INQUIRER - kinda thing the media is supposed to be

Shame on you. In your article "Dell blog confused with adult site", the Inquirer manages to blow a perfect opportunity when discussing how ZDNet 'stumbled upon' a pornographic site that vaguely resembled Dell's OnetoOne service.

Specifically, how could the Inquirer pass up the opportunity to disinter the hoary old standby "They came across it accidentally"? If the Inquirer cannot be trusted to master the classic forms of sniggering schoolboy journalism, who can?

Regards,
Geoff Langdale.

Subject: Everywhere Girl, et al

Now here's a thing: The folks at wikipedia reckon that Everywhere girl doesn't merit the kind of attention that you've been giving to her, and that an article about her isn't worthy for inclusion on Wikipedia... that being the case, how do they explain the presence of this little nugget?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings

Ken Jenkins holds a record for being on jeopardy for a very long time. Amazing! But why does he merit this attention? Isn't such a record actually fairly trivial in the grand scheme of things? Is it possible that they're using appearances on television and "traditional" media as criteria for inclusion? I thought Wikipedia was meant to be independent of such traditional media concerns.

Shows what I know, eh?

Graham Dawson

Subject: Monitor guide

Ty for always keeping this media the best on the internet. This kind of response being published is the kinda of thing that all the media was supposed to do.

Greets.
barciella

Subject: Windows Legacy Support

Is it really that hard for users to fork out £85 for an up to date operating system, considering how many hours and effort goes into actually developing it? They can always ditch Microsoft and attempt an install of one of the many unsupported Linux distros for their desktop, I'm pretty sure after hours and hours trying to get simple things to work they would be more than happy to hand over their £85. I'm no Microsoft arse licker or anything but IMO software has a short lifecycle these day's with security threats happening everyday, and demand from users for new features, I think the MS bashing really needs to stop because there's nobody out there doing a better job at the moment with desktop systems and I think the old days of the MS monopoly are dying away, but it's evident that there's still people who can't accept that FACT.

lee

Subject: Dell has secret stash of burnt-out notebooks

I was one of those with a laptop with a two-inch melted hole in the righthand corner, about 3 years ago with an Inspiron 8000

Melted, the casing exposed a chunky heatsink behind the two fans at that corner, so I figured it was fan failure and a broken (or nonexistent) heat sensor.

Took me a long time to get Dell to honour the warrantee, by which time the weakened hinge had damaged the screen, and they had to replace not only the casing but also the LCD. (They had given me a new casing strip already, but it'd rendered the top row of keys unusable.)

No pictures of leaping flames for you though, sorry!

(Name and address, supplied, withheld)

Subject: Horrible use of English

For a British IT news site, you sure seem to have a lot of "Indian-style" horrible English...

Or did you forget the you guys over there don't own India anymore?

segin

Subject: AMD Q2

One interesting piece on the CC (if I heard right) was that capex was up $100M, as one would expect with all the new building and refitting going on, but if you add that back in (which brings you to last Q's level of capex), that bumps the bottom line back to last Q's level. That justified on the basis that the capex is for future production not current.

AMD brass also seemed quite confident that big customers are willing to pay more for AMD products because it allows them to get a lower price from Intel. Hope that's not a stretch.

Mentioned that Intel is new to cost competition where AMD has been doing its whole existence.

regards
Toby

Subject: Top 500 UK products

Inq,

I am sorry to hear the Inquirer hadn't made the list. But... on an international note I am but one American who sets his sights to browse http://www.theinquirer.net every day. No one polled me or any other of my american breatheren, but maybe we should ;-)

James M. Cratty

Subject: Subject: Win98, Win95

Don't suppose you could also mention to users of Win98, Win95 that if they do upgrade to Win XP chances are their hardware won't work so they'll need to add-in a load more money for that.

Whereas, if they are running Win95, Win98 they could as easily upgrade to one of the Linux distros, get an improvement in performance, better security and find that Wine or Cedega will run all their games.

gavigan

Subject: Subject: Win98, Win95

Hey Paul,

you don't need to update a ready patched system of windows 98 how was stable running in 2004/2005.

Only what you have to is, make a backup from the hole system and change to better systmesoftware (Freeware) like the good old Ontrack PowerDesk 5, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, SUN Java, HostEdit 5, 7-ZIP, Spybot, CCleaner, FaberToys, DS-Clock, DCOMobulator (stop DCOM Traffic) StarOffice 5.x/7 (very cheap, very good and very stable!) and spend a bit money for good firewall-system like an Agnitum Outpost Pro, in there you can stop ICMP 10 (in/out) "unvisible" Traffic for the stupid MS-Explorer and so on!

Don't forget a good virusscanner!

A very good freeware for small systems (K7/233Mhz/128MB RAM) is AVAST!

In germany we have for a long time and many users will have it on a CD-R, two legal all-in-one updatepacks (32MB/40MB) in german language for Windows 98/ME and if you look on your site, maybe you can find undates in english.

I hope!

And please forget the MS-Explorer, IE, Outlook Express, MS-Adressbook and other stupid MS-Software too! ;)

As an cheerfully Basic-System (not to much Microsoft on board!) with an MS-Kernel is Win98/ME o.k. and stable, ...... but don't use things like MS-Explorer, IE, Outlook Express and soooo on! :)

Have a nice week

Frank-J. Bebber, Germany

Subject: Gates and AIDS monies

"And he and his missus are pumping serious money into the fight against AIDs in Africa.

It's just a shame that his software licensing model is similar to that used by drug companies to ensure the costs of essential drugs used to combat AIDS and the like are kept at extortionate levels. And that model is one that we can only assume he supports, since we can't find him complaining about it anywhere on his charitable foundation's web site here."

Well said Paul. I applaud you. The bloke is nothing but a hypocrite.

Nick Warne

Subject: Microsoft Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is a kick in the teeth for users

This has to be the worst case of anti-MS propaganda I've seen in a long time. Most of us reading The Inq knows what a thin client is, what the purpose is and all that. And the whole thing about Win98/ME, nobody is told to stop use it, only article writers that use it as a way to kick MS arse try to make it into something of a disastrous surprise.

I have my qualms about how MS does business, but blatant and stupid anti-MS crap doesn't belong @ the inq.... *sigh*

How come you didn't bother to tell the readers what Fundamentals for Legacy is aimed at, how it works and why home users wouldn't benefit from it? Too busy coming up with new ways to throw rocks at the giant?

Daniel

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