* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone

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Another of the many reasons I eventually refused to help non family members.

Good for you, I had some twat banging on my door at 09.00 on a Saturday morning once, citing double time for weekends gave him a clue that I wasn't interested in sorting out his mess.

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

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Mushroom

Backups

Clearly not tested correctly, perhaps the Queen of Carnage was in charge?

Or did anyone state that your data isn't backed up until you've done a restore of all data?

Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?

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Shirley

They can do all this sort of admin bollox remotely?

Or is that too much of a good idea.

Twats, whoever instigated it

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Re: In the peak of an epidemic

Don't think I'd want to go anywhere near a hospital, thank you!

Waterloo! Windows defeated, your sign is screwed. Waterloo! Promise to bork you forevermore

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Pint

Very apt description

Windows has attempted to reset the display driver, timed out and, well, reacted with the robustness of single-ply tissue paper when faced with a mucus-covered toddler.

Pint and a scotch egg, because it's dry veganuary - ugh!

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

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Facepalm

Re: "hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again"

Supplied by Crapita?

Unauthorised RAC staffer harvested customer details then sold them to accident claims management company

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Trollface

Then forced

To buy a new battery for their cars

Consultants bag £375m for their role in developing the UK's faltering COVID-19 Test and Trace system

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Re: The Queen of Carnage

Oh, OK, I thought knowing Matt Hancock's former neighbour might do?

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The Queen of Carnage

Amazing where such biblical incompetence can get you these days, whilst hard work gets taken for granted.

Anyway, I'm ready and available to make a complete and utter shambles of any large contract the Government might award me.

Julian Assange will NOT be extradited to the US over WikiLeaks hacking and spy charges, rules British judge

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Place your bets

An exchange for one of theirs, you know who.

UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'

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Off with their heads

I'll sharpen my favourite axe

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

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Trollface

Perhaps

They train Crapita personnel?

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

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Mushroom

Thats that f88ked then

How in the name of God can those half baked morons train our servicemen?

Icon is all they deserve

HP bows to pressure, reinstates free monthly ink plan... for existing customers

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A proper one is a LaserJet 5 - no nonesense in that bugger.

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Certification renewals to be free ... but annual

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Bon courage

Thank God I'm off that bloody merry-go-round!

US aviation regulator issues safety bulletins over flaws in software updates for Boeing 747, 777, 787 airliners

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Mushroom

Re: A Boeing Spokesperson said:

I agree entirely,

but what companies state and reality appear to be an ever widening chasm these days, solely aimed to protect shareholder interests. Another often used lie is:

"It affected just a small number of our customers" = half of Europe

Icon, because its happened too many times already.

45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware

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Re: quelle surprise? @Gene Cash

I would suggest you change your doctors then.

No thanks, perhaps we are alone in that we know competent doctors and whilst mine speaks with a funny accent, I get to manage my own records.

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quelle surprise?

The incompetence of it all beggars belief.

Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m

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Crapita education?

I wouldnt have paid a tenner for it

My wife went on one of their courses years ago, learnt nothing and had to show the instructor some really basic stuff

Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us

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Mushroom

Adverts get nuked

Hosts file

Ad blocker

Pi-hole dns

Noscript

Canvas

Cookie auto delete cleans anything when i close the tab

My browser is ad free, but to be honest Im imune to all forms of adertising, because its usually so shyte anyway.

Icon - its what Google needs

CEST la vie: HMRC admits controversial IR35 status checker returns undecided verdict in nearly 20% of cases

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Mushroom

HMRC

Would work a lot better if it wasn't Wales, they just seem to cock everything up.

What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?

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Steady on

Comparing Austin Allegros to Teslas,

I know AAs were fairly bad but if I recall, not really so bad they'd veer off the road killing people?

The next car I buy will have the biggest engine I can afford, because I can - it's not that I'm not eco friendly, it's that I don't like being lectured to by a bunch of eco hypocrites.

Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

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Re: Not so free after all

What took you so long to work that out, its policy the world over now.

South Korea kills ActiveX-based government digital certificate service

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Re: FINALLY!

Excellent news, meanwhile that dog of Adobe flashplayer has yet to be shot.

Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79

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Its really that much,

£309 for changing a fekking battery?

My arse as Jim would say

'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits

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Mushroom

Re: What a wanker.

The UK BB industry would be a better place without BT

I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but the money these tosspots have had over the years to deliver such inept service is beyond belief.

Icon, is needed.

China unleashes fearsome new cyber-weapon: A very provocative meme

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Pint

My vote for Xi "Winnie" Jinping for dick of the year is in

Made me smile,

A well deserved pint cos its poets day...

Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac

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Elsewhere

About $35 per month?

Uri Geller calls off 20-year ban on Pokémon trading card that 'stole' his 'signature image'

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Re: made his millions by proclaiming himself a psychic

Clinton Baptiste by any chance?

Came off the recommended list.

UK coronavirus tier postcode-searching tool yanked offline as desperate Britons hunt for latest lockdown details

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Mushroom

They should be proud

To add it to the very long list of previous technical failures,

Wonder what the excuse is this time?

Perhaps: "we did it in Excel because that worked so well last time", "Crapita cocked it up again" or did they give the job to Matt Hancocks neighbour for a £20million bung?

China 'firmly opposes' India's new round of app bans, says it has violated trade laws

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Wonder if

They will microwave the Indians? Again.

China really needs a good kick up the arse, but unfortunately we keep buying from them.

It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon

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Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

You speak for yourself, I have maintained perfect control over my own banana thank you!

Millions wiped off value of Capita outsourcing deal with English councils amid 'further contract variation agreement'

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Mushroom

Re: I don't know

...or the self serving, self important councillors, whose only skill is maximising expenses claims.

Seat polishing with their shiny trousered arses, they are quite good at that too.

UK reveals new 'National Cyber Force', announces Space Command and mysterious AI agency

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Trollface

A government spokesman said:

The new force will be responsible for distorting the facts, protecting the public from the truth and preventing anyone from posting anti governement memes on Facebook, because weve tried so hard to cover up everything over the last 8 months and failed dismally, never mind about Brexit.

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

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Mushroom

Re: So basically we're going to have to re-name everything.

This sort of counter productive, unwanted PC shyte will unfortunately continue

Until those in senior 'management' - who are usually a pack of in-effectual, cantankering, arse licking twats, grow a pair & tell these wankers to Fuck right off.

Icon - cos thats what they need

Dell online store charges 16 million dollars for new laptop with paint job

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Mushroom

Must be for

Some of Johnsons mates, they can afford it after all the wonga theyve sluiced.

Let me guess, they return it for a refund, then claim back the VAT as well?

Icon, delivered to Westminster, so we can start over!

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Facepalm

Re: But look on the bright side

Free delivery too!

Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

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Reminds me of

The two dogs in the Aristocats, Napoleon & Lafayette:

I'm the leader, I'll say charge...

Tax working from home, says Deutsche Bank, because the economy needs that lunch money you’re not spending

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Pint

Dear Deutsche Bank,

An infernal pox on your house for eternity and if your shitty corporationever rolls, then

I will urinate efficaciously on what is your grave for eternity, screaming in mad rabid voice: "Tax this you bastards"

Pint, its Friday and I am going to require plenty before the above.

Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered

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Re: I love these scammers

Yes, I play the bumbling bafoon, which seems to come easier with increasing age, about 20 minutes is my longest.

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Pint

Re: Can you got to your windows computer ...

...pick up the extension there and have a nice talk with her, keeping one hand free to hold the phone.

That made me smile, pint its Friday

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use

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Mushroom

Re: CAPTCHA is a PITA

Yes, I shit 'em, hate their stupid puzzles

Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs

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Re: Wonder who'll get it

Crapita, they too have a reputation to uphold

Turd icon perhaps?

Software engineer leaked UK missile system secrets and refused to hand cops his passwords, Old Bailey told

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Re: Mustard-coloured Jumper Man

I'll still wear them because cardigans last for a couple of decades.

As do most things that are only worn once every three years.

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

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Mushroom

Re: Surely illegal

I suspect in Europe you'd get a sympathetic view from the courts of a large company unilaterally fundamentally changing their T&Cs to the detriment of consumers.

I agree entirely, but banks change T&Cs continuously, usually to the detriment and get away with it.

Icon, for FB et all its dodgy outfits --->

Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November

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Re: Windows 7?

Safe to use it to download FF or Opera