* Posts by Howard Hanek

757 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2009

MacBook Pro petition begs Apple for total recall of krap keyboards

Howard Hanek
Happy

Thanks

....I was seriously thinking about replacing my two older MacBooks.

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata

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Clarification

How do you spell that? EnemaData? For the fast flow of information they provide?

Press F to pay respects to the Windows 10 April Update casualties

Howard Hanek
Pint

My Microsoft Upgrade Song

It puts me in the 'proper' frame of mind and introduces a note of whimsy that the unexpected 'changes' engenders.

"On Top Of Spaghetti".

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

The Operative Adjective Is Censor

'Cloud Computing' has become 'Censored Cloud Computing'.........comrades.

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Oh dear? You mean there's MORE than one kind of serial rapist?

Zucker for history: What I learnt about Facebook 600 years ago

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Childcatcher

Technology as the Promoter of Gibberish.

It took skill and effort to produce a 15th Century book unlike a Zuckerberg creating Facebook.

Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Bill Gates as Noah

...and he imagines God has ordered him to build Windows to carry everything to safety ......or something. Since he originally designed his 'ark' the superstructure has grown exponentially while the hull has long since lost the ability to sustain it as demonstrated by the many capsizing the 'design' has experienced.

Giant bowls of spaghetti make for poor foundations.

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Deny History? Again?

That EU ruling that prohibited MS from selling an OS with a browser that could NOT be removed without breaking the system is no longer in force?

IBM thinks Notes and Domino can rise again

Howard Hanek
Linux

Been Watching Too Many Nazi Zombie Movies?

Strap that thing to a gurney and get it up on the roof. I hear a violent thunderstorm coming.

London Mayor calls for social networks and sharing economy to stop harming society

Howard Hanek
Mushroom

Meaning What?

That they should only be used to call the faithful to prayer three times a day?

Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Having a Recent Backup Ready to Hand

The updates break Windows 10 more often than not......

Woe Canada: Rather than rise from the ashes, IBM-built C$1bn Phoenix payroll system is going down in flames

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Childcatcher

It's An Old Story

.....I think Cyrus the Great conquered the Assyrian Empire after his Persians got the contract to 'modernize' the payroll system.

Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course

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Flame

Improvements

......projectile vomit shields.......grounding cables...........helmets........heat resistant gauntlets.......toughened up user agreements.

Batteries are so heavy, said user. If I take it out, will this thing work?

Howard Hanek
Happy

Sprinkle It With Fairy Dust

.....but you can only buy it with bitcoin and it's VERY expensive. Available only from Nigerian Princes.......

iPhone X 'slump' is real, whisper supply chain moles

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Apple's Solution

More loansharks.......

IBM's chief diversity officer knows too much and must be stopped!

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Funny

It's like someone who's chief concern is to determine which sank faster....the Titanic or the Lusitania.

FBI slams secret Nunes memo alleging Feds spied on Team Trump for political reasons

Howard Hanek
Linux

Correction - the former FBI members of the committee to elect Hillary Clinton said......

You publish 20,000 clean patches, but one goes wrong and you're a PC-crippler forever

Howard Hanek
Linux

Poor Communication

I maintain a couple of dozen PCs and I was seeing out of memory errors on high end machines with loads of RAM. I tried to research and fix and found.........very little or no info or any use. I've come to rely on them as part of our overall security strategy and this incident did much to destroy Malwarebytes goodwill.

Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest for Botox-enhanced pouts

Howard Hanek
Linux

Question

Sort of makes you wonder what 'other' parts of the camel have been 'enhanced'.

Black & Blue: IBM hires Bain to cut costs, up productivity

Howard Hanek
Windows

Tired Arms

'Ol Massa' his arms got plum tuckered out whippin' dem field hands so he hired him a new overseer.......

You GNOME it: Windows and Apple devs get a compelling reason to turn to Linux

Howard Hanek
Linux

Almost There

I've installed 17.10 on several desktops and a couple of laptops for testing but, as far as I'm concerned, it's not ready for production just yet. A major problem is that it breaks VMware and I haven't found a truly working fix for that. A major application for many working in development who need to port their projects to various OSs.

That was fast... unlike old iPhones: Apple sued for slowing down mobes

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

The Message

While I don't think the lawsuit will go anywhere (after agreeing to the 10 page mind numbing user agreement) it sends the right kind of message to Apple customers to be wary of the hype and glitz Apple presents the world. Apple's very well known for it's orchestrated product obsolesence rendering still functional, working products useless.

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

The Red Dress

....was dyed with human blood?

Cost-hurling IBM seeks more volunteers for employment bonfire

Howard Hanek
Happy

Re: Culling the 'Herd'

Not once did they raise a voice in protest.

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Culling the 'Herd'

When I raised tropical fish if I didn't like the results I'd flush them away. That sounds like an excellent qualification for a senior position at IBM don't you think?

Or perhaps a starving man deciding to amputate his limbs one by one in order to 'save' himself?

La La La, I can't hear you: FCC responds to net neut concerns

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Oh My?

It's the Cavaliers and the Roundheads all over again with Trump's New Model Army winning all the engagements.

Report: Women make up just 17% of IT workforce, paid 15% less than men

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Right

....just before AI takes away many, if not most of those jobs we should focus on gender equality. Perhaps that's WHY we should accelerate the transition.

Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Only Google 'Meddling' Permitted

Google, could you turn around? Your arrogant side is meddling with my disposition.

Windows Update borks elderly printers in typical Patch Tuesday style

Howard Hanek
Linux

Small Business Users

.....still use dot matrix printers for their economy and reliability. All I can say is .......Linux in some flavor give you both and control over the upgrade path.

Google says broader right to be forgotten is 'serious assault' on freedom

Howard Hanek
Headmaster

Laws

......today are the complete opposite of what their title implies.

IBM asks remaining staff to take career advice from HR-bot

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

History Repeats Itself

In the seventeenth and eighteenth century pirates would entertain themselves watching the captured crew and passengers of their prizes walk the plank and probably 'excess' crew as well when the pickings became slim.

Brace yourselves, fanboys. Winter is coming. And the iPhone X can't handle the cold

Howard Hanek
Happy

Climate Change

Apple anticipated more global warming.........

Howard Hanek
Happy

Re: Oh dear

Nothing that ten years or so of advanced yoga can't correct.

Subsidy-guzzling Tesla's Model 3 volumes a huge problem – Wall St man

Howard Hanek
Unhappy

Electricity always flow toward ground

Pity that electric cars end up consuming more resources isn't it, including tax dollars, newsprint, video time, social media posts and those unproductive hours spent charging and towing.

Facebook vows to double staff with new cadre of Net Police

Howard Hanek
Big Brother

We NEED More GOONS!

The goon squard, found totally inadequate to the task of suppressing opposition were augmented by numbers and larger clubs in order to create a 'safe' environment.

US voting server in election security probe is mysteriously wiped

Howard Hanek
Linux

Don't tell Me

.....and there are no back ups? This IS a government server subject to stringent rules is it not?

Ubuntu 17.10: We're coming GNOME! Plenty that's Artful in Aardvark, with a few Wayland wails

Howard Hanek

Desktop Smeshtop

There are soooooo many desktops available to plug in. If you don't LIKE Gnome....change it to just about anything else.

Microsoft's foray into phones was a bumbling, half-hearted fiasco, and Nadella always knew it

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Casting Doubt ABOUT Previous Doubt

....we must cast doubt on the belief that MS will suddenly abandon Surface because well, they've done THAT before.

2019: The year that Microsoft quits Surface hardware

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Holmes

Real Problem

.....is based on MSs very real history of dumping products giving rise to speculation that they will repeat it with the Surface......

"Dorothy ignore that man behind the curtain!"

Hollywood has savaged enough sci-fi classics – let's hope Dick would dig Blade Runner 2049

Howard Hanek
Linux

Main Obstacle

The primary obstacle to Hollywood's reruns are ........... Hollywood. If they were architects they'd put vinyl siding on the Houses of Parliament....

Oath-my-God: THREE! BILLION! Yahoo! accounts! hacked! in! 2013! – not! 'just!' 1bn!

Howard Hanek
Linux

On sale at the Canton Fair.....

Microsoft downplays alarm over Windows Defender 'flaw'

Howard Hanek
Meh

Right

....it's the 'impractical' applicability that gets you everytime.

Deloitte is a sitting duck: Key systems with RDP open, VPN and proxy 'login details leaked'

Howard Hanek
Holmes

Available Shortly

.....at the Canton Fair in a few days. Wait till the last day of the fair when they'll be discounted down 75%.

Cisco polishes the axe for more HQ job cuts

Howard Hanek
Happy

I Made $3,000 Last Week Working At Home

.....right. But Oracle, Cisco or IBM won't be your employer. The boileroom scam artists even now are getting their email lists updated.

HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report

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Happy

Meg Whitman

.....I could have sworn I saw Meg Whitman in a neolithic cave painting in France being burned at the stake surrounded by 5,000 or so club wielding, stone throwing people........

No. I'm sure she wasn't running for President.

Microsoft's AI is so good it steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league

Howard Hanek
Linux

A Modest Suggestion

The graphic.....it should have been engulfed in flames.

Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware

Howard Hanek
Linux

CCleanerOuter or Something

So to remove the junk that should have never accumulated in the first place we've opened millions of doors to 21st Century Pirates who don't look at all like Johnny Depp and have absolutely no sense of humor?

Google to kill Chrome autoplay madness

Howard Hanek
Childcatcher

Part of Its Social Justice Campaign

.....striking a blow for ATSD sufferers everywhere.......