* Posts by PeterM42

746 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2009

Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken

PeterM42
Trollface

Is this anything to do with........

.......Microsoft's incredibly awful 364½ products?

Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI

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Unhappy

Re: That explains something

SPOT ON, Denarius.

It is so easy to spot when Bill Gates gave up - windows 7 and Office 2010. After that it all went downhill.

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

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Re: Advertising Standards

What about 364½, 363½, etc? Outages don't necessarily last ALL day.

Oh! Wait.........

America's nuclear fusion 'breakthrough' is super-hot ... yet far from practical

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Mushroom

Oh really?

Nuclear fusion has always been the energy source of the future.

Still IS the energy source of the future,

.And always will be the energy source of the future.

Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

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Ah! - Is that anything to do with......

..... Office 364½ ?

The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security

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, if they fiddle with it much more it will be Windows 11.

Go to the cmd prompt and type VER.

Windows 11 IS Windows 10.

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

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Mushroom

What you have to remember...

....this IS rocket science.

HP pays $1.3m to settle dispute over printer security chip

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FAIL

I am pleased I am not the only one who disses HP

The last person I know who bought an HP printer, took it back as “not fit for purpose” and got an alternative make.

That was after I had taken AGES trying to make it work.

HP need to re-think how they go about producing stuff.

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

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Another IT and Financial.......

.........DISASTER on it's way.

$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid

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Mushroom

Re: You could not make it up.....

Not at all. Why would anyone in their right mind bid for a poison chalice?

China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute

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Some way to go

In an electronic world where Office/Outlook 2019 cannot successfully send a simple PDF to an email recipient, I have grave doubts that much will come of all this "Metaverse" hype.

Blimey, Facebook app won't always rotate to landscape orientation.

Microsoft looks beyond the US with Windows Subsystem for Android

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WTF?

Sod the games........

......I want it to run Aquamail in place of the useless Outlook mail client.

Anyway, Japan? Japan? What about the UK? We do exist you know.

Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting

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Re: I Prefer to call It....

"Outhouse......because it's full of shit and it stinks."

WINNING COMMENT! - Go to the top of the MicroCRAP Class.

2010 worked, but since then..............

The sins of OneDrive as Microsoft's cloud storage service turns 15

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Onedrive is so bad......

,,,,I always say DON'T USE IT - Like Wndows Explorer, it lies to you. Something to do with Micro~1 thinking people are too stupid to organise a filing system.

Dropbox is far superior.

A portable USB disc is also great (and very cheap if you use an old laptop disc).

Russia's new space chief confirms it will leave ISS after 2024

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Re: How about...

Zarya is right in the middle of everything. - Oh! SHHHHHHHITTTTTTT!

Outlook email users alerted to suspicious activity from Microsoft-owned IP address

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I always thought....

...one of the advantages of 't'internet was that you could access things like your emails from anywhere in the world where you have internet access.

Just need some decent security to prevent hackers.

My mistake, obviously!

Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption

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FAIL

So much for internet resilience

Obviously does not really exist.

Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating

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WTF?

Re: Culture change

And the list goes on to B.O.E.I.N.G. (Bits Of Everything In Neighbours Garden).

As you indicate, @Alumoi, Microsoft have been demonstrating this for years. Bill Gates would be turning in his grave if he was dead.

Upgrading to Android 12.1 ... in Windows 11: Telemetry disabled by default

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Headmaster

Bluestacks......

....is VERY gaming oriented. takes AGES to install, and used to be very resiurce hungry.

Trying v5 now.

IBM secures DWP contract worth up to £2.1m for 6 months of cloud services

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One good thing for the government....

----will probably stop payments to the unemployed.

Capgemini wins contract to look after legacy HMRC Aspire tech

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Mushroom

Soooo TRUE! Big corporations, etc don't outsource their tech, as such. - They outsource their problem. An indication of incompetent management.

Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension

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Trollface

If it is any help....

.....I can get some cat's whiskers

Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

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Re: One doesn't imply the other

"Douglas Adams was a programmer, and knew that 42 represented the *, which can mean anything. So the answer to the question of "life, the universe, and everything", means anything you want it to be."

Every day is a School Day - thank you for pointing out that crucial piece of information.

Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs

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WTF?

What IS "Windows 11" ???

When I type VER into a command prompt, I get:

"C:\Users\Peter>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22538.1010]"

and this is on my "Windows 11" machine on the "Insider program" of very frequent updates.

Key pillar in the UK's border control upgrade programme 'lacks a systems integrator'

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Coffee/keyboard

Plus ca change.

As an "Office Automation" consultant back in the 1980s, I remember attending an MOD presentation on their requirements for CHOTS (Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System). A theatre the size of a cinema was full with interested vendors.

Their requirements were totally ridiculous, so I was left with the problem of how to stop our company getting into such a cesspit without actually saying they were nuts.

Answer: Suggest it would cost around £2 - 3m to become involved. Sorted!

Poor old ICL got the bulk of the business which is why, I suspect, they fell into Fujitsu's arms.

The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it

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Re: New Dell Laptop...

"Is there any particular reason why Windows versions are starting to resemble flu strains?"

Probably the same reason that people used to ask "What is the difference between IE and a Virus?"

Answer: You can get rid of a virus.

Too busy feasting on meatballs, Windows struggles to update itself in IKEA

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Joke

Have you heard....

....IKEA are merging with Tesco.

If you buy a chicken, when you get it home, the legs fall off.

UK's Defra and Ministry of Justice facing £120m IR35 tax bills thanks to inaccuracies in assessing contractors' status

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Headmaster

Correction

“……..HMRC is not accurate and is not fit for purpose."

There - FTFY

West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle

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Oh well.....

......it's back to the spreadsheets, then.

Lack shame? Fancy some festive Windows knitwear? We've got your back

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Microsoft Christmas Knitwear......

....with a knitted sticking plaster - obviously!

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

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FAIL

There was a good Windows once........

Windows 7.

Microsoft issues patch to Insiders to undo carnage caused by expired digital certificate in Windows 11

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Alert

IF....

.....the Android subsystem actually WORKS, it will be the ONLY reason to have Windows 11, otherwise........

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

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Re: The continuing non-arrival of the paperless office

I used to give a presentation on "Office Automation" MANY years ago for a computer manufacturer.

My first slide gave the different terms, such as "The Electronic Office", "Office Automation", "Computers on the Desktop" and "The Paperless Office".

If I got a laugh when I said that the Paperless Office was as likely and as useful as the Paperless Loo, I knew the presentation was going to go well.

I didn't get a laugh out of a bunch of Trade Union Officials!!!!

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

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Full investigation.....

....stops UNPLEASANT THINGS happening.

I used to support some of the reporting systems as well.

Better pilots know WHAT can go wrong, than repeat someone else's mistakes.

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IT Angle

Oh yes they do

"The various elements of the IT system architecture do not 'talk' directly to each other but operate through a variety of interfaces"

I used to work in IT for a significant UK airline and can tell you - YES, there are LOTS of interfaces between different parts of "the system(s)" which get you to your holiday destinations.

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Re: Weight of passengers

Cost!

And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

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Flame

Surely....

...that should be out of the fire into the frying pan?

Get coated in oil.

THEN back to the fire.

Beijing appears to block Lenovo's debut on Shanghai bourse

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Unhappy

Maybe

A chink in someone's armour?

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

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Joining Office and Windows .....?

.........364½ or less

Boeing's Calamity Capsule might take to space once again ... in the first half of 2022

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If it's Boeing.....

.....I'm not going.

Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push

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Re: There are People who Don't Hate SAP?

Perhaps they are not SAP users?

Microsoft responds to PrintNightmare by making life that little bit harder for admins

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Oh, come on........

You didn't expect M$ to actually FIX it, did you?

Print spooler has been rubbish for years.

It's broke, so don't fix it.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday bug drought: No, it's not climate change or unexpected code quality improvements

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HP Printers

The last good one they made was the Laserjet 4.

You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)

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Trollface

Re: but there is logic

"Was it first initial/lastname and Freda Uck and Edwin Ore complained?"

Possibly lastname/Initial?

We had a Steve Ball who didn't seem to mind.

Financial Ombudsman Service to ditch tech heads as it open arms to Workday and outside service provider

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Flame

How many..........?

...........brown envelopes.

Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos

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WTF?

Re: Galaxies colliding in 'expanding space'....

" *finite* universe."??????

So what is beyond the *finite* universe?

Er,,,,,,,,,,,,More of it, I suspect.

To infinity ........

........and beyond!

Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver: We need more 50-somethings in UK tech

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Big Brother

One reason

One reason for a "shortage" of over 50's in IT is most likely because too many have been outsourced to Indian firms who then dump them to be replaced by young Indians (onshore or offshore). Unlikely to be predominantly to do with a need to re-skill.

Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?

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What could possibly go wrong?

EVERYTHING

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

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IBM

Itty Bitty Mail

What were you expecting from IBM? - something that worked?!?!?