Posts by Chezstar

Australia is not Europe!

Had this crop up last night for me down under in Australia, but only on my laptop. I use it all the time there as its much quicker than using the trackpad, I can hit the windows key, type remo and hit enter, and I get remote desktop up. A full mouse makes it a touch quicker, but a couple of key presses still wins out.

I do applaud MS's ability to kill a desktop search from half way round the world though, us Australian's normally feel completely left out, so I feel special that we got included in something!

Dell are truly a mystery

So they make beautiful monitors in the Ultrasharp series, and yet they hobble almost every damn laptop of theirs with 1366x768 screens? And even better, the days of being able to choose components such as 3 or 4 different screen types, etc, all seems to have gone in the idea that everyone is borg, so therefore must ALL want the same options.

Honestly, who is making the decisions at Dell these days?

Where is google in all this?

As the worlds largest search engine, would it not be ever so easy to remove *.apple.com from...well....everywhere?

Have any searches that look for apple, or iphone, or ipod route to a search result listing all the android phone makers.

You could erase the litigious psychopaths from existence, and win teh lolz at the same time!

Sure, you lose some advertising revenue, but come on, don't tell me you wouldn't get some serious backing from it?

Lets reset the reality distortion field, by removing it from sight. Time to do a little stomping back at crapple.

For the record? Had an iphone 3gs, went to a Samsung Galaxy S2, no they aren't the same, they aren't even close. The samsung is LIGHT YEARS ahead of the 3gs, and from what I have seen, the 4 and 4S are no better than my old 3gs was.

That diatribe was great!

I haven't seen such frothing dribble for a long time!

The angry screams of someone making less money than they want, most likely because they write substandard quality apps that no one actually WANTS.

People will pay for quality. The ones who "nicked" it are helping to increase your popularity in a roundabout way, and while a large percentage of those wouldn't have paid for it anyway, the increased popularity of your app will bring others in who WILL buy it, who otherwise wouldn't have (as they wouldn't have heard of it).

Swings and roundabouts, piracy is bad, but piracy is also good in its own little way.

Updates from Acer? Are you high?

"Acer has a decent reputation for rolling out updates, so I suspect Jelly Bean will bounce onto the A510 sooner rather than later, even though nothing has been officially announced at the time of writing."

Citation Needed....Acer are one of the WORST companies to roll out updates! A501 has only just been given ICS, and the one that Acer are rolling out is marked as a release candidate, so they are going to use their customers as cannon fodder for bug reporting. A500 ICS update was rolled out late, and again, caused problems with a significant proportion of users, so Acer had to pull that as well, and re-release much later on.

Not sure where you get your info from, but Acer are hopeless. Will be the last time I get an Acer tablet (Disgruntled A501 owner here).

So don't bank on JB for the A510 any time soon.

Locked Bootloader

To all those saying that the tablets will only be able to run Win8 because of a locked bootloader...please, spare it.

How long do you think it will take for someone to find a way round it, or a way to replace the locked portions?

De-CSS, PS/PS2/PS3 hacking, Xbox hacking, Cyanogenmod, you name it, people will crack/hack/replace it.

Or is the whole world suddenly going to raise their hands as one and shout "Please, leave our win8 tablets alone!"

You missed one point

In the specs list, you forgot to add the point:

* No future support, because its an Acer.

Seriously...check out the abortion that is the A500 and A501 tablet upgrade to ICS to prove the point that Acer will willingly flip out a new tablet, fully under the misguided belief that the user won't ever want to update it to a new android version, and not even offer to open source the drivers etc and let the community do the work.

A500 users had ICS eventually rolled out, which failed on a heap of tablets, so Acer pulled the update.

A501 users? Hah! Its the same as an A501 except it has a 3g modem...but noone would want to run ICS on that! Lets not even bother offering an update!

Wait until Asus, or Sammy release a tegra 3 tablet, and don't waste your time on this waste of a company.

Hey, I would be happy to have 5 keys...Technet Standard got dumped down to 2 keys from 10 keys months ago. This was about the time that they jacked up the price of Technet Pro by 1/3, which unfortunately meant I had to drop down to Technet Standard. 2 keys. Yay. I don't care about losing the enterprise side of things (I don't test for enterprise gear, I'm SMB mainly). But it means that I can't run more than 2 test servers for my clients at a time.

If some of the software I test with wasn't MS only, I would be pushing some more of my clients over to Linux installs. But the software is MS coded, and requires word for letter merging, so I'm screwed there unfortunately.

Email From The Late Jobs

Just change the name of the town.

See? It still works! All hail Jobs!

The only thing the article doesn't state, is that this situation is nothing new to Telstra.

Telstra have ALWAYS been the most expensive option for data (And communications in general). Then they make sure there are areas that they cover that give no one else a look in (See Telstra Velocity), and make sure people are forced to use them at the overpriced rates that they charge.

So its nothing new really, business as normal at T, thankyou for staying on hold, an overseas representative will be with you in a few hours!

Can you see I just had to go through a painful process of activating a Telstra Velocity connection recently? :)

You know those times where you sit down and write big long email or letter to someone, and about 3/4 of the way through, you look at it and go "Why the frap am I even writing this?".

Did the author not do a similar thing? Or was it a slow news day / coming up to payday and someone needs to justify a word count to the beancounters before beer money is shelled out?

Or was this a bit of a BBC article, in it "for teh clickz"?

Missed the point? There wasn't one, aside from another page to add some more advertising viewing. And if the point was that there was no point, then there was no point in pointing out that there was no point, because obviously, there is no point.

We have the potential to go to at least 6 Terabits per second by December next year, about 25 times higher than the original design capability in 2000, and our potential is expected to increase dramatically over the next few years,” Pfeffer said.

This is exactly the argument to shove down the throats of the gimps touting wireless broadband as a valid replacement to FTTH.

The common argument is that fibre has no upgrade potential, and that anything above 100meg is pure fantasy on the part of the current government! (Actual dribble touted by the opposition Liberals (The Dribberals?)).

So the fact that in the space of 11 years, Southern cross have upgraded their speeds by 25 times over the original install puts a nice big hole in that argument.

Caveat: Yes, I know that the southern cross cable is a different type of fibre link to what would be installed in FTTH, but at the end of the day, the concepts being used to upgrade the SC cable would be the same used for upgrading FTTH links, in that the endpoint equipment can be upgraded.

Surely you are!

It could be claimed as a tax deduction, I would have thought it was a valid news service...

Fanboi picture because you might see some...fanbois...on that channel :)

To be expected

They used to sell a great range of tools, components, cables, adapters, and the like, and they did a good job of it.

Now, they sell cheap and and crap, poor quality chinese knock off equipment, and the same generic junk that every other cheap and crap store does. They no longer do components or tooling, which is why Jaycar now does so well.

So where does that leave DSE? The store near me has more staff working at it than it does customers....any wonder why?

No great loss for DSE to close it's doors, it lost its relevancy years ago, and it hasn't been an icon of Australian retail for a decade now. I'm actually suprised it took this long for Woolworths to consider consolidating this into Big W.

I had to laugh...

"The ViewPad is also a nice bit of design, in fact it looks like a big iPhone 4 with it’s squared-off aluminium sides, black back and flush-fitting glass screen."

It's also just like the iPhone in that it won't play flash, or locally hosted files too.

Not happy El Reg....

Didn't get this article until 7 hours ago, thanks for getting my hopes up for a cheap fondleslab.....They sold out 2 days ago.

Where is the priority notice to Registerians shouting for us to snap up a cheap piece of touchie-feely!

Dashed my hopes...Now I have to break it to the missus that she won't be able to get a tablet for web surfing on the couch.

Never mind open firmware...

Netcomm routers can't even be upgraded to working routers...

Netcomm stopped making great hardware post Roadster 56k modems, every product since then has been a slow slide into obscurity and obsolescence.

There is a reason Sensis is in decline

We have yellow pages online and print advertising as part of our business. Also had white pages print and online last financial year.

The invoicing is poor, description of products is abysmal, and you have to badger the rep's to get any information. Not only that, but none of the areas will talk to each other, so you have to do the same thing FOUR times, once for each part of the business.

We dropped our spending with them by over 70% because we couldn't see any return on investment anymore. Which, by consequence, means a fair amount more $$ in the beer kitty!

They are stuck in the stone age of paper based directories, and have only now just woken up to the fact that 90% of Australian's throw said paper directories in the bin, and just Google the information they need, its more up to date, and better content, with a more efficient search.

So support the local economy, stop feeding the dinosaur, and enjoy Frothy Fridays :)

Great idea, but!

So you have a lovely thin(ish) cable going from the screen to the magsafe connector for charging, and the thunderbolt port on the mac.

Eeeexcept, Apple have put those ports on OPPOSITE sides of the laptops.

So you have a lovely thin(ish) cable going from the screen to 3/4 of the way to your laptop, where it splits in two and snakes around the place looking like a leftover pipe cleaner from your BA degree art project (Aren't they the ones who buy Apple gear?) and make your desk look cluttered.

Why didn't they make the magsafe connector and the thunderbolt port right next to each other, and offer a cable with either a single plug that fits both ports, or a cable with only a 2 inch pigtail to fit into both ports!

Apple are great at some things, but it's just that final step that they fail on.

Great docking station, great screen, stupid integration into your other (Apple) peripherals (The Laptop).

How could he...

How would Turnbull – who is both intelligent and thorough – be misled?

He was neither misled, nor is he intelligent.

Statistics will always point to what you WANT them to point to. Turnbull would have known that the overall data shows a rise, but hey, that doesn't tell the people the story you WANT to tell does it?

No, far easier to pull a little bait and switch, only show the people a small slice of your statistical analysis, and make them foam at the anti-NBN mouth. Then run around waving you hands in the air screaming "Look over there!! Pretty butterflies!! Labor hates butterflies!! *froth*" and distract the populace before they can investigate further.

Remember, this is politics, not real world, or real smart, or real moralistic, or...well... real anything.

iCloud in Australia = fail

I have 1gig of data a month that I can use on my iphone....but I have mobile data turned off on my iphone, because over here, three / vodaphone have poor coverage, and will charge you for roaming data, even when the icon on the screen CLEARLY shows you are on a three, 3g zone.

In countries where there are restrictive data caps and useage, cloudy apps on mobile devices will suffer from low uptake.

I would rather keep my information, on my server, and on my computers. I just don't trust clouds, much less clouds run by one-foot-in-the-grave, thieving, turtleneck wearing gimps.

The netbooks....

Are Celeron M processor's too...not even atoms inside them.

I love Kogan's gear, but I have never liked his idea for laptops and netbooks, they are a good example of "you get what you pay for".

If they had atoms in them, then I would consider picking one up, but not with a Celeron.

Quotas = FoxFail

Australia has traffic quotas. Foxtel downloads currently come in at a lovely 300-700mb per half hour episode of a television show, depending on various factors (broadcast definition etc). So your quota doesn't allow you to watch much.

The other IPTV options (FetchTV et al) only survive in Australia by virtue of the fact that they are quota free on the ISP's that offer their services (eg, iinet and internode).

Foxtel will only partner with Bigpond, so unless you are a bigpong subscriber, no quota free Foxtel for you (Even then, partnering with Bigpond took a LONG time to happen).

Oops....there goes half your market. What? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the noise of all those fed up subscribers rushing to FetchTV, Freeview and torrent downloads of CURRENT TV shows, not 5 year old repeats of the same old pap!

Lets not even get into the whole issue of most people not having enough line speed to watch foxtel over the internet if anyone else happens to want to cruise the net.....

Paris, because shes so old news, she might actually show up on Foxtel this season....

Whirlpool

If you want to see proof of the scare mongering perpetrated by The Australian, just take a look at Whirlpool's news feed:

http://www.whirlpool.net.au

Have a look at EVERY SINGLE article posted on that site by The Australian, and you will quickly notice that every single one of them slams the government for the building of the NBN.

The sooner the NBN is built, the sooner outdated tycoons like Murdoch are relegated to the past.

375 squids for that?

Oh wait, its Designed for Apple(TM), so of course, you are paying for the LOOKS of the thing.

Oh wait, you then have to pay extra for the USB dongle / Apple plug connection if you want the wireless side? Riiiight....

Then the comparison is done with MP3 files, which have a tendency to squash the waveform completely out of whack. There are no meaningful comparisons done beyond an ear test. Oookay.

Overpriced unit, underdone review. I have a Dalmatian dog, and I think its better than an Alsatian, just because. My review is just as informative.

Multiple iPods/iPhones?

One thing I would have liked to see from the Author, is a test or some sort of confirmation as to whether you can run multiple iEquipment on this unit.

I have an iPhone, the wife has an iPod touch, and the son has an iPhone, can we link all of them in, so it doesnt matter who is watching the tellie?

If so, then fair enough, this kind of price might be justified, but if its one phone only, then its a 100 squid piece of bling for the coffee table.

Paris, because she would both like it, and be confused by it, in equal measures.