* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond

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Re: Proof the Cloud is about surveillance not practicality, its badly / wrongly designed for IoT

Soon all appliances will be listening in...

To our Rayburn? Maybe not.

Office 2019 lumbers to the stage once more as Microsoft promises future releases

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Re: Classified and commercially sensitive documents?

"Off we go to LibreOffice from around 2021 i should think"

Why wait?

As one Microsoft Windows product hauls itself out of the grave, others tumble in

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Trollface

Re: Wait until the last sentence

Let me guess, it was useful but now it's out of fashoin and has to go.

We have useless new ways to do familiar things.

Click your heels, um, mouse thrice and you've quickly got Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Win 10 Pro

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Re: any chance I wonder...

Of reciprocal work on smoother running of Windows ontop of Linux...?

Agreed, I'd prefer Linux on bare metal

TV Licensing admits: We directed 25,000 people to send their bank details in the clear

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Be wary of scam e-mails?

Is that it?

Unfortunately all the UK has is not fit for purpose toothless watch dogs, spitting fines, which just pushes up prices.

How about a good prison sentence for the idiots that concocted this?

Microsoft accidentally let encrypted Windows 10 out into the world

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Re: How dare you!

I will not download any release from Microsoft until at least 3 years or more after it has gone Gold.

Just looking at a change to 7, maybe next year.

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Trollface

Amazing

"The update consumed RAM at a prodigious rate for some before falling over"

Nothing new then?

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

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Indeed

"Seems like the boss deserved to drink "funny" flavoured coffee."

Give the mug a good rimming first.

Like tax? Love networks? UK taxmen have a job just for you

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Twaddle

Just an opportunity for some over promoted, brown nosed seat polisher to grab a large pension pot

Don't worry if you make a cock of it old chap, you'll get an OBE or something.

Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?

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Don't want to use Edge?

Er, no thank you I will never use Edge even if it was the last web browser on earth.

Microsoft set the gold standard for crapiness with Internet Explorer and Edge was just refined shite.

How many times do we have to say 'You cannot polish a turd'?

It's September 2018, and Windows VMs can pwn their host servers by launching an evil app

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Trollface

Microsoft & Adobe

No surprise there, lather, rinse, repeat for ad-infinitum

Guess who's still in charge of your gas safety, Brits? Capita

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Crapita and gas...

What could possibly go wrong?

Just add a large dose of 'outsourced to India'

A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds

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PP Network

Yes, we had a 10 base T network and if anybody kicked their PC the whole lot borked.

It was eventually replaced with CAT5e and the number of double sockets for which I'd provisioned was questioned, I added extra knowing they would take away, needless to say that got ignored.

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Penny pinching boss

The ruination of many a good company, it usually ends up costing more long term.

Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests

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According to them

I can still hit the screen when I onanism, which they think that is shamefull

I would consider it fairly good at 60

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Postal Blackmail?

One of Python's finest.

UK.gov went ahead with under-planned, under-funded IT upgrade? Sounds about right

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Diddnt they do well?

3/13 essential functions working?

No doubt they'll find some metric to congratulate themselves and award bonuses.

I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one

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Really can't see the point

It could probably tell you the square root of a tin of beans, how many tins you have etc etc, but be unable to open them.

Microsoft gives Windows 10 a name, throws folks a bone

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Re: "LibreOffice only does a majority of what home users need"

'In short, Microsoft is the crappiest software supplier for my type of business.'

I would say: In short, Microsoft is the crappiest and most expensive software supplier for my type of business.

Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’

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...but most people misunderstand the scope of what is done with their info.

And look as if you have just spat in their face when you try to explain.

You want how much?! Israel opts not to renew its Office 365 vows

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Excellent news

who needs it when the free alternatives are really very good

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

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Trollface

900 Years?

Perhaps they need it to fix [insert application of choice] and all the other Win bollox?

UK.gov ploughs cash into creaky police technology

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£100 M funding

How the tils at 'The Ivy' will be ringing & yes, thats just enough to cover expenses, not the real cost of the potential Crapita MOAFU's to follow

(Mother Of All Fuck Ups)

Apple laughing all the way to the bank – with profits of $5.3m per hour

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Re: Mac sales declined nine per cent over the quarter

Agreed.

That silly tube like MacPro thing

Batteries that cannot easily be replaced

Anything else that easily cannot be replaced

shit keyboards that don't last

fixing stupid problems that dont need fixing in the vain cause of 'innovation'

To name a few

Capita still squats on top of the UK's software and IT services heap

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The Crapita winning formulae...

Bid really low

Deliver crap, usually late

Explain that it will take more time & money to fix

client is so deep in it, they agree

repeat above two steps as required

Windows 10 Insiders see double as new builds hit the deck – with promises to end Update Rage

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Re: Whats wrong with

Seems good, just needs clippy to animate it:

Hello would you like me to fuck-up your PC?

Options:

Now

Just when you're really very busy and doing summit important

Next time you are away from the office

Overnight

At the time of:

The last two will be greyed out

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Re: Predictive Fuckups

It used to be fine, you could choose from:

Turn em off

Pick what you needed

Or everything

Just what was wrong with that?

I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit

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Re: Burn down the high st

Think the councils with thier ever increasing rates & over zealous parking wardens have done a fine job.

Microsoft still longs to be a 'lifestyle' brand, but the cupboard looks bare

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Trollface

Lifestyle brand?

The further I keep Microsoft from my 'lifestyle' what ever that is, the better.

Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes

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I have a smart watch

I paid £330 for it and some 25 years later I could sell it for £500

Azure certifications are awful, Microsoft admits, so it has made new ones

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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Once asked me, whats that you are doing in MS-Dos?

Me: Oh, I'm just mapping network some drives, then I will add it to users the logon script

MCSE: oooh, how do you do that then?

Microsoft: For God's sake, people, cut down on the meetings!

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Meetings

I'd walk out after 45 minutes, if you can't get it by then theres no point.

& power point should be limited to 12 slides, after that I'm asleep.

Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out

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Your hovercraft is full of eels...

Instead of directions to the station, it stated: 'please fondle my bum'

The joys of self service stations, at least most of them here in France speak the language of the credit cards issuing country.

Parfois.

The cybercriminal's cash cow and the marketer's machine: Inside the mad sad bad web ad world

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What ads?

Updated hosts file with about 30,000 advertising shyte host names resolved to 127.0.0.1

Then theres AdBlock Ultimate with a few of my own scripts or filters, whatever

Then theres NoScript

Been a while since Ive seen an advert on-line and I'm not missing them at all.

Registry to ban Cyrillic .eu addresses even if you've paid for them

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why not ban

.bid, .date, .shite, .tools, .etc .as .some .fucking .wassock .gave .these .away .to .all .the .fekking .spammers

.knuts

Google leaps on the platform formerly known as Firefox with $22m splurge for KaiOS

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Re: Please keep it open

...and don't send data home without permission.

Agreed, but don't you have to agree that everything belongs to Google?

UK taxman has amassed voice profiles of 5.1 million taxpayers

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Re: I'm one of those 5M

Also, they send out letters demanding action "within 7 days of the date of this letter", and you don't actually receive them until the 7th day.

I must admit of all the nipple tweaking, cunt twanging practises big business & arse hat organisations like these have adopted over a number of years, this is one of the worst.

Along with those "here to help" slogans.

Happy birthday, you lumbering MS-DOS-based mess: Windows 98 turns 20 today

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Re: The ONLY things going for it were

Yes, I ran 2K well to 2010 most of the other versions were bloated, power sapping, gilded turds.

I suppose 7 was OK, but my 2K box was so reliable, loved it warts 'n all.

Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

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Geek lock

Who needs a code?

Any battery powered angle grinder would do.

Microsoft says Windows 10 April update is fit for business rollout

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Re: FS@*! Windows

Just tell them to place their laptop in front their car wheel before they drive off.

They soon stop pestering.

Microsoft tries cutting the Ribbon in Office UI upgrade

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Re: Come back Clippy

It's years since I've used Microsoft Office and some how this is now amusing,

Yes, it really is that long!

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MS

Will probably tout it as a new feature...

Microsoft reveals which Windows bugs it might decide not to fix

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Does that include

Forced updates?

Actual control of Windows 10 updates (with a catch)... and more from Microsoft

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Sounds like

Ransomware to me.

Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

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Re: Lose the trust of developers for a generation?

Agreed,

I think as parents and grand-parents we have a duty to educate the next generation.

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Trollface

I don't trust Microsoft

with anything & I never will

Niether do my wife, our son & daughter

and we will make sure our grandchilren don't trust them either.

1,300 customers of Brit bank TSB defrauded due to botched IT migration

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More like

There is no one who feels more for TSB share holders than me.

Customers? - they're a fucking inconvenience.

The hits keep coming for Facebook: Web giant made 14m people's private posts public

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It was my mistake, and I’m sorry.

Again,

Throw away, meaningless words if not backed up by correct actions.

I've not trusted any of this sort since the Internet began and its a policy thats paid off.

Activists hate them! One weird trick Facebook uses to fool people into accepting GDPR terms

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Re: So glad I'm not affected

You are if you use Websites that have Google or Facebook scripts.

So you browse the web without NoScript or a decent hosts file to edit such garbage out?

UK's Royal Navy accepts missile-blasting missile as Gulf clouds gather

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Re: What worries me....

"do we have any anti-missile-missile missiles?"

Actually this is something us Brits can do some flag-waving over -

And Avenger shot down an Excocet with its Mk 8 gun, they missed the second which was engaed by ships staff with small arms as it flew past.