Posts by HollyHopDrive

For those with a mac....

Open System Preferences - Network. Go into the 'advanced' for your connection and click on the TCP/IP tab. Then click the Configure IPv6 drop down and set the menu to Off. Click OK and then Apply button.

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IPv6, a whole new can of worms for us to worry about........

Shame on them....

Jobs is clearly going to take this to an end-to-end apple product with profit at each and every turn. While I appreciate they are a business, like any other, and out to make profit (nothing wrong with that!) I do think they are being 'a bit mean' to developers and software houses. Its not the 30% that is the problem, its the total cutting off from your own infrastructure and customers. Its hard to market an app, if you can't see where your marketing is working and where its not. And while you *may* get a good listing in the app store, you also may get ignored. So its too much luck based, and that is a bad business model.

Apple need to make the playing field a bit more level.

And the reason this works is the user doesn't care. The techies do, the software companies do, but the customers don't. Unless the software companies start to ditch osx and get into bed with a linux vendor (ubuntu, redhat) at the same time and make the slow but sure transition to something else some will ultimately die.

And I imagine apple have already penciled in the date for when 'app store only' apps can be installed / access 100% of the underlying system.

Looks like my current mac will be my last. Shame, I was going to get one for the wife this year....

I get really hacked off....

I get really hacked off with large companies just not doing that they are told to do. I know, technically they are not obliged, but the fact they just say no. Start a court case and get out of it for whatever reason.

And as for not having a database of the info. Thats just rubbish because how would they monitor and send engineers to equipment.

I'm also sick of Gov. organisations with no teeth. Why isn't the law just, if its not on the map, its not turned on. If it is, 1 very big fine which is outragiously large and disporportaional to the actual offence.

Mobile companies need to stop resisting everything (roaming charges, termination charges) and just be a bit more modern.

And if anybody from t-mobile is reading this, your service sucks and when my stupid contract expires (damn those 24 month contracts) I'm off to somebody who can provide some coverage. Did orange make you turn off 70% of your transmitters? (Which would explain the not having a map of the ones left on.)

Right, I'm off to sit in a darkened room until my blood pressure returns to normal.....

If it...

If it gets discounted to around the £300 as much as it doesn't matter, then at that kind of price I'll certainly get one. I was just about to replace my netbook but this has made me pause and think......

Mind you, samsung aren't exactly known for their firmware updates are they? so that may be the fly in the ointment.

No way I'm going to ever buy an ipad because

a) It just sings "I'm a twat and a sheep with more money than sense"

b) It just encourages steve jobs to keep acting like a twat and claiming everything is his and that he's brilliant (he's not btw).

c) I'd have to use that stupid stupid itunes with an interface so stupid a room full of monkeys who'd had their brains removed couldn't have invented anything that bad.

Mines the one with £300 in the pocket burning a hole.....

Just one minor flaw in an otherwise brilliant plan

A couple own and share a car. Mr A drives it very carefully and Mrs A has a lot of points and generally speeds and drives fast.

How does Mr A win the lottery?

Oh, that would need a tag per person, oh, and that would also conveniently mean that all that monitoring could be linked to road charges per mile, and reduced tax for those who only drive 4000 miles a year, screwing anybody who can't afford to live in a big city near their work anymore because of stupid house prices that were allowed to get beyond a joke, meaning moving to the sticks was the only answer to actually affording a home big enough to accomodate their family needs.

Looks like new new labour may be old new labour with a refreshed spin doctor who has had his thinking cap on during his period of being out of work.

Right load of bollocks, and I'll only [help] vote those bastards back in once all tories / lib dems / greens / monster raving party have all died and its them or the BNP. i.e. Never.

Rant over, I'll get my coat.

Awwww....

such a lovely christmas tale for this time of year. And it rhymes, which is also nice.

I may read that to the kids later. Don't want them becoming an accountant do we, and they are never to young to learn.

Ready....

Well VAT'll certainly teach em.

yes I know, coat and door...

There is always one...

Are you sure thats not just a configuration jumper on the board?

Sorry, I'll leave quietly......

What on earth....

Congratulations on what must be described as a pretty piss poor and a badly researched article. Can we send the YTS kid back to school now?

I can't believe you bothered to publish that. Don't get me wrong, the android market could be a whole heap better, but it works 99% of the time, and the odd download gets stuck, just reastart it and all is well. Oh, and the market is a bit too full of a lot 'hot babes' and 'farting' crap. As for the rest of it, I've had a G1 and now a HTC desire. Versions 1.5 and 1.6 of android were a bit basic in places, but I even had a go on my old G1 the other day, and actually thought it was still very useable. More than I can say about my old Nokia N95.

I wanted my father-in-law to get an android phone, but he ignored the advice and bought a nokia. I work in IT, and I will be fucked it I can work out how to use the bloddy thing. Its slow, and none of the settings are where they should be. And if the touchscreen would actually work where I press that would help.

I got my wife an android phone and she loves the thing. I hardly ever get asked 'how do I' and it seems to work for her even though she couldn't be less technical. (Did make me laugh when she asked why her photo's all looked a bit sepia, then I pointed out if you select sepia as a camera mode, it will do as you asked. - but thats user error)

Yesterday when we needed a wifi-hotspot for 10 minutes, my colleague who'd been flashing his new iphone 4 around the office for the last week looked absolutely gutted when I turned on the wifi sharing on my desire and said, we can use this. "Cant your phone do that" I smugly asked. "Not without jail breaking it" he reluctantly agreed. Haven't heard a single thing about his phone since. Oh, other than him grumbling because its dropped another call.

But, I supposed you're entitled to an opinion, just like me. But mine is based on personal usage rather than hot air......

Penguin ...just because.

Ooooh..

That loads so much quicker on my G1 than the normal version. Now I can slack at work much quicker :)

Cheers you guys, you don't half spoil us....

@anonymous coward - hahaha

"I work for MS and this article made me chuckle. You get what you pay for and all that........."

Yes, and that's the point. I didn't pay for it. People are having a slight moan about something which has traditionally been one fantastic release after another fantastic release. People would have been more than a little peeved if they'd shelled out £100+ for a copy of Win7.

I've installed it (clean) on a Toshiba NB100. Wireless doesn't work properly but other than that its perfect. In fact, I installed both full and netbook remix versions (which is beautiful BTW). Installed via a USB stick (can windows do that...er..no) in less than 20 mins (can windows do that ... er no).

The other thing is that I would imagine that its all going to be fixed quick smart. No waiting 6 months for a service pack!

So take all that and stick it in your MS pipe and smoke it. (or do you need a paperclip and a 'wizard' pop up to help you).

Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now......