Pahtlor commented on Question of the Day: Do You Trust Your IT Department?

"@arekkusu82: I know that it's a good plan to assume people don't know what they're doing, that's fine, but when I phone IT and ask for the exchange server address and then sit and watch the guy fumble around on my machine for 15 minutes trying to find the auto configure wizard I get worried..."

Pahtlor commented on Question of the Day: Do You Trust Your IT Department?

"I've been a computer repair guy and IT guy, and generally you find that if people can't trace what the IT guys do they kinda think there's no victim - what users don't know can't hurt them, certainly as far as being bored and poking around is concerned. Is it wrong?"

Pahtlor commented on Ballmer Talks iPhone SDK, Screams Again

"Sorry if I'm being a massive n00b but when did people start talking about silverlight on the iPhone?!? I'm assuming that safari integration would require Apple to play ball, rather than M$ just developing a standard 'sandboxed' app, so that's unlikely? I'm guessing Jobs is gonna take his ball home and not come out to play until there is a custom made iPhone version of flash."

Pahtlor commented on Samsung Planning on 256GB SSDs, Huge Price Drops by End of the Year

"@Monty: "SS drive technology is vastly over-stated."

Pahtlor commented on Samsung Planning on 256GB SSDs, Huge Price Drops by End of the Year

"If Apple used MLC to put a slow-but-cheap 128GB drive in an iPhone or iPod touch I'd buy one tomorrow!"

Pahtlor commented on Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP 24-Inch Widescreen Display Crammed With DisplayPort, 12 More

"Cost to buy in the US: $699 = £360 Cost to buy in the UK: £563 = $1093 Sigh."

Pahtlor commented on DVD Jon's doubleTwist Allows Ripping of iTunes Music Files

"Other companies can't make iTunes Music Store compatible players cos Apple don't license their DRM. Yes Apple like DRM from the iPod sales point of view, but there's also the fact that their contracts with the record companies will state that they need to use DRM. It's all very well stripping the DRM, but you can do that in iMovie anyway."

Pahtlor commented on Podera Luxe USB Hub and Flash Card Readers Are Downright Purdy

"Hehehe, they chose to use pretty Apple USB cables but photoshoped out the logo, but you can see one of them in the reflection :P While both do look nice they are a little big for me I think."

Pahtlor commented on Gates Talks Zune 2

"I wish my iPod(s) automatically synced over WiFi... But nothing would make me switch to Zune :)"

Pahtlor commented on The Odds a Firmware Update Will Relock Your iPhone: Very High

" "steal the RSA key" How long would it take to crack if everyone interested in the iPhone had some SETI style distributed computing thing running? I'm guessing it's like 128bit so like...years?"