* Posts by Fuzzysteve

68 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jan 2010

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Fallout: New Vegas

Fuzzysteve

Non-linear

Pretty much. There's 4 different ways to end it, Though once you start one, it locks out the others.

But you can wander freely, until you do start one.

iPad to lead netbook and Kindle market munch

Fuzzysteve

only if you want 3g

wifi only is 109. and the cheapest ipad's wifi only too.

Apple's iPad is the hotcake of the 21st century

Fuzzysteve
FAIL

got to love statistics

Completely ignoring the size of the target market.

Just because you have sales in one quarter, it doesn't mean you'll have the same sales in the next. Especially for something high end like this.

2 quarters is hardly enough time to get meaningful statistics.

Firefox 4 beta gets Sync and Tab Candy Tab Panorama

Fuzzysteve
Happy

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

All there for me. Just have to hit alt to bring up the regular menus.

Or, for most of what you've said, hit the big orange button in the top left. Might be a dodgy skin/persona?

One in five workers still clinging to IE6

Fuzzysteve
Stop

hardly clinging

More like 'lashed to'.

It's not like enterprise users get to choose their web browser, after all.

'Suspicious' Android wallpaper app nabs user data

Fuzzysteve

When it's installed it has to ask

There's a list of the permissions the application is asking for, shown at install time. You either approve all of them, or none.

IPVision FetchTV SmartBox 8000 DVR

Fuzzysteve
Happy

Picked up the 8320HD myself

From tescos. Not bad. And there's a new UI that's supposed to be coming sometime soon.

Only bug I've seen is in the names of recordings, when you watch another channel while recording. It records the name of the channel you're watching.

I don't get the HD channels yet, but that's because of a filter on my aerial rather than the box.

The remote's better on the HD model too. and has an additional power button that works with my TV.

Linux game-time refined with latest Wine

Fuzzysteve

Project replacement

http://openproj.org/openproj

Not sure if it has all the features of Project. but it'll open the files at least.

Yet to see anything that'll open a Visio file. There's plenty of diagramming software out there, but not that'll do Visio

Freeview HD Set-top Boxes: Best Buys

Fuzzysteve
Go

Can you review the 3view one when it comes out?

While it's about double the price (300quid), looks pretty good.

Dual tuner, 500gb hard drive, dnla, internet, youtube, iplayer to come.

Course, at that price, knowing it it's worth it's important, so a review please? 27th may is the release date.

Windows XP Mode skips virtualisation hardware requirements

Fuzzysteve
FAIL

Nope

'Personally I think MS were beyond utterly moronic to use a hypervisor that required VT for Win7 as the whole point of the feature was to allow people to migrate WITHOUT shelling out on expensive new hardware!'

Nope. The point was to run windows XP only applications, on Windows 7. Nothing to do with performance.

E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co.

Fuzzysteve
Stop

And in the uk?

What with everyone being generally crap at bringing their ebok readers and shops here, other than sony?

E-book readers are a satisfied lot

Fuzzysteve

article with build in bias

Got to love a writer who builds a conclusion into an article, without any evidence at all, while commenting on something that does have some evidence, be it only statistics.

Google mystery server rooted in Apache

Fuzzysteve

Nope

Even if it was GPL, they wouldn't need to.

They're not giving the binaries to anyone, which means they wouldn't need to give those people the source.

But of course, it's the apache license, which doesn't have that stipulation.

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

Obama to boost US nuclear power industry

Fuzzysteve

Because /building/ a plant is expensive

You might make it all back within a few years, but it's a massive amount to pay out at once.

Mozilla's Firefox syncer Weaves out of beta

Fuzzysteve
Happy

it all just works

The key is generated from a passphrase.

Well, It's a /little/ more complex, with the key the data is encrypted with being kept on the server, but encrypted with the passphrase that you provide. but that passphrase never leaves you. Which means that Mozilla never have a chance to look at your data, without having to commit a lot of resources to crack it. (No encryption is perfect. It's all a matter of making it too expensive, or take too long, to be worthwhile)

You need to provide a username, a password, and an encryption passphrase. The first two are used to retrieve the encrypted data. The last is to then decrypt and use it.

Oh, and if you're bothered about storing it in 'the cloud', stick it on your own server. It's simple to set up. And if you're really bothered about mozilla stealing it, well, they have easier ways. like building it into the binary releases of the browser itself.

Fuzzysteve
Happy

It's pretty secure

It's encrypted on the server, and the key for decryption never leaves your machine. And as it's AES-256, it's pretty secure ;)

Just downloads in an encrypted form, and is then decrypted on the client. This is why you can't do what XMarks does and view it on their website.

Oh, and it's dead easy to set up your own server if you want to. php, and mysql or sqllite

Monty's 'Save MySQL' mudsling gets 15,000 backers

Fuzzysteve
Coffee/keyboard

Licensing

One downside of just forking it, is that you wouldn't be able to buy a commercial license for the forked version. It'd be GPL or nothing. Only reason they can sell the commercial licensing, is that they own the copyrights. (I'd assume there's an implicit transfer, when you submit a patch.)

Which isn't quite so good, if you're embedding it.

Welcome to the out-of-control decade

Fuzzysteve
FAIL

hah

I think not.

Perhaps microsoft, or apple, might try that. but then you have open source software.

And I don't see hard drive manufacturers not selling their products.

You always have a choice.

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