* Posts by ecofeco

8156 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Bad news: Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the world. Good news: Nitrogen dioxide levels are decreasing and the air on Earth is cleaner

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I don't about seeing the bottom but seeing fish again has been confirmed.

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It's been dramatic

The difference has been insanely dramatic!

Azure admins' cold sweat likely caused by a 'isolated' power problems that browned out West Central USA region

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I never get tired of saying this

How's that cloud thing working for ya?

Avast's AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping

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Avast?

They lost the plot years ago.

Post Office burned £100m in UK taxpayer cash on Horizon IT scandal legal fees, MPs told

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Exactly.

Not wearing the right school tie or speak fluent country club and picked the right parents? Yer fooked.

Grab a towel and pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster because The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is 42

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It appears 3 people did not get the joke. Probably from the other ship.

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God I'm old

Don't panic!

Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and the others? Very

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Great comments!

Excellent comments. I've learned a lot today. Cheers to all.

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It still affected didn't it? Honest question. I only vaguely remember.

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Re: Softbanks brilliantly timed investment?

The Softbank jab was a joke about thier late to the party buyouts.

Former US Homeland Security Inspector General accused of stealing govt code and trying to resell it to... the US govt

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Re: When force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

whoa

That brings back memories.

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American capitalism and security

Summed up quite neatly...

...it's all bullshit.

Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground

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Now that's damn interesting.

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

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Re: What? They've been lying to us?

It's obvious none of you can read Sanskrit. The Sumarians told us 20,000 years ago. But we never learn.

Our 'solution is killing us in a number of areas' IBM said about doomed £175m Co-Op Insurance project

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IBM can no longer compete

Flat out, IBM's numerous failures are incredible. Why do companies still choose them for anything?

While hype merchants push chatbots, CIOs are saving up pennies while expecting a recession, reckons study

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Re: Chat bots

Isn't that most companies these days?

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Re: So, around half or even three quarters of dis-satisfaction

"'m convinced that there are a lot of projects out there that follow the same result template."

I can confirm this.

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From the jobs offers I've seen lately

...I'd say the recession is here already. I've seen offers for admins of all types fall to less than 50K a year. (yeah, pounds or dollars)

Managed services slinger Ensono waves goodbye to staff on both sides of the pond

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Short term solution

Long term disaster.

I have yet to see any company who outsourced their IT operations to India actually do well in the long run.

Are we having fund yet, npm? CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled

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This is some serious stupid

""[Funding open source projects] is still a very big problem and it's still a very unsolved problem," he said."

And he didn't think of this from the beginning... why?

Frankly, I think he's taking the piss.

'An issue of survival': Why Mozilla welcomes EU attempts to regulate the internet giants

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Re: If you want to see this in action.

Same here. No issues.

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Re: We really need Firefox alive

Your experience is very outdated.

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Re: We really need Firefox alive

CSS is dead. It was created to fix the problem of browsers, ESPECIALLY IE, that were not WC3 standards compliant.

It is now more of a problem and part of the bloat rather than a solution these days.

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The web is not optimized for anything

Layers and layers of bloated code, advertising, tracking, cookies and piss poor bloated graphics.

The web hasn't been optimized for almost a decade.

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

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Re: Most consumers just don’t want the hIgh HDD capacity any more.

I use a small capacity laptop to edit videos and have had no problems.

Of course I put the finished work on an external drive. :)

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Re: The problem I have with M.2 SSD's

Er, I've been using SSDs on Win 7 machines for a few years now.

Hundreds.

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Re: HDD only, here

Even today disk clean up is important.

Good on you!

Another week, another bunch of Windows 10 machines punched by a patch

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After doing almost 1000 updates

It sounds to me like outdated BIOS and drivers.

Steve Jobs, executives shot down top Apple engineers' plea to design their own server CPU – latest twist in legal battle over chip upstart Nuvia

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Re: Hypocrites

HP was a company with a conscience in those days.

Chrome 81 beta hooks browser up to Web NFC, augmented-reality features

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Re: It stopped being the browser long ago....

Chrome bloated. It's slow and a resource hog these days.

Please, sir, we want some more! TSMC pumps extra $6.7bn into chip fabs to meet demand for new gadgetry

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6.7 billion?

So thst is what? 2 maybe 3 more fabs?

Bloke forks out £12m, hands over keys to tropical island to shoo away claims that his web marketing biz was a scam

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We have to ask Gozar the keymaster.

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Re: One born every minute

They moved online.

Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches

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Re: Minimum wage?

Never trust any "wage average" reports.

In America they are often wildly optimistic and also do not report who is employed through an agency, thus confusing the real wage of the employee.

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Re: Good

A LOT more often.

American labor laws are weak and badly enforced, but the courts have repeatedly ruled that employees on or in company property that are forced to stay past their exact quitting time must be paid.

NBD: A popular HTTP-fetching npm code library used by 48,000 other modules retires, no more updates coming

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Re: New is not always better

All too damn true.

Crazy idea but hear us out... With robots taking people's jobs, can we rethink this whole working to survive thing?

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My god the sheer ignorance of most of these comments

See title.

Jobs do not grow on trees. Re-training guarantees nothing. Education guarantees nothing. I know far too many people with incredible credentials who can never find permanent employment. Oh they work, but it's always temp or contract and without benefits and paid time off. I'm talking about people with STEM degrees and experience.

After the last recession, the majority of new jobs in America were, and still are, low paying temp jobs.

Jobs do not grow on trees. There are not infinite positions. Education, training and experience guarantee nothing and recessions put millions of people back to square one.

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Re: They toooock ewre joohbs!!!

"There will always be jobs for people who want to work, even if what people do changes. "

My what a sheltered life you've had.

Tens of millions of biz Dell PCs smacked by privilege-escalation bug in bundled troubleshooting tool

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Re: Biz PC's!

Many companies create a custom image and then have the vendor image the PCs before shipping. Many large companies are also moving over to 3rd party/vendor management of their PC assets.

Yes, that's right, they are letting outside companies remote manage their PCs, which makes sense if you are a very small company. But large companies with millions of dollars of IP assets and thousands of employees? Insanity. And god help you if that vendor is also IBM.

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

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Re: Hairdressers.

Well played!

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Crammed with unmentionables?

What old PC isn't? Or switches for that matter.

I've done many a fix with JUST canned air.

'Windows Vista' spotted doing a whoopsie over EE's signage

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Re: Yikes

That's odd. It's almost like companies don't have competent internal tech support these days.

Yes, that was both sarcasm and rhetorical. I'm seeing insanely low compensation for a really long list of required skills these days. I wonder why they can't find people.

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Re: Why use Windows?

Yeah... no. They are failing regularly. I've just spent the last 2 years "retiring" thousands of old PC, peripherals and XP/Vista/Win 7 that were slow and buggy and VERY unreliable.

Yes. Thousands.

Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee

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This ^^

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

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Stay classy Gitlab!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab

Oh, Y Combinator alumni. I think I see the problem.

Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it

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These days? Where have you been for the last 20 years?

Because Microsoft has always been utter shit is why I became a paid support person.

But for REAL fun, combine Microsoft with IBM support! It defines clusterfuck!

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Re: Of all the timings

Microsoft decided many years ago that the true purpose of a PC is constant fussy maintenance and NOT user productivity.

Not even joking.

I've installed 2 Linux OSs this past week. It's so damn refreshing.

Time to patch your lightbulb? Researchers demonstrate Philips Hue exploit

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The stupid

It burns bright.

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

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Re: Let's....

Well played Shafowgragon. Well played.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

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Re: Highly Reliable (marketing) post exbrit profits

Too damn true.