Posts by LesB 108 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2009
..and the options dialog still doesn't have browse buttons for the file location settings. I recall this being annoying {mumble} years ago, and assumed it would change one day. It's a minor thing, but odd, as the options dialog looks like it shares a lot of code with the one in Word, which does manage to be a bit more friendly.
Oh bother, have we slipped into another bloody timeline, or have I missed something?
I was thinking of moving back to the Land of my Fathers[1] anyway, but I''ll need to know if I should do that sooner rather than later...
Slightly confused about the suggestion than UDI is now something you're given rather than something you pronounce for yourself and hope for the best.
[1] Well, the land of my mother, technically.
Title: Can't connect to Exchange Online
User Impact: Users may have been unable to connect to the Exchange Online service.
Final status: After a period of monitoring the service, we can confirm that rerouting traffic restored availability.
Scope of impact: This issue could have potentially affected any of your users intermittently if they were routed through the affected infrastructure.
Start time: Monday, September 18, 2017, at 7:20 AM UTC
End time: Monday, September 18, 2017, at 10:00 AM UTC
Preliminary root cause: A subset of mailbox infrastructure became degraded, causing impact to availability.
Next steps:
- We're analyzing performance data and trends on the affected systems to help prevent this problem from happening again.
This is the final update for the event.
Quite. I was offered something claiming to be "Turkish Apple Flavoured Instant Tea".
In a moment of weakness, I tasted it. It struck me as being a wee bit too sweet.[1] I managed not to spit it out, but it was a close thing. I then read the label and all was explained. Ingredients: 96% sugar, some flavour, and probably a tea leaf or two waved over it.
So a more accurate description would be "instant sugar drink with a hint of flavouring"....
[1] Note: this may be an understatement
And have you noticed that the thing you're sitting[1] in isn't a train any more, it's a "service". As in the next station stop for this service is Lesser Picklington[2]...
It all started getting silly when they started calling us "customers" rather than "passengers". At least the latter implied some suggestion that the ride they were taking you for was a literal rather than metaphorical one.
[1] Or standing, depending on the time and location
[2] Or wherever
We had some PCs a while back with slimline optical drives. Due to some oddity of the design, it was possible for a suitably skilled user to insert the disk in such a way that it disappeared into the PC case. Some users were particularly good at this. Not that they mentioned it when the first or second disk vanished, of course...
*Shudder*
Once had a user who'd run out of the special (and expensive) laser printer acetates and decided to use some designed more for writing on with pens. One destroyed cartridge.
Then there were the (several) users who (several times) decided that putting partly-used sheets of labels back through the printer was a good idea, even after they destroyed the drum the previous time and had been told not to do it (again).
Many years ago, I recall "New Scientist" commenting on a report in a medical publication on the eye-watering subject of gentlemen's injuries caused by hand-held vacuum cleaners[1].
It seems there were a number of cases of chaps getting their, err, chaps into these devices, either "accidentally[2]" or for their own reasons. Apparently believing this would be quite safe, the unfortunate visitors to A&E had interactions with the internal fans.[3]
Just thought I'd share....
[1] The name "Hoover Dustette" sticks in my addled memory for some reason
[2] "It turned itself on" (editorial response: and him to, presumably)
[3] I recall a comment along the lines of "driven to new lengths by the experience..."
I'm sure there will be a general election shortly. After all, no less a person than Theresa May expressed the view that a PM without a democratic mandate wasn't an altogether good thing. Though maybe that was only when the PM in question was Gordon Brown?
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/columnists/2007/08/theresa-may-m-3.html
Obviously El Reg regulars are completely clued-up and know all about these things, and if you need to ask what a Smart City is, you'll have your commenting privileges revoked, or at the very least be subjected to mockery and obfuscated links to lmgtfy.com
Or something. (Actual search results filled my Buzzword Bingo card)
Fair point about older devices - iOS9 is supported on the iPhone 4S and later. The 4S was launched in 2011, making it moderately old as these things go. The oldest unsupported iPhone is the iPhone 4, launched in 2010, which is even older as these things go.
Not sure how far any company should be required to go in supporting older kit, but I think Apple goes quite a long way.
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