* Posts by Dex

117 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2007

Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy

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Really....

.....why should people care? It's not like you can't UNINSTALL thier blasted IE is it? erm no

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BOFH: Stick this

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If....

You paint a cattleprod orange, would that class as a carrot? or am i just giving the PFY ideas

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Ahhh...

I feel complete now :-D I don't feel like a dirty junkie needing a fix, Very nice BOFH as just goes to show that a BOFH can be compassionate.....when it suits, all other times BOFH does what BOFH does best :D

Cheers Simon!

RIP Personal Computer World

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Gates Horns

Am i the only one.....

.....Wishing it was a different Personal Computer World (PC World)?

Gates....well because he's got them eating out of his pocket

US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go

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Now....

....Where did i put my sharks!

Microsoft squirts out Vista SP2

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maybe......

....they meant the dTi ^_^ So they know what channels we can go through to complain and get action mwahahahha

Google slips Reg reader £500k!!!!!

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Still......

....at least they didn't ask for your bank account and sort code

Fans decry tennis gal's breast-slash plan

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IT Angle

IT Angle?

TIT Angle surely?

boingo boingo bouncy bouncy

Summer debut for Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

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@jai

but where is

By jai Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 17:50 GMT

and is it compulsory, after using this weapon, to stand up and shout "I AM.... THE LAW!!!"

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God i hope not, You might end up with an anti-armour rocket up the jacksie

Take-Two sues over death of Duke Nukem Forever

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10+ years.....

....Isn't too long tbh, I mean look at Valve and Team Fortress 2, numerous times they said it was coming, people waited, some wrote it off as Vaporware but look at what we have! Ok granted 10 years WAS taking the jarate piss eversoslightly BUT it came out so just because it's taken this long doesn't mean it won't ever happen.....obviously when they find another publisher and such

NASA hacker Tenenbaum agrees to US extradition

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Bioshock?

Swear this name came up in that came relating to "little sisters".....makes you wonder.....

Acer DX900 dual-SIM Windows smartphone

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2.5mm?

2.5mm jack? 3.5mm surely?

Nikon Coolpix P90 bridge camera

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P90

Does it strip down into 3 parts for easy cleaning? where's the 50 rounds of 5.7mm kept? a P90 remodelled for the toruist/terrorist market? i'll take 2

Windows 7’s XP Mode — Virtually worth the effort

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Cubase

Works with Vista (Cubase SX3, Cubase Studio 4) so i so imagine it'll work with W7, will fire up my W7 partitiion over the weekend and report back

Supersonic stealth jumpjet passes hover thrust test

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Easy way to defeat these.....

Slide a car down a broken road towards the central fan.....Die Hard 4 stylee

:-)

HP ScanJet 3C takes lead on Bohemian Rhapsody

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Epic Win!

Now i know what my workmate does with all the old computers he kept over the years

BOFH: Grand Theft Auto

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Symantec

New product line - Sleeping Policeman.....made from.....sales reps, guarenteed to make your car run slower than EVER!

Microsoft extends Red-Ring-of-Death cover to fresh Xbox fault

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@Andrew Gillard

Purchases on Amazon aren't covered by the Sales of Good Act but are covered by the Distant Selling Regulations.

G20 police demand ID as train staff ordered to spy on passengers

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V for Vendetta?....

Surely a 2 finger salute V icon would be more apt? an "up yours" to those muppets in power

2 forms of ID?....no....I'll use my right to remain silent :D

Advertising watchdog okays 'gaming equals early grave' ad

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oh please...

.....video games keep the brain active, if the end user is too boneidle....or a WoW players thats too "addicted" to get off thier fat arse then thats thier own damn fault, if they can't got the balls to know where to draw the line of even seek help then it's thier fault, not the games.

Polish Spitfire shoots down BNP

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Love them? Hate Them?.....i just don't give a shit, they're a "political party" and like every other political party thats ever been they'll fuck up....all the others have and some have even fucked up in power so really another one won't make any difference. You know what they should do? make all immigrants (legal and illegal) take a payable exam, they pay for the exam, those that can't pay walk the plank and with the moeny of those that do pay use it to clear national debt, i'm sure there are enough illegals in this county to clear the debt.

Personally, i hate foreigners, I'm not racist however......i hate everyone equally for different reasons.

NASA shops for new Moon spacesuits and landers

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IT Angle.....

SUSE for Space Shuttles??

Redhat for Rockets?

Mac for Moon Missions??

Linux for Lunar Landers?

...I'll get my spacesuit....i mean coat

World of Warcraft: 'The crack cocaine of the computer world'

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WoW - Should be WaPoS

Wow should become Wot a Pile of Sh**e, they can has no purpose, requires no immediate skill just the inability to do something with your life and extrememly depe pockets....why people PAY EXTRA a month to play a game is beyond me, granted for pay for an internet connection when playing the likes of coounter-strike, command and conquer etc online but at least you only have to pay 1 time for the game itself whereas WoW (and other MMORPGs) have you pay a subscription...and for what? take 1 look at Blizzards profits and you'll see stupid amounts generated by WoW...some call it good business, i can it ripping off.

Flame Icon? I'm playing Pyro...frying me some Scouts in TF2 thanks to the damn Scout Update

Half Life 2 used for firefight fire drill

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Download?

Where be this?

*toddles off to ModDB to try and find it*

Mines the HEV suit.....what? no HEV suits in the real world? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista

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...."This is Windows Vista with a new face, not a major new version of Windows."

After trying the beta out from one of the widely avalible "versions" i got 7000 and tried it out (i had tried 6870 build before) and tbh apart from a few GUI changes i didn't think much of it, I'm hoping this is free "upgrade" for those that use Vista (not just from a set upgrade date but from it's [Vista's] release) as was stated at the end of the article: "This is Windows Vista with a new face, not a major new version of Windows."

Flame icon? obvious isn't it? it's all smoke + mirrors...and where there's smoke......

RIM sues Motorola

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Surely....

...If you get fired by Motorola you are no longer bound to thier terms of employment thus they can't stop you going to RIM? If RIM openly place ads and ex-motorola purely by chance seem to go to the interviews there is naff all motorola can do about it.

Getting animated about a 6,000 core Soho supercomputer

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But....

Will it run Crysis on it's highest settings.....THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW!!

Accused Scareware mongers held in contempt of court

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Interpol?

Interpol much?

EA punts SecuROM-less games on Steam

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Steam ftw

Unfortunately retail licenses rarely work on the Steam Platform (having tried it with my original retail copy of HL1 many mons ago) BUT as i mentioned in a previous article regarding DRM, Steam DOES NOT use DRM and so you're free to put it on as many PCs as you like and just login to the account PLUS with STEAM you can use 1 account from many locations AT THE SAME TIME.

< Mines the HEV Suit

Plod punishes PC-reliant businesses

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Hmm

I wonder if you encrypt your data and use "the right to remain silent" to not tell them the decryption codes can they still do you? They can't MAKE you turn over the codes as that would be a breach of human rights and as far as i'm aware the Terrorism Act nor Protection of Children act can not take that right away from you unlike the USA PATRIOT Act.

Grand Theft Auto IV PC debut gets SecuROM sideshow

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@Mike JVX

Erm no.

1. It's not so much they are buggy, you'll find even some console games can be buggy, why you think XBL and the PS3 varaint exist? to help then patch thier games....in secret!

2. Gameplay in PC version doesn't suck, you'll probably find a majority of the time most titles are made for PC first then ported to consoles...i think the phase is "dumbing it down for the console 'tards.

3. Ok finally a point i agree on, that said surely you could find a way (even with DRM enabled stuf) to block it running on your system without stopping the game itself? My knowledge of SecuROM is little so i'm not sure to what extent it works but if all it does it makes sure you have the disc in the drive surely it can't be THAT resoruce hungry?

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To my knowledge STEAM titles (or games brought via steam - regardless of publisher) don't have any DRM related shite, i know you can burn off your STEAM folder to a DVD or Ex HDD and use it on any STEAM account, if you do it right :-)

Mines the one with the Valve logo on it

Warrington first to get Virgin Media 50Mb/s

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Swindon Cable started it all

Having been with Virgin Media right from the very very very start back in the Swindon Cable days i can honestly say i wouldn't swtich provider at all.

I;ve found thier service to be excellent...even back in the old 56k days when they hit me with a 300+ bill but i haven't had a sinlge porblem with them, any downtime was only ever for a few hours amd nothing i was advanced warned about.

Throttling and limits etc have never been a problem for me and i regularly kiced my connections backside either downloadng . uploading / running home servers or gaming and haven't had a sinlge problem.

'Ruggedised, weaponised' raygun modules now on sale

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Firestrike not using Firewire?

Ya know....keeping with the name + all

Windows for Warships? noooo Linux for Lasers

Microsoft faces second 'black screen' lawsuit

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Pot kettle black anyone?

Let me get this straight, the CHINESE are accusing the YANKS (Microsoft) of hacking into thier systems.......pot kettle black? The chinese have been doing it for damn years and yet when Microsoft give them a taste of thier own medicine (possibly?) they cry and run off

OH NOES MICROSOFTS ARE HACKING OUR SYSTEMZ OH NOES

David Blaine tw*tdangle ends in controversy

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Pirate

I don't mind

...The Reg turning into The Sun so long as they either provide us with topless ladies ala Page 3 stylee or at least more models in bikinis!

Twat dangling from a rope upside down......Pinata / target practice anyone?

David Blaine does a Benito Mussolini

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Pinata anyone?

Get the bats people!

Another London BT exchange hit by thieves

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Being sold...yes and i know to whom

The Pirate Bay obviously...They're making thier own ISP/Network xD

World of Warcraft upkeep costs only $200m

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@ Steven Foster

well CZ...niegh ANY FPS is better than that WoW malarky...CZ rox btw :-D UMP .45 ftw :P

mines the kevlar

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The state of humanity

as shown by WoW players, don't get me wrong i've got nothing against people wasting thier lives but for the love of all that is gaming pick a decent game!

an FPS for anger management

an RTS for the world dominator within

A game you subscribe to for those with more money than sense it seems

Heli icon for the helicopter support i called in via Call of Duty 4

Apple 4G iPod Nano

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Do you think....

That given the older generation of iPod tocuhs and iPhones have acclerometers that they'll do a firmware upgrade to filter these features down to the old models?

The Hadron Collider: What's it all about, then?

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re: Bryce Prewitt

I bet the gman works at CERN >.<

Lets see.....crowbar...check, pistol...check

Mine's the orange and black HEV suit

UK fraudster gang go PIN sniffing

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Well you could.....

....Just pay for things the old fashioned way.....you know like in cold hard cash

American man too fat for execution

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Tisk!

Just give him to the Moderatrix, I'm sure the dog would like more than a few pounds of meat

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Well...

...If he's too fat then just sizzle him...bacon buttie icon anyone?

Flame icon....maybe a barbeque might be better?

Consider yourself Moderatrixed

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This doesn't feel right...

....Sarah...i mean miss moderatrix bosslady, this whole dominatrix thing just doesn't feel right, i mean are you wearing any leather?

Tell you what, go get some on and i'll wait right here....just not the one with a ball one, thats for Serberius..mwahahahhaha

PS What is wrong with MMORPG players? is it like being Ginger?....Is it genetic?..Is it a result of inbreeding or is it a subliminal message for me to go on a killing spree? much like my televised twin on Showtime

BOFH: The admin gene

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Missed BOFH Episode Gene?

Ok so who knew about there being no episode last week and didn't tell me? :@

BOFH: The all-clicking, all-whirring Roboboss

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imo

Every office should have a chainsaw....PERIOD. You never know when you might get the urge to..............

.......mines the one with the ski mask in the pocket

NY street-cleaning truck swallows dog

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Maybe (Given thats it's the Bronx)

He should've done a drive-by on the owner too? admittedly a rather slow drive-by but still it would've left no hassle as it would just be seen as a normal day in the gu lovin' Bronx

Crazy coders enable full-screen Crysis play on Eee PC

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Hmm

Now i could get the Asus Girl remotely on my PDA then that'd be something :P

BOFH: Shafting the consultants over the new layout

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Firemans Pole?

Heavens NO! Lapdancing pole would be better :D