Posts by McToo

Re: Office on Linux...

I discovered (accidentally mind) that Office 365 runs quite happily on 'buntu Focal in Chrome. The only downside is not being able to open spreadsheets >15MB (WTF?).

I know I'm edge case as most of my development work is embedded or cloud, but that was "tipping point" for me. The only reason my laptop had Windows on it was for the rare times I had to use Office and for playing games. The only game I play regularly (X4) also has a penguin port, which is running rather nicely too, so the 2 M2 SSDs with Windows were ripped out (they were sh** anyway, thanks Dell) and replaced with some nice Sammy EVO970s. Problems? Yeah, no drivers as yet for Intel RST means I can't put them into RAID0, but I just put / on one and /var on the other and SSHD is /home.

I'm very happy with it.

Now that was...

Brilliant!! The tears of laughter are streaming down my face!

Re: Do they mix?

@Bill the Sys Admin 14:50

I guarantee you've never listened to a (genuine) MoS CD then.

Although like others I fail to see a legal infringement here. Playlist without the mix is *not* a MoS product, so what if someone decides to call their playlist MoS Ibiza Chillout? It's gonna sound cr** compared to the real deal and I doubt Spotify has access to some of the mixes that MoS have.

Good publicity for MoS in their 22nd birthday year though....

Yay!

Thanks for the info on that. Made my Friday lunch hour finding out Chris Roberts is making a space game again!

Sad day for me

Been with Be for years, rarely had problems. The Bulgarian(?) helpdesk was a joy, you always got through to someone who knew what they were talking about and any problems were sorted out quickly. Since the demise of Nildram that really only leaves Zen and Andrews & Arnold as ISPs with a decent tech support line. Not even sure if A&A are still going. As I'm fed directly from the exchange, I'm not gonna get fibre any time soon, and although I've got Virgin TV, friends have had nothing but trouble with their Virgin Internet, and that's before we start talking about their DPI, so they're out. BT have managed to grab the 'holy pi** pot' of bad customer service with their Indian call centres so won't go near them. Like Norphy above, I wouldn't urinate on Murdoch or his minions even if they were ablaze, so I'll have to move before the Dirty Digger gets his hands on any of my readies.

Bye bye BeThere, thanks for the years of great service, you will be missed.

Re: @AC 16:28 (prob RICHTO posting Anon) @RICHTO

The usual M.O. is to make a snide comment about one of MS's competitors, followed by a load of B.S. telling us how good MS products are. Even more pathetic IMHO.

@AC 12:50

"Filtering".... see Highway code rule 88... it answers all your questions.

Re: @AC

"Nvidia DO provide GPU support on Linux" is true. The rest of your statement, sir, is complete bollocks.

Chav != Council Housed and Violent

Travellers call their children chavvys, and did so long before 'chav' became an insult. I think you'll find that's where the word originated.

Options trading 101

You forgot to put "Master, I have a cunning plan..." before you posted.

If you sold 1 AAPL 430 call on Friday at the bid, you'd have made the princely some of $3.30. Selling 1 AAPL 340 put on Friday at the bid would have made you the princely sum of $4.85 for a grand total of $8.15. This may just about cover your trading costs, unless your Apple reselling business doubles up as an Advanced Market Making business.

You have sold these options naked, presuming that nothing will happen between now and the 21st October close to push Apple stock above 430, in which case you are then obliged to buy the options contract amount (usually 100 shares) of Apple stock at the market ask and sell them to the buyer of your call for $430. If the stock sinks below 340, you are then obliged to buy 100 shares at the market ask and sell them to the buyer of your put at $340.

Fortunately for you, no-one would have bought your options as they are way over-priced! :-)

Price source http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL

Alternatively....

You could just buy a some 350 put options....

You're wrong....

BBC IPlayer is available on the PS3.

Yep!

When it's made into tea or cakes (hmmmm.... nom nom nom). Smoke it and you get the same detrimental effects as smoking tobacco, unsurprisingly. Or are you referring to 'mental health' issues reported by the Daily Fail et al? The same guardians of our health and morals that reported the deaths of those teenagers up north as being because of M-Kat and the post mortems showed no mephodrone in their bodies? But hey, why let facts get in the way of a good knee jerk?

You do realise

That this is a techie site, aimed at techies. Most techies like taking things apart 'just to see how they work', including the spawns of Jobs. If you're too stupid or your head is too far inserted rectally to understand this then may I point you in the direction of some 'marketing' or other 'creative' type sites where you can all gush together at how 'beautifully crafted' and how 'pretty' your latest bits of tech kit look.

But....

I think you'll find Labour have *never* listened to anyone, that's the whole point of being a Marxist/Trotskyist/Stalinist dictatorship - the ruling elite know best, and the proles? Well, they can all just FOAD. Gordie & co were hoping for some kind of 'national emergency' whereby they could just do away with general elections and stay in power forever.

Seconded!

That is all

Linking to the Grauniad for climate change 'facts'???

That would be like going to Wikipedia to find facts on Jimbo Wales. Now seriously, just FOAD!

I'd go along with that....

(steak trough the heart would be my suggestion) - a very fine dish indeed!

Seconded!

That is all.

I think I'll find...

You're right... Geddy & co nicked it and changed Subway to Studio.... but the picture point still holds true.

Well, septic tank...

your grammar marks you down as such, and as such your views and comments are null and void. Please go back to reading the National Enquirer and sucking GB's end.