* Posts by N2

1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

Will Microsoft's nerd goggles soar like an Eagle, or flop like a turkey?

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£4,529 ?

What muppet would part with that for an MS product?

They're aving a larf

Pull the plug! PowerPoint may kill my conference audience

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Whenever I cant sleep

Which isnt very often

I imagine Im in a presentation involving 250 power point slides of mindless drivel

dosnt take long to get the right result

Windows updates? Just trust us, says Microsoft executive

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Trollface

Trust Microsoft?

Yes, I trust them to fuck it all up at some point of their choosing.

That is all.

It's time for Microsoft to revisit dated defaults

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Re: 6P

"Quick tip to marketing droids - dry run well in advance of any major customer presentation should be mandatory to stop hidden gotchas, especially if using a new bit of kit"

That'll be 5 minutes before attempting to connect to the new projector with a 9 pin to discover it only has HDMI then?

Prime Minister May hints at shaking up Blighty's 'dysfunctional' rural broadband

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Trollface

What a pile of poo

720 million kilometers way & Rosetta can send us flicks of a space rock

6 Km from the exchange & you struggle to send an e-mail

Brit loan firm gets comeuppance for 7.7 million spam texts

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Good

But why is the fine set so low?

Only by being complete utter bastards to the low life, scumbag, ahole spam companies will they eventually realise...

Microsoft: We're hugging trees to save the 'world'

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Re: Re: How about

Vanadium batteries are a possibility.

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How about

Just not connecting electricity at all?

If they're so energy efficient then some solar panels, inverters & batteries with a couple of wind turbines should be fine.

Support would have the 'we had a power outage' taken off the crib list & then they could say, yes we run on our own juice.

Down vote me all you like but Im not a flax eating wierd beard

BT Openreach boss wants you to know that deep down, they care

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I think

BT Openreach care about emtying wallets

Using a thing made by Microsoft, Apple or Adobe? It probably needs a patch today

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Facepalm

Easy journalism?

You might as well publish this headline, every day for eternity.

Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all

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But what if...

You get a BSOT - a blue screen of time? Go back to yesterday to fix it?

& what about Clippy? Hello, it looks like your letter is so last year? would you like me to...

What ever they are up to, its going to be messed up good & proper

Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

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Re: Game, Set & Match to the Vultures

Well, I'm a long time Apple customer, and I can't say that I regret that, although as things stand I can't see anything they offer that appeals to me, or would, when my 2008 MacPro finally gives up (yes, 2008 - that's why I like(d) Apple products)

Ditto for 2006 Macpro, my upgrade will probably be your old one in a few years time.

The sooner this company gets its head out of its arse & produces something useful instead of soon to be redundant, expensive throw away toys the better.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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Fine

So long as you have the choice to get rid of it if not required, preferably without having to conduct an os re-installation.

How do you securely exchange encrypted-decrypted-recrypted data? Ask Microsoft

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Devil

What about Volkswagen

They seem to be in the news over crypto?

£1m military drone crashed in Wales after crew disabled anti-crash systems – report

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Never mind...

Promotion & a gauranteed desk job well away from all that nasty flying stuff awaits

Microsoft adds new 'Enterprise Products' section to privacy policy

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Re: 'Among the interesting changes...'

"Am I (more) safe from Microsoft snooping?"

Hmm, all I use is a soon to be replaced MS mouse & I was thinking the same

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My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

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If

This abonimation bore the name of anyone else but Microsoft, we'd dump it with out a thought.

You can't expect everything to be fixed in the next release, because it never will.

Microsoft axes 2,850 more Windows Phone, sales staff – a week after Justin Timberlake sang on stage for them

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Ah yes,

We can't be letting employees get in the way of profits, can we?

Now, how many noughts do I have to write on my bonus cheque?

Microsoft adds useful feature to PowerPoint. Seriously

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Trollface

Perhaps

A limit on the total number of slides per presentation to about 15 would be useful

To the audience that is.

What's losing steam at Apple? Pretty much everything

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Re: Wrong turns @ Nigel 11

Quote: **LEAVE THE USER INTERFACE ALONE**

Agree entirely, another example of 'dumbing down' or malicious fiddling is the Airport utility in V 6.3.5 it does not show half the options, the (not very) advanced but useful stuff has just vanished.

Fire up my ancient MacPro with SL running older version of Airport Utility & presto its all available.

perhaps its 'progress'?

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Re: Wrong turns

I agree entirely, a few more idiotic decisions to add to the list:

The removal of "Save as" in OSx Lion

The abandoning of Aperture

The mess they made of the Mac Pro

Non upgradeable components in MacBook pros: HDD & memory

& the fact they no longer seem to give a shit about the creative professional folks who they've all but abandoned

Just a few examples.

Oh dear, Vodafone: Sales dip in UK

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No surprises here

Their customer service is utter shite & the network not much better.

When will they learn?

Microsoft tweaks TCP stack in Windows Server and Windows 10

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Took their time

I always thought their stack was pretty rubbish so any improvement is good.

As for "promote better network citizenship" one can only guess what that means.

Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric – it won't hit one billion devices by mid-2018

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It probably comes as a complete surprise

That what Microsoft wants, is not always what people want & I for one, do not wish to be led by the nose or have things rammed down my throat.

Now, discard all your so called 'good ideas', start again and produce something useful and helpful.

Empty your free 30GB OneDrive space today – before Microsoft deletes your files for you

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Just a new type of

Ransomware

You'd think that paying shit loads of cash for their orifice 365 would grant sufficient space to store your files, paticually as they are so friggin large.

Well, if this is the so called future, you can shove yer cloud where the sun don't shine.

You really do want to use biometrics for payments, beam banks

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And when

You lose my data, what next?

cut my fingers off?

No thanks

Google on piracy: We really, really care

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In other news

Google seeks to copy millions of books without permission.

Pot kettle & black spring to mind.

Windows Server-as-a-service: Microsoft lays out Server 2016's future

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One piece of good news though:

If all you really need is a bit of good ole fashioned file & print, tinterwebs & mail etc, then some alternatives are ahem, free no matter how many million cores or users you have.

Down vote me to hell, but the new licensing looks as appealing as a sponsored swim in a lake full of crocs & I can hear the cries of "how much" from accounts.

Blighty will have a whopping 24 F-35B jets by 2023 – MoD minister

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Re: Space to spare

"it might look like the whole exercise with these carriers and their aircraft has been a complete fucking waste of money."

All part of Gordon Browns scorced earth exit policy & to be honest the capability is stunted without cat & trap on a carrier.

£8 BILLION is locked into UK.gov's failing IT schemes, El Reg analysis reveals

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Meanwhile

The tills at 'The Ivy' or 'The Riverside Cafe' et all are ringing merrily

UK.gov wants to fine websites £250,000 if teens watch porn vids

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Pint

Agreed

"Puritanical tossers" - spot on.

Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware goes FULL SCREEN in final push

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Just like that annoying paperclip

Hello, it looks like you're using your computer?

Would you like me to fuck it all up for you?

This local council paid HOW MUCH for an SD card?!

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Re: When I were a lad...

Same happened with rubber bands, we received about 4 million because someone doofed a nought or two & it got multiplied up.

But best of all, was the time some digits got swapped around as the order was keyed in. Three weeks later, the base came to a halt as a low loader arrived under escort bearing two enournous kedge anchors. Having explained that we really did not need or order them the driver cheerfully said "so you wont be wanting the other four then?" The initial order was for just 6 light bulbs.

Three non-obvious reasons to Vote Leave on the 23rd

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Vladimir Putin

Wants Britain out of Europe

That alone is a good enogh reason to vote to remain in.

Official: Microsoft goes to pot, gives weed growers fix they need

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Trollface

Clearly

They've been using & abusing it for years.

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the price of 36 Instagrams

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Oh dear

Thats them down the pan then.

Even in remotest Africa, Windows 10 nagware ruins your day: Update burns satellite link cash

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Re: Microsoft shows it doesn't know its customers, or doesn't care

Yup,

MS dont give a shit about their customers, 'revenue streams' are all they care about, customers are a fekkin inconvenience.

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Twats

That is all.

Windows 10 market share jumps two per cent

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And

XP refuseniks around 10%, 7 - 48.57% & even 8 holding on to 8.77%

So 'hardball' tactics not really worked then? & only galvanised those who dont want it by installing Never 10, un-installing KB3035583 or do whate ever else stops the feckking malware downloading & screwing up your other wise perfectly good PC.

Because Microsoft wont give a toss if it does.

'Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE'

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Re: Peak Microsoft

Good post,

I think I would actually prefer Windows Vista to 10, with all its naggy options turned on because at least you had the choice to revert to XP.

Surface Book nightmare: Microsoft won't fix 'Sleep of Death' bug

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Re: Still copying Apple

Thats some fairly strong stuff youre smoking

A check of iStat shows its months since I last rebooted my MBP.

Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'

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so

You'll have noticed that Microsoft didn't say it would re-write the app so that closing the app is taken as a “no”, as happens for just about every other dialog Windows offers.

Thus failing Microsofts own 'Windows Certification' then?

Geniuses at HMRC sack too many staff! Nope, can't do it online. FAIL

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Meanwhile

Waiting times to speak to anyone at HMRC - let alone someone who actually gives a toss, triple after 3 million taxpayers get incorrect coding...

Lin Holmer collects damehood & £2.2million pension package to boot.

Microsoft's Windows Phone folly costs it another billion dollars

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Extinguish...

That is all.

A UK digital driving licence: What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: DVLA

Like HMRC they are always correct whilst you, despite a heap of evidence au contraire are not. They are yet another incompetant organisation staffed by personel who would be un-employable in the private sector.

GM crops are good for you and the planet, reckon boffins

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Re: "the biggest scientific metastudy yet [..] concludes they’re good for human health"

In other news: HP claims inkjets cheaper to run

Remember when gov.uk said it would give big biz contracts to SMEs?

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Agreed & the expensive acreditations required are mostly worthless.