Posts by GingerOne

So you just rebuild the computer then. This is the fast ring. For testing. If it borks your device then you start again. That's why we're testing. No biggie.

*As for whether we should be doing this level of testing is another matter!

This is news to me. With Trend as our AV and AppSense doing policies our boot times for 1703 and 1803 on five year old HP desktops are generally measured in seconds. If it takes a while it may be up to a minute and half. Two minutes would be unacceptable, eight? Well that's just crazy!

Where is Google Assistant going to live after this? It's the only reason I use Allo.

Just can't win!

Security vulnerabilities rightly get jumped on and vendors berated. but here we have someone trying to make their hardware extra secure and they too get jumped on!

Courts

Courts in the UK will only accept documents via fax, not email.

Fax is more secure than email. Fax is not 'dangerous' (although processes maybe).

As others have said, a modern multifunction device with a modern fax system means the process is entirely paperless and very secure.

Shouldn't they have had this consultation BEFORE making the arbitrary decision to have it all done by 2025?

I'm surprised they aren't already using work purchased hardware for mining crypto currently.

Surely this is Netflix's problem. They should be confirming that the email address is correct before asking for payment details?

In the City Of London, I'm getting 4.20 down and 0.08 up - not that I needed to do a test to know just how shit it is.

If there is a client we will provide clear instructions for doing a silent install.

Scumbags, the lot of them. Even now these corporate pricks are still only doing what they think they have to, when they think it most pertinent. When will one of these money driven bastards actually do the right thing because it's the right thing to do?

Yes it is much improved, but that wasn't hard! As much as I want to like it, it still fails next to the more established browsers. Freezing and hanging I can cope with on Windows Insider but on my standard PC it's a bit much and just pushes me back to Firefox.

Oops, seems like I misread that email then! I saw it the other day and read it as I need to log in and say yes I want it before the two years are up otherwise I could potentially lose the domain to someone else.

Thanks el Reg, potters off to 123-reg...

No mention of the safety of this kit (like it's lower quality, more likely to fail/catch fire/explode) so is it stuff made in a legit factory after hours or what?

All this talk of simulation and no mention of the Monks? What do you people do with your Saturday evenings?!

I've got an old Netgear WiFi Skype phone somewhere. Keep thinking I should chuck it on eBay or Freecycle but I guess its just a paperwieght now...

Is this a first? 47 comments and not a single downvote. Unsurprisingly, it seems that everyone in IT can see that IBM are doomed and that this is a terrible idea for Lloyds. How long is it going to take for the beancounters to catch on?

But surely it's applicable to every business. If you hold data on a person then you must comply. Every website that uses user profiles (El Reg - are you compliant?) anyone that takes payment in any form other than cash. If you hold my data then I will be able to ask for ALL of the details you have on me and be able to ask for you to delete them, ALL of them, including from backups (if I understand it correctly).

There are going to be some very, very rich lawyers and a lot of businesses going to the wall. Sadly, it'll mostly be small companies that go under. The monliths with get through it all I'm sure (more's the pity).

On the plus side there will be more work for anyone currently involved in the PPI stuff as that fizzles out and a whole new raft of GDPR IT professionals.

For a tech site there really is a worrying lack of nerds & geeks. Smartwatches - if not for us then who?

Is my place of work an anomoly? We don't have DR because we have a resillient always-on sytem with our own private cloud. I just don't understand why the beancounters in these places don't understand. Yes, good IT costs money, but guess what - it's worth it when shit goes wrong.

If we lost a datacentre it would be a big worry for the infrastructure team and the rest of us in IT because our resilliency would be affected but the general userbase would carry on working as normal, non the wiser to any problems.

Coule do worse than a liberal version of Trump, expecially if he stands as an independent. Just wish it was someone a little more socialist.

Shareholders are suing Qualcom management because Qualcom management has attacted too many law suits?

So USB-C and Thunderbolt are two different standards? I thought Thunderbolt was just Apples propriatry version of USB-C.

Colour me confused.

I did take a look at this but went instead for the cheaper (under £400) BQ Aquaris X Pro (pre-order, coming in June). As an upgrade to my Nexus 5X the BQ seems to fit the bill - and wallet - perfectly. Hoping to see a review soon... :)