* Posts by Yugguy

1303 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Dec 2013

Feast your PUNY eyes on highest resolution phone display EVER

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Sweet.

Even clearer porn.

Er, that is what all this technology is for isn't it?

VMware reveals 27-patch Heartbleed fix plan

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No. Piss off. We work too much already. I'm having a holiday. And my phone will be OFF.

Windows 8.1, which you probably haven't upgraded to yet, Already obsolete

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Re: Who at Microsoft is making up the names... and why do they still have a job?

Windows 8.1 ate my hamster

Windows 8.1 bomber found on moon.

Windows 8.1 lands on sun.

Gimme a high S5: Samsung Galaxy S5 puts substance over style

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I love the fact that these days, no review of a smartphone ever asks the basic question, does it still get a chuffing mobile signal. Can I make a bloody phone call on it?

NSA denies it knew about and USED Heartbleed encryption flaw for TWO YEARS

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Spies in "Did some spying" shocker.

Want a free Bosch steam iron? You'll have to TALK TO THE DEAD

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Awww. They've removed it from the list.

Android engineer: We didn't copy Apple or follow Samsung's orders

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What a load of bollocks.

Big, hairy, elephants bollocks.

Apple, I have NEVER bought any of your products. I probably NEVER will. You have NEVER lost any money to Samsung because of me.

The only gesture I want to do towards an Apple product is raise my middle finger.

Half of Twitter's 'active users' are SILENT STALKERS

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Doesnt surprise me. Same as facebook. I have a zombiefied facebook account I never use but haven't deleted as I can't be bothered wading through the collosal ballache it would be to fully delete it.

Users like these should be discounted from the true stats of active users.

Astronomers spot hint of first EXOMOON, possibly

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Re: If they looked closely enough

I loved that program SO MUCH.

I had the Eagle Transporter model toy. Best spaceship EVAR!!!11!!

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 updates also tweak Windows Server 2012

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I once managed to ride the "unrideable" bicycle at a summer fair.

The one where the pedals turn backwards and the handlebars are reversed so that to go left you turn right.

I managed it aye. BUT I WOULDN'T ACTUALLY WANT TO SWAP MY PERFECTLY GOOD NORMAL BICYCLE FOR IT.

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Re: Don't need to reboot each time

Heh - I have the same on the desktop of my Windows 8.1 laptop that apparantly never needs rebooting.

It's called shutit.bat. It runs shutdown /r /t 00 for me.

It also is quicker than waiting decades for powershell to load.

Torvalds rails at Linux developer: 'I'm f*cking tired of your code'

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Sweet. Is this a swearing contest?

Well fuck cunt wank shite bastard bollocks knob and twat.

I win.

Back off, Siri! Microsoft debuts Halo beauty Cortana

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Apple: You're a copycat! Samsung: This is really about Google, isn't it?

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Patenting breathing?

The trouble is that motions like pinch and zoom are so basic to ANY touchscreen that any manufacturer would have to invent and incorporate them.

So for Apple to prove Samsung copied their ideas is a bit like trying to prove one human being copied breathing in and out from another human being.

Facebook Oculus VR buyout: IT WANTS your EYEBALLS

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SCIFI comes true again

Wow.

How many scifi stories have been woven around humans becoming immobile objects, only experiencing the world second-hand?

This sounds like my idea of HELL to be honest.

Ugh! This DUNKABLE wearable tech is REPELLENT

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A bit wet

I'd like a phone that can cope being in my pocket if I get caught in a downpour. Rather than me having to stick it in a plastic bag when I go running.

Windows 8 BREAKS ITSELF after system restores

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I love all the "just get used to it and adapt" crap that the fanbois come out with.

Oh look, Ford have decided to put the accelerator pedal on the roof and the brake pedal in the rear left wheel arch on all their new cars. Don't like it? JUST GET USED TO IT AND ADAPT.

It's EE vs Vodafone: 'How good is my signal' study descends into network bunfight

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Hobson's Choice

EE vs Vodafone?

That's like asking if you want to die of cancer or aids.

This changes everything: Microsoft slips WinXP holdouts $100 to buy new Windows 8 PCs

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Ahhh

To all the Windows 8 fanbois.

If Windows 8 is so good why are Ms getting increasingly desperate to flog it?

I find everything in it to be painful in the extreme. And I've tried to warm to it. But it's just basically SHIT.

EE...K: Why can't I uninstall carrier's sticky 'Free Games' app?

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The EE signal on my estate is, well, non-existent.

Knowing EE's history and affiliations I think I would rather use a carrier pigeon. Or two tin cans and a piece of string.

What does people-centric IT mean, anyway?

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So, laughing boy says ""the end user gets the experience they want".

I want you to take Windows 8, roll it up and shove it right up your arse. I never, ever, ever, want to see it again.

Now that would be an experience.

Windows 8 gives me NOTHING I want.

Tony Benn, daddy of Brit IT biz ICL and pro-tech politician, dies at 88

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I didn't agree with his politics but he was one of a VERY SMALL group of politicians I actually respect, as he kept the courage of his convictions and didn't sell his ideas out for personal gain.

RIP.

Boffins demo FIVE MICRON internal combustion engine

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Re: Intriguing.

I thought Fellatio was a character from Hamlet?

Women! You too can be 'cool' and 'fun' if you work in tech!

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I can't help but think that if ladies like the above really did work in IT, the only thing they'd attract is more blokes.

Microsoft to push out penultimate XP patch on March Patch Tuesday

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I have an old Lenovo laptop running XP. I never connect it to the internet, I use it for things like running diagnostic tools on my cars.

Microsoft can get bent if they think I'm going to pay to upgrade to Windows 8.Sh1te.

Beta tasting: The Elder Scrolls Online preview

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It's "wreak", not "reek"

"reek some prehistoric vengeance" means you smell like a Jurassic Avenger.

Official: British music punter still loves plastic

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Re: Signal corruption.

Good lad. The spare apostrophe is a pet hate of mine.

What the world really needs: A telescopic SELFIE STICK

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If I ruled the world ANYONE who goes to see live music and then watches it on a 4 inch screen instead would be shot.

Booze and bacon sarnies: A recipe for immortality?

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As I don't eat bacon or red meat every bloody day I'll not worry, and carry on enjoying them when I do.

I HATE the Daily Mail. I wouldn't use it wipe my backside.

Official FACT: Gadgets are giving YOU a wrinkly 'Tech Neck'

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I lift weights.

Pine trees' scent 'could prevent climate change really being a problem'

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So we need more trees. This is a good thing, they suck in carbon dioxide and give us oxygen back.

Apple, Symantec, other tech heavies challenge anti-gay legislation

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So if I have a business and I refuse to serve you, do I have to prove it wasn't because you're LBGT, or do you have to prove it was?

Hey 4G bods: We need to make 'phonecalls' with our 'voices', too

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Ah yes, the failure of the wonderful smart "phone" to actually be a phone.

Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning the devout from Mars One 'suicide' mission

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Re: @ jake

Christ didn't like organised religions either. The word "church" means gathering of people. The early churches were just that, people gathering together in each other's homes to discuss their shared beliefs. That's where it should have stayed - work out your own salvation with like-minded people.

Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins

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Actually this is being done in the financial institution I work for, but transferring the functionality of the core account system away from an old but stable solution is a MASSIVE undertaking and will take us several years. You can't just port it, you have to produce a brand new solution that does the same as the old one and takes the same inputs and produces the same outputs. There ISN'T an off-the-shelf new solution that can simply integrate with all our other systems.

And yes, the COBOL coders who look after the existing system aren't getting any younger.

Without a smartphone your reptile brain gets a workout

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Slave to the rythym

Being 44 next month I remember very well living and working quite happily without any form of mobile phone, smart or not. These days my smartphone is very useful and a tool that complements my life but I USE IT, it doesn't use me - I'm not checking my emails/texts/forums (I don't do twatter etc.) every five seconds.

Smartphones are like so much of modern technology, very useful if you're the master of it, not so good when you're a slave to it.

SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future

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The licence fee lets the Beeb produce programmes like Only Connect that wouldn't otherwise be commercially viable. I don't mind paying it.

No, pesky lawyers, particle colliders WON'T destroy the Earth

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Whom are they going to sue exactly?

When the LHC destroys the world there'll not be any lawyers left. Or courts. Or plaintiffs. Or defendants.

Bad luck, n00bs: Mozilla to splurge ADS inside empty Firefox tiles

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Sweet - 8 links I'll add to my list of NEVER CLICK ON.

Random car shutdowns force Toyota to recall Prius hybrids - AGAIN

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Re: To use or not to use computers, that is the question

They were a damm sight easier to do running repairs on.

I remember fixing the breaker points on a Triumph with an elastic band. I remember setting the timing by sticking it in 3rd and rocking to find top dead centre.

Yesterdays: Car's misfiring. Oh look, a split HT lead. I'll swap that. 5 minutes?

Nowadays: Car's msfiring. It's a coil pack. No you have to buy the whole bank. No, you can't get to it without stripping the whole intake off. That's 6 hours labour please.

Car's not running.. Which one of the 2000 sensors is it? Oh aye, it's a crankshaft sensor. That'll be 12 hours labour please as we strip down the engine.

Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and 'honey traps'

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Spies in doing illegal stuff shocker.

WHEEE... CRUNCH! iPad Mini tops list of most breakable slabs, mobes

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The actual title of the server was "Gadgets you most WANT to smash"

No wonder Apple topped it.

fWHoaR! Researcher crack eternal mystery of what women want in a man

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Every single bloke reading this is now checking his face via his smartphone camera.

Ah, er, oh, just me then.

HARD ONES: Three new PC games that are BLOODY DIFFICULT

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As I'm 43, not 12, and don't have 15 hours a day to waste on games I need a game that doesn't feck me off right back to the beginning of the level every time I make a small mistake.

As the chap above says, tedious is not the same as difficult.

Eurocops want to build remote car-stopper, shared sensor network

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When the car stopper comes out I want one. The next time some scrotey little tosser in 1.0 Corsa with a pointlessly massive and pointlessly noisy exhaust drives past it will be "CLICK.... Ahhh, silence."

Then spend a happy few minutes watching Corsa Boi try to figure out wotz rong wiv de mota?

Three-yaarrgh! Major UK mobile network's data goes down

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I've never had anything else but trouble with Three.

Sinclair's ZX Spectrum to LIVE AGAIN!

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WANT.

I want it in the same way I want to drive my first car again. A vomit yellow-brown Morris Marina.

Yes, I KNOW it will be horrendous, but I just want it for old time's sake.

HOT AIR-FILLED Apple fanbois SHUNNED iPad 2 at Xmas

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I also have yet to buy an Apple product as I object to paying 50% more for a product that is only 5% better.

And that's a subjective 5%.

I'm not an Apple hater, I just don't see the point. My Samsung smartphone and tablet do everything I need them to do and they were half the price of the equivalent i- offering.

Nokia Lumia update spreads Black death

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A cold day in hell

Is what it will be before I ever use a Windows phone.

Microsoft buries Sinofsky Era... then jumps on the coffin lid

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Heh.

Weathertop can get bent.

If I wasn't flexible, intelligent, skilled etc. I wouldnt be a 3rd/4th line Ms, Citrix, VMWare, RSA, Websense, Symantec, I could go on for ever, support, design and implementer for one of the top 5 UK financial institutions.

I still hate Windows 8.

Windows 8 is crap. It's change for change's sake, not to make things better. It is fine on a touchscreen tablet, It's crap on a business desktop.