Ze doktor
I didn't think much of Matt at first, but he has found his character now and I like him equal to Tennant. Yer was is well fit, so it will be a pity to see her go, not a huge fan of the new one from Emmerdale but lets not pre-judge her eh?
Posts by FreeTard
202 posts • joined Tuesday 1st July 2008 12:01 GMT
That's the only time I have ever laughed at a "joke alert" icon'd post.
Well done mate.
Posted in IT urine bandit fired and charged
Re: £700 for a decent chair
Rubbish mate. I'm 41 and my arse is the same as when I was 20 - just fatter obviously.
I sit in all sorts of chairs while at work. It is your posture that counts, not the chair.
Yes its nice to have a megachair, but it won't help your aching back if you don't sit correctly.
Posted in UK government says no to turbo e-bike
too slow
I regularly clock cyclists while on my motorbike and even old and slow women cyclists easily do 30mph. This rule makes no sense.
50kph is the norm - 31mph.
Posted in Ten... new games you may have missed
Re: consol fanboys
I'd have thought most people play games on consoles and use PC's for productivity.
I find it quite surprising that anyone would bother with PC games.
And no, I don't read the reg or any other site on my PS3.
So what's wrong with advertising/reviewing console games on El-Reg? I welcome it.
Posted in Yelp boosts Bono's Elevation
Re: Who?
...not a bad business man apparently. How many of us can say we made hundreds of millions in a depression?
Credit where it is due and all that.
Re: Not surprised but
no script and ghostery in your browser, and always run in a private browsing session. Then run in normal mode and search for something you'd never normally search for. This severely annoys ad bots, but its rather funny seeing the adds that target you afterwards.
Root your droid and use addblock. problem solved. You will also wish to disallow all tracking in your settings. Lets face it, you usually know where you are and where you are going, and you don't really want to be checking into places either with farcebook.
While your on it, install thunderbird for access to your gmail.
lastly, stop surfing for porn.
bollocks
There's no way anyone will do any real work on an ipad. A quick email maybe, but nothing more.
I will never replace my laptop with an ipad. They are nothing more than a gimmick.
My desktop no longer gets powered on mind, but only because my lappy docks into a proper 24inch screen - if I'm doing some coding or other real work.
The lappy has a proper sized screen - 12inch as that makes it actually portable...
Why on earth would I need an ipad when a proper sized lappy does the same job, only better?
p.s.: I don't consider office mission critical since the advent of openoffice/libreoffice and variants.
Posted in Black Ops has best videogame ending ever
There was an ending? A truly fantastic game all the same, but I don't remember an ending to it.
Posted in Black Ops has best videogame ending ever
only 40% completed Assins Creed?
My 12 year old finished AC3 two days after Xmas. The little fecker got up at 2.30am to play it on Boxing day.... sneaked down the stairs and the first we knew of it was seeing his eyes in the morning.
Cheaper than older thinkpads?
A college mate has one of the new thinkpads, I forget the model but it was 300 odd quid which was very cheap I thought.
My X61s originally cost 1000+ but it has larger screen real estate (approx same size physically|) and has more buttons on it than the new X-series. It has also survived many many tumbles... last time was a month ago where it was dropped (by me) down a flight of stairs. I was sure it was fsck'd but no. Still working fine. Will the new thinkpads be equally durable? Time will tell.
Posted in Ten... Freesat TV receivers
Agreed, however the picture quality is vastly superiour to Sky is it not?
I couldn't believe the difference when I unplugged my skybox and plugged in the foxsat in its stead.
Comparing SD to SD as I didn't have a sky HD box.
Posted in Ten... Freesat TV receivers
Agreed on the remote being shite. That is the ONLY annoyance I have with the foxsat.
otherwise it is the best on the market.
I would definiately buy another one, as I've been an owner for what, 2 years almost and zero issues.
snow cone eh
I had to google it, as I genuinely thought it was a reference to "cocaine" of some sort.
Or....
....you just got older and can now afford to buy the music?
In fairness, almost everyone I know has pirated material in some form at some stage of their lives.
Personally I do not, as I like to have CD's in my hand as they look nice and I can afford it -
plus I lost my ipod a long time ago and cannot be arsed getting another.
As for video piracy, the "industry" needs to get with the program and offer decent content for a decent price, then everyone will pay for it. And no poxy DRM either. I will not pay for DRM'd content.
g-spot
It's in the kitchen. Everyone knows that!
mate
The source code is released, so if your so paranoid just go through it yourself and roll your own.
Its not like they only provide compiled binaries without the sauce.
SElinux is a good thing. I use it on every laptop I own. AFAIR it was developed by the NSA in the first place, but every distribution provides it as an option or enabled by default in redhat distros.
I'd love....
....an ARM based laptop with a 12inch display - thinkpad "X-series size" like the one I'm writing on... with >= 4GiB RAM and a fast SSD & wifi.
Oh and cheap of course...
Am I alone?
Phonebook
Sure she could have looked them up in the book?
That still works right?
"...conceding it was carrying out a covert spy operation over Iran. The US has asked for the return of the drone..."
Love that tactic - just like when the Iraq war was being staged, when the "Allies" asked to allow spyplanes fly over Iraq - definitely not finding the tanks, artillery and stuff. :)
ipv6?
Why bother when we have ipv6 right now?
Waste of money if you ask me.... and yes I do have ipv6 at home, and so can anyone else who bothers looking.
I seem to remember a few years back the US banning a game where you played a
terrorist/freedom fighter whereby Palestinians would use everything from stones to ak47's and rocket launchers against the Israelis?
I don't really see how this is any different. Would the Americans arrest sellers of that game I wonder? What was that game called...??? And was it real?
Both are just games anyway so what's the problem. No real people get hurt in either case!
AC - I read in the stars...
...that your a complete twat. A potty mouthed twat at that.
your missing the point
Fedora is a testing platform for redhat. Just as opensuse is for Novell.
Once all is stable and well, it eventually filters down to enterprise linux.
I'm writing this on my SLED 11 laptop, but I also have fedora 15 on another one.
Fedora is much faster by the way, because its more bleeding edge, or maybe redhat distros are just better. Don't know, but I purchased sled11 so I'm sticking with it :)
Choice mate
No one is forcing you to stay with a single UI. I have several installed on various laptops and switch them around every now and then. KDE, LXDE, XFCE and sometimes, but rarely Gnome again.
With windows, your stuck with no choice.
+1 what Torvalds said
Being an upgrade monkey, I installed a F15 on my own laptop when it came out.
I ran with gnome3 for about two months and eventually it just drove me mental, and reverted to LXDE instead.
I ended up installing my purchased SLED11, but it is far, far slower (to boot) and uses more resources, but hey, its better than gnome3 so I'll live with it. The wife still have F14 on hers and is happy with it.
I still prefer
NMI, Dazed and confused.
She has two...
..spots on her forehead. Tut tut. I expect my celebs to be flawless always..
Posted in Red Hat: Where recessions are good news
re: ac
Bollox, I've been working with their support department for over 7 years, and I have never had a bad experience. Your talking utter bollocks.
Posted in Sky wins TV riot battle
+1 on Aljazeera
Aljazeera,they rock. I hate sky with a passion, but good on them for the reporting.
Fantastic news
Now when's the PS3 version coming, as I don't have a MAC or Windows, so no itunes.
I will gladly pay up for this service.
Quite impressed with KVM
Been using esx since 2.5, xenserver since 4.0, and have dabbled in some others.
Recently I upgraded my laptop memory so decided to try out KVM on fedora 15.
The perf of windows 2003 (first VM tested) seems quite good so far.
All that is missing is the high end management tools, but this is just for my laptop testing and not production, so no matter. I'd be quite interested in redhat's VM stack though.
caesar cypher?
I doubt that the anclents used anything more than shift cyphers.
There's the well known Caesar cypher, I don't know of others from ancient times though.
wikipaedo tells me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_cipher
Plausable but irrelevant
"Tiny changes in the earth's cloud cover could account for variations in temperature of several degrees...."
It's not really an argument, because we would still have the major issue of sea water acidification to deal with, and that my friends is caused by carbon emissions.
Posted in Is Anon ready for the social network?
Social networking has had its day
It was fun for a while, but it is totally frivolous and an absurd waste of time.
The worst part is the amount of "protection" provided to children (under 16's) is farcical.
My daughter is 13 and I monitor her usage all the time.
I would blacklist facebook altogether, but the wife would just kill me, as facebook is the internet apparently.
I dislike you emmensely Zuckerburg.
Posted in Sony to can MiniDisc Walkman
One of the customers here
Minidisk walkman purchased many years ago now - but rarely used because mp3's are simply handier than carrying around disks.
minidisk home stereo still used though, but even that gets its music from my mt-daap server.
RIP minidisk, fantastic quality, killed off by low quality MP3s. ah well
And you expect...
.. us to NOT click on the provided link...
http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Chan
Like Dougal and the big red button eh?
p.s.: nice cake.
Cottege cheese superior
I'll have to try it so, coz cottege cheese is the lowest of the low cheese wise, just above easy singles.
Posted in Nintendo: no DVD, BD playback for Wii U
Makes complete sense...
As a PS3 owner who has never put a DVD or Blueray near the box, but does watch movies on sdcards or over the net on it.
Meeja is dead and gone IMO.
Posted in Peugeot 508 Active e-HDI micro-hybrid
Really tempted to buy one
Now another two years of soul searching before I eventually take the plunge.... been looking for 2.5 years already, and our current car is 11 years old...
love the car reviews el reg, keep it up.
Fossil record mate
A creationist friend of mine discounts this by stating that dinos were either planted in the ground by "man" - not mankind mind - "man".
He also doesn't believe in carbon dating... the mind boggles.
The funny thing is, he is an otherwise very intelligent person - an engineer by trade.
He's still wrong of course.
Posted in Anonymous vows to attack Federal Reserve
Liberals eh?
Liberals, commie bastards, hippies, homosexuals, etc., etc.
Seriously mate...
Don't really think this was malicious mate
I think it was more a case of, oh what would this facecack generation of users love to have on their car... etc.
Personally I have neither a mobile phone (LOVE it) nor a car - so no GPS either.
The wife's phone (android) has location services disabled and if it were up to me, social networking would be disabled by dansguardian.... I did this one day and she went nuts. Apparently the internet is facebook these days.
but anyway, back to the car, I don't think it was done maliciously. They want to SELL cars after all.
Posted in Microsoft waves CentOS club at Red Hat
title
Redhat won't add anything non OSS into its product. That's why they won't play interop with MS.
They do support samba for windows servers though.
what about disabled or deleted accounts?
Would the data still be cached somewhere?
Speaking as a deleted facebook user.
I left it due to privacy concerns.
Its not great...
What was that screen showing? media centre I think it was, looks shit if you ask me.
Very primary school.
And no, I'm not a MAC user....
depends on what the os is doing
Coz my lovely new shevaplug runs:
tor, nfs, squid, iptables and dansguardian, yet it performs as well as the 64bit machine it replaced.
I'll add more services when I see fit
Loadavg:
18:07:13 up 1 day, 31 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.21, 0.22
For sure, I wouldn't be number cruching on it, but the point is, not every task NEEDS floating point ops.
I'm not a Brit, but I definitely dig ARM, as battery life is critical for me, not floating point operations!
Genuinely, who does such things on a laptop?
Surely you cannot count google in this..
As the option is there, clear as day in both the initial setup on a few droids I have used, and simples to disable if you decide to opt out afterwards.
This htc desire asks during initial boot up / or launching the settings icon - ocation services, or just re-running setup again.
Users tend to struggle to find likewise in windows phones, but I've not checked for ios recently.
Yes clueless users enable these things deliberately, so maybe a point there.
However even a clueless user is given the option...
Posted in Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen dies at 63
Damn it
My son got me into watching the Sarah Jane adventures on CBBC, and I must say I loved it.
The kid is 11 and I'm 40... yet the wife caught me watching the show many times without the kids!
RIP SJS, you were class.
Or install LXDE
Uses less resources than XFCE, but you'll need gnome-power-manager or the XCFE one on a laptop, as it doesn't power save otherwise. Otherwise perfect. Using it right now...
Though I'll upgrade to fedora15 when its released
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My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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