Posts by Saucerhead Tharpe

I miss the SSC

My eee701 was £200, it just plugs along doing stuff.

I'd replace it with a slightly bigger machine though, if netbooks weren't pricier than cheap laptops.

A tablet isn't what I am after either though

So the original market for these is kind of gone, because the companies went the windows route and no longer do them

Another cry for help for the CHEAP bit

£450 is more expensive than laptops, hell I can get a second hand BluRay playing Sony Vaio for that , my gaming laptop I use for LoTRO I picked up for that.

I have a Asus EEE701 and my only regret is that I didn't hang off for a 901 before Microsoft screwed the market. I could live happily with the EEE if the screen used the entire lip space as my eyes have deteriorated due to Age.

The prices of Netbooks are getting silly

Something Lewis said this morning

I hadn't known that Lewis was a mouthpiece for the military business, his presence on El Reg had persuaded me that he might have journalistic leanings, but he was saying that putting off giving the Navy more money for Trident was a bad idea because Military inflation rises faster than normal inflation.

The fact he presented that as fact, and did not question it, suggests he is fully house-trained

The answer is simple

Cameron etc owe Murdoch a favour, Murdoch wants the Beeb knee-capped, this is the way to do it, cut their funding, they can't compete with him.

Uller Uprising is a great book

H Beam Piper does the Indian Mutiny with silicon based lifeforms

Excellent

Auction of the First Post

So you pay for First post using the electronic payment method of choise,and your post stands as first until another gazumps you!

WHY IS THIS EVEN NEWS!

Every time Microsoft does this. "In case you are thinking of going to a competitor, stay with us, the next release will be mind-blowing" and often it is delayed and drops features very quickly.

mind you, the only target I can see of who gets hurt by this is Win7, I think, so far, those who are tempted by Apples or Penguins won't be swayed any less that they would be if they have decided not to go to Win7.

Biased Media?

AC above, it is 'woken up', not 'waked up', so much for education

Since Fox claims to be the most popular news channel, and Murdoch and other right wingersown much of the US Newspaper industry, I would suggest that the bias is on the right.

Moreover Fox classifies most of its output as 'entertainment' and went to court to ensure that what ever it said there did not have to be true, Eg theyhave shown footageof well attended rallys when reporting poorly attended ones.

Bill O'Reilly commited Fox on air, with Sarah Palin, as her spin and rapid rebuttal team

Mr. Jackson, sorry Sir Peter, has done more than the trilogy

He has not only made other films, he has created jobs, an industry, the biggest server farm in the Southern Hemisphere and other film makers in NZ have been given a start because of him and his colleagues.

The Trilogy also aided NZ income through tourism

That is why he got the gong.

Win 7 meh

I had a machine with Vista Ultimate on iot, never saw any reason that the extra was charged for, and as I got that machine free from MS (not that the WiFi worked from install, when it did on a Live Ubuntu CD).

Din't like it.

New games machine came with Vista Home Premium, with service pack ok enough, but nothing fantastic.

I put Win 7 onto it at the weekend, still not impressed. When the trade press rave about the semi-hidden show desktp button, you know they are finding it hard to justify.

In many ways my Xubuntu Asus 701 is a nicer machine to use, my Rock Pegasus with Xubuntu is a joy from the software side, responsive as anything.

I'll dual boot my Win 7 machine but, if games like LoTRO and Company of Heroes were in Linux form, I'd dump Windows in a heartbeat

I want my SCC back!!

I got a Asus EEE 701 Christmas 2007, and I love th elittle bugger to bits. It's had 1GB memory for ages and I have Xubuntu on it's wee 4GB drive with a 16GB HOME drive in the SD slot.

It does pretty much what I want it to do. I admit a screen that took up all the available space in the lid, for things like using Eclipse for coding, would be nice, but I can plug it into larger monitors at work and home, meaning it pretty much does what I want.

Since Microsoft did its number on it, the CHeap idea seems to have been lost, as pretty much the Small. For the price and weight my wife's three year old Acer laptop is almost as light, just as powerful, and to be brutally honest more comfortable to use.

£500+ netbooks? Dearie me

Or buy a 505

Now is a good time to buy a 505, I got mine for cheaper than the 300 from Play.com

I'd used my Palm IIIxe, my Sony Clié and my Android phone as book readers over the years, I am now hooked on the 505

No problems here ecktually

Running a Rock laptop with dual core and an Nvidia card

Went from 9.04 to 9.10. Now I also know that .10 Ubuntu releases are kind of "inbetween stable" releases so I was aware that they are often a bit more problematic than the .04 releases

But no. Everything worked.

I THOUGHT I had it slightly screwed, but that was my fault changing a config on the boot resolution and I revered that and everything is tickety-boo.

I've tried Windows 7, it's meh

MarkOne, do you know what a non-sequitur is?

Getting less IE (or Opera) patches is not a sign of fewer faults. The bonus of an Firefox is that where faults are found with code, then the fix arrives quicker and you get information about it.

How hard is it to understand why Microsoft is different?

Microsoft is a convicted abuser of power.

They have used their power to trample competition.

THAT IS WHY the rules are different for them, not envy or jealousy but because Microsoft have been taken to court and found guiloty of abuse of power

Apparently the Win7 Master brain is a Brit

Just seen the advert, apparently the brain behind Win7 was a British girl in a taxi.

So at least if we need support it's local.

And the Vista machine just says it wants an update.

<paranoid>Is this a update to break Vista and get us onto Win7</paranoid>

IBm was sued for putting IBM code in Linux

Just to put this straight

IBM was sued for putting code IBM wrote for its implementation of UNIX into Linux, not any other UNIX code anyone else wrote in.

Think about that for a second

As it turns out even that was bogus. as the code came from OS/2

Ina sane world this would have been shut down years ago.

William Wallace was from Elderslie, not Lanark

And you wouldn't tell someone from Elderslie they were from Lanark.

And as a Glaswegian who was born with the cartilage in my nose buckled so I can't breath through my nose, what is with this hate of folk breathing through their mouth?

Please God don't be as bad as the Simpsons

I don't know if folks here saw the Ricky Gervais penned Sky HD launch episode, truly cringeworthy.

I fear this will be really, really bad.

To all the over-sensitive types at the top

As I read it, NO2ID wasn't saying the complainant worked on the IDDatabase and should shove off.

The Complainant brought up the topic of working on the Database

NO2ID's point was that the Poster depicts someone who works on the creation/maintenance of the database and therefor has privileged access, not a bog standard user fo the system, so that the complaint that it was unrealistic wasn't the case.

Doesn't anyone read anymore?

I don't think i've seen/heard "Bass" used in 30 years

The classic era, at least in Glasgow, for that was in gang graffitti of the 70s (I didn't learn to read until 4 in 69, so it may be older)

And then it was "Bass", not "Bas" as in "Tongs, ya Bass!".

My guess is this is really a truncation error rather than a shortening, but still, f***ing stupid

AC - GB

Great Britian is not an expression of hyperbole but of geography, and a bit of history, this is the big bit of land occupied by the Britons as opposed to the smaller bit of land, these days called Brittany

In French it is more obvious, Grande Bretagne versus Bretagne

I love the look of this bit of kit mind, loved my Psions 3a,3c and 5.

I have a Asus EEE 701 and a Android G1, bu tthis has more of a "ahh, bless" about it

i4i gave OpenOffice the all clear

Because OpenOffice doesn't use CustomXML, so dragging in OOO is wrong

ah the Yank loons

Hitler the Socialist. Nope. In fact the Nazis used the word Socialist in their name to confuse real Socialists. Nazi Germany gave a lot of power to Private Enterprise and had fruitful relations with Americans inc GW's grandfather.

Stalin was a totalitarian monster whose Soviet state had fuck all to do with Socualism, not much to do with Marxism either to be honest

I Thought the 10" Dell couldn't be hackintoshed

Somethng todo with having an incompatible Graphics chip

Might have something like X-Pup or another OSX faking skin on Linux

Didn't Win7 skip a testing cycle?

I am sure I remember that they skipped a Beta test cycle because they were so encouraged by the results back.

Maybe not such a good idea in hindsight

well, so far Google hasn't spammed me

And I am 7 months into my Google Phone contract

So far at least, no evil

I think they have hurt themselves

If they have given the twitterrer no change to make redress then they might hurt the case befor eit starts.

STARTING the case also hurts them

Eejits

Microsoft is playing Dog in the manger

Firstly let me say I've used Win7 on a fresh install on a laptop and as a Visrtual Machine on a Linux laptop.

It's OK. THat's about it really. It does what it does.

However it doesn't give me anything that I want over Linux, particularly with an Xfce window. That machine is a nice responsive machine for my daily tasks of email, web, documents, bit of coding, media playing (music, video, dvd).;

It doesn't really add much to the XP machine sitting in the corner. It is marginally more "sleek" but so is KDE4.2 and I don't use that either.

I've yet to see the big sell on this. So far it seems to be "It's like Vista but less sucky" which is not really an argument

See proof that Linux isn't ready for the desktop

It doesn't have this vital functionality.

I've been paid for reviews and articles

In print and on the web.

So, Ted, as a colleague of sorts, grow a pair.

Mocking is too facile. You come up with something considered, balanced and, you never know, constrctive and I might take you seriously.

As it is you lack a Beavis to your Butthead.

Command Line in windows

It exists

To admin my windows box it is required

But in Unix and Linux the command line is much more useful than Windows. Windows is pathetic in that respect, as in many others

Of course Ted uses IE

He also slags off Linux in a not very coherent or useful way

With slagging off Google he probably gets a two for one deal

@Rob D - Don't use Windows much do you?

Or Linux

Unless you are stepping out of the mainstream with components Linux works and works nicely. This is an Acer Aspier 5930G lappy, Puppy Linux and Ubuntu in various forms have been used on this, wirelessly connected and done all sorts of computery things. No hassle, no config hell.

As a support guy with a few Windows machines under my control, I am no stranger to the command line and the hell of the registry. I can only assume you don't do much with your set-up

AC re paying back

Give us the il billions that subsidised the major public works in the south of Engand for the last 30 years and sure we'll give you the money back

Linux does just work

As I have said here before a Dell 820 supplied to me by Microsoft didn't "just work", the wireless didn't register. A live Disk of Ubuntu proved the wireless was OK and so was a Windows driver issue.

My Rock Pegasus 665 runs Ubuntu 8.10 not only does everything just work the system software helped me analyse concerns I was having with the hardware, something the Windows supplied software could not. Oh, and the wireless works and an update of Totem and install of libdvdcss was a quick and easy way to play DVDs.

A friends Acer Aspire 5935, labouring a wee bit under Vista, became much more responsive with a LIVE CD (not an install) a LiveCD of Ubuntu 8.10, and yes, that included the wireless.

I still use Windows for games (until I get into Wine next month), but I am fairly happy with Linux for everyday life.