Posts by Steve Davies 3 7143 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Er.... Never heard of the scumbags who setup a company create havoc and then liquidate it before the shite hits the fans and then they setup another company (often with an almost identical name) and ... wrinse/repeat all the way to the bank.
Now try taking legal action against an entity that no longer exists. What answer do you think that your £300/hour is going to get?
All part of their grand plan to take over the world.
Shakes head. After all these years I still can't believe that they insist in using AM/PM
and putting the month before the day as in 09-13-2015 rather than 2015-09-13
Just don't get them started on why they don't use the metric system. That is akin to becoming a Communist.
You mentioned Stanstead and EasyJet.
I'd love to go to that part of Spain (extramadura is my fav though) but the thought of spending at least twice the length of the flight just getting to Stanstead (A303,M3,M25 & M11) just sort of makes it pointless.
Then there is EasyJet. The only airline in existence that could lose my bag during the flight. Saw it go in the hold. It never came out. Wot! Should have not checked it in the first place? Ok, try hand carrying 2 weeks worth of winter clothes.
They'd better not because we have a good few applications that don't play very well with 2012 let alone 2016. These were first build for Server 2000 so it is understandable.
We are trying to re-write them for Server 2012 and the pre-release 2016 but all the extra security crud is proving to be a bit of a problem.
On the other hand, I hope they actually do and MS get their balls sued off when some company goes titsup because their systems have been screwed by MS. Not in the US I might add where their EULA is apparently all nice and legal.
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This is a nod that Redmond was right all along with its Surface design.
Imho, the concept was sound but the execution was poor. The RT was just wrong. The wrong hardware at the wrong time. No Apps and so much else. Bad execution IMHO. Cost them around $1B
The Surface Pro is better but it still has limitation especially with the Keyboard. But the design decision that MS makes always seems to stifle some good ideas at birth.
It will be interesting to see if the Maxi-Pad comes to be seen at the right way to do this form factor or will the Surface eventually (and despite being shackled my MS) come out on top.
If they keep their lawyers arguing long enough then the Statute of Limitations on any crimes identified in these backups may well mean that the US can do nothing about it.
Sometimes I wish we have a similar thing here. Then we read about another 'Z' list former celeb getting arrested for nasty acts committed a long time ago and start to think again.
I think you might be right but only for a short period.
Once the Insurance Companies start to understand the risks of selfie cars and just now hackable they probably are then the rates for any bit of auto-driving will skyrocket.
No company would want to insure the vehicle that caused the first multi vehicle pile-up on the M4 in the morning "rush".
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As part of delivering Windows 10 as a service, enterprise customers can expect ongoing feature innovations
In MS speak thise must mean more snooping probably at the behest of a TLA.
This question remains
Will businesses adopt this P-OS in a big way or will this be thing that makes businesess really beging to think that there are alternatives to Windows in their business.
The jury is out on that at the moment.
Coming soon, the SMS invitation scam
None of the methods are safe.
The only way is for you to call them. Let them SMS/phone you. Then you call them. Let them prove that they have the right information on YOU Not the other way round. Oh wait that won't work.
Then the only solution is to go into a branch. Yeah right. Now where's the nearest branch of my Bank?
What if there isn't one. eg First Direct.
Ok, I know that I'll get downvoted but at least get your facts rights when slagging off Apple kit.
It won't cost you £1500 to get a Mac.
A new Mac mini costs from £399
http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
Ok, this is a bit of a puny CPU but the top spec one comes in at £799.
Plus you can even use your 'real computer' monitor with it.
Then there is FleaBay for some even cheaper devices
Say something like this for .£850.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-4-Quad-Corei7-2-4ghrz-8GB-128GB-SSD-Retina-Display-2013-/131442911036?hash=item1e9a9ba73c
Frankly, it is nice to have the boot on the other foot and have a half decent app available on OSX and not Windows.
I may well be buying this app because I won't pay the Adobe monthly tithe on Photoshop.
There are a good few on us baby boomers who have just retired or are about to retire.
Some of us have 40+ years in IT behind us.
Why not let us help?
Oh wait.
Criminal checks - we gotta pay to prove that we aren't paedo's.
Teaching Unions - We aren't qualified teachers so expect strike action as soon as we step into the classroom
etc etc
So we take our skills into the coffin.
Pah.
I've given some talks about some of the projects I've worked on over the years to children (not in schools) and I know that they can be inspired but doing anything more is just too hard.
The GOP are partying. Their only hope of getting a Republican into the White House is for the whole Democratic party to be tarred by the Clinton brush.
They failed to get Bill impeached so nailing Hilliary is their next shot.
Taking down HC is a great way to get lots of campaign $$$$$
HC is the Democratic front runner. The GOP candidates are ..... Well Donald 'Toupee' Trump and a few others.
Over here? Well, the self destruction of the Labor Party is small fry in comparison.
So windows 10 isn't a data slurping, privacy ignoring POC/POS then?
Ok, so you can with a load of trickery stop it from phoning home every few minutes but the general feeling around these parts is that sales of 40ft barge poles have just shot through the roof.
Naturally, if you don't care about the snooping then carry on because I'm pretty sure that the world ain't gonna end tomorrow.
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Apple will hold the September event Thursday morning, US Pacific time.
The event is on Tuesday 9th September. i.e in 5 Days time.
If you are a Fanboi and really can't wait then http://www.macrumors.com/ has a countdown timer to keep you happy.
Even crApple would not be so dumb to hold such an event on the 11th September.
might simply be wanting to run things just a whole lot quicker.
For example VM's. Frankly when I have to run a VM from a spinning rust drive, I feel that it just crawls alone like a snail.
I've bitten the bullet and relaced the spinning HDD's on my home kit with SSD's over the past two years.
HDD's are for backups only these days. I know that I'm not alone with this approach.
Some of my Photos are more then 70Mb in size on disk (.PS format). Opening them from an SSD is just... faster.
You WILL buy IOT kitted out appliances.
You HAVE no choice.
The White Goods makers have built in planned breakage to everything they make.
Now it is cheaper to buy a new Washing Machine rather than change a drum bearing.
Soon IOT will be everywhere wether you like it or not.
Now if you connect it up to anything is another totally different story indeed.
Will I? Nope. Not in a gazillion month of sundays.
My Grandchildren are savvy enough to use false details when signing up but some of them are getting wise to the ploy. One of the mhad his regirstration deleted on one site because he'd used the name B Atman. I've seen S.U. Perman rejected as well.
But it is fun when snailmail arrives (via Mailboxes etc) addressed to one of the fake names.
A never ending game of cat and mouse.
That dates you does it not? Ok, it does me as well.
mind you the sort of experimentation in Music that went on around then was fantastic.
some really original works. This one , Tommy, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Rainbow Suite, DSOTM etc
Some were more successful than others but alt least they tried different things.
Can you hear more these days? probably now as your hearing range gets less over the years.
But most modern crap (sorry excuse for Music if you ask me) is all Bass sounds from a drum machine and little else.
Heyday TV had a prog on the early days of The Who on the other day. Drums, Bass Guitar and Lead. That was it. Still managed to make a great sound and not a computer in sight.
plus the oblig
does it run Crysis?
Being serious for a moment.
As the marketplace for laptop/desktop devices is dropping like the Shanghai Stock Market index is this really a wise move? If the market was expanding but...
They will have to come up with something 'Completely Different' to get a sizeable market share.
Thin and Light alone won't cut it.
you seem to be forgetting 'Amazon Top Gear Prime'
So we have Sky, VM, Talk(don't)-Talk, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Now-TV and probably a few others. Now Apple wants to muscle in on the act. How many PAY card slots does your TV have then?
How many £9.99 + VAT (or a lost more when it comes to Sky & VM) per month do you want to pay every month from now until doomsday?
Me? None of the above. I find that there is even less worth watching the more channels you have.
These patches (according to an article on Forbes.com) also apply to Server installations as well.
I can't help wonder if a few security people should start asking MS really probing questions about what is actually sent back to the Redmond mothership. If there is the slightest risk of any identifiable data being sucked away from a sever then MS are (IMHO) gonna get into some sticky waters with the regulators.
As for bypassing the hosts file... this is just nasty.
that URL resolves to
C:\Users\numpty>nslookup settings-win.data.microsoft.com
...
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: onesettings-db5.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
Address: 191.232.139.253
Aliases: settings-win.data.microsoft.com
settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
C:\Users\numpty>
Can El Reg please stop promoting laptops that have only 768 vertical resolution. The review almost sounds apologetic when mentioning the screen size.
What with MS Office and its darned Ribbon taking up close to 20% (if not more at times) of that space it really does increase the amount of scrolling that you are gonig to have to do.
Yes, I know these are cheap as chips laptops but if no one bought them perhaps the manufacturers would stop making them for us to buy.
768 vertical was ok 10 years ago but not now.
Just be prepared and you should be ok.
1) Wear a disguise so that the facial recog cameras can't ID you. go too far and you might get ID's as a terrorist though.
2) Turn any mobile device you have either Off or into Flight mode. Then the beacons can't track you and beam targetted Adverts at you.
3) Pay for everything with Cash then the Credit card computers can't know what you bought.
Otherwise,
Have a nice Day! :)
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