Posts by Dazed and Confused

point to point for me

As someone who used to suffer more than a reasonable amount of time stuck in a sardine tube, one knee inserted up each nostril. I've got to say that I always looked to fly directly. If you couldn't get there directly from Heathrow then it counted as third world. Gatwick, perhaps at a push. To me it was the main reason to live in the SE.

Having to change planes is such a PITA.

The other advantage of smaller planes is that for busy routes you end up with more flights so can choose more convenient times to travel. Hopefully everyone is different and so what is most convenient for me, might not be for someone else.

In practice I think we'll end up with a mixture.

SAMBA?

Nope that were forced to license that for nought and to provide full documentation to allow compatible SW. Europe were fining them €1M a day for about a years and half since MS were not able to provide any documentation on how the protocol actually worked.

pity the jury

if it works anything like it does here in the UK, those poor sods are going to getting damn near life in jail (well the court house anyway) for the pleasure of having been good citizens.

Product

Can anyone tell me where a company is supposed to be able to find a supply of common sense?

Welcome to the real world

Finals over, the party is winding down.

Oh S*&t everything I said over the last few years is there on the internet for ever and ever.

The next day in the office after a party always brought a few red faces, now those embarrassing gaffs will last for ever and like everything else on the net, someone has indexed them. In the past the photocopies of your arse soon disappeared and unless you were unlucky enough to have fallen through the glass everyone has probably forgotten them. Now they'll remain - probably in high res glory.

Worse still it is probably not just your embarrassing gaffs, your prospective employer is probably checking out all your mates profiles too.

@Al4

The traditionally accepted form of key distribution here is to print them on tee shirts.

Programs are subject to the Millennium digital screw you act, tee shirts are covered by the 1st amendment.

Re2: "All our drives are encrypted"

But none of out iPhones are.

iPhone apps

Since won't allow any iPhone apps for sex, owners wouldn't have a clue what to do with a condom.

We're in big trouble then

Now they've got a chink in the armour the patent lawyers will force everything through.

Since we have a rule based on first to file the trolls will be trying to patent everything we've been doing for years and believed to be safely unpatentable.

OK so we might be able to win on the basis of prior art, but we will have to prove our innocence and pay huge legal bills. The trolls my loose in the end but the latent lawyers will be the only winners.

vPars are not Containers inside HP-UX

vPars are software partitions which offer finer granularity than nPars while still imposing almost no overhead (SBAs are shared) and greater run time flexibility than nPars, but without the hardware fault isolation.

HP-UX has also offered "containers" inside HP-UX for years. They are called Secure Resource Partitions.

Admittedly HP-UX has a bewildering array of partitions/virtualization products, but they all offer significant different benefits.

121 years for this

And Michael Jackson's "Doctor" is facing possibly 4 years for a murder wrap.

So trying to pinch pictures of celebs is 30 times more serious than killing them?

A truely sad day

what more can I say.

Been a few years since I've exchanged emails with him, but he was always very helpful.

Does someone not understand the whole bloody idea of a a windowed UI?

What the *&^% is the point of filling the whole screen with icons for the apps installed on my PC?

the screen is where I want to display what I'm doing at the moment. I don't want to have to iconize everything so I can see this.

On a phone screen there isn't enough space to be surfing several web pages, have my email, have 3 or 4 system consoles up, and half a dozen other things things I'm doing. So the screen becomes a bit a single current task oriented. Doing this with a full size monitor is turning the clock back the early 80s.

I'm not scared of change.

I just want things to change only when someone has a better bloody idea.

Change because I want to sell you something different, so it needs to be different is not something I'm interested in.

I'm only too happy to believe that there is a better way to organise a desktop experience, but this doesn't look to be it.

Filters

I'm sure my mobile broadband connection started off with a whole load of filters.

The problem with these systems is they can't ever work properly. I never tried to find examples of smut sites I could still access (tunnelled proxy access in the norm here) , but I doubt it would have taken very long. I did find examples of sites they blocked which did not have any adult content, jag-lovers for starters. I bet that if their was a website devoted to "mothers In Love with Film" that it would be blocked by default.

There are also unexpected consequences to filters. One of my sons tried to follow a link a little why ago, which was promptly blocked by the filters on their PC. There was nothing wrong with the site, but we then had questions on why the SW had blocked it, based on part of the name of the site. Would you choose to explain the normal interpretation of MILF to child? I can't remember what this one was, but you get the picture.

Reminded me of when one of the "pre home Internet" service providers put some smut filters in place that stopped anyone living in Scunthorpe registering.

I love the inference

It's so badly written it must be the gubberment,

with the unwritten foot note, hackers have got better than that these days, why go to the trouble of own a system and then leave it open to being stolen by a rival gang.

Oh the beautiful irony

Android maker to make film about Steve Jobs.

Europe copy catting China

Who went for standardising on this USB plug rather earlier.

They it is you

And we all know El'Reg is banned from all Apple events.

Oh dear, poor Intel

If this picture comes from an Apple presentation, Intel's whole fab operation will be shutdown by injunctions by sometime tomorrow as Intel are clearly stealing Apples chip designs.

I like the idea of 16GB of L3 cache though, perhaps I could live without having any RAM then.

Who said it was a Linux weakness

If the client end is infected it can steal the credentials for accessing the secure system.

Imagine a situation where the admin guy's PC gets owned. They use a key logger and find his passphrase for his private key, they find the password for the target system, they find the root password on the target too.

If they are then able to launch another login session from his client, possibly while he's busy working and they can be connected and do their worse. This does not require any weakness in the target OS.

How many admins routinely check the number of connections we currently have? Do you know what every single open socket on your PC is doing.

What is a Judge therefore?

> but the judge chose to ignore this legal framework altogether.

What is the point of a Judge if it is not to uphold the law.

More ammunition

for Samsungs lawyers to throw at the inevitable iPad3.

The more products they can get into the field, the more things they can claim Apple copied from them too.

This is going to be a war of attrition.

The real winners will of course be the lawyers.

Autonomy is getting into bed with HP

Therefore Oracle won't see Autonomy as friends any more.

My enemies' enemy is not necessarily my friend

but my enemy's friend is necessarily my enemy.

@Edward Clarke and the colour V e-Paper

Given that colour ePaper isn't available yet, I would personally choose a monochrome ePaper book reader over a colour LCD type display every day of the week. As you found out there are limitation on the format, but there are so many cases where the ePaper display is better to live with, for a book reader.

Publishers need to get used to working with the Kindle format. It isn't always just a case of dumping all the words from the book into the Kindle file. Where fancy formatting is used in the book they need to make sure it comes through OK.

I'm reading Iain M Banks' The Algebraist at the moment. The story keeps changing track mid chapter. In the printed book there are markings on the page to show these. They are missing from the Kindle version, so you get sudden jumps from one part of the story to another, without any warning.

It is to be hoped that Kindle publishing gets better at handling these sorts of issues.

I've been really impressed with my Kindle overall because it seems a really focused product that seems to do the one job it sets out to do really well.

I hope future versions stick to that ethos.

tablets for sale

So it's HP themselves putting all those tablet onto eBay, and there was me thinking it was the lucky sods that snapped one up cheap