Not the easiest JB ever. Took four goes before I got it to complete and that involved restoring my iPad to factory settings and running Absinthe from the command line. Still seems a bit flaky though. Couldn't get the BigBoss repo to load in Cydia and, although I've installed SBSsettings, it's not showing up.
My 'reasons to JB' apps:
SBSsettings –Use it all the time on my iPhone to toggle wifi and 3G without digging into System Preferences. Might actually sack it off on my iPad, as that's wifi only and I don't toggle that too often. The other reason for originally installing SBSettings was for RotationInhibitor, back when Apple's rotation lock was retarded beyond belief.
Firewall IP –Bye bye apps phoning home and making connections to shitty advertising sites
ContactPrivacy –Warns when apps try to sneakily access your contact data and allows you to block this
PrivaCy –Likwise block any apps from sending tracking data to twats like Flurry, Pinch Media, Moboclik...etc.
Netatalk –FOSS implementation of AppleTalk. Allows you to mount your iOS gadget in the Finder like a normal OSX volume
Truprint –The only printer software I've found [tried most of the ones on the App Store] which works with my Canon MX870
Apart from the apps, there's the geek stuff you can do after a JB:
–Connect to 'localhost' with iSSH and explore the fiesystem
– Install Ruby [or your preferred 'idle tinkering language']
–Setup SSH key pairing, so I can SSH into my iGadget without a password.
–Install Vim
–Vim /User/Library/Safari/SearchEngies.plist and change default search engine to DuckDuckGo
Of course, if I wasn't a such a mindless, posing, Starbucks frequenting, Fashion-following, Kool-aid drinking Crapple fanboi, I could probably do something even more useful. But that lot keeps me happy enough, while I wait for my latte to cool.
So now FacePuke has two instagrams it can output twice the amount of 70s polaroid-filtered pictures of cats. Wow! one in the eye for the cynics who said FB had no product.
Seriously Reg, how you can have the gall to publish an article criticising anyone else's login/password failings, is beyond me. Especially when your own website has about eleventy-billion completely pointless separate subdomains, all requiring individual logins –and there are Alzheimer's inflicted goldfish with better recall than your login cookie's "remember me.." option.
Title says it all.
[Had to login for about the fourth time today, to post this]
I think the interesting thing about all this 'Cloud' stuff is that it actually harks back to the vision people had, back when the first mainframe computers were being built.
There's the famous quote [probably apocryphal] attributed to former IBM chairman Thomas J Watson in 1943: "...I think there is a world market for maybe five computers...". Most opinion at the time ran along similar lines, envisioning a mere handful of supercomputers sprinkled around the globe, which 'Joe User' would tap into via a 'dumb terminal'.
Swap the word 'computer' for the word 'internet' and you're getting pretty close to where things seem to be going at the minute: You could argue that, with the 'Great Firewall of China', Iran's plans for an 'Islamic Internet' and whatever the hell North Korea are up to in that area, we're going to end up with "a world market for maybe five internets". Add The Cloud into the mix and the fact that more and more of us are happy to do more and more work from a 'dumb terminal' and it seems to me like it was the era of the personal desktop computer that was as 'transient as a fashion magazine'. Not the other way round.
I must admit that, when I first started reading about what was eventually to become The Cloud, a few years ago, I was equally as cynical about it as Oracle and Microsoft seem to be today. But fortunately, I'm just an everyday fuckwitt and not someone running a multi-billion dollar company in the IT Field, so I'm allowed to be completely wrong!
Now, I'm a complete convert. I'm looking forward to the day I can retire my laptop to my desk at home and use my iPad [or its successor] for all my day-to-day computing needs. We're not quite there yet, but getting pretty damned close!
"...Asus was chosen as the manufacturing partner for this device partly because it was happy to produce a low-price model without fearing its brand would be undermined in doing so..."
A fairly safe bet, given that people already associate the Asus brand with cheap crap, anyway.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, choosing a malware-infested google-spyware loaded mobile OS is so much cleverer than being a stupid fanboi trapped in a virus-free walled garden.
Whoops! Dared to criticise Android. The downvote button is over there. Please form an orderly queue --------------->
Yes, but presumably you're not American and therefore aren't nursing a superiority complex of such collossal proportions that you perceive any achievement by any other country anywhere as a personal affront.
Looking at the charts on Yahoo! Finance, it seems that a company called DST Global has spunked the biggest amount of money on FacePuke shares. A quick look on DST's website reveals quite possibly the highest density of the universal twat-word "SOLUTIONS" that I've seen in a long time.
Ah... one of those old games set in the version of the Second World War, where the Nazis had swastika flags. Not the revised history most modern games adopt, whereby the Germans seem to have fought under the old Imperial standard. And then of course there's the Civilisation franchise where Germany is represented by their most infamous military leader... er... Bismark and Russia by their most infamous military leader... er... Catherine the Great.
Disclaimer: Not a Nazi, I just hate the re-writing of history to make it fit contemporary PC morés.
"...has also been reported that NASDAQ OMX Group is facing a lawsuit for the technical glitches on the morning of Facebook's IPO, which led to buy and sell orders and their cancellations being held up..."
There seems to be a lot of dodginess attached to this flotation in a lot of places.
I tried to 'go short' on Facebook [ie. bet the share price would fall] on my Finspreads spread betting account the other day, only to get an alert pop up saying words to the effect that "It is only possible to go long on this share option" –in other words, 'we'll only take your bet if you bet on the losing side'
Gotta love the honesty of the stock-market crowd sometimes!
Evernote might look pretty and have an impressive feature list but, as someone who misguidedly signed up for a Pro account after taking the freebie version for a quick spin, I've got to agree with AC. It's a bloated, painfully slow lump of crap. I can't remember the last time I saw so many jaw-droppingly bad usability decisions incorporated into a single app.
Unfortunately it's so universally and unquestioningly belovēd of the internet press, that I sometimes think criticism of it might have been made a capital offence.
You do know that the same half dozen eejits are responsible for almost the entire content of these forums, don't you? I'd have a bigger audience if I made my announcement at confession.
Why, oh why, oh why.... etc do Microsoft think the world needs bloody social networking bolted on to searching now? The last thing I want is to announce to the rest of the planet what I've been searching the intarwebs for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; social networking is the "built-in FM radio" de nous jours:
Back in the 70's, when I was a nipper, transistors were just starting to become cheap enough and small enough to make embedding a tiny FM radio in other gadgets a possibilty. For a few years, you couldn't move for devices trumpetting the fact that they had a "built-in FM radio". They were in pens, watches, calculators, shoes, trouser presses, potato peelers... God knows what else.
They were completely pointless, barely worked and no fucker ever listened to them. Their addition to some doo-dad did however provide a cheap and lazy way for manufacturers to announce 'exciting' new features for their product, without actually innovating anything.
Can you see the similarites?
Practically every app on my phone or tablet has some room for improvement or for adding of new functionality but, half the time, when a new version is announced, all that has been done is the addition of a built-in FM radio "share on Facepuke / Twatter" button, so you can share whatever the hell you do with that app 'with your friends'. I've even seen eBay and Amazon offer the chance for me to announce to the world at large what I've just bought from their respective tat emporiums!
Why does world and wife think that everyone needs to know everything we do. Continually?
Nice try but no cigar. Actually, I bowled a bouncer by mentioning Jocelyn [man's name] when I meant Godfrey. Feel free to have another go, on the house.
The real news story here is that [apparently –I didn't hear the programme] Radio 4 managed to produce a piece about 'teh internets', without wheeling out Martha Lane Fox, to stick her oar in
Probably the most obnoxious option as regards the parent company's ethos but, unfortunately the only version worth using on OSX as, for now, it's the only one which supports native OSX goodies such as QuickLook, versions and fullscreen mode.
It also has a microscopically less fugly native[-ish] GUI than either OpenOffice or LibreOffice... but that is a *very* relative statement.
But it needs to be a 'proper' British one: built entirely in black & white, presided over by a bluff handlebar-moustacheo'd old cove called "Whiskers Greatrix". The astronauts should be plucky, square-jawed pipe-smoking astronautical types with names like "Jocelyn", who talk of "wizard prangs" on the moon and cruise down to Brighton at the weekend, with their best girl [probably a Daphne or a Muriel], along empty A-roads, in an open-top sports car.
[There'll be a special prize for the smart boy or girl who can pick the bones of an obscure cultural reference out of that lot!]
The main prob I have with Chrome [on OSX] is that it has an annoying tendency to throw up "The DNS server stopped responding" errors, as if my network was down, when it isn't. Sometimes it takes two or three attempted reloads of a page, for it to 'connect' again.
Apart from that, I still think it's the best browser around at the moment
[Disclaimer: I'm actually using Iron, the Chromium based browser that's effectively Chrome, with all the Google spyware disabled]
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, when I hear that a company has spunked millions of £££s down the drain, on advertising which didn't work.
Please can we have another feel-good follow-up story, about this leading to GM making some overpaid 'novelty tie and trendy glasses wearing' marketing executives redundant too?
It doesn't matter a damn what Microsoft put in their EULA. The law of the land allows the police [with warrant, or to prevent commission of a serious crime] and HMRC [if they bloody well feel like it] to enter your premises against your will. Anyone else [including the mighty Microsoft] needs a court order.
Try telling them to bugger off, next time they turn up.
And, while you're at it Reg webmonkeys, could we have more pointless subdomains, all with their own separate login form and "keep me logged in" cookie that doesn't work?
Sometimes, I have time left over, after logging in separately to your half dozen or so separate subdomains every fucking day –and have to resort to reading the articles, to pass the time.
You know I've gone on record as being your biggest fan. I hope, therefore, you won't take it amiss if I offer some constructive criticism:
First off, the capitals. Majestic as ever. In fact I'm almost convinced they're even 'capitalier' than before. Have you been working out your caps-lock finger?
Punctuation is also first class and well up to your usual standards.
"BRUITISH" is exquisite. In that one word, cleverly combining 'British' and 'Brutish' you deliver more political insight than the countless volumes on British history, spewed out by lesser minds over the years could hope to achieve
However, I found "APPLE HAS COME TO THEIR SENSES" rather careless. OK. I know you hit us with the old classic "REWORK THERE WHOLE PLATFORM" straight afterwards, but I still think an opportunity was lost to get a "THEY'RE" in, as well.
Oh. What the hell! I'm just being churlish. How can I even dare to try and understand the soul-searching, mind-rending, convention-smashing artistry that goes into your every keystroke.
Sorry BDG. God amongst internet pundits you may be. But by responding to your misguided critics, you're allowing yourself to be dragged down to their level.
Uncharacteristic, I know, as you don't usually put a foot wrong, but I'm afraid I had to downvote you for this one. Seems like, at times, even the internet gods have feet of clay.
Nothing to do with smartness. It's more about fighting a rearguard action against the 'Merkinisation of the English language. But if you're happy to be assimilated, then go for it.
I have the same curiosity as to why people pre-order new hardware. I work on the assumption that:
Version 1 —of anything will be full of bugs and missing elementary features, because the engineering bods had to rush it out to meet the impossible launch date, trumpeted to the press by marketing departments and CEOs
Version 2 —Will squish most of the existing V1 bugs and add the missing features. However the new stuff will now be full of bugs, as it was rushed out to meet the deadline trumpeted to the press by marketing departments and CEOs, boasting about the new features.
Version 3 —Will be pretty good, as the engineers will finally have had time to fix everything. The press and public will howl with derision, because there are no new features.
"...meetings have been set, one in the 23rd of May ... the other is scheduled for June 19..."
Blimey, Reg! –Can you make up your mind one way or t'other, whether you're an English or a 'Merkin rag. It's annoying enough having an article with 'centre', 'colour' and '£££' sitting cheek by jowl on the same page as one with 'center', 'color' and '$$$', but now we seem to be getting both dialects mixed in the same sentence!
They've been saying they're "currently" working on a mobile version for about a year now and have produced absolutely zero. I'm filing under 'vapourware' until I see some evidence... *any* evidence
I hope Thatch doesn't die for a long time yet. Death's too good for her. Let the nazi bitch suffer her ongoing descent into drooling, twisted senility for as long as possible.
[Having said that, I've got a nice celebratory 12 year old whiskey set aside –just in case!]
Damn! —when I saw there were only three comments, I was going to post an "in before first painfully predictable comment comparing Apple users to apes" but I'll obviously have to be a lot quicker than that.
I use NeoOffice on my resolutely "Microsoft Free" laptop, when I need to open a spreadsheet, but for most everyday writing I find myself more and more resorting to Byword —write in markdown and then export as a nicely formatted PDF. It also runs and syncs my docs across macbook, iPad and iPhone, using DropBox, which means I can pick up where I left off, whatever device I'm using. Obviously not an office suite replacement but good-looking, positively anorexic compared to the bloatware most of those are and capable of producing a surprising range of decent looking documents, so long as you don't need all the fancy-schmancy stuff like a zillion styles, footnotes, etc.
[Yes. Hidden in there is another allusion to one of my favourite rants –the lack of a mobile version of Open-, Libre- or NeoOffice]
It's even more confusing in the Apple world, where you can add NeoOffice into the mix.
I must say, I'm minded to agree with the honourable Mr. Shitpeas here. I do sometimes wish the FOSS community would show a bit more maturity in toiling together for the common good, rather than hiving off a new fork of a product, every time one bunch of developers stops seeing eye to eye with another.
Gain the market share first, lads. Then, when world and dog knows your product, start offering alternate versions. The other way round just confuses potential adopters and gets you nowhere.
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Absinthe makes the farts blow longer
Not the easiest JB ever. Took four goes before I got it to complete and that involved restoring my iPad to factory settings and running Absinthe from the command line. Still seems a bit flaky though. Couldn't get the BigBoss repo to load in Cydia and, although I've installed SBSsettings, it's not showing up.
My 'reasons to JB' apps:
SBSsettings –Use it all the time on my iPhone to toggle wifi and 3G without digging into System Preferences. Might actually sack it off on my iPad, as that's wifi only and I don't toggle that too often. The other reason for originally installing SBSettings was for RotationInhibitor, back when Apple's rotation lock was retarded beyond belief.
Firewall IP –Bye bye apps phoning home and making connections to shitty advertising sites
ContactPrivacy –Warns when apps try to sneakily access your contact data and allows you to block this
PrivaCy –Likwise block any apps from sending tracking data to twats like Flurry, Pinch Media, Moboclik...etc.
Netatalk –FOSS implementation of AppleTalk. Allows you to mount your iOS gadget in the Finder like a normal OSX volume
Truprint –The only printer software I've found [tried most of the ones on the App Store] which works with my Canon MX870
Apart from the apps, there's the geek stuff you can do after a JB:
–Connect to 'localhost' with iSSH and explore the fiesystem
– Install Ruby [or your preferred 'idle tinkering language']
–Setup SSH key pairing, so I can SSH into my iGadget without a password.
–Install Vim
–Vim /User/Library/Safari/SearchEngies.plist and change default search engine to DuckDuckGo
Of course, if I wasn't a such a mindless, posing, Starbucks frequenting, Fashion-following, Kool-aid drinking Crapple fanboi, I could probably do something even more useful. But that lot keeps me happy enough, while I wait for my latte to cool.
LOLtwats
So now FacePuke has two instagrams it can output twice the amount of 70s polaroid-filtered pictures of cats. Wow! one in the eye for the cynics who said FB had no product.
Now where can I buy me some shares?
Pot... meet Kettle
Seriously Reg, how you can have the gall to publish an article criticising anyone else's login/password failings, is beyond me. Especially when your own website has about eleventy-billion completely pointless separate subdomains, all requiring individual logins –and there are Alzheimer's inflicted goldfish with better recall than your login cookie's "remember me.." option.
Title says it all.
[Had to login for about the fourth time today, to post this]
Go Cloud!
I think the interesting thing about all this 'Cloud' stuff is that it actually harks back to the vision people had, back when the first mainframe computers were being built.
There's the famous quote [probably apocryphal] attributed to former IBM chairman Thomas J Watson in 1943: "...I think there is a world market for maybe five computers...". Most opinion at the time ran along similar lines, envisioning a mere handful of supercomputers sprinkled around the globe, which 'Joe User' would tap into via a 'dumb terminal'.
Swap the word 'computer' for the word 'internet' and you're getting pretty close to where things seem to be going at the minute: You could argue that, with the 'Great Firewall of China', Iran's plans for an 'Islamic Internet' and whatever the hell North Korea are up to in that area, we're going to end up with "a world market for maybe five internets". Add The Cloud into the mix and the fact that more and more of us are happy to do more and more work from a 'dumb terminal' and it seems to me like it was the era of the personal desktop computer that was as 'transient as a fashion magazine'. Not the other way round.
I must admit that, when I first started reading about what was eventually to become The Cloud, a few years ago, I was equally as cynical about it as Oracle and Microsoft seem to be today. But fortunately, I'm just an everyday fuckwitt and not someone running a multi-billion dollar company in the IT Field, so I'm allowed to be completely wrong!
Now, I'm a complete convert. I'm looking forward to the day I can retire my laptop to my desk at home and use my iPad [or its successor] for all my day-to-day computing needs. We're not quite there yet, but getting pretty damned close!
Re: I think you confused Acer with Asus
I apologise to Asus then and stand corrected. I did confuse the two.
It's the one with the bridge stains on it.
Re: Deathwish?
"...Imperva's analysis suggests the group has no more than six members..."
Probably safe from attack then. The US military prefers better odds than that.
Bej'Asus!
"...Asus was chosen as the manufacturing partner for this device partly because it was happy to produce a low-price model without fearing its brand would be undermined in doing so..."
A fairly safe bet, given that people already associate the Asus brand with cheap crap, anyway.
Re: What adverts?
"...From home I access the normal site though, so I'm not depriving El Reg of their income too much..."
What? At home, you click on the shitty ads?
Re: Top tips
...or, dare I say, buy an iPhone.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, choosing a malware-infested google-spyware loaded mobile OS is so much cleverer than being a stupid fanboi trapped in a virus-free walled garden.
Whoops! Dared to criticise Android. The downvote button is over there. Please form an orderly queue --------------->
Re: Cold War
Yes, but presumably you're not American and therefore aren't nursing a superiority complex of such collossal proportions that you perceive any achievement by any other country anywhere as a personal affront.
Re: Whew.
"...how do we know their not rendered...?...
Whose not rendered?
Recommending alternatives...
For domain reg: Namecheap
For hosting: Linode [VPS]
Burn baby, burn!
Looking at the charts on Yahoo! Finance, it seems that a company called DST Global has spunked the biggest amount of money on FacePuke shares. A quick look on DST's website reveals quite possibly the highest density of the universal twat-word "SOLUTIONS" that I've seen in a long time.
This just keeps getting better and better!
Ah... one of those old games set in the version of the Second World War, where the Nazis had swastika flags. Not the revised history most modern games adopt, whereby the Germans seem to have fought under the old Imperial standard. And then of course there's the Civilisation franchise where Germany is represented by their most infamous military leader... er... Bismark and Russia by their most infamous military leader... er... Catherine the Great.
Disclaimer: Not a Nazi, I just hate the re-writing of history to make it fit contemporary PC morés.
"...has also been reported that NASDAQ OMX Group is facing a lawsuit for the technical glitches on the morning of Facebook's IPO, which led to buy and sell orders and their cancellations being held up..."
There seems to be a lot of dodginess attached to this flotation in a lot of places.
I tried to 'go short' on Facebook [ie. bet the share price would fall] on my Finspreads spread betting account the other day, only to get an alert pop up saying words to the effect that "It is only possible to go long on this share option" –in other words, 'we'll only take your bet if you bet on the losing side'
Gotta love the honesty of the stock-market crowd sometimes!
Re: Doubt it
Only *most* of her time? Dare I ask where she spends the rest of it?
Re: Not Fair
I had a bit of a fling with that Alice once and Bob found out about it straight away –even though he was miles away, at the time.
Re: Nah
Well said.
Evernote might look pretty and have an impressive feature list but, as someone who misguidedly signed up for a Pro account after taking the freebie version for a quick spin, I've got to agree with AC. It's a bloated, painfully slow lump of crap. I can't remember the last time I saw so many jaw-droppingly bad usability decisions incorporated into a single app.
Unfortunately it's so universally and unquestioningly belovēd of the internet press, that I sometimes think criticism of it might have been made a capital offence.
Re: Built-in FM radio!
Telling everyone ?
You do know that the same half dozen eejits are responsible for almost the entire content of these forums, don't you? I'd have a bigger audience if I made my announcement at confession.
Aw diddums!
What's wrong, Merky-Werky? Is 'oo upset coz 'oo is not the bestest, any more? It's OK. Mummy-wummy still loves 'oo the mostest.
Yours sincerely.
HMG.
Built-in FM radio!
Why, oh why, oh why.... etc do Microsoft think the world needs bloody social networking bolted on to searching now? The last thing I want is to announce to the rest of the planet what I've been searching the intarwebs for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; social networking is the "built-in FM radio" de nous jours:
Back in the 70's, when I was a nipper, transistors were just starting to become cheap enough and small enough to make embedding a tiny FM radio in other gadgets a possibilty. For a few years, you couldn't move for devices trumpetting the fact that they had a "built-in FM radio". They were in pens, watches, calculators, shoes, trouser presses, potato peelers... God knows what else.
They were completely pointless, barely worked and no fucker ever listened to them. Their addition to some doo-dad did however provide a cheap and lazy way for manufacturers to announce 'exciting' new features for their product, without actually innovating anything.
Can you see the similarites?
Practically every app on my phone or tablet has some room for improvement or for adding of new functionality but, half the time, when a new version is announced, all that has been done is the addition of a
built-in FM radio"share on Facepuke / Twatter" button, so you can share whatever the hell you do with that app 'with your friends'. I've even seen eBay and Amazon offer the chance for me to announce to the world at large what I've just bought from their respective tat emporiums!Why does world and wife think that everyone needs to know everything we do. Continually?
Re: Does Britain really need a space port?
Nice try but no cigar. Actually, I bowled a bouncer by mentioning Jocelyn [man's name] when I meant Godfrey. Feel free to have another go, on the house.
Forget the Google nepotism...
The real news story here is that [apparently –I didn't hear the programme] Radio 4 managed to produce a piece about 'teh internets', without wheeling out Martha Lane Fox, to stick her oar in
Re: Being
You must be new to the site, if you think a decent command of the English language is a prerequiste for employment on El Reg.
Re: Which one?
...or, for mac users, NeoOffice.
Probably the most obnoxious option as regards the parent company's ethos but, unfortunately the only version worth using on OSX as, for now, it's the only one which supports native OSX goodies such as QuickLook, versions and fullscreen mode.
It also has a microscopically less fugly native[-ish] GUI than either OpenOffice or LibreOffice... but that is a *very* relative statement.
Does Britain really need a space port?
Of course it does.
But it needs to be a 'proper' British one: built entirely in black & white, presided over by a bluff handlebar-moustacheo'd old cove called "Whiskers Greatrix". The astronauts should be plucky, square-jawed pipe-smoking astronautical types with names like "Jocelyn", who talk of "wizard prangs" on the moon and cruise down to Brighton at the weekend, with their best girl [probably a Daphne or a Muriel], along empty A-roads, in an open-top sports car.
[There'll be a special prize for the smart boy or girl who can pick the bones of an obscure cultural reference out of that lot!]
Janet Ellis?... seriously?
That annoying, helium-voiced frumpa-lumpa.
There's no accounting for taste!
The main prob I have with Chrome [on OSX] is that it has an annoying tendency to throw up "The DNS server stopped responding" errors, as if my network was down, when it isn't. Sometimes it takes two or three attempted reloads of a page, for it to 'connect' again.
Apart from that, I still think it's the best browser around at the moment
[Disclaimer: I'm actually using Iron, the Chromium based browser that's effectively Chrome, with all the Google spyware disabled]
Love it!
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, when I hear that a company has spunked millions of £££s down the drain, on advertising which didn't work.
Please can we have another feel-good follow-up story, about this leading to GM making some overpaid 'novelty tie and trendy glasses wearing' marketing executives redundant too?
"...caused its ProActiv monitoring software to think vital operating system processes were riddled with malware and blocked them from running..."
Given it was scanning Microsoft's garbage OS, I'd say that was an understandable mistake.
Re: With the BSA on your team...
It doesn't matter a damn what Microsoft put in their EULA. The law of the land allows the police [with warrant, or to prevent commission of a serious crime] and HMRC [if they bloody well feel like it] to enter your premises against your will. Anyone else [including the mighty Microsoft] needs a court order.
Try telling them to bugger off, next time they turn up.
Re: Can we please...
And, while you're at it Reg webmonkeys, could we have more pointless subdomains, all with their own separate login form and "keep me logged in" cookie that doesn't work?
Sometimes, I have time left over, after logging in separately to your half dozen or so separate subdomains every fucking day –and have to resort to reading the articles, to pass the time.
I HOPE THIS DOESNT OFFEND BDG
You know I've gone on record as being your biggest fan. I hope, therefore, you won't take it amiss if I offer some constructive criticism:
First off, the capitals. Majestic as ever. In fact I'm almost convinced they're even 'capitalier' than before. Have you been working out your caps-lock finger?
Punctuation is also first class and well up to your usual standards.
"BRUITISH" is exquisite. In that one word, cleverly combining 'British' and 'Brutish' you deliver more political insight than the countless volumes on British history, spewed out by lesser minds over the years could hope to achieve
However, I found "APPLE HAS COME TO THEIR SENSES" rather careless. OK. I know you hit us with the old classic "REWORK THERE WHOLE PLATFORM" straight afterwards, but I still think an opportunity was lost to get a "THEY'RE" in, as well.
Oh. What the hell! I'm just being churlish. How can I even dare to try and understand the soul-searching, mind-rending, convention-smashing artistry that goes into your every keystroke.
Sorry, BDG.
Re: BRILLIANT IDEA WOZ
Sorry BDG. God amongst internet pundits you may be. But by responding to your misguided critics, you're allowing yourself to be dragged down to their level.
Uncharacteristic, I know, as you don't usually put a foot wrong, but I'm afraid I had to downvote you for this one. Seems like, at times, even the internet gods have feet of clay.
Re: Makes you think though...
Too right. I've lost count of the countries North Korea has attacked, over the past few decades.
Re: Englican or Ameriglish?
Nothing to do with smartness. It's more about fighting a rearguard action against the 'Merkinisation of the English language. But if you're happy to be assimilated, then go for it.
V3
I have the same curiosity as to why people pre-order new hardware. I work on the assumption that:
Version 1 —of anything will be full of bugs and missing elementary features, because the engineering bods had to rush it out to meet the impossible launch date, trumpeted to the press by marketing departments and CEOs
Version 2 —Will squish most of the existing V1 bugs and add the missing features. However the new stuff will now be full of bugs, as it was rushed out to meet the deadline trumpeted to the press by marketing departments and CEOs, boasting about the new features.
Version 3 —Will be pretty good, as the engineers will finally have had time to fix everything. The press and public will howl with derision, because there are no new features.
That's the version I usually buy.
Englican or Ameriglish?
"...meetings have been set, one in the 23rd of May ... the other is scheduled for June 19..."
Blimey, Reg! –Can you make up your mind one way or t'other, whether you're an English or a 'Merkin rag. It's annoying enough having an article with 'centre', 'colour' and '£££' sitting cheek by jowl on the same page as one with 'center', 'color' and '$$$', but now we seem to be getting both dialects mixed in the same sentence!
Re: @madra I used to use open office
They've been saying they're "currently" working on a mobile version for about a year now and have produced absolutely zero. I'm filing under 'vapourware' until I see some evidence... *any* evidence
Re: BING IS THE BEST
If you love it, I love it too, BDG. You're my internet hero.
Wow! A whole page's worth of comments in an article about search engines... and no-one's plugged DuckDuckGo yet!
Re: True enough.
Absolute ballbags.
Both the missus and my 3GSs are running the latest iOS with no problems or slowdowns at all. Stop spreading FUD.
Re: Come on Apple
Weird???
I've never had an OSX update [including this one] re-hide my unhidden hidden folders [!]
<code>defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES</code>
Those whom the gods would destroy....
I hope Thatch doesn't die for a long time yet. Death's too good for her. Let the nazi bitch suffer her ongoing descent into drooling, twisted senility for as long as possible.
[Having said that, I've got a nice celebratory 12 year old whiskey set aside –just in case!]
Re: iFads useful to mouth-breathing apes?
Damn! —when I saw there were only three comments, I was going to post an "in before first painfully predictable comment comparing Apple users to apes" but I'll obviously have to be a lot quicker than that.
Keep writing those hits, kid!
Good News
This is great news and a fantastic use of digital technology. Or, as the villagers of PNG might say [Apologies if my Arapesh is a bit rusty]:
Aim'ju stmi kin d'issup. Bot huannel rij canss p'ik A'rap'sh in yawei
Re: I used to use open office
I use NeoOffice on my resolutely "Microsoft Free" laptop, when I need to open a spreadsheet, but for most everyday writing I find myself more and more resorting to Byword —write in markdown and then export as a nicely formatted PDF. It also runs and syncs my docs across macbook, iPad and iPhone, using DropBox, which means I can pick up where I left off, whatever device I'm using. Obviously not an office suite replacement but good-looking, positively anorexic compared to the bloatware most of those are and capable of producing a surprising range of decent looking documents, so long as you don't need all the fancy-schmancy stuff like a zillion styles, footnotes, etc.
[Yes. Hidden in there is another allusion to one of my favourite rants –the lack of a mobile version of Open-, Libre- or NeoOffice]
Choose between two...?
It's even more confusing in the Apple world, where you can add NeoOffice into the mix.
I must say, I'm minded to agree with the honourable Mr. Shitpeas here. I do sometimes wish the FOSS community would show a bit more maturity in toiling together for the common good, rather than hiving off a new fork of a product, every time one bunch of developers stops seeing eye to eye with another.
Gain the market share first, lads. Then, when world and dog knows your product, start offering alternate versions. The other way round just confuses potential adopters and gets you nowhere.
An apparent title
"...The nomenclature change has emerged in an apparent email to customers..."
An apparent email, eh? What's that –something which looks like an email, but might not be?
Re: Science Fiction
C'mon BDG. You're losing it. A genuine 'Merkin fuckwitt would have written "FASTER THEN LIGHT"
Must try HARDER!
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