Posts by Steve Davies 3 7143 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Well said Sir!
The company are doing an awful lot of price gouging these days. I guess less and less people are using their products. sort of ever decreasing circle really.
I stopped using their stuff when they moved to a License server. After 3 weeks, it just stopped worknig and they would'nt let me setup a new one.
moved to Lazarus and got on with development rather than spend time forever upgrading after shelling out lots and lots of dosh for the pain in doing so.
It sounds like Sysadmins are going to be extinct in a matter of months.
With everythnig migrating to 'The Cloud' then in-house/on-site admins won't be needed.
What about the SME segment? Can they afford this move?
Then who sets up the systems in the first place? Some will'o'the wisp character that only comes out when a full moon falls on a Sunday?
Still, interesteing times ahead.
That reminds me, Ian Anderson is doing some gigs around the country telling the story of Jethro Tull. (not the band but the original JT).
Perhaps all Sysadmins should make the effort to go along and see their future?
My impression that the letters LTD on the back are now more than the same sort of status symbol a GLS, GTI etc used to be here.
When I lived in N.H. it was might be a bit more power, a different trim of different wheels and that was about it.
As for this not being a real Jeep, I totally agree. It is like (IMHO) that any vehicle with a Land Rover badge that is not a Defender type ain't really a Landy.
Don't you realise that their Order system is crap but for a reason.
I guess that you have managed to order something from HP without going through a reseller?
If you have indeed done this then....
Well Done. You are a winner.
Please become our head of UK Sales tomorrow.... {see Icon}
Even ordering from IBM is a bit easier than HP who just seem to be taking the Sauce when they should be the Daddies of IT kit.
now you just get in the 'Branston' (pickle)
Whilst I agree with your sentiment please take a little time to understand that not every phone user wants to play graphics heavy games on their phones. A bit of Solitaire or Soduku and that is it for a good number of users.
For them 16Gb is probably adequate. But as this device has a slow for a second SIM or SD card then really the problem is rather moot. Perhaps the time spent not playing Fifa '15 could be better spent moving files around?
I'm attracted because of the dual SIM capability because I tend to use my phone for mainly... a phone.
is to deliver Adverts, tracking sites and other nasties
Just because the URL has cloudfare in it, it does not mean that it is safe to let through all the time.
Nas any CDN been hacked for Man in the middle attcks. IMHO these sites are ideal for traffic interception.
just saying,
Bef careful out there, it is a jungle
Aren't that a load of small shops in the USA running phone unlocking services? There is at least one in any half decent sized town here in the UK?
Pay a few bucks and you have it unlocked.
Have you even search on this wonderful thing called the Internet? A search for "Verizon Omnia 6 unlocking" seems to return a lot of information. Don't know how much is relevant though? Only you can tell?
Anyway did't some legal ruling the US force the carriers into unlocking phones?
http://www.cnet.com/news/new-regulation-requires-us-carriers-to-unlock-user-phones/
everything in the MS World is rosy
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/08/26/windows-10-now-on-75-million-devices/
A friend of mine just had to replace his PC (psu blow up took out the CPU). One look at Windows 10 at a reseller led to him demanding Windows 7. Nope they said, We can only ship Windows 10 from now on.
He went to the internet and ordered the same Desktop with Windows 7.
His words to me when describing Windows 10 are unprintable. He's not an IT geek by any measure.
so....
Only the time will tell if the launch momentum keeps going or fizzles out.
But there is one thing we can be sure of and that is that some people will be lying about the W10 adoption. But who?
That might well come to be the situation.
Now if those new fangled bits of kit are connected to anything is another matter competely.
I connected my new TV to the internet for all on 30 minutes. Just long enough to get a software update. That's it. I might connect is periodically just to do the same but in normal operations?
forget is sunshine, it ain't gonna happen this side of the second coming.
wonderful statement Sir!
Add 'cloud' into the mix and 90% of the public will go glassy eyed.
Apart from a fe affictionados who really cares about the IOT? Is it more like the wrong answer to a question that hasn't been asked yet.
Anyway, on the day that the OED includes 'Beer-O-Clock' I'll raise my glass to you later.
Thankfully (at the moment) Verizon's tentacles don't extend over the Pond.
At least my old TR4A won't get it even if it does come over here. There is nothing electronic on it apart from the ignition system. Points are.... Pointless really.
Before anyone asks there isn't even a Radio because that was an optional extra.
But how many still have it installed?
How many have seen how bad it is and/or how much it spies on you and simply gone back to the previous version?
Now those figures would be really interesting.
cue El Reg stock phrase
We contacted Microsoft for a comment and as yet they have not responded.
Whilst it might be true about houses and gold courses, a good few of them have gone bust.
It is not only in Surrey that this has happened.
Golf (and everything around it including doing biz whilst playing a round) is dropping in popularity.
It is also fiendishly expensive the S.E. blighty.
so much of what Mr W compares with Silicon Valley is true.IMHO.
I seem to remember seeing one decrepit GF that was farmland 20 years ago that has been recently sold for development of 4-5 bed houses. No affordable housing in that neck of the woods. It is the Surrey Stockbroker Belt after all. The locals can't have the plebs lowing the tone of the place now can one?
I can't help wondering if this was all planned. Build a gold cource, run it for a few years, close it down and build houses. A good way round planning restrictions then? A good few millionaires made in the process I should imagine.
As for the US, the NIMBY's don't go out protesting. Over there, they just sue everyone in sight. That will make the local councils tread very carefully. My guess is that those emply plots might have a bit of dodgy provenance on them. More than their jobsworth to rish developing them then!
This is IMHO the achillies heel of these devil devices.
You 'Verify your bags' and start scanning. Without fail duing scanning at least once it will need to have your bags verified.
As a result I put everything onto the post-scanned scales unbagged.
At the end, I pack it all into my bag.
IS this quicker than getting my bage verified again?
IMHO, yes.
Now it someone wants to rant of coin counting machines, I'll give you an upvote.
I was a grey wet day and the grey slate didn't make it seem very inviting. That was soon changed by the obvious enthusiasm for the place that everyone seemed to have.
Some of the ideas on thow then were a bit wierd but are now fairly mainstream.
The wet climate around there does make it a preety good testing ground for this type of tech.
It does sound that the places is a bit more commercially minded that it was back then.
you say that you mainly use your phone for Calls, Texts and some web browsing yet you say before that you must jailbreak an IOS device.
Would you care to explain why this is? What does jailbreaking give you that the non jailbreaked phone does not given your fairly restricted usage?
The big winner here is that it is packaged up nicely. For most people (IMHO) this is a very important point.
Whilst the PI will do the job I really don't want any more cables cluttering up the back of my TV.
The USB Stick packaheing makes it easy to take with you when you are travelling. Take a PI and the TSA Goons will think it is a Bomb and before you know it, you are the US No-Fly list.
What price then?
It will be interesting to see how the licensing pans out.
This is the rub. As with everything from MS, the licensing model will make or break this.
If they want CALS for every connected user via a container as well as CALS for the apps in the container then this is a dead duck but that is probably the worst case scenario.
What bothers me is their focus on everything running in Azure. Lots of businesses can't (or won't) put their data off site let alone in a nebulus cloud somewhere. If they get his in the pocket for going down this route then they will start to look for alternatives.
We have seen Server 2003 clinging on for dear life in many places. What is to stop Server 2008-R2 and Server 2012-R2 platforms from carrying on for another 10 years?
Then there is the USP for using the MS Offering. I don't see one yet. Perhaps it will come but at the moment the alternatives look far more compelling.
Watch this space?
If Samsung (USA) Think that this is their most important issue then they are living on another panet.
IMHO their major concern must be the shrinking profits that their Mobile Phone division is making. That is not alone. The margins on HD TV's in close to zero and 3D TV really didn't take off in the way that manufacturers like Samsung hoped.
Sure their market share is holding up pretty well in some markets but the profit they make from each phone when they compete against the likes of Xaomi is getting less and less with every quarter.
Interesting times ahead for investors.
It seems that more and more companies are getting on to this bandwagon.
I guess in a few years the prospect of more than a few lawsuits flying their way towards a few vendors for actually stopping users getting at their data will become commonplace.
This is all a tad shortsighted methinks but probably dictated by the demands of shareholders for ever increasing profits.
It that don't get people moving towards FOSS then nothing will.
A sign of the times I suppose.
While we have strong legal arguments, we've determined that mounting a vigorous defense would ultimately prove too costly and too great a distraction for our leadership team."
Which really means that the Execs with corner offices can't be dragged away from the Golf Course/Country Club for long enough to fight this case which they will probably lose and then what future their jobs then?
Hey Guys, another round?
Ok so we know that Windows 10 on the desktop has all sorts of 'phone home' destinations.
What about the Mobile version? Is it the same? How much can it be disabled by the user?
If so then does it use the owners sometimes expensive 3G/4G connection for this? After all a good number of users may not be connecting to the internet via WifI every day. I would not be impressed to recieve expensive roaming data charges just so that I might enjoy a fractionally better search function.
I feel that these sorts of things should be made known to every user before they use phone with this OS.
If it does not used a Data connection then great. Let everyone know ASAP.
My guess is that the Tories won't need that much in the coffers for the next election if JC (the saviour) is elected to lead the Labor Party.
But yes the greasing of the palms of all political parties is a problem.
I wish that HMG would tell the media companies to get stuffed and start living in the real world (not that the MP's are even on this planet most ofthe time).
The fact that pretty well everyone with a mobile phone has some potentially illegal content on their device (format switched from a legal source) makes the law an ass.
Wherever you go.
Then they can offer more 'personalised' services to you. Well that's what their marketing dream is.
By using one account they can make sure that:-
1) You have paid your montly/weekly/daily tithe to Redmond
2) The tithe will ensure that you can only use the software you have paid for on any PC on the planet.
No logging on and using Office if you have not paid for it....
3) They can track your usage and if you exceed your agreed limits it will log you out on the spot
This is not far from some car Insurers. You agree an anual mileage. Exceed that by a certain % and they have grounds for invalidating your insurance.
This is IMHO where they are heading. Sort of Software DRM.
You will join the good ship MS-BORG (or will you?)
Is to stop sales of Windows 7,8 & 8.1 through the likes of Dell, HP, ASUS etc.
When W10 is the only game in town they'll be free to swan off in Vacation letting the users tough it out.
Until then as one poster has already said, the more savvy ones will buy their new hardware with the OS of their choice already installed and stick one or more fingers up at MS & their latest little darling OS.
Like a certain Mr T Pott (one of the scribes here) has said, I will not be installing Windows 10 on any bit of hardware I control.
Probably taking a leaf out of the Apple book and learning to ignore requests from El Reg.
This Windows 10 is keeping its new owners busy is clearly wrong.
The only owners Windows 10 has is Microsoft. They have graciously agreed to let us mere mortals use their product under their T&C's that they can change any time they want. If they really wanted I am sure that they could stop anyone from using it.
Who really owns your copy of W10 then?
This is the difference between Criminal and Civil trials.
In Civil cases the Discovery period is where ALL the evidence that is going to be presented at trial is released to the other side. In Criminal cases the Defence does not have to share their key evidence with the prosecution wheras the proecution has to share everything with the defence.
Outside this period? You had better have a really good reason for getting a Judge to admit some critical piece of evidence.
As I see it in this case, the face that a phone had been on sale before the suit was filed is a real 'Doh' moment. If it was that critical then Samsung should have given it to Apple during Discovery.
A common tactic is to hide bits of evidence like this in a pile of irrelevant stuff. The side hiding are clean becasie they have released it to the other side but....
IIRC they did this in the Erin Brockovitvch case. If the recipients of this 'stuff' can't find the key bits of evidence that they have in their posession then tough.
IANAL but the explanations of Discovery that PJ put up on Groklaw during the SCO case has proved useful.
Perhaps that's how we should get around the funding issue, set up a space research body, give it tons of money and then let it fund Sabre.
Les Frogs will insist that all the research is carried out not only in French but in Fance/Guyana and be only staffed by Frenchmen/women.
Then the EU will say NON and it will die a long drawn out death.
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