* Posts by MrRtd

109 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2012

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Mint Linux gifts Unity haters with 'Nadia' ... plus her Mate

MrRtd

Re: Mint is great

Why would you need to go through all that trouble? Simply format a home partition, so for future upgrades all your data remains as long as you don't reformat it.

Oprah Winfrey tweets her love of Surface – from her iPad

MrRtd
Linux

I never understood why so many are wooed by celebrity endorsements. I find the entire entertainment/celebrity industry quite annoying, to say the least.

If RIM had the money to pay her and her not so great TV network, I'm sure she'd be saying how wonderful their product is - or what's the name of the other cell phone maker that's on it's death-bed? Oh yeah Nokia.

Somehow I don't ever see MS getting the cult following Apple has. But who knows, I'm not a psychic.

End Rant. Have a good day.

Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review

MrRtd
FAIL

8 pages...

8 page review, is ridiculous. Surely it could have been reduced. Here's an idea, publish the article over a page or two and have a slideshow of photos as an option.

Facebook starts to ingest Instagram: Users revealed to web

MrRtd
Thumb Down

I was considering Instagram, now I will pass.

Windows 7 overruns NHS Scotland

MrRtd
FAIL

Ha. They're stuck in the MS trap. While some think that the licensing is cheaper than switching over to open source (which is true at the time of signing a contract) the long term costs aren't very good as they'll be locked in to using MS products.

eBay frets as right to resell comes under scrutiny

MrRtd

Even if there were such warnings, sales may not drop but it would be ignored just like those warnings at the beginning of DVD's. I hope the judges make the only sensible decision and sides with EBAY.

Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure

MrRtd

too late?

"evidence that had been filed too late for the trial proceedings"

OK, I admit I'm not very familiar with the specifics of trial procedures, but the idea that evidence however relevant can be ignored because it's filed too late seems to me a major flaw. And if that evidence isn't allowed during the trial, then doesn't it make sense that the party with the new evidence could demand an appeal or new trial?

Big biz 'struggling' to dump Windows XP

MrRtd
Linux

This just proves that IT managers have not been doing their jobs properly or have been prevented to by their senior management teams.

It's as if corporations just don't prepare for the long-term IT needs. It's also an expensive lesson in not investing in open-standards and vendor lock-in.

Apostrophe’s cause problem’s in e-health system’s

MrRtd
FAIL

I understand that bugs arise and things can be overlooked, but to fail at something as basic as someones surname that contains an apostrophe or that is hyphenated, tells me that either the programmers are lazy or incompetent.

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