Posts by paulc

correctamundo...

If it wasn't possible to pirate big ticket software packages, then perhaps the lower priced shareware and also the open source stuff would have a better chance of penetrating the market... Piracy indirectly benefits Adobe and Microsoft and the other big companys... otherwise, they'd have to compete on merit...

oh dear....

perhaps people should learn to program their options better... I remember having fun back with the DOS version of AA Autoroute... you could program the options so that it could completely avoid B & C class roads unless the start or destination lay on them, and favour A roads over others when doing a shortest route... I think the problem here is that the current crop of GPS devices have been dumbed right down and can't be fine tuned without resorting to the manual and the dummies using them couldn't care anyway, they just want to put the destination in and follow the arrows...

sheesh...

MD5 hash AND Cyclic Redundancy Check... is it too obvious???

old-style "security"

I'd propose doing what we do with important key bunches... attach whopping great big day-glo tags to them so that they can't be pocketed and stand out like a sore thumb when set down anywhere... that way, you can't accidentally take them home in your pocket...

Linux... FTW!!!!

I took the hard disk out of my broken Packard Bell laptop (daughter had spilled cola over it and it refused to work again) and put it into my Sony VAIO laptop... started it up and it booted perfectly into KDE... absolutely no problems at all... and all the hardware was different... different mobo chipset, different processor, different graphics card.

We were able to rescue all her data and coursework that she'd been working on when the accident occurred...

Out of curiosity. when I tried to boot the windows XP on the other partition it blackscreened... with a cryptic FATAL error code...

Ubuntu Linux 1 : Microsoft XP 0

no photography

this is most likely the real reason why you can't take photographs of old objects in museums... Corbis has signed up the rights to the images of those objects and the museum are not allowed to allow photography... Gates, I ******* hate that man... he's a pustule on the backside of humanity...

Ubuntu pre-installed?

so, when the dust settles and the boxes are in the shops (if they ever actually are in the shops), will I be able to walk in and drop my pennies on a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed and actually walk out with it there and then???

"Plausible" excuse...

It's to provide the Nigerian government with a "plausible" excuse for dropping the OLPC and going with the Intel Classmate solution instead... expect an annoucement from them shortly explaining that they can't go with the OLPC as it may infringe on someones "precioussss" IP...

useless

all they can do these days is kite ideas into the media and see which ones fly... there's no proper debate anymore

Reminds me of Rosie, the maid from "The Jetsons"

http://jeffbots.com/rosie.html

although, I can't for the life of me work out what that manic penguin mascot was doing in the video... is this robot running Linux?

also I really loved the way the robot leaned in on the fast corners...

annoyed

that I didn't print it to pdf when I had the chance... the page doesn't work at all now...

Streisand Effect... needs to be renamed...

to the Effect Formerly Known as the Streisand Effect...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

ps. you need a new Icon showing that pathetic "squiggle"

idiots...

"We have two finance machines that keep getting infected with different malware apps (porn popups etc...), purely because we've got to give these users more access than they _SHOULD_ have on a secured network. The users have been hit by a couple of dodgy advert iframe exploits which led to the initial infection, its taken us months to clean the majority of crap out of the machines. However, it still has some issues because of this."

why the heck are they exposed to the internet??????? or even to the rest of your network... airgap them and use a separate local network if they have to share a printer...

Our accounts machines are not on our network, they are on their own isolated one... for two reasons. 1) to prevent viruses etc. from getting in 2) to prevent them from being hacked by anyone else

65 million years ago...

Patrick should know then... he was there... :)

penny drops...

now I know why they're so desparate to have DRM in this iPlayer application... so they can make it pay-per-view for non-UK citizens

They should have asked my brother...

he's the world expert on invisibility... he's never to be found when it's his round...