Posts by dotdavid

"I buttered a bread role"

Is that some kind of recruitment slang for making a job sound better than it really is?

Re: I love Windows - update are never an issue

Truecrypt works fine on Windows 10. Whether or not it's a good idea (in a general security sense) to still use it is still a topic veiled in mystery IMHO.

> I just don't see the point. What do you actually use it for?

I use my MiBand 2 (which I got for a tenner) as a cheap digital watch that has the added benefit of buzzing when my phone rings or gets a message, which means the phone can stay tucked away somewhere. Being a LCD it lights up in the dark which is useful in the dark. It displays the full date. As it syncs with my phone it doesn't need the time setting/updating and remains accurate. The battery lasts for most of a month between charges and I'm generally happy with it. Personally I don't use the fitness features at all, the only thing I'd use that's missing is media controls (stop, play, next track) which is available on newer versions of the device.

Actually there are a lot of benefits of the cheap fitness bands that don't have anything to do with fitness. So much so that actually the extra things a "proper" smartwatch can do above and beyond what my £10 band can do are probably not worth me upgrading for.

Re: .com is for comfiguration?

RFC2606 concerns itself with .localhost, .example, .invalid and .test. Perhaps you mean RFC6762?

Re: And it's based on anecdotes like this...

As a Lancaster graduate, albeit of quite a few years ago now, I can confirm that it only has the one IT department (ISS).

Re: If only...

"Whats so great about Point "A", that so many Prople from Point "B" are so keen to get there"

Given the opportunity I'd spend pretty much all of my time at Point A, but my boss likes me to be at Point B most of the week so I have little choice in the matter.

They TalkTheTalk but don't WalkTheWalk

Re: Typed 'Reboot' where ... ?

He lost his job for a single mistake in two years, I am still a bit angry about that

Indeed, seems a bit of a stupid decision to me, especially as the fired guy is definitely going to be the one person you are certain would never make *that* mistake again.

Re: Great Headline, Register

> Will he stop to pick up hitch-hikers?

Well the hyperspace bypass is still not even under construction AFAIK so there might not be many to pick up yet.

Re: Well it's the first I've heard of it

Well okay, but only if you promise to read up on cybersecurity a bit.

"Given I read articles on the register et al I am not a subscriber to the grass is always greener brigade."

Surely it's better to have x providers all claiming to have installed fibre broadband to your area rather than have to put up with just one provider claiming to have installed fibre broadband to your area?

Re: The Fire Phone flopped in the famously fair but fickle marketplace

Yeah, interestingly the main differentiator between the phone and the tablet was the price; the Fire Phone was horrendously overpriced. Do we need any other reasons for its failure? The tablet sold well and is relatively cheap, despite a lack of Googley ecosystem.

Re: That pledge on prices...

"Hutchison responded that for five years it would not hike up bills for consumers"

Also doesn't guarantee that they'll drop bills for customers if industry-wide costs decreased for whatever reason.

Re: "Some even charge for in-flight entertainment."

I'm honestly surprised that the likes of Ryanair et al haven't spent the money outfitting their aircraft with seatback screens that play adverts constantly at you until you pay to turn them off.

Re: So...

"You need some goggles, two LCD screens, and an accelerometer? And after you've paid six hundred bucks for that, you need to pay twice that to get a computer that can drive it fast enough... amazing what people will spend money on."

Yeah I can't believe that they needed Facebook's money to develop it at all!

On a related note a car is just four wheels, a steering wheel, a few pedals and an engine, why do people spend so much on *those*?

Re: Attention passengers

"There fixed it for you. The Swiss do use 24hr clocks for railway operations unlike the USA."

Why do you assume it wasn't a train at 5:17 AM?

Re: PS/2 Mice

"do you still need to reboot after inserting a PS/2 mouse or keyboard for it to be recognised"

In my experience it would be fine to detach/reattach a PS/2 mouse/keyboard as long as you initially booted with it plugged in, but I don't know how typical that was.

Re: ISP Email

"And I bet despite another service going (Usenet seems to be either dying or closed) my bill won't come down at all."

Virgin Media bills come down in the same way that rocks fall up.

Re: 1280 x 720 on a 5.7" screen?

You find the strangest things funny.

"Anyway, I'd loke to know more about why the talks tanked."

It sounded like a great idea last night but everyone had their doubts the morning after?

> > The free market would have fixed this

> There is one, and it didn't.

Speaking as a capitalist running dog, internet of things security, like automobile safety standards, seem to be winding up as a thing that the free market cannot adequately handle mainly because the average purchaser lacks the expertise to even know that it's a problem. We don't have to be mechanics to have a safe car; we shouldn't have to be networking engineers to have a safe router. I don't see a problem having regulators impose standards in these sorts of situations.

Re: That's the idea silly? (!)

"and then what?"

Shareholders sell, happy with the Shareholder Value they have earned, and skip off into the sunset. No-one but the customers and staff care about the failing business and they're not Key Stakeholders.

Re: RE an unlamented fragment of my past

"where do you want to be in 5 years"

On a beach sipping cocktails enjoying my lottery winnings, I think.

Oh, sorry you wanted me to pretend to *want* to have to go to work? :-)

Re: Unfortunately...

"CompSci's are skilled, just not 'skilled' in the way employer's want, like or need, so there's still a skills gap"

Indeed. Until I joined the "real world" I had very little experience in key business skills like filling out a career development plan that's worth more than the time and effort put into filling it out, learning how to suck up to the right managers and setting SMART objectives that sound terribly important to the business but are nice and easy to achieve with flying colours. A module or two of those sort of things in my compsci course would have gone a long way towards giving my first employers what they appeared to want ;-)

Re: Another EE win?

Still better than when I was with them and they had three impenetrable and awful web sites; one for each brand.

Re: re.Mutti

"It is meant affectionately, i.e. mother of the nation... Mutti der Nation. ;-)"

In Britain we have a Nanny of the nation, perhaps we should call Cameron "grossmutti" ;-)

"The Chamberlain Tower at Birmingham University at 99, 100 or 110m depending on who you talk to"

And presumably how cold it is?

Re: Grrr - so far I've been really happy with my G3

"I've just received the update to Smart Notice."

Me too. I'm glad someone at LG decided that a way to update built-in apps would be a good idea, although I wonder how many people would bother checking their "Update Center" app at all.

Re: To all of you with older phones...

Hmm, never heard about the Barclay's app before. That does seem pretty ridiculous - xposed and rootcloak has always worked for me with other apps like Three's wifi calling one.

Re: "doing "what everyone else was doing at the time""

"Government + outsourcing = even slower progress, even more overspend and later delivery"

In my experience it's "Government + civil service + outsourcing". Oddly enough, adding another organisation to the plus list doesn't make things more agile.

Re: Terminator seeds

"I'm curious to know, why the downvotes?"

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/files/2013/01/10yvf8m.gif