Posts by mark1978

While everyone now waits for CentOS 7 to appear!

My mother in law just got a new shiney Samsung Galaxy smartphone, so my wife has been getting battered with "how do I do, this" "how do I do that". She eventually just had to lay it out "I've only ever used an iPhone, I've got no idea how to do anything with your phone!"

Makes no sense at all. If they are going to make cheaper phones, then make them with the Windows Phone OS. Now you have cheaper Nokias running Android and the question will be being asked, why don't the expensive ones running Android too?

Microsoft would do well to ditch Windows Phone and put their work into making an excellent Android device - I suspect having a slice of the massive Android pie will be better than having the tiny Windows pie to themselves.

We bought a Wii in the Christmas of 2009 - pretty late to it, but we still enjoyed it when we got it, played Wii Sports for a good while and had the fitness bundle too. But that only lasted about a month or two before we'd played Wii Sports to death and then discovered there wasn't really anything more to it. So it's been sat under the TV, switched off, for years now.

The Wii U didn't offer anything new, a controller with an iPhone in it? Great...

The main issue is that people who bought a Wii remember why they stopped playing it, so why would we want to buy another one?

Expansys used to be my first port of call for almost everything. Then they changed the website making everything much more difficult to find, and they put the prices up, I stopped using them and haven't bothered looking since.

I remember once Christmas - probably 1988 or thereabouts I must have been 10; I'd had a BBC B which was showing its age and I desperately wanted an Atari ST, several of my friends had one. (Mum: Why do you want another computer, the one you've got works fine!).

I was told several times I wouldn't be getting one, but still that disappointment on Christmas morning when it didn't arrive :o(.

About 6 months later my Dad went and got me a PC instead, 286 12Mhz! I got into upgrading etc and it's probably why I'm now a sysadmin!

Given that mobiles are the primary way for most people to make calls these days, it's time the differential pricing stopped. This is a good step in that direction. I remember the days when if you called a mobile number, and you didn't get through or there was no answer - you'd still get charged!

And Kudos to the scammers who quickly turned around a new spam email which asked me to download a utility to verify my account:

"Dear Card User,

We urgently wish to inform you that your

RBS card could not be verify due to some

systematic error. therefore we urge you to

download the security file and follow the

instructions.

Thank you for choosing RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland

"

I recognise this app! Mostly because it's an obvious rebrand of iTap RDP, except this one is free. Not a bad thing as iTap RDP has always worked well.

I currently have a 4S and watched the 5S and 5C announcements in detail, and looked at the price. I've come to the conclusion I want a Galaxy S4.

Is it an operating system? It was really only a window manager which sat on top of MS-DOS.

They won't be popular until...

Like most cars like this it's another step in the right direction, but..

They won't make sense until there are significant financial advantages in owning one. Firstly the purchase cost has to be no more than the equivalent petrol/diesel equipped car, then the running costs must be far far lower.

At the moment you'd have to be doing a lot of miles in order to justify the high up front cost vs buying a petrol car. Unfortunately doing a lot of miles is what electric cars are worst at.

So at the moment there's no real incentive to buy one.

wow

Worst graph I've ever seen. It would have been too much trouble to put the names next to their starting position on the left and then you can trace them through. Rather than having to guess which exact shade?

Easily done. Like my Mum saying her cousin got an iPad or iPod 'or something'... yeah very informative thanks.

What Apple secrecy?

Nearly all of their recent products had been widely leaked well in advance of their launch anyway.

Give up Apple!

Apple should outsource their mapping to a company that knows what it is doing! Google for example.

If Amazon just used Royal Mail for everything we'd be able to go to the Post Office to get the parcel, easy as. But they don't and don't give an option.

Someone seems to have forgotten Wogan isn't British.

As a general rule there should be at least 50 years between the death of a person and them appearing on a note.

This is why hard drives - including SSD, really need to be arranged in a RAID. One fails, you replace the drive simples.

The government should either put VAT on books to 20% or zero rate e-books. Having two different rates is silly indeed.

OS Maps

If you want OS maps on your iPhone look for the map called 'Outside Maps' you can view online plus download tiles for offline use.

Could be worse

Amazon 'delivered' some books to us by pushing them through the back gate but didn't leave a note. So they got rained on for two days before we discovered them.

It would be good if they would stop sending spam text messages too.