* Posts by Piers Meynell

6 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Dec 2007

Unencrypted traveler data laptop disappears then reappears

Piers Meynell

"It was not in an obvious location."

Not that they're not grossly incompetent for having such sensitive information stored unencrypted or whether it simply has been returned after syphoning off the info etc, but apparently the laptop has turned up in their office:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/05/financial/f102608D05.DTL&tsp=1

Microsoft says ‘hasta la vista XP’ - well, kinda

Piers Meynell
Gates Horns

Vista a new WinME?

Anyone with any experience of Windows Server 2008? (driver support etc?) Is it going to be the new PC powergamer platform?

It runs DirectX 10 (the Vista carrot-stick) and without the Vista cruft (and unnecessary services have been disabled) apparently performs around 15% better too. Have MS created a new WinME-Windows2000 split, where those whom are most likely to upgrade (chasing the latest game features/performance) are going to avoid the OS MS has invested so much attention in and skip it in favour of what feels more like the successor to XP?

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face

Piers Meynell
Thumb Up

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Mozilla achieves the record for the world's largest DDOS. \o/

Firefox record breaker sets the date

Piers Meynell
Go

RE: All I want out of FF3...

At the moment I dual boot between Windows and Ubuntu, in addition to the operating system partitions Ive got a small fat32 one where I moved my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles. Both OS' installs look to the profile on the shared partition for the bookmarks, cache, mail etc, that way I can access them whatever I boot in. It didnt require any plugins, just the use of the profile manager (e.g. firefox.exe -P) to tell the app where to look.

Beyond the need for a small home server/always on PC, is there anything stopping you doing the same, but using a network share instead of a partition?

Though its orientated for sharing a partition for dual booting, there's an guide here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=203524

If you specifically just want to be able to sync profiles without messing about with network drives, this might be worth a look: http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/sync-your-firefox-extensions-and-profiles-across-computers-272113.php

Unpatched RealPlayer bug paves way for drive-by downloads

Piers Meynell

@Finnbar

"People really use it?"

You do if you want to watch/listen to BBC stuff online (Listen Again stuff specifically). Rather than cutting back on a few programs, couldn't the BBC drop them and use something free like Ogg instead, rather than expect every licence fee payer to subsidise Real? Isnt the BBC capable of flexing its arm a little to get contracts with production companies into line? If its critical that online content not be "of broadcast quality", cant you just degrade it as you encode it into Ogg?

Facebook accuses MP of impersonating MP

Piers Meynell
Linux

FossFag:

I'd imagine its a derogatory term for the Free and Open Source Software community.