Posts by FreeTard

Re: I'll have a bloke's number 6 please

Hang about, is that not how all barbers do hair styles? Everyone I've ever been to they ask you how you want your hair cut, and then do another one entirely.

Lately I've taken to answering "meh", amazingly I've been getting the best cuts ever!

If she wasn't so fat you mean.

Re: Before some of the usual suspects get too exercised may I reiterate what the article........

Redhat, Suse, VMware, Citrix, appasure and all the other middlewear stuff comes to mind.

Never mind the SAN/Networking stuff

How much income do Dell make on desktops compared to server, storage and services revenue?

I'd wager a lot...

Re: Does it work on Linux?

Only for users of said webservers that also have the libjavaplugin linked to the browser - when's that going to happen? It's a webserver, not a workstation :)

Saying that, I only installed the javaplugin three days ago so as to use webex on my laptop, it is now disabled.

Re: Surprised Prometheus.....

+1 mate, really disappointing movie. Has Scott totally forgotten how to make a decent flic?

Alien was brill - and actually scary - Blade Runner was excellent. Even today both movies looks as fresh as you like, yet this was tripe. Why??? Too much CGI maybe?

Yer man Fassbender was truly excellent though - where did this guy come from.. every movie he's been is has been class. I'd watch it again for him alone.

Re: Lenovo Thinkpads are not IBM Thinkpads

I cannot speak for the newer lenovo's but the X60s & X61s's are rock solid.

Case in point - my daughter dropped BOTH of them down the stairs - from the top, yet they work fine.

I've dropped them off the coach many times, no issues. My son is a disaster zone and manages to drop things when you tell him to be careful - yet they still work flawlessly.

My daughter dropped my ibook ONCE, it died horrifically - the screen came off completely, parts across the floor - this was the same drop that the thinkpads endured with hardly a scratch.

As for Dells, I can only speak of their business range, but I am very happy with my latitude, only complaint is the screen is too big for my liking - but feck me the battery lasts long... I managed en entire day of almost constant use. That's bloody amazing for a laptop.

+1

Did the same myself, but it took me 5 months to get through all the seasons. Great show - apart from the season they were stuck in a void or whatever it was (The water starved system of planets). That season was shite enough. Loved the rest though.

Re: So what do you say to Microsoft

Bollox, I'm a Linux only user for the past 10+ years but this Christmas I bought a Dell XPS10 - my first windows since NT4.

I'm quite impressed with WinRT, the responsiveness is excellent, switching apps - and I launched a ton of them - was very fast. The only thing that annoyed me was the network sharing. Yes I could manually plug into to a samba share via //servername/sharename but it didn't integrate as well as expected. It wants to use something called a homegroup. I didn't bother setting it up as I couldn't be arsed.

Re: Hasn't it been done ?

Indeed.... Meego...

$ uname -a

Linux Nokia-N900 2.6.28-omap1 #1 PREEMPT Fri Aug 6 11:50:00 EEST 2010 armv7l unknown

Re: If i upload something that i don't own

I couldn't agree more. My sister uploaded pics and a video of my baby pushing her new toy pram around the kitchen and I made her remove them. Now I'm not even on farcebook for this very reason - but how to police such things...???

You need an account to know about it, I only found out as the wife is on farcebook, but I don't let her upload pics of the kids, and the kids themselves are banned from the site.

Facebook/instagram, you're a shower of bastards.

Re: time flies ...

> on the MD player: the Sony rep removed the disc and reinserted it without a break in the music.

Just tested that, doesn't work mate, it just plays from the start again, which would be expected I'd day.

Maybe you mean when you press pause? Coz that definitely works.

My memory of TW was the jamming, but I also seem to remember an ad on the telly with the sex pistols driving over a CD. Or did I dream that? I could google it but cannot be arsed.

Re: Or...

What? The pi uses less than 4 watts at full tilt, and a quad-core macmini uses 85 W

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468

64 * 4 = 256 watts

4 * 85 = 340 watts

So your wrong :)

Re: Gold Medal to the NASA team!

It is a great achievement, but more inspirational than the Olympics? Not a chance mate.

Re: Affects Linux too, differently

Not for me, on two different machine flash works fine and dandy - aside from the fact that is is still shit and uses up to o much CPU, but it is stable - no frame losses at all watching motogp.com in HD yesterday.

But on my wn7 machine, I get wierd green bars on the top of the screen... no idea why but this is a new thing for sure, as it worked fine before - shit but still stable.

Re: £700 for a decent chair

Rubbish mate. I'm 41 and my arse is the same as when I was 20 - just fatter obviously.

I sit in all sorts of chairs while at work. It is your posture that counts, not the chair.

Yes its nice to have a megachair, but it won't help your aching back if you don't sit correctly.

Re: consol fanboys

I'd have thought most people play games on consoles and use PC's for productivity.

I find it quite surprising that anyone would bother with PC games.

And no, I don't read the reg or any other site on my PS3.

So what's wrong with advertising/reviewing console games on El-Reg? I welcome it.

Re: Who?

...not a bad business man apparently. How many of us can say we made hundreds of millions in a depression?

Credit where it is due and all that.

Re: Not surprised but

no script and ghostery in your browser, and always run in a private browsing session. Then run in normal mode and search for something you'd never normally search for. This severely annoys ad bots, but its rather funny seeing the adds that target you afterwards.

Root your droid and use addblock. problem solved. You will also wish to disallow all tracking in your settings. Lets face it, you usually know where you are and where you are going, and you don't really want to be checking into places either with farcebook.

While your on it, install thunderbird for access to your gmail.

lastly, stop surfing for porn.

There was an ending? A truly fantastic game all the same, but I don't remember an ending to it.