Posts by MiguelC

Re: I wonder how long I can just ignore them?

New smart meters will probably have PLC modems (at least where I live - not the UK anymore - they're connected that way) so the death of 2G/4G/5G/.../nG will have no effects whatsoever in that realm

Re: Time ticking also for

I bought a new laptop a fortnight ago and it came with Win11. My initial settings procedure included disabling as much telemetry as possible, and uninstalling Edge (included in the removing all bundled crapware part) . Didn't have any problem with that...

Re: "What does it say for the future of open source if foundations will just take it and give it a home?"

They seemed to be doing great even before changing the license (being value at over $5 billion), they just decided they wanted a bigger piece of pie

Funny they didn't expect consequences, though

Re: failed meeting

As the face of IT for traders at a large European bank, I was once sent to a meeting at Euronext's headquarters in Paris by my boss, the head of the investment arm of the bank, without much context - I'd learn about it on location (not a first).

Flown there in the early morning and, when I got to the meeting, all other attendees were the heads (or close enough) of their respective banks or investment arms. It was a meeting about the Euronext's business plans and future directions and a market consultation with their top clients, to which I could not contribute in any meaningful way. Waited for the end, didn't speak to almost anyone as I'd nothing in common with the others and had only spoken to one of the attendees before that day...

At least catering was good, I had a great meal and drinks there, but a tiresome and wasted day anyway

Re: MS infection team..

It's always management....

Re: I have a Gmail account

Weird, I have one I created when it was still by invitation only, use it regularly, and receive almost no spam at all - just checked and there's none there (and I don't clear it, so no spam received in the last 30 days)

No idea why though - do spammers not like me? boo hoo hoo

Doom? Pfff, you can do it on a lawnmower

I recently told this story about a former colleague who managed to create a mail flood between his inbox and mine, but here it goes again.

Whenever I or the other senior tech on my team went on vacation we'd set up a regular OoO response and, for a select number of addresses, a supplemental forwarding rule to the other one of us who was there, just to make sure requests from higher ups were properly followed up. One day I went on vacation and set the rules and, during that period, my colleague had to take a day off so did the usual. Unfortunately the forwarding rules weren't set to just forward mail from those contacts, but also when they were CC'd... so when the first email form someone on the list was sent to his address (or mine, really don't remember who first triggered the glitch), mails started being forwarded from one account to the other until it froze the Exchange server). He got a bit of an earful the next day, but nothing of consequence, and learned not to do it again (which is always good :) )

Teslas don't even appear in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) GreenerCars top 12 ratings

Re: If it is really a "superapp"

No need for the Troll icon, that is their ultimate goal.

But even then it might use too much storage on those entry level phones to allow it to perform at a reasonable level.

Re: "Something didn't go as planned. No need to worry – undoing

I don't want any toasted teacake. In fact, no-one around 'ere wants any toasted teacake!

Or muffins, we don't like muffins round 'ere! We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, bagets or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!

Re: Separation

Thankfully, the court though otherwise.

Re: Pretty sure...

No need making up facts, GDP of Russia is around 8x Greece's (different estimates are available)

Although per capita it's quite dire, but only 2/3 of the Greek estimates

Re: "The scam promoted in online ads detailed a means of securing a loan from the ATO"

So some might not understand they were committing fraud?

And how were the scammers making money from these people?

I find the article lacking in details.

Re: Ponzi

Most (all?) cryptocurrency schemes are not of the pyramid kind - I've never have heard of one where 'investors' get a direct cut of the profit for bringing others in

Re: Root cause

And those are what makes the news, the litany of other errors that they get to correct before serious impact almost never reaches public attention

Re: Glue?

having that many cars recalled and a specific time-frame might indicate an error in the order of the assembly process's steps

Re: Nuclear power the Microsoft way

Let's hope we never get to experience the "White Sky of Death" (™)