* Posts by TheVogon

3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013

We experienced Windows Mixed Reality. Results: Well, mixed

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Re: Doomed to fail (again)

"3 separate platforms have tried to launch VR platforms in the last few years and they've all flopped."

Sony's PSVR has sold over 1 million headsets, and Occulous Rift a few hundred thousand - I wouldn't call that a flop for such early and niche products.

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"Ultra is for a gamer, and all the launch headsets are Ultra. It requires a dedicated GPU and right now we are saying an Nvidia GTX 970 or better,”"

So at least the GPU on the Xbox One X (which at 6 TFlops is roughly equivalent to GTX1070 but with greater memory bandwidth) should be able to cope. So the main question is it's "fully custom CPU design" up to the task?

Bitcoin Foundation wants US Department of Justice investigated

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Re: Bitcoin is a criminal fraud created by bankers...

"Bitcoin is a criminal fraud created by bankers."

Erm, but surely the creation of Bitcoin had nothing whatsoever to do with bankers?!

Microsoft sets the date for Fall Creators Update

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Re: This is a UK site

"So how about using British English"

You mean so how about using English. It needs no qualification as it's the original. It's English vs US English ditto Football vs American Football, etc. etc.

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Re: Will this turn out to be

I have been testing this and it's been fairly bug free even in early development builds. My system just installed Windows 10 Insider Preview 16281.1000 (rs3_release) today.

imo the original RTM of Windows 10 was a bit shoddy and was rushed out of the door. Everything since has been pretty good.

Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller

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Re: I'm touched by the weirdness of this request...

That's a pretty good way of deleting your browser history I guess...

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I bet VOGON could still get data off them!

The company not the alien obviously....

Google slaps a suit on beefed up Chrome OS, offers Enterprise version for business

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Re: Competition

"Google G Suite has DLP across all of their apps. Added it a year or two ago. Likewise with ATP."

Nope, you can't control what someone does with a local copy of a document. Google Apps simply doesn't have that functionality. As above all you can do is set ACL controls on viewing an online copy via Googles website which is not the same thing at all.

Fujitsu's Australian cloud suffers storage crash, outage

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Re: "a major Australian financial institution", "the VMs cannot be recovered"

"this isn't "Cloud" its hosted virtualisation - not even close ......"

So private cloud then. Pretty close...

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Re: "a major Australian financial institution", "the VMs cannot be recovered"

"Companies will go down because of this."

Quite. Have you seen what IT service providers pay for technicians to run their stacks? They must be filtering off the dregs from the bottom of the pile...

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

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"It's well know all El Reg readers are running Linux!"

Yep, Ubuntu from the Windows 10 Store here!

Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won't patch

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Re: re: All these years of feature creep and Foxit still cannot send email?

"When systemd incorporates PDF reader features, Foxit days are numbered"

Surely you mean then "Systemd days are numbered" ?

wft has PDF reader functionality got to do with a system init solution?!

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Re: Suggestions for replacement?

"We know, Edge works as a PDF viewer. Keep up old chap!"

I second that as an option. It's fast and works correctly including printing complex documents.

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Re: Suggestions for replacement?

"I've been using Foxit for a while now, and well frankly it is shit. "

So way better than Adobe's PDF Reader then,,,,

Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice

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Re: If Jules Verne has taught us anything

"these so called volcano will be full of dinosaurs"

Thetans surely?

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Re: Skepticalscience?

" Skepticalscience?

Yeah Right. About as factual as The Alex Jones Channel."

That's a site generally accepted as being scientifically accurate based on established scientific data and widely accepted theories.

Here is a more upside but less certain article on volcanic CO2 levels. Note that even worse case, it's still a tiny fraction of human CO2 output:

https://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html

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Re: "Volcanic CO2" by Timothy Casey at Geology-1011

"Variable volcanism and solar output controls climate...."

At times. But not at the moment....Solar output has declined but temperatures are rising.

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Re: Ocean ridges

"The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo actually caused global cooling. Nothing to do with CO2."

It's generally caused by Sulphur particles in the atmosphere. It's a known temporary side effect of very large eruptions.

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Re: Interesting...

"If there is heat down there then I wonder if there's any liquid water."

There doesn't need to be that much heat for water at extreme pressures... They have already found bacteria in similar under ice lakes,

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Re: Interesting...

"they are probably massive carbon eaters"

Well except that CO2 is very stable so doesn't react with much. And when it does react it tends to make acidic compounds...

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Re: People who think humans can't change the climate should study the history of CFC's

"And watching the recovery from it. "

Unfortunately the natural recovery from CO2 will likely take a bit longer. On the scale of a few thousand years...

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Re: Interesting...

"There's probably not a source of oxygen, so the life down there is probably extremophiles like those found in deep sea vents."

Life can survive on methane too...

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Re: Ocean ridges

"I suspect most of the world's volcanoes lie along the ocean ridges; pumping out carbon dioxide into the oceans on a greater scale than men burning coal and oil."

We already know roughly how much CO2 they contribute and it's in general much less than us. A very large eruption can briefly make a notable contribution but overall it's insignificant compared to what we do....

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Re: Ocean ridges

"As far as I can recall, one big global event such as a massive erruption which pollutes the stratosphere is likely to dwarf our puny efforts in the short term."

In the short term, yes. And we are then talking about vast eruptions, not your average event.

London cops urged to scrap use of 'biased' facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

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"As an aside I don't think you can really group "African Caribbean" together."

I think it's not unreasonable for image recognition purposes....

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"say that there is an "unacceptable" risk that the use of the tech could lead to discriminatory policing at the event."

So "discriminating" against people because they are not supposed to be there or are wanted by the police is now a problem?!

"matching accuracies are lower on certain cohorts of people: women, black people, and those aged 18-30."

Ah, so presumably they are worried about "discrimination" against older white men?!

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

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Re: breakout fitting

"Nestle's chocolate does taste like bricks."

Still way better than that putrid American Hersheys chocolate that smells of vomit.... Cadburys ftw in milk chocolate....

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Re: Next to Microsoft and Oracle, Nestle are now practically emissaries of Jesus

""are at best indirectly responsible for the deaths of babies in developing countries""

Exactly. At best...

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

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Re: Global warming

"Fake news"

I hope that is sarcasm rather than ignorance?

"and from an illegal alien."

Not according to the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council...

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"This is one of the huge problems with Global Warming. Since Florida is going to be one of the worst affected in the US"

Don't forget to make clear that it is anthropogenic global warming. Apparently there are still a few in the US that haven't watched the news for over a decade and think it's something natural!

No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court

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Re: Mess

"you can't repeatedly state that you have the best legal system in the world (citation needed)"

http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/33454/3/Darbyshire-P-33454.pdf

https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/about-us/press-releases/061108.pdf

etc. etc. etc.

Official: Windows for Workstations returns in Fall Creators Update

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Re: Windows 10 is currently getting on my nerves

"Tried those no difference unfortunately."

Then you need to look at the crash dumps and see what was causing the problem. Most likely it's not Windows itself.

See https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2082-install-configure-windbg-bsod-analysis.html

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Re: What about auto-updates?

"Why not help us instead of appearing be a knowit all. How did you get your systems to NOT update like the rest of us are experiencing"

Goto Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Change Active Hours

And set say 7:00am-1:00am

And then W10 wont ever install updates during that period...

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Re: 4 CPU's - That's a lot!

"I doubt these guys need Excel "

In say trading environments Excel often needs to do significant number and data crunching...

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Re: Windows 10 is currently getting on my nerves

"But the 7 PCs just keep working reliably."

The issue you have is not normal / common. In general W10 is more robust than W7...

Suggest trying the following in order

CHKDSK /F /R

(reboot)

SFC /scannow

DISM /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth

TheVogon

Re: Windows 10 is currently getting on my nerves

"10 locks up a few times a day, something to do with NTDLL.DLL"

If by lock up, you mean Explorer hangs or crashes there are 2 likely causes I know of:. 1) You have a network drive mapped with a path length of over 260 characters, if so unmap it, or 2) you have previously had one mapped.

If it might be 2, try this: File Explorer > View > Options > Change Folder and search options > Privacy >Clear File Explorer History

Also check your graphics driver is up to date. Especially if it's from Nvidia...

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Re: Does it still have 2D FLATSO, SPYWARE, ADWARE ???

"I believe any device connected to the internet should forcibly update itself."

As a default setting, absolutely. As a forced setting, not so much.

Sometimes it's not such a good idea: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/lockstate_bricks_smart_locks_with_dumb_firmware_upgrade

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Re: What about auto-updates?

"At work, we were in a meeting on Skype business with people presenting and all the windows 10 machines started rebooting one by one with people getting kicked out of the meeting. "

In an enterprise / work situation that's fully controllable. Blame your IT team.

Decapitating Rockall: How a 1970s Navy expedition blasted the top off the Atlantic islet

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"After BREXIT the Spanish expect to annex Gibraltar."

They can expect whatever they like. It's not going to happen.

Love cloudy HPC? Microsoft does, slurps Cycle Computing

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Re: Well MS bought Skype for 8.5 billion

Microsoft finally overtook AWS in cloud revenue last quarter so I am sure they can afford it...

Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack

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Re: Holyrood

"my brain first reads "Hollywood"."

Hollywood for ugly people that don't speak English well...

Kremlin's hackers 'wield stolen NSA exploit to spy on hotel guests in Europe, Mid East'

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Re: Opening document files

"Yes it does. DOCX cannot contain macros, DOCM can contain macros."

My bad - you are correct - it was saving macros to the normal template when I tested...

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Re: Opening document files

"How?"

By creating a Macro? Docx has no restrictions on content types.

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Re: Opening document files

"A .docx file should be less risky, as it does not contain macros"

Yes it can.

What's your point, caller? Oracle fiddles with major database release cycle numbers

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Re: Semantic Versioning

"The approach puts Oracle only about 20 years behind Microsoft in adopting a year-based naming convention "

I make it about 1998 years...

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

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Re: TheVogon

At a guess, that's probably because U-block origin already blocks this...

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Re: Hey Instart

"How is that not a breach of the computer misuse act and/or the data protection act?"

Because they don't apply to Americans?

China can't find anyone smart enough to run its whizzbang $180m 1,640ft radio telescope

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Re: I would do it...

"You mean like paper, the magnetic compass and so on I assume?"

No I mean like say high speed electric train technology, countless military innovations, solar power technology, and nuclear power plant technology as a few cases we know for certain...