Posts by JimmyPage

Sorry, is it just me ?

That is one hard read. Very ... clunky. Almost to the extent of being unreadable.

If I could nuke Edge from space

I wouild

also when did edge:// become a valid scheme, since that's what can't-kill-it MS Start cruft insists on using.

Oh, grow up

"Large tech companies wield an unprecedented level of influence over economies and societies. At the same time, they enjoy a remarkable degree of freedom from regulation and accountability for their activities and the content they carry," opined Singaporean minister Teo Chee Hean at Monday night's opening address.

That is almost the bumper sticker for Western capitalism. Power and money with naff all oversight, regulation or where possible competition

And for all their performance handwringing, all I can see from where I live is governments are aspiring to the same. Certainly here in the UK where it seems you are robbed with the threat of prison for your taxes, and yet discover that no one in government is actually responsible for anything.

The Blackadder view of cloud

I'd no more place my systems in the hands of a cloud operator than I'd place my john thomas in the hands of a lunatic with a pair of scissors.

Whateve

Making websites accessible to people with disabilities isn't just a nice thing to have. It's a legal requirement under UK, US, and EU law – for instance,

All sounds very well. Until you research and find number of UK websites prosecuted under this act = 0. (Admittedly on a par with average compensation to individuals for a data breach.)

My wife is visually impaired. And would happily work to test websites. However the last website operator she contacted told her she must be wrong about their site being unusable as they had hired a team (presumably all fully sighted) who had cleared the design as being "disability friendly".

The best thing about MS and Apple

is that there is a consistent base for the desktop/phone.

The worst thing about Android is it's ability to have a myriad (manufacturer *and* telco crufted) different ways of doing something.

My Android Samsung has completely system different menus to my wifes Alcatel. Same (alleged) "version" of Android.

I am sick and tired of asking questions on how to do something and getting an answer that "works on mine".

This is where capitalism has failed.

I'm in my 50s, and cannot fathom how the country which invented* the transistor, and integrated circuits, and PC managed to end up unable to make the damn things themselves.

It's a reformulation of the old truism: Works; on time; on budget. Pick any two.

You either have foreign companies and lots of cheap shit. Or you have a few domestic companies and a lot less but more expensive shit.

You can't have both.

And I am not really seeing more capitalism as the answer to the failings of capitalism.

*I'm not really looking for a debate on the intricacies of that assertion. For the purposes of asking "WTF happened" it's good enough.

The cops also reportedly discovered at the home an IS application form,

Sorry, for some reason that has tickled me pink. Suddenly they have lost all scariness.

My own experience ...

There are quite a few little oddities on my 10 mile commute in Brum. The main one being a 20mph zone that Google Maps still shows as 30. Which means you need to be aware of the moron brigade who switch their brains off when they turn the sat nav on.

There was also a 40mph stretch that is still showing as 50 - 10 years after it was changed.

Having worked in mapping and logistics software, I do wonder what the fuck Google are doing that makes it so hard. It's almost as if their obsession with consumer data means they can't do projects properly anymore.

Generally I have fuck all sympathy for the sad-face-sat-nav stories. But this does seem to be quite unique. RIP and condolences to the family.

Paperless office

55 comments in, and no one has remembered how PCs were supposed to presage the paperless office ?

Digging out the T-Shirt I have

when "offshoring " was all the rage. Right up until (UK) companies pissed away their in house resources and suddenly had to pay YoY increases of 10-15%. Which not only wiped out any "savings" made by the sackings, but made IT twice as expensive as before.

Now it's "cloud". Yeah, Lets hive off business critical functions to a bunch of folk who (if they stay solvent and interested*) will eventually be able to jack the subscription up every month if they like.

Recently I have pulled a series of eye-watering cloudy services back into on-prem/hosted servers where we run them. Currently savings are £11.000 a year.

Our CEO occasionally mingles at events. Some outfits are quietly regretting losing that resource.

I'm thinking the next few years will be good for people who can spin up a LAMP/Docker server, and plumb it into a company to replace ever-rising cloud costs. A job which can be done 100% remotely.

I hope so, it may just be my retirement plan.

*Not quite in this vein, but Stackpath deciding this ain't for them is another risk you have with cloud. Or things like Amazon retiring MWS with little notice.

The internal expansion joints were quite wide

So much so that the last pilot of Concorde famously left his cap jammed between the instruments ...

The data was hidden from anyone opening the files

What does that even mean ?

And that, my friends, is how you do science

You publish. Other scientists check. We all know what's happening.

No shame in being wrong - it's all learning.

Technical question

I noticed a while back that Teams mysteriously doesn't need admin permissions to install.

Is this an example of MS being overly kind to themselves ?