Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
It also cost about a £1.00 a minute to call it, which was a lot of money in them days.
Still used by a few networks for roaming calls so with that and the crazy trend for phablets
it is pretty safe to say,
not a lot has changed.
A load of show off's still saying 'I'm on the train' in loud and obnoxious voices.
The malware as well as the security holes.
Caveat Emptor and all that.
I have a cheapo noname android tablet. I use it for playing solitaire and other simple games. These were loaded the day I bought it in HK. I have read lots of reports about the malware that it was shipped with. So there is no way it is ever coming out of Airplane mode.
I got what I paid for. My issue is with the average job punter out there who really do not know what they are letting themselves in for with some of these cheapo bits of kit.
What about the stuff that Cheffy Chefs wrap around Faggots and real Haggis then?
{Ok, this casing usually comes from Sheep}
but it is much thiner and more edible than pigs stomach.
Any rate what with the season of proper Haggis to come, I don't think that the likes of McSweens will be quaking in their boots.
Strange that your recipe didn't include any parsley or other flavouring. The Hogs Maw that I have eaten in PA was always well seasoned with herbs like parsley (fresh not dried) or something like Nettle.
US Television?
I'll pass thanks. It is all just programme breaks between endless adverts.
On my last two trips to the US (4+ weeks covering 10+ states) I didn't turn the TV on once.
If they want to start charging for the TV then that's fine by me as long as I can opt out of it especially the Hotels own channel of inane pap.
This exploit needs physical access to the Macbook. viz an infected TBold drive to be connected via WIRE to the target system.
Wouldn't it just as easy to walk out the door with it? (Apart from a 27in iMac Retina that is)
another of the seemingly eldless list of threats that might just possibly happen.
Now, if the drives themselves were somehow to contain this at point of manufacture then the fanbois can really start pissing themselves in their designed nappies.
Until then? Meh!
Same old, same old, the Users to the testing for MS because they can bothered to do it themselves.
not that they are immune here but it does seem that patch cockups are happening more and more often with stuff coming out of Redmond.
now time to go and do my crimble shopping. Cash only this year coz a %$£$$%^&*%$$!!!!! cloned one of my cards.
The problem is the quality of the Flight Plan messages.
Having had to develop software that understands the format of Flight Plan messages
(Think IATA Type B messages on steroids)
there are huge potential problems. My system regularly rejects 40% of FPL messages.
For example, the spec says that there MUST be a SPACE after the Aircraft Reg No. Many FPL's are submitted with this missing. Some messages use the IATA code for an destination when they must use the ICAO code.
eg Heathrow is IATA LHR, ICAO EGLL.
This is all despite most FPL's beging generated by software in the first place.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. It nearly did last week.
These events do not surprise me at all.
has millions of Admins who are probably nowhere near as talented as Mr Cartwright.
Some are just hardly worth the title of Admin but they may read this article and they try to implement the sorts of things hes describing.
What he makes seem easy is probably far from it.
IMHO, articles like this should come with BIG warnings. 'Do not try this on your live network'.
Buy hey, times are gonna get interesting with the potential for lots more critical systems and networks to go down when [redacted] try to implement SDN on their own networks.
Perhaps we'll get similar instances of the UK-ATC failure on a wider and more regular basis?
Who's got the popcorn in stock becuse it might get difficult to buy some if a few critical networks & systems go down.
The other thing that worries me and a few other IT Pro's (it was discussed in the pub on Friday night) is the potential damage that could be done by the black hats getting into the controllers of these SDN's and wreaking havoc. Imagine if this was done in a co-ordinated way, you could potentially cripple a whole nation. We are so heavily reliant upon computers that you have to ask yourself what would happen in you could'nt drive you car (traffic signals all showing red), Buy food (no orders placed), Cook that food(leccy & gas out due to computer failure) etc, etc, etc.
These whizzo things are all very well and good but... There has to be a downside to them.
Of having to regularly replace ALL the electronics in a couple of PDP-11/70's. There were used to control a Sulphuric Acid plant. The problem was that the Air filtration wasn't good enough and small particles of H2SO4 would get into the Computer Room (that what we called the Data Centre back then) and literally eat the PCB's etc away.
As you are well up on this tech Mr Pott, has anyone thought of using Ground Source Heat Exchangers for the 'Sheds'?
Drill a borehole, drop some pipes down , fill it up again and away you go (simplisitc view!)
Then in the summer the ground would be heated and then that heat extracted in winter.
Those huse images are the killer. Why? Why? Why?
Didn't you think of all the poor saps who have to view this on their corporate mandated 1366x768 screens?
Then there is the way the posts are now ordered. What on earth is wrong with the old 'newest first' ordering?
At least /. gave people a chance to view their latest changes before they went live via beta.slashdot. Here? Fat chance.
IMHO, it wasn't broke but you somehow had to fix it.
now where's the Total and abject failure Icon when you need it?
Very well said especially about the way files for products are spread around the disk.
Perhaps someone might like to tell Microsoft about this themselves.
Office for OSX does exactly that very same thing.
Shame really because that version is IMHO far better than the Windows version.
The other downside the OSX product is that it binds itself to the Disk Serial Number. HDD goes bad? Change the HDD for an SSD? Then that TimeMachine backup is useless. Well, everything will work apart from Office. It is a full removal and re-install. Thankfully, there is a document on the MS support site that telly you where all the nooks and crannies the installer has put stuff.
If you think that MS Shot itself in the foot with TIFKAM then moving to a Buy the OS and Subsctibe/Buy Patches Model is a huge cannon ball dropping from a great height.
Again, this is a shame because once you get past those silly tiles (IMHO) and the messed up config panels the underlying OS is pretty good.
This (and my previos post) was written on a Windows 7 Laptop.
All the software I write for a living runs on Windows.
So far I'm quite impressed by windows 10 but it is still very much a work in progress.
Sure I use a Macbook for my personal computing but I've been in this business long (almost 40 years) enough to be able to at least attepmt to try and see both sides of the argument.
I'd like to know more about the background befind the statement I quoted.
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Hardware tuned to Windows 10 will then emerge around October 2015.
Shouldn't the software be tuned for the hardware?
Hmmmm Unless
There is some fiendish lock in about to surface.
"Sure you can run windows 10 on that Haswell CPU but it will run like a two legged dog unless you upgrade that server/pc/laptop to this [insert new CPU type name here]. By the way, this upgrade will cost you lots and all your old hardware won't work with it".
too far fectched? Only time will tell.
many times that a magnetic field can stimulate the growth of all sorts of cells.
Switch the field around and it retards them.
I seem to recall that there was even a young Scientist of the Year project along these lines 30+ years ago.
What this article/paper may be showing is the effect that an alternating electro magnetic field may have on cell growth.
That I don't get bombarded (well weekly) with junk mail addressed to 'the householder' from VM & Sky trying to persuade me to sign up to their frankly hideously expensive crap. Yeah, I'm a cheapskate but I might be more inclined to part with my cash if they just STOP sending me the crap.
I looked at the latest missive from VM and found it exceedingly hard to actually put a price on any of their offerings. Well Duh! If I can't see the upfront and final costs then sorry no sale.
{The same goes for solar Energy Companies who tell you how much you can save but won't show you on paper the hard costs until you are almost ready to sign up}
Two final words that are strangely appropriate for the season
Bah Humbug!
Exactly my sentiments
The bean counters have been at work again and all our company mobiles are now going to cost US money every month. This is due to some people racking up huge bnills while abroad and using their work phone for personal calls.
I've sent mine back.
now I don't get email on the move.
the thing is, I actually prefer not having email access without my laptop. If people need to get hold of me they can text or (shudder) phone me.
Class and what 'school' you went to is probably even more important in the US than there.
To succeed there with the 'old boys network' you have to be in the right School, then be accepted into the right Faternitiy/Sorority and thus get that all important ring for your pinkie.
Even after 'School' you get asked which school you went to in many social situations.
Personally, I think that the US is worse than here.
But then I'd say that wouldn't I as I am a mere Polytechnic graduate.
Is this 2mil out of 20Mil for the USA or for the world in general?
if it is for the world the nyou have to ask, is ApplePay available everywhere the iPhone6/6Plus is sold?
If the figures are for the USA then to get 10% adoption so soon might be regards as a success story rather than a failure. If is it is less than say 20% in a years time then I'd be inclined to consider it a failure.
Only time will tell.
Airbus and Boeing are reported to be investigating fitting radar controlled 50MM canon to the front of their Aircraft.
Any Geese, Swans or indeed Drones will be vaporized should they come within 500m of the Aircraft.
Rumours that Gatling Guns were to be fitted have been squashed despite evidence of their effectiveness as an air-brake.
Black Helicopter Pilots are also reported as being concerned about their safety as they normally fly with their IFF responders switched off.
Ohhhhhhh look shiny-shiny
That's what you seem to be saying about all this wonderful new functionality that MS lets you have AND that you must have to do your job. Sounds like something a drug dealer would do to keep you hooked on Charlie but here you are hooked on Office. Sad... so Sad. Perhaps you should get some help?
As has been said the majority of us have all the functionality we need already. Personally, I can't think of anything since Office 2003 that I have regard as a 'must have in order to do my job'.
It is more than likely that I'll carry on using my old version of Office until I say, 'enough!' and retire.
A 'Bubble Car' (Isetta or similar)
As they have 3 wheels, we all know how easy it is to topple them over.
Seriously, with more and more cities directly outlawing Uber, I fully expect a huge lawsuit against them from Uber. All their value will go in Lawyers fees. By the time it is over Uber won't be worth a plastic penny.
Nothing new there.
Raise dosh
Start lawsuits
Lawyers get their Island in the sun
Investord take a hammering and get $0.00001 back on the dollar
Where is the Scam/South Sea Bubble icon when you most need it eh?
There was a book released by DEC that told you how to design interfaces to connect to the UniBus in the proper way. Along with the Schematics that cam with the Systems, yes Unibus was propetary but it was darned easy to build an interface for and DEC didn't stop you doing it. We had a dodgy interface that messed up all the DEC disgnostics even if it was placed after a Bus Repeater so we made sure that it was always disconnected when their Field Service came to do a PM on the 11/45 we were using.
Them were the days.
expanded on his cloud strategy to get Microsoft apps on every internet-equipped device on the planet.
Talk about making pigs fly. Does anyone in their right mind even remotely think that this is doable?
Does you leccy meter that sends your reading to the mothership need a Word Interface? Does it even need to run Windows of any shape or form? Does it need an SQLServer Client or even client access to CRM, BizTalk or any other MS product?
My current smart meter does not. I know that it runs Linux.
Does he think that every Router on the planet is going to have some MS software in it?
The list of area where MS will fail is very long. Perhaps he should become a Politician. They always promise stuff that is clearly impossible to deliver (if you have half a working brain that is) but they make great sound-bites don't they?
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