Posts by Dan 55

Re: One of their best products.

I think when you use it wired it automatically pairs Bluetooth for you in OS X and just uses the cable for charging, which is no good for the EFI password screen.

Even if I am wrong about that, you're still left with the full sized version being nearly three times the price as the wired one was, doesn't have a hub, and if I wanted to use it wired to avoid having to plug it in to charge it every so often and avoid waiting for it to pair when first turning on and switching users then I'd have to leave it on constant charge which isn't good for the battery. Not exactly an improvement on a wired keyboard.

Re: With all due respect to the family and friends of the deceased

It's not a myth.

Re: A disaster

Sabadell bought the system off Accenture, but Accenture is involved in this migration as well as in-house staff. I guess Accenture sold that snake oil by claiming they still had the expertise but anyone who saw that system more than a decade ago has either left or is doing something else by now.

So what happened is Accenture got paid money to get rid of a piece of crap and still raking in the consultancy fees now for a failed migration.

I do like the OS, although lately that leaves something to be desired too.

The only Mac I'd consider now would be a Mac Mini, but that's probably the next one on the chopping block.

I'll admit that was one of the weaker ones, I was grasping at straws somewhat by that stage of the rant

So what you're saying is if you were grasping at straws you'd always end up with the short one.

Most of the slurp is in Settings > Google and in Google apps like Photos, and we have to trust Google do what the toggle switches say and nothing else not covered by them (like, eg. find out your location anyway as was revealed not long ago).

There's an alternative for every single Google app, but Play Services is the huge binary blob in the room.

Given the British citizenship and UK residency rules that we have (why make something easy when you can make it pointlessly complicated?), it seems we'd need to hold information back up to grandparents. So those Windrush landing cards needed to be held for maybe 120-150 years.

Alternatively, the Home Office could get with the times come up with a system that means you don't need to keep years of paperwork up to your grandparents. Everyone would ask for residency on arrival, everyone would register with the council every time they move house, and everyone would be able to prove continuous residency five years later by granting the Home Office permission to look at residency/tax/NI histrory. Same for citizenship five years after that.

It seems to me they were aiming to go in that direction, but 1) didn't want to regularise because that would "send the wrong signal" but is essential when switching from the system we have now to a system like this, and 2) did it on the cheap by using the public as immigration officers, instead of just asking them to say "show me this card or certificate, if you haven't got one, get one from this place" right at the start, and 3) didn't give a toss about how many people's lives they screwed up as we can see by the fact that their hostile environment catches everyone who came before 1973 if their country wasn't independent.

Also Mayhem will probably use the opportunity to push for ID cards for everyone saying it can't be done without it, but countries like the Netherlands manage to operate a more coherent immigration system and have optional ID cards.

Re: Hm

Taking a leaf out of Nintendo's book.

If that's a valid legal argument then emulators are next.

This morning Pester has sent for a crack squad of IBMers as if they're going to rock up and magically wave a wand to fix it all, especially after the layoffs, and is now blaming his provider (i.e. the parent company, Sabadell).

So I guess he's decided it's best to go down in flames with lots of glorious publicity showing how hard he tried.

If it were me with an account I'd be going to a TSB and not leaving till I have £1000 in cash and a banker's draft in my hand, then I'd cross the road to another bank.

Re: For the curious

It's alive, it's alive!

Re: Wait, What?

Perhaps you can send gifts to someone else's car boot. Think of the fun you could have with that.

Re: Console EOL = unlock to allow custom firmware?

Have you seen Nintendo's stance on homebrew? They believe it's the same as piracy. Even if you only wanted to play an emulated version of Chuckie Egg all day or use the console as a media player you're Breaking The Law.

Shame their Virtual Console "leveraged" open source emulators without credit and also used downloaded ROMs.

Re: Why would they sell the OS users really want?

Are they *really* going to give us the barebone OS that most people would prefer?

That'll be Windows 10 LTSB which is on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'

Re: Hardly a surprise

With the average price of a flagship or even midrange phone being what it is and going up by £50 every year, and everybody wanting the latest shiny, why wouldn't the contract length be 24 or 36 months?

Phone manufacturers should also get the blame. And people who like bling.

Re: Ah the sweet smell of irony

The actual destruction of the landing cards was carried out in 2010. I think the Tories had time to decide whether or not to a) scan before destroying or b) not destroy the cards. They were also advised that it would hit the Windrush generation, but they pressed ahead anyway and removed legal protection for them in the 2014 Immigration Act for good measure.

So they may be as bad as each other, but in this case one is worse than the rest.

Re: Loss of control at technical management level

Bankia is the amalgamation of several smaller banks and building societies until it was too big to fail, and every time there was an IT migration there were weeks of problems. But people shrugged and life carried on.

Re: MS kills UWP apps, Telephony API appears in Windows

Isn't MS like Hooli, not very good at cloud or mobile but their strongest selling product is the software equivalent of "The Box"?

Re: The logic of the ruling is scary

Apparently this was too broad...

(2) "Promote" means to procure, manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or advertise or to offer or agree to do any of the above.

I can see how cloudy services and ISPs might get caught up in that. But whether that's a need to strike down the whole law...

What do you mean? Is there a better protocol?

All the cool kids use DASH nowadays.