29th September 2007 Archive

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• Windows XP repair disk kills automatic updates

  Comment Critics speak out of both sides of mouths

  A commonly used method for repairing Windows computers can disable the automatic installation of Microsoft updates, or patches, it was revealed this week. The company is getting a kicking from critics for this - the same people who slammed the company two weeks ago when Microsoft forced a Windows patch on users who had turned …

  Operating Systems 29 Sep 00:04

• ElReg40™: Get ready for Guttergroove

  Competition results You define the future

  We've been astonished in the last week by the respone to our call for Reg readers' web 2.0 ideas. The amount of creativity you launched in our general direction has been touching. So here we present the internet's most exciting start-up conference. Forty (give or take) new paradigms to blow your mind. We'll begin with the …

  Bootnotes 29 Sep 08:02

• Ninjas battle invisible frogs in Hitler's San Diego bunker

  Comments And sex with hoovers can land you inside

  Ninjas have invaded Pennsylvania, and are holding up petrol ('gas' to their American victims) stations at swordpoint. Two female ninjas, that staple of the videogame industry, stole "cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets" from a terrified clerk. While the latter two items don't really fit the ninja mystique, that didn't matter to …

  Letters 29 Sep 09:02