Do more with less
Saving the world with two million - obviously they've been to too many Microsoft presentations...
Posts by southpacificpom
318 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2012
Branson, Berners-Lee, Google, £2m: LET'S SAVE THE WORLD
Microsoft splashes coat of paint on Windows 8 comms apps
Ubuntu support periods slashed
Tuesday 26th March 2013 00:20 GMT
Re: @PushF12 (was: You can't go home again)
"Debian's just fine. BSD is just fine."
FreeBSD is fine, just trying adding a binary package in version 9.1... What were they thinking when they released this version, they are in the middle of converting to PKGNG without a convenient way to add packages in the meantime except for building them from ports of which some are broken anyway. No wonder PCBSD have decided to do things their own way.
And as for Slackware, it has its place but never as a modern distro to lead the Linux world - reality check done.
Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map
Microsoft responds to Chinese software contract bribery claims
Sysadmins: Let's perch on Microsoft Santa's lap, show him our wish list
GoDaddy gone, daddy: Websites go titsup in server assault
Eric Schmidt trousers his monstrous package at Google
Thursday 14th March 2013 09:01 GMT
Re: Let's hear it you labor-voting lefties...
"By the way, I am a higher rate taxpayer and consider it my duty to pay the "full" amount. To find creative ways to avoid paying tax, while not necessarily illegal, strikes me as immoral - I do believe there is such a thing as "community"."
I'll raise a glass to you sir!
I remember in the early 90's before I left UK, sitting at a dinner party with my wife's relatives and some of their friends during which most of them went on the verbal attack about dole bludgers etc then, proceeded to talk about their tax fiddles with great laughter and merriment . It pretty much disgusted me and I couldn't wait to get away from that dinner party.
What a bunch of assholes they all were!
Google shreds Reader in new round of 'spring cleaning'
Uni profs: Kids today could do with a bit of 'mind-crippling' COBOL
Oklahoma woman cuffed with loaded .22 in pork holster
Study: Megaupload closure boosted Hollywood sales 10%
Dear Facebook: I heard the news today, oh boy
Microsoft backs law banning Google Apps from schools
Canuck rumps resist Street View arsebusters
Microsoft about-face: Office 2013 license IS transferable now
Tito's Mars mission to use HUMAN WASTE as radiation shield
Meet Antarctic sysadmin Richard Youd
Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84
Sunday 24th February 2013 07:57 GMT
Daleks
I will raise a glass to Ray as his invention was truly frightening for a young lad watching Dr Who in the 60/70's.
However, the Daleks were never really the same to me after I watched this on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiq-0rf_bA
Also, Spike Milligan did a wonderful parody of them - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMiHczfJHM
Oklahoma cops rake ashes of 'spontaneous combustion' victim
Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER
Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'
Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender
Higgs data shows alternate reality will SWALLOW UNIVERSE
Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward
Official: America now a nation of broadband whingers
LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012
Get up, shake off the hangover: These 57 Microsoft holes won't fix themselves
Microsoft! Bing! must! make! Yahoo! more! money! moans! Mayer!
Eager students, huge racks - yes, undergrad cluster wrestling is back
New Zealand court hands out second peppercorn downloading penalty
LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks
Friday 8th February 2013 02:24 GMT
Re: Slowly closing the gap with Microsoft Office?
"Of course, LibreOffice and the gimp might be ok for the casual user. But for real work, not even close."
Ah yes those ten thousand column spreadsheets which are so easy to read and if it breaks, no one knows what the hell is going on.
Most offices I've seen could still be running Orifice 4.3 and still function fine.
As for GIMP/PhotoShop, unless you have the real urge to spend $$$ just use GIMP.
Google Drives into web hosting
Facebook burnout: 61% of users have needed a break
Study: Gay marriage support linked to pr0n consumption
Australia's top court says Google's iffy ads do not mislead
Kids as young as FIVE need lessons in online safety - NSPCC
GNOME project picks JavaScript as sole app dev language
Telstra leak: Operation Deep Packet Inspection
HP jumps on Chromebook bandwagon with 14-incher
Schoolgirl's Hello Kitty catonaut soars to 93,000ft
Australia joins hunt for corporate tax dodgers
Apple loses bid to 'cut in line' in Samsung patent dust-up
Rent-seekers target school laptops in Oz election year
Monday 4th February 2013 22:49 GMT
An IT salesman I knew said to me once that that the education sector were the easiest and most gullible market to sell to as most wanted the latest and greatest, (for them to brag about), gadgets and did little to factor in upgrade/maintenance cost for items purchased. Looks like more of the same...
Hard drive sales to see double-digit dive this year
Monday 4th February 2013 22:38 GMT
Re: Optical Drives Abandoned
Windows can now be installed via a USB thumb drive. Linux has had this for years :)
Blu-ray is a non-starter for most people now, been around for quite a while and has not made a very big impact. It will no doubt fade away as quietly as it was taken up by the masses.
"Until the price on a 32gb SD card hits something like 50p"
Wow, is the average cost for a CD just 1p - that's quite cheap. I know that I would buy a 32GB SD card or USB thumb drive anyday as, carrying 46 CD's (32GB's worth) around would be tiring.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
