Interesting...
Really?
Posts by Rebajas
98 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Feeling heat from Macs, Microsoft sells PCs sans crapware
Tuesday 8th March 2011 10:35 GMT
Seriously..?
I don't think it needs to be spelt out that MS is feeling pressure from Apple as well as other service providers. MS has weak leadership (IMO), a confusing product line, and offers functionality that merely equals much of what is available elsewhere.
As for your comments about what should be sold as baseline? They make you sound like an 12 year old.
Prepping the great Windows 7 migration
Tuesday 8th March 2011 10:12 GMT
Err...
Ubuntu useless for your purposes?
I don't want to try and tell you what your purposes are, you know better than me, but your user cases as described above suite Ubuntu perfectly.
On top of that you have less worry about those machines being added to the latest botnet as virus definitions go out of date due to those dial-up users never updating their software.
Tuesday 8th March 2011 10:12 GMT
Maybe...
Doesn't sound like that's the case? "Pella did pilot projects with the Windows 7 beta in February 2009, and started its full rollout in November 2009 when Windows 7 was released. By June 2010 the company had migrated 1,200 computers"
Pilot projects from Feb 2009, rollout between Nov 2009 & June 2010 to 1,200 machines.
Monday 7th March 2011 15:52 GMT 
Confused...
The examples from Pella show they have migrated 1200 PCs in just over 6 months - that averages about 10 PCs per working day. That's not much progress in my mind - I know it isn't as straight-forward as a new install, but I also can't imagine they have just one person doing the work?
1 person = 10 a day
3 people = 3-4 a day
5 people = 2 a day
Are my maths screwy, do I just have too high expectations or is that just not very impressive?
Microsoft rallies IE6 death squads
Friday 4th March 2011 23:12 GMT
whoa.
That's a nice idea, though rather than inflict the option on everyone, have it as an option if IE6 is installed alongside IE8.
The option of being able to have both on one system would have helped me a year or so ago, but as it was i just stopped writing for IE6 completely.
Problem solved.
Solution found for climate change: Nuclear war
Mozilla: 'Internet Explorer 9 is not a modern browser'
Dell to buy AMD?
Microsoft polishes Windows Phone 7
HTC DG H100 Media Link DLNA adapter
HTC Desire Z Android Qwerty smartphone
Ubuntu Wayland: Shuttleworth's post-Mac makeover
Apple, EMC, and Oracle in Novell patent play
Thursday 16th December 2010 22:05 GMT
Err no.
Although I don't want patent squatters to benefit from anything, anywhere, I would like to see technology move around more. If the cost of entry on patents is too high for smaller players then I think we'll see innovations stifled.
I guess we'll just have to see what patents were exchanged and what is done with them in the long term.
T-Mobile tots up cost of £199 iPad 3G
Wednesday 15th December 2010 11:46 GMT
Barbequed Bananas
If you're worried about the fact it's going to be replaced, surely you would wait? Not buy an inferior model and carry a separate MiFi device around with you. Additionally, if you couldn't wait, you'd just swap out the SIM to your new device and sell your old iPad on eBay.
Besides, not everyone cares about having the latest tech, especially if what is on the market does what you need it to do.
But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Want to bring your own PC?
Three tots up iPad subsidy
The year's best... laptops
'Phantom Ray' robot warjet to ride atop NASA shuttle-carrier 747
Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit
Death of netbook exaggerated, says researcher
Wednesday 10th November 2010 10:50 GMT
Atom...
I should think Netbook sales will be hit from first gen Atom owners looking to upgrade to a newer model - only to find the offerings currently available aren't that different to their current Netbook?
I choose to get an Envy 17 for mobile computing and plan to get a tablet of some description for lighter uses while sitting at the coffee shop :) hopefully that will cover most uses for me...
And I will be looking at the crop of 7 inchers for my Tablet - possibly even the new 7-8 inch iPad when it comes out :P
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Hacker sinks Royal Navy website
Steve Jobs chucks Apple server biz from pram
Phosphor World Time Curved E Ink watch
Windows Phone 7: 'Different, delightful'... and unfinished
Ubuntu 10.10: date with destiny missed
Brits not buying into Freeview HD
£1bn+ Royal Navy destroyer finally fires 'disgraceful' weapon
Tuesday 5th October 2010 16:00 GMT 
I should think...
I should think/hope the point he is trying to make is that in this world having a destroyer specific for the task of air support is quite short sighted.
Who still has an Air Force that isn't on our side?
As for missile defense, if that is all it is going to be doing you'd want the most proven trusted system regardless of country of origin - buying American might have spared us enough cash to develop something else? Posssibly even something that we could export to the US and make some cash back...
On the other hand; Windows?
Apple now world's second-largest company
Android's UK phone sales quadruple
Mozilla tames Firefox tab monster with Candy
IBM's zEnterprise 196 CPU: Cache is king
Zuckerberg: I'm 'quite sure' I own Facebook
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Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: A (free) Mactastic experience
Friday 30th April 2010 16:09 GMT
Windows
Thanks for the comment - hope you take more care with your critical Unix servers than you do reading peoples posts!
He didn't even mention Windows, nor going back to another OS after any amount of time, just that every time he installs a new version of Linux there is alot of configuration to get the machine how he likes it.
Sounds fair enough to me.
Mozilla buries heels on un-YouTube open video
Monday 25th January 2010 19:09 GMT 
Hear hear...
Or is it 'Here here' - whatever.
The sooner we all stop embracing proprietary formats on the Internet the better - much of the time proprietary does not mean better, and when these are adopted as standards we all suffer. Whether it be from shoddy plugins that only support the platforms they want to support, bad quality audio, bad quality visuals or simple greed in licensing, we all suffer as users...
Microsoft joins IE SVG standards party
Yorkshire Ripper loves Wii Bowling
Monday 4th January 2010 15:45 GMT
4 minutes per day...?
From the article:
"In addition, daily Wii Fit use per household declined by 82 percent, from 22 minute per day during the first six weeks to four minutes per day during the second six weeks"
Helps if the participants actually *want* to get fit, you don't get fit by merely owning gym membership. Likewise you need to use the Wii Fit to see any benefits.
Idea for next article: Diet Coke with Burger & Fries not effective dieting...?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
