Posts by Andy Barber

Pioneers

Don't forget that Psion developed an early version of 'Office' type software for the Sinclair QL, (Merlin Tonto,) called Psion Xchange creating an interoperating word processor, spreadsheet, database & a graphical display. OK it's clunky by today's standards but in the 1980's it was cutting edge. In the 1990's I visited quite a few firms still running QL's; if it works, don't fix it. The PC I replaced it with in 1994, cost as much as FIVE PC's now.

So how long...

...before my home router becomes obsolescent then?

3.5.3

"First, albeit unscientific, impressions, are that the latest version (3.5.3) of the open source browser loads more quickly and is generally snappier than recent versions. Firefox's memory hogging behaviour of late has become one of the main reasons those adverse to IE have begun to use Google Chrome as an alternative browser of choice."

Load more quickly? LOL I made a coffee while waiting for it to load.

Memory hogging, it now uses twice as much, so much for progress!

The words...

...putting all your eggs in one basket spring to mind!

Sell the phone..

... with the solar charger, not as an 'add-on'!

How can...

...people be so stupid?

Upgrade

Why does Ubentu need to upgrade every six months? I installed V 6.0 which was fine. V7.0 refused to remove V6.0, so I gave up & went back to Windoze. My son is a Mac* fanboi & only boots up in Ubentu when at home though.

* Struth, I could have bought four PC's for the cost of one Mac but he needs a Mac for his Uni work!

Motorola 68nnn

What what was so wrong with the Motorola 68nnn processors? They had much more umph than the Intel chip! An ARM is better than an Intel chip!

Steve Jobs...

...recognized him. Turing died by taking a bite out of an Apple injected with cyanide, hence his companie's logo.

Who said...

...640Mb ought to be enough!

Steward's...

...Bar & greedy spring to mind!

What's wrong with...

...channel 32 or 50 on UK TV then?

I for one...

... welcome our Chinese prostitute overloads!

Yes but...

...can it emulate a Sinclair ZX81?

Religious weirdo's

Ha-ha, point finger & say NOT IT!

Key, away...

...throw.

Struth the guy is a total twat, lock him up in the USA & they can pay for his internment. I don't want pay UK tax-payers to pay for his internment to a USA crime, that he has admitted to!

Pirate Bay re-branding

"may be renamed The Pirate Bay," which is like British Telecommunications plc, re-branding to BT plc!

Fines

"...but where does all the money from the fines go? In this case, intel have profited, and amd have lost out hugely, so surely it should go to AMD?"

Why just AMD? What about IBM, INMOS, Motorola, Sun, & Zilog?

Paranoid?

"Besides, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that someone - perhaps even the Italian Mafia - isn't out to get you."

Why is the name McKenna, so similar to self-confessed hacker McKinnon? Have they ever been seen in the same room with each other? No, so therefore they are one & the same person!

640kb...

... should be enough!

Union

Strawbs song, 'You can't get me I'm part of the union':

Mine's the one with CWU on the back!

BTW my boss is in the Connect Union!

Homechoice

When Homechoice first started, I'd just moved to frames in BT. The take up was staggering slow, about ONE customer a WEEK. The words "hole" & "plug" sprung to mind, whenever I connected a Homechoice customer.

Now BT Vision, that's a different story. BT's System X/Y* were designed to deliver TV but Margaret Thatcher thought that allowing US Cable Companies to dig up our streets was a better idea, than using the existing infrastructure.

* Thirty years old & now obsolescent!

33M Notebook?

At 33 metres it wouldn't fit on a bus, let alone my living room!

Gay - God

One's Gay & the other has found God. What can possibly go wrong?

Where's amanfromars...

...when we need him?

111 will result in too many mis-dials even with MF4 dialling, as LD dialling is still used!

Tap-tap-tap, "Emergency, what service do you require?"

London

Did you know that BT Regard Redhill & Reigate as London telephone exchanges. (L/RED & L/REI). Both are outside the M25 & I've worked in both TE's & all the others between them & the 020 area, (in the London South Area.)

Gmail

I've had a Yahoo! Mail account since 01-1995 I tried Gmail once but realized my Yahoo! mail wasn't broken & didn't need fixing.

Sleeper

"There is a significant and steady growth of obesity in the UK population which could increase the demand for passive entertainment services".

So Woody Allen was correct then in the film Sleeper, with the invention of the "orgasmatron!"

El Reg...

....at it's best (again), & I'm not taking the - Michael!

Beer icon, because I'd better re-fuel!

Free Leckie

With a data centre that big, it will have a loads of roof space to install solar panels, or is the TCO of solar power a negative? I've suggested it at BT but so far no action, so assume the TCO is the problem.

Value of customer

"...which values the 19m customers at something around £150 each."

Struth, I have paid just £55 in the last 18 month's for my PAYG Nomi account & that includes two, hour long calls to Australia!

640kb...

... should be enough! Finally a use for the BG icon!

@Joe H

Still using AVG 8.5.339? I'm on 8.5.375 & that is still hunky-dory after installing Firefox 3.5.

What do they do?

What does IBM actually do? They have flogged the PC business (which it invented,) to Lenovo. I've seen loads of IBM office's closed in the UK.

So what do IBM actually do these days, apart from resting on the Laurel's of its patents?

Hello...

...Airbus then. At least it's not a plastic (Aircraft) kit & can ACTUALLY fly! BUT if the Oz's buy Airbus, they'll get the ones made in China but at least it's an Airbus though. The words 'Hudson River', 'freezing water', 'Airbus' & '100% survival rate'; spring to mind!

BTW Get rid of the BG icon's!

"programmable by ordinary coders"

So I can use a sensible language like Sinclair SuperBasic then?

BTW get rid of the the BG's icons!

Beer? Too long in the tooth!

M$ + Yahoo! = internet hell

So Yahoo! got there first (sic) with its Webmail in 1995. Now Micro$oft refuses to play catch-up 14 years later! Which do you think is the the more astute company?

BTW M$ Office is bloatwear & has be removed from my PC

BTW2 Why has The Reg still got a Bill Gates icon's, he's history!

P1185

What was so wrong with the supersonic Harrier? Come on UK.plc, go back to the drawing-board & develop the aircraft that will work off our future carriers, rather than the F35 that <might> work!

Mine's the one with an Airfix kit if the P1127 (Kestrel) in the pocket!

@ B Weeks

"a TC reference in the article"

What, where, who, when how?"

The Norm

Ok Humans are 99.5% related to the Chimpanzee by DNA BUT 99.6% related to the Bonobo by DNA & they have bi-sexual orgies whenever they find food.

Secret message

"It was disguised as a policy. I wrote 'call. po-lice', & it wasn't spotted by the kidnappers?

Refuses my card

Paypal refuses to accept my Credit card at all. I have used it to make direct payments though, seen the receipt so I know it works.

I have spoken to a human by phone & they said my account was "blocked". They "un-blocked" my account. It still doesn't work!

BTW nice to see the new icons but why is Gates still there? He's so yesterday!

Newsgroups?

Are the covered? Are the various Yahoo! Groups covered by this?

I for one...

... welcome our pedant overlords!

I for one...

... welcome our underwear overloads!

Avalible on 23-06-09

<will be available for users in Brazil, Israel and the US initially>

Great! My licence for F-Prot runs out 24-06-09 & I live in the UK! So it's AVG for me then!

Why has it taken M$ so long to realize their buggy O/S's NEEDS built-in AV?

Oh, no Sir, you need ANOTHER multi-megabyte add-on, so we can slow your PC to 386 speed & force you to up-grade your (perfectly working HW), again!

{Bloke across the road still uses his '60's Ford!}