Posts by Dan 55

SaaS - Software as a Shitshow.

Re: Teams as an "upgrade"

Teams comes with Office 365 whether your like it or not.

Re: Bah!

Have you updated the drive firmware?

Youtube is nowhere near as bad as the rest of the internet, if anything it one of the tamer places.

Mexican drug cartels, ISIS beheadings, and sketchy cartoons are tame? Parents, if they do let their kids see YouTube, have to constantly fight YouTube's suggestions?

Other video platforms are available, there's nothing intrinsically special about YouTube that warrants the current free-for-all and there's a lot to get bothered about. If YouTube were closed down tomorrow, the good parts would find somewhere else.

Re: The "right" thing?

"We've only had one message for those who seek to push hate, division and violence," He said. "You have no place on our platforms. You have no home here."

We're living in strange times if a) this is news in the first place, b) he said it in the first place, and c) there responses calling for "anything that is not specifically illegal should be publishable".

Not every publisher should be obliged to publish Mein Kampf if they don't want to. The majority of people wouldn't even want to read it. And we wouldn't be in a good place as a society if they did.

Everyone can and should exercise discretion using common sense because extremes aren't a good thing. We seem to have forgotten that.

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

Apple just had the kext signing thing making hardware obsolete but even so there's a workaround.

Lately MS just can't leave drivers alone. There have been nearly as many updates to drivers since Windows 10 was launched than in the whole history of Windows since before Windows 10 (6 vs 8).

Which developer is going to keep on top of that? MS needlessly makes hardware obsolete, which is irresponsible given what we know about the environment.

Re: I'm certain now

Of course it can. Imagine the number of hours, meetings, and so on which went into the new Office icons (there's even a damn video for them) and multiply that by everything Microsoft do.

Re: The elephant in the back seat

I can see Tesla eventually making drivers having to play a game of Simon to prove they're awake and then drivers will crashing when forced to take over because they're not aware of what's going on on the road because they're concentrating on the game.

Re: @jimmypage

All the Go Home Vans did was make it more acceptable to tell foreigners to go home.

Look where we are now, people voting Brexit to kick the foreigners out.

Re: ICL - It Can't Last

They don't make them like that any more.

Re: BullMerde

2. [...] There's normally no air gap between the display and outer screen, so highly unlikely this would be the cause.

Yet it's a known problem (read the thread to the end) and here is the solution (replace the display). At least with the pre-2012 iMacs you could pull the outer pane off with suckers and give both the outer pane and the display a clean, 2012+ iMac screens can't be cleaned.

4. Even with today's unrepairable laptops, it doesn't take much to take the back off and give the fans a quick blast with a can of compressed air.

Look at the video above, Louis Rossmann needed an ultrasonic cleaner to bring a MacBook board back to life. If you reply saying "yeah but corrosion", watch again - he repaired the corrosion, plugged it in at 2:56 and it was still dead, put it in the cleaner, then afterwards it powered up.

As has been shown before, everything is connected to everything worldwide for some unfathomable reason. They're lucky they managed to fix it before the US woke up.

Re: Not that straightforward...

What certainty do they want? For things to stay the same.

What certainties can they provide if that happens? They might not bugger off to the EU or go bust.

Should there be much more to it than that?

Re: Sennheiser does other stuff too

Checking if there's a Sennheiser root certificate in the certificate store.

Re: Let's be fair to MS (thought experiment)

In MS the complexity involved has increased exponentially, mainly due to MS firing half their QA.

Re: Confused.

I do hope Uber won't brute force navigation routes in the same way.

I imagine some people might quite like just a single electricty supplier instead of the farce of jumping from one to another every year/18 months.

Likewise I guess many here end up sticking with one ISP once they're found one which is reliable.

Re: I thought this was supposed to be a NEWS site

This breaking news just in... Office 365 is still hosed. In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Re: Today IS payday...

It's a curious indictment of British pay that pay dates can vary so much.

No, the curious indictment is Universal Credit has so many problems dealing with them.

Re: SO glad I blocked GWX

Uninstall the telemetry KBs.

Those of us who voted in favour wanted a clean break

There was no such concept as "clean break" or "clean Brexit" at the time of the referendum. "Clean Brexit" only appeared this year.

2 weeks after the vote, only 35% of Leavers thought their vote meant leaving the SM.