Posts by Alister

Even if not directly re-usable, this at least gives the restorers a real prototype to follow, which is always better than just following the engineering diagrams: it will show exactly how the original was put together in practice, where workarounds and shortcuts may have been taken to translate the plans into reality.

[Ulbricht] built it, he grew it, he operated it from start to bottom until the end

Ah, maybe he should have operated it from top to finish instead, clearly he was confused...

...and vSphere 6 web client (which is compulsory) STILL USES FLASH!!!

AAAAAAAAAGH!!!

CHANGE the PICTURE of LARRY ELLISON

We can't do that, we're still paying Oracle's licence fees for the one we've got!

I'm curious about the sub heading, and the premise of the article, we run a couple of Exchange AD domains with a mixture of IOS and Android clients, and I haven't found them to be particularly painful to administer, and users seem happy enough? It's very rare we have problems with the built in mail clients.

The worst culprit for problems is Outlook for Mac, which needs beating with a large wet haddock at every opportunity, it's a PITA.

I think El Reg's SPB should have asked the Noble Sir if they could strap LOHAN to the car for some last minute speed testing, they're aiming for Mach-1 aren't they?

with customisation and speed taking it in a different direction to the mainstream, where minimalism rules the day.

I'm genuinely a little confused, is the above statement meant to mean that mainstream browsers are minimalist?

If that's the case I would argue strongly that the mainstream browsers are far from minimalist, In fact I would describe all of them as pretty bloated.

I would love to see a new, minimalist browser, but I suspect that's not what is on offer.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Glass was in its infancy, and you took those very first steps and taught us how to walk. Well, we still have some work to do, but now we’re ready to put on our big kid shoes and learn how to run.

By that, they seem to mean they'll be lacing up their running shoes and legging it as fast as possible away from this particular dead duck.

El Reg, you still seem to be completely misrepresenting the content of this story. What Google are doing is to close down the beta program, and start the process of moving it to main-stream development. This is not in any way the same as dropping Google Glass, which your coverage seems to suggest.

So, in the time honoured tradition of previous UK/USA agreements, the US intelligence community will be allowed to carry out attacks on any UK financial institution, and the UK intelligence community will be allowed to try and break into the email account of a minor US banking official...

I still think the "Desktop is dead" idea is premature, and possibly will never be true, although the form factor may change. Desktops/Laptops are not just for business edge-cases, they still have real benefits as a form factor for home use, in my experience.

My kids have both smartphones and tablets, but if they want to do their homework, they choose to use either a desktop or laptop - primarily for the full keyboard, and the ability to print stuff.

I use a desktop, partially because I'm from the TRS80 generation, partially because for work I need to manage servers from home, but also because to do household accounts, play games like Warcraft, edit my photos, and various other needs, a mobile device is just not the right tool for the job.

I surely can't be the only person who has a household like this?

virtual unbundled local access (VULA).

What a missed opportunity, when they could have gone for Variable Unbundled Local Virtual Access.

Off on a tangent, I hadn't realised the Culver City lot was now Sony's. I remember when it was Paramount's, and before that I think it belonged to DesiLu Entertainment...

In what possible way could sharing the data on aircraft passengers have helped thwart the Charlie Hebdo killings? The perpetrators were (as I understand it) Parisian residents, and already known to the Police.

In the same way, the killing of Lee Rigby was done by UK residents known to the police, and the Canadian attacks were the same, carried out in each case by Canadian nationals.

In none of the above cases could data about air travel have had any bearing on the identification or capture of the attackers.

So, One ring to rule them all...

...then?

There may be no IT angle to this, but the opportunities for El Reg headline writers and commentards are just too many to ignore.

Ooh, I've managed a whole sentence without once descending the slippery pole into filth...

Oh, damn.

Push-to-talk latency

...has been around for a long time. When I worked for the Emergency Services, back in the eighties, we were always told to press the PTT and then wait 2 seconds before speaking, as the VHF radios used to broadcast a set of selcall tones before opening the microphone.

Well I always thought they looked like a trio of interstellar Meerkats...

Tch.

I thought the article was going to say that Ericsson had bought those two barges off Google, to float a datacentre in...

Curious, there doesn't seem to be an A record in place at the moment for www:

ukip.org. NS IN 600 137ms ns2.hosteurope.com.

ukip.org. NS IN 600 137ms ns.hosteurope.com.

ukip.org. SOA IN 600 137ms

Minimum/NegTTL: 600

Expire: 1209600

Retry: 3600

Refresh: 86400

Serial: 2012053001

Responsible Name: hostmaster.ukip.org.

Primary DNS server: ns.hosteurope.com.

ukip.org. MX IN 600 137ms mx0.123-reg.co.uk. [Preference = 10]

ukip.org. MX IN 600 137ms mx1.123-reg.co.uk. [Preference = 20]

ns.hosteurope.com. A IN 300 137ms 212.67.202.2

mx1.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.150

mx0.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.151

mx1.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.153

mx1.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.152

mx0.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.154

mx0.123-reg.co.uk. A IN 300 137ms 94.136.40.61

ns2.hosteurope.com. A IN 300 137ms 92.51.159.40

I'm not sure why he's making such a big thing about the API help documentation, It's fairly standard practice to make that info publicly available. Maybe he doesn't have much experience of working with APIs?

That doesn't in any way excuse the lack of OAuth, or the inclusion of the customerID in the URL though, they should be roasted for that...

This just seems like a very clumsy attempt to discredit Snowden's information. The leaks contain far more than just PowerPoint slides.

I'm intrigued to know how they test something which must unfurl with micrometric precision in a space environment, and yet be tested on earth. One would think the forces acting on the mesh would be very different.

Well if they put it on Kickstarter, I'm sure people would go for it, the synergy of Lego and Ikea is irresistible...

Thanks very much for listening, and thanks for the home page navigation at the bottom.

Drew, please can you re-introduce some navigation at the bottom of the page to get back to the homepage. You used to be able to click on the "Register" banner in the footer but you've taken that away.

If you've read down to the bottom of a long page of comments, it's a pain to have to scroll back up to the top to get back to the home page.

Yay!!

STOB!!

Verily, Verity, it hath been an age since you last graced these hallowed pages.

...oh, and I know you're currently in the US but recce is spelt recce in British English...