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5 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2009

HTC to launch WinMo phone with Android-oriented UI

tKe

WM Sense != Android Sense

It seems from the image in your article that this new "HTC Sense" for windows mobile is not the same as the Android HTC Sense found on the Hero et al.

It actually seems to be a continuation of the Manilla series of interfaces (aka TouchFlo 3D) - Manilla 2.5 if memory serves (being a VGA device owner, I have to make do with the community-adapted builds of newer manillas which all seem to be WVGA, of which 2.5 has yet to appear).

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Guardian loses half a million CVs

tKe
Joke

New job posting on Guardian Jobs

Required: 1 security adviser. Urgent start.

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Windows Mobile 6.5 ships today

tKe

IE Mobile 6 != IE 6

Can I please make something very clear ... IE Mobile 6 is NOT based on IE 6. They use different layout engines and have always been two very different horses.

IE Mobile 6 is miles better than the previous incarnations of IE Mobile. Saying that I still prefer to use Opera (which is running fine for me on WM 6.5.1).

Also - To those playing with pre-release WM 6.5 code, the latest builds (greater than 23016 I believe, though the cut off may have been before then) are actually builds of 6.5.1, 6.5 was code-complete and has been with OEMs for a while (without the redesigned soft-buttons etc).

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tKe

Windows Mobile 6.5.1

I'm currently running a leaked build of 6.5.1 (build 23420) on my HTC Touch Pro and can say the UI improvements in the small step up from 6.5 are great. It's just a shame MS couldn't hold off for them to stabilise before releasing 6.5 in its current stop-gap form.

Although you say there are not many changes from WM 6.1 (which I agree there are not) the changes that have been made to the phone make it a lot easier to use in day-to-day life.

I would however much prefer HTC to release some Android ROMs for the Touch Pro - but I can't see that happening any time soon. Oh what a wonderful world it would be if you could buy the hardware and choose which OS you wanted to run (WM, Symbian or Android - I can't see WebOS or iTouchMySelf being allowed on any old phone).

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Virgin hijacks empty pages

tKe
FAIL

This IS hijacking

RE: Anonymous Coward,Tuesday 18th August 2009 10:19 GMT

Hijacking NXDOMAINs can be a real nuisance for users of most VPNs. In order to reduce traffic hitting the VPN's DNS server, the normal proceedure for looking up a host is the following:

- Lookup dns for 'serv1.company.local' on ISP's DNS server

- Receieve NXDOMAIN from ISPs DNS server

- Lookup dns for 'serv1.company.local' on VPN's DNS server

- Receive IP, connect etc.

that way, global DNS entries are looked up on the ISP's DNS server and does not hit the VPN for extra traffic, unless the global DNS cache doesn't know of the server, then it trys the VPN DNS server.

With NXDomain hijacking, this is not possible as the ISP does not return NXDOMAIN for serv1.company.local and the VPN's DNS is never queried. Company email/intranet is effectively blocked by the ISP.

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