Posts by Bob Vistakin

Re: SpamOS?

This *Windows Mobile" you speak of. Now 99%+ of smartphones run either iOS or Android, would it be helpful to ask Nokia to piss on this burning platform to finally put it out of its misery? It wouldn't take long.

Re: Change, the only constant

There is one thing that stays the same with IBM though, as I first encountered many moons ago whilst holding my nose having been forced to deal with them at BT - they are just the same as all the others offering the same services, but charge 10x more. Backhanders and government contracts (there's no difference) at the highest level are all that keeps them going, so it sounds like the people involved are finally wising up.

Re: Ah, yes the Apple idea

Apple seems to think no-one can remember them apologizing already for this, then apologizing again for apologizing wrong.

Re: Zigwhat?

Those would have been my words exactly - you beat me to it.

Oh, I usually add some microsoft piss take as well but seeing as they're further behind in IoT than mobile there's nothing relevant for me to go at.

Re: The time has come .......

Yeah - President PussyGrabber has the credibility needed to stop all this.

Re: Do no Evil!

You're going to the toilet wrong.

That's this lot.

Re: And this just in ..

Microsoft says buying LinkedIn was the key enabler for Jeremy Corbyn to become Prime Minister, a statue of Kelvin MacKenzie being erected at the Kop and David Cameron being made honorary president of the UK Pig Farmers alliance.

Re: IBM?

Maybe he needs do draw on their experience as he formulates his plans for the Mexicans.

Re: Here's the full list...

And when the tories have fully privatised the NHS it will be the health insurance companies who'll be using it to cherry-pick the most profitable citizens, and vastly inflate or even refuse those who they deem to be not so profitable.

Here's my CV

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/search/?q=bob+vistakin

When do I start?

Re: So they want me to trust an online service with all my passwords?

People really use throw-away hotmail accounts? What on earth for?

Back on topic - check out Password Safe - it addresses all these concerns. The db is encrypted and stored locally, but you can automatically sync via your preferred cloud service *if* you choose (Dropbox support is built in directly), the db never hits their servers, dunno how a limit on users could even be implemented when, as just stated, you can share the db anyway and of course its free and always has been.

This ain't an ad - it's just based on my experience of having to manage zillions of passwords which I have to change quite often.

Re: ... we know mass enterprise adoption is still to come - ?

Correct.

Enterprises are just starting the Windows 8 rollouts. Windows 10 is years away.

VR out of the box - something Apple will start innovating now

Once the Cupertino photocopiers have started up.

And the best judges you can buy in Texas for those retrospective comedy patents.

Dear USPTO

I am writing to you to inform you of a knowing voilation of patent D767,583 describing the ornamental design for a display screen portion with graphical user interface. The violator has placed content on a website using the square areas described in the patent, and cannot argue it was unaware of said patent because it granted it.

As of writing, this site is still online at USPTO but once word spreads of such a willful violation it might not be for long.

Yours

Whistleblowin' Bob Vistakin

Re: Nothing to see it will be sorted

'Splain that to the hospitals, fire departments, police forces, airports, government bodies etc. Or is the best advice they just wise up and avoid all this shit all together?

I heard word Hurds turd erred and blocked the John it was so large.

Let's boycott

Comodo

I only have 2 of their certs left now, registered last year before their Apple style delusions of grandeur kicked in. Until they expire that is, then they are no more.

iPhone7 - pay more, get less

Same as an iPhone6 but with a smaller screen and the headphone jack removed.

You can only buy headphones that work with it from, err, Apple, for $159.

That's thinking fucking different all right.

You're applying for it wrong

Other media outlet take note - kiss Apple butt or become little people.

Never mind, the way things are heading it won't be a problem for long.

Keith Vaz is about to have ample time on his hands.

Re: The American Dream

IBM was a strange beast. Its products and services were no different to any others apart from the typically 10x higher prices they charged. How did they stay in business? Well, it was always the top corporates executives and governments they cozied up to. Very,very cozily indeed, if you get my drift. Lots of 2 week conferences in Bermuda, where the execs families were invited too for the half day spent watching powerpoints, that sort of thing. Not a sustainable business at all - once rumbled, never repeated..