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27th December 2001 Archive

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  • Copyleft fonts don't come free

    Pay the artists, please

    Linotype gets heavy over free ATM font downloads I think the tone of your article about Linotype is wrong, and some of the legal assumptions you've made are definitely wrong. The entire type "industry" has been suffering greatly over the last decade or so due to increased piracy of intellectual property. This has been made …

    Letters 27 Dec 2001, 08:13

  • GSM storms the USA

    And we missed it...

    Qualcomm bungs Handspring a $10m bonus You write:- "Stateside users only get a choice of one carrier per region if they plump for the Treo. So by adding CDMA to its handhelds Handspring should get access to more carrier customers, and Handspring mavens get more choice of carrier." This is no longer true given that powerhouse …

    Letters 27 Dec 2001, 08:13

  • Get real – Linux doesn't cut it

    Thomas Greene red-carded for karma-whoring

    Mandrake 8.1 easier than Win-XP Hello Thomas C Green in Washington, You write - In other words, it's better at most of what the majority of Windows addicts use their computers for: wasting time on line. Is that really what you think the majority of PC owners actually use their computers for? Good god. It particularly amused …

    Letters 27 Dec 2001, 08:13

  • Why burning CDs on Windows really, really sucks

    Roxio destined for the rocks

    Your correspondent suggests that the Windows XP driver model has changed in some way from Windows 2000 which has caused EasyCD 4.x to break. I really don't think this is true. Because device drivers all run in kernel mode, it's perfectly possible for them to call into known-but-undocumented entry points, or to simply call the …

    Letters 27 Dec 2001, 08:13

  • GFS and open source clustering

    Dumb-down Reg makes storage too simple

    Linux takes obscurity route to datacentre Many readers found our birds eye view of the storage industry too simple to be useful. Here are a couple of constructive comments. We should point out too that our the article left the issue of whether Sistina's GFS is open source fuzzy. After a chat with Matt O'Keefe, founder of …

    Letters 27 Dec 2001, 08:13

  • Jobs takes home $1 salary

    $89,999,999 you owe us for the Jet, Steve

    Steve Jobs, and his accompanying Reality Distortion Field cost Apple Computer just $1 in 2001. That's what Apple's CEO and co-founder took home as salary this year, according to Reuters. Not that Jobs is short of a bob or two. As part of a remuneration deal for saving Apple he was awarded a $90 million jet. In all, Jobs is …

    Business 27 Dec 2001, 10:55

  • DNS ‘hack’ fells The Reg

    Stuck record

    Some of you may have noticed that The Register has been absent from computer screens the last couple of days. An "administrative error" from PSI Net Europe , our DNS record-keeper, was to blame. On December 24, a PSI Net operative wrongly deleted us from its customer records and detagged our website address with Nominet. If it …

    Site News 27 Dec 2001, 19:05