* Posts by lloyd_atkinson

5 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Apr 2013

Samsung sends gigabit '5G' signal TWO WHOLE KILOMETRES

lloyd_atkinson

It's all nice and fine that their making 5G but I find it annoying that 3G is pretty crap in most of the UK, let alone 4G.

Microsoft honcho pleads with media: 'Stop picking on us!'

lloyd_atkinson
FAIL

It's simple, stop producing a piece of crap OS every other release.

Look ma, no plugins! Streaming web video with just JavaScript

lloyd_atkinson
WTF?

???

So it's a library that supports A/V playback, but it also can be used as a virtual machine? What?

Notebook makers turn to Android in face of Windows woes

lloyd_atkinson

Re: Good news

Probably not easily though, take the Acer C7 Chromebook for example. You have to mess around replacing the firmware to get it to boot Ubuntu.

Boffins say flash disk demands new RAID designs

lloyd_atkinson

There isn't a SMART equivalent, SSD's still use SMART. Although, my understanding is that some RAID controllers do not have the ability to allow the OS to query an individual drive for it's SMART data.