Posts by Bodestone

So often I have had pages not een load due to timrout to the midclicj ad server, I never see the add but every google search link goes through an ad server we never see

Interactions are definitely a possible problem

If authorities get access then can you imagine the police knocking on your door asking if you knew Dave who knew Tna who went out with a suicide bomber in 2022?

Guilt, or even the right to be interrogated by association cannot be allowed to expand. to a digital model based on social media data. At least not without review and regulation on how it is applied. I can see cases where solid evidence may lead to an investigation of contacts of known criminals, but on their own connection history, at the time, not using metadata as a predictive map.

I like the approach taken in some ways but my corners are still square

Customisation and taskbar features have been stripped to the bone and I think this is a good thing as they have been accumulating and getting ever more cluttered since '95.

It's far easier to get feedback on what people really want back. No-one is going to ad feedback saying they want options they have been ignoring for years to be removed.

The feedback I have seen has, on the whole, been constructive in this respect and some has been acted on, as already as mentioned.

On the rounded corners though, I have none on my Hyper-V instance except for the start menu and clock which are custom widgety things. All standard windows have square corners and I am up to date.

I have read posts that say you need new GFX drivers or need to enable hardware acceleration to get them but if rounded corners are such a big selling point then they need to be standard from the ground up on any platform that meets the Win11 requirements (mine does). You can't have a basic OS visual experience that varies between certain hardware or settings. It's just not consistant.

Also, what is wrong with right angled corners? My monitor has them anyway. Am I supposed to see a small cutout of my desktop at each corner when windows are maximised or will rounded corners only apply to normalised windows, another inconsistancy? Will Microsoft start selling monitors with rounded corners?

Maybe they cann add a £1500 rounded stand.

That aside, and the fact that this is not really a new version but the largest w10 feature update yet, I don't feel the hate that so many do. The start menu is finally clean (once you can turn off the reccomended part). I guess my first point about the feature/customisation pruning, and that it really is a very early dev release full of flaws has led to that level of bile but these things are address by constructive feedback, not instant hatred.

Go look at the feedback hub (which has its own issues) and see the top rated feedback. Likely most of them will address the things you are most uncomfortable with. Vote them up.

I was also able to add information on a few bugs (such as the remote desktop toggle not working in the settings module (as opposed to the old system settings) by following the quests to explore the funtionality.

Additionally, the VM was initially running on spinning rust and I could hear the lack of drive hammering in 11 compared to 10.

Re: Need to really P!$$ them off so they go elsewhere

I notice we've tripped a UK billion: 412,426 go to Team Folding Vultures's total of 1,003,224,566

I've only switched to the Vultures since the post lockdown news.

I writ it on a bit of paper

I'll say no more.

Just got my notification from Flipboard

Terrible lag time on respose to users. OK, others may have been worse but it's still not acceptable.

Hmmm which bacon?

https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/12/17/bacon_vending_machine_students.jpg

HSBC have been having issues for a while. My creadentioals for the app were wiped out on the 17th of this month.

I escalated my call and 40 minutes and a complete online credential reset later it was back.

They offered me £15 for the inconvenience so of course I was immediately suspicious it was part of a larger issue.

I've seen that a few times at the wee Tesco I pop into now and then.

Apparently trying to use certain flavours of US credit card forces a reboot.

Pebble don't always listen

Otherwise there would be automatic updates for watchfaces and apps.

Otherwise have to love it. Still going strong with 5-7 days between charges on my kickstarter edition.

I too like the simplicity of design with the original. It's a nice mix of retro low tech high tech.

USB's not the only thing

Update killed the Realtech NIC on my HP laptop. Seems many have had the issue.

Claims there is not enough information from the chipset or BIOS to use the device. No driver updates yet.

Just glad it was a lappy and not a desktop as I have wi-fi as a failover.

Never again

I just had to buy a cheap emergency lappy and the best spec I could get from the only shop on the way home, PC World, was an HP.

They set their recovery partition as a visible D drive and remove all ability to delete it. They provide no physical recovery media. I need a D drive for a standardised environment.

Their support is 5p a minute with half hour waiting times.

There was no way I was waiting so had to put the BIOS in legacy mode so I could boot into Parted Magic and re-partition.

Why on earth would you make your recover partition a visible windows drive letter.?

Mouse-over..

If the software behind the proximity works the same as the note range then hover is supported with the built in browser. I use hover menus all the time via the stylus on my Note 2. It is exceedingly useful.

It's great to see this extended to the finger if, as stated, if it works well and is accurate.

I do turn off a lot of the eye tracking stuff on my phone as it is not overly useful for me. That's not to say it wouldn't be for some however. My colleague finds the prevention of screen time out really useful for reading articles on the bus.

Has anyone else noticed...

That 2012 DA14 seems to pick something up on it's way past? Center screen on the animated image.

Says it all

http://stuff.bodestone.net/USB_timespace.png

They've even stopped using 6 dimentional physics

Unfortunately they have fixed this as well but meters to the 6?

http://blog.ergatides.com/2012/03/12/stick-of-butter-half-cup-according-to-google/

"Working at our company is tough. It calls for someone who can take the pain and suffering."

I wonder how many applicants they would get if that was part of the job advertisement.

Is it Verified by Visa?

That has a very specific 8-12 characters for the password.

Every single time I am forced to re-generate a password because I can't remember the last one and therefore have to enter all my identifying information in all over again. I'm assuming other people write them down and keep them with the credit card.

Way to increase security.

I have blacked out most of the details

Really, the worst 2 hours on the phone I have spent was trying to talk someone not overly technically literate through mail merging over the phone. When I say not overly technically literate I mean that I had to explain which bits of the screen and program were which.

I'd not used MS Word mail merge functionality for a couple of years so was re-learning on the go.

The worst part though was that I only had access to office 2003. She had office 2007 and I had never seen it before.

The funniest tech incident was relatively recent.

A farmer who needed to send us photographic evidence was savy enough to have used a camera phone to take his pictures. His know-how ended there and he then popped the phone in a jiffy bag and posted it to us.

He'd not bothered with any cables either and all the ports were proprietary but luckily it was new enough to have bluetooth and was not locked. The office was giggling all morning.

because every computer has Bluetooth these days?

Most but not all portables do. Almost no desktops do out of the box.

If my memory fails me...

I still actually have my BBC Basic user guide.

Where was that article on hoarding again?

Hmmm

"As it stands, Ofcom's rules state that mobile, phone and broadband providers have to give their customers a minimum of one month's notice regarding any major change to contractual terms. Subscribers can then cut loose from the contract without being stung with a penalty for walking away early. "

So, if a mobile provider informs you it is raising prices you can end the contract without paying the fee?

That is interesting. Especially if they do it a couple of months into a contract you just got a really expensive phone with.

Amazon

You've just bought a TV, how about this one, or this one, or this one...

For the last time "Noooooooo". I have one now you see...

You can report the numbers

http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/marketing.aspx

Just click on Report your concerns.

You don't even have to supply any personal information if you don't want to.

I report all of the texts I get.

I want

Right click, view in http://longurl.org/

Also for tinyurl and bit.ly to disallow using data URIs

Hint indeed

I agree. I never bother with the hint, though I suppose if you had a password locker on your phone that had an ID field you could hint 1, 2, 3 etc.

I just use moomins.

Then again, I worked for a company that provided a service for IBM so we had to have annual security reviews. Mine was one of 2 passwords the consultant could not get after a 3 day brute force from within the domain.

I can't use the one I had at Uni any more because of these restrictions that you must have numbers and letters and or mixed case etc. Well, I could but they also say between X and Y characters and "yellow flavoured doors" is a bit outside the max length of most.

Norman

Just because.