Posts by Phil Kingston

Re: LMGTFY

Thanking you.

Already happening. Wine being one use-case I've heard of.

Re: Wrong Metric

But there are those who say they'd rather keep the performance.

Re: The Microsoft Curse?

YAY! I win the office bet on how soon the first Microsoft bash would be. I said top 3.

Re: Probably won't work when Windows is done with it

>ads that could not be blocked.

Ah, now I see why G so keen on them.

Re: A phone from the past

Wish I'd never got rid of mine. Waaayyyy past time for that form factor to make a comeback.

Re: Seems OK

I've heard Sittingbourne is 20 years behind.

Confirmation.

I also wonder why he didn't just enter the property, trigger the alarm, and then simply silence the alarm with PIN/fob/whatever.

What really got me about all the Samsung bloat and crapware was that they don't even let you uninstall them. I mean, it's one thing to ship a device loaded up with shite, and quite another to not even let the user remove it.

Re: Android?

Extortion is a serious word to be throwing around.

If anyone has a valid patent and does good licensing deals then I say fair enough. Obvs not all those patent troll firms.

Re: Would anyone...

I don't. But i've heard good things about them and i know a one-man-band IT guy who's rolled out a dozen or so.

Re: Why even touch user folders?

Smartphone 2002, with ActiveSync, those were the days

Sky's the limit with this kind of legislation. Hope they get their legal eagles on it.

To be fair, the only reason government departments hit EOL woes is because they can't get rolled-out without months/years caught up in their own procurement process.

Just some good-ol' fashioned policing.

Now if only they could pass on their knowledge to those hastily drafting a crazy encryption bill in Australia.

Re: Going back to Thinkpad

I suspect you may not be the target market then. The folks I've seen who use these as mobile devices (seen a fair few that never actually leave their desk) have a wireless mouse and expect/demand Wi-Fi everywhere. There's no need for them to lug USB hubs or ethernet adaptors. They're not the kind of people who would know what a VM is, let alone want to run some on a tablet.

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Re: Notches

Sharp had a notched display that beat Essential to market by a few days. Not that it matters.

I prefer to see the display as having two extra areas rather than having something taken away. Glass half full.

My this year's handset has ears. The remainder of the screen is 2:1 and the presence of the ears really had zero sway on my decision to buy it. I genuinely don't see why people are upset about it.

I dunno, I wouldn't say they fucked up so much, more that Apple won by having their App Store. When they opened the App Store to 3rd parties, that was the killer blow. MS then just went down a path where each new version was incompatible with previous version's apps. Users didn't stand for it.

Re: Things will not improve until...

Perhaps start with CIOs

Re: pathetic

Pretty sure that comment could be copy-pasted under any article I've ever read.

Portable outrage.

Re: The Chinese variant of the XS will take two physical SIMs.

Bingo. Apple have only done this because it suits them. Either as something to assist negotiations with carriers or some other reason. They want to own everything. It's not unreasonable to anticipate them becoming an MVNO in certain regions. Imagine that, buy iPhone, fire it up, set up iTunes account, choose default Apple network, all your base are belong to us.

That explains it. But that's a poor law if it means they have to save years old credit card information.

I always think disabled accounts could still be a risk. Take disgruntled employee Jonno. Has his account disabled when he's black-bagged on Friday. Rings the service desk on Monday and gets lucky that the operator decides to re-enable his account. Assuming some sort of remote access, Jonno's back in, and up to mischief.

Worse, if another person knew Jonno's account had been disabled they could attempt to get it reactivated and try their luck at a few passwords.

Small, but disabled accounts still pose a risk.

Makes me feel old. No love for Doom any more.

Re: What time is it now?

Pretty sure it's my turn to be PM any day now. Everyone else seems to have had a go.

If you have to ask the price...