Posts by macjules

Re: In 2020, what's the point of spending more than a grand on a phone?

Yes, it is the idiot tax principle: if the idiots have that sort of money to burn then why not provide them with tat for their money? Otherwise they might just go and spend it on sensible things like mortgages or (heavens forbid) save it for a holiday.

Of course poor Equifax couldn't possibly have stored 145m American's details in such a way that any member of the People's Liberation Army might have just been able to hack them, could they?

Re: Expert witnesses are supposed to be independent

My thought entirely. I should think that the judge could now stop the case and order a retrial on the basis that Holgate's expert opinion was not his own. I would have thought that if the judge ruled in Lynch's favour then HPE could easily appeal on the basis that Holgate had been compromised, albeit by them.

Either way it's trebles and refreshers all round!

Re: SCSI

Nope, you definitely could mix devices. Many very high-end drum scanners (Crosfield Magnascan etc) required that you had a high capacity external HD to scan to, ideally on the same bus.

Re: !!!

Not sure if you have to worry about Russia. I think they are still licking their wounds from the last time they tried to attack Finland.

Re: Reduce, re-used, recycle

We have a number of MacBook laptops in my household which are effectively my handmedowns to various offspring. The only one that has recently been completely retired was a 2010 MBP which we traded in for £100 to John Lewis for my (Aug) 2019 MBP. We have a Mid 2012 Retina MBP which my youngest uses, a 2015 MBP which another uses and a 2017 MacBook Air that my eldest uses. My wife has an 2014 Air which she says more than fulfils her needs and can not see the need for anything newer.

Re: he was "looking forward to seeing you bend over in that dress". "

Poor Ben Dover. What a sexist thing to say to to a man: that you would like to see him in a dress.

Re: Too many words..

You mean rustlers I hope. Unless you really have met someone saying, “Psst boyo, wanna buy a genuine Hereford cow?”

Re: Might have mentioned this before...

Recall opening a Mac Quadra 650 in 1996 in some graphic designer's office to find something like a 2cm carpet of dust buildup inside covering everything - so much so that I could life it out in one go.A quick vacuum and the computer returned to normal operation.

Re: What's did the Brits do to Apple

Shhh. the ink is not yet dry on Apple buying Battersea Power Station as their new European HQ.

Re: Too Late

Next up: we tax you on your pension if you were a freelance IT contractor. We are calling it IR8.

I believe that in the Tory Party it is known as, "Doing a Stephen Milligan"

Re: My first thought on reading 'radioactive markers'

"Half-life" is the time it would take for Mark Zuckerberg to decay should he be dropped into the Mariana's Trench in a barrel full of Plutonium.

Re: Trade deal - test for the UK government

+1 as you beat me to it.

Re: China sneezes

... and the rest of the world evacuates its citizens.

Except Brazil.

Re: Still less criminal than Apple

"no one went against Escobar is because he gave them a living wage"

If you went against him you certainly did not get a living wage.

Re: The advanced tools are somewhere for sure

"the hugely incompetent vendor"

It was Capita. Go on. Admit it.

Re: Feeling stuffed

And nauseating Amazon ads being the bit of nasty gristle you try and hide?

We were inflicted with an Alexa last Christmas. it lasted until January 6th when it decided to commit suicide and jumped into the rubbish bin.

Re: Just curious

..large numbers of twits, many of which are also trolls, posting threats and the like

That's no way to talk about the President of the USA.

I'd rather have an Indian running my company than a cowboy like Tim Cook.

Re: Quite Right

... because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Re: Macintosh

One of my first encounters with SCSI was in the late '80s with a Mac where some genius had set the SCSI ID for the boot drive to 7, instead of removing all the jumpers and leaving it at its default 0. This meant that when they added a device (in this case a SyQuest 44Mb drive), even if switched on without a disk inserted then the computer would repeatedly try and boot from that ID before eventually geting to ID 7.

20 seconds to fix the problem and 10 minutes to make it look very complicated indeed.

BT: UK.gov ruling on Huawei will cost the UK taxpayer half a billion pounds over next 5 years

FTFY

There will be extra chuggers out on London’s streets tonight begging you to donate to the UN.