* Posts by P. Lee

5267 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2007

Microsoft may be readying Outlook for ARM – or not

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Re: It would be insane not to release this retrospectively for RT

Another issue might be the amount of CPU required for outlook to do its thing (managing local email).

Perhaps the sophistication of desktop outlook simply can't be matched with an ARM cpu, so there isn't much point trying.

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Re: Will they go all the way then?

I thought TCP keep-alive was an OS function too. The app can stay asleep while the OS keeps the connection going.

Lotus 1-2-3 turns 30: Mitch Kapor on the Google before Google

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Re: Preferred

I loved Framework II. It worked even better when running on a 5mb HD rather than having to swap floppies when you wanted to switch between wp and spreadsheet.

So much out of so little. Those days were amazing!

Use these apps for your company and you could run an enterprise on a single server.

Greenland ice did not melt in baking +8°C era 120k years ago

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Re: I don't expect this to change anything

Was the issue ever ecological?

I thought it was about whether the US cornfields would be superceded by Sibera and wealthy property owners in London, NY and SanFran would have to buy new somewhere else.

Belkin buys Linksys from Cisco

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Re: Low cost company buys out low cost

Seeing as they overlap, I wonder which tech will be culled.

With more homes running 24x7 server devices, perhaps we'll see the return of the ADSL card for ARM or x86.

Michael Dell and the Curse of the Exploding Batteries

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Coat

> perhaps he should just ride a bike

one of these? //http://www.zeromotorcycles.com

Fujitsu launches 'Athena' Sparc64-X servers in Japan

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Joke

Go On!

Just add LibreOffice for the Mother Of All VDI Servers.

/ducks

Victims of 'revenge pr0n' sue GoDaddy, smut site

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Facepalm

If you can't convince someone to "forsake all others" and put a ring on it, there is an implication that they are open to leaving you. In which case, why would you trust them with things you wouldn't want them to leave with? That is foolish.

Which do you value more, the freedom to have sex with people who aren't your partner, or the freedom to have sex with your partner? (I know, there is a 3rd option, but sharers are not common).

I'd suggest that the more you are willing to give up for something, the more value you are placing on that thing. If you want a relationship to last, being cheap is counter-productive. Being "costly" (in relationship terms) filters out those who don't value you highly.

None of these people deserve this treatment, but their plight should be a warning to those who might get themselves into similar situations.

Microsoft blasts PC makers: It's YOUR fault Windows 8 crash landed

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I think MS might be right

I can't find a compelling laptop, even in the "ultrabook" range.

I haven't seen one device that is powerful, thin, has a large trackpad, a hi-res 13" display and nice graphics.

This might be a battery issue. :D

What happened to the old "boot with discrete" or "boot with integrated" graphics?

I also blame intel & amd. I want the ability to power off four or five of my six cores in a laptop to save juice.

Although none of that is relevant to the success of windows 8, it just means I have no compelling reason to get a new pc.

Tech firms face massive tax bill if Dutch vote to end loopholes

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Angel

Re: We are not doing anything illegal or immoral

> Actually, being rich by itself is immoral, and the Gospels are clear on that:

No, its a warning about the tendency of those with money to trust in their wealth rather than God.

Google's Native Client browser tech now works on ARM

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Re: Enterprise

> Active X locked you into IE. This locks you into Chrome.

ActiveX locked you to IE and Windows, neither of which you could port.

Chrome is already OS-ported and anyone is welcome to add LLVM to their own browser.

Hardly "locked."

Microsoft to stream blue movies

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FAIL

> the new cloudy service can do just about anything required to get video into Joe and Jane Public's eyeballs, all without messy on-premises hardware or the need to adopt new tools.

What makes MS think content-providers want that?

I mean, they could just stream h264 video to all-comers, but instead they wrap it up in nasty flash obfuscated apps. In Oz, TV is all tablet-unfriendly mpeg2.

No, they want to rent you black box with some dodgy encryption and charge a premium for it as well as the content.

Google v Microsoft mobile war: Who's REALLY to blame?

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Coat

Push Email

SMTP

I do have to ask though, is polling that bad? Are we so short of resources that we'll re-engineer email systems to avoid imap polling?

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Flame

Re: Who's REALLY to blame? - headline

Who's to blame?

Support the standards which are there for inter-operability or stew in your own proprietary hell.

MS should have written to the standards to start with.

Microsoft to pump cash into Dell buyout deal?

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Re: Why go private?

The depression is on, the stock is very cheap. Buy it and wait for the uptick in profits in the next cycle.

AT&T 'violates net neutrality' by NOT charging twice for same data

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FAIL

Re: Why not just use Wifi?

Because I have a mobile cap but no landline freebie calls.

The easy resolution is to point out that bandwidth isn't money. If I don't use it, I save nothing. I can't save it, or turn it into some other goods or services. Therefore, its use does not constitute "billing."

Most isp's will shape if you bust your data cap at a rate high enough to carry voice, effectively excluding voice from the cap. There is also usually a freezone holding things like linux distro files and other stuff the isp hosts. In this case its a gateway.

Publicity-seeking org, move along, nothing to see.

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

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Re: VM

> Another VM just sounds like JVM, Flash, Silverlight etc and will end up with the same problems.

There is a difference. If it also compiles to javascript, then you only write once and just load either dart or JS into the browser an request. The VM's mentioned above have platform limitations.

Google has enough of the browser market via chrome and (more importantly) android to make this work. This might make web apps (which are horrid enough on a pc) work faster so mobile devices can run them.

As long as it compiles properly to JS as well, google can afford to go it alone. If gmail runs faster under chrome than anything else, so be it, hotmail doesn't need to come along for the ride. You might eat more memory running a JS VM and a Dart VM, but memory is cheap.

The aim of dart/NaCl etc is to get web apps running at a decent speed to bypass MS' grip on the desktop.

'Like most convoluted theories, it was an incorrect one'

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Unhappy

>Didn't seek maximum penalties or tell his lawyers

They didn't need to. Schwartz' lawyers would not have been doing their duty if they did not inform him of the worst-case scenario.

> The government was able to bring such disproportionate charges against Aaron because of the broad scope of....

This is pretty much how all laws are framed these days.

Lenovo offers Chrome OS ThinkPad for well-heeled schools

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Trollface

Chromebook != PC

Its a thin client. You don't upgrade them because of the latest OS takes 3x the resources of the last one. You don't upgrade them because they can't run your latest db app. You replace them when they break.

2x the cheapest (worst built?) device has to be compared to expected lifespan. If being dropped destroys them then they won't last long in a school. Double the lifespan of the cheapest device and you've broken even.

Compared to a business laptop it may look like poor value for money, but then add the cost of managing a laptop and the fact that primary kids may not be as careful as an employee when it comes to putting it on a table.

Having said that, my favourite school equipment is pencil and paper.

NBN contracts reveal the state of Telstra’s ducts

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Not surprised

ADSL often drops out when it rains hard.

Mind-you, its only rather recently that we've stopped having power outages several times a month in suburban Melbourne.

The Spherical Cow lands, spits out Anaconda

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Re: Ubuntu, Shmubuntu

Ubuntu is slick?

Must have missed something - someone please let me know why its considered slick. I installed it for Steam, but it soon got into a horrid mess and wouldn't play DVDs. I know, I went for "Testing" but it has stayed broken for quite a while.

I ran screaming from Gnome3 in Fedora and my ubuntu system no longer plays DVDs for some reason. OpenSuse may lag a bit but I love Yast with its "nearly everything you need to configure your OS and GUI/desktop can be found here" approach. Dual KDE/XFCE desktops suit my different moods, but I wish they would get their install-to-iscsi installation system working.

Cryptome escapes Thales' attack dogs in bank security row

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Re: For a broad meaning of 'obsolete'.

The implication of the "its obsolete" argument is that Cryptome, rather than Thales, is the source of material for legit users.

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

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Re: Endangered Species?

NuLab provoked a constitutional crisis over fox hunting, but millions of tuna and chickens die and no-one blinks an eye. House-cats kill birds but no-one bothers banning them. Farmers go in for insect-genocide but few people care.

See those red sweets in the supermarket? Many of them are literally coloured with the blood of animals.

Cute can save your life!

Big spike in Euro patents - but 63% were filed from outside Europe

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> Using the NUMBER of Patents as a guide to anything ... anything whatsoever ... is DUMB.

Actually its probably a good guide to locating your law practise and for identifying areas where innovation is likely to slow.

P. Lee
Unhappy

Re: Innovation... Pah!

> Yes EXACTLY! We just get on with it. Patent or no Patent.

Or more usually, we invent it but can't get anyone in the UK to make it or help fund its manufacture, so we go to the US and sell it there.

VIA bakes a fruitier Rock cake to rival the Brit Raspberry Pi

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Re: The CPU is mounted diagonally?

or put the connectors on the short end so you can PCI-bracket mount it?

Former CEO John Sculley: Apple must adapt or die

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> a series of market missteps.

Did that include going for the mass market with clones and licensing?

Hmm.

Social networks give Australia a throat to choke

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Unhappy

How about putting all that effort with twitter, fb et al

into teaching people how to deal with ugly things they can't change.

But no, we'd rather point the finger than grow thicker skins.

Microsoft ends Mac users' Windows Phone 8 misery

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Terminator

From the headline, did anyone else think...

...that MS just took them outside and shot them?

Now Microsoft 'actively investigates' Surface slab jailbreak tool

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Re: @AC15:13 (was: Another MS ...)

> A few commonly known variations I run include RS/400, OS/390, VMS and TOPS-10/20.

Not really, which is why the banks don't put their mainframes directly on the internet.

P. Lee

Re: They should just leave it in...

> But yes, as John Robson points out, it'll cost them cash to allow people to bypass the crappy Windows Store.

Or Amazon decides to set up an RT shop...

Next-gen H.265 video baked into Broadcom's monster TV brain

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Coat

This is the downside of hardware accelleration in mobile devices

No-one will bother to support a new / modified standard because you still need to cater for the millions of older devices.

CODEC development slows.

Mines the one with the new format graphic accelerator physical interface under the battery.

Bad news: PC slump worse than feared. Good news: It's Friday

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Re: Should build what people want

+1

I want a fast quad i7, ssd + spinny high-capacity disk, big touchpad and high-res matt screen in a small light package.

and I want a little slider switch which says: "optimise for battery life" which slows down the cpu, turns off a couple of cores, lets the spinning disk sleep quickly and dims the screen a bit.

"But I still haven't found, what I'm looking for..."

P. Lee

Re: Too much analysis, the main reason is obvious.

Worse, companies nearly always ditch the OEM license regardless of what it is and build from a standard image.

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Re: BYOD?

The only case I can think of for BYOD PC's is to take a VM image and keep it at home so you don't need to cart your laptop backwards and forwards to work each day.

That's normally done on the sly anyway.

Computers are 'electronic cocaine' that make you MANIC

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Ever noticed

Slot machines have lots of brightly coloured changing lights? In fact, modern ones don't have spinning wheels, just pictures of spinning wheels.

Christmas tree lights, live flames and televisions are also mesmerising.

There does seem to be a thing about changing light patterns holding people's attention.

I wonder if e-ink can do the same?

Vibrator guru on pleasure tech: 'Of all the places you'd want a quality UI....'

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Facepalm

Re: Ah, yes,

How to improve your *relationship* - turn it over to a machine so you don't have to bother.

Surely, taking the time and the effort is a rather large part of the point of doing it. Otherwise, you may as well both get a little gizmo and not bother with each other.

This is the logic of turning over sex to an "industry" - commerce replaces non-commercial activity. Sex becomes (in some way) a transaction rather than a gift.

I'm glad I'm not in that kind of relationship.

YOUR Cisco VoIP phone is easily TAPPED, warns CompSci prof

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Facepalm

VoIP insecure SHOCK!

or not.

Razzies set to torpedo Rihanna's Battleship

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Too cool

I'm sure there's a lot of rubbish in here, but does anyone else think this is the film equivalent of TopGear's "Cool Wall" - the uncool end?

Mozilla to Adobe: PDFs don't need no more steenking plugins

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What's changed?

Isn't the danger in the flexibility of the format and the poor coding?

Let's just hope the mozilla and chrome coders are better than adobe's.

The 10 best … Windows Server 2012 features

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Re: Powershell is nice, but creating GUIs on powershell scripts is really stupid

The problem is more likely to be internal to MS. They want to avoid gui tools sneaking around doing things the scripts can't. So you decree that you have to call scripts and you gain consistency at the cost of speed. For an enterprise, that's often worthwhile.

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Happy

Re: PowerShell .. MEH!

Linux inherited the funky Unix spirit of the 70's!

<---- Medallion

Baby sharks are so HARDCORE they avoid baddies like tiny ninjas

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Linux

Re: Evolutionary mischief

I thought mutations happen whether you want them or not. Millions of years of tiny mutations and none of them survived. What are the odds?

Perhaps one of them at least got feathers, but was cruelly ridiculed to death.

P. Lee

as natural selection works, those baby sharks that did not respond to that stimuli by standing still, did all die...

Fixed. Killing off your siblings does not give you new features.

Review: HP ENVY x2 Windows 8 convertible

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Re: Atom for £800? Seriously?!

Atom in a tablet is forgivable, atom in an £800 tablet+keyboard is not.

Someone needs to step up and give details of exactly why these things are so expensive, or the public are just going to shun them.

At the moment, it feels like the answer is "the market has nose-dived so we want to charge more for stuff to make up the numbers." That doesn't cut it.

P. Lee

Re: Oh no, Apple Envy

Yes, I don't understand it. If you happen to have a wireless g network, HD streaming can feel a bit laggy.

Even 100mb/s would have been nice.

This is designed for connectivity, consumption and data-entry, not data processing. My question is, if it runs Win8 x86, what happens to the atom cpu when the AV software kicks in?

'Leccy-starved Reg hack: 'How I survive on 1.5kW'

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Mushroom

Re: Why do Reg Hacks live on the edge of society?

> Are they trying to hide from someone?

Commentards.

P. Lee

Re: Gas Fridge?

You can also get gas tumble-dryers.

ggiyf

Guess who'll grab Facebook Sponsored Stories payout? (Hint: Not the victims)

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Childcatcher

Re: In the U.S.

I understand that in the UK in the 1600's(?) corporations were banned because limited liability was considered immoral. You were not allowed to support / fund / benefit from something without being responsible for what that organisation does.

Don't shoot the Windows Live Messenger, cry IM users

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Re: Pasting Pictures

And file transfers don't seem to work through most home routers.

Repeat after me... with a stateful firewall use UDP.

Even Kermit can do inline file transfers.