Mobile OS EVER!!! with a Market share of only (and let us be generous here!) 3% outta the whole 100% spit between Google, and Apple.
Clearly the Public (e.g. The Joe Average who isn't paid off in Software, much less Money), are just to dim to grasp this "greatness" of yours, and simply want no tuck with it. Its time to face facts that Microsoft have finally lost the plot guys. Nobody with any sanity left to 'em will touch the TIFKAM. Office365 is doomed to utter failure. And most People are now slowly getting the hint that its time to move on.
Enjoy Windows XP for another Year, and kiss it goodbye. Windows 7 will be right behind it soon enough. If you really think Microsoft will win this game of "We'll shove TIFKAM down everyones Throat till they suck on it!" Is ever gonna work out for them, then you are even bigger idiots then the clearly certifiable inmates in Redmond.
No one who has been with Microsoft since Windows 95 (or before!), all the way up through Windows 7, is ever gonna accept Microsoft Office as a SaaS ONLY! And Tossing its entire User-base (i.e. Desktop w/Mouse & Keyboard), for the wonderful new World of touchy-feely is clearly also insane. How the Hell they plan on selling this shit to the Corporates is beyond my comprehension.
But, please if you must down vote, hit on some of these points will ya?
kthxbye!
Re: I'd like to see things be pushed the other way..
Just what exactly in your own opinion, counts as an "Other OS" on ARM exactly?
With the exception of Windows RT, I'm not personally aware of any "official" Microsoft Builds for ARM.
Certainly nothing that is in fact available.
ARM can run many OSs
BusyBox (as like on my NAS Box and Router)
Linux
BSD (as in iOS)
and Unix
Re: Secure Boot
This would truly be a case of the disease (e.g. Windows 8), being actually worse then the cure.
If I had to dig though that much muck to get a working Windows 8 install. I'd just give up and install some flavor of *buntu.... Oh wait I already have its called Mint and for Once I can truly say, that this is a Linux I can live with.
(Yeah I'm on XP again to clear up some crap with my *.m4p iTunes crap. it seems that nobody managed to port Requiem over to Linux. Probably 'cause you can't run iTunes in it. I guess I'm just sitting though the SP3 Install, just for old'times sake! Kinda pointless really. As I'll just park this HDD off and go back to my Main Drive which has Linux on it.
I just wished that I could've accessed my NAS and or USB Sticks under VirtualBox. Then i could've saved me this trip. Perhaps I'm still to noobish at this game....
"The Free Software Foundation, which has lobbied OEMs to turn off the system by default and has urged consumers to boycott Windows 8 PCs."
Seems to me that Microsoft are doing a fine enough job of keeping People off of Windows 8 themselves, and don't need any further endorsements from the FSF spousing the same.
Re: As a Linux man, Im quite impressed
Nothing that can't be done cheaper and more effectively with a Raspberry PI (with XBMC), and a powered USB HUB, with USB DVB-T/S(2) or C Dongles.
Re: Troll
>Implying that Windows 8 is in anyway, shape or form elite...
Re: desktop
"Who exactly is holding the gun to your head and saying you have to run Metro apps?"
Your correct no One is. Thus the reason why I gave up on Microsoft and have since moved on to Mint Linux. It does all the same Shit as XP did, with a 100% less Tiles!
Re: MS will learn the masses - or it's LOST DECADE II
"Microsoft will do what it wants to sell Software..."
Problem is no Ones buying, beit on Phones, Tablets or on PCs. Clearly somebody has it wrong. Are you suggesting that the Public are too dim to see the genius of Microsoft's GUI Teams' work?
Re: What OS?
Only thing is they have about as much a chance of succeeding as you or I hitting the £400.000.000 €uro Millions Lottery.
This strategy is doomed to (See Icon)...
Re: nothing to see here
Touché... He Shoots... He scores!
Yeah the next thing ya'know
You'll walk into a Tescos looking for some Shark Steak, and leave with Horse Meat Steaks!
What I like to know is the >implication that Microsoft are selling the North Koreans sensitive hi-tech Software in violation of such US Export Laws that says you can't export such things to our Friends over in (or other places), Cuba, Iran, and of course North Korea.
Posted in Review: HTC One
Terminaly dim...
"I’m not going to dignify the accusations that it looks like an iPhone 5. It only does to the blind or terminally dim."
Ya mean in the exact same way that the Samsung Galaxy s and Galaxy S2 didn't look like the iPhone 3 / 3S & 4, and how the Galaxy Tab 10 didn't look like an iPad?
I think a lot of People would disagree, with ya. AND I HATE APPLE!
But, if ya have to take longer then a passing glance at some blokes Phone to determine if its an iThingy (or not) then that could be an argument for HTC & Samsung trying to confuse the Public by watering down Apples IP. I for One hope that Apple sic there litigious attack Dogs on HTC double quick.
Posted in Review: HTC One
Re: No microSD AGAIN
What wait is this some kind of Stealth Nexus or something?
We have a Fail Button, but sometimes ya really need an EPIC FAIL Button, to properly express it though...
Posted in Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff
Re: 18 billion km thats like saying
Whats that in London double decker buses?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html#velocity says...
1952489424015.6204 Buses long.
Posted in Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff
Re: @ Don Jefe
I think that Was Voyager 2. Wasn't Ve'ger some super intelligent Voyager 1
Re: Can you please post the traffic profile?
^I SECOND THIS!!!
Posted in Paying a TV tax makes you happy - BBC
Braking this down...
If paying Taxes make One happy, then by this logic it stands to reason that the good Citizens of Cyprus must all be laughing there arses off tonight!
Re: So no word about the latest malicious
No the Article I linked to was solely about Attacks against the new Sim City and, not against Origin Online per-say.
Well if they erver have asperations of
replacing their Tech with the so-called "Spinning Rust" round here. They'll need to be competitive on price and, capacity as well as performance. So they're only a Third ahead of the Game now as I see it. When I could get 4x4TB (i.e.=8TB of Storage), Spinners for the same price as a SINGLE 265GB SSD!
I for one would chose the extra Storage, and use the Cash saved to pick up a nice Synology NAS to play with.
Re: Useful Service Pack
Psst msage your showing your ignorance.
yum is Redhat Mandriver (Mandrake) & Suse. Mint, Ubuntu are Debian Linux and use apt.
