* Posts by Ramazan

808 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2008

Symantec reports early Stuxnet variant first went live in 2005

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WTF?

weaponized malware?

Did it kill anyone? No? So why TF?

New social network is for DEAD PEOPLE

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

Review: Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultrabook

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Re: This is a 1000+€ convertible

The one reviewed here is something like $4000

Microsoft: You want Office for Mac, fanboi? You'll pay Windows prices

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windows' prices

That's not Windows' prices yet. To come equal, MS should have added Windows 8 Home price to the price of Office 2013 Home for Mac. E.g. price Office 2013 Home for Windows at $120 and Office 2013 Home for Mac at $220 ($220 == $120 for Office itself and $100 compensation for having not bought Windows 8 Home, bitch).

Australian Parliament issues summons to Apple, Microsoft, Adobe

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Re: They have no factories here

Typical with hunting - "because she is made of wood", same kind of logic. Of course they have no costs in Australia, but the product isn't made in Australia either.

New Zealand court hands out second peppercorn downloading penalty

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I first heard about BitTorrent from debian.org - it's the preferred method of distribution for their ISO images since ages

Company you never heard of builds 3.4 petaflops super for DOE

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Re: and had to buy an expensive maintenance contract .. are over

see https://www.fbo.gov/?id=2d5be1c688fbd13f80526385e616d365:

The TASP of $12M includes the initial purchase plus year 1 maintenance and years 2-4 optional maintenance.  HPCS-4B is not part of this solicitation.

Brit mastermind of Anonymous PayPal attack gets 18 months' porridge

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they killed cops first in Chechnya BTW

Microsoftie's tell-all on 'rival-flinging' Ballmer: The politics of disbelief

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Xbox

There are Dean Takahashi's books on Xbox, and Ballmer didn't obviously have to do much with the Xbox project

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

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Re: with one single product that shall be the same for everyone

You know, Gates tried to do this (unified Windows) with original Xbox and Xbox 360, but it wasn't technically/financially possible then... Probably he thinks the time has come now

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Re: accused manufacturers of not building attractive Win8 tablets

He should've accused them of building _ugly_ Win8 tablets IMNSHO.

Microsoft's Intel-powered Surface Pro to launch in February

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WTF?

Re: The most appealing of this new breed is the Lenovo Yoga

Appealing may be variants of Sony VAIO SVD (they aren't cheap though), but Lenovo remains a crap.

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Re: 13 inch MacBook Pro

Dana, the MBP weights twice the Surface Pro (more than 2kgs IIRC), costs _more_ than MSSP, doesn't come with Windows 8 (add $100 to MBP's price to have a fair comparison), and doesn't have a touchscreen (who need it? but mention just to be fair).

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Facepalm

Re: 0.91kg - not a chance.

What are you talking about? How much do you think a Macbook Air 11" weights? Weight: 2.38 pounds (1.08 kg). How much does it cost? $1099 for 128GB version, $999 for 64GB (both have 4GB RAM and HD4000 of course)

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Re: HD4000 integrated graphics

"most games"? HD4000 isn't supported by The Witcher 2

Microsoft to end Windows 8 discounts on January 31

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Pint

I have a better idea for Microsoft

Stop developing, selling and supporting Windows(TM) at all and users will crawl to you begging...

Ballmer now flings out work rivals, rather than chairs, claims ex-Microsoftie

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Facepalm

Re: XP Tablet Edition, 2002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing, 1991

Oracle, Dell, CSC, Xerox, Symantec accused of paying ZERO UK tax

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: zero profit in the UK because you paid YOURSELF in another country

There is revenue but there are expenses too. If you employ tens of thousands of 200k per year programmers, project and product managers, R&D etc in USA, who make your software, does the UK government still think that your UK subsidiary conjures up s/w boxes out of thin air somehow?

Browser makers rush to block fake Google.com security cert

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Mushroom

Turkey should be off by default:

On my Debian systems:

$ grep -i turk /etc/ca-certificates.conf

!mozilla/TURKTRUST_Certificate_Services_Provider_Root_1.crt

!mozilla/TURKTRUST_Certificate_Services_Provider_Root_2.crt

$

How do I do this for Safari/Mac OSX?

Sinofsky's new blogski: Windows 8 king reborn as management guru

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Pint

Re: Telling others how to build successful products, of course

Thanks, el Reg, that's made my [Fri]day!

“Real artists ship” - in fact, real artists shit regularly, but ship rather occasionally.

MEGAGRAPH: 1983's UK home computer chart toppers

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Apple Pages

And BTW I didn't find how to change colours (or use non-solid lines etc) there. I must admit it's 2nd time in my life that I use Apple Pages, but apart from non-cluttered UI (die, MS Word!), it's $20 wasted IMO.

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Holmes

Re: What application did you use to make that graph?

Obviously, it's Apple Pages (by default it makes this type of chart with annoying "o" data points). I needed to make chart yesterday, and spent 2 minutes finding how to turn these data "points" off.

Israel plots gigabit fibre-to-home rollout

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Pint

Re: no other pressing matters

There are no other pressing matters at the moment (except Iran) now indeed. The So Called P-n Non-Entity won't receive any more taxes, electricity, water, food, gas, petrol and probably air too (in several years) -- thus nothing for Israelis to worry about

Apple's new 'Assembled in USA' iMac a bear to upgrade, repair

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Thumb Down

Re: my 2007 iMac - in 2011 - 3 years out of warranty ... free of charge

they refused to replace broken hinge on my macbook air 2009 - in 2012, while it was also a known problem. Screw them.

Google, Apple, eBay shouldn't pay taxes - people should pay taxes

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Re: the alternative is trade barriers

Or sales tax, or lower corporate taxes than in Ireland/Luxembourg/etc. There are several solutions as always. But if UK govt decides on barriers it shows their attitude plain and straight, We Don't Allow Anybody to Milk Our Cows for Free.

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Re: because State laws are poorly written

Probably that's the reason why people in USA are reacher than in UK

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Mushroom

Demagoguery

All this really is about conflict of interests. If UK government want more taxes from Google/Amazon/etc, they should try harder - first, they should replace corporate tax with sales tax or other kind of tax that's applied to revenues instead of profits. And the government have all the rights and means to do that. On the other hand, Google/Amazon/etc have full right to decide not to sell/serve/provide anything in the UK anymore. Let's wait and see who loses more.

Hearts, minds and balls: Microsoft's Windows 8 Surface gamble

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Trollface

Re: Atom CPU has more power and is even able to run WinXP

Atom CPU uses 10 times more power and is even able to run WinXP -- fixed dat for ya

OS/2 a quarter century on: Why IBM lost out and how Microsoft won

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Re: one of only four multi-processor OS

This is a lie

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Re: Ballmer's biggest lie ... convert source code written for Windows to run on OS/2

Tam Lin - you are the biggest fraud and liar here. What you tried to talk about is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Libraries_for_OS/2, sucker

IBM insider: How I caught my wife while bug-hunting on OS/2

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Stop

Re: Xenix: 1970s.

XENIX: 1979

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Was there much of OS/2 that went into the NT kernel?

Thanks DaveC, nothing at all.

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Stop

Re: IBM supplied fixpacks for free... something that left MS for dead

You are completely wrong here: "someone at IBM decided that LAN based network should be a premium and people should pay twice the price for OS/2 Warp connect. This proved disastrous.

Right about this time, Microsoft had released Windows for Workgroups, which was all about LAN / NetBEUI access, but they even did throw out a free TCP/IP protocol upgrade. Windows NT 3.1 had finally shipped, and it too included LAN TCP/IP support" (http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=739)

Asus VivoBook S200 11.6in touchscreen notebook review

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I'd suggest to review Sony VAIO SVD11213CXB next time, that would me more interesting than ASUS-produced crap (as they told once on the tomshardware, ASUS-The-Economizer).

Ten four-bay NAS boxes

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Alert

Re: native crypto

You should never use FS level crypto - opt for PV level one instead (only /boot is open, everything else including swap partition is encrypted with passphrase no shorter than 24 characters).

Woz: Microsoft's innovation lead 'worries me greatly'

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Re: Compare

That was supposed to be a list of innovations, not products (well, Kinect is innovative, but others weren't invented or first implemented by Microsoft).

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Re: Kinect

Well, several years ago a friend of mine was astonished when he tried two-fingers-swipe-to-scroll on a MacBook. This is one very small innovation but it's incredibly useful, when compared to old Asus/Acer/Samsung/worl&dog approach (right side of touchpad as scroll area).

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Headmaster

Re: smarter people designing the amigas

Amigas didn't happen until almost 10 years after Apple I, and Nintendo still made hanafuda cards in 1976 (Nintendo began to produce electronics in 1977).

New Microsoft Windows chief 'shocked' by Sinofsky defenestration

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Better title: Sinofsky’s exit came mid-way through the Windows 8 lunch period

mid-way through the lunch Ballmer comes in and tosses the poor chap out the 8th floor Window(tm).

Apple 'less innovative' at laptops than Lenovo

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Re: popup menus disappear when application quits

So the problem isn't with nVidia drivers obviously. Not that there aren't problems with nVidia drivers in Linux at all, just not these. With laptops there are a lot of proprietary crap and bad choices of hardware, especially in Sony laptops (e.g. camera in UX), but situation with drivers is significantly better than with Windows (XP 64, anyone? Support for SB16 in Windows 8 Pro? Bluetooth stacks other than IIRC Broadcom?)

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WTF?

Apple less innovative in laptops than Lenowho?

Sony X505VP, Sony U1, Sony U3, Sony U101, Sony U50, Sony UX series, Sony TZ series, MacBook Air but Lenowhat? Are you joking?

Google, Amazon, Starbucks are 'immoral' and 'ridiculous' over UK tax

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Pint

Re: what do you expect them to do

lower the taxes. They should compete for customer by free market rules

Windows boss Steve Sinofsky exits Microsoft

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Most probably Sinofsky just wanted/tried/schemed/whatever to replace Ballmer and failed.

Apple MacBook Pro 13in Retina display review

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Re: larger 1Tb USB3 drive

I have had a 2TB USB3 drive (2.5" WD) for almost a year, it's better than my 1TB Samsung S2 (works on PCG-U3 while Samsung doesn't, for example).

Microsoft Surface Touch keyboards self-destruct – and more

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Re: test before release

That would be against time honored Microsoft tradition -- "Charles Simonyi didn't believe in testing. The guy wrote buggy code. He was a Smart Guy. He believed in the field beta test." etc.

Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review

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WTF?

Re: @Alexander Hanff 1

OK, about your points:

2x more RAM - all eaten by fulll blown NT kernel vs mobile-optimized OS (CE, iOS, Android, QNX/BBRY etc)

2x more storage - all eaten up by full blown NT install with 4 versions of .NET framework DLLs etc

WP8 - hardly a benefit

2nd Generation Gorilla Glass - who gives a fsck?

Bluetooth a.b vs Bluetooth c.d - see above

P.S. sir, you are an idiot