* Posts by Ramazan

808 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2008

Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review

Ramazan

Re: Or the dual 2mm-pin/microUSB-charging.

or the real miniUSB or microUSB charging on your beloved C7 or N8 fsking OLD Nokia hardware, you coward?

Windows Phone 8 will be 'less than explosive' - HP bigwig

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Re: HP is not cool though anymore

They are still quite good in servers (HP-UX, VMS).

Microsoft's 32GB Surface RT has 16GB of free storage

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Pint

Re: did anyone seriously expect Microsoft to not be bloaty

I did. I've read Dean Takahashi's book about Xbox and it said that BillG agreed to trimmed down OS on Xbox (while initially he was all for full blown Windows there). I think BillG/SteveB need to spend more time thinking / less time drinking

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5GB for recovery partition

means that Windows RT won't fit on single-sided DVD (compare that to iOS BTW)

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Joke

Re: 16GB after formatting

That's patented Microsoft filesystem, boy

Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest

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desktop environment?

Who needs one, honestly? Window manager is enough IMHO, I do just fine with blackbox, while some prefer ion2-style WMs. twm is OK in some circumstances too.

New iPad's innards: Good news for recent fondleslab buyers

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Re: because the 3rd was notorious for overheating

Of course iPad 3 burns through more watts to handle 4 times more pixels on its Retina Display. Was this compromise necessary in the first place? Maybe they should've simply waited till A6X processor before inroducing Retina Display to iPad?

UK iPad Mini FRENZY: Queues stretch SEVERAL FEET from till

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Re: the only people who will choose to buy a mini are

You know, iPad L (Large, i.e. regular version) is way too heavy at its 600 or 700 grams (my notebook which I use for writing this reply weights approx 500 grams), especially when you have something to compare to, like e.g. Kindle. Reading books on iPad is not that great experience, neither is it that unobtrusive when stuffed with its SmartCover into messenger bag etc. I'd like to have something lighter and smaller, but not that small as iPhone, so iPad S (Small, i.e. Mini version) would fit the bill (but only with GPS, and priced below $270).

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Pint

Re: WiFi Nexus 7 has GPS enabled

Upvoted just for mentioning that simple fact. And Nexus costs $230 vs iPad S's $330. And it doesn't require you to use iTunes.

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Joke

Re: iPad Mini Mega

How about iPad XL/L(regular iPad)/M/S(iPad Mini)/XS instead?

Where are all the open-source mobile projects?

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Ramazan

Re: Is there something inherent in mobile that is a poor fit for open source

Matt, are you crasy or what? All GSM/EDGE/UMTS/HSxPA codecs are proprietary and _patented_. That's why it's impossible to do Free as in Free Speech implementaions ATM. Full stop.

'I'd buy that for a dollar': Apple on Moto phone patents

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Re: eulampious

Whenever you see a cop beating a guy, wherever a hungry newborn baby cries, whenever you feel FRAND ITU-T or ISO idiocy, look for me ma' -- you'll see me (c) song of young smart Alec. MS and Apple are both known to exploit deficiencies in the law and license agreements, and honestly terms of FRAND are bullshit IMNSHO, and companies who signed FRAND are idiots.

Sony promotes Vita with QUAD-JUBBED WOMAN

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Windows Server 2012: Microsoft's other Big Push

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Apple enables 'Superstorm Sandy' donations in iTunes Store

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clicking "Cancel" when they should have clicked "Do It"

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt

Apple updates iOS 6, Safari

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Joke

Re: Seems to be causing problems for Appke in Korea

It's mostly Samsung that's causing problems for Apple in Korea, not Apple maps

iPad Mini's quite a handful

Ramazan

Re: technical manuals in PDF form

PDFs are generally formatted for A4 or Letter, so you should buy A4/Letter-sized (10") device then -- normal iPad or Kindle DX (oops!).

Inside the iPad mini: Pray you never have to open one

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Re: If you plump for the wifi model ... will spend their time at home

Wrong, you can enable WiFi Access Point on some 3G/4G phones, and there are portable WiFi/3G/EV-DO routers powered by pair of 18650 batteries for example.

I for one am certainly tired having to maintain and regularly pay for several SIM, microSIM and R-UIM cards in every goddamn device, and I think I only need one in my phone, which I ought to exchange for WiFi AP capable model long time ago

Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI

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Lepro

Halo 4 game review

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Paris Hilton

will it be available on Microsoft Surface?

Ballmer claims Win 8 sales strong, WinPhone to follow

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Re: Win 8 pro upgrade + win vista business full retail == $140 (Amazon)

$139.1 actually ($66.99 for win8proUpgRtl + $72.11 for winVISTAbizFullRtl, both eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping), and you get a version that may be transferred legally between computers/VMs...

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Win 8 pro upgrade + win vista business full retail == $140 (Amazon)

That's why sales are good -- because full retail version of Win 7 Pro is much more expensive ($350).

Windows 8 Surface: best tablet, best laptop OR compromised and confusing?

Ramazan

Re: my previous iMac got a replacement Logic Board

My MacBook Air didn't receive Apple service because August, 28 deadline has passed.:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2948

and this is theirs production defect, not any accident caused by my handling of the MacBook (I have service center conclusion confirming my words). I bought it several years ago for $2100 BTW. So please think twice before trusting Apple again.

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VPN support

I have LUKS/AES encrypted 2TB external USB3 harddrive attached to my home WiFi router (Asus rtn-16). This involved setting up TomatoUSB firmware on it and building custom kernel with support for md, crypt, dm etc modules and cryptsetup binaries and libraries with all goddamn deps. I know OpenVPN well but I decided instead on oldskool pppd-over-ssh VPN (also a lot of custom configuration). I managed to pull it all off. With Surface this all is impossible, especially the part where I'm able to access all my files and home computers and torrent and jabber and ftp and whois and more via VPN, from anywhere, including from behind corporate firewall which only allows outbound connections to ports 80 and 443 and even them only via proxy with authentication (I use transparent proxying BTW).

And I can access another corporate network simultaneously with the first one mentined before, with DNS working fscking great for both nets and the Internet in forward (A) and reverse (PTR), with krb5/AD entries resolving just fine etc and so on. Try to do that on any MS product you sheeple (http://xkcd.com/1013/).

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Surface's USB port

Please don't mention the USB port on Surface - you can plug everything in it, it's true, but the device will only support what Microsoft deems necessary, so it's closed exactly the same way as iPad's port (there is official camera adapter by Apple to load photos from attached camera or SD card and that's about all you can do).

Surface RT: Freedom luvin' app-huggers beware

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Facepalm

Re: you cannot install new desktop apps

How about kernel "extensions" ;) then? And maybe with user installed kernel modules we would be able to connect LUKS encrypted external USB3 harddrives, modems, Ethernet adapters etc? The thing comes with USB port, did everybody hear that as MS said that several times? Of course USB port will be very useful to us ordinary customers. They've seen things (done with the USB port) we people wouldn't believe (c) Blade Runner etc & so on

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Joke

Re: perhaps Tim violated the license by writing this article

Surely Tim violated the MS License and if he does't apologize ASAP he'd be fired as that stubborn Apple manager who refused to apologize for Apple Maps in iOS 6

Ramazan

Re: The presence of USB is a significant advantage

Really? What can you do except attachinng kbd/mouse and loading photos/videos from camera when s/w is locked? BTW there's official Apple camera adapter for iPad, it's cheap and it works just fine.

Alienware assimilates Dell FROM THE INSIDE!

Ramazan

Re: What percentage fail - and how they are delt with

Exactly. And mind you Apple refused to help with broken hinge on my MacBook Air because it happened after 28th of August, 2012. Am I guilty that this MacBook was used too gently and left my home only 4 times during its lifetime?

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broken hinge

One would presume that Apple product would be of much better quality than all Alienwares of he world combined but this is not the case -- I had left hinge broken on very gently used MacBook Air due to production defect, and Apple refused to replace the part or refund the MacBook (it cost me more than $2100 back in the day).

iPhone owners sue Apple for locking Jesus mobe to AT&T

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Re: Anti-competitive?

People who can spell "prick" may be allowed to vote

Microsoft: Welcome back to PCs, ARM. Sorry about the 1990s

Ramazan

Re: 30000 transistors, roughly the same as 6502

Not roughly the same but roughly ten times as much. "The MOS Technology 6502 is a 8 µm process technology chip with 3510 transistors and a die size of 21 mm²"

Kindle Touch bites the dust

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Reading Amazon customers' reviews of Kindle Paperwhite, I think that Amazon is way too quick to discontinue Kindle Touch now. They should have waited at least until quality issues with Paperwhite screens are sorted out. At least Amazon could offer [specced up] Touch as a replacement for Paperwhite to those customers who simply cannot bring themselves to like unevenly lighted screen (after exchanging several Paperwhites and not seing an improvement).

AMD uncloaks 4GHz-and-up FX Series 'enthusiast' chippery

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Stop

Re: there is no bottleneck by DDR3 RAM above 1333 MHz

Wrong. RAM is always bottleneck, that's why your typical CPU has L1, L2 and sometimes even L3 caches. If you don't see perfomace gains going from 1333 to 2600MHz RAM, that's becaus of wait states or other reasons.

Gates: Microsoft will merge Phone and Windows platforms

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Re: Gates on the vision behind Zune.net's social features

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/03

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Pint

Re: Must be some good shit

Probably they fume it in the Microsoft Retail Outlets otherwise I see no future for the Surface

Alcatel Lucent battles unions in bid to slash 5,500 jobs

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Pint

Re: But allowing Chinese companies to dump products in this way is an even worse idea

You know, if you drop Chinese from this statement it may look good enough to actually legally ban such companies from bidding (when they are government sponsored beyond point of competition being fair to other players).

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Trollface

Re: the last time round when countries started erecting trade barriers

That's the opium trade performed by British East India Company you meant, didn't you?

Salesforce CEO Benioff: Win 8 is 'the end of Windows'

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Coat

Re: He has his head in the clouds

and his shit all over the customers.

// Mine with a bullshit detector

Apple appeals Samsung patent getaway in Tokyo

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Paris Hilton

Does Tokyo District Court try to repay Japan's debts to Korea (for Japan's war crimes against Korean people) in this way?

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Holmes

Re: What's the point of courts below Supreme level?

Before case ascends to the Supreme court level, a lot of lawyers at bottom and middle layers get paid well, that's the point