Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Anyway, shouldn't we be getting back to storage, flash and containserisation now?

Don't forget that vitally important (not) yes mysterious thing appearently called DevOps and all things Cloudy

Re: The future in now, the future is PAYG

You do make some good points. However the sceptic(or should that be septic????) bunch that we are around here (fanbois apart) don't believe anything that MS says these days.

They lots of credibility with the W10 release going from

"get it free while you can"

to

"we are going to download it in the background so that when you cave in, it is already on your machine"

as well as all this data slurp. How else could they know how many pictures have been views unless their software tells them eh?

Personally, I doubt that they will go down to the OS level as a pay monthly SAAS for a couple of years.

I do know one thing and that I will do to MS what I did to Adobe and that is give them to fingers. But that is the old skinflint that is me. YMMV naturally.

Re: Even the simplest wired alarm system gives an alert on fault conditions.

It is all down to cost $$$$$$$$ £££££££££££££££

The bean counters was something on the market for $9.99 with the same quality and functionalty as the one costing $99.99 and have it in every home depot store yesterday.

burglar alarms as one area where you (mostly) get what you pay for. The extra security of :-

1) starving pit bulls

2) multiple 12 bores loased with shrapnel

3) All doors and windows wired to 240V DC

Are the things that the Alarm company can't provide.

Re: and award for openess

but according to the US Government, US law applies everywhere on the planet.

See you in gitmo then...

Useless Stats

Some companies publish their bugs as CVE's

Some companies would rather go to Chapter 7 that admit that their software has even one bug

Apple (and we love to hate them here) are actually pretty good at publishing their bugs a CVE's. Then you can see what ones have been fixed in an update.

As a software developer this simple act really helps find out if the bug is actually in my code or in the underlying OS. IBM is also pretty good at this as well.

but it does have a downside as it gives the Apple haters plenty of missile to sling at {cr}Apple.

Re: Wearables come with inconvenience?

NFC cards can be scanned while the cards are in you pocket/wallet/handbag and your details nicked.

Systems like Apple Pay/Google Pay eliminate this risk.

I've got my banks to send me non NFC cards. I may use a payment system like Apple/Google pay in the future.

While the bad guys can knick your details just by standing close to you, why would you use NFC cards at all?

I do have an Oyster Card (got free travel earlier today) but the amount anyone can nick is limited.

NFC is a risk not worth taking IMHO.

Re: I love Apple and most of it's products. BUT... PAY YOUR GODDM TAXES

Apparently, Google are next up before the beak/Judicial magistrate.

Have an upvote

Old Baccy tins are essential recepticals in any decent Model Engineers Workshop.

I have around 100 that contain things like 8BA Nuts. Naturally, they are clearly labelled using Dyno Tape

Re: Mixed messages ....

PC-PRO? Well they even raved about Vista.[1]

Many of their articles were very pro-MS from very early on. Only the 'pro' section offered a more balanced view from the likes of Dave Cartwright.

[1] That's when I stopped subscribing to it.

Can't remember the last time I bought one or even browsed the website.

Re: Oh really?

There's a lingering suspicion at the back of my mind that says "agile".

From your description it seems that their systems are a tad FR{agile}

Re: OTT = Negative Connotations

And those of us in the area can sample some real OTT

a.k.a Old Tongham Tasty

from the Hogs Back Brewery. Purveyors of that other nice beer (in small quantities) called 'AoverT'

Re: Clueless is an understatement

Something people seem to forget is 'the two key solution'.

One key unlocks the data.

The other one unlocks the data thus complying with the law but immediately starts a process burried in the HDD/SSD firmware to erase the data.

Spooks have been aware of this for years. After all, their agents would use it to stop the people they are spying on getting the data.

As with every solution there are weaknesses.

Thus the battle goes on, and on, and on

Re: Bah!

I don't see them pushing Apple Music at me.

There has to be some trigger that you have tripped and I have not. It does seem to be user specific.

Do you have any other streaming apps installed? Perhaps these are the trigger.

iCloud was a PITA though. I get the login screen after a restart.

I guess it has its uses but so far I really can't find one that would make me put my personal data into the cloud. I never log on now. Problem solved.

Re: Dumb question

Have you ever been to India?

Those in IT who are are good are angling to leave preferably to the USA or the UK. Why? English. That's why.

Mind you some are so hard to understand they might as well be speaking Glaswegian.

Re: Comet

Wow! You actually found something in a PC-World Store that wasn't running Windows 10, android TV (Samsung TV's) and overpriced HP Inkjet Printers

Re: 6 Months later and still it continues....

well done for that but watch out hosting your own email server may break their TOS and the next thing you know, you are disconnected.

However you are right their whole email server change was an unmitigated clusterfuck.

But...

Fast and the like will say,

There will be times when everyone is in the office. Even if this is once a year you MUST have enough CALS to cover the connections. So Mr Customer, wanna pay now or shall we see you in court?

etc

etc

etc

MS Licensing is IMHO Not fit for purpose.

Here a CAL, There a CAL, everywhere you need a new CAL.

not all networks

are doing this. Some have no roaming charges in places like the USA, NZ, Oz etc already.

Frankly my £10.56/month gives me more minutes and data than many US $50/month plans.

EE? Nah

more like NN Nothing Nowhere.

Script Q1 - Have you switched it off and on again?

Q2 - As Q1

Q3 - As Q2

etc

etc

Re: how is this news?

VMS was easy to learn. The Help system makes the ones on Windows and Unix/Linux man pages look very sad.

on the command line it was always 'if in doubt type "Help"'

It was context sensitive and included samples.

20 years of my working life was spent at Dec in Reading.

There was a big blood letting before HP and that was done by Compaq.

Re: How exactly does this work

You mean all those tracking, advertising and other ****** sites that even the most basic Website seems to link to these days. So the ratio of actual dodgy sites to ads,tracking etc are probably 1:20 (if not higher)

How is anyone going to sort the wood from the trees then?

It will be only too easy for aomeon to setup a nice cuddly and innocent web page that only loads the links to terrorists if a certain browser connect string (or something similar) is used. As sort of carefully crafted HTTP request.

Are they really trying to push water up a hill here?

Pass the popcorn please.

Re: Please tell me

you forgot one more (at least)

Will 'guarantee' (cough- cough) you a peerage before all the shite hits the fan

Better still

Send a bunch of Politicians to Mars.

All that 'hot air' they speak will soon build an atmosphere.

Re: More Microsoft marketing lies...so silly.

I have to say though, I'd never import a laptop (or buy a Macbook) purely because I don't want to have to dick around with a US keyboard layout.

It is not as hard as you think. I use three different KB layouts almost on a daily basis.

UK, Dvorak and US. With my US MacBook Kb, I set the KB to British and can type a £ without a shortcut.

Your brain can be trained to switch between them. My biggest gripe about the apple US KB is the lack of a working '#' key. (A tradeoff from getting the £ to work). It also switches from UK to Russian very easily.