* Posts by [My Handle]

6 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2012

Larry 'Shared databases are crap' Ellison reveals shared Oracle database

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Unhappy

Nothing to do with the article, but what's with the bloody annoying adverts that run right across the middle of the page preventing you from reading the article? Doesn't The Register like having readers?

Transport Dept dishes out £1.9m rail database deal to Capita

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Unhappy

How does Capita find these contracts? And why do people keep using them?

Apple finally grabs apple.co.uk – after just 16 years

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Happy

At last ITV might have something of value.

Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed)

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Happy

> The platform written off just a few years ago as bloated, cumbersome and inefficient

By nobody with a well-informed opinion.

Microsoft confirms UK.gov to dodge licensing hike... almost

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FAIL

@JDX, you're right, it's ludicrous to think that the government could save taxpayers money by using open source software. As if!

MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online

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FAIL

I hope they ask BT to monitor all words spoken into a telephone as well, as I would guess that terrorists sometimes even "talk" to each other.