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* Posts by Paul Livingstone

8 posts • joined Friday 6th June 2008 10:42 GMT

Paul Livingstone

Encryption  

In Virgin Media battles privacy campaigners on P2P monitoring

How does this play out if your client only accepts encypted bitorrent connections? And what about magnet links? Does that approach make fileshare monitoring harder for them to track?

Paul Livingstone

just stop it...  

In Windows 7 still baking in oven, insists Microsoft

FAIL

...honestly, enough with the cooking metaphors.

Paul Livingstone

Cheap Ethernet NAS  

In Apple Time Capsule

Can anyone actually recommend a good, energy efficient and well priced Ethernet NAS device if the Time Machine is 'too expensive'?

Paul Livingstone

Rubbish...  

In iPhone SMS error bug won't go away

@Mark and @G Plumb: I've owned a LOT of mobile phones and while the iPhone may have the occasional short-coming, it's still EASILY the greatest piece of mobile technology I've ever had.

Paul Livingstone

Isn't this about copper?  

In US nuke boffins: Multicore CPU gains stop at eight

So the processor can't get data quick enough from the RAM or Network... doesn't that mean the problem lies in the connection between ie. the copper wiring?

Surely someone is working on a fiber optic solution to seriously ramp up the data delivery from RAM to processor?

Paul Livingstone

Why GPS?  

In World+Dog predicts new iPods, Macs imminent

Thumb Down

What's the point in the iPod Touch having GPS if it doesn't have consistent access to the web (3G/EDGE) to pull down Google map tiles?

Sure, there's always wireless, but most wireless web connections I've used (via iPhone) are only available either inside or 2-3 feet from buildings... where you can't get a bloody GPS signal anyway!

Paul Livingstone

Alternatively...  

In BT seals free Digital Vault

Coat

Why pay BT when you can just run a cron job of rsync, gzip and mcrypt over ssh to an off-site server. Duh!

Seriously though, poor show BT.

Paul Livingstone

Shocker...  

In Microsoft proposes gadget feature disabling tech

Gates Horns

Only Microsoft would consider developing such a heinous system.