Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Windows 7 is popular because it is easy to pirate

You can download an ISO for Windows Server 2012** with a 6 month trial license.

Far longer than the lifespan of a Mayfly.

** Add something like StartMenu (+ QuickLaunch) and it is usable.

don't forget all those

lovely H1B Visa's and all the IP that those with one get access to.

The US, famous for closing the stable door after the horse has disappeared over the Horizon.

US == UnServiceable

USA== UnServiceable Again

Develop for iOS without needing a Mac?

Perhaps this might do the job?

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/whats-new

Re: Interesting times.

Had to do a 'collect' from Dixons-PC-World-Whateveritiscalledtoday today. While the staff struggled to find the order I had a wander around. The Apple counter was busy but Surface display was blowing tumbleweed. None of the devices were actually turned on.

After deciding that I really didn't want to spend more than a grand on a 4K TV with crappy colour rendition I collected the order and left.

Re: BAD IDEA UNLESS

If you rely on the firewall in the device provided by your ISP/Cable Company then IMHO you are just asking to get hacked.

You should run your own firewall, one that you can trust INSIDE your network.

The idea proposed in this article is IMHO total lunacy.

Putting a server in your modem is hust what the spooks want. The spy on your network with HMG approval.

Having it 50% in the the ISP's cloud is also a bad idea. Guess who's bandwith + upload/download quota this is going to come out of? It won't be a freebie from the ISP and that's for sure.

The use of the cloud is also how the spooks will get theit hands on everything that goes on in your network hence the need for at least one more firewall so that what happens inside it is not going to get leeched out into the big bad world.

Apple product/software/anything is a POS

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Apple has not returned The Register's requests for comment at this time.

Can we make that the standard demplate for all articles about Apple in the future?

Re: MCX/CurrentC

Apple Pay shows up...

And creates a simple and elegant solution but this is Apple we are talking about. So it is Doomed, Doomed I tell ye.

Gome on Google get your finger out and show us how an Ad-festered data leeching wallet can work.

Re: Tax assets instead of profits

1%? What planet are you living on?

What is the current interest rate paid to savers? 1-2% (2% if you are lucky)

So taking 1% of that away will decrease the rate paid to savers by 1%. Some accounts already offer less than 1% rate before tax.

What happens then sunshine?

Perhaps I'd be better off drawing all my retirement savings out as cash and putting it under the mattress? I'd probably get a better return anyway.

Re: Supply and demand

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It is a huge pain getting all you old data onto a new machine, and making sure that the software you need

A problem that some other Operating Systems have largely solved but with Windows everything is so tied together and mixed up.

Re: To be fair...

US Officialdom does not have a sense of humour. They ALL have it surgically removed when signing up for their job.

So don't even try to make a jobe with them. It will fall flat on its face and could even lead to more charges against you.

This is how a simple traffic stop could end up in you being killed for no good reason.

"He argued with me by saying that he wasn't doing 37 in a 35 zone. So I took that as resisting arrest. When he didn't stop talking I shot the perp."

"Well Bubba, that looks like another star for your patrol car door. That is a good kill."

Re: How Green is my Apple

From the article

The fruity folk's partnership with the Conservation Fund is described as mutually beneficial. In chopping down thousands of trees to make paper packaging, we're told, "Apple is [displaying its commitment] to zeroing out that impact by using paper more efficiently, increasing recycled paper content, sourcing paper sustainably, and conserving acreage of working forests around the world equivalent to its virgin paper footprint."

Yep, it must be a teacher training day.

Apple (boo hiss) are merely safeguarding the supply of timber for their use. So that when next their Environment Audit is done they can tick a few more boxes and appease the tree huggers for their otherwise flagrant use of the Earth's recources.

woe betide the wailing that would go on here is they decided to fell virgin rainforrest for their packaging.

Re: A Zombie concept?

Have an upvote for the Led Zep lyrics.

Re: Digitise vinyl? It's easier to just download it off a torrent site.

and not everything will be released on any form of Digital medium including CD.

I bought a couple of really good Mid1960's Blues Albums from Rough Trade Records (just off Portobello Rd) the other weekend. Neither of them have been released on CD let alone be of any interest to streaming services like Spotify.

One is a little scratched. Well, the record was released in 1964!

Re: Yum!

If the lardons are not smoked then you could add some 'Tomme de Savior' to the mix to add a nice little kick. The stronger the Tomme the better.

Re: please don't be offended, BUT(t?)

You are obviously NOT a lawyer then.

They get paid whatever happens.

The Kim Dotcom legal gravytrain is working fine. The Lawyers keep on going because for every second they spend on the case they get paid.

If you dare tell a client that the case is not financially viable/worth continuing then there goes your chance of a partnership/corner office.

Re: I have a smart bed....

Does you bed call 999 when you stop breathing?

does it make the early morning cuppa?

What happens when you are the missus get a bit too [redacted] during your [redacted]?

Does it say, 'Ian I really can't allow you to do that. Unless you stop now I'm going to let all the air out of the bed?"

I'm with the AC of earlier who said 'Not in ma hoose'.

so what if the bed falls apart during you know what. At least you can do your thing in privacy and not have your non-sleeping habbits sent to the ROW via the IOT.

On-premise Exchange

I guess that rules you out of any job where the privacy of the messages etc is of some concern to the business.

don't forget that the spooks will probably have a back door into your Cloud Exchange. Do you really want to keep deeding them everythnig about your biz?

Re: News just in...

you forgot the mandatory

'Film at 11'

Re: So why is it computer science graduates have the higest unemployment rate?

Or it could be that the new grads THINK they know more than the incumbents and throw their toys out of the pram when they can't get their own way?

Re: Yeah but only a mug buys brand new dysons

Is that Vax the 11/780 or the 11/785?

A place near me sells re-con Dysons from 95 quid. I got mine from there 10 years ago. Still going strong.

Re: Great

Why the resistance to registering?

The great god that is Apple is giving you the software for free so why not give them a little something in return? You do need to recharge your personal RDF from time to time. The stupid GUI provides you with an ideal opportunity to say a few prayers at the church of St Jobs.

Of you could gearch on Google for 'OSX 10.10 download'. I'm sure there are a good number of sites who will gladly supply it for you.

Re: What about the following options?

I do understand the Apple 'thing'. My comment was said very much with my tongue in my cheek.

If there was a Tongue in Cheek icon I would have used it.