Posts by Adze

"UK's #1 toady bum kisser"

Number two, surely. Definitely a "jobbie", either way.

Re: F-35 is about jobs

Just one drone would probably do it, if designed specifically for the purpose. The trouble with lugging meat about up there is how squishy it is, 9 or 10G in a snap over perhaps, but less in a tight turn. Take the meat out of the aircraft and it will be capable of performance which would mince a human pilot inside their G suit.

Re: Whoops!

Barclays have a reasonable 2fa system. This is not a recommendation for Barclays as a bank, nor does it constitute financial advice.

Re: personal information is the aim

How do you make an offline backup in real time?

Re: This is why I've still not bought a personal/home O365 sub.

Some clients of mine with differing use cases of productivity software spring to mind.

Client one, had MS Office 2003 and 2007 in a mixed environment, installed on Windows 7 boxes with a Windows SBS2008 server and used only three products, Outlook, Excel and Word. They upgraded both 2003 and 2007 office installs to MS Office 2013 Home and Business as, at the time we were told a site license was unavailable for fewer than 100 seats. Total cost was just shy of £5k and they'll continue using it for a minimum of 5 years. Projected cost of O365 for the same period assuming no price rises ~ £7500. Saving from not using O365 ~ £2,500

Client two, had MS Office 2003 exclusively, installed on Windows XP boxes with a 2003 SBS server. Their usage included basic spreadsheets and text documents only. They upgraded the SBS to Server Essentials 2012 on their existing hardware, the workstations to Win 7 Pro and switched to LibreOffice and Thunderbird. The workstations they had to upgrade anyway, the server software was £300 or so and the cost to upgrade office was £0.00, projected cost of O365, just shy of £3k over a 5 year period. Saving from not using O365 ~ £3k call it £2.7k if we factor in the SE2012 instead of using OneDrive.

Client three, MS Office 2003 on Windows 7 machines but they're fixated on MS Publisher and have MS Access database requirements. Cost to upgrade to Office Standard and purchase additional Access licenses where required almost £5k, cost for O365 more like £3k. Saving by using O365 ~ £2k

There are savings to be made with O365... if your use case lends itself to it. On the whole, not so much for small businesses.

Re: Threats?

The e-mail came from support, not from customer services. It's not impossible the question "Was that milk and two sugars?" would also be seen as a threat.

Re: So giving them your phone number makes you less secure ?

If the phone gives full access, or at least access sufficient to steal money from the account, then it's 2FA in name only and '1FA' in practice.

Surely, gentlemen, ladies...

...the light at the end of this particularly dank and noxious tunnel, really should be an oncoming train.

Re: Why...

Upvote for Pratchett reference.

Re: 10x illegal

"Ground based lasers will be harder to avoid"

Use their weapons against them and deploy said drone with tinfoil armour? It's the ultimate anti-government armour cladding after all.

Re: Tasty Morsel

There could be a weird Wellsian backflip that occurs there, where a relatively benign bacterium from Earth carried by one of our own probes, learns new tricks from some nasty corrosive environment, flickknife wielding Martian bacteria and turns into the thing which prevents human colonization of Mars, much as the 'common cold' did for the Martians in War of the Worlds.

Re: I'm confused

Maybe it was an initialization? Bok - Bring own kangaroo? Buy our kar? Maybe it's Better off hitching and it's really a lower case h and not a k at all! The possibilities, while far from endless, are huge!

Re: Security Alert!

BBQ - most people have one and charcoal burns nice and hot provided its given sufficient air ;)

Re: Not so vulnerable...

For balance, check how much HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, a pair of cruisers and the best part of a squadron of destroyers dealt to Bismarck before rendering it unable to fight back.

Modern, for the time, battleships were significantly better armoured than the, even refitted, Hood.

EDIT: Pertinent bit from Thickipedia added; "The four British ships fired more than 2,800 shells at Bismarck, and scored more than 400 hits, but were unable to sink Bismarck by gunfire"

Re: Apples values.

Well, I assume you'd want your nice new vibrating touchpad to work? ;)

Yes, oh... oh... OH! YES YES YES!... sigh... I love you Macbook.

No it's not... Birmingham has a screwdriver though, several in fact, which largely explains why Land Rover shut lines aren't pebble tight, let alone water tight.

Probably... if they didn't have to do anything more than "Monkey see app, monkey press app, monkey like app, monkey rate app 3 stars, would have been 5 if free"

For the supersimian, OpenVPN is still free if memory serves and has a free Android & IOS app - choose your OpenVPN host and attendent proxy and, while I can't burden this with any proof, your UIDH worries could well be over.

Re: Hang on

Just possibly Sony is the smokescreen Andyb@85... make lots of noise about an obvious target while stealing a quiet march on someone else while the World watches the theatre. As you say, an always fluid warzone, with as many mirrors and as much smoke as you care to code.

Re: IMHO...

"Only a sith deals in absolutes" - Obi Wan Kenobi, a long time ago.

Re: Love Story Told in Linux Commands

There's a T-shirt with something similar on it:

who girl; look; talk; date; strip; touch; unzip; finger; head; mount; uptime; fsck; more; fsck; more; yes; yes; more; umount; make clean; sleep

Re; "Due to his pledge of chastity..."

Surely there's a one word explanation... choirboys.

Because...

...IT companies are, by and large, run by business people not techies.