Posts by James Le Cuirot

CrapAfee

I'm dismayed that Intel would even want to associate with CrapAfee. I'm not a Windows user but wherever I have seen their piss poor software in action, it practically grinds the machine to a halt. They were the number one reason why my Mum ditched her perfectly good laptop for another one. I took it off her hands but she wondered why I could possibly want it, seeing as it was all but unusable. It literally took 15 minutes to boot up before it would let you actually do anything and from there, it was still painful. Before giving it a new lease of life (Linux), I wanted to see whether simply removing CrapAfee would fix the problem. Well, whaddya know...

Stop drinking piss

It really annoys me to see everyone drinking the same old fizzy piss. I take delight in always trying ales I haven't seen before and there are plenty around. Of all the ones I've ever tried, there was only one I didn't really like.

MythTV

I want to know if MythTV will be able to fit into this picture. For many people, it may actually make it redundant. I'm undecided.

Hail the ale!

They should be drinking ale in the first place, not that bloody fizzy piss!

Magnetic discs

Could this potentially affect magnetic discs? Maybe it's time I invested in an SSD...

Gentoo Linux

Any carbon I save by downloading free software is probably lost when I compile it all. Gentoo Linux, not the most environmentally friendly distro!

TeamViewer on Linux

As a Linux user, I didn't want to like TeamViewer but it does work very well and runs perfectly under Wine, which is rare. I even prefer RDP over VNC actually because it's too true that the latter is clunky and slow. It's a shame you didn't mention more about the newer X-based stuff such as NX because I'd like to know more about that. X11 forwarding over SSH is amazing but painful over a slow connection.

Long file names?

Wasn't that 95?

Does it matter?

Most of the courses I applied for (admittedly this was 10 years ago) didn't even require Computing A-Level. I was accepted into Durham with Physics and Maths instead, knowing nothing more than a few dialects of BASIC, and I went on to gain a very strong grasp of Java in my first year there.

Bah

The sensible thing to do would have been to put more manpower behind the Gnash project. Even if they don't like the Flash IDE or ActionScript, they could have built their own tools and language around it the format.

Pleeeeaaaase

I'm a big fan of Canvas. Luckily we have ExplorerCanvas to fill the gap but it's not perfect. And it really wouldn't be hard to implement, hell, I could probably do it myself.

Insult to injury

Isn't it bad enough that we have this battle against OOXML on our hands? This just adds insult to injury.

Pandora

Pfft forget this. Look at the Pandora instead. Admittedly It's more expensive but it's 10x better than this thing. It runs Quake 3 for a start.

Too early!

Trust them to drive past before the council cleared the graffiti opposite my place.

Claws Mail FTW

I also think this one well deserves a mention.

Additional browsers?

Does anyone know what these additional browsers are? One is most likely SeaMonkey. The only others I can think of are real oddball browers (like Amaya) or reskins of the main browers.

Did I miss something?

What's in it for Microsoft?

On the more useful side of things...

Fabrice also founded the FFMPEG and QEMU projects, both of which I use on a regular basis. Thanks, man.

A swift kick to Nokia's Semen?

Don't think that'll fix it somehow.

Not the first

Sharp have been doing these for years WITHOUT the need for glasses. I saw one back in 2004. Maybe the quality isn't so great but they were still the first. Get your facts right, please.

Shame but...

As someone who used to live in the north-east and loves the stuff, it is a shame but I'd rather they secured its future than run the risk of it being dropped.

MP4

I like 7Digital because they offer MP4s. They're pretty much the only site that does so other than iTunes.

@Eq

Actually I think you do need a license to display the covers because they are protected by copyright too. That's why MusicBrainz doesn't allow people to simply upload covers, you usually have to link them from Amazon or CD Baby. I can barely understand the logic behind that. As for the lyrics, that is just insane.

I'm just fine, thanks

Well I am working from home for a company in London while actually living in Perth, Scotland. I consider myself very lucky. On the odd occasions when I do pop into the office, I always love the reactions I get from people. "You came from where!?" Especially when I get into the office before they do because I took the sleeper train. :D

@AC 11:34

You shouldn't have to wait too much longer. Linux has had 64-bit Flash for a little while now.

Chee?

Can I charge up my persocom with it?

nagios

Just wait, I bet there'll be a nagios plugin for this in no time.

You guys should know On2

Funny, I almost asked whether they might open source it in the last article but I dismissed it as a stupid question. I couldn't think of any reason why they would. Now it makes sense.

I heard of On2 a while ago because it was their VP6 codec that was introduced in Flash 8. Since there was no Linux release of Flash 8, it drove Linux users crazy because there were a lot of videos that they couldn't play for a while.

FFMPEG has had VP6 decoding support for a long time now but an encoder has never materialised. Maybe that will change now.

Twatter

...is what I've always called it myself. Spot on, Mr Cameron.

@ Charles 9

I think this calls for some PlayMobil. Roll on Friday!

@ Matt Caldwell

I agree and I'm a professional web monkey. This certainly has gone too far, even for my tastes, and IE has been the bane of my life for years, but that's no reason to slate the Opera browser itself. It's my browser of choice and I'm proud to use it.

I feel ashamed to be British

I assumed this was in the US until I got to the second paragraph. I know things are getting here but jesus.

Bah

I don't know much about Theora but if the quality isn't up to scratch now yet it has the potential to improve later, they could have at least gone with it anyway. No one said YouTube has to use HTML5. That would have avoided all this patent bollocks.

Official open source Flash client?

If that's true, that's fantastic. An official open implementation of Flash is exactly what the Gnash project needs as a reference!

Linux

I'm waiting for better support in Linux. You can play them but it's a bloody hassle, even by my standards. The fact that we can play them at all is a good sign though.

Re: Ethernet port

I'm not sure what the Ethernet port is for but given that my LG set has Bluetooth and a USB port for viewing photos and playing music, and also given that LG's sets run on Linux, it could be something quite interesting! My set also has an RS-232 serial port for external control.

Overkill?

Isn't this a stupidly elaborate solution to a really simple problem? Can't they just paint one of the steps yellow and count along from that one of something?

The Q6600 has it

My Q6600 has it. I guess I've been taking it for granted. Not that I particularly want to run Windows. I only run XP under Linux's KVM.

I knew it too

I was quietly thinking literally just yesterday about whether the judge might have been bribed, given the amount of money behind this. I tried to dismiss it as an overly cynical view of the justice system. Good to know I was right, after all.