Posts by serviceWithASmile

@sarah

going on the abnormally high number of posts you've made in this thread, it looks to me like you've got a "Bee" in your bonnet!

*nudge* *wink*

don't you go reporting me now just to get back at me :P

this is a non story

A device manufacturer not supporting bundled and unneccesary software on linux.

what exactly about this is news?

While I appluad Mr Edmunds for furthering public awareness of Linux, and personally I would like ALL hardware manufacturers to support Linux, he's just whining because he can.

There are PLENTY of disk monitoring tools available for Linux, as every tech worth his salt knows.

Not only that, but WD were quite honest and upfront about the state of affairs, and polite enough. Why do they need mud flung at them?

Not trolling, just my opinion.

sad

i only read this because of the headline....

ironically, el reg seem to have made a boobsucking honeypot all of their own

apache tomcat anyone?

"but also that it's written in Java, which will rule out access from several types of modern Internet client"

From the concerned students brilliant idea (tm) page:

"A user downloads a small (Java) program, runs it, and then has access via their web browser to a local web server acting as a gateway onto the PeerBook network"

Let me quote that for you again:

"access via their web browser"

just in case you didn't read it the first time.

sounds like apache tomcat ( a java web server ) with his application loaded, installed on the user's local machine and accessed via a web browser.

how compatible.

i wish writertards wouldn't misrepresent what java is....

http://tomcat.apache.org/

pissywerld

once refused to sell my brother a PSU.

Long story short, he's not *that* techincal, and needed a new one for the comp I had mostly built for him.

We were in the big city, so while I rummaged around Maplin for an AM2 heatsink and fan (got one aswell, and the attendant even knew what I meant!), I told him to head over to pissywerld to get his PSU as Maplin had run out (was a pretty small store).

He came back emptyhanded 25 minutes later and told me what happened.

He went in, and asked for what I told him to ask for - a 300 Watt ATX PSU.

The drone asked him "What's it for?"

He answered "A PC"

The drone asked him more questions - clockspeed of the CPU (but not what type), how much RAM (but not what type), whether or not the PC had a DVD Drive... some fairly fucking irrelevant questions considering the ATX *standard*, and that he knew how many watts he needed. The answers wouldn't have been much use either, considering...

This went on for a while, with my poor brother getting increasingly pissed off with the flangebag he was dealing with and, because I had built his PC, not able to answer all the questions fully.

So, the twatbucket said "OK I'm not convinced you know what you are doing so I can't sell you this".

There is no minimum knowledge requirement for buying something, beyond knowing what you want and that you have to hand over money for it.

Yes he could have killed himself with the PSU if he turned it on while taking a bath with it, but FFS there is such a thing as too much cotton wool.

This guy was just a jumped up "I do IT, me" type, with a little knowledge.

It's a dangerous thing in small quantities.

dont you see!?

THE ZOMBIES ARE COMING

this is just a cover story! el reg is in on the conspiracy!

the staff at el reg are probably zombies by now, motivated to write and release articles by nothing more than their sick hunger for BRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS

it's only a matter of time! flee you fools!

*runs away before the moderatrix notices*

this article is why

i love the register

keep up the good work :D

and damn those truth-deniers

so....

ipad != chick magnet?

hey jakey

fuck off you crazed bitch.

oh, she did

HA!

well done

Tip of the hat to them for showing that game DRM, nomatter how extensive, is fundamentally flawed in its implementation, and at the end of the day the 'pirates' win regardless.

I pay for my games, but on more than one occasion have not bought one I would have bought otherwise due to reports of OTT DRM. Atleast not after getting GTA IV and having it refuse to run on my system, after installing all the mal<cough>software that came bundled with it. Was it Securom or something that did the DRM on that? Ended up having to enter into a long and extremely frustrating exchange with them to basically circumvent their own system using their own workarounds so I could play my bought and paid for game.

Finally did so, and got it to run, only to discover that the game was pretty shit anyway.

Just another case of DRM making a game unplayable for the people that buy it.

so which anal twat is it

that keeps thumbing down posts that aren't really thumbdown material?

the pic is awesome. red being hotter than blue and green DOES make sense.

if you are religious THATS OK, if someone ridicules it grow a pair and stand up for yourself.

downthumbing is equal to passive aggressive notes on my windscreen pointing out that my car is parked next to some other cars and my neighbour has apparently parked there all his life and really doesn't appreciate my car either existing or being parked on my street, you young ppl with your rock music etc etc.

oh and i thought the post about the sun being sentient was a little funny, not WRONG unlike the phantom anal downthumber seems to think.

if you don't like this post, why don't you thumb it down? that'll really show me. then I'll be sorry.

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normally i would side with opera

but this just looks like nitpicking to be honest.

microsoft deserve a good kick in the balls for the way they conduct their business imho, but arranging things so it is possible to cover one dialogue with another and then pointing out that this isn't particularly fair on the other browsers seems disengenuous.

I'm sure windows could be made to cover any amount of dialogues with other less relevant dialogues; this is a non story.

wait a sec....

"Perversely perhaps, only three per cent would carry on once they'd left college, reinforcing the view that much of what you learn at college is not much use in the real world."

If only 3% of the girls who would work as strippers to fund college would carry on afterwards, shirley that means that 93% think that whatever they will learn in college would be useful enough to get a job with, and will not require stripping or escort work to get by?

well done el reg

for noting the discrepancies in the various other news reports, and china's suspect motives regarding games and the internet possibly being at work.

I know why he isn't dead. He got the kevlar + helmet armour, it helps protect you from headshots.

those guys did a shoddy job if they only hit his mate once, and in the arm at that.

you don't win the round till all the CT's are dead.

bet they are kicking themselves now that their score hasn't gone up....

embrace, extend.....

extinguish.

rip, jquery. it was short but sweet.

you will be missed.