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Comment Re:All of them. (Score 2) 226

by fatrat on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:43AM (#44048473) Attached to: Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise?

Google Secure Data Connector. Totally an enterprise focused product. Never really supported (getting it to work involved reading the source code), now announced to be closed with no replacement (though with a suitably long 18 month lead time).

Comment Re:I recall MxStream (Score 1) 445

by fatrat on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @03:32PM (#42607379) Attached to: UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6

There's nothing new here. Most big corporates/Universities etc have proxy'd their traffic for years. That has the same affect. It causes the odd problem with over-zealous blocking, but nothing major.

Comment Re:Enough with this bullshit. (Score 2) 378

by fatrat on Saturday July 07, 2012 @10:11AM (#40575305) Attached to: Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client

That misses the OP's point, which is that since Mozilla is an open source, non-profit org, it *shouldn't* work in this way. If this was about Oracle or Apple or MS or .... then you'd be right. But it's not.

Comment Re:Extended Support Release (Score 1) 366

by fatrat on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:07PM (#39528357) Attached to: Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility

My recent blog post with links to the relevant extensions for Chrome and Firefox http://www.clune.org/post/20108030713/moderately-private-moderately-secure-browsing (scroll down to skip the general discussion)

Comment Re:Android reduces fragmentation (Score 1) 431

by fatrat on Thursday January 12, 2012 @05:10PM (#38678258) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented

And for us geeks, the Galaxy S is getting ICS. I have it running on my Galaxy S right now via CyanogenMod.

Comment Re:No CI? No version control? (Score 1) 362

by fatrat on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:30AM (#37687804) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments?

Exactly: "Never let a good crisis go to waste"

Comment Re:Content is keeping me away, not prices of reade (Score 1) 109

by fatrat on Saturday August 27, 2011 @03:34PM (#37229140) Attached to: Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall

If you buy Kindle books from Amazon, there's Calibre plugins that will automatically strip the DRM. All the O'Reilly books are available (directly from O'Reilly) DRM free. There's also other sources but, yes, there's no general DRM free store yet.

Comment Re:Google search worthless now (Score 1) 182

by fatrat on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:21PM (#37073308) Attached to: Why Google Needs Firefox

Google gives different results for different users, so if the OP is logged in they might well get a different set of results to you. Getting to a state where all the results are link spam is impressive though :)

Comment Re:It's symbiotic (Score 1) 182

by fatrat on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:18PM (#37073266) Attached to: Why Google Needs Firefox

It's not enough to exist - Opera doesn't have enough market share to really force change in the way FF does.

Comment Re:Happened once (Score 1) 352

by fatrat on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:52AM (#36718244) Attached to: IT Crises vs. Vacation: Sometimes It Isn't Pretty

He stared at the file for a few minutes (with #! /usr/bin/perl staring him right in the face) and asked, "What language is this written in?"

I often get that feeling looking at Perl code :)

The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design 242

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 26, 2010 @02:45AM from the how-to-pack-five-eggs dept.

I'm Not There (1956) writes "Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of the paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to study several sites, each more crowded than the last. 'It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, Web users and skilled Web design practitioners believe more is more.'"

Comment Re:Is really a bad, bad idea... (Score 1) 219

by fatrat on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:00AM (#29171177) Attached to: NASA May Outsource

The UK Post Office isn't privatised. Yet.

Comment Re:Not just assimilating information (Score 1) 468

by fatrat on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:25AM (#27937447) Attached to: Copyright Infringement of Books

Why are you ruining nice Scotch with ice and *shudder* soda?

Comment Re:Or in other words... (Score 1) 203

by fatrat on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:04PM (#27243663) Attached to: UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist

I believe that ACPO (the Association of Chief Police Officers) have written a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which they state that IT technicians investigating the matter will not be prosecuted...

http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/docs/mousexoffences.pdf

Comment Re:Maybe not. (Score 1) 596

by fatrat on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @06:33AM (#27222939) Attached to: What to Fight Over After Megapixels?

My Nikon D200 can do this, so I assume any more recent Nikon can also change the first three chars of the filename. I do as you want to and set the first three letters to my initials.

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