* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

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jerry rig

You mean Dury-rig? I thought this type of error was limited to the Daily Fail

Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure

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Re: What a great discovery

Indeed,

Will I live long enough to see the benefits, like superconducting speaker cables? probably not.

Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online

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Mushroom

Re: PPM

Agreed, one would hope a PMS system is in place and all thats neccessary is to make a subset of the data available.

Having run the PMS for a reactor plant, it really does help!

Icon, because its best avoided.

Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison

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Re: How on earth wasnt this toe rag jailed?

Mental health issues? My arse.

Now, wheres that black hat...

UK's Cheshire Police tenders for whole new ERP system after Oracle Fusion went live with 'significant deficiency'

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Mushroom

Re: 20 years

...Putting those wages back into the local economy

That'll never work, steady on there, what about the shareholders?

Coat, preferably one that can withstand icon =>

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

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Pint

Re: It’s not the database, it’s the amateur at fault

We have often rescued “home-grown”, buggy databases and transformed them into useful and reliable tools

Me too, but sent a shudder down my spine at some of the horrors offered up.

Pint for your efforts

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Re: Don't dis Access :-)

Yes, agreed done right its a good choice, Ive written a few Access databases in my time and so long as you take a little care to get it right it works very well.

I managed my old Ltd company invoicing, VAT and acountancy etc with it for many years, without any problems.

But i can see where it could be a real 'mare - delayed writes for example - oh dear! But maybe thats fixed now.

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Re: All that counselling, wasted

And also:

5 minute job..., 10 minute job... etc

I had a manager whose emials never made sense, but he would always ring up (hence my deletion) and say, I need to come and talk with you this afternoon, about something that will be a 5 minute job.

Fine, I can do tomorrow morning? (knowing he would not be in the office) anyway, an hour past the alloted time he would rock up expecting attention with some insane ideas to polish his data handling crown, to which I'd propose anything to prevent his blundering misadventure.

Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble, Azure also unwell

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Re: Exchange is bad news...

Oh, the joys of small bastard server...

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Joke

Re: Cloud uptime

Got any jobs then?

I can manage 4 hours of uptime once a week!

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Meh

Office 365

Shirley breaking the trade description act ?

must be about Office 355 by now

UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court

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Mushroom

Ive every expectation

The data collected will be 'destroyed'

Then discovered on a disc from a boot sale in the not too distant future...

Icon for what should happen to it, without delay >

Microsoft sprinkles a little Skype Meet Now integration on Windows 10 for Insiders

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Pint

Re: Windows 10, the old left over sherbet lemon in your glovebox that everythnig sticks to.

Very good description, pint as its Friday!

Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road

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Devil

Re: Applefying the car

Not just Paris, all of France,

Some drive like complete utter bellends here.

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

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I was unaware

Dido Harding worked for them.

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

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Mushroom

Nominet and its hissy fit CEO

Has demonstrated they are not fit for purpose.

Icon, is whats required.

Microsoft's Surface Duo cops 1 repairability point for each of its screens: That's 2/10

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would that be

weeks or months ?

Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets

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Re: true story

Half a crown, that was proper money back then and you could but 5 Mars bars a foot long...

Eh, them were the days

Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that

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(NIST) has said it has developed a way of measuring precisely why corporate staff click on obvious phishing emails and open malware-laden attachments

Because people really are stupid enough do it?

I'll pop my consultancy invoice in the post.

This is how demon.co.uk ends, not with a bang but a blunder: Randomer swipes decommissioning domain

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Trollface

Re: Why?

Because its Vodaphone and they have to make a mess of everything and anything in every way they can.

What the hell is going on with .uk? Dozens of domain names sold in error, then reversed, but we'll say no more about it, says oversight org

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Smacks of

The DROE/A/C shoddy operations to me, I thought the mal practice of domain squatting was outlawed years ago and FH deserve a red hot poker where the sun doesnt shine.

Relics of the past to be found in Oxford: A medieval friary, a Saxon wall, and... Windows 7

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Other options

Are just as likely to bork.

Don't pay the ransom, mate. Don't even fix a price, say Australia's cyber security bods

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Facepalm

So much for the great firewall of Australia

Which as I understood, was supposed to keep this sort of stuff out?

Angry 123-Reg customers in the UK wake up to another day where hosted mail doesn't get through to users on Microsoft email accounts

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Re: They still exist?

Outlook 360 any better?

Outages seem to be an ever increasing issue with the big fat organisations.

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?

Works with Thunderbird

Ghost of Windows past spotted haunting Yorkshire railway station

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Re: You've got to get the hang of this embedded computer thing.....

Personally, I wouldn't use Windows for any application.

FTFY

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

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Grubby organisation

Responsible for a lot of misery, more so than most.

Barge pole icon - wouldnt touch them with

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

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Trollface

Re: I need help to decipher this article!

What on earth is "a dynamic purchasing system"?

One that buys from the highest seller?

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Re: What's the betting

Mais oui,

The stringent requirements to deliver too late, too little and of course be well over budget, again.

Turd icon, because it smells.

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

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Trollface

Well done MS

Pretty slick to just take 16 years

Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump

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Trollface

Re: “Don’t worry Donald, we’ll take care of it”

And no one will be able to use it after a Tuesday 'update'

'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad

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Mushroom

Re: Which is why I always turn off email sigs...

There is one thing far worse than an email signature in an email and it's...

See below:

What follows is a conversation between at least 7 or 8 people, usually representing three or four different organisations, none of which you really know. Theres a bit of light hearted office banter, plus some exceptionally dull humour, all of which you are expected to troll through to find the nugget of information you really need in a vain attempt to enlighten your miserabe existence.

I personally, don't sign up to this mantra, replying with a 'Please explain what you really want me to do' as amiguousness and error loom along with usually fairly severe consequencies.

Really, I'd like to tell them to stop being so f'ing lazy and skip the bile they just forwarded to me and cut to the chase.

Or I ring them up to inform I accidentally deleted it. But there you go, see below justifies global thermo nuclear war because only that will wipe it for eternity.

It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?

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Trollface

The best thing

Is not having to use it.

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Trollface

Re: How's that working? See icon.

Utterly confused and always playing catch up.

Theres a nice range of courses to (re) learn what you already know and it will always 'revised' in the next version taking you back to square one.

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

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NT4 / W2000 to a Novell 3.11 server, was perhaps the most productive and least destructive environment for me.

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Pint

Agreed

Huge respect for what Bill and Melinda have achieved charity wise

Pints for efforts

And if their software was perfect, I wouldn't have (semi) retired at 52

IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old

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Re: HR told me that he ticked all the boxes

"Unfortunately, HR not being capable of actually evaluating people for the job (whatever the job)"

Too true, HRs sole existence is to protect senior management from their own numerous cock ups.

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

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I would imagine

Pretty well anything wins because it is less anoying.

Microsoft do lead the field in one area: annoyances

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

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No doubt

The Fail headline was something like:

Spy shocker in very TINY bikini...

Microsoft has a cure for data nuked by fat fingers if you're not afraid of the command line

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Pint

Pint

For your efforts

It's now safe to turn off your computer shop: Microsoft to shutter its bricks-and-mortar retail locations worldwide

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Re: Microsoft store Vs Apple store

One has customers?

Windows 10 Insider wondering where Notepad has gone? Fear not, Microsoft found it down the back of Dev Channel

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Trollface

Re: Good Grief...

Because their twat-o-meter is full hard over to 'complete wanker' mode and they have to screw around with anything and everything.

If its old and worked thats no good

If its new but is so fucked around with it doesnt work how it used to but we've added 'cool stuff' then thats fine.

Yuk.

Amazon's not saying its warehouse staff are dumb... but it feels they need artificial intelligence to understand what 'six feet' means

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6 feet?

You'll need three in a bed for that.

Whose side you on, Nominet? Registry floods .co.uk owners with begging emails to renew unwanted .uk domains

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Mushroom

Re: Is this Fraud?

It most certainly is fraud in my opinion, but only if you committed the dirty act.

Whilst Nominet are completely beyond reproach and such scummy tactics to drum up business harvested from the green slime of DROA & DROE, are of course perfectly acceptable, they wear suits and nice shoes don't you know?

Icon, because that is what Nominet need.

Don't like Mondays? Neither does Microsoft 364's Outlook Exchange Online service

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Microsoft 364...

Thats being generous.

In Hancock's half-hour, Dido Harding offers hollow laughs: Cake distracts test-and-trace boss at UK COVID-19 briefing

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Queen Carnage

The moment I read that, I instantly though she now worked for Crapita

The two seem a perfect fit.

US govt accuses four Chinese army soldiers of hacking Equifax and siphoning 145m Americans' personal info

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Whats really needed

Is the Spanish inquistion, NO-body expects the Spanish Inquisition!

whose main elements are fear and surprise...

fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, fanatical devotion to the Pope oh and the nice red uniforms

Ducking stool icon perhaps?

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

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Mushroom

Re: Never store CC details

Worse still are the Uber wankers like Lloyds bank that wont allow the use of extended char set !@£$% etc.

Icon is what they need>>

Windows invokes Sgrîn Las Marwolaeth upon Newport

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Trollface

Diddnt realise

with all the stability of a journo after an hour at a free bar.

It was as good as that.

Latest Microsoft 365 'wave of innovation' really just involves adding or renaming a bunch of update channels

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Trollface

10 minutes?

You are 'aving a larf.