Posts by petur

Re: Useful Kit

"When it's in a canyon or a short distance away from a vertical rock face it can shout yodel-ay-he-hee! "

And cause a stone avalanche that buries the rover :)

Re: Good

>> the Pure view 40 megapixel camera

> Pure View is Symbian based.

New keyboard please

Re: My bank...

Don't know about every fileserver, but mine handles my files (duh), backups, streams my music, has my mails, and calendar, can be connected to via VPN, can run a VM if needed,... from a user point of view, it is like using a cloud service.

Re: unofficial tyre

No. But not for the reason given above. The tyre must be of a category that can handle the top speed of your car, and in the lower part of Germany, in winter, must be a snow tyre

</pedantic>

Re: Not concerned about 3rd party...

Most (if not all) webcams have an LED next to it that lights up when cam is active. The microphone migt be another problem.

Re: Pass the bucket

Because sadly once you start buying into a certain brand, you are pretty much stuck because your apps and data/content are in there. Apple is worse at it of course, since it saw the benifits from the start...

Re: All drive brands suck, in turn.

IIRC, Samsung had one issue on one eco-drive, and that got fixed pretty quickly. Other than that, I'm still waiting for my first Samsung spinpoint to crash, so for now those are the drives I buy (except for SSD boot disks and WD Velociraptors for price/speed)

Re: Upgrade?

Just to get the facts straight, it is in fact *Adobe* who's no longer making flash builds for mobile, not Google...

Re: But will it...

The official statement so far is NO. But if they make a model with HW keyboard, I'm sold ;)

"I wonder what the text based thingy that replaces twitter will be..."

G+ ?

That's not even the problem... the real problem is that when another employer pays 0.001% more, they are gone by the end of the week.

Re: Proprietary RAID

Indeed, I'll have a standard RAID and filesystem over any of that closed stuff... and I bet the QNAP TS-x79 series easily outperforms this one, so claiming they are the fastest is a bit far fetched.

Re: No GoPro?

In fact, not one really 'active' cam in the review: none can be mounted on bike/helmet/....

Re: Google are going to get royally screwed over this

@Chris 19: If you would know how MS hacked that long filename support together, you wouldn't say stupid things like the millions they spent to invent it. The whole VFAT should bee FRAND as well, and MS should stop extorting all that money out of companies that try to be compatible with MS crapware. MS should be happy anybody wants to support VFAT and its hacks.

Re: A pointless thing, really...

Thanks a lot! Been searching for a way to turn that off :)

Re: data wants to be free

So, you want them to waste more UK taxpayers money to develop a separate app (probably with userfriendlyness of the nineties) that doesn't integrate with any other mapping app and thus is basically useless.

I bet TomTom & others can get the data as well.

</end common sense>

Re: N900

Indeed... and to know that Nokia already had the devices for many years (N770/800/810) that were just lacking the phone bit but already had the smart bit. I remember calling with my N810 while travelling, using wifi+VOIP. Android didn't even exist yet. But the nice little devices never got the attention from Nokia they needed, and this is how they missed the whole smartphone market.

Re: 50:50 for me...

Indeed... I swapped the optical drive of my dell for a media bay battery years ago, best investment I ever did!

Re: Food Robots!

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw

'The content owner has not made this video available on mobile"

*that* is worrying....

Re: "can produce speeds of up to 50mph."

Here in Belgium the electric assist must lower itself (or stop) when you go faster than 20kmph....

Re: @Michael Hawkes

"So by your logic Microsoft should have been left alone to do whatever it likes with Windows regardless of any practices that might affect competition?"

No, the same logic would have been that they wanted Microsoft to include a Ubuntu live-cd with every copy of Windows.

I'm happy that Google tries to remove the results of these alternative search engines out of the results, because that's not what I was looking for. You don't want to end up on another search page, that points to another search page,...

Indeed, and proper standard VOIP (sip) is so much cheaper due to all those offers. And you can (I did) port your landline number over to one of them.

Re: Why not go Open Source

Because picasa for linux was just a windows app that was tweaked to behave under wine.... if you know that, you see that it is easy to try to upgrade to a more recent version ;)

Other than that, boooooo at google for not supporting linux...

Re: N900 upgrade path

Also in the same boat, hope it doesn't sink. Would have gone N950 if they sold it, and I know many who would, but no, they refuse to sell it, or even sell the N9 in more countries;

Well, if you refuse to sell phones that you have developed and that people want, don't be surprised that revenue goes down ;)

Re: Item 5 is incorrect IMO

If the current of the adapter is twice that of a usb port, it matters a lot....

Of equal importance is wether the adapter follows the usb spec for chargers (data pins tied together) or the apple way (data pins at fixed offsets).

Anyway, the first poster has a point when it comes to charging multiple devices - I have an adapter with multiple sockets + several extending cables. And I get them from DX at 1/10th of the price

Re: Google is laughing

Yup. Just think about the amount concerned *per car*, which easily fitted on the smallest harddrive you get. And the data wasn't stored on big central databases, but was found on the actual disks when reviewing the data the cars brought in. And when that data was found Google informed the authorities of this f*ckup.

Congrats on downvoting and twisting the truth.

Re: Only Apple doing this?

As normal consumer or as company? The two years is for consumers, companies only get 1 year. And depending on how you got to the product you want on the dell website, it may think you are a company....

Re: $300 savings for the company perhaps,

It always reminds me of the woman who started to feel all these bad things after they installed a GSM antenna next to her home. Some journalists dug a bit in, went to the mobile company, where they found out the antenna wasn't in use yet... It's all in the head ;)