* Posts by adnim

2081 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2007

Microsoft: Office 365 reached 1 million subs faster than Facebook

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Meh

Not surprising

MS & MS Ofiice have had quite a few years market exposure prior to the provision of Office 365.

Where as the others...

El Reg drills into Office 365: What's under the hood?

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Meh

lock in?

Computer says "NO".

Office 365 using ODF and other open standards?

End to end SSL across all apps.

A MAC code so one can easily shift to another provider should MS up the ante?

Computer says "Maybe"

Regardless of QoS and the level of service offerings, being locked in to one provider and their proprietary formats should cause concern for any CIO/CFO.

Forget choice: 50% of firms will demand you BYOD by 2017

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Joke

Do

the business savings cover the cost of user training required to stop private information becoming public?

Or are they going to take the data home by public transport to think about it?

Virgin Media: SO SORRY we fined your dead dad £10 for unpaid bill

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@insanity Re: When my mother died

I see your point and the that bill was directed against her estate rather than me personally.

However, we are talking about a company with annual profits in the millions and a debt of £97 and some pennies run up by a private individual who had no savings and was living on a pension, not a business or corporation.

If companies actually employed people and not machines to run their finances and treated their customers as people and not account numbers perhaps we as the consumer would have more respect for them. And, perhaps situations such as this would not arise in the first place. To large corporations we are not people, we are sources of income for some investor/shareholder to whom all this kind of thing is just a game.

I really despair of a capitalist system that does not empathise or understand that customers are more than just numbers on a balance sheet, they are people that feel, bleed and hurt.

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Unhappy

When my mother died

I informed them.

They sent me her unpaid bill.

Other companies may do this too. However, it is something I would never do.

Ubuntu 13.04: No privacy controls as promised, but hey - photo search!

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Linux

I have a search box

in Firefox for the web, with several search engines, Amazon is one of them.

I know if what I am searching for is local or out there on the Internet.

I sacked Ubuntu for Mint on the desktop, and CentOS as a server.

I is happy.

Bill Gates offends Koreans after sticking hand down trousers

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Joke

Perhaps

he was feeling a little cocky.

Microsoft: Worried about web privacy? Tell us everything...

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FAIL

FAIL

Doesn't work with Javascript disabled. And the site wanted to set a web tracking cookie from 2o7.net.

I was prepared to play for amusement but the start button would not work without Javascript.

That was amusement enough, I closed the tab.

Google's Page drops the A-bomb: Google Glass runs Android

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Can it be...

rooted?

What else matters to anyone who values their privacy?

Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac

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The blog

makes a fascinating read.

I am shocked about the way the police dealt with the evidence presented to them. Or is this typical of West London police?

Feds urged to probe four US cell big boys over Android holes

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Re: to be that guy

Yes, both my phone and Tab 2 run Cyanogen. I couldn't have done it without the modding community. I just haven't the time to master the skills I lack to do such a thing.

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Why ever not?

To save a few bucks?

Because with the telco's knowledge some entity is making use of those vulnerabilities?

The telco's themselves are making use of those vulnerabilities?

All of the above?

Magic mystery malware menaces many UK machines - new claim

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I was thinking about

building a honeywall using a Raspberry Pi this morning.

Almost every piece of software I install wants to phone home without asking permission or giving any indication in the EULA or documentation that it will do so.

It's been quite a while since a ran a honeywall and honeypots, getting back into it again will be a nice refresher. Something for rainy Sunday afternoons, I expect we will get a lot of them in summer.

Ten Windows tablets

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That's the way to do it

Give attention to an attention seeker.

As for the hardware nothing really impresses considering the prices. As for the OS well it's a bit like Marmite and I hate Marmite.

Facebook struggling to find 'immersive' Home on Apple's iPhone

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Meh

Some people will say

anything to boost the share price of their company.

Reg: Still need a shrug or a "like I give a fsck" icon. Meh just isn't strong enough ;-)

Thatcher’s data protection legacy: Just fill out this 16-page form

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Big Brother

Just lie

I tell my partner the truth, I tell my friends the truth, I tell my bank the truth, I tell the tax man the truth. As for the rest, I fabricate what I think they want to hear.

I am sure nobody believes I was born on the 1st of January 1901. Mind you, if one looks close enough one might be forgiven for thinking so!

Facebook Home gets SMACKDOWN from irate users

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I must be old fashioned

Friends are people I know, people I care about, people I trust, people I want to spend time with. Acquaintances are people I sort of know, people I care less for (I might not risk my life for them), people I might eventually trust, people I might have the odd pint with.

What are Facebook "friends" ?

Microsoft's security apps still trip up on Windows 8

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Re: Citation needed

Thanks... I tend not to respond to those with the memory span of a goldfish or those without the wherewithal to do a moments research. James Bond may have lived twice but I am pretty sure this time is my only time... No point in wasting it.

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Re: Microsoft proclaimed...

I would be surprised if any IT professional expected anything else.

Windows is an evolution of an inherently insecure operating system. Despite MS claims of Vista being re-written from the ground up it was an evolution of XP. Windows 7 was Vista rebuilt to actually work and Windows 8 is Windows 7 with an added UI.

It is a huge OS, millions of lines of code, I suspect much of it is legacy. I doubt there is much of Windows 3.1 left in there. I expect code from all previous versions beyond 3.1 is in there in varying amounts. If Windows was just an operating system perhaps is could have been made secure but it isn't just an operating system. It is a collection of many useful and useless utilities on top of an operating system.

Microsoft's desire to be a dominant player in areas beyond operating systems... the Internet... Office productivity etc. and their desire to set closed standards in order to make everyone bend to their whim has produced the operating system we see today. I would guess that all new features have just been tagged onto legacy code and that legacy code modified to accommodate the additions.

Anyone who trusts any operating system to be secure is somewhat naive. The same is true for Linux, that too has its fair share of security issues, although with a smaller foot print and more timely updates is isn't so much of an issue. Linux tends to be used by those with a clue whilst Windows is a consumer focused operating system. That fact alone is even more cause for Microsoft to produce something secure even if that security breaks ease of use of certain features.

What should really be of concern is that Microsoft have now adapted that insecure Windows code base to run across a multitude of devices, will it be a case of one exploit to rule them all?

'Close to one in three - sorry, one in eight - SMEs are software pirates'

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Re: Startups need to stay lean

Me too....Have an up vote, if for nothing else than being sensible.

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Michala Wardell, UK committee chair at the BSA - who doubles up as anti-piracy manager at Microsoft - branded the findings "shocking",

Mmmm, I would brand the findings understandable considering that many software licencing fees... Especially those dreamt up by Microsoft are a piss take.

UK committee chair at BSA and anti-piracy manager at Microsoft. Who would have thought. The next thing I will be hearing is that MP's are chairmen/chairwomen or on the board of directors of large corporations.

Android FOUND ON TABLETS inscribed with WORD OF GOD

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No point

in trying to have a rational conversation with those incapable of rationalisation.

I think this Android hymnbook approach is a waste of money. Money the could be better spent in the community or maintaining the church building. Books do come in large print for the visually impaired.

Not that I condone the teaching of fairytale as fact. However, people have a right to believe what they wish and not be persecuted for those beliefs.

For those in search of knowledge and understanding what knowledge is, David Deutsch has written a rather good book called the "The Beginning of Infinity".

In this book there is a chapter called "A dream of Socrates" where Socrates has a chat with whom he presumes to be Apollo, yet later in the conversation is convinced or persuaded that he is talking to Hermes.

This gives a pretty good insight as how we as humans attain knowledge and discover truths.

Having an open mind swings both ways. I don't do gods any of them, it doesn't mean one does not exist. However, a benevolent god would not punish those who questions its existence nor would it seek submission. I am of the opinion that all the many hundreds of gods we know of are a product of the imaginings of man. Should a god really exist I am quite sure it would be falling over itself laughing at us.

Pyongyang to unleash NUKULAR horsemen of the Norkocalypse?

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Joke

@JimC Re: North Korea's supporters can be listed on any quarter of a second class stamp

If China did kick off in aid of NK and fire a few nukes around, where would they get their baby milk from and sell all that plastic tat?

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Re: I think that

Maybe we should just nuke them now. Who knows after South Korea they might just annex China. Or is it China that pulls the strings?

Nazi Germany had the support of several European nations and Japan, not to mention the sympathy of many others. North Korea's supporters can be listed on any quarter of a second class stamp.

Mr Cameron voted in favour of the Iraq war proving that he can be misled just as much as he can mislead.

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Mushroom

I think that

our lying politicians are more of a threat to this nation than the hyperbole of a paranoid leader half the globe away.

Microsoft: 'Facebook Home just copies Windows Phone'

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Joke

I just wish I could...

care less.

I wouldn't have read the article in the first place.

Facebook skins Android with Facebook Home

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Happy

And the one redeeming feature is...

One can choose whether or not to install the app or buy the device.

Boffins shine new light on dark matter

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Boffin

Go fill your boots

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library

Not just the latest in the search for dark matter but all sorts of wonders.

Warning, some of these lectures are at Phd level and beyond. Some are aimed at the public.

Hate being stalked by Facebook? Why not try Google+ stalking

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Meh

I will keep on

using a as many different names and as many different email addresses as is required to access those sites that I have to use log on credentials for. I will never connect one account to another. Cookie Monster, AdBlock, refcontrol and NoScript do the rest.

Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux

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Happy

Re: Must say it..

Yes, it was a joke, humour.

The classical mechanical degrees of freedom of a proton (disregarding the quarks and gluons that compose such a particle) in 3d space are surprisingly enough are 3.

As you rightly state and just as the Heisenberg uncertainty principal states, one cannot precisely measure both the momentum and position of a quantum object such as a proton at the same time. However one could precisely measure the position of such a particle. Of course once the measurement has been made the particle would have moved if not by the action of the measuring device, by zero point fluctuation alone.

Still this is his/her Noodliness that is doing the accounting here. Are you suggesting his/her Noodliness is anything less than Omni-everything? That is heresy and you are likely going straight to the restaurant at the end of the Universe without any Bolognese sauce ;-)

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Joke

Re: Must say it..

It is fine for us puny humans, but his/her Noodliness couldn't possibly keep track of mechanical properties of the protons in his/her creation with just one ZFS. He/she would need 6. (3N where N approx = 1x10^80)

Gartner's gurus forecast future tech spending splurge

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Happy

Perhaps they are right

I'm thinking of getting a new router ;-)

Torygraph and Currant Bun stand by to repel freeloaders

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Re: The Sun

I guess so, I haven't opened copy of the sun in 35 years, just as bad as it has always been then?

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The Sun

couldn't pay me enough to read their "news" paper.

Perhaps they could, £60 per hour seems fair.

Give Google a COLD HARD SLAP - web rivals' plea to Euro watchdog

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Mushroom

Sponsored results?

google.co.uk##div#rhs_block

google.co.uk##div#tads

AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play

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Mushroom

Re: It's my device

"you don't have much of a say in what happens on the software level"

My device is rooted. I know Linux, I can code, I can hack.

Damn right I have a say in how it works at the software level.

If I didn't I wouldn't own one or use one.

Terms and conditions are for the Sheeple.

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@JDX Re: It's my device

OK I'll bite...

Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

Did you actually read my post?

I made no mention of their store, nor did I in any way... "tell them what they can or can't put in their store".

So your comment in reference to mine is utterly pointless.

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Meh

It's my device

I will decide what is unauthorised.

My hosts file is probably the most important file on my Tab 2

HOT SWEATY RACKS blamed for Outlook.com, Hotmail MELTDOWN

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Joke

Hotmail

Hotter than anticipated

Intel's Centrino notebook platform is 10 years old

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Anything

that dispensed with cardbus32 drivers in Win 98 was welcome. Having to install PC card modems and PC card networking onto win98 laptops was a nightmare. It was rare that any two identical laptops would behave and install successfully the same way.

PayPal founder sets up mobile payment service verified by FACEBOOK

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My cat

has a Facebook account.

He'll likely be pleased at the ease with which he can now order catnip online.

Microsoft finally ships Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

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Meh

Sigh

is this yet another MS browser that I will need to write a separate CSS style sheet for?

Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE

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Meh

Some people...

haven't noticed.

If it wasn't for fsckups, pointless devices and trying to convince serious computer users that a finger is the most accurate input device. I would have forgotten Microsoft existed,

Sony promises PC-based PlayStation 4 for Christmas

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Console ports

will eventually have DirectX11.1/OGL 4.2 feature set.

This has to be good for PC gamers who have had DirectX11 and OGL4.x capability for years and scant little game software coded that truly takes advantage of those capabilities.

The quality of console ports if not the content has been improving over the years and some developers do make an effort for the PC port.

I'm looking forward to what both the PS4 and the new XBox bring to the PC gaming scene, even if I am unmoved by the control that each party wants to exert over the use of their respective devices.

How private biz can link YOU to 'anonymised' medical data

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The government

are behaving so much like "Big Corp" these days that one wonders if the two aren't just one of the same.

11-YEAR-OLD code wizard hacks Greedy RuneScape geeks

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Re: hacking?

idiot. It took me a couple of weeks of LEARNING. I was the pupil.

Who pissed on your strawberries?

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Re: No surprise.

I downloaded that a few weeks ago after the notification in FD. Must get around to reading it sometime. I expect i might learn something.

Thanks for making it free.

The thumbs up is for you

George Bush's family emails, pics ransacked - and spewed online

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The sad thing is

some people will actually want to see this stuff

Björk gives up trying to Kickstart Android music app

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I would have thought

that she has sold enough music and made enough money to pay for it herself and doesn't need to beg for charity.