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Shirley you meant to say "Ar, milk an' tao sugars please, moight"
Posts by ici.chacal
65 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Nov 2010
Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras
Court doc typo 'reveals' Julian Assange may have been charged in US
Assange catgate hearing halted as Ecuador hunts around for someone who speaks Australian
Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ
Penguins force-fed root: Cruel security flaw found in systemd v228
Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures
Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus'
Mystery Kindle update will block readers from books after Wednesday
Intel admits Skylakes can ... ... ... freeze in the middle of work
Windows 10: Major update on the Threshold as build 10586 hits Insiders
Sunday 8th November 2015 08:52 GMT
Re: *Sigh* windows 10 is quite good for a given value of good.
I put my technically-clueless mum on Ubuntu a couple of years ago after Windows ground to a near halt and her browser became more toolbar than web page; ironically, the only calls for help I get now are because Hotmail (or whatever M$ call it now) has messed up her email...
Google snaps Dutch woman completely taking the piss
Pebble smartwatch finds its voice
I want my EPG, say Windows Media Center users left in dire straits
Daredevil Brit lifts off in 54-prop quinquaquadcopter
TrueCrypt considered HARMFUL – downloads, website meddled to warn: 'It's not secure'
Batten down the hatches, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS due in TWO DAYS
Heartbleed vuln under ACTIVE ATTACK as hackers map soft spots
USA opposes 'Schengen cloud' Eurocentric routing plan
French youth faces court for illegal drone flight
Frenchmen's sperm plunges by a third in quality and quantity since '89
Alienware assimilates Dell FROM THE INSIDE!
Tuesday 30th October 2012 08:13 GMT 
I'm with Mr Potts on this one...
I used to have an old XPS Gen2 as well, and still have very fond memories of it. I got rid a few years back since it was the last of the single-core CPU machines and I needed more juice. I then decided to try Sony, but mainly for portability reasons... Meh.
A month ago I received my brand new M17xR4, complete with top-end GTX680M graphics chip and quad core Ivy Bridge CPU, and this thing flies..! I'm not kidding, this thing is mental..! I'm so glad that I have a modern equivalent of that old XPS again... The thing runs flawlessly, without getting too hot even when I'm playing Just Cause 2 for hours on end... (And in an Astro Scout backpack, it's not uncomfortable to lug around either...)
Modern Alienware machines are to die for...
(P.S. My brother got the M14xR2 at the same time, and that rocks too..!!)
Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack
Mighty quake shook ENTIRE PLANET, broke tectonic plate
So, just what is the ultimate bacon sarnie?
Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April
Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz
Iran: Our nuke facilities still under attack by US, Israelis 'and MI6'
Saturday 23rd June 2012 17:32 GMT 
Damn lies...
Both sides declare contradicting arguments. One of them must be lying. It's probably Iran, but then can you blame them..? If they have any sense whatsoever, they will be working their arses off to try and put together a nuke as fast as they possibly can, before America decide to do to them what they have already done to their neighbours...
'Kindness of America' snapper shot himself in 'act of self-promotion'
Monday 18th June 2012 18:15 GMT
So, erm...
If this guy shot himself, I assume it would have been point blank, so therefore would he not have been covered in gunshot residue with powder burns all over his arm and torso..? I'm no expert in GSW forensics, but I imagine it would have looked obvious that the shot was point blank, wouldn't it..? (Perhaps some 'all-American' firearms experts can enlighten me...)
I wonder what he used too; bet it was a poxy .22 or something (wouldn't have been a .50AE, lol)
Crytek says future is free-to-play
Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA
Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8
Matt Groening reveals location of Simpsons' Springfield
Windows Phones message hub hit by killer SMS
Vodafone touts low-tech phone for app-phobes
Modern Warfare 3 teaser trailer reveals terror on the tube
Tuesday 24th May 2011 13:55 GMT 
@Richard Wharram
The Modern Warfare series are developed by Infinity Ward (although MW3 is being co-developed with Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software), whereas Black Ops was by Treyarch. The IW games all rock, whereas Black Ops was not the first by Treyarch to receive criticism.
My point being, you should be fine with MW3...
Judgment Day prophet resets doomsday clock
Rapture postponed as world inexplicably fails to end
Monday 23rd May 2011 13:28 GMT
Mor(m)ons...
The religious folks who believe in these extreme prophecies are really no different from those who believe that they will receive 70 virgins in paradise if they blow themselves up. The sooner the human race can eradicate religion of all flavours, the sooner we can all get on with concentrating on more useful activities, like figuring out for ourselves what the universe is all about...
Playboy sneaks NAKED LADIES onto iPad
Iran accused of hacking nuke inspectors' phones, PCs
Thursday 19th May 2011 12:14 GMT
Not convincing enough...
Just read that Popular Mechanics article, and sure, I believe the towers were hit by two airliners, there was always enough footage to see that. And sure, maybe they did collapse at free-fall speed due to their internal floor design and the pancake cascading effect. I buy that...
...but what I don't buy, is that building 7, which only took damage to one side of it, would also come down so perfectly vertical. Surely it would have toppled over on the weakest side..?! But if you watch a video of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73qK4j32iuo), it clearly comes down EXACTLY like a controlled demolition. If you want to believe some bullshit 'official' explanation, then fine. I will believe my own eyes, and draw my own conclusion.
Additionally, the Pentagon. I don't know what hit it, because there doesn't seem to be any footage of it. Now with the Pentagon being the headquarters for the entire United States military machine, you'd think there would be enough of CCTV footage, constantly monitoring all angles, all around the building. And all they could produce was five measely still frames of an explosion, which pretty much showed nothing else..?!?! WTF..?!! Too fishy by far...
(There's also some 'conspiracy theory' style addition to the Pentagon story: Apparently, the previous day, Donald Rumsfeld announced that they couldn't account for roughly 1.3 *Trillion* dollars, and supposedly the computers that held the evidence of mis-appropriation of funds just happened to be in the part of the Pentagon that was hit... Not sure about this though, like I said, very conspiracy theory, lol... :-p
But anyway, that's my two-cents worth... Open your minds people...
Space shuttle Endeavour finally off next Monday
Freeman Dyson: Shale gas is 'cheap and effective'
Natty Narwahl: Ubuntu marine mammal not fully evolved
Monday 2nd May 2011 00:00 GMT 
Just tried the LiveCD...
...and to be honest, I quite like this new Unity thing. It is certainly different, and although I can't vouch for its similarities to OSX (*spit*), it does remind me of the way the Windows 7 desktop works, which I also like.
As for its Fisher Price factor, I didn't think it was too bad, because as we all know, nothing can trump Windows XP in that regard.
And as far as productivity goes, just load up the launcher bar thingy with the stuff you use, and away you go...
I only played around with it for half an hour or so, so I have yet to run across any of the niggles that other people have mentioned.
And the great thing about this being Ubuntu/Linux, if I get bored with it I can just load up another desktop instead... Sweet..!!
Saturday 30th April 2011 22:32 GMT 
The bug that particularly shocks me is...
...the one where you cannot manually specify mount points in the partitioner during installation. Obviously somebody, somehow, has broken it since the last release, and it just goes to show how little, if any, regression testing goes on... Can you imagine the uproar if the Windows installer had such an unnecessary error in it..!!
Pretty poor if you ask me, if this fixed six-month release cycle is just going to mean flawed releases, then perhaps Canonical should consider a more manageable time-frame..?
Apple confirms white iPhone 4 on sale tomorrow
How I learned to stop worrying and love SSDs
Monday 25th April 2011 12:13 GMT
Title
I have a few questions for those that know...
1) Does the system see an SSD exactly the same as an HDD..? (i.e can you partition an SSD and write Grub into the MBR just like a regular HDD..?)
2) We know that Windows 7 supports TRIM, but does Linux..? (or will the likes of Ubuntu and RedHat eventually grind to a halt..?)
3) Is it imperative to be aware of, and make sure you turn off, automatic defragging, or will the SSD just ignore the request..?
Ta.
Ruskie Java coder lifts inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup
Canonical pares Ubuntu down to 2 editions
Thursday 10th March 2011 12:51 GMT
Simplicity...
Surely everyone in the observable universe can burn a DVD these days, so why is it still different CD images..?!
It would be nice if they just had one DVD image download for Ubuntu, from which you could select in the installer whether you wanted Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Desktop, Server, Netbook, or indeed ALL of it...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
