* Posts by Miek

1574 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home

Miek
Linux

Ah the Facebile phone, anyone going to buy one ? Anyone ?

Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski

Miek
Trollface

"However, he didn't seem entirely unruffled, calling your correspondent a "Twat" and The Register "cruel and vicious" during a series of Tweets, which also referred to a Mr "Orlowsky"." -- Well, I may dislike Stephen Fry, but, I can't fault his assessment and to be fair, it's the Cruel and Vicious reporting I come here for.

Movie, TV ads annoying? You ain't seen nothin' yet

Miek
Linux

Re: There's a place in Hell....

I suspect that the idea of Hell (for an advertising shill) would be being forced to watch TV without any adverts at all, just thinking of all that airtime not being monetised will drive them crazy.

On another note, do you think that Hell would accept these bastards ?

Miek
Linux

""The whole industry has rallied to find ways in which to make advertising more compelling and deliver more value to the audience,"" -- Sadly, for all their efforts, they came up with nothing and so we are back to just yelling the brand at the audience, hoping it will lodge somewhere in their brain.

Nokia deflates Google's video codec thought bubble

Miek
Linux

No-one is being forced to use VP8 whereas everyone is being forced to use H264.

Amazon boss salvages Apollo engines from watery grave

Miek
Linux

Re: Technical Matter

"Has he spoken to and more importantly reached any sort of agreement with NASA about this" -- I assume you missed the part of the article that said "Bezos is now steaming for Cape Canaveral to drop off the precious rockets for rebuilding and eventual display."

Crack Bombe squad dismantles Reg encryption in an hour

Miek
Trollface

I would have thought that when "put on the spot", our beloved reg hack would have blurted out "Bulgarian Airbags" or something similar.

AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play

Miek
Linux

Re: You're misleading us

Grow a pair AC

Miek
Linux

On Android, I have gone back to Firefox simply because Google has no intention of allowing extensions for Chrome on Android. Just installed Firefox and have my Adblock and Autocomplete=on extensions working. I am a happy penguin today.

Carrie Fisher dusts off THAT bikini for Star Wars VII

Miek
Trollface

I always preferred her as the bounty hunter ... But seriously, if you think Fisher is knocking on a bit, wait until you get a load of how well Mark Hamill aged.

Next Windows 8 version can ditch bits of Metro

Miek
Linux

"What then to make of the fact that the next release of Windows 8 will make it possible to remove some aspects of TIFKAM from the user interface?" - Wait for Windows 9 and see if Microsoft back down in order to get their OS onto business computers which they currently are not able to do with Windows 8.

BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace

Miek
Linux

Can we have some bears too?

Miek
Childcatcher

Won't someone think of the Countryside and all these wild animals "Destroying it".

Clearly something must be done ... I suggest we bear arms and shoot the folks who keep suggesting these culls.

Canonical announces Mir display server to replace X Windows

Miek
Linux

Re: Yep. Lennart Poettering put it best...

Ancient X, it's ancient for a reason, a bit like, The ancient C language.

Miek
Linux

Re: Yep. Lennart Poettering put it best...

I see Ubuntu wishes to re-invent the wheel and then get all the devs to support their new wheel as opposed to the wheel that already worked.

Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL

Miek
Linux

Well, it seems the Apple never falls that far from the tree after all.

Apple: OK, we tracked your every move... but let's call it a caching bug, m'kay?

Miek
Linux

If Apple had made their users aware that the information was going to be collected and stored prior to its collection; then Apple have nothing to fear.

If they didn't inform their users that they were collecting and storing their information; it is a privacy violation, in the UK at least.

US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas

Miek
Trollface

Politicians do nothing but spout hot air, more so than cyclists and motor cars put together. Let's cull them and end pollution as we know it.

Apple takes aim at accessory makers, files iPad stand patent

Miek
Linux

Um, sheet music stands already accommodate iPads and other tablets are they patenting a music stand plus a charger or just a music stand? Yes, I saw the other technical drawings, but, my post refers to the sheet music stand.

McAfee dumps signatures and proclaims an (almost) end to botnets

Miek
Coat

Re: One of these days, they will recognize that...

Sorry, I guess the guys are running low on downvotes after all the Eadon posts earlier

Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER

Miek
Linux

Re: @AC 02:46

"copy and pasting bulk text for example works better with Firefox." -- Whhaaaaat?

This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace

Miek
Coat

Thanks BT, I had completely forgotten just how ugly London is!

Own a drone: Fine. But fly a drone with a cam: Year in the clink

Miek
Linux

Re: RC hobbyists

RC vehicles are /*very*/ popular and with the decrease in cost, improvements in power economy and an overall decrease in weight; attaching cameras to these vehicles is becoming a very common practise.

An example, are the Quadrotor thingies you can buy that can be controlled from your phone, they have a camera installed by default and for good reason; they are easier to fly when you can get an in-flight POV rather than an external observer's POV.

Have a poke around youtube for people attaching cameras to flying stuff and you will find plenty of people doing it.

Also search on Google for "rc controlled helicopter with camera" and you will find many examples of RC choppers with HD cameras included. They don't make these sorts of things unless there is a market for it. Furthermore, the fact that you can buy an RC helicopter with an onboard video camera for less than £50 indicates, to me at least, that there is a substantial market for such 'toys'.

Miek
Coat

Re: FS999

It can't be that hard to find someone located in a 100 metre radius of said drone xD

Miek
Linux

"Huge is it? Define huge."

-- Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity.

Any other questions ?

Miek
Unhappy

Do they realise just how many people they are about to criminalise? The Model Aircraft market alone is huge, with many enthusiasts attaching cameras to their craft for the purpose of recording their flights, not to mention certain ball-ocket experiments and other high altitude boffinry.

Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender

Miek
Linux

The upside to the "Webkit Monoculture" is that you have many Companies and individuals contributing to a common codebase. Whilst monocultures can be a "bad thing" in terms of one company controls the code for 'X' software, in this case it is a collaboration success, having Opera's engineers onboard with the project can only be a good thing.

LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012

Miek
Linux

Re: @JDX

"if you have a single machine that you want to run, it's good to run it under its own hypervisor" -- Thanks for that, should keep me chuckling all weekend.

Kiwi Coroner says Coca-Cola helped kill woman

Miek
Linux

Re: Then there is the local soda machine...

"Hold your wee for a wii" was the show/stunt

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6261509.stm

Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard

Miek
Coat

Re: "Confusing software and expensive hardware doesn't sell" shocker

"The last thing we need is more hand-waving, or "UI"ercise." -- Are you sure? I'm quite looking forward to watching our end-users trying to write an email by flapping their arms in the air and shouting "Send! Send!".

it would also be nice to actually point to a printer and say "There, look it is connected and turned on you stupid bloody computer"

Miek
Linux

"But the software giant insisted it is working with retailers and manufacturers to supply hardware that people actually want in time for the peak sales season this spring." -- It's the lack of a decent operating system that's the problem not a lack of decent hardware. I was dissuaded from by a very nice, very shiny Samsung Ultra Book simply because it came with W8 and there were no W7 drivers available on the Sammy website.

Iran develops working ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Monkey

Miek
Linux

Re: " at an altitude of 120kms" -- Huh?

but, "kilometres-per-second" or just kilometres?

Miek
Linux

" at an altitude of 120kms" -- Huh?

Fedora project may expel MySQL

Miek
Linux

Re: This from Ubuntu

@ g e

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/

There are instructions for adding the repo to Ubuntu and others

Miek
Linux

Re: Good

we should call 'em Forkacle

Miek
Linux

Re: Which ones?

"This is hardly the mass exodus seen from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice." -- It will be, I already intend to replace my MySQL instances with Maria when the next good opportunity arises and I'm sure many other Linux Admins out there are looking at the Asshole company Oracle and thinking さようなら

Miek
Linux

Re: I am so glad ..

@TheVogon : "Known", meaning that SQL Server is likely harbouring just as many security vulns but as yet are either a) not disclosed or b) haven't been found yet (security through obscurity) . GLWT

Forget bonking, now mobes can buy stuff using pay-by-SQUEAK

Miek
Linux

"Pay-by-squeak requires two devices with the Alipay Wallet installed, which means Android for the moment though an iPhone version is promised. Using the microphone and speaker, the two devices beep to each other until the transfer has been authenticated." -- Does this also include the three working days it takes the bank to authorise and transfer the funds ?

LIVE TODAY: Windows 8 licensing - Speak your brains, believe your eyes

Miek
Linux

"What does Windows 8 cost?" -- Your soul and your sanity

McDonalds burger app gives it to you straight from the horse's mouth

Miek
Linux

Re: Nothing wrong

The Japanese like to eat raw Horse meat and call it Cherry Blossom Meat . I guess us Brits are just picking on the Chickens.

Miek
Linux

Re: Please

"Has anyone actually found real meat in a McDonalds burger?" -- No, McDonalds' food main constituents seem to be cardboard and sugar, which they proceed to microwave before your very eyes.

Top Brit Penguins spurn London Stock Exchange for NYSE

Miek
Linux

Re: Penguins?

You don't have to be a Linux Distribution to be a Penguin, if that's what you mean.

Miek
Linux

Re: Penguins?

Tux, the Penguin, is Linux's Mascot.

<-- See what I mean?

Microsoft to give free TV ad to top-voted Windows Phone 8 app

Miek
Trollface

Re: You can smell the desperation

"I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I'm begging you baby ..." -- Recommended soundtrack

Media barons threaten to spike UK.gov's audacious copyright grab

Miek
Pirate

Re: No

"However the practice is commonplace among publishers, who then fail to seek permission or pay the unknown rights holder, or syndicate the material as their own. Prosecution is virtually impossible since intent would have to be proved." -- Again, Prove It! No apology forthcoming or required methinks.

-- Quote taken from http://copyrightaction.com/faq/is-iptc-metadata-protected-by-law

Miek
Pirate

Re: No

"No, you would be committing a criminal offence." -- Prove it! ...

"The other proposal permits the commercialisation of so-called orphan works - which are any digital objects without the owners' details attached."

Miek
Pirate

So if we delete the authoring meta-data of an image, movie or audio file, we can commercialise the content?

Hey, open sourcers: Who's your code's daddy?

Miek
Linux

Tim Fox should just fork Vert.x and take his community with him.

The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux

Miek
Linux

"why, for the love of all things usable, is there still no button to minimise windows?" -- There is a minimise button, it has just been disabled in gconf editor. Also the minimise button is a feature of Metacity not Gnome itself.