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* Posts by Will

57 posts • joined Tuesday 18th April 2006 10:14 GMT

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No DLNA..

Bit pointless

Will

How many others read GigaWatts and immediately thought of Back to the Future?!

The Doc would've sorted it by now!

Will

Here is the link if you want it

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejidjjhkpiempkbhmpbfngldlkglhimk

cheers

Will
Unhappy

Samsung are starting to piss me off

They announced the 8.9 months ago and still dont have a release date.

For all the pain that comes along with the apple product launches at least when the launch they actually launch the thing.. to * gasp* sell

Dear Samsung, please remove thumb from arse and start selling some stuff..

Will
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At last

The tablet I've been waiting for, hopefully will be the missing link from the weighty ipad to the short on features (admittedly by design) kindle

Will
FAIL

Erm but it states its not made by Anonymous

On their page

"this idea is a presstorm idea and only takes the name anon because of the Anonymity of the social network. "

Pretty clear to me

Will
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Please drop the Trick Cyclists bullshit

In one article its mildly clever, but in every single article that refers to psychiatrists it now only ever says 'trick cyclists'.

Drop the bullshit, please

Will

IPv6 is surely better for them

As the last few octets (yes I know this isnt the defact name yet, but you know what I mean) of the IPv6 address is from the MAC address of the device, surely it will make it easier for operators to know what device is where.

Also it'll likely help them link mobile contracts with mobiles, tablet contracts with tablets

Not necessarily great for the users (based on the way we get screwed either way) but from a billing perspective it must better for the ops

Will

Not showing on the Sky EPG yet

Wonder if it needs an update?

Will
Stop

i left mozy because of this exact point

I re-backed up 80GB 3 times with them before I gave up. they claim this doesn't Re upload but it still takes just as long.

move to humyo, uk based, a Tad more expensive, but you can use their tool which does full syncing, and one way syncing (stops this issue) and allows direct access to the data with your own client as well

Will
Troll

Oh will

some people just fuck off

Will
Jobs Horns

Re :/ why apple only?

You're going to see a lot more of this because of toss pot jobbs wanting everything written specifically for the iphone.

If this was written natively for the iphone its an entire rewrite to port to android et al, exactly what bad ol steve wants.

I was interested in going back to an iphone with the 4g (currently on nexus one - which is v good), but with this closed garden/wall/everything approach apple are moving to they are going to be too much of an apple only place.

Will
FAIL

What sort of a twat spends £1,200 in a session of throw the hoop

.. and they were a doctor?

Not much more to say on that!

Will
FAIL

Errrr. theres flash on the site

Check out the route map:

http://www.virginamerica.com/va/travelInfo.do?pageName=routemap&rightBar=routemap_right_bar

Will

Fully agree

I'm fed up with on every machine I use I'm constantly bombarded to update what is only a pdf reader, why does something so mundane have so many holes that it needs almost constant security updates.

I'd love to not have to use it at all

Will
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I'm waiting to press the buy button

I've been waiting for ages for a decent android phone to come along, and my iphone 3g is feeling long in the tooth.

I'm all for google until they truly turn evil, at which point I'll have to do a 'Lily' and cease to be online, cause they will know too much by then!

Will

What a wanky product name

Pretty much sums it up!

Will

Err

Can someone show me where the bra is in that pic, im lost

Will
FAIL

Fail - Look at the site on Chrome - browser is not compatible

Class.!

Will
Joke

What a bell end

or lack of!

Will
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Woflram

Ok I read the story earlier, but bugger me - thats some pretty shit hot stats it can kick out if you feed it the right info

Will
Flame

Where are the RMT?

If this was in blighty that fat wanker Bob Crow would have the tube on strike for a week for the terrible treatment of one of his dahling boys.

Will
Happy

At bloody last...

Finally some more Android handsets coming, will get HTC to up their game

Will
Flame

Fucks sake...

I'm about to leave o2 (and my iphone) because of o2's bloody awful network.

Now another decent handset will get ruined by their god awful 3g network.

Will
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o2 is simply shite

Fed up with visual voicemail just not working, and crap signal.

I've already started the process to cancel.

Will
Joke

@ Eddie Edwards

"Math fail" = English fail, its 'Maths fail'.

None of this US of A spelling on here please!

Will
Unhappy

F*cks sake....

....will people leave broadcasters along, soon we will have to return to re-runs of 70s sit coms because everything else is just 'too' edgy.

Its all bollocks.

Will
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Brilliant stuff

Heartwarmingly lovely!

Will

$80 is piss cheap for a set of in ear dual driver ear phones

Compare them to any other dual driver sets and you will find this is at least half market price

Will
Paris Hilton

Sod wireless, go homeplug

Wireless is cramped, slow and doesnt go through walls terribly well.

Homeplug is the future, simple, scalable and every device (bar laptops/pmp's which will keep wirelesS) needs a plug.

Paris:/ because even she knows wireless is crap!

Will
Gates Horns

Get a Mac Mini

Cheaper (Dell has shite spec) and great interface (front row)

Will

Why wont people give up on wireless - its shite

The amount of bandwidth the public can use is tiny and its stuffed full of stuff - how fast/slow is your wireless network at home?

Homeplug is brilliant and means that all devices plugged into the 240v mains are on the same network, with no interference from neighbours.

As all tv's/dvd's/media centres need to be plugged in its the ideal interface

Im imaging having your ps3 plugged into the wall, then you plug your tv, and both devices show up on your home network - thats how home networking should (and almost does) work

Will
Boffin

Is DARPA actually The Stig?

<random though>

Reason I ask is that every DARPA based story gets a great random babbling intro - exactly like The Stig on top gear!

</random thought>

Will

Uac

Clearly if the user has vista and has uac turned on then it wont get installed anyway because vista is so secure.

Oh, sorry, maybe not!

Will
Jobs Horns

Mines 'in progress'

I was on the site @ 8.20 and had to try 5 times, but managed to get an order confirmation...now heres waiting to see what/if anything arrives on friday!

Will

Trends for Websites...hmm

Interesting they will let you see microsoft, apple et all...but it wont let you look at google.com stats, very interesting!

Will

Erm

Doesnt this look like Phorm would almost be perfect to monitor this type of activity?

Will
Gates Horns

You cant say 'I WAS a Visa user at xx'

I had vista for 3 months, ended up ebaying my PC and now have a Mac, lovely!

No I'm not a fanboi, but it is just better!

Will
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Good luck to them

I spend Easter in New Delhi and from seeing what a lot of people have (some of the worst poverty in the world) good bloody luck to them being able to kick start their economy and join the rest of the 'first' world.

Will
Dead Vulture

The death of the PMP?

Who would ever buy a PMP when you can pick one of these babies up, screen is just as big and you can do a hell of a lot more than just watch movies!

Archos et al are dead!

Will
Boffin

@ John Miles

Yes it is an issue hence on optical networks you will find ILA (In line amplifiers) and ILR (In line regenerators) every 70kms or so. These are swapped dependant on the overall distance covered between the main bits of kit at either end.

The ILA's just bump up the signal and the ILR's reshape the signal from a more wavy curve to be a more square binary light pulse.

Interestingly the speeds keep increasing for the end cards year on year however the ILA's and ILR's keep handling the increased speed as they are relatively non-complicated bits of kit. Remember that those lovely fibres across the pond also need these things, so you will find them under the sea every 70ks or so and they have been doing this for quite a few years.

Will
Coat

@ What *current* do they output

Isnt it more 'Watt' current do they output....coat being put on as we speak!

Interestingly when I was about 14 I made one of these from a disposable camera, just take some handy cable from either side of the capacitor and you've got a lovely stun-gun. If I remember right if the discharge wires were too close together they would also give a nice skin burn as well!

Will

Typ

I think it should be friendly persona, just someone had a few too many shandys before writing the ad!

Will

Want one..now

for my mac mini, that look great!

Will

I believe I can sum up most peoples opinion on this...

....'you fcking what'?!

What docile bunch of thick bastards come up with this crap?

It takes long enough to get through airport checks when simple things like 'shoes' aren't allowed to go unchecked (did you read about the shoe bomber plot, or even seen a photo of that idiot?), how they hell are they going to cope when they have to get a multimeter out to measure how much oomph is in each device?

I'm all for safer skies and don't want to fall foul of some terror plot, or dodgy Sony battery but seriously, we need to weigh up the likelihood of these things actually being an issue.

Will
Boffin

Opera Mini

I can see that this is done by OS, and therefore OS independant browsers are not on the list.

Opera Mini has been around for ages and is used by many, I'm sure it would be way above the iPhone

Will
Boffin

Good idea, but errr

By saying "It also claimed the adaptors would be handy for people setting up a network on shared mains wiring and who want to avoid other folk snooping on their data"

Wouldnt that mean that anyone could buy one of these, plug it into the socket and hit the button and then join the network?! That looks pretty unsecure to me?

Will

Apple didnt respond...

...to the register....now theres a f&cking surprise!

Will

Peering

I love the way ISP's just moan about customers wanting to use their networks to capacity!

How can people moan about the BBC IP services when the BBC has a free and open peering policy? The ISP's don't have to pay a penny for 1Gb/s+ direct peer to the BBC, so what are they moaning about?

The download service behind iplayer is Kontiki which is a p2p system anyway, so once enough people have downloaded the content it will start flowing from other users on the same network.

I could understand the ISP's moaning if the service was hosted in the states and they had to pay for transit to access it, but as its for free their just whining.

Will

Is this not the same as..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/30/council_pc_energy_programme/

Perhaps the council should have spoken to Staffordshire county countil and asked them for some of their own home brew software?

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