Posts by Michael B.

Re: Isn't it more worrying ...

The BBC just quoted the Detective in charge who made that comparison with coach loads of terrorists.

I'm assuming that they must create a hidden folder as part of the installation process and in the cleanup process they grab the directory listing, filter it for the relevant temp folder and then pass it as a list through to a generic cleanup routine that thankfully is just popping off the first folder in the list.

My assumption is that the filter routine is broken so we should be thankful that the CC installer doesn't delete the entire hard drive. Perhaps Adobe's QA team might have spotted that one.

Re: one more nail please

The iPlayer has an HTML5 version http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5 it's not perfect but it is a vision of a flash free world.

Re: Mission impossible...

They haven't got Apple's retail numbers because this is ONLINE sales only which they calculated by using a panel which has their online activity tracked, including their ecommerce activity. They claim their panel covers the top 100 online mass retailers.

Basically YouGov for shopping.

Re: This is stupid.

People do this anyway it's called using the TV guide and changing the channel. At least in this brave new world I will have wall to wall Only Connect with even the mention of the existence of Strictly Come Dancing being a taboo.

Re: In-house solution

Azure goes down a lot less than in-house Directory services I've seen in the past with much much shorter times to recovery. The downside is that you don't get the sense that anybody is working on the problem though constantly calling the IT team for a status update tends to get things fixed much slower.

Re: VS2015 as Win 10 bait

Well since Windows 7 doesn't come with the necessary runtime subsystems what do you expect to do on Windows 7 bar build the project? You can't run it or test it. (I'm actually surprised that you can run any Universal app on Windows 8/8.1 since they changed the runtime from 8/8.1 to 10.)

If you really wanted to stay on Windows 7 then you just need the Pro Edition and grab a disposable Windows 10 VM.

Re: Errr?

You can pick them up at Dabs. They seem to be doing 64GB at the unconsumer price of around 375. The 16 and 32s are there buried amongst the kits, though yet again at very unconsumer prices.

Not really. From the article he looks like a serial Vice President hopping from business to business staying just long enough for it not to be too suspicious when he leaves.

Blimey - Easyjet sponsoring Bedfordshire Police?

New sponsored caution?

"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not book a great low cost flight from Easyjet to a destination of your choice with prices starting from just 10 pounds book online at Easyjet.com..."

Apparently there is a BT Mobile which is an MVNO running on top of EE.

Re: Snapping more family pics

Er, no they haven't. The Windows Phone 10 camera is the same as the Lumia Camera.

Re: licensing

Nope, I just happen to have to deal with Copyright crap on a regular basis and are acutely aware of the fees and paperwork involved when getting into the business licensing of copyrighted material for multiple territories.

Frankly I really don't care about this at all, I just thought I'd give a more rational explanation to one of the factors behind this decision rather than OMG I'M LOOSING MY DOKTA WHO! THE BBC IS TAH SUK!!!!!!

Re: Now you know how much your privacy is worth

What nonsense are you peddling? There is no monthly subscription fee.

Re: This is why I love the bbc

"I just wish BBC could spend less time on 4K worries, and get rid of Flash NOW."

They already are. There is a HTML5 beta trial going on right now.

Er more likely they have actually been invited to the Microsoft do and Apple only invite sycophants. As such The Register is Persona non Grata as far as Apple are concerned.

Because the government foisted the entire World Service, and all of its costs, onto the BBC( with the commensurate saving of a couple of hundred million saving to the Foreign Office) and now the self same government now wants them to broadcast to Russian and North Korea.

Re: Am I particularly unobservant...?

That's the privacy policy for collecting telemetry in the PREVIEW/Insider programme so they can monitor crashes and feature usage, which is entirely what the Insider programme is all about. Even the Inquirer url has a clue in it.

Re: REM had the answer in 1992?

Nah, it's obviously Everybody Hurts that they are referring to. Though "Bang and Blame" from a few years later is most companys' approach to security.

Re: still riddled with Flash badness though

In the advanced settings there is a simple switch "Use Adobe Flash Player" so disabling Flash is only 3 clicks away.

Re: That video ....

...and it needs serious refactoring. They have just copy and pasted the same file creation code changing just the file name. Don't get me started on the use of "form1" and "form21" instead of something non-generic.

I'm not sure about the released version but for the preview there is an official rollback procedure using Windows Phone Recovery Tool.

The full set of steps are here:

http://www.windowscentral.com/roll-back-windows-phone-81-windows-10-preview

Re: A different Freak?

Thanks for that. The website freakattack.com now says "(An earlier version of our test gave incorrect results for IE; IE is indeed vulnerable.)" Which goes to explain why I thought IE was not vulnerable earlier in the week.

On a different note it seems that with the updated website Windows Phone is now being marked as vulnerable.

Good job it's not the default and requires you to select Full Screen mode when using the Mouse. The default Start Menu style is the merged Metro/Win 7 style.

Re: WTF.....

The supported lifetime of the device means that you can't take your free windows license and place it on a new machine if the machine dies.

Re: owner of 2 bricks, looking for windows...

Well well it looks like your dream has come true, somebody has taken notice of the non-Windows Nokia Phones and that somebody is.... Opera. Opera will be running the app store on non-Windows Nokia phones. See below for details:

http://www.windowscentral.com/nokia-store-be-replaced-opera-nokia-x-mobile-devices?utm_source=wpc&utm_medium=twitter

Re: It's really impacted me, this Nokia to MS transition...

More than likely the BBC just shut it off. They have had quite a form on that lately.

This patch was for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 so it wouldn't have been this that caused it.

Yup. You just connect with a cable and the phone apears as a new device. If your phone has internal and external storage it appears as two seperate folder and within that there are the standard folders:

Documents

Downloads

Music

Pictures

Videos

(Ringtones on the internal drive)

and any other folders that you create

On Windows you just drag and drop your files into the folder of your choice. I think there is a way to sync photos and music but I've never bothered dragging and dropping is the sync method of choice for me.

Re: I'm not sure if I can trust their numbers...

The way I read it: As the company was founded in 1999 if it lasts at least 102 years then the company will have been active in the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuries. Which in itself is a bizarre statement to make.