Posts by Fluffykins

Still like

This:

http://www.wally.com/jumpch.asp?idChannel=44&idUser=0&attivo=2-7 (OK it's a bit smaller, but it looks so cool)

or this:

http://www.why-yachts.com/

Thanks

Happy Christmas and a Preposterous* New YEar

*Like 'Prosperous' but much funnier.

Holly icon please

Carrion Playmobil

Or

Playmobil Carrion

So what

We all know he's a minister for Culture and Use of New Technology.

It just got abbereviated.

Oh, the irony!

Did anyone else notice the Google ad for AVG on the side of these pages of comments, most of which being along the lines of "AVG is shite"

Does this presage the launch of

Barbie BOFH* ?

*Bitch Operator From Hell

Wouldn't happen in the UK

The prosecution, I mean

Squeak?

Thank you Mr Pratchett

mutated ninja gorillas

you've met the wife's mother then?

It could all be explained if

she was a bit short sighted and was buying a pair of melons.

By the bye: My rhubarb hangs way over the edge of the scale.

Isn't sending people bills for stuff they have not bought plain and simple fraud?

Just ask the police to get involved.

"total electronic systems failure,"

Go on, admit it: You left the sodding lights on and the battery is flat!

Reminds me of a conversation I witnessed some time back, between a potential BOFH candidate and a somwehat trendy management processes presenter (or something like that - you get the idea)

Candidate looks out of window towards carpark

Trendy: What's up? Is there a problem?

Candidate: No; just checking I'd not left my lights on

Trendy: Oh. (smugly) doesn't your car tell you when you've left your lights on?

Candidate: Yes. It doesn't start when I get back to it.

Ah: Digital TV. Such a choice of channels

We were promised - and got - endless choice with the advent of digital TV.

Unfortuantely, the reality was: Huge choice, but nothing to choose.

Once burned..........

Ah, yes, DAB

Where 90% of the hardware available looks like it was designed by someone whose idea of advanced 3d modelling CAD packages is a really sharp crayon.

It's funny, but I still can't find a decent home cinema system with anything beyond FM.

Can we all please be good Europeans?

In these times of harmony, can we please remember the term is no longer "Spending a penny"

It is to be called "Euronating"

No, that's actually a good idea

Its at least as good an idea as the idea of paying for the phone then restoring the money to my bank account at the first reboot.

Marvellous.

Tea, keyboard.

'nuff said.

I don't see why comments from national Grid are a problem for BT

BT could just delete any unfavorable comments and ignore anything else nat Grid says - a bit like they do over comments about Webwise (ptah) and Phorm (Gretch)

SQUEAK?

Thanks, Mr Pratchett

Does the roadmap include not acting like malware?

Will Oracle stop distributing the bloody Yahoo toolbar with Java VM installs?

Until it stops, it should be flagged as fscking Malware

It's a damn sight more than 99%

If your definition of malware embraces unwanted and irrelevant applicaitons which piggyback on legitimate software with installation selected by default.

This would include things like the Yahoo / Bing toolbars (Sure as hell not relevant to Sun/Oracle Java, but ibncluded nevertheless) Yahoo Toolbar, default search to Yahoo (AV bloody G)

If this crapware was actually any good, surely people would want it on its merits and there would be no driver to hide it in irrelevant applications.

Yeah. And they're not alone

Bloody AVG also acts like malware, with popup adverts for its products.

that, along with AVG's insistence on punting the Yahoo toolbar malware means I'm on the verge of removing it and switching to something else.

I thought these products were supposed to STOP antics like that, not fscking imitate the scum!!!!

Having reaped the benefit of contact with Orange's customer service,

I'll be Anything Elsewhere (TM)

The penis mightier than the sword

Or so I think it's said.

Theme from Fireball XL-5

That's all.

Open the pod, HAL

WTF Still Stands

"Since when was the MaCrappee product any good?", he types, sitting at a PC which slows to a crawl at frequent intervals and at which time Task Manager reports huge gobbets of processor time dedicated to aforesaid MaCrappee.

It's at such times I need El Reg and the BOFH (assuming there's enough horsepower left to run IE, that is). I reckon a decent gobful of coffee, liberally sprayed over the processor box, would cause several pounds worth of improvement and force a replacement.

So: WTF^2

Well, maybe

It'll mean MaCrappy gets some serious development to stop it being a resource hungry, intrusive pile of crud which I'm stuck with in this corporate poxy machine. I've got a 286 which could be switched off and still run Vista faster than this box.

Fifty years old?

Thatlooks suspiciously like a Denny sidewall craft, dating back to the 1960's (Gods, I feel old) http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1962/1962%20-%201507.html?tracked=1

HP pays to end kickback probe. Is this

Sort of kickback squared, perhaps?