I'd be interested in reading a comparison of the features of Flash compared to the features of HTML5.
I hear a lot of noise about the video in HTML5 but not much noise about any other feature. I agree that video is a major use of flash, but it is only a recent feature. I recall from my youth that Flash used to be used for all sorts of things, such as the Games someone mentioned above. Hey, I remember getting a Tweenies DVD for my niece and finding out that it was a bunch of Flash (or was it shockwave i dont recall) 'programs'.
so: can we replace all the functionality in flash with HTML5? or do we need to just do Video though HTML5 and all the rest of the flash-y stuff through a small, dinky 'flash lite' like we used to have in te olden dayes?
the problem with glasses is that people dont actually watch TV. most of the day they "glance" at it. -They wake up and turn the telly on and listen to the news whilst getting ready for work.
How many people would put a pair of 3d glasses before they get dressed just so the morning news didn't look strange?.
Then people, sorta like, come home in dribs and drabs from school/work/manicurist; now there would have been no reason to wear the 3d glasses on the way home; apart to look like a dick, so you glance over to the tv to see what junior/missus/sir is watching and your eyes go funny cos you've not put the 3d glasses on.
Silly. Until we polarise everyone's eyes at birth, 3D is a stupid fad.
HD isn't/wasn't such an issue - hellfire its just a better quality picture for gods sake. Whether the picture is B/W or colour or HD - all you just need to do to watch is to turn your head and look at it - not "turn your head, turn it back, find a pair of 3d glasses, then turn back and look at telly". Hmm. maybe radio will have a resurgence.
3d glasses at £25+ a pop will be fine(*) until your mates come round to watch the footie and you tell them they wont be able to watch it without forking out for a pair of fluffing stupid glasses.
(*) cough (**)
(**) actually you know that's not how it goes - Once Murdoch puts out a 3D channel we'll get BOGOF vouchers in The Sun and a multitude of competitions that allow us the opportunity to win a 3D telly and pair of matching his and hers glasses(***)
(***) I can picture them now - they'll have a green stripe along the top where you can put your names...
So, robots.txt can tell a search engine that they _shouldn't_ index certain content.
But it doesn't stop someone from actually indexing it does it?
But - is anyone going to sue someone if a given search engine ignored it?
I'd be interested in seeing the techniques they'd use to actually successfully hide the content from google? maybe turn the entire website silverlight?
I was part of a team implementing a system in Africa in the 90's. all well and good except the parent company wanted all the servers in Germany.
And there was none of those skinny web clients in those days.It all seemed fine in early tests until we found out that the network (not internet, network) between Africa and Germany went via a satellite.
So we had 4s ping time. minimum.
Oh the joy, I remember it now! A bit like 'nam flashbacks only with the end-user's MD staring over your shoulder..
Geo-synchronous-orbiting satellite communication could do with this protocol. I might still have hair if that had been the case.
Personally I feel that all clocks should be set to UTC. There's no need for those pesky timezones except to make it confusing to people and computers on two days of the year.
The sheer amount of code and confusion i've been party to deal with those pesky days where there are only 46 half hours and when there are 50 half hours exceeds my capabilities of wishing to write comments on El Reg..
well. let me know if they don't charge you full price then and i'll cry a little into my tea.
The big message on my account page in amazon clearly stated that i'd now be liable for the higher price. Their price promise always nicely mentions that if the price *goes down* they'll honour the lower price.
after i checked my pre-order on amazon.co.uk and it had doubled in price since i ordered, discretion took the better part of valour and i cancelled the order. pity that a 100% price increase didn't warrant an email from them. i'll just have to continue to use vista until i can save up enough pennies.
loved MW2 on my playstation (way, back before it was even called psOne).
it had a really good feel of stomping along in a multi-ton walking machine.
Next thing i saw was mechwarrior 4 for pc.
it didn't work. i think its safe to say that my abiding loathing of microsoft stemmed from attempting to get this game running.
eventually, i managed to get the patches that allowed the game to work beyond the first movie. FFS mankind how could they not notice it was fluffing broken before you could play it.
That was in the days of 56 modem, (not even sure i had that fast a modem then), so we had hours of downloading broken patches followed by scouring of magazines looking for mention of a patch.
Mechwarrior had a proud and noble history from its germination as a table-top wargame, it was shame to see it brought so low.
Well, if you listen to Prog Rock Greats you can extend that out by quite a bit. Throw "Close To The Edge", "Supper's Ready" and "Thick As A Brick" at it and maybe Echoes at it and you can go an a hour and a half between interruptions. Ohh. Let me find 2112 whilst I'm at it.
if you still insist on listening to modern "soundbites" masquerading as music you'll get what you deserve - lots more adverts...
Well, whilst I was a customer of compuserve they gave me a "nice" email address with a real name in it (well as real as "nobby" gets).
The thing that stopped me crossing over to compuserve2000 was that they wouldn't maintain the email account and i'd need a new one. So I was going to have to ditch the email account I'd used for the past 5 years. So I ran off and got something much more wholesome than this lumbering giant could offer.
Back in The Day, compuserve offered their client for a multitude of platforms. Well it seemed a multitude to me languishing on os/2 looking for *any* native software I could find.
/me cries. but only a little and in a manly way, y'understand
a nice, recent, fully updated Tom Tom has a real problem in Milton Keynes that would stop me allowing one of these to be fitted to my car.
we have these beautiful National Speed Limit roads. But tom tom can't work out what speed you're allowed to do on them so it thinks they are 30.. bugger that for a lark.
Then there's that new dual carriageway thats a "70" but Tom Tom (dick dick) seems to think is still a single carriageway.
Now imagine if the maps are controlled by the government, how long will it take for updates to filter across?
"Micheal, there is no road here at all so I'm very sorry but I can't let you drive more than zero miles an hour"
I don't care what search engine my browser defaults to. I'll change it.
i don't worry because I'm gonna use an open source browser that I know will be less evil than IE (hellfire, google chrome allows you to pick a search engine to use - wow including, it tells me, el reg!)
I do care if I can't process system management without using a tied-in browser.
Just untie the fricking thing from Windows Update and we'll all be happy bunnies.
someone just slap them with.. well a 100kt haddock and tell they to just piss off.
is how do "we" actually make an EXT3(is 4 there yet?) driver for windows?
i know nothing about how windows works at that level. I have some basic understanding of how linux/unix recognises and manages a variety of file systems of various types.
If we can make an ext3 driver for windows, and ship it out so that it can be installed by the average muppet (fozzy if you're not sure) then we can get rid of the need for fat. I'm assuming OSX (and other unix alikes) will have no problem with an ext3 driver...
We can get rid of FAT, but only by creating and publishing an ubiqitous replacement.
I'm happy if its not ext3 but some other usable-on-any-os-distro file system... Pick one. get drivers into windows. Maybe persuade microsoft to include them as part of the OS install disk - i'm sure there's an excuse somewhere.
I'm not asking for windows to install on ext3, just to read and write it properly through the os.
I have been buying dimmable compact fluorescent lamps from homebase for a while.
I have a bunch of "daylight" ones too (for rooms where i want true colours like the art/server room.
I like a lamp that starts up slowly for the lights between my bed and the loo. So if i wake up in the night i dont get dazzled immediately when i turn the light on. (and YES i've lived in the same house for 8 years and still turn the light on at night to have a pee. You clean up the floor afterwards).
You want your lamps to produce heat? Fuck that. If i want to heat my house i use Gas Central Heating. I'd rather pay the pittance extra gas than the 5x electricity if i wanted more heat. If you're stupid enough to have electric storage heaters that's your problem, then i'm sure you wont mind if i plug my fan-heater into your mains as well 'cos it wont make much differnce to you..
I think you'll find that oracle do have their own linux distribution... (looks at server room, checks boot screen, listens for screams from users cos the database went down...)
yep. looks like oracle linux to me(*)
(*) which, admittedly looks a lot like red hat. but isn't, of course 100% the same.
they call "AERO" "an essential requirement for Vista" because its the only bit of Vista that any one sees.
therefore is the only bit of vista that anyone would miss.
From my experience. people actually *like* win 2008 server..
lets see:
win 2k8 (similar codebase to vista, similar behind-the scenes "improvements". AERO turned off by default) = Liked
Vista (similar codebase to w2k8s, similar behind-the scenes "improvements". AERO turned on by default = Universally derided
So, looks like running aero *is* vista to most people. ESPECIALLY the sort of people who buy PCs from a shop, with stickers on saying "vista capable" without asking what it means to be "capable".
Anyone see Boston Legal the other week when Denny admitted to take 30-40 prescription pills a day because the adverts told him how good they were?
I don't care about the "Sex" part of the advert, I just don't want prescription drugs advertised to the public.I want an informed doctor to make the decision about what drugs I take.
Can you imagine, if you just got Hugh Laurie's voice-over on a TV add for a prescription medicine, how many people would hassle their doctor for that brand no matter what the (real) doctor said?
nobby
usb is a sensible idea - so why can't ipohn use it? →#
if i'm not mistaken, i'm sure i read somewhere that its possible to send things other than power over a USB cable.
Let me see..
Yep. frikking everything attached to my pc except the monitor plugs into usb. There is no Functional Reason to use another cable type for charging or data(*).
Why would this "kill" the 3rd party iAttachment manufacturers? Surely if there was a standard connection that worked with *everything*, and we took the next step to a standard control protocol (they managed it for bluetooth headsets/speakers) then I could sell one speaker/microphone/shite/docking station that attached to.. wow, *all* phones and all mp3 players (and all the buttons/remote control facilities worked on all of 'em!).
(*) or the horrendous situation Nokia got themselves in with a usb-connection for data BUT ye olde rounde socket for charging. Bang! Their toes must hurt with that shot.
But you'll notice that in blade runner the computer ignored his commands and zoomed in on another part of the screen entirely. If you ask me Deckard was trying to zoom in on the girls tits and the computer censored his commands in the interests of common decency. Or the computer was a prude. Actually that's much more likely.
So - are we trying to replicate the scrolling function or the prudish part?
So - now instead of a new steel spinner and a lump o' rubber when you Clip The Curb With Enthusiasm you'll need to replace five grand of motor and suspension too. Great. Just what we needed.
phew. and here i was thinking i was starting to understand amanfromMars's postings.
Could we get him to write the next version of the European Constitution? Everyone would be too frightened to say "I dont understand it" to vote against it.
We have a copy of "The Pragmatic Programmer" in our bookshelf here at work - much more useful than these 25 items. We've got a copy of Joel On Software as well. Everyone should have read through that.
But this 25 points? Shit throughout.
These 25 points start off crap -"Improper Input Validation" - i mean what the hell does that mean? Does that mean "Validate according to the functional specification of the user's requirement"? Does that mean "Validate all data that could be entered into your program over the next 25 years?" Does that mean "Use your telepathic powers to translate the phrase in the requirements "Enter User Name" into 50 pages of detailed technical specification then code it."?
I see no way that someone could sign a piece of paper saying that their software complied to this point. Its so fucking vague you might as well just have the one item: "Write the program right in the first fucking place."
Fucking pissants. Next we'll get "Top 25 spelling errors" and we'll have to burn any book that commits them.
When I got my first laptop, I was so used to using my psion 5 (the glory days eh?) that I left finger prints all over the screen from trying to move windows and failing to press "ok" buttons...
As soon as one of these lands i'm gonna buy one. Tablet my arse - just need something to fill that psion-5-shaped hole!
My psion would follow me everywhere. I used to write fiction whilst sat in the pub waiting for the missus to finish work. Was rather funny that the modem i had was twice as big as the psion itself. Well, to some people.
Finally the design curve has come full circle, sod those big hulking laptops that pretend they're useful, just gimme the ability to a bit of email and to was my lyrical buds over some more science-fiction/fantrasy stories about rabbits whenever i'm stuck somewhere for half an hour.
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nobby
can someone do a "feature" comparison? → #
Posted Friday 12th March 2010 12:19 GMT
In Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test
I'd be interested in reading a comparison of the features of Flash compared to the features of HTML5.
I hear a lot of noise about the video in HTML5 but not much noise about any other feature. I agree that video is a major use of flash, but it is only a recent feature. I recall from my youth that Flash used to be used for all sorts of things, such as the Games someone mentioned above. Hey, I remember getting a Tweenies DVD for my niece and finding out that it was a bunch of Flash (or was it shockwave i dont recall) 'programs'.
so: can we replace all the functionality in flash with HTML5? or do we need to just do Video though HTML5 and all the rest of the flash-y stuff through a small, dinky 'flash lite' like we used to have in te olden dayes?
nobby
** must resist ** → #
Posted Wednesday 17th February 2010 13:31 GMT
In Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you
must resist answering this.
MUST RESIST.
some help my inner trekkie is trying to get out and i need help, much help to stop me.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
this was covered in .... MUST STOP.. episode.. PLEASE HELP ME... AAAAAAAHHH!!
nobby
isnt it strange → #
Posted Thursday 4th February 2010 15:52 GMT
In MS probes bug that turns PCs into 'public file servers'
how many exploits that only affect Win XP have come out since Win 7 was launched?
nobby
four guys round a coffee pot? → #
Posted Wednesday 3rd February 2010 10:17 GMT
In Microsoft security dev tools go 'Agile'
phew.
that counts us out then. we've got three guys and a girl and we drink tea.
nobby
hahahahaha → # ↑
Posted Wednesday 3rd February 2010 10:01 GMT
In Google reveals nonexistent Chrome tablet
re: "will it shock anyone if Google starts providing wireless internet connection anywhere for free?"
oh my how i laughed.
nobby
yeah? 500 smackeroos for a 9" telly? → #
Posted Thursday 28th January 2010 11:41 GMT
In Steve Jobs re-invents the portable telly
fluff off.
wall-sized tvs are the future. big fluff-off ones used instead of wallpaper.
this little thing? waste.
nobby
Missing Ingredient → #
Posted Thursday 28th January 2010 11:14 GMT
In Microsoft 'offered sex and drugs to distributors'
Its just like microsoft to miss out a vital ingredient.
i see no mention of Rock And Roll
nobby
i must be old or jaded. → #
Posted Tuesday 26th January 2010 10:38 GMT
In Google Chrome 4 lands (Windows) extensions on world+dog
well i just paged through ten pages of "most popular" extensions and didn't see one that looked worth the effort to download.
i think i must be old *and* jaded
nobby
wouldn't it be funny → #
Posted Monday 25th January 2010 12:29 GMT
In iSlate leaves fingerprints all over the net
if the iSlate is released on time?
nobby
now we just need → #
Posted Tuesday 19th January 2010 14:52 GMT
In Man Utd imposes social networking ban
all other organisations to apply this rule and we can finally get rid of those fluffing wastes of time.
i'm talking about social networking sites not footballers.
nobby
people dont watch TV → #
Posted Friday 15th January 2010 10:41 GMT
In Avatar expands 3D TV interest
the problem with glasses is that people dont actually watch TV. most of the day they "glance" at it. -They wake up and turn the telly on and listen to the news whilst getting ready for work.
How many people would put a pair of 3d glasses before they get dressed just so the morning news didn't look strange?.
Then people, sorta like, come home in dribs and drabs from school/work/manicurist; now there would have been no reason to wear the 3d glasses on the way home; apart to look like a dick, so you glance over to the tv to see what junior/missus/sir is watching and your eyes go funny cos you've not put the 3d glasses on.
Silly. Until we polarise everyone's eyes at birth, 3D is a stupid fad.
HD isn't/wasn't such an issue - hellfire its just a better quality picture for gods sake. Whether the picture is B/W or colour or HD - all you just need to do to watch is to turn your head and look at it - not "turn your head, turn it back, find a pair of 3d glasses, then turn back and look at telly". Hmm. maybe radio will have a resurgence.
3d glasses at £25+ a pop will be fine(*) until your mates come round to watch the footie and you tell them they wont be able to watch it without forking out for a pair of fluffing stupid glasses.
(*) cough (**)
(**) actually you know that's not how it goes - Once Murdoch puts out a 3D channel we'll get BOGOF vouchers in The Sun and a multitude of competitions that allow us the opportunity to win a 3D telly and pair of matching his and hers glasses(***)
(***) I can picture them now - they'll have a green stripe along the top where you can put your names...
nobby
Office Starter Edition!? → #
Posted Wednesday 6th January 2010 11:55 GMT
In Microsoft undercuts planned Office 2010 retail price
Coo - that sounds like it has 99% of all *useful* office functionality - can I have that instead please?
nobby
google option - include hidden content y/n → #
Posted Monday 23rd November 2009 11:23 GMT
In Murdoch puffs Microsoft over Google
So, robots.txt can tell a search engine that they _shouldn't_ index certain content.
But it doesn't stop someone from actually indexing it does it?
But - is anyone going to sue someone if a given search engine ignored it?
I'd be interested in seeing the techniques they'd use to actually successfully hide the content from google? maybe turn the entire website silverlight?
nobby
@CJ 1 → #
Posted Monday 16th November 2009 10:50 GMT
In Revealed: The amazing premise behind Ridley Scott's Monopoly
they did it. didn't you notice?
nobby
ping time over sattelite comms → #
Posted Friday 6th November 2009 10:12 GMT
In Vint Cerf mods Android for interplanetary interwebs
I was part of a team implementing a system in Africa in the 90's. all well and good except the parent company wanted all the servers in Germany.
And there was none of those skinny web clients in those days.It all seemed fine in early tests until we found out that the network (not internet, network) between Africa and Germany went via a satellite.
So we had 4s ping time. minimum.
Oh the joy, I remember it now! A bit like 'nam flashbacks only with the end-user's MD staring over your shoulder..
Geo-synchronous-orbiting satellite communication could do with this protocol. I might still have hair if that had been the case.
nobby
UTC all the way man! → #
Posted Friday 23rd October 2009 13:20 GMT
In Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone
Personally I feel that all clocks should be set to UTC. There's no need for those pesky timezones except to make it confusing to people and computers on two days of the year.
The sheer amount of code and confusion i've been party to deal with those pesky days where there are only 46 half hours and when there are 50 half hours exceeds my capabilities of wishing to write comments on El Reg..
nobby
@MeRp → #
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 09:45 GMT
In Barnes & Noble mulls Android SDK for Nook reader
maybe its the concern that it could be confused with Nookie The Bear. now that would be unfortunate.
nobby
@Martin Glenn → #
Posted Tuesday 20th October 2009 15:24 GMT
In Revolting postmen force early Windows 7 launch
well. let me know if they don't charge you full price then and i'll cry a little into my tea.
The big message on my account page in amazon clearly stated that i'd now be liable for the higher price. Their price promise always nicely mentions that if the price *goes down* they'll honour the lower price.
but i'm willing to be wrong
nobby
well i wont be getting mine → #
Posted Tuesday 20th October 2009 08:14 GMT
In Revolting postmen force early Windows 7 launch
after i checked my pre-order on amazon.co.uk and it had doubled in price since i ordered, discretion took the better part of valour and i cancelled the order. pity that a 100% price increase didn't warrant an email from them. i'll just have to continue to use vista until i can save up enough pennies.
nobby
@Darkside → #
Posted Friday 2nd October 2009 13:59 GMT
In BOFH: Weapon of choice
you missed the point - its not the IT shop that gets paid by cheque - the cheques are for Sundr. Eplns.
nobby
casading browsers → #
Posted Wednesday 30th September 2009 09:27 GMT
In Mozilla sides with Microsoft against Google IE
so let me work this one yout
you can use "IETab" to put an Internet Explorer tab into your Firefox.
then you can install the Chrome Frame and run Chrome within the IE Tab?
all some bright spark needs to write is a "FFTab" plugin for Chrome and you could then close the loop FF >> IE >> Chrome.>> FF ... time to asplode...
Oh my that would be so much fun
nobby
radio → #
Posted Wednesday 23rd September 2009 13:40 GMT
In Talking DAB and the future of radio
i remember making a radio set in school with a couple of wires, a ferrite rod and a loud speaker. You could get Radio 1 good enough.
Hell, you can even make non-powered crystal radios.
That's all the sound quality anyone cares about isn't it? Thats the level of technology people care about?
When Civilisation Falls we wont be communicating by DAB from our dug-outs, will we?
nobby
so, a large nintendo DS then? → #
Posted Wednesday 23rd September 2009 11:00 GMT
In Dual-screen Microsoft 'booklet' uncovered
if it has pokemon on day 1 i'm sure it'll sell.
nobby
mechwarrior → #
Posted Thursday 27th August 2009 11:24 GMT
In Mechwarrior maker claims Microsoft 'destroyed' studio's culture
loved MW2 on my playstation (way, back before it was even called psOne).
it had a really good feel of stomping along in a multi-ton walking machine.
Next thing i saw was mechwarrior 4 for pc.
it didn't work. i think its safe to say that my abiding loathing of microsoft stemmed from attempting to get this game running.
eventually, i managed to get the patches that allowed the game to work beyond the first movie. FFS mankind how could they not notice it was fluffing broken before you could play it.
That was in the days of 56 modem, (not even sure i had that fast a modem then), so we had hours of downloading broken patches followed by scouring of magazines looking for mention of a patch.
Mechwarrior had a proud and noble history from its germination as a table-top wargame, it was shame to see it brought so low.
nobby
oh my, this might actually replace my psion 5 → #
Posted Thursday 27th August 2009 10:28 GMT
In Sharp intros 5in ARM-based netbook
i think i must have died, and gone to twelve year ago heaven!
nobby
ah thats better → #
Posted Thursday 13th August 2009 15:32 GMT
In Boffins develop 'Hidden gateway to Hogwarts girls' loos'
There was I thinking i knew what was going on, Then amanfromMars added his tuppenth and I was back into "what the hells going on here" land.
nobby
iSerialNumber → #
Posted Wednesday 5th August 2009 08:16 GMT
In Palm slams Apple, hoodwinks iTunes
We had to guess this yes?
Lets see - this is the number of serial killers who own an iPod?
nobby
@Ads every half an hour? → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 09:37 GMT
In Microsoft apes Spotify with ad-stuffed tune streaming
Well, if you listen to Prog Rock Greats you can extend that out by quite a bit. Throw "Close To The Edge", "Supper's Ready" and "Thick As A Brick" at it and maybe Echoes at it and you can go an a hour and a half between interruptions. Ohh. Let me find 2112 whilst I'm at it.
if you still insist on listening to modern "soundbites" masquerading as music you'll get what you deserve - lots more adverts...
nobby
aww. i remember it well → #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 07:26 GMT
In CompuServe signs off
Well, whilst I was a customer of compuserve they gave me a "nice" email address with a real name in it (well as real as "nobby" gets).
The thing that stopped me crossing over to compuserve2000 was that they wouldn't maintain the email account and i'd need a new one. So I was going to have to ditch the email account I'd used for the past 5 years. So I ran off and got something much more wholesome than this lumbering giant could offer.
Back in The Day, compuserve offered their client for a multitude of platforms. Well it seemed a multitude to me languishing on os/2 looking for *any* native software I could find.
/me cries. but only a little and in a manly way, y'understand
nobby
but they dont know what speed the road is? → #
Posted Monday 11th May 2009 12:52 GMT
In London cab & bus trials for satnav speed-governor kit
a nice, recent, fully updated Tom Tom has a real problem in Milton Keynes that would stop me allowing one of these to be fitted to my car.
we have these beautiful National Speed Limit roads. But tom tom can't work out what speed you're allowed to do on them so it thinks they are 30.. bugger that for a lark.
Then there's that new dual carriageway thats a "70" but Tom Tom (dick dick) seems to think is still a single carriageway.
Now imagine if the maps are controlled by the government, how long will it take for updates to filter across?
"Micheal, there is no road here at all so I'm very sorry but I can't let you drive more than zero miles an hour"
[sound of boot hitting gps]
nobby
i dont fricking care - just make them work! → #
Posted Monday 11th May 2009 12:49 GMT
In Microsoft to EU: Cut me down, and Google will rule the world!
I don't care what search engine my browser defaults to. I'll change it.
i don't worry because I'm gonna use an open source browser that I know will be less evil than IE (hellfire, google chrome allows you to pick a search engine to use - wow including, it tells me, el reg!)
I do care if I can't process system management without using a tied-in browser.
Just untie the fricking thing from Windows Update and we'll all be happy bunnies.
someone just slap them with.. well a 100kt haddock and tell they to just piss off.
nobby
what i need to know/understand → #
Posted Friday 3rd April 2009 09:53 GMT
In Linux chief calls for FAT-free Microsoft diet
is how do "we" actually make an EXT3(is 4 there yet?) driver for windows?
i know nothing about how windows works at that level. I have some basic understanding of how linux/unix recognises and manages a variety of file systems of various types.
If we can make an ext3 driver for windows, and ship it out so that it can be installed by the average muppet (fozzy if you're not sure) then we can get rid of the need for fat. I'm assuming OSX (and other unix alikes) will have no problem with an ext3 driver...
We can get rid of FAT, but only by creating and publishing an ubiqitous replacement.
I'm happy if its not ext3 but some other usable-on-any-os-distro file system... Pick one. get drivers into windows. Maybe persuade microsoft to include them as part of the OS install disk - i'm sure there's an excuse somewhere.
I'm not asking for windows to install on ext3, just to read and write it properly through the os.
nob.
nobby
Dimmers. yep. Daylight. Yep → #
Posted Thursday 19th March 2009 20:25 GMT
In Brussels: Old-school lightbulbs to be gone by 2012
I have been buying dimmable compact fluorescent lamps from homebase for a while.
I have a bunch of "daylight" ones too (for rooms where i want true colours like the art/server room.
I like a lamp that starts up slowly for the lights between my bed and the loo. So if i wake up in the night i dont get dazzled immediately when i turn the light on. (and YES i've lived in the same house for 8 years and still turn the light on at night to have a pee. You clean up the floor afterwards).
You want your lamps to produce heat? Fuck that. If i want to heat my house i use Gas Central Heating. I'd rather pay the pittance extra gas than the 5x electricity if i wanted more heat. If you're stupid enough to have electric storage heaters that's your problem, then i'm sure you wont mind if i plug my fan-heater into your mains as well 'cos it wont make much differnce to you..
nobby
@Another Pipe Dream → #
Posted Monday 9th March 2009 10:10 GMT
In Oracle reaches for Virtual Iron
I think you'll find that oracle do have their own linux distribution... (looks at server room, checks boot screen, listens for screams from users cos the database went down...)
yep. looks like oracle linux to me(*)
(*) which, admittedly looks a lot like red hat. but isn't, of course 100% the same.
nobby
Re: duct tape → #
Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 12:05 GMT
In Nude Apple iMac pics leaked to web
We call it "gaffer" tape on the right-hand-side of the pond.
nobby
@SAY WHAT!!!??!!!11 → #
Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 11:09 GMT
In 'Vista Capable' plaintiffs seek class action revival
they call "AERO" "an essential requirement for Vista" because its the only bit of Vista that any one sees.
therefore is the only bit of vista that anyone would miss.
From my experience. people actually *like* win 2008 server..
lets see:
win 2k8 (similar codebase to vista, similar behind-the scenes "improvements". AERO turned off by default) = Liked
Vista (similar codebase to w2k8s, similar behind-the scenes "improvements". AERO turned on by default = Universally derided
So, looks like running aero *is* vista to most people. ESPECIALLY the sort of people who buy PCs from a shop, with stickers on saying "vista capable" without asking what it means to be "capable".
Go Team! Class-Action Their Asses Off.
nobby
poor easily deluded special branch officer → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 14:53 GMT
In Judge issues radioactive 'pr0n downloader' alert
i assume he'll be sacked.
or promoted
nobby
They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass. → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 13:07 GMT
In Second rogue Facebook app bewilders users
who? the narn or the centari?
yes.
Someone kill facebook and put us all out of its misery
nobby
mmm psion 5 → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 10:05 GMT
In Nokia plotting Symbian laptops
sniff. must get the old boy out of its drawer and see if i can find the power supply.
it was *so* good...
nobby
prescription drugs → #
Posted Wednesday 18th February 2009 10:49 GMT
In Watchdog mauls billboard sex ads
Anyone see Boston Legal the other week when Denny admitted to take 30-40 prescription pills a day because the adverts told him how good they were?
I don't care about the "Sex" part of the advert, I just don't want prescription drugs advertised to the public.I want an informed doctor to make the decision about what drugs I take.
Can you imagine, if you just got Hugh Laurie's voice-over on a TV add for a prescription medicine, how many people would hassle their doctor for that brand no matter what the (real) doctor said?
nobby
usb is a sensible idea - so why can't ipohn use it? → #
Posted Wednesday 18th February 2009 10:44 GMT
In Mobile phones to get universal charger
if i'm not mistaken, i'm sure i read somewhere that its possible to send things other than power over a USB cable.
Let me see..
Yep. frikking everything attached to my pc except the monitor plugs into usb. There is no Functional Reason to use another cable type for charging or data(*).
Why would this "kill" the 3rd party iAttachment manufacturers? Surely if there was a standard connection that worked with *everything*, and we took the next step to a standard control protocol (they managed it for bluetooth headsets/speakers) then I could sell one speaker/microphone/shite/docking station that attached to.. wow, *all* phones and all mp3 players (and all the buttons/remote control facilities worked on all of 'em!).
(*) or the horrendous situation Nokia got themselves in with a usb-connection for data BUT ye olde rounde socket for charging. Bang! Their toes must hurt with that shot.
nobby
@matt - "i remember" → #
Posted Tuesday 17th February 2009 10:39 GMT
In Apple sued over iPhone smooth scrolling
But you'll notice that in blade runner the computer ignored his commands and zoomed in on another part of the screen entirely. If you ask me Deckard was trying to zoom in on the girls tits and the computer censored his commands in the interests of common decency. Or the computer was a prude. Actually that's much more likely.
So - are we trying to replicate the scrolling function or the prudish part?
nobby
sorry dear, clipped the curb → #
Posted Monday 16th February 2009 17:18 GMT
In Michelin strikes key 'e-wheel' deal
So - now instead of a new steel spinner and a lump o' rubber when you Clip The Curb With Enthusiasm you'll need to replace five grand of motor and suspension too. Great. Just what we needed.
nobby
@Nice One → #
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 11:00 GMT
In Opera revs JavaScript engine of the future
phew. and here i was thinking i was starting to understand amanfromMars's postings.
Could we get him to write the next version of the European Constitution? Everyone would be too frightened to say "I dont understand it" to vote against it.
nobby
@Nooooooh! → #
Posted Wednesday 4th February 2009 11:23 GMT
In Microsoft SKUs Windows 7 clarity
sorry, there *were* two versions of win2000 (that i saw) - Home and Professional.
nobody bought "Home", because win98 worked a tad better for people not on a Domain (it could play the odd game or two).
So there you go - they started selling useless editions of the O/S 8 or 9 years ago. Why should they stop now?
nobby
smeg → #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 11:31 GMT
In Red Dwarf finally returns to Earth
smegging great!
nobby
plagioclase → #
Posted Thursday 22nd January 2009 13:55 GMT
In German engineers punt 'open source' OLED-clad car
I, and many other capsuleers, have heard of "plagioclase" before - its one of the Ores you go Mining for in Eve-online.
Interested to know its a real Ore.
Or, maybe, this is just a tech-demo for the next patch for Eve.
nobby
inadequate → #
Posted Tuesday 13th January 2009 13:30 GMT
In Experts trumpet '25 most dangerous' programming errors
We have a copy of "The Pragmatic Programmer" in our bookshelf here at work - much more useful than these 25 items. We've got a copy of Joel On Software as well. Everyone should have read through that.
But this 25 points? Shit throughout.
These 25 points start off crap -"Improper Input Validation" - i mean what the hell does that mean? Does that mean "Validate according to the functional specification of the user's requirement"? Does that mean "Validate all data that could be entered into your program over the next 25 years?" Does that mean "Use your telepathic powers to translate the phrase in the requirements "Enter User Name" into 50 pages of detailed technical specification then code it."?
I see no way that someone could sign a piece of paper saying that their software complied to this point. Its so fucking vague you might as well just have the one item: "Write the program right in the first fucking place."
Fucking pissants. Next we'll get "Top 25 spelling errors" and we'll have to burn any book that commits them.
nobby
@Plug-ins, By Jerome → #
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:08 GMT
In Google spins out Chrome 2.0
pre-betaalphayou mean you *want* plugins? why? aren't those the first things you try to disable in any browser?
nobby
finally, i can replace my psion 5 → #
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 09:53 GMT
In Asus demos touchscreen Eee
Ah. bliss.
When I got my first laptop, I was so used to using my psion 5 (the glory days eh?) that I left finger prints all over the screen from trying to move windows and failing to press "ok" buttons...
As soon as one of these lands i'm gonna buy one. Tablet my arse - just need something to fill that psion-5-shaped hole!
My psion would follow me everywhere. I used to write fiction whilst sat in the pub waiting for the missus to finish work. Was rather funny that the modem i had was twice as big as the psion itself. Well, to some people.
Finally the design curve has come full circle, sod those big hulking laptops that pretend they're useful, just gimme the ability to a bit of email and to was my lyrical buds over some more science-fiction/fantrasy stories about rabbits whenever i'm stuck somewhere for half an hour.
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