Posts by Sir Sham Cad

Re: Why not have cloud.gov.uk ?

Because of your Point 3 we can't do it so we'd just Tender for one of the huge players to do it for us and we're back where we started.

I wish we could, though.

Re: 40Gbps

Absolutely what I was thinking re: end user kit, especially a large mix of equipment type, capability and age, at which point the users ask why the WiFi is "still shit" and "why have we spent all that money upgrading it?"

Which I'm waiting for sometime around Q3 FY24/25

Wordpad got me out of so many jams, this is sad news.

That said I'm sure there'll be a LibrePad port somewhere and I'm there for it.

Re: How did they find out?

I would imagine getting paid for work they didn't have to do, meaning they could do other paid work as well and make double-bubble?

Re: LOL

Pretty sure that's the output of an LLM trained entirely on Twatter.

Were people really PAYING for low-resolution background images for their phones for "a few years"?

Yes, and I worked for a (now defunct) company specialising in early personalised 3D avatars where the VCs panicked, brought in someone to pivot the company to sell said low-res images of the custom, personalised, hi res 3D image as that's where the quick money was.

If it's good enough for Suzanne Vega it's good enough for me!

Re: "The Register was able to download from Microsoft without entering channel partner credentials"

I would suspect there's some sort of Journalistic exception unless our current Home Orifice lot have binned it off.

Re: Logos

Yep, for something that nobody will notice apart from the people who are paid to notice it.

Re: They are getting part of a clue

Or a copy of Antony Johnston's "The Exphoria Code" (unless they've already read it)

Re: "asset management period set out by regulator Ofwat"

Little known fact: Ofwat stands for Ombudsman for Watching anything else but what we're supposed to.

Re: Investigation

You'll be approached by a tall man in a big hat and sunglasses going "pssst! wanna buy some cancer drugs?" long before your GP will know anything about it.

Re: "Reduce fraud in the social security benefits system"

Any money saved will only go into "Health" or "Education" that is provided by a private provider with links to the current Government. Gotta replenish the trough.

Re: Science

Or "The other guy might get there before you". That used to get Space Budget allocated!

Re: With apologies to Phil Collins

Don't apologise to Phil Collins, after everything he's inflicted upon humanity!

Re: Sigh..

Secure mobile clinical messaging systems do exist. Unfortunately the staff know what they like and they like what they know so it can be difficult to make the new app(s) stick.

Re: Penguins???

The Penguins now have Space Technology. We should be afraid.

Re: not uncommon

Oh God. Back in 2002 (at my current employer) we had a bespoke-built Intranet system on a physical Dell server and a copy on a PC (same OS, in theory identical) as the test server.

Microsoft patches. Worked fine on Test. Rolled out to Live. Irretrievably broke the Live server which needed complete rebuild plus a full rebuild of the bespoke software at considerable additional cost.

This will now identify me to approximately three people in the world.

Re: Auto-correcting antenna aiming! Amazing!

And we only had 3 months of downtime as a result!

Re: 90C for 30 minutes

Indeed and I've got Switchzilla kit that runs normally at an internal temp of 60+ degrees, touching 80C sometimes. Also what's the ignition temp of the fibre substrate?

Re: Switching to a non-cable area? Fugedaboudit...

Same experience here. Moved home recently, already checked to see if I could port my service and couldn't. Tried to cancel and All I got was chatbot that couldn't help. Called up and was told to use chatbot. A long time later (hours) I got through to somebody in, well let's not call it "cancellations", it was the "customer retention" side. Asked my reason for wanting to cancel and would I consider a different tariff (new 24 month contract ahoy). Didn't read a damn thing from the chatbot or anything else I'd divulged. Had to give them my new address so they could confirm that they couldn't help me and then agreed to cancel the service.

I was out of contract and should have been able to phone up and say "cancel and confirm my last payment date".

Better than Plusnet, though, who won't even let you cancel if you're dead!

Re: because it mainly sells stuff, not advertising.

Yep and also what are "reviews" (which it hounds you to give for weeks after you've bought the Thing) but user generated content?

Re: Fuck business

We had a Veto.

We elected a load of Eurosceptics as MEPs. They didn't turn up to work. That was the problem.

As a rule I don't comment on live Work things but this year we moved to an Oracle finance system.

It is widely regarded as "fucking shit" and "not as good as the old system" which was widely regarded as "fucking shit".

That takes some doing!

I can see OOXML "signed" documents being blocked by default and then never being fixed.

Re: Non-Google Android

To be fair, with Huawei there's no need to wonder whether your phone is infected with malware or not.

Like the one in the top right corner of this very site indeed.

Re: The mind boggles as to where it gets this stuff.

Google

Re: Important information missing from article

Silver Toyota Prius.

You could pretend to be just about any minicab company driver with one of those.