If it's running on a till, chances are it's Windows 7 Embedded, which still has another year of support left on it...
Posts by Norphy
47 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2012
Come to Five Guys, where the software is as fresh as the burgers... or maybe not
Is tech monitoring software still worth talking about?
Upset Microsoft stashes hard drive encryption keys in OneDrive cloud?
Testing CarPlay with Apple’s most expensive ever accessory
Walled garden strikes again
It seems daft that Apple don't seem to be allowing other satnav software manufacturers the keys to the CarPlay kingdom. I use the TomTom app on my iPhone and I'd love to buy a CarPlay ready head unit and have TomTom display on that.
They let music apps on, why not navigation ones too?
Mobile first? Microsoft decides to kneecap its Android users instead
It's enough to get your back up: Eight dual-bay SOHO NAS boxes
Samsung spins up its latest rusty rotators for release
Power
"These M3 and P3 drives draw power through their USB 3.0 connection, which has a maximum 4.8Gbit/s bandwidth."
Will these drives be able to work off a USB 2 port as well? Only reason I ask is that because USB 3 is rated to deliver up to 900ma from a single port rather than the 500ma a USB 2 port can provide. I can see something with five platters really needing it.
RAF Eurofighter gets a Battle of Britain makeover
Odin (formerly Parallels) bets big on Docker and OpenStack
Apple taxpayers swarm to stone-age iPhone 6+ purely for the bigness
Public exploit crashes Minecraft servers
Re: Poison pill?
It's software. Software has bugs. Yes, they should have fixed the issue when it got reported to them but it doesn't make the software inherently defective.
Microsoft can hardly complain about bugs in acquired software considering some of the bugs that they're responsible for in house.
Force your hand: Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Re: no Ethernet
It's the case for any kind of shared internet connection, whether you're on WiFi or not. If 100 people are trying to squeeze all of their internet traffic through a 10mbit pipe, you're going to notice some slowdowns. Using a Cat5 cable to connect to the switch will make no difference in that situation.
Renault Captur: Nobody who knows about cars will buy this
"I feel inclined to point out that, since you drive on the other side of the road, having the bonnet release there is perfectly logical. It would be the driver side of any European model."
I drive a Volkswagen. Also made in Europe, in Germany where they drive on the right hand side of the road too. However, the bonnet release catch is on the driver side in my car despite the steering wheel being on the opposite side of where it would be in Germany. The good people at VW obviously took some care to make sure that they tried to make their cars as RHD friendly as possible at the design stage. By the sounds of it, Renault does not (or didn't in the case of that car).
Not adapting your cars to LHD and RHD markets is being lazy, nothing more nothing less.
Apple iPhone 6: Missing sapphire glass screen FAIL explained
I may be wrong but as I understand it, while sapphire is considerably more scratch resistant than the glass they're using on the phones at the moment, it is also a lot more brittle and susceptible to cracking. There is a trade off and I suspect (and this is pure speculation on my part) that Apple have chosen durability over scratch resistance.
32,000 motherboards spit passwords in CLEARTEXT!
Re: Eh?
I do agree with you but it's not always that simple. There are a lot of boards out there which pipe their IPMI and normal network traffic out over the same network port. If that's the case, you dont' have much choice but to run the management and data on the same LAN.
Unless you stick another NIC in the machine anyway.
Han Solo headed for lengthy stay in bacta tank after Bay Door Control cockup
Microsoft's Windows 8.1 updates also tweak Windows Server 2012
Double-click? Oh how conventional of you, darling!
Re: Double-clicking
You can set Windows up to open programs on a single click, you've been able to do that since IE4 introduced the updated desktop experience on Windows 95. You could also set focus by hovering by using the old kernel toys, don't know if you still can.
I had it like that for a while but I kept on opening things accidentally and in the end I just found it plain irritating.
But you know, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
Microsoft watches iPads flood into world's offices: Right, remote desktop clients. It's time
Apple blings up new iMac with latest Intel chips, next-gen Wi-Fi
It's Grand Theft Auto 5 day: Any of you kids remember GTA the First?
It was back in 1849,
At the Springfield Golden Nugget Mine,
That my great-grandma Dolores saved the day,
When she propped the shaft and saved the lives,
Of the other forty other Springfield wives,
When all ma grandpa's buddies ran away
The menfolk found their women scary,
Cos they were so big and hairy,
They thought of dynamite to seal them in
Gramps was known as 'Chapped Lips Calhoun',
He was in the local saloon,
In came Billy-Joe Walton through the door,
He said "They're blown the Golden Nugget!"
My grandaddy said "Oh f....darn it!"
"You've buried my Dolores, my sweet little golden 'ore"
Swing it, son
Now my grandaddy jumped up from his table,
Finished his jug,
And he got up to that mine just as lickety-darn-split as he could,
Stopped off to fetch a shovel,
Feed the dogs,
Brush his teeth,
Clean the John and give his hoss one final rubdown
Cos a cowboy's life ain't easy and a cowboy's life is hard,
You can take him from the saddle,
But he'll be forever scarred
Cos my grandpa was a man in love,
Called Dolores his 'prairie dove',
And he told her that he loved her with every sigh
Cos she never once forgave him,
Even underneath the cave-in,
But he knew she would forgive him,
In that goldmine in the sky
Goldmine in the sky
:)
Wrist SLAP: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch hands-on
Nokia wrings Lumia bling fling, but feature-mobes ding stings
Re: My left testicle...
"There are about dozen of WP apps for making you photos look like old Polaroids if that is what you really want"
The thing is, there is more to Instagram than the silly image filters. There is also a huge social network behind it as well. There may be similar apps for WP but if they don't connect to Instagram's network, people who use and enjoy Instagram aren't going to want to buy a Windows phone no matter how good the OS may or may not be.
Apple Time Capsule 2013: Next-gen wireless networking, anyone?
Re: AirPlay
Depends what you mean by "Supports Airplay"
The low cost Airport Express has a 3.5mm audio jack built into it, you can connect this to an amplifier and stream audio to it from iTunes on your computer or from an iDevice.
You can still use the other Airport/Time Capsule devices as dumb hubs to put an Apple TV on and stream Airplay to that.
Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE
Fanbois vs fandroids: Punters display 'tribal loyalty'
Review: Nokia Lumia 520
Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal
LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks
Intel to leave desktop motherboard market
"Most buyers want cutting edge, innovative design and boundaries that are pushed."
Some do. Most don't. They really don't. Most people want something that works and that works reliably. I'm not saying that an Intel board required for that but to say that most people want flashy features on a motherboard that is never likely to do more than process the occasional Excel spreadsheet and browse Facebook is silly.
TomTom for Android with hands-free kit review
Re: Question
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking if I can interface my iPhone 5 with this TomTom kit for Android. I'm asking if I can connect it to the bluetooth speaker and mic on this thing and charge it with a MicroUSB to lightning adapter.
I know that the app works, I've been using it since I got the 5. I just want a half decent mount and a hands free kit for it and until TomTom produce a mount for the iPhone 5 specifically, this looks like it'll do the job.
Question
I'm sure I know the answer and I'll probably get howls of derision from the assembled for even thinking about asking this but...
Does this kit work with an iPhone 5 plus a MicroUSB to Lightning adapter? TomTom haven't updated the iPhone version of this to take the the iPhone 5 into account as of yet and I'm looking to replace the TomTom mount I had for my 3GS (which was top notch). I'm fed up with having to put my phone into my car's cup holder!
Cheers
Nokia HERE today with decent mapping on Apple devices
Skype worm chats up victims - then holds PCs to ransom
Apple's new Safari snubs older Macs, drops Windows version
Screen idols: higher resolution means better laptops
'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8
If we're still using Facebook as an example, that probably means that people will bitch and moan for half an hour then actually notice that yes, the extra functionality that's been introduced in the new UI is actually quite good and then just get on with it.
Not to say that this'll happen with W8 but stranger things have happened.