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Always been a popular port to sniff. No reason why MS should suddenly get excited
Posts by Tezfair
125 posts • joined Wednesday 6th December 2006 23:59 GMT
Posted in Evernote
so thats what it is
Still removed it off the clients new computers before running it.
loved?
"hated Windows Vista and perpetuated with the loved Windows 7"
Tolerated more like
gimmick
While I can see the marketing logic behind it I can also see a lot of people ignoring these extensions. I mean other than com, co.uk, org based ones I don't think I have been to many others.
I think it will end up confusing people.
Posted in Moon at annual perigee this weekend
What is actually happening...
Bruce (almighty) will be getting jiggy with the wife again
if...
you don't read the email or you delete it unread are you still deemed to have been served notice of termination?
RT
RunTime or Rancid Tablet?
Re: I had WfW3.11
As I type this, I actually have a 4 (or could be 8) mb SIMM in my hand, fresh off a shelf of memories (both real and spiritual). I remember my first PC was a DX2-66 with 8Mb ram, and dual floppies to do 'lots of backing up'.
3.1 and DOS 5 is where I learnt my trade and can recall all the Hi-mem tricks, especially ramdisk
interestingly a lot of the dos commands I still use today
Dead Duck
Pass the sauce
Posted in Sitting down all day is killing you
standing
I too saw that program and did an exercise, I did 12 minutes, that will do me for a month.
I did read about a year ago, possibly on Wired about people reorganising their office to stand at their PC so clearly there are a lot of studies going on
Before IT I worked in a factory for 16 years standing up and was reasonably fit. Came into IT and for the last 11 years have sat most of it. These days I can be on my chair from 8:30am until 11:30pm. During this time I hardly walk at all now im unfit as hell.
Guess we have to start moving more during the day.
I'll get my spandex
Dr No
After Tennant left so did I
Re: 3383
oops, typo there. better get the big book of IT out and have a read
old enough to remember....
When ITV was previously known as ATV - ( future aka Apple TV?). I would suspect ITV still owns the ATV TLA
Re: Re: Re: Re: used to use it
its still 3 they lost
Re: Re: used to use it
@AC
Well they have lost me, so therefore they are losing clients
used to use it
...but they no longer support windows mobile 7.5 which is possibly why they are are losing customers.
What they forget is that corporate users don't tend to have iphones / gphones so they have effectively wiped out a whole segment of their market.
Ironically their lack of support put me onto the freebie ones such as google maps (was built into WM6.5) and also bing maps. The bundled nokia maps (lumia 800) while does a reasonable job it does take you way off course (hates minor roads so thinks nothing of an additional 20 miles)
I have been causally looking at separate satnavs but the whole point of consolidation was everything in one place
Posted in Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD
popups
In the same was that windows had popups informing of WGA / non genuine keys a few years back why not have a pop up that says your pc is infected?
It doesn't affect the DPA or the CMA since nothing has been removed.
duh
Who provides broadband in none cable areas? BT Wholesale so regardless who you go with and its a BT line, your going through BT.
Posted in Second Nokia Lumia update inbound
Tethering
I need tethering not battery updates. All WM phones have to be changed each day so even if the battery life is an extra 2 hours it doesn't make that much difference in the great scheme of things.
...
If my wife was in charge of driving the rover she would swing it around a few corners and get rid of the dust. I often say to her that her tyres never get worn in the middle.
Posted in Beeb rescues old Who episodes
In the future...
Someone decided that early episodes were really crap and went back in time and wiped them
sweeper
doesn't Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta do the same thing?
been there, done that
you may have to stop the data collecter services in order for it to run and I also noticed that some of the settings had defaulted back (such as size limits and mobile password policies etc)
otherwise a long update - 48 minutes for my little box
other than than its no different!!
Posted in The BBC Micro turns 30
came close
I nearly had a BBC-B 2nd hand. Drove about 40 miles in response to an advert having spoke to the owner on the phone, got there and he had 'just' sold it. I was a little annoyed!!
Ended up with the speccy.
But the article has invoked a few memory cells, do I recall having the ability to download software on a Saturday morning on the computer show,? was it via teletext or from a flashing square in the corner of the screen or both?
Ahh, Saturday mornings, Robinson Crusoe, dubbed foreign children shows that just stopped at the end and cutting edge computers.
1 day old and 2 updates
Got to be Windows.
I had the 800 yesterday and I hate the OS. 500 features? more like 500 other things removed from 6.5.
Guess my lads getting a new mobile, im going back to my HD2.
No tethering
No remote desktop
No simple way to get to the outlook subfolders
Constantly flickering tiles (not wonder the batteries flat its always jiggling the screen)
The list goes on
still, when its turned off it look nice
fast?
Who says that the speed of light is the ultimate speed? its just the fastest thing know to man currently. The test at cern shows that its possible to go faster so im not sure why everyone is saying it can't be done.
I have watched many sciencey programs that says the big bang happened everywhere at the same time, well since space is a bit of a big area it would take something pretty damn fast to get across the universe in an instant.
my theory on the neutrinos is simply they are so small they can pass though other atoms and photons whereas light gets bounced around other atoms on the same journey, eg, straight line as apposed to a wibbly wobbly one
Posted in Compact Disc death foretold for 2012
I have lots of digital downloads...
...trouble is, its on an old pc with a long gone email address so despite backing up the license key im not able to listen to them.
Im not planning on downloading for a long time
I've got one of those plug in monitors...
..and all it tells me is that...
my flat screen TV uses 3 times more electricity than my old analogue TV
strip light fittings use as much electricity as the actual tube (eg, 60w = 120w consumption)
my house uses around 300w during the night
It does save me money though - the batteries went flat in it and I have not replaced them!!
shock horror
There's people such as I who really don't care about apps and wasting money on something that they don't actually need.
Im not buying into brands that your forced to install itunes just to make a phone work, or ones that (possibly) track everything you do in the same way as its search engine.
I have WM phone, always have and it does what I need. It makes calls, goes on the web and has a satnav. Anything else is a time waster.
I have set up 'store iphones' at various mobile high street stores in the past and the response was they were rubbish, and my lads -2nd replacement- android constantly hangs and is slow. People will argue how great *their* mobile is over the others. Great, I happy it works for you. Windows Mobile works for me.
Touch screens? unlikely to appear in businesses
Can you imagine how tired staffs arms would be having to reach out to touch a screen that for H&S reasons is already at arms length?
I suspect the mouse and keyboard will be around for a long time yet.
What works for spotty oiks at home doesn't work in an office.
Having had trouble with smartphones with my big fingers im not rushing out to get a touchyscreeny just yet
Copilot does BT but.....
Copilot allows directions over BT, however I turn it off because the BT goes into standby all the time so you miss the start of the direction. Its ok if your playing music over BT to keep the audio alive.
all fine and dandy but.....
Once upon a time a hacker required a PC to be on the get access to your files. Now they can bash away in the cloud since its available 24/7/365
Not everywhere has ADSL. No good for to country folk with poor connectivity
Who pays for exceeded bandwidth
So many things to think about, maybe its best to not go down that route
another week..
..another VDI write up.
I looked into all this today and discovered that you have to pay for addition RDS CALS. So you pay for the OS, you pay for the server, you pay to access the server and you pay to access the remote desktop on the server.
And as far as im aware, if its all in the cloud you have to pay for the data you shift around the cloud.
I can see this all crashing down as way too expensive.
local networks are here to stay
no SSL?
In that case I can't see many companies taking this on otherwise they are hit with the risk of the DPA coming down on them - they can't protect their data.
It will be a long time before companies stop having local software
While there's DRM...
CD's for me too. I have fair amount of paid for music, albums and singles which im no longer able to play because the license backup doesn't export to another PC and the account which I purchased under has long since expired.
Equally I would never have itunes
Crash, Burn, Die
Title says its all.
Posted in Help! My Exchange server just rebooted
hmmmmmm
"tools to convert OST files into PST files". If you keep the computer from seeing an exchange server and your Outlook is showing the cached emails you can still 'export' to a PST file from within Outlook. No tools required.
I tend to script exmerge as a 2nd line daily dump of exchange mailboxes with NTbackup doing the main backup and housekeeping. I have tried other expensive backup solutions, but have found them to be bothersome. On the basis that a store can't be bigger than 75Gb Im happy to dump everything on to rotating ext HD's and also a copy to another networked device (NAS / PC etc)
Works for me
No point in chasing crap software...
Each time a customer brings a PC into our shop complaining about how slow it is we then remove rapport and suddenly its fast again.
Doing this now
I have a 2 year old server that I setup as 4Gb on a 64 bit server 2003 dual core (no cpu virt) to have a RD / VPC play around whilst accessing it remotely. As soon as 4 desktops were running the server the lag was horrendous.
Although the system wasn't committing all the ram and the HD activity was negligible the cpu was 100%
I have to quote a company a RD server that can handle 20 desktops for branch office access. The server requirements simple means its cheaper to buy separate PCs.
The licensing for something like xenserver is 4 digits
I simply don't see much call for Virtualising the desktops, after all, you then have to pay twice for the OS, one on the physical machine and one on the virtual.
bad for professionals
I see the cloud as the start of the end for IT professionals. Once businesses start putting their systems onto the cloud there's going to be next to no support needed. It will all be done at the host.
The physical PCs will become dumb terminals and will have a hugely cut down OS whereby replacing the PC will be far easier than having it fixed. Most likely there will be a class of PCs called 'cloud optimised' which are preconfigured to a cloud supplier and all the end user does is hook it up to the mains, the router and then add their online details and the PC is then ready to go.
And then there's a software sales side. Again, everything will be provided in an 'all inclusive price' online so your not going to have a chance to sell anything.
I can see a lot of people out of a job within 10 years once this becomes main stream. And no, im not going to spend £k's on a certificate that will ultimately make me redundant.
Posted in Channel VAT loophole shrunk, not shut
@ Anteaus
ok, businesses will pay the VAT on what they use as soon as you pay 25% more tax on your salary and don't forget Employers NI contributions when they deduct your employees NI so you can double your NI contributions.
Posted in Intel re-invents its mainstream SSD
SSD user
I treated my self to the 160Gb jobby at Xmas giving up a 500Gb spindle from my 4720s. After you get used to the fact that your boot up time is halved you start to miss the capacity.
I would recommend that the average user waits until the SSD capacity and price comes closer to HDDs.
Early adopters like me are effectively keeping intel's R&D in a job
waste of space
Virtualize it and you can fit it on one server running under the stairs in my grans house.
Posted in New desktop, new DV strategy
no real point
I have a couple of clients that are running Virtual Server 2005 with a handful of XP desktops hanging off it. They are great for the remote users to log into and they have their own dedicated XP, however in terms of the article I see not point at all in VMing the whole work place.
You still need to have an OS on a PC which is still consuming power. The more you load up a server the more likely your going to run out of resources.
And what happens if the VM crashes? no point in rebooting your local PC to log back into a hanging PC.
Bit like the cloud. Lets virtualise our servers and host all our data else where and then when our broadband stops working we're fooked.
Visualizing gone mad
Posted in Sky loses pub footy case
I blame the public
If people had stopped paying ever increasing subs and stopped supporting sky then a lot of this would not have happened.
Sky see's football as their cash cow across the board so if people had said 'no' earlier then its likely that sky sports would be affordable both publicly and commercially as they *knew* that people were not going to pay it.
Same with footy players, they demand higher wages so the ticket prices go up and up. Eventually people will stop forking out because no one will be able to afford it.
I ditched sky about 8 years ago and have never regretted it and im not a football fan, so its win win for me.
Good for the publican getting cheaper TV. If shes paid for it and the greeks have licensed it then there's not an issue.
Its no different to the truckers going over to France for cheaper diesel so not having to paying high UK fuel duty. I don't hear the gov taking the truckers to court.
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