Posts by TheVogon

Re: how do I get my country on the "no sale" list?

"aims to stop the sale of exploitation software to restricted regimes with poor human-rights records"

Won't the Americans and Israelis be a bit upset when they can't buy their favourite software?

Re: Particularly on very high bandwidth / low latency connections like say 40 Gbit

"there's bugger all measurable difference in the IP stack between Windows and Linux performance on that (or any) kit

That's not my experience. Not a vast difference but at extreme bandwidth use, Windows Server is generally measurably faster and has lower CPU use.

Re: How appropriate

"40 years ago today the US govt sent a taxpayer-funded robot to invade an alien hostile world"

When I saw the headline, I thought they must be referring to Jimmy Carter...

Re: How about "Shoot McShootFoot?'

"No, that one's been reserved by Slurp"

What has this got to do with Google??

Re: That's still "sometimes".

"Sometimes means 'occasionally' or once in a while"

It also means 'in certain cases but not always'.

Anyway I'm dubious of your claim of 99.7% of traffic seeing as Linux versions etc. are commonly torrented. 99.7% of hosted files on some torrent hosts maybe. A citation is required...

Re: I've said it before

"Finally the agency excoriates Windows 10 for its poor security. People can use a four-digit pin to log in and purchase apps"

But you can CHOOSE to do exactly the same on Android or IOS. This isn't a Windows security failing, it's a user choice.

"and the CNIL notes that there's no limit to the number of times a PIN can be tried"

Also the same as Android / IOS.

There are also security advantages to using a PIN - if you’re using a Microsoft account to log in to your device, you’re entering a password that can be used to gain access to every single aspect of your account, including other devices and web services.However, by setting up a PIN lock, you can unlock a single device without routinely using your account password.

"since TPB and now KAT are taken offline!"

TPB is still up.

Re: Free like a puppy

"Virtual Machine Manager isn't free (or even cheap)."

But you don't have to use it. You can manage everything from the command line like KVM (via PowerShell). Or you can use third party products.

Re: Article picture

Should have just added a pirate flag to this:

http://www.charterworld.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/USCG-Eagle-Photo-Credit-United-States-Coast-Guard-650x436.jpg

Re: The writing should be on the wall

"That drop in revenue would have sent any other companies share price tumbling"

They never made any profit to speak of on Mobile though, so it's of little consequence.

Re: @TheVogon

"Yes because when the Tories got in, there was no Debt and then they crashed the economy....you utter fuckwit!"

On which planet is that? On this one the budget deficit has been cut by 2/3 and the UK economy has outperformed almost everyone of our peers since the Conservatives were elected.

Re: So a major price increase then...

"What you say might be true for Windows but it is not true for Linux."

Well yes, Linux vendors still charge per CPU socket, but that might change tomorrow. I doubt enterprise Linux will ever be cheaper to license / support than Windows Server except in very niche applications.

For instance see https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html

Re: Morals issue?

"This sounds stupid I know but the Saudis make Baptists look like party animals."

You obvious haven't been there much. Or out in the expensive parts of London during Ramadan. When they think no one is looking, the Saudis make party animals look like Baptists...

Re: Software contains bugs

"Win10 has supposedly been re-written from the ground up."

Says who? Even Microsoft don't claim that.

What Microsoft actually said was "This new Windows must be built from the ground-up for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

The IOS issue has now been fixed apparently.

Re: Space to spare

"a complete fucking waste of money."

Gordon Brown subsidising "Greece without the sun" ...

Is that "committed" like they are to Itanium?

Re: Delusions of Competence

"He's a yank, their beer just makes you sick without the joys of being drink."

Drinking English beer turns it into American beer....

Re: Games

"Plus what happens when DirectX 12 comes along, which is exclusive to Windows 10?"

It's already been here for quite some time now. Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Ashes of the Singularity, and Gears of War were some of the first DX12 games, and it's also been rolled out to the Xbox One - so many games are being written with DX12 as the native target.

Vulcan will be an afterthought for most gamers - DX12 is the primary requirement for the foreseeable future.

"All your games so far run on Windows 7. But if Microsoft makes any headway with DirectX 12, you'll soon be forced to install Windows 10."

There are already an increasing number of Windows 10 only games. See http://www.cinemablend.com/games/See-What-Games-Exclusive-Xbox-One-Windows-10-Year-109267.html

Re: "No, No, No. Let me resign..."

"Brave Sir Nigel ran away!"

Or he is freeing himself up for the task of joining the Brexit negotiation team.

Re: World to UN:

"You and whose army?"

NATO probably. Give it a few more years and everything in Europe bordering Russia will probably be a member...

Re: What are the El Reg units for SD card costs then?

"Uh, the UK is still part of Europe :)"

We still have UK versus European pallet sizes for instance...

Re: All things are...

If you want a laugh try asking an American to pronounce the following:

Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Barium, Aluminium....

Re: Between the lines

"Only if you are a stuck with Windows. With anything else, SfB is a royal PITA"

The market share of any other OS on the enterprise desktop is close to zero.

If you want to go down the path no one else uses, expect to be having to fight your way through...

Re: 13.1 W.

"Not realistically an AA cell. That's 10 amps at 1.3V"

Or 3.54 Amps at 3.7 Volts as per say a Lithium AA (14500) cell.... Pushing the limits but quite possible.

But actually it says 0.7W for an AA - so that's less than 200mA on a Lithium AA cell...

Re: CAC40 and DAX dropping substantially more than the FTSE

"Well duh, yes, because FTSE companies are priced in pounds sterling"

Well, Duh, FTSE companies are mostly not listed on the DAX or CAC....

"Opera already has the edge on Edge regarding HTML5 speed tests."

"Already" being since when for a browser that's 21 years old? Edge has been faster in every benchmark I have seen since Windows 10 went RTM.

Re: Bananas argument

"Arguments about bananas. "

Arguments about Banana Boats are more pertinent to todays vote imo.

Re: Unsafe Space

"And you would disarm every law-abiding citizen in the face of such savagery."

Absolutely. Like most civilised countries already do. Gun owners are many times more likely to use the gun in a crime or have it used on them by a criminal than to ever use it in self defence.

As America already has more guns than people and firearms related deaths are still stratospheric, clearly having more guns doesn't stop gun deaths. Quite the reverse in fact.

"users would simply change their handles if they thought BREIN was close to catching them"

Or maybe they just used an open WiFi access point.

Re: We couldn't slurp because no one was buying Windows10...

Windows 10 has over 300 million active users already. That's the fastest roll out for a new Windows version ever.