Posts by TheBBG

Yawn. More bloatware and yet another set of new problems to work around. This has never happened before, surely it hasn't!

The arrogance is astounding. Take it to the shop? If you use public transit or have a small car how do you do that, not counting the inconvenience? Is Samsung paying for a courier?

A salesman stated that his storage facility was 100% safe and no data could ever be lost. I asked him if his company would sign a contract giving 'me' total ownership if we signed up and subsequently lost any data. Never heard from him again :D

It is small, fast, definitely suits the more techie mindset, but is buggy as hell.

I have myriad first line web sites I visit where only Firefox has problems, from simple display of content without going non responsive to non-functional chat services. Frankly I am tired feeding the almost endless list of web sites to the developers. Reresh made no difference so it is Firefox not an add-on. I tried Opera for its built-in VPN, but it is slow and clunky and lacks a lot of what I love about Firefox such as remembering which directory I store from which web sites. Chrome? Too "hip" and magical with much happening under the covers. Maybe I should give in and use Edge? (Just kidding).

Business as Usual in Australia

Another fine example where the welfare of Austrian workers is secondary to partisan wrangling and unchecked bureaucracy and the absence of laws with teeth protecting anyone about anything.

Many Australians are not getting their super contributions and nobody in the coalition government gives a rats, and the self entitled who don't make their payment generally laugh all the way to their own retirement.

Yet this person has not been sacked for her detachment from reality and inability to manage. Why?

Priceless Incompetence

My address is supposed to get NBN "Jan-Mar 2017" but it is in the planning stage with no details. Sure it will be engineered, installed, and turned on within 3 months. As sure as Tony will become PM again. Ooops, should not suggest that even in jest.

Precious. Powershell's Update-help had an error and failed to do anything, everything, or something. The outcome of what it did or did not do was not clear. Microsoft at its finest.

Same Old

This is the same reason credit cards are not better secured. A few hundred million dollars a year to write off fraud is not only less costly than doing security right, it is also a corporate tax deduction.

Rubbish

8.1 downloaded (and downloaded and downloaded) and Installed fine. Then wifi would not work more than the first connection to anything. Had to uninstall the intel wifi device so it could reinstall during a reboot. Then bitdefender firewall blocked everything. so now on windows firewall. Then 56 MB of updates immediately found included a new wifi driver. during install it forces you to use your microsoft account - and transports all of that info (password, alias name) onto the PC whether or not you want it. Linux is getting better every day.