Posts by wolfetone

"Earlier this month Microsoft confirmed it would not be possible to schedule rollouts only at certain days and times. "

Then what is the point?

How many hours of productivity is wasted because of a Windows machine deciding to do an update, for it to then stick at 95% for an hour while it sorts itself out, during a working day?

How hard can it be to have a mechanism there to say "install these patches at 4:55pm" so it can be done at the end of the work day, or even during a lunch hour.

Microsoft will be fiddling with their nipples over putting tabs in File Explorer, but will then say something that would be a genuine help isn't possible?

If it succeeds, I bet they'll go down the Dymo route and start DRM'ing the paper as well.

To be fair, I'm quite curious as to what sort of conspiracy theory an AI bot would come out with.

Local Accounts

I know sometimes article writers can either get the wrong end of the stick or make a mountain out of a mole hill, but is it really the case that Windows 11 does away with local accounts completely?

In a business situation where users require admin control over the machine, the "safest" way to create a local admin account for them away from domain accounts. Is it really the case now that Microsoft are going to stop this being achieved by removing the local account?

If they are, I genuinely don't know what I'm meant to do with the people I have to look after. I can't give them admin access on the domain account, yet they won't be able to do their work without admin access to their local machines.

I'd like to know if I've got the wrong end of the stick and I'm worrying over nothing!

I know someone who never locked their car. There was never anything in there to steal, and they reasoned that it'd save a massive clean up operation from him if the local dickhead smashed a window to discover he had nothing in the car.

One morning in December he went down to the car to drive to work and some dickhead had smashed the window. Didn't even try the door.

So while it's awful that a Tesla can be hacked like this, all cars can be hacked easily with a brick. No matter what the owner does.

We're only one tweet away from Karen Musk demanding to speak to Twitter's manager.

I rather think Musk's brain has finally caught up with his mouth, and is looking for something to squeeze out of the deal over or looking to lower the initial cost of the take over.

I'm fairly confident that a country that can't afford to provide it's heavy trucks with tyres that can hold air, let alone not disintegrate standing still, will not have spent all that much money on making sure their nukes work either.

This is a good idea.

Subsidise the internet for the poor American people so they can google if they have cancer or not, as they're not able to afford to see a doctor in the first place.

Nothing Pulls Like A Deere

And nothing stinks like a John in Russia.

They'll throw out any old bullshit right now to distract from the utter shithousery they're inflicting on the people of the UK.

Two things:

1) Ferrari are sponsored by Phillip Morris International, who in turn sell advertising space on the cars. Pedants gonna pedant, but it needed to be said.

2) What CPU did Michael Masi use to make a complete balls up of the last grand prix last year?

GDPR

Is there nothing it can't screw up?

To be fair, I think when I heard of all of this I was expecting something monumentally stupid. Like "rm -rf" in the wrong folder of the server and no back ups performed. This though, it's fairly honest and happens to all of us at some point.

I think if this had happened in isolation, where Mr.Sunak's wife was a non-dom even with 3 houses in the UK to not stay in, it'd be a storm in a tea cup.

But none of this happens in isolation. We've had over 2 years of COVID where all of us made sacrifices to protect our loved ones and to uphold the law set out by these bastards in the first place. My wife couldn't hug her granny for the last time before she died because my wife didn't want to give her COVID (she never had it). A friend of mine died alone in a hospital ward, his 8 year old son was never able to go on to the ward to see him.

I'm not a royalist - which I know is a shock given the name - but when it came out about these parties and the sheer nonchalance the Conservatives have shown to the rules they put in, I thought about Elizabeth sat there on her own mourning the death of her husband. Regardless of titles, she herself is someone's wife, someone's mother, someone's grandmother and she followed the rules. While her government decided "Fuck this let's have a party".

With Infosys themselves, I think any decent enough company (well, any company with a decent PR guy) pulled out of Russia the moment the tanks rolled in to Ukraine. Even if it weren't an immediate action, they at least set out a framework to detail how and when they would leave. Infosys have only now decided Russia is bad and should leave? Bullshit.

Fuck Infosys. Fuck the Government. Fuck Boris. Let every person who caress deeply about the Queen remember herself being made to mourn alone while that big blonde gobshite partied.

There is an official update available from Apple

That update is - buy a new Mac.

That's their business model. But don't remember this when it happens again in a few years time and they decide to not bother updating an "old" OS, regardless of how widely used it is.

They are an absolute shower of bastards. Between Emma mattresses and Apple, it's only Wednesday and all my Zen has gone.