Posts by TheVogon

Only if we get a sensible increase in transmitter power / gain also. To say 1 Watt ERP.

Re: Any word on exactly what the illegal modifications were?

At least Oracle have lots of experience with Boat Anchors....

Presumably they are trying to be able to claim they achieved at least something with the billions of dollars they burnt on buying Motorola....after loosing every fight with Microsoft, Apple and Nokia...

Re: Gene splicing

Dropping it off a cliff would have a similar effect for far less cost and effort...

Re: Solution

"with open source software to insure there are no back doors "

Which insurance company would that be with?

Hmm Open Source - so many vulnerabilities, but at least it's immune for the NSA - oh wait: http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/fbi-alleged-to-have-backdoored-openbsds-ipsec-stack

Re: Metaphors, mixed.

Most Blackberry servers connect directly to Microsoft Exchange. You can now completely cut Blackberry out of the loop and use any handset via SSL and stop paying the Blackberry network tax.

If you want an enterprise platform with full management then Microsoft / Nokia offer a good solution for less -O2 amongst others have decided to adopt it: http://www.intomobile.com/2013/07/30/leaked-document-suggests-o2-germany/

Re: Glaciers come, glaciers go, the climate changes

"The IPCC can't explain why global temps are essentially unchanged over the past 15 years"

Surface temperatures haven't changed much - but the oceans are still measurably warming....

Re: Next Technology? Damn..

Add one letter to each of VMS....

Commvault is the solution you are looking for...

Re: @AC 15:26GMT - Microsoft FAIL

"Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product that contains the hypervisor, Windows Server driver model, virtualization capabilities, and supporting components such as failover clustering, but does not contain the robust set of features and roles as the Windows Server operating system. As a result Hyper-V Server produces a small footprint and and requires minimal overhead."

FREE download: http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_EAC=300055432

"Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's an upswing "

So roughly the same number as can't find their own country on an Atlas then....I suspect that there is a large crossover in those 2 groups...

Re: fuck streaming

That's blocked via Virgin - this isn't http://www.proxybay.me/

Re: Optional

I hope they realise that lots of America will end up underwater due to global warming: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357309/How-Americas-cities-look-centuries-sea-level-rises-predicted-scientists-prove-correct.html

Hopefully they will get lots more tornados, hurricanes, etc, too seeing as they are one of the worst climate offenders...

Re: sigh

"Surveillance state based on secret law 'has no place in America'"

Presumably the NSA will shortly be relocating to Guantanamo then to monitor from there...

"Installed some 200 Mbps adaptors last week and the utility was reporting 140Mbps."

Ask reality what it reports as real throughput, and you will get a much lower number....

Re: #40,000 in the queue for the demo...

They wont be disappointed then...

Re: CE? not

"After five minutes the clear heat shrink on each LED had gone black and was too hot to touch."

That's generally what happens when you plug 110V fairy lights into 240V AC....

Re: yep

I will immediately be opening up an American branch to enable investment in the Altairian Dollar, Flanian Pobble Bead, and Triganic Pu....

Re: "As you may know, sysadmins need removable media to do their job," Alexander said

Presumably NSA servers would have BitLocker enabled anyway, so removable media / physical access wouldn't make any difference without the correct security privileges....

Re: Or

"It may hasten the switch over from carrier supplied phones with subsidy to people buying their phones outright and not paying for it through the nose forever more in the form of a hiked up monthly charge."

Usually it works out cheaper than buying the phone + airtime + data separately.

Re: your arrogance remarkable .

"it would be great to take the Win 8/Server2012 Kernel and rip out all of these legacy requirements "

None of these things are in the kernel. Windows has a modern hybrid microkernel architecture, and the vast majority of functionality is via loadable modules..

"make it extremely modular"

It already is - see above.

"put Hyper-V components on it."

Erm no. Hyper-V runs below the kernel and is a true hypervisor. You run a kernel instance in your first VM to manage the system. Just like VMware does it. (Linux unfortunately can't escape the legacy monlithic kernel model, so has to run a hypervisor as part of the kernel.

"I find the Unix style FS layout more sensible yes, but there is a reasoning behind drive lettering that also make sense"

Drive letters are optional. And date from CPM, etc.

Re: Unified message

"$349 doesn't equal £279"

Yes it does - Exactly in fact. $349 / 1.50 Exchange rate + 20% VAT = £279

Re: WMV?

"Didn't know that still existed. Is it being used in the wild?"

Yep that codec is part of the BluRay spec.

Should have bought an Airbus. American planes are just like American cars - expensive, unreliable junk...

Re: Anyone else wonder

"Nokia was not under American control, neither were its OSes. Its smartphones now run windows."

Which remains secure and unhacked, whilst Android and IOS are like Swiss cheese, and even Blackberry 10 was fully compromised.

"Why is Windows so easy to pirate"

erm - you must have not yet used Windows 8. It's very hard to pirate and is still not properly cracked. Hacked versions keep having to be re-hacktivated, and if you try hacking the binaries, the Windows Store and Windows update wont work properly...

"Always on camera on XBox 180"

Kinect might always be connected - but it is not always on - you can disable functionality via the privacy controls. Or you can just turn the power off if you wish.

Re: Funny

"With the speed they're updating the OS(or in their case, making it usable), the support should last for at least 10 years."

Why would you want to keep a mobile longer than 2 years? Once your contract is over, bin it, get the latest and greatest. Rinse and Repeat....No need for any handset to be supported longer than 2 years past end of general availability.

Saying that though, Windows Phone generally has had a much longer life / more updates than Android handsets.

Re: Mandatory question

"Will they fix the problems in IE9 that cause it to crash on a regular basis?"

Zero crashes here. Remove crap like Flash and Java and likely your problems will disappear....

Yep - just another bubble from the sinking Blackberry ship....