* Posts by FatherStorm

10 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

FatherStorm

Finally, an attachment that makes the iPhone camera suck less! Shut Up And Take My Money!

Google! and! Facebook! IDs! face! Yahoo! login! BAN!

FatherStorm

betta securitah!

So.. instead of being able to use my G+ auth, which is backed up with Google's 2-factor auth app, Yahoo! would prefer that I rely on their "security"? I can't even count how many times in the last 2 years I've had to change my Y! password because of a breach on their side.

Open source Android fork Cyanogen becomes $7m company

FatherStorm

Whelp

CM WAS first out the gate as a complete and actually feasibly working alternative. I've used CM since my first Android Donut device, (G1) and still use a build of it on my (admittedly dated) SGS3 . To this day I check to see if a CM build is available for any device that I root either for myself or others before rooting them. If CM can't do it, I tend to not even try. (Exception being the original Nook, which was quite a while ago). To this day, my Motorola Xoom runs CM and runs like a champ even if it is one of the early, early, EARLY tablets.

Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger

FatherStorm

I have seen so many malware sites pretending to be a "update" for flash that I as a general matter of course automatically close any window that even remotely looks like it. I have relied on ninite to keep me up to date since not even the best of us remembers exactly which version of Java we currently have/need and can be downloaded from, the Sun/Oracle/Java website is a stuck-in-the 90's nightmare of navigability and clarity and I spend enough time getting rid of McAfee on new pc's in favor of other security products that I certainly don't need or want Adobe foisting it on me.

Stick a fork in floppies - they're done

FatherStorm

original floppy size...

A small point of correction. the original commercial floppies were 8 3/4 inches, not 8 inches. I had all my class assignments on one.

How an app called WarmTouch nailed a grenade-stockpiling cyber extortionist

FatherStorm

defeating Warmtouch.

How to defeat WarmTouch.

Compose your missive.

go to babelfish.altavista.com and translate it between different languages a minimum of 3 times, ending in your target language.

send your missive.

DIY satellite TV installer shoots wife dead

FatherStorm

Uhmm.

Pretty sure a .22 caliber round is going to make a hole too small for RG-6 cable anyways...

Apple's Safari 3: a crashing experience for non-US users

FatherStorm

US version on PC a touch touched as well

God forbid you're a Graphic Designer with a lot of fonts. Safari on PC stops loading fonts after about 850 and since some of the required fonts, like Verdana and Lucida might load AFTER that, they never get loaded into Safari resulting in an application with no text buttons or text rendered in the browser window.

So what's in a URL? The Reg URL?

FatherStorm

.com or .co.uk

Being one of those yanks, I still would likely perfer to keep typing .co.uk even though I've known for a while the .com works. keep it as it is.