Posts by TonyJ

Re: 3000m

"...Bang goes my dream of another scuba site :(.."

My thoughts exactly :(

Especially as the more reachable wrecks become less viable due to the elements and wear and tear (divers with crap buoyancy control etc, touching and grabbing what they shouldn't :( )

Re: Optional

..."Well I suppose it depends on whether they're trying to patent ridiculous crud like rounded corners."

How many fucking times...

Well check my posts, you rude prick because it's the first time I've mentioned it, personally, so you've told me precisely zero times. Mind you I'd give you zero credence given your language.

..."I'm too fed up to tell you why you are so wrong bringing this up (YET AGAIN!)..."

But don't let that stop you anyway. You must be American with that grasp of irony. Or thick, as well as rude.

This isn't something such as a coke bottle that is immediately recognisable as a uniquely identifiable object specific to a brand - take a look at things like Compaq iPaqs as one example of prior art that existed way before iPhones.

Nor is it about who won or not - it's about common sense you ignoramus

Re: PMSL

@psychonaut - well not sure why you got the downvote for asking a question, but hey ho.

I ran owncloud for a while but switched to seafile. For some reason, at random I'd get data corruption on owncloud and could never track down why.

But also seafile can do delta based synch whereas owncloud was always a full file copy if part of it changed - that may have changed since I last used it but it was on their support site back then as being something they had no plans to integrate.

Re: ESN

"...They are going to have to be faster at fixing things when the emergency services are using them exclusively..."

And at communicating them!

Not an assault weapon?

Really?

You may want to check various dictionaries:

"assault rifle"

noun

a lightweight rifle developed from the sub-machine gun, which may be set to fire automatically or semi-automatically.

An assault weapon / assault rifle is defined by far more than its rate of fire.

e.g. it should be short enough barelled to minimise the arc of travel whilst remaining long enough to ensure a relatively high round velocity. It should have a removable magazine etc etc. Twisting language to selectively pick apart facts is just another failure to comprehend.

Re: FTMV (fiber to moving vehicle)

"...Think trams...."

Thank you...I now have the image of a 999 call in progress

"...ok and if you could now just drag them to your nearest stop..the address is...."

Come back to laptop after 10 - 15 minutes the USB drives plugged into it aren't seen by Windows any more. Unplug and plug back in and as is well.

Check device manager.

Probably has the little "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" box checked, under the Power Management tab.

Re: The big question

"...Is about the role. Was it managerial and compensated as such, or was it just rated as managerial to avoid paying overtime?..."

You just reminded me of something else - I had a job for a large manufacturing company almost 20 years ago.

The salary and benefits (what few there were) was all agreed in the interviews.

When I got the contract to sign, the salary was 50 pence a year over the agreed amount.

I gave them a call to query it just in case (I was still fairly young and naive and had worries about things like would it change my tax rate or anything silly) and was told by their HR robot that it was just how their grading system worked and it's the salary band I fell into.

Fair enough I thought.

Except it turns out that 50p was quite important because it put me over the threshold whereby they stopped paying overtime...and it was quite a common practice they had going on.

Had they been up front, open and honest about it beforehand I'd have most likely accepted it for what it was as it was a job I really wanted but because they did it in such an underhanded fashion, I refused to do any overtime for the two years I worked there.

I'd forgotten that little gem til just now.

Re: The path to hell

"...is paved with good intentions..."

What good intentions?

"...Malicious cyber?

Is that when the other person doesn't tell you their A/S/L?..."

Showing our your age there! ;-)

Re: Oh that's just great

"...Our 'usual suspects' will once again prove that anything that is built can be 'mis-used' in 'interesting' ways and 'new' vulnerabilities will be found !!!.."

As E.E. 'Doc' Smith put it in the Lensmen books:

"Anything that science can devise, science can analyse and synthesise"

Re: Salary isn't just a number

"...Well done you for learnings a life lesson, are you 12 years old or something...."

That all you have to say on it? Some pointlessly inane dig made (of course) anonymously.

You do realise that the majority of people tend to work close to where they grew up? Likewise they tend to make lives for themselves there so if that happens to be somewhere were the cost of living is high they tend to just get on with it and accept it as being one of the facts of life.

I was once offered the chance to move to the Southeast of England - my employer offered a decent uptick in salary along with offering to pay for certain essentials to help the move.

But when I did the maths - even with the salary lift I'd have had to downsize my home and I live on the edge of a national forest with access to both the A1 and M1 within less than 30 minutes of each. With trains I can be in London in less than two hours should the need arise.

So having thought about it all I chose not to make the move.

That make me 12 as well??

Re: Meh

"...Man-in-the-middle malware attacks..."

Except, when you work at many places using Bluecoat et al, they are MITM appliances.

Amazing how many tech folks still don't get that concept.

Re: What's the deal with firmware updates?

"..Do you have to sign up for a support agreement?.."

Not under warranty.

Register the device and you get access for the duration

Re: Yet more contentless studies by academic hot air balloons?

The real world shows that engineering and abstract thinking is an occupation best left to the male brain. Other "brain-involving" occupations may show balanced or reversed ratios, it completely depends.

And it's a pretty well known fact that the way STEM subjects are generally taught from the earliest ages of childhood tend towards putting girls and women off. Perhaps, just maybe, if this were addressed as well as some of the rampantly stagnant sexist views that are clear in such industries, we'd see more women in them.

I don't know how LGBTUIOP brains would work, and I don't particulary care.

So...your sexuality changes your ability to think/do these jobs? Really?

As for brawn - yeah, the real world also shows things about that, in spite of gurrrll power propagandists telling whoever is ready to listen that women are excellent for firefighting, policing in diverse neighborhoods or military frontline duty (the last one is utterly retarded in more ways in one; also - want children? stay out of toxic industrial environments, lady!)

Seriously? I think the 1940's called and they'd like their ideas on sexual equality back.

Are you honestly claiming that women can't/shouldn't be able to choose careers in these fields? I know plenty of women who could kick the arses of, are fitter than and in many ways "better" than men. If you took your head out from your own posterior occasionally, you might notice them too.

Re: Hmmm....

"...The porch then provides cover for someone to attack the inner door by conventional means...."

Ah probably should've pointed out you can see right into it as the glass isn't frosted :)

Re: just to it

"...Well, if you're forcing me to use MSAwful, I wouldn't want to be working for YOU either..."

We're on the same page.

I prefer to work with adults, not children who post stupid comments like that (anonymously of course) rather than accept basic truths such as the simplest that the vast majority of major business run mixes of systems chosen to fulfil the necessary function. That will inevitably be a mix of *nix and various flavours of Linux. It also pretty much inevitable they're going to run Microsoft software.

I absolutely love how so many espouse the freedom of choice. But not if that choice happens not to fall into line with their own narrow view of what is acceptable.

You realise this is how religions work right? Freedom to choose any you like but only this one is the right one...

Laughable.

And sure - downvote away but at least I have the courage to not post shit anonymously.

You make some good points there, Lost all faiith...

Throw in the inevitable extended journey to get to the town, where in our case, the parking is expensive in small bays.

The local council has all but killed the market due to increasing rents to unsustainable levels and to be honest, I'd much prefer not to be in a place where it seems like every third shop is either a charity store one selling random cheap clothing and "jewellery" or a pound tat emporium.

I can browse from my home, in comfort and read reviews etc before I commit to buying stuff.

It also tends to mean, as someone who mostly works away in the week, that I can actually spend my weekends being a dad to my kids and a husband to my wife.

Re: Petty Speeding

There's a stretch of road near my home that's had several fatal crashes in the last 18 months.

Despite lowering the speed limit to 50, it continues to happen.

So...for stretches like this, if the only way to save lives is to have cameras, so be it.

But how about more box junction cameras? The number of stupid, unobservant or simply selfish drivers that sit blocking junctions and adding to traffic problems is ridiculous.

"...Back in the 8-bit days of 64kB of RAM and no HDD, programmers learned to make neat and optimised code to work within the constraints. As memory increased, these skills withered and atrophied..."

I remember reading an article back in the day about the guy who was tasked with converting Sim City from the Amiga to the humble BBC.

Apparently, there was one routine in the Amiga that used considerably more memory than was wholly available on the Beeb.

And yet (apart from graphically of course), he pretty much nailed it with a like-for-like reproduction.

At college I had to learn to program in assembly - in hex - on "development boards" with <8KB RAM so it was imperative that anything you tried to do was neat.

Mind you I was never very good at it myself but some of the others there had a natural gift for it that was staggering.

Re: anti-collision

@John Arthur. I hit a lamp post last year. Slow (waking speed impact) - it managed to be in both my visual (turned head AND mirrors) and parking sensor blindspots.

It mashed the back quarter of the motor up unbelievably. Thank god I was going so slow.

Re: The CC error

It staggers me that so many people still don't realise there is something called MailTips built into Exchange that can do this kind of thing.

Since 2009!

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2009/04/28/introducing-mailtips/

They can even be customised so there really is no excuse where Exchange and Outlook are in use.

Of course...that doesn't prevent someone sending them out in a badly written script.

Re: American democracy

"...Is it time to get the Brits in to run the place again?..."

Thanks for the vote of confidence but really...we can't run our own country properly right now.

Re: ADMX files or go home.

1. Firefox is a cross-platform browser.

> Yes indeed but most corporations run Windows clients connected to an AD and it would be nice to have native controls from the actual software vendor

2. It is not a particularly onerous task to integrate policy files with / into your LDAP system, whatever schemata you use.

> It really is. First you have to know which files to target, as FF uses quite the mix to configure your settings. Then you have the massive issue of how do you actually target the correct FF user profile, since when you create a new one, it creates a randomised folder name to drop them it.

3. One gets the impression you are whingeing about something you do not have to pay for and likely were not going to use anyway.

> Well it wasn't me whinging but it's nice to have choice. Not everyone wants to use IE, Edge or Chrome but these are the browsers you are limited to right now if you want to manage via GPO. And trust me - I had to deliver FF into a high secure gov environment last year. It's a PITA

4. https://github.com/n8felton/Firefox-ADMX

> Yep not bad but in some environments such as the one above you have to be able to have full transparency of all software and add-ons. That's being able to trace right back to whom and where they originate from etc and that's not always easy.

Plus you run the risk of a new version of FF breaking third party tools (same as anything).

It was only recently that FF included the ability to utilise the Windows certificate store on a client machine. Before that, you had to package every certificate you wanted into FF (again, CCK2 becomes a godsend here) but then if you change one of them, you had to repackage it and then blow away users' FF profiles...so all their personalisations would be lost.

Ultimately, FF is simply not enterprise ready. Nor would I ever expect it to be.

Re: Android

Re: Android

"Cheaper - worryingly so in some cases"

Worrying for whom? If you can't afford £1,000 for a top-of-the-line iPhone or £700ish for a top of the line Android (or you have more sense than money) then why not buy cheaper? If you don't need or want the latest 'features', again why not buy cheaper? Not everyone is dumb enough to buy into the annual "upgrade" mania.

"faster - maybe, for the first month or two, but degrades over time and, ime, ends up unresponsive"

Hahaha...really? I've either kept or passed on all of my Android phones for years and whilst none of us are into playing games etc on them, they've remained pretty much as fast as when bought with a little care and attention - even after the (admittedly few, in most cases) OS upgrades are applied. Apple...slowed down some of their older phones in the background because of battery wear. Or openly admit that newer OS versions will be feature limited and/or slow on older kit. So really horses, for courses, eh?

"fuck rounded corners - oh, I see, still upset by Apple vs Samsung......"

hmmm...'kay. You're holding it wrong.

That said I just looked around the office and funnily enough every handset in view has rounded corners...go figure. Who knew that lawyers are not like most other people?

I suspect the view from up on your soap box is a little low on the details. Perhaps climb down and take a look around occasionally?