Posted in It's time to end the Windows Wait
Optional
If you are still using the OS that requires a reboot virtually every time the mouse is moved then this might be an issue.
For the rest of us it isn't.
Posts by slack
63 posts • joined Wednesday 9th July 2008 10:59 GMT
Cry me a river
"These devices have moved from having a rudimentary phone system to being a full-fledged computer, with a sophisticated, modern operating system"
If that is true then they have done it despite MS, not because of anything MS has managed to botch together and foist off onto the gullible..
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Came to make some comments but it seems they have all been covered, but anyway..
I respect Mr Stallman for his amazing contributions but he seems to be tilting at windmills nowadays.
I like my iMac very much, I like it more when I'm using it to virtualise Slackware or run GIMP and various other things on what has proven (for me) to be a flexible and pleasing platform.
Stallman should lay off Jobs since Jobs is now dead and focus on things that matter.
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One gets the impression that Ballmer is living on borrowed time. MS and the world will be better off once that incompetent creep gets his marching orders.
Posted in Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part One
Underwhelming
Despite all the hype I haven't seen a convincing reason to ditch Snow Leopard yet. My iMac and MacBook (both core 2 due, 2GB) both perform fine and I have no use for the App Store stuff as far as I can tell.
Looks like I'll sit this one out for now.
I need a job
I know sweet f*ck all about computer security but I'll work for beer. I think I will send my CV to Sony.
title
I am not seeing any compelling reasons to upgrade from SL yet. Quite the reverse actually if they are going to try and make OSX act like iOS
Posted in Ace Reg reporter in career suicide shock
Congrats
Hope the new gig works out well for you.
One of these days
I'll get around to setting up a facebook account.
I am sure it must be great..
Hunh?
Why not release the plans in an open format?
Posted in PARIS joins the 17-mile-high club
The right stuff
Heartiest congratulations to all involved in this super project.
Posted in Margaret Thatcher celebrates 85 years
Fun!
Rescue the miners and then chuck that hideous, disgusting, hateful old hag down the hole and bung it up with her nauseating offspring.
Major would make a fitting plug if they could use Tebbit to ram him down.
Posted in How do you copy 60m files?
LOL
"Richcopy can handle large quantities of files, but can multi-thread the copy, and so is several hours faster than using a Linux server as an intermediary"
Richcopy is not so fast that there is time to defragment an NTFS partition with 60 million files on it before CP would have finished."
Wut?
AC said
"Is this a credible, unbiased source of information and analysis or an untrustworthy font of sky fairy propaganda?"
Despite its name the CSM is not a bad read most of the time and has won a bunch of Pulitzers over the years.
Title
"Accordingly, the alleged injury, destruction of the earth, is in no way attributable to the U.S. government’s failure to draft an environmental impact statement."
Ok, I laughed, whoever wrote that has a wicked sense of humour.
Posted in Wikileaks US Army mole Manning charged
Well, I'm shocked!
"The Pentagon subsequently concluded that the helicopter crews had acted within their rules of engagement"
cognitive toxins
would be a great band name
Awesome
"Steve Ballmer is taking control of E&D."
This should be good for a laugh!
Check coolpreviews
The add-on devs have already admitted that the issue was because of a problem with their code, not Google.
nifty
A pretty savvy move by Lufthansa to try to piggyback on the inevitable media whirlwind that will accompany the launch of the 4g.
A title is required
Her contributions to the cinematic oeuvre are often overlooked. Time will show what a great, underrated, performer of the fine art she is.
I will always love her.
LEAVE PARIS ALONE! *tears*
Posted in Ballmer readies slate PC for CES
well
This should be good for a laugh.
It's always funny when MS release something they tout as "new"; if it isn't a mouse then it's guaranteed to be crap, especially if that idiot Ballmer had anything to do with it.
Posted in Magic Mice cast energy-sapping spell
Told to take batteries out
The solution I was given was to take the batteries out of the keyboard when not using it. FFS!
I can't be bothered doing that, I have found that switching the mouse off when not using helps a bit, ie I get about a week out of the batteries instead of a day or two. Apple had better pull their finger out and fix this.
a good read
Thanks for that round-up, it was rather interesting.
No thanks
I installed 9.10 on 3 identical desktops (2 Ubuntu and 1 Kubuntu) to see what it was like nowadays. It was a nice easy install but one of them flatly refuses to find its nic, the other two do fine.
I cannot get a Brother multifunction printer to scan despite hours and hours of reading. There are a lot of people with the same problem apparently. I had the same problem with Slackware 12.2 but a quick edit of a Udev rule fixed it, no such luck with Ubuntu. I put Slackware 13 onto the one that can't find its nic and it works perfectly.
The Ubuntu ones look good (17" LCD monitors) but the Kubuntu one has tiny, ugly fonts, especially in the terminal. The KDE GUI controls seem to be a bit spotty at times. Overall I think that I will be putting Slackware back on to the 2 remaining boxes as I find it a lot easier to manage than (K)Ubuntu, but that is probably only because I have a lot more experience with Slackware than anything else.
Oh dear..
"Cliff Evans, head of security and privacy at Microsoft"
The only job in the world worse than being manager of the English football team.
/Paris because I lurve her
hmm..
MS sells an OS that should be used for nothing more than turning a computer into a nice typewriter.
/Paris beacause I loooove her
Posted in Apple Magic Mouse
Mighty mouse
Looks good and has to be an improvement on the mighty mouse, the tiny trackball is infuriating to clean all the time on both the wired and wireless models.
help
Look like good upgrades from Apple in general.
I am certainly going to get at least one of the mouses and with my extraordinary powers of self-restraint I will probably walk out of the store with a 27" iMac and new 15" MBP for the Mrs to assuage my guilt.
I hope 15 inches is enough for her.
/damn you Steve
Twat
Presumably he'd also like everybody to run the same operating system, the one he's made so much money from selling his crappy software.
Read the host notes!
Just for fun I downloaded them, they contain gems like this on page 5:
"What do I do at the party?
Introduce • We’ll be making the computer uniquely our own by changing the desktop background.
Demonstrate
• Use Windows Search from the Start menu for any of the following: background, desktop, wallpaper, appearance or slideshow. Click on change desktop background.
• Choose photo(s) for desktop slideshow (pictures library > scroll to the folder > clear all > select photos).
• Change the picture position to fit. • Have picture change every 10 seconds. • Save changes.
TIP: Other customization features can be found here, too.
Guests’ hands-on exercise • Guests create a new desktop using the photos in “Party” folder in Windows Live Photo Gallery. • Who goes first?"
Are they joking? That certainly isn't my idea of a 'party' activity.
They cannot be serious with all this rubbish, I think abigsmurf got it right above.
Posted in EMC co-founder kills himself
Condolences
He sounds like a hell of a character. Condolences to Mrs. Egan.
Agree with AC
"It's a shame because IMO had TSG stuck to the facts at hand, their exposé would likely have been shorter, easier to read, and more authoritative."
Very true, that could have been a very interesting piece of investigative journalism but it looks like they tried to jazz it up with the hyperbole and opinion.
Still, well played to TSG for finding this tit.
Wow!
Once again Ballmer opens his gob and shows what an idiot he is
lol
The only time MS doesn't raise prices on a product is when they know it is not competitive.
@Phil Koenig
Quote: "Just last week as I was in the middle of installing updates on a laptop for a staff-member, I needed to look up something online, and stupidly (because I was in a hurry and didn't want to go to a different machine) did it with the old version of FF on there. So - did a quick Google search, clicked a couple of links, BLAMMO - machine got hit with a drive-by iFrame exploit, followed by download of a malicious PDF file (exploiting older version of Adobe Reader), and a trojan."
Let's see: a) you used an old version of FF, b) you clicked on a malicious link, and c) you hadn't updated Reader, is that right? What OS was this on and what anti-malware was installed?
1) How would this have been different if you'd used IE?
2) Please tell us that you don't hold a position of authority in your IT dept.
@Max Watson
"Windows PCs should be able to perform a System Restore via booting from a Windows install CD."
Whilst that may be true can you imagine the hassle and expense that will cause an organisation like the one above with 8,000 affected machines going into a holiday weekend (in the USA)?
Heads should roll at McAfee over this cock-up.
/Gates, coz it's all his fault really
NIce going RIAA
They are a dinosaur.
As said above the artists they claim to represent will see nothing from any of these fines.
Direct to consumer or iTunes et al are the future, they know it and are desperately trying to feather their nests before the inevitable happens.
Posted in EC rejects Microsoft's browser promises
Huh?
My company has been Microsoft free for a couple of years, I reject their business practices as much as the next guy but I can't see the point in forcing them to offer browser options.
If they want to bundle (and waste money developing) IE let them have at it. It was a shiatty browser last time I looked, I don't presume it has improved since then.
Posted in Apple takes Snow Leopard for walk
29 bucks?
If they follow through on that price it will be hilarious.
Just as Windows users are being asked to fork over yet more big money to replace Vista with WIn 7 which will probably have about 6 different versions Apple blasts Microsoft with a one-size-for-all upgrade at 29 dollars. Hilarious and brilliant marketing.
You will be able to upgrade something like 4 Macs for the price of a single WIn 7 Home Basic(ally useless) license. Ballmer must be fuming.
Nice!
Great article; a very interesting and amusing diversion. Thank you.
/Paris. Because.
Posted in Microsoft guns down 13 unlucky products
IE?
So they are killing products that they sell, for money, and yet still spend money developing useless crap like IE?
Ballmer is going to run MS into the ground.
/Paris, because she is a lot savvier than Stevie.
Posted in Wolfram Alpha - a new kind of Fail
Wolfram Alpha rocks
Oh c,mon Ted! How many other tools can tell you the calorie content of a cubic light year of ice cream? You can even filter by flavour!
http://www50.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+calories+in+a+cubic+light+year+of+ice+cream
(the answer is 1.36x10^54 btw, or 67 901 185 568 580 310 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000.0 % recommended daily amount. You are welcome)
/Paris, because shaddup
Funny
Sometimes the /b/tards do something amusing, this is one of those times. Congrats moot, enjoy the victory.
At AC in the first post
I suppose technically you could say it is not a flaw in Windows but in the application but since Microsoft produces both and the Office:Mac versions are not affected it is entirely reasonable to hold MS responsible for yet another flaw in their ridiculously flawed operating system.
It is high time that MS were held to account for all the hours of productivity lost to people who are using their products and yet are still at risk of having all their personal info stolen through shoddy and lackadaisical practices from MS. If GM or Ford are responsible when they sell cars with exploding fuel tanks then why is MS not responsible for their crappy products?
Posted in BBC fined £150k over Manuelgate
Yeah, time to defund the Beeb
Yet another example of why the UK licensing system to fund the beeb is pathetic.
Let the government fund it from regular tax revenues if they want, perhaps a fraction of defense expenditure could be redirected, or else spin it off and let it sell advertising. Either way I don't care because I left the UK 20 years ago, but crap like this is just stupid.
As long as the Beeb has to suck on a government titty for its funding it will always be beholden to government interests unfortunately.
/Paris, because shut up.
Posted in Next-gen iPhone to sport 3.2Mp camera?
Came to make a lens comment..
.. nice to see you guys have it covered.
/Paris coz I love her with all my heart and soul. Also because of the reasons that Steve Ives mentioned
Posted in Pandemonium at NYC 'Top Model' audition
Publicity stunt
That is all.
/Paris because I love her with every fiber of my soul.
//And I'd give her one too
this is great
I'll be able to sell my aging 13.3" MacBook as a trendy new netbook soon if they keep on growing at this rate, along with my 1.6 Ghz Thinkpad which currently runs Slackware quite happily. I'll call that the Mega-Netbook :)
Dang, as I think about it I have decided to make a business out of repackaging bulbous old notebooks as cheapo netbooks with larger screens, I'm gonna be rich you losers - see you in Monte Carlo!
Oooh, did I say that out loud?
/Paris, because she'll be hanging off my arm really soon
//and I'd give my left nut to do the wild monkey dance with her
Posted in Behind IE 8's big incompatibility list
WTF
Why can't these bozos manage to produce a decent browser?
IE is a pox on the web and all those who use it. If ever there a piece of software that need to die it is IE. (And Lotus farking Notes TBH)
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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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