* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Apple pushes out Mac OS X update to fix Time Machine fail

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Re: It would be far fucking better

If you sat your time capsule on a 3mm alloy plate with some spacers to allow a little air under it.

I know this is a kludge, but it works fine for any device where a tad of additional cooling may make a difference.

Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain

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Re: aww heck

Nothing fundamentally wrong with that, XP & '2000 are perfectly adequate and worked very well for the company whos network & infrastructure I managed for the last 8 or so years.

After all most business models havnt really changed, they buy or make stuff, sell it at a profit then run the gauntlet of the tax man & companies house who do their very best to shaft small businesses.

Dicking around with fanciful operating systems, neither wins more orders or satisfies customers when some courier dosn't deliver their order so change just isnt on the agenda.

Tony Blair closes RSA 2012, denounces WikiLeaks

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Re: Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

<quote>Can anyone read that without hearing it in the voice form the begining of Porridge ?

You are a habitual criminal .....</quote>

should read:

You are a habitual war criminal

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Re: What a fucking hypocrite!

Sir,

As the 49th thumbs up to your post, I wish to congratulate you on such a concise response to the article.

The very fact that blair can actually charge money for spouting such hypocritical bile, saddens me but re-assures me that my decision to leave the (dis) united kingdom was the right one.

Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Perhaps

Microsoft have re-written the standard to define a leap year?

& got that wrong as well.

Third of Blighty stuck on snail-speed broadband

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Mais, ici c'est rapide...

This just shows what a joke BT is,

Despite living in very rural France, we get perfectly acceptable broadband speeds of about 6.8Mb/s & 0.85Mb/s on the up & good ping times on very similar technology.

& cable in 2-3 months time

Microsoft apes Google social search master plan

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Squirting at friends?

Whatever next?

I think all my friends would prefer that I kept my body fluids to myself!

Microsoft explains bland new Windows logo

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Re: Re: Memories

Your post is somewhat unfinished,

If you are going to run business computers you need to use commercial grade software...

...that dosnt go wrong, needs little maintenance, is utterly reliable & performs well on any hardware you choose to run it on.

Apple's Messages beta will self-destruct on Mountain Lion launch

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Re: Oh Great....What a frigging annoyance from hell

How very well said, I thought I was the only one.

Microsoft CFO bullish in Windows convergence and comms plans

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Cross Platform?

Microsoft has really got to sort its own backyard out first

Microsoft sets date for Windows 8 preview - at mobile shindig

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Ah but

Microsofts mission seems to be to bugger up the user interface as much as possible, that way they perpetuate the training market for their gold certified partners, whilst the fanbois dont mind if they have to spend eternity sussing stuff out, its their mantra.

No doubt it will be plugged as the next great thing but quite frankly, Microsoft is irrelevant to me.

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

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Be a pleasure

As opposed to standing with 160 other standing passengers in a carriage as I oft did

LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option

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I agree

Ive always considered it an over rated service for suits who love to 'fly it up the flag pole', 'pick it up and run with it' or 'touch base' (shudder)

coat - asbestos - as Im sure some may relish a 'heads up' to take a 'paradigm shift' and dribble at the prospect of another member 'opening the kimono' to join yet another irrelevant address book.

Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt

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pas problem

google.tout = 127.0.0.1

Potent proton pulse to BOMBARD EARTH Tuesday morn

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Now

where my lead pants?

oh and please post GMT/UTC times, thank you

Microsoft sharpening axe for marketing heads - report

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Apart from...

The wheel mouse, with the red glowing thingy under it

Symantec downplays source-code trophy theft

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Paid for it?

Your post implies that Symntecs code is worth something?

surely not, I wouldn't part with hard earned cash for their slop.

Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver

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From personal experience

Ive never trusted Microsoft to do anything other than screw things up when it comes to system restores.

Acronis provides much better outcome

Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6

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why stop there

Get rid of all of em

UK's solar 'leccy cash slash ruled unlawful

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Re - Unsustainable

They do generate a small amount of power on a cloudy day but not much

I personally think its all part of Labours scorched earth exit policy

GCHQ code-breaking challenge cracked by Google search

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Outsource?

Isnt that what you get when you outsource?

They completely miss the bleedin obvious

Fragged, fragged and thrice fragged! 20 years of id Software’s Doom

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Ah the toxin refinery...

If you peg it up the steps, turn left then before the barrier rises go down that corridor to get the +100% health supercharge!

Doom was the de facto 3D classic FPS & I still enjoy a frag now and again

Apple MacBook Pro 13in Core i5 laptop

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And if you did...

buy a cheaper PC based laptop, you have the suffrage of Windows unless you install Linux

I have the 2.7 and it ticks all my boxes

Council not fined after 7,200 sensitive files dumped in skip

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It pains me to say

The bovine blunderer, instead of being sent to the scaffold

has probably been promoted

Ofcom denies privacy to drunk-dial-and-drive trucker

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Tough shit

But I think he got off lightly

I dare say he wasn't Eastern European or it would have been a bottle of vodka.

Microsoft seeks patent on employee spy system

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& when

The HR system decides we havnt earned enough points to please our ubermasters do we get fired by e-mail?

Thankfully I jumped ship long ago & f**ked off to France!

£1m 'Nobel prize of engineering' named after the Queen

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Dyson off shore?

I think it was the shiny arses on the town council who refused PP to expand so he upped stumps & moved elsewhere.

Reg man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK?

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Pint

@ Hollow

Brilliant but regrettably correct, tell 'em how it is

& have a beer on me

Microsoft moving embedded systems to Windows 8

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or

You may be a victim of software counterfeiting. This copy of Windows did not pass genuine Windows...

Pass the wine, dear. Yes, that papier-mache thing

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last a month?

Quite a large bag of vin then!

I get 10 litres for 10 euros from a local vineyard in a bag & its never gone off

Don't get privates trapped in Facebook's silos, warn experts

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Im afraid

its stable door open, horse long gone

iOS upgrade swells iPhone battery-suckage grief

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John Lewis

Recognise the EU directive regarding the sale of consumer goods

Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service

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Happy

Hand held devices?

I take it "Our lady Air" would also provide D size Duracels to last the flight

AT&T survey: Cloud computing saves cash, planet

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Surveys

I take with a large pinch of salt,

since the "HP laserjet 5 costs more to run than an inkjet" bollox

whatever will they tell us next?

UK.gov digital boss defends ID assurance scheme

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about

Ten minutes, if the current rate of loss is the median

Manufacturers testing wider cars for swingbellies

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And

They take up more road,

I can imagine the DVLA hovering over the 'create fat bastard tax' icon

Broadcast television is 75 years old today

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Happy

And

A parent of a child in my wifes class insisted it was invented by Yogi Bear

Why can't civil servants keep a grip on their BlackBerrys?

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No problem?

Its public money which they are experts at wasting.

Loosing it is just another way to upgrade

wankers

BBC iPlayer to require TV licence

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Jeeze

Canadian TV must be really bad!

or have you not seen the exchange rates lately?

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

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Yes but

Its a telephone, if you dont like it, dont buy it.

Theres enough information out there on the internet to enable most people to make an educated choice without having to listen to some self proclaimed weird beard prophet.

Tsunami Trojan: First Mac attack based on Linux crack

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I use it

Just for the PC users USB sticks...

Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers' privates

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I prefer

An angle grinder with a diamond wheel to cut them in half

London 2012 Olympics: 17000 athletes, 11000 computers

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That stripy tower

The red & white one with the tangled mess of steel around it reminded me of something...

got it -

Chernobyl

BBC One and bureaucracy spared in Auntie cuts

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Im paying them nothing at all

:D

The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One

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Anonymous Coward

enough said

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Angel

And

May those who imitate your software & products, continue to fail dismally

RIP Steve

The security mistakes users make

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John

It wouldnt let me set the password "John"

Honest

UK punters happy to pay £3 to top up e-wallets

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The survey shows

That 316 Richard Craniums, thats dickheads to the unwashed, are happy to pay £3.00 for stuff all

Major BT exchange titsup in power outage

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Ha Ha

That'll learn 'em to use such utter shite as BT

Pandemonium as Microsoft AV nukes Chrome browser

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and

Mine

Busturds