A Vancouverite is unlikely to consider a Vancouver to Toronto trip a vacation flight. On the other hand, a Torontonian may consider a trip to Vancouver a vacation. Also, both Air Canada and WestJet, our 2 major airlines, both frequently mistreat passengers and their luggage and end up in front of the tribunal.
Posts by keith_w
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Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed
Re: spend hundred of hours choosing between distros and desktops
I think that one of the things you are missing here is that there are an abundance of choices for Linux desktops and the apps that run on them. Unfortunately most people are not techies and just want to sit down at a computer and know, pretty much, what is what. In the corporate environment they do not want to walk in and have to learn an entire new desktop environment, it is bad enough having to learn the specific apps that a company uses for it's business.
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970
Re: Yearly tasks....
9 volt batteries: https://www.amazon.ca/AmazonBasics-Everyday-Alkaline-Batteries-8-Pack/dp/B00MH4QM1S/ref=asc_df_B00MH4QM1S&mcid=39eabb23539a35dab6150dbd0fcf0308?tag=bingshopdesk-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80470598951659&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584070143719256&th=1
Making the problem go away is not the same thing as fixing it
Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance
BlackBerry to split into two companies, foraging for tastier fare for shareholders
Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere
Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign
Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup
Re: Where do we go from here...?
"We will also have to standardise electric car charging cables, and I don't want the precedent that Ford can make a Ford-only cable that you have to have Ford adaptors or go to a Ford charger to use... which is exactly what happen if we don't dictate base-level standards occasionally."
Ford is switching to the TESLA connector, so that's that worry put to bed.
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users
Last night i had the pleasure of downloading a 110GB image ISO from a one drive Sharepoint. It took 2 tries, failing at 12 GB the first try. Over all about 4 hours to do the download and the another bunch of hours to put it on a boot stick using Rufus. I wonder about who imagines a 110 GB image is a good idea.
Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn't fix it, engineers claim
AMD mulls new chip manufacturing partners amid supply chain jitters
Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss
Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris
Re: Keyboard Confusion
On my Win 10 as well. However, for easy access to Emojis, I added the on-screen keyboard to which you can add what ever format of keyboards you like.
Many years ago, we were investigating changing our insurance management software to a package our home office was developing for IBM S/38s, later AS400s and were talking to IBM about localisation since we are in Canada and the Quebec language laws mandated French for use in the office. Our older software didn't support that, but it was kind of grandfathered. IBM suggested that the best way to localise would be to use message codes to look up the appropriate message in a language database before displaying it. We spent six months reviewing the package being developed and came up with 6 2" binders of required changes.
We put that in our requirements and got "For a million dollars, we'll change the spelling of check to cheque".
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim
Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM
One company I worked in the for 80's had added a computer room late in the planning stages so the only place available for it was between 2 sets of elevators on the 53rd floor. They had a Halon system which had a don't flood button, which need to be held until the cancel button was activated, on a wall about 20 feet from the phone. Unfortunately the cancel button was in a sister company's computer room 2 floors above. Fortunately we never had a fire in there.
SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball
US changes rules on tax credits for electric cars to cover American-made only
More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some
Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades
Microsoft deigns to fix five-year-old Defender bug that slowed Firefox
CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus
Microsoft uses carrot and stick with Exchange Online admins
Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it
Dual Tesla lawsuits pull Elon Musk into right-to-repair war
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
fuel cap
My past 2 cars have been capless. I didn't even realize it until i went to fill them up. This was not a selling point to me. My thought, now that you have mentioned it, is that it is less expensive for the manufacturers.
As for GMs, I have one and I despise the "infotainment" system. Although the vehicle is only 3 years old, this "infotainment" system frequently functions incorrectly. I was adjusting the climate controls yesterday (using knobs, not the touch screen) and noticed as I changed the fan speed, the change of speed was not being noted on the popup display. Similarly there are 4 lights on that display for various functions including A/C, Recirculate, and 2 others i mis-remember. Only one of them changed when I pushed the appropriate button. It also frequently shows "Climate off" when making changes. Other issues with the "Infotainment" system have included it not turning on, the tuner for the radio not being available and not connecting to my phone. I am planning on not buying GM when I decide to change vehicles, reinforced now that they are planning on including ChatAI.
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
""UK influencers and content creators earned on average $146.86 and $113.19 per hour respectively – the highest in the world."
This is about the UK. First part of the article is in US$ only and then halfway down it is £ to $
Can El Reg stop this please? Go back to UK units and then convert for the US audience?"
The US is not the only place that calls their currency dollars. Dollars are also used in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It would be nice if the country being converted to was indicated, for example US$, C$, A$, or NZ$.
Prepare to be shocked: Employees hate this One Weird Clause
Cisco warns it won't fix critical flaw in small business routers despite known exploit
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name
Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher
Re: "a strong desire to reduce refueling costs"
In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and other places in Canada where the winters can get VERY cold, many people do not have driveways or garages to store their cars overnight, so they are parked on the road. The IC engines have block heaters to keep them warm. The people run an extension cord out from the house to plug the car in. There is no reason that cannot be done to charge a battery overnight.
Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops
Did you stop using cars because the police use cars? Nothing in the article says that the PI foundation was involved in police surveillance, it says that they hired a FORMER police officer who put Pis to use in innovative ways to surveil criminals, surely in order to use his expertise with the devices.
Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024
TSMC founder says 'globalization is almost dead' as Asian foundry giant expands in US
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030
Massive energy storage system goes online in UK
Croatian EV maker Rimac claims 412km/h speed record
Re: Not enough range.
with 80 gallons of fuel, I would expect you can do over 1,000 miles between fill ups, especially diesel so no big surprise there. Sonoma to West Endover Nevada (you didnt say where in Nevada) is only 594 miles. the average for your vehicle appears to be 13.8mpg.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty
No, I will not pay the bill. Why? Because we pay you to fix things, not break them
Just this week I received a survey email from a printer sales company regarding the printers that had been recently delivered. One of the questions was 'would I recommend them' to which I chose (1-10) a 5 as the phone lady is very nice and helpful. I quickly got an email asking why to which I replied ' 2 of the mid-sized printers have had input paper tray-lifting problems, the large one's output hopper tray fell off because somebody didn't put the screws in to hold it on and it has had 2 wake from sleep issues requiring it to be turned off and on again requiring a firmware upgrade. All of these issues should have been resolved while you were assembling the printers before shipping them to us.' Also the one large printer, only one which handles 11x17 paper, has a jam at the stapler, according to the info screen and the recommendation from the info screen has not worked. I haven't heard back.
Not truly relevant to the ooops you screwed up, but i really wanted to get that off my chest.
Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler
Re: But I DO want to know!
one of my favourites is when someone tries to print one of the documents they received from Europe and since none of our printers have A4, they stop and request that some be put in. Since we are in North America we don't have any so the users complain to IT that the printer is broken so we have to tell the printers to print on 8 1/2 x 11, which isn't really very good. My users are resistant to learning to change the format of the document to an existing size of paper before printing.
California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles
Re: Never understood places with no front plate requirement, …
I was going to say that anything that is legal in the licensing location (state, province) is ok in locations that are not the licensing locations. Then I remembered that California doesn't allow anything except transponders to be attached to windshields.