Posts by Paul van der Lingen

I wait with baited breath

to see how, exactly, this is going to work. In South Africa we have no ITMS and, legend/rumour has it this wont change any time soon (local pigopolists own the music rights).

So how will we do all the necessary things to our fancy-schmancy iphones without the blessed/cursed ITMS?

One wonders indeed.

@ John

Me too - I love my macs (all three of them), but I don't take security for granted. Ever.

is it still dog slow?

I had high hopes to use it as a replacement for MS Orifice 2004 on my Mac, but sheeeeeite, it's slow.

I still don't understand the fuss

I've been backing up several mac's to a USB drive plugged into a mac mini on my network. Timemachine works fine over both the cat6 ethernet cables and the the 54Mb/s wifi.

@ Simon

Yers.

but, if you walk up to my house and the door is not locked and you let yourself in, that's trespass. And if you take anything (even if I'm not using it and don't want it) - that's theft.

Should I have to lock my doors all the time to stop people coming in?

gosh, thats, er, impressive

Not.

I compared the performance of my 2GHz core duo MacbookPro to that of a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook Air. The Air is the same speed, for slower clocks, with less heat.

So Intel get it right some of the time.

Different strokes

These are two very different products aimed, I'd guess at two very different markets.

I mean, you wont want to do a full days work on an Eee, with hectic spreadsheets and corporate type applications - but you could easily do that on an Air.

I'd even hazard a guess that the Eee pitches more squarely at the iphone than at the Air.

Likewise - no astronomer but..

.. isn't that a stock photo of the surface of the moon?

Oh, good ol' phreaky

Haven't heard from you for a while there Webster - you been holed up at evangelical school doing a firearms course in case you come across any apple totting homosexuals? (or democrats, the same thing, of course).

Profitability

And Jeff, bless his open and generous heart, claims to have not made a profit on the Pothead books.

go figure.

who cares if it's man made or not..

fact is - it's happening and no-one - rabid tree-hugger nor fundamentalist christian - can argue with that.

So we, as a species are or are not the primary cause - so what. Can we move on from trying to assuage our guilt (or defend our egos) and get on with dealing with it.

XXXXXp

Man, I want some of whatever your dealer is selling you.

Wow - sad indeed

No, not the story, but the comments.

Have we become so inured of back service that we abuse people who have the temerity to complain about it?

Kia vs Mercedes

If we apply the principles laid out in the article, then all premium brands would simply shut down.

A Kia does exactly the same job as a Mercedes S500

In fact, taken to the extreme, the argument ends up in a place called Communism. A leap, I know, to say that people who don't buy Apple products are all communists (and I'm not actually saying it).

but squint with your eyes, and let your mind run free (a tricky concept for Windows users, I know) and you'll see the argument.

now excuse my while I go off to blather and dribble saliva down my shirt front in a dark corner somewhere

;-)

almost related

So my neighbour had his laptop nicked (a MacBookPro). Much wailing and gnashing of teeth later, he gets a call from the local apple store.

Seems the fine member of society who bought it had ambled in to their store, told them he'd just bought it 2nd hand and could they please reinstall the OS to get rid of the previous owners junk.

The store checked the records, phoned the real owner and bingo, one happy story later.

heh

and every day Webster Phreaky posts some inane drivel

Please Webster - won't you do us all a favour and get a decent browser with a spell checker?

fan boy

I admit it - I am a dyed in the wool fan boy - cut me and I bleed crisp white blood, saw me in half, and all my icky insides have little apple logo's stamped on them..

but - not even I would buy a gen 1 iPhone when it's network locked and not 3G.

We did all know those things some time back. So why then, did elReg buy it when they knew it had those short comings?

can anyone say root kit

How quickly we all seem to have forgiven Sony for the root kit fiasco

I saw we - but in fact I haven't forgotten, nor have I forgiven.

I *will-never* buy another Sony product - not a thing. Not a memory stick, nor a plasma TV nor anything in between.

And now they continue to screw the pooch with the PS3 pricing.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Conservapedia

I look forward to reading their explanation of this event

No doubt it will be carefully thought out, accurately recorded and ..

nah. What am I saying?

it'll either be ignored or the report will be bollocks

comments...

How dare you.. how very dare you..

:-)

I was going to post something funny and original, but then realised you might contact my boss

At last...

finally, a computer with enough grunt to run Vista smoothly.

Careful with that 'backdoor' reference

headlines like this may offend Otto Stern - we know how easily offended he is..

oh the humility

Ashley didn't get what he wants?

:-)

actually, I didn't think of you as a developer - maybe I'm wrong and deep down you love the itty bitty bits, bytes and bobs that geeky types spend their day assembling so mortal morons like me can sit in comfort and type sarky posts on websites (on my apple macbookpro)

oh the hysteria

good grief - how could two so simple things evoke such hysteria...

get a grip people - nothing more than a browser and a phone.

move on, nothing to see here

high hopes

Man, I hope this works better than parallels does. I 'upgraded' my version 2.5 parallels to the New All Singing Dancing 3.0 and not only did it break my old Vm's but even fresh crispy VM's get all sorts of memory exception errors.

Horrible.

We use VMWare a lot onsite - despite the money I've thrown at parallels, I will be going the VMWare route.

is this for real? I mean, really for real..

If this is genuinely for real, then its a Good Thing yes? But how do we know its not a scam, or some such thing. Perhaps, tho, £70 is worth it regardless..

hhmm - decisions, decisions.

Not sure fast..

Actually, I have high hopes for it based on the comparisons between OS X and Windows (or even, I suspect, Vista).

If we ignore 3G/HSDPA for now as they've said its coming, then sure, on paper my N93 and k800i can do the same things. But Windows can do the same things as OS X - in fact, they can probably do more. That's not the point.

Its the user experience that trips up the Nokia/Sony-Ericsson experience. They're shyte to use because the manufacturers have to stick to what their customers know.

Apple isn't by any means perfect - far from it. I work in an entirely windows dominated environment on a MacBookPro and sure, I have challenges. But the overall user experience - my user experience is better, by far, than it was when I used windows.

I fully expect the iPhone to be the same.