Posts by Haku

Re: Already there

I added a wireless charging pad to my Samsung S2, it worked ok, charged a bit slower than normal, but had to remove it because I got missed calls as it almost completely blocked with the mobile signal :(

It almost sounds like someone could write a program that automatically scans websides for SQL Injection attacks, then use said SQL Injection attack to put a badge on the website...

"9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models."

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos

Yes it was £1 a go, I remember because I once had a go on such a contraption in the basement of Hamleys back in the days when the basement was filled with arcade machines and computers you could have a go on.

I recall that it didn't actually work that well, it felt like the game was shoehorned into the 360 contraption. Sure it spun me round and flipped me upside down but my physical orientation had no real bearing on what was being displayed on screen.

They should've written a dogfighting jet game especially for it instead so you didn't feel like you'd totally wasted your precious £1 for a couple of minutes of disorientation, which back then was significantly more than the price of traditional standing arcade games.

Re: Wipe App

I installed an Erasure app once, the phone then started wanting a little respect...

Being a place filled with tech-heads, one of them must have a USB cup warmer...

Re: I love Apple, and Apple products, but....

*cough*

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/iphone4_antenna/

Re: US=$49.99, UK=£49.99

I'm not new here, I'm just exercising my birthright as a Brit to complain, sarcastically.

Re: "Personal" computer no more

Excellently put.

So does this mean we can't refer to them as PC's anymore?

Perhaps we should now call them HC's, Hive Computers...

Re: "Weak Windows 10 apps"

And I heard it left a knife in the fork tray of his cutlery drawer.

Re: Your browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event.

My laptop just started whooping & hollering & clapping, wondering what the hell was going on I went through my browser windows & tabs to discover I'd left the apple-events tab open on Chrome - it appears they're accomodating the 'peasants' with the now recorded video of the event.

I'm so overwhelmed I think I might have to go and lie down in a dark room and listen to some Tangerine Dream.

Re: bloody live blogs

On the subject of having to scroll all the way to the bottom, what happened to the comments section in relation to adding new comments and voting up/down comments?

When the page reloads it always stays at the top instead of automatically scrolling down to where the related comment is.

Looks like all the <a name=" tags have gone missing.

Re: That picture

@Destroy All Monsters

If everything on the internet always stayed on topic it would be a stale and dull place.

I also have a liking of Asus products, but I (and a lot of other people) have discovered a small flaw with the Asus MemoPad HD7 ME173X, whilst it's a good tablet with a great screen, accidentally dropping it can cause the touchscreen to stop working properly/altogether.

Why? Because they engineered it with tight tolerances, so any flexing of the unit can cause the touchscreen ribbon cable to be pulled out of its sockets.

It's easy to fix, simply pop the back off and re-insert the cable, but this leads into another potential problem, if you forget to remove the MicroSD card beforehand it can irrepairably damage the socket when prying the back off.

You are correct.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder_shows_github_crawling_with_keyslurping_bots/

Re: Memory vs Processor

"The new norm should be SSD."

Agreed after seeing first hand how upgrading to a SSD in this core i5 laptop has really boosted the running of the operating system.

But I can't reccomend the WD Black2 Dual Drive which is the one I installed, 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD in one package sounds good in theory but how they got both to work simultaneously through a single SATA connection is nothing short of a kludge which requires special software to activate the 1TB HDD after you've installed the OS on the 128GB SSD. The system effectively sees a single drive split into two partitions, meaning things can get tricky if you have to reformat the drive to replace the OS.

Yet that's not the worst of it because at random intervals the drive light goes on for a full minute or two, completely locking up the laptop for that time, I've lost no data but it's an issue that has plagued users and WD know about it but they haven't made a firmware fix, it mostly happens if I'm transferring many gigabytes to/from it but can strike at any time.