Posts by Will Godfrey

So No Change

I seem to remember Boeing claiming something else was perfectly safe, yet two planes full of people died.

Lots of armchair experts around her today

... on both sides of the fence.

Interesting

So, Microsoft can actually provide 'value' {of a sort}!

First they came for the enterprise coders...

... but I was not one of those, so said nothing.

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A whole new 'learning' experience for the entire company. I like it. I like it a lot!

That which does not kill me...

... makes me stronger.

This is an excellent example of that very old expression. Effectively, the US led action is driving China's development.

A badge of pride?

I've come across a disturbing number of people who actually boast that they have no technical knowledge.

I remember Windows 95

It was the first, and last version of Windows that ever sullied one of my computers.

Zebidee

That's what they should rename Boeing (it already sounds like boing). Their planes just seem to bounce from one disaster to the next.

It's Everywhere

I'm struggling to find any market, hardware, software, even quite unrelated non-IT goods, that hasn't been commandeered by just one company or cartel.

Hate it

How many people using it actually read the terms and conditions?

{crickets}

Or realise that google reserves the right to store all emails, both outgoing and incoming?

{crickets}

Or understand that people they email might not want google knowing anything about them?

{crickets}

It's the only way (icon) ->

SytemD?

What on earth is the connection between that and xz?

Shirley Knot

I can't believe such a fine upstanding company would do such a despicable thing!

/s (if it's needed)

Wrong approach

Get this stuff off the Internet. Never mind the 'inconvenience', it needs to be isolated. If you want cross communication with other areas, put this on a completely separate system with no physical connection.

But what are they doing here in Blighty - the exact reverse!

You couldn't make it up!

Title says it all.

A gift?

Well, it's a gift to some people, but not to us, nor probably anyone else in the UK

"whilst the the money was is being frittered away on"

FTFY

The case is being heard in America

So automatically HP will win. The rest is just a circus act.

The ultimate test

If you really want to test anything with a interface for humans, take it to a primary school. It's the teachers who will (in all innocence) break it in the most bizarre and unbelievable ways. I think it's the constant exposure to vertically challenged proto-people that does it to them.

E for effort

It might 'hold' for a while, but something much better is needed to corral this.

Thought Experiment

I wonder what would happen if a group of (not nice) people went straight after compromising Microsoft itself.

Arguably unnecessary, as they seem to do it pretty well themselves.