* Posts by Ramazan

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Woz's key to success: Burn the tie, wear T-shirts to work

Ramazan
Stop

@most people working in real business realise

You mean people like Sergey Brin and Larry Page I presume?

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Coffee/keyboard

@How on earth did they all fit

In a serial fashion, presumably

Feds charge eight former Siemens officials with bribery

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Black Helicopters

@Stuart 25

I for one welcome USA prosecution if our domestic one turns blind eyes to crime and corruption.

P.S. of course I'd like to see HP, IBM, Microsoft and others in court too.

Oracle fires Itanium countersuit at HP

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

superdome vs mainframe

HP superdome certainly doesn't posess mainframe-class reliability - 2.5 ago we maxed RAM on PA-RISC superdome, but one memory module was faulty. Guess what? Superdome crashed.

Ramazan
Facepalm

@AC 13:04 GMT

HP-UX too unstable and lacked performance? It depends on what you mean by "unstable" and "performance", much like Bill's rant about meaning of word "is" was. :) Certainly, HP-UX is not even close to Linux or Solaris feature-wise, but it's rock solid stable. And not more ugly than AIX is (was, and will ever be. The single most bastardized version of UNIX is AIX without any doubts).

Ramazan
Holmes

Itanic sinks

"purely down to Oracles play pulling the rug out from under it". Wrong. Intel is happy selling lots of Xeons while having marginal sales of Itanics, why should it pay salaries and buy equipment for the 2nd unprofitable R&D team then?

Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone

Ramazan
Facepalm

"Everyone has the iPhone". "Also," he added, "many are not happy with the complexity of Android and the lack of security." I'm not surprised anymore about Nokia's fall after reading this nonsense. Their management truly cannot make up their mind on simplest matters.

2011: annus horribilis for Microsoft and RIM

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Headmaster

centred on the US smartphone biz

1st, America == North America + South America

2nd, the article mostly deals with operating systems from 4 USA companies (there's 1 dead Canadian and 1 Finnish OS too but let them bury their dead themselves).

3rd, WP7 didn't sell well in China, is it what you meant by "globally"? Thanks, but I'm not interested because I don't work for Microsoft

Oracle and IBM fight for the heavy workload

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join of non co-located data

I suspect it's impossible to do efficiently with MapReduce family of algorithms at all. For such kinds of tasks there are plenty of multimillion "superdomes" and alikes on the market...

Ramazan
Linux

nobody runs “reports” that perform 5 TB of disk I/O

Are you sure? We don't ATM but that's just because it will take forever (although some of our reports are allowed to run for _days_, 5TB is not yet within sight). And if we used Google tech and stored CDRs (Call Detail Records) on 50000 cheap servers, then we could, and the said 5TB report could finish in 1sec BTW (100MB of CDR data on each server can be processed in 1 second, if the weather and moon phase is right :)).

Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed

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Linux

WebOS is vapourware

Did Not Finish. WebNuk'em if ever etc. Let's see the code first, then we talk

Ramazan
Angel

APIs

That's why Symbian is no more - because of its terrible API.

Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb

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Retrorockets

of course Soviet Union used them since sixties till its collapse. Russia uses retrorockets to this day AFAIK

Ramazan
Facepalm

@rh587

Sir, you need to get educated. 1st, if vehicle wasn't designed as human-rated in these times, it means that is provides much faster and cheaper launches for cargo (and most probably its tonnage is much higher than that of comparable human-rated vehicle). 2nd, you need to put Nazi in charge, if you want something to be done right (http://xkcd.com/984/).

Japan launches, orbits radar spy satellite

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Holmes

did Japan license the design?

No, this one is completely Japanese as well as H-II was. H-I used some US-licensed tech mixed with domestic components. Japan wouldn't use Russian tech because the two countries still didn't sign WWII peace agreement.

Microsoft slips out Silverlight 5

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Trollface

most of the movies

are crap anyway, so why would anyone want to use LOVEFiLM in the first place? There are eBay, Amazon and torrenttab, so it's always possible to get a fix, just one fix, one fix, one fix...

Is Bill Gates mulling a return to Microsoft throne?

Ramazan
Facepalm

die?

Obviously, the one who downvoted this joke either doesn't appreciate black humor or hopes to live forever (just to avoid copying Steve, probably).

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Stop

@PaulR79

Vista wasn't a move from DOS. WinNT was, with its direct descendants being Win2k, WinXP, Vista and Win7. Vista was rather a move from GDI, which remained largely unchanged since WinNT 4.0 (GDI was moved from user space to kernel between 3.51 and 4.0 to improve speed).

Ramazan
Gimp

hey, Billy

Maybe you were good once... But now, everybody knows you're just a washed up rocker, who can't tell a six-string from a shot glass.

2011's Best... Premium Tablets

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Pint

no one can buy now?

So is the X505, but everything is possible if you invest some time and effort

Ramazan
Holmes

ultrabook? No way

I had several ultrabooks and now I'm going to buy another one, although it's piece of history already - Sony VAIO X505-VP. Modern "ultrabooks" all have a CPU blower fan, and moreover, I _never_ managed to finish Machinarium game on the the top-of-the-spec MacBook Air because of overheating and kernel_task kicking in before "owl" level. By definition everything with active cooler sucks, but tablets, the Asus Transformer and some elitist notebooks like Samsung Q40 and Sony X505 don't have one and may be considered more or less equal, but The Ultrabooks? No way.

China pad peddler wins iPad name from Apple

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Joke

yeah, and pull all iPad manufacture

out of China as well.

LG chisels wedge-shaped Ultrabook

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

IBM PC clone more expensive than IBM PC?

They didn't make such mistakes back in the 80s...

iPhone banned in Steve Jobs' ancestral home

Ramazan
Joke

So now they've got someone (Apple)

to blame for toppling of their regime

Chinese state research unit pays $1,000 for USB stick

Ramazan
Mushroom

nine times what one might expect

are you joking, mr.Feinmann? $47 should yield you 4GB at, least IMNSFHO

PROVEN: Violent video games mess with your head

Ramazan
Pint

long?

Two weeks (twice more than MJ)? Are you joking, mr.Wang? Go have you pint of ale and stop bothering us with such nonsense...

Time up for Oracle's HTML5 killer?

Ramazan
Trollface

don't get the user interface space, please

We like it as it is. Well, best user interfaces are shell (bash with tcsh-like bindings for up/down) and vim (some prefer emacs instead and I'm tolerant wrt their heresy).

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

To Windows user hiding behind anonymous mask

Why do you use any sort of collection that produces side effects anyway, sir?

Samsung to 'exit netbooks'

Ramazan
Linux

x86 CPU

x86 virtualization is killing feature, but Atom doesn't support VX bit, hence it's at disadvantage vs modern ARM processors which are much faster and draw ten times less power. The only thing I need an intel CPU on notebook for is HPOVSD (and Lotus Notes to lesser extent). Gaming is anyway is crippled on any notebook except maybe 5kg 17" ugly alienware monsters, I just prefer to use microITX GTX580 winxp machine for that.

Falklands, Cardiff lie beneath track of rogue Phobos-Grunt

Ramazan
Trollface

Come, friendly probe, and fall on Slough

Steve Jobs had 'personal moral failures', was no role model

Ramazan

re: ignoring everything he picked outside of Apple

Why so? Pixar is bad? Or NeXT was?

Asus Eee Pad Slider SL101

Ramazan
Coat

ungodly ugliness

it is.

Mine with UX380N in the pocket.

Truly unlimited mobile for $19: How can it be true?

Ramazan
Megaphone

US operators hold you americans for idiots. 1.5GBytes of GPRS data cost me $10 here (actually $5 with all subsidizing), and it's prepaid GSM, no stinky contracts etc.

Kindle Fire: An open letter to Jeff Bezos

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Thumb Up

being Google-free is actually a plus!

Thanks for the article, I've just chosen a Christmas gift for myself

Microsoft seeks patent on employee spy system

Ramazan
Coat

a supervisor--supervisee interaction, a supervisee--supervisor interaction...

How interesting, unidirectional interaction here.

Mine being unacceptable for business meeting

Ramazan
Holmes

false achievements

> 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the analysis results include a score reflecting frequency of use of actions associated with desired and undesired behaviors.

What are they trying to achieve with that? Initially I thought about Getting Job Done, but the text indicates otherwise...

Proposed US piracy legislation labelled draconian by Schmidt

Ramazan
Coffee/keyboard

Shmidt?

The weirdo against weirdos, a-ha. C'mon, El Reg, don't try to clean the dirt off his ugly image

Security researchers break out of Apple's sandbox

Ramazan
Joke

Re: Tchou

Neither system is immune, unless the weakest link is eliminated - the user. Sandboxed app may ask him to execute sudo rm -rf / for example, citing some urgent reason, like to save the world from imminent disaster

Computers are so middle class – Mark E Smith

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Joke

Re: MrCheese

So they come and downvote you, or unfriend you on Facebook instead of punching you in the face The Oldskool Way for the post they disagree with :)

SSL authority stops issuing certificates following breach

Ramazan
IT Angle

in countries such as China

Do they have equipment for "MITM lawful intercept" though? I'm pretty sure they do, but I'd like El Reg to name particular network equipment vendors and certain models and features of the equipment they sell to China

eBay boss declares era of e-commerce is over

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Coffee/keyboard

Modern Warfare 3 flogged on eBay for a grand

Well, eBay proved itself useful, at least for someone. Again.

Ramazan
Megaphone

eBay lists items, Amazon lists titles. Try shopping for vintage 386 Cyrix motherboard on Amazon by comparing photos (actual item photos)...

Both are not e-commerce though. E-commerce is represented by iTunes/AppStore and Steam.

LinkedIn whips out begging cap, asks for $500m

Ramazan
Pint

OptOUT

I've terminated my LinkedIn and gmail accounts several months ago. And I didn't start having Facebook one in the 1st place

Farewell then, Sony Ericsson

Ramazan
Flame

never released even a minor update for a £500 handset

That's why Apple products go strong, even with all those EOL-ed Motorola & PowerPC Macs, Mac OS Classic etc...

Other "vendors" (in the worst meaning of the word), like Motorola and Sony, never release any updates once they sell you a thing.

HP flip-flops on sale of Personal Systems Group

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Trollface

Item: HP Personal Systems Group

Sale ends in 4 days

Buy It Now

or Best Offer

History: 0 offers

This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available.

Blue Coat owns up to Syrian Web-blocking

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Coffee/keyboard

it believed was bound for Iraq

Where it would've been used to protect Iraqi people's rights and freedoms, of course?

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Joke

used for lawful intercept

Not at all, because laws in UK/US are used to right the wrongs, while in Syria to .. vice versa, of course, how else? Now shouldn't someone come and teach those barbarians what law really is?

Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race

Ramazan
Trollface

HP porting VMS to ARM is like Unisys porting Burroughs MCP to ARM

Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil

Ramazan
Megaphone

email attachments larger than 100k

plaintext only, in monospaced font, not wider than 72 chars per line. And learn how to properly quote. And don't overquote.

Ramazan
Pint

listen to the voice of reason

Everything he says is quite reasonable and most is absolutely true:

> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.

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