* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Microsoft polishes up Chromium as EdgeHTML peers into the abyss

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Why not go the whole hog

And turn it into 2000 ?

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Devil

I did use Edge...

Once.

It seemed jammed full of largely inapropriate adverts.

I downloaded Firefox and that was the end of Edge.

Microsoft: New icons, new drivers, AI! Everything is awesome!

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FAIL

Re: FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!!!!!!

But thats one of their objectives, to junk perfectly good hardware.

Meanwhile spouting environmental bollox.

Millennials 'horrify' their neighbours with knob-shaped lights display

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We laughed

But why is it so many are 'deeply offended' about stuff all? Wouldn't offend me even if I lived next door (and no, I'm not a brown hatter).

Fucking snowflakes.

Surface Book 2 afflicted by mystery Blue Screen Of Death errors

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Re: *FACEPALM*

'Facepalm indeed. Microsoft is looking really ridiculous'.

That's more like it.

Tesla autopilot saves driver after he fell asleep at wheel on the freeway

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Arrested for being drunk

So, just what is the point of 'self driving' cars if you can't get pissed and let it take you home?

Apple in another dust-up with its fans: iMacs, MacBooks lack filters, choke on grime – lawsuit

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Meanwhile in la la land

They will be claiming to be the most environmentally friendly computer company in...

Perhaps its the wrong sort of dust...

Er, we have 670 staff to feed now: UK's ICO fines 100 firms that failed to pay data protection fee

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Re: Not paying the ICO is NOT the problem

I agree entirely

But it would involve doing something instead of running a one line queery & pressing fine, whoops I meant print.

OneDrive is broken: Microsoft's cloudy storage drops from the sky for EU users

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Trollface

Microsoft again...

Its coming to a point, where it would be easier to report on whats working as opposed to what isn't.

What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for hard drugs

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I can hear

The laywers word processors revving up from here in France

Sue the fuckking arse off the bastards and don't settle for what they offer at first, because it will be shyte all.

Capita seeks new networking chief: Up for it?

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Trollface

Fewer things better

They're good at nothing, apart from large invoices.

Uber fined £385k by ICO for THAT hack of 57m customers' deets

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£385K

Thats cock all,

I suppose they think Uber is a small biz run from a backroom.

LG: Fsck everything, we're doing 16 lenses in smartphones (probably)

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It's all about composition and lighting

I have some perfectly good images taken on my iPhone3.

Perhaps they want to fill the worlds data centres with high res cat pics and videos?

Microsoft reveals terrible trio of bugs that knocked out Azure, Office 362.5 multi-factor auth logins for 14 hours

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Scaleable?

Clearly not in its current manifestation.

Domain name 'admin' role eyed up as latest victim of Whois system's GDPRmeggdon

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Hooray

But I suspect Fasthosts will still try and charge 3 quid for it.

NASA has Mars InSight as latest lander due to arrive today

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Next...

Elon Musk

Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid

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Meanwhile in western France...

You'd think it would be Vendredi Noir, mais non c'est Black Friday

The shopping 'mall' at our Leclerc was almost deserted, no surging unwashed crowd having camped the previous night fighting over the remains of a dis-embowled television.

We did go for a Black Friday three course lunch with wine reduced from 12 euros to 12 euros and very nice it was too.

Shocker: UK smart meter rollout is crap, late and £500m over budget

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Before I read the article...

The first thing that entered my head was only Crapita is capable of such biblical incompetence?

Bordeaux-no! Wine guzzling at UK.gov events rises 20%

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Re: Bordeaux-no! Wine guzzling at UK.gov events rises 20%

'That is at a lower price point. I do wonder if the cost of French wines is largely down to prestige rather than taste.'

I think what we consider everyday wines: Sauvignon blanc, Merlot & Muscadet etc in France are almost tripled in price in the UK which makes the NW wine much more attractive. Supermarket wine being generally ready for drinking now or won't mature any more although some can be kept a couple of years. It's a bit of a long running joke that inferior wine gets exported but not so in recent years, about 25 which is recent as far as wine is concerned. A lot of French drink vin de table, grown locally, its ordinary stuff and tastes anything up to quite good depending what your expectations are for a euro a litre.

As for the better stuff, unless you have deep pockets the best way to buy is 'en primeur' from a producteur where you can taste then store it in your cellar/cave. Theres ample opportunity to sample your favourite chateaus look for 'Portes Ouvertes' and promos for Hangar 54 in Bordeaux for example. Whilst some watch the harvest & weather reports etc. A very small number of producteurs will try and sell a bit higher than the supermarkets but a gentle reminder generally gets the better rates and don't expect a discount on one bottle!

Not all expensive wine is good and not all cheap wine is inferior, because next to a lot of grand chateaux is a small producteur who probably worked for said chateau but now makes his own variant on similair terrior (land) but I suspect the UK govt like most things, buys from the most expensive merchant.

My 10 cts after 48 years of drinking the stuff, hic.

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Trollface

Perhaps

They should be watered according to their abilities?

In which case, they wouldn't get the steam off my pee.

1,700 lucky Brit kids to visit Apple Stores for 'Year of Engineering'

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Engineering?

I prefer to call them 'spare part fitters'.

If the first one doesn't work, they fit another...

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog

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WTF???

Amazons response to me:

The e-mail you received wasn't from Amazon.co.uk, and we're investigating the situation. We suggest you never respond to any e-mail message that asks you to provide personal or financial information, open an unsolicited attachment, or navigate to a website linked to in the e-mail.

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Apology?

No,

Just shows what sort fo company they really are.

Any small biz behaving like that would get fucked over by the ICO.

Joe Public wants NHS to spend its cash on cancer, mental health, not digital services

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Spend it on anything

So long as Capita are not involved

Time these halfwit leeches got the boot.

Windows 10 goes into the Light and Cortana MIA as Microsoft buys chatbot bods XOXCO

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Trollface

Re: So, buying bots are we ?

... "Like, I dunno, maybe making your fucking products work ?"

That's never been a priority for MS.

Haven't updated your Adobe PDF software lately? Here's 85 new reasons to do it now

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Re: Adobe Reader used to be quite good

But that was about twenty five years ago.

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Thumb Down

No thanks

Got rid of everything Adobe years ago, seemed bloated and slow.

Don't like their cloud 'ransom ware' offerings for photgraphers either.

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

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"Why do we need creepy adverts that keep targeting something you searched for years ago? "

You don't. MS will happily sling any old shit, so long as they get paid.

It's November 2018, and Microsoft's super-secure Edge browser can be pwned eight different ways by a web page

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Trollface

<cough> Were the patches tested or not? <\cough>

Mary Jo Foley says it's fine, so passed all testing and QA

Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME

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It works

And its not connected to the tinterwebs

That is all

The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

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Yes

They do talk virtual bollox

'Privacy is a human right': Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft's stall at Future Decoded

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Re: "Privacy is a human right"

But we have terms and conditions...

Microsoft claims Office 364 back to business as usual. Oh no it isn't, say suffering sysadmins

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Trollface

Silly me

Just realised you have to re-install your operating system to make it...

Reaches for coat

Apple breathes new life into MacBook Air with overhauled 2018 model

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Apple takes aim at foot - again...

Someone tell them a 256Gb SSD is about 50 quid and is really tiny these days

and 8Gb of ram not much more

As for the rest, I dont give a shit how thin or light it is, I just want something reliable that wont cook itself on its battery because the thing can't be removed if it overheats.

Because I really don't want to buy a chromebook

Apple emits its much-anticipated updates to Mac, AppleTV, and iOS

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Downvote me to hell

But when have Apple ever been timely with these?

Unsure why you can't log into Office 365? So is Microsoft

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Trollface

Re: So the 365 in Office 365 means...

365 fuckups a year?

Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere

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You are my vicrim

I fell about laughing with that one and according to the text I hit the screen so I'd really like to see the video...

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

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Perhaps

When this shit slide impacts on bottom line, MS will realise the error of their ways.

But it may be too late then, my daughter works for a global company and uses Windows 7. There are no plan to change to 10 as its not suitable. The company has moved everything they can server wise to Linux. They are currently looking at alternatives to Outlook, Word & Excel and once thats decided they wil look at desktop versions of Linux.

Only if MS were to continue to support for 7 would they remain MS.

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Trollface

Windows 10 is broken

But MS won't fix or listen

Zip it! 3 more reasons to be glad you didn't jump on Windows 10 1809

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Words fail me

If you downloaded crappy software from any other supplier, it would be gone and forgotten in minutes

UK defence secretary ponders £50m hit to terminate Capita recruiting contract

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Why

Does the governement continually opt for this crappy outfit?

Were it three strikes and your out they would have been off the list years ago

Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own

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Re: What about the stuff that we really don't want...

wan't ?

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Re: What about the stuff that we really don't want...

Which re-appears at the next update

Best policy is to uninstall everything

On the third day of Windows Microsoft gave to me: A file-munching run of DELTREE

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Re: Welcome to....

'...beta test.'

Surely you mean Alpha test? Sorry but crap like that would just not make beta.

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

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Re: Re: Edge?

The faster browser than Chrome thats not quite as much spyware by design. And with u-block origin its very nice to use.

AC, That's some fairly powerful stuff you are snorting.

Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

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Re: Everything Microsoft touches dies

Skype dropped of my 'acceptable' list when MS bought it.

UK.gov asks biz for ideas on how to 'overcome' data privacy concerns in NHS

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Trollface

Re: How about...

Thats far too obvious and might even result in people trusting it but I wouldnt hold my breath.

Whats really needed is a multi million pound contract that goes over budget and delivers too little too late by Crapita. Just like the last ones did.

Brit startup plans fusion-powered missions to the stars

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Wonderful?

Why don't these people do something useful - for the rest uf us that is,

like producing a reactor that will power all the electric cars?

Why are sat-nav walking directions always so hopeless?

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Why are sat-nav directions always so hopeless?

Because they are, mine once suggested I divert and take a round tour of an open prison (you might call them council estates) on my way home along a route I drove frequently.

I sensed something malevolent and carried straight on, locking my doors, just in case.