Posts by AMBxx

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'Must expel these people because the home office say so'

A lot of this is down to expectations. For my 'emergency' mobile and car tracker, I use GiffGaff. £10 credit lasts a couple of years. I rarely use either, so am happy with the service I receive.

My business mobile is through O2. I hated O2's customer service, so now work through a reseller - they're great. IF there's a problem though, I get shouty as I'm expecting good service on an important service.

Re: In the old days

It doesn't seem that long ago that introducing IIS as a very insecure update made MS decide to only introduce new features in new releases. Life was so much simpler after that.

I guess the Windows 10 folk are too young to remember.

Re: RE "Microsoft’s advice for effected users [both of them, LOL - Ed]"

Is the downvote for WM or Yammer? I'd love to know. I was a big fan of WM and only switched when my 950XL died. Yammer comes as part of O365 and I have no idea why I'd want it.

Re: Kick me whilst I'm down

Imagine how bad this would have been if there had been enough money to make the NHS fully digital?

Sounds like a really good argument for paper records and disconnected machines.

Re: If anyone knows of any other solutions, please reply.

Android? Is that on account of not receiving any updates after the first 12 months?

Re: Maybe ...

Are there any that handle filing VAT electronically (soon to be a legal requirement). How about the rest of the shitty tax laws on the way. The government appear to be forcing us all into cloud account packages.

I'm hanging on to my local install of QuickBooks for as long as possible. Then I'll probably just retire.

Re: May be a real step towards better web applications, fingers crossed

Or a step back to the bad old days of ActiveX.

Time will tell.

Don't they have barbers/hairdressers in the first class lounge? Makes much more sense as you can use the time waiting to get a haircut, then freshen up on landing with a free shower.

Re: Comparison

Must admit, if I'd had to guess a percentage, would have been way more than 25% for data breaches

Re: Which Which?

I briefly took out a subscription a few years ago. Dreadful - just constant shallow reviews of latest washing machines, dishwashers, irons and mobile phones. Only interesting bit was reading the comments under the reviews of how bad the item being reviewed had proven to be.

There are more reliable reviews on Amazon and I'm sure someone will be along shortly to recommend something else.

That said, there legal department are supposed to be good if you do need assistance. The subscription could be seen as just extra insurance.

Re: Still no go

I've been using OpenDNS for years, mostly to block some of the web's nastiest stuff. It's now owned by Cisco, so potentially looking for an alternative as their privacy policy doesn't even mention DNS, just lots of legalese.

I've a VM on Azure running a website, so easy enough to add DNS on there. Not my thing though - surely that would still need to resolve addresses from somewhere? Anyone care to point me towards an 'idiots guide'?

Re: You could perhaps make it a bit progressive

We're 'in the middle of nowhere' getting 26Mb. We don't qualify for any of the cheap deals as only BT have equipment in the exchange.

I just see it as a cost associated with living somewhere nice. Same way I view the £15k I spend on a new sewage treatment plan or the extra cost of needing 2 cars. We knew before we moved here (back then it was only ISDN), you just make adjustments.

Re: Maybe we should raise a petiton

Hopefully, they'd get some better cases then. Showing annual fees as monthly is standard and not really worth getting wound up about.

Re: Missing a crucial data point: how many customers?

No, users are being forced on to HANA. Maybe one day, SAP will be able to explain clearly what a magic database/App Server is.

Confirmed for the chop is Lumira. Xcelsius is finally being killed off with the demise of Flash.

They've started adding new stuff to Crystal Reports, so maybe the pointless 'Crystal Reports for Enterprise' will be chopped too.

I'd also place money on the following being chopped (kudos is you know what they all do):

SAP IQ (overlap with HANA)

SAP Adaptive Server Platform (wtf is it?)

SAP Data Integrator (way too expensive)

SAP Powerdesigner

SAP SQL Anywhere

SAP ASE

SAP Mobile Platform Developer

SAP Predictive Analytics (outside bet, but I'd expect this to head cloudwards).

The Swiss are in it

http://galileognss.eu/switzerland-joins-galileo/

No reason the UK needs to leave. Just more petty politics.

Re: Yeah... Right

If there's no yellow line, there's no reason not to park in the cycle lane. It's no different to parking on the left of a regular road.

The problem is placing the cycle lane to the left of vehicles and then telling cyclists they have some form of right of way. I used to cycle in London daily before cycle lanes existed. There was no choice but to be aware of everything around you. Much safer IMHO.

Re: La-La-Land

The quotes sound like they're selling this much too hard internally. More Google Cool Aid, or next-job-itis?

Re: Fractal?

No, you switch on the radio and all the lights go out.

99% of business users won't max out the capabilities

Maybe not, but there's a very good chance they'll be reviewing documents that needs full Office.

Re: Hmmm.

I wonder where Gillick Competency comes into this? Roughly speaking, if a child appears to be mature enough to make their own decisions, then they must be allowed to.

Dumb idea, big headache if loads of children learn about it: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-protection-system/legal-definition-child-rights-law/gillick-competency-fraser-guidelines/