Posts by Phil Kingston

Re: Soldered ram, glossy screen, no ethernet - no thanks

Enterprises aren't interested in upgrading RAM before the lease on the kit runs out. And ethernet ports aren't used, or are attached to the dock. Keeping the cost down however is a good thing.

Yep, my maths is OK, my typing less so.

Re: obligatory TITSUP add here :o)

Totally

Imagined

Technology

Suffers

Unforeseen

Plight

It'll be in the FIA rules for a valid record attempt that they recognise I expect.

One protected with a username/password

Two hopes

Re: Feature Request

For most govt IT I think you're massively underestimating steps 4 and 5. Kinda why I'm a fan of the Restrospecive Change - I'll fix it, you faff about after.

Re: Managers

Kinda. But I still say that until CIOs start going to prison, this lind of shit will continue.

Maybe use a prepaid Visa card with no credit on it?

Re: Peak tech

But, but, new, shiny!

Re: Why?

2019. There's no way "most people" want those. Downvote-a-geddon, but it's the truth,

Re: A contract is a contract

Exactly. But in addition to a lawyer who got a scent for dollars I'd love to hear from some aggrieved users on how this actually impacted them. Convincingly.

Actually - two, make it two, I'd settle for hearing from two users for whom this was actually an issue.

Re: It's in its infancy, but it will improve

Even trying to actively avoid all that stuff you leave enough of a trail for someone with the right access to get a good handle on you.

Re: A pox on people behaving sterotypically

We're about to go through the very same exercise. It has been commanded from head office that there shall be no more offices, everyone will be "on the floor". Taking into consideration that we're also hearing that there may not actually be enough desks for everyone and "don't we have a lot of swish new meeting rooms" it's obvious what's going to happen.

Re: Zero-g Bonk fee?

>I'm sure I read somewhere about difficulty maintaining an errction in zero G conditions

That's my excuse

I think it's even more laughable that they'll charge for a VESA adaptor.

Re: Whatever happened to distributed computing?

>The whole point of moving to the Cloud was to provide redundancy

It's one of the points, but not the entire point.

Re: "Computacenter is offering a 12-month free ID monitoring service"

Wasn't it that they vulnerable because of *out of date* open source code?

Re: Bit of a crap deal

But, but you'll be able to download a movie in "seconds"!

True, for the rest of the month you'll be capped at whatever they decide, but that initial download will be SWEET

Re: Conspiracy theory No. 1

>Most likely because the US judicial system has been supporting US companies at the expense of foreign ones for decades

Not saying it's right, but that sounds pretty much the same as the Chinese have done.

Re: Pompeo has lost it ...

Similar laws in the west. Including the Australian one that requires tech companies to break encryption if asked. Quite how they're their expected to break mathematics isn't known.

Re: Mismanglement at it again.

Does that work well with language differences and things?

Re: Another day

Except not a hack

Re: Nomenclature

I've been hearing people claim their mobe is 5G for some time now, just because it has 5GHz Wi-Fi.

And "where". I imagine they'll just shift operations to somewhere that suits them better.