Posts by Mike Arthur

Ah, sad day indeed.

His books still have the power to make me properly laugh out loud.

A great writer, made very clever use of the language to provide entertainment to so very many people.

I had the great fortune to meet him on several occasions in the early 90s whilst I was working in a bookshop. Funniest memory was being sent across to the supermarket across the road for a couple of bags of frozen sweetcorn (had to be sweetcorn, not peas) for him to put on his painful hand after spending several hours signing all manner of items.

Anyway, I shall send my assistant off to the shelf to bring me something of his to read.

'Oook?', 'yes please, that one'

so, perfect opportunity to put a nice photo of Kate on the article, but oh no, el reg drops a crappy b&w pic.. /sigh

ah balls...

thanks for all the hours buried in the Culture. Some might say it's as close as I'll ever get :)

Off to read player of games again...

Weird

I have no voice or text capability, also no data connection showing, however I'getting updates and email quite happily, no wireless here so it's not that.

Been off since 1600 yesterday. Still going to make on-call nice and quiet...

I wonder

If they've fixed the big memory leak that was requiring me to reboot every 3-4 hours or so.

The betas were fine, the latest RC was anything but.

8Gb RAM on a Win 7 install running at 90%+ utilisation after 3 hours of the machine sitting idle. remove IE 9 RC and the issue goes away.

so....

Is this Axl trying to make money to cover people who are suing him for Chinese Democracy being so shite?

hmmm

What about those of us (admittedly numpties) that actually bought Vista?

Are we going to get anything discounted, after all, we're the ones that have experienced the pain, not the sensible people still using XP :)

About bloody time!!

nuff said!!

sheer class

we've all been here..

add 120 call centre seats, deliver in 4 weeks, knowing full well the lead time for telephony kit is 8 weeks minimum...

yup

@Chris W, sickening isn't it....

Right....

good luck keeping that lot cool..

Never mind the fact that there still isn't a stable set of vista drivers for 2 cards christ knows what happens if you try 3....

ho hum..

never mind the hype, the price is what's killed it.

We are not used to paying for handset AND contract over here.

Connecting at a snails pace won't do it any favours either.

I will most likely get myself an IPod touch at some point as that gives you all the best bits of an IPhone without all the downsides....

Perfectly happy to keep my fone seperate from my MP3 player, that way you get devices that do exactly what they're meant to do, instead of some super-hyped hybrid that doesn't quite deliver as a phone.

love it...

I shall feed you with further modalities...

brilliant, these emails are quite simply hilarious...

just see

how quickly the overtime gets paid if they all work 40 hours only...

no pay no work, simple...

What??

Underneath a pond??

What genius came up with that design...

you gotta get a drill mate!! :D

Here we go again

It's MS bashing time...

Let's face it for the vast majority of non IT literate users Windows of whatever shade is undoubtedly the way to go. Simple, easy to use, easily the best supported, widest range of software etc...

The big machine builders, Dell, HP etc ship windows on the bulk of the machines they sell, why? because that's what the public want.

The majority of readers of the Reg are IT literate, working in IT somewhere, so are more likely to use other OSs and therefore able to point out flaws, compare between different OSs etc. This doesn't mean that Windows isn't the 'right' choice for Joe Public.

I work with Windows, solaris, various *ix but use windows at home, why? I like to game a lot and if that's your boat, you cannot use anything other than windows.

I got one

The Lexmark all in one that I bought came with a USB cable.

Which was a pity really as it didn't work, as soon as I swapped it for one of the multitude of other USB cables I had it worked perfectly...