Posts by Dave Lawton

Re: Old Virus - Rapport a joke

It insisted I ought to install it ... on an ARM based Chromebook !

Re: WTF is NSFW ?

Just in case you were serious, though I doubt it.

Not Suitable For Work

Re: Curvy screen... why?

More importantly, it can't be hung on a wall.

Why ever not ?

Re: Prescient much?

Argh ... my head's spinning, the bolt's come out, you beat me to it :(

Re: There is nothing wrong with KDE

Haven't tried a recent KDE release, does it still have the stupidity with default 'all-white' icons ?

Re: Some examples of what is and is not prosecutable might help

Nottingham Airport - where's that please ?

Re: The waste of talent

Maybe because they were incapable of doing it.

Go on, google the performance issues of Intel's StrongArm replacement - the first X-Scales, and the other issues they couldn't fix with the later revisions.

As far as that table is concerned, it's meaningless without the test schedules, so that someone else can independently verify the results.

Besides Intel themselves have said that they can't beat ARM with current fabrications, just get close.

Re: USB as better? No!

There are at least two more USB 'standards', don't know if they are supposed to be mini or micro.

Charger for 3DS, and charger for Sennheiser BT headphones.

My pet peeve is the utterly stupid use of a single microUSB B socket ,where there is enough room to fit 3 full size B sockets, and the box is larger than the device it replaced. (Creative, I'm looking at you here, amongst others)

Re: Not just the yanks

I don't know the answer to your question

> I suppose the big question that comes out of all this, is how do you

> change the system without getting locked up for 600 years or

> becoming a professional politician?

But I have a couple of suggestions :-

1. Make being an MP, Congresman, Representative, or whatever, be something everyone has to do, like jury service, for say 4 years, and make it that twice is all that you could ever serve.

Sure, long term planning would suffer initially, but would you really say that what we have now is fit for purpose ?

2. If anyone shows any tendency to want to be a politician, then they are permanently, and irrevocably barred from that sort of role.

Re: Only one of many misconceptions

Point of order Mr Chairperson.

You mean it was 60.

Now if you want a bus pass it's 63, or possibly later.

If you have a private pension with Aviva, it's still 65.

Re: Nonsense, it was a UFO crashing

D & C, intervention required an up-vote.

Re: HTC One - lovely phone

No, not one mistake, at least 3, no memory slot, non-replaceable battery, nano SIM instead of micro.

Removing things that your earlier models had is a sure way to loose customers.

Unfortunately Samsung have started following their lead

Re: 10 hours?

Then I think there might be something wrong with it.

Under light use mine usually goes 3 weeks between charges.

Can't be sure about continuous use, most I've ever done was 4 hours sat in A&E.

Re: hmm

So are Toshiba.

Not just postings, but complete forums as well.

Re: @yossarianuk - If it isn't broken...fix it until it is....

That article doesn't provide any citations for OEMs doing this, can you ?

Microsoft were forced to change certification requirements for W8 after all the hooha when the original implementation was announced.

The current requirement is - 'To be branded as W8 compliant, one requirement is that it MUST be possible for the end user to DISABLE secure boot'

I'm not going to provide the link, plenty of references on ElReg to it.

And, no I'm not a Windows fan, as anyone who knows me can attest.

Re: Is the error message only for me?

Don't c where the uncertainty is :(

Did it for me too.

Re: "Bob"? Bit of an odd name...

No, I don't think there has been any mention of the Laundry.

Thanks, guys, I thought TFM was a one-off, now I know better.

Pint for the nudge.

Re: Loft, Spare Bedroom, Garage

Oh, yes, found under a cabinet in the house, when a friend called with a laptop with a suspect busted PSU, a luggable with built-in PSU running DOS 3.3, which after waiting 15 minutes for it to finish booting, still worked. It must be all of 20 years old.