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Microsoft slings mud at Google Chrome

Steve Graham
Linux

IE for me?

Thanks, Microsoft, for getting the news out. I don't think I'll be installing Chrome in the near future.

Of course, since I hate and despise everything to do with Windows and run only Linux, I won't be installing IE either.

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Microsoft embraces another Linux company

Steve Graham
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Linux

filesystems

If your product is a file server, say, then one which is Windows-compatible is a good idea. (Although not in my house.)

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Obama to scrap Moon, Mars expeditions - report

Steve Graham
Jobs Horns

leaving the space race

"children born in the last few years no longer have any chance of growing up to walk on Mars."

I think you meant "children born in America..."

(Unless their parents are Chinese or Indian citizens, which I suppose is actually quite common these days.)

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Mozilla teases surfers with near-final version of Firefox 3.6

Steve Graham
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Linux

bloatware

Bruno Girin: "I do struggle to see what else I would remove out of vanilla FF to make it more lightweight."

Well, how about the database server? That, surely, has got to be high on the list of things you shouldn't include in a web browser.

If you fix that as per your point 5, I'll take a 64-bit Linux build please.

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Google tries to quietly trample on Apple's toes

Steve Graham
FAIL

Why?

The strapline to this article says "Wanna know why the Nexus One will never be as successful as the iPhone?"

Well, yes. That would be good.

How do we find that out?

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Mozilla man sends Firefoxers to Microsoft Bing

Steve Graham
Linux

Money, money, money

If Mozilla was to lose Gooogle funding, they'd have to revert to an unpaid volunteer development model, like some of the Linux distributions. It seems to work OK for them.

And maybe a more democratic development process would result in less bloat and questionable design decisions (let's put a database engine in our web browser). Maybe? No, I know, but I can dream, can't I?

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Parcelforce fails to deliver for Windows 7 lovers

Steve Graham
Paris Hilton

I use DR-DOS

Incidentally, the eBay/PayPal service for printing your postage labels obviously uses the Royal Mail and Parcelfarce system, but it doesn't care what operating system you use.

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Google expands plan to run own internet

Steve Graham

speed?

Surely Gooogle's "speed" argument is completely bogus? I currently have a fault on my broadband (THANK YOU PLUSNET) making everything really, really, really slow, but time for DNS resolution is still negligible.

If you really wanted to speed up browsing, you'd ban Adobe Flash.

I can see where this is going though. The Gooogle Chrome appliance will have the DNS servers hardwired with no option for the user to change them.

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Firefox at 5: the Google Cold War

Steve Graham
Stop

It's not like cable TV

You only get adverts if your browser asks for them, and it's easy to stop it doing that, especially Firefox.

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I saw aliens at Roswell, claims dead PR man

Steve Graham

Dead Men Sue No Suits

My literary analysis software says that the two alleged affidavits were written by different people.

I suspect the "secret" one is a forgery.

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YouTube acknowledges foreign countries

Steve Graham

Pot, Kettle?

I'm sure the Reg knows that Irish is also spoken in Ireland. And that's what was on the front page when I clicked on www.youtube.ie

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Hardy perennials dominate virus chart

Steve Graham

Sloppy Reporting

How many of these viruses are a threat to Macs or Linux machines?

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Last.fm scrobbled for $280m

Steve Graham

They Need The Money

My perception of the last.fm service is that they've been hitting the limits of their hardware and networking for some time now. Pages typically take 10 seconds or more to refresh; sometimes they just time out. Lots of other stuff is either slow or occasionally fails.

The new parent company needs to invest in infrastructure before doing anything else.

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Skype worm leaps onto MSN

Steve Graham

lazy reporting

Yes, can you please mention "this affects Windows users" or something. It's not an issue for Mac or Linux or other systems.

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Liverpool police get mini-Black Helicopter

Steve Graham

Tuning In

According to the company's website the video transmitter its "2.4Ghz, analog" -- or the same as your room-to-room videosender. Everyone in the neighbourhood will be able to watch!

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