Posts by Alan Bourke

"Dropped a cig" victim

more like.

The surname of that particular miniskirted poutresse ...

... is 'Gillan', I think you'll find.

Veber rhymes with Bieber.

Coincidence? YOU DECIDE.

I love programmer snobbery.

It was hilarious in 1982, and it still is.

"the writing is on the wall for desktop computing."

Verily 'tis the shit of the horse.

I put my foot through my cornflakes

and sent the BBC the bill.

Seriously - do people think that there will or should be some huge effort dedicated to excising any and all reference to Saville from the BBC archives or something?

Linux

is far from free, if you want to deploy it properly in an enterprise environment.

Web fads and video games

represent many billions of pounds in potential earnings.

Ah, Mr Asay

Always with the cloud-biased Kool-Aid.

The reality of HTML5 as it stands is a bit of a mess, if we're being honest.

No love for DogPile?

Maybe not.

I almost died in Australia

because I headed off into the outback unprepared.

Have we really made it this far in the comments

without someone saying that Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS still does everything they need

You can already run JS on the server ...

using Rhino, you mean.

Great read.

More please. I could read stuff like this all day.

Mint is great

apart from the bit where a major version upgrade means you have to back everything up to external HDD, reinstall from scratch and then restore. That sucks.

You literally

couldn't make it up.

So Smart TV

is it MORE shit than 3D TV, or LESS shit?

Kill it.

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Only joking. But keep it locked up.

Shame ...

I haven't dealt with them since the mid-2000s but they used to be great, and their AV was small, fast and effective.

Hurrican Sandy caused by global warming?

Nonsense. Everyone knows it was the homosexualists*

*Note: This is a joke.

'Legacy'?

"A lot of legacy software is still Windows-only, and there remain today developers who don't make their software cross-platform"

The fact that something isn't Windows-only doesn't make it 'legacy', it probably means that there was no sensible business case for making Mac or Linux versions.

Great, great game.

Loads of secrets in the levels too, which is always nice.

Life is increasingly like

a Neal Stephenson novel.

Is it just me

or are there some Bosch staff on here?

Aertel still going

in Ireland, too.

It blew the Apple, Amiga and ST away tech-wise in many ways.

Good to see an open source version of RiscOS is being ported to the Raspberry Pi.

I have every PC Zone cover CD up to around 2003.

Why? I don't know.

PEEK dammit.

And how does Canonical think these corporates are going to run all the payroll, ERP and other stuff on Ubuntu? It would be great if they could, but I don't see the Linux alternatives. Unless they run it all through RDP off Windows servers.

Linus in toys out of pram shocker!

If I might dare criticise the holy one.

Not edge of space.

Edge of space 60 odd miles. Felix 23 miles. Still awesome.