Re: Ah, Those Protestants
Pin THAT to the side of a door/bus...
Posts by Steve K
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God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit
On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies
Age discrimination class-action against HP and HPE gets green light to proceed
Microsoft calls time on Timeline: Don't worry, more features that nobody asked for coming your way
Thursday 15th April 2021 11:18 GMT
Focus Assist
Focus Assist is another one to turn off immediately, along with Focussed Inbox in Outlook/Exchange.
Also (in O365 corporate) Admins can now opt in (or was it out) to linking Corporate and Personal MS IDs via Bing searches to earn MS Rewards.
Who asked for that (apart from the Bing product team....)?
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws
A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse
Wednesday 14th April 2021 17:09 GMT
Re: Really?
Of course - I didn't even consider your use-case.
1 .Dictate
2. Get screen reader to read it back to you
3. Dictate corrections (a bit like Jeremy Clarkson and that BMW voice activation trial he did waaay back)
4. Get screen reader to read it back to you
5...
Jump out of window after step 17...!
Wednesday 14th April 2021 15:48 GMT
Re: Really?
Just replying to my own post here...
I wonder if I am missing anything being a native English speaker?
I can imagine that there is something about typing in Chinese (for a given size of keyboard!) that is more cumbersome than English - maybe that's the factor I am ignoring here and that's how they are gathering this time saving metric?
Wednesday 14th April 2021 15:02 GMT
Really?
Baidu claimed recognition facilitates content creation at two to three times the speed of what one can type.
Really? Whenever I have tried voice recognition, you can indeed get lots of words down, but by the time you have corrected errors and punctuation it takes at least as long as typing it in the first place....
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade
Wednesday 14th April 2021 11:09 GMT
Workday Project Manager
I'd be surprised if Workday's Project Manager had not at least raised some of these concerns internally at least - would be interesting to see the Risks/Issues register!
It is possible that they were overruled of course on commercial grounds, or maybe overall Project Management was not actually in their scope.
Given the (published) issues with the previous Infor project, Scope/Requirements control should have been top of Workday's Risk assessment when taking on this project?
On the Maine side, surely the same level of introspection should have been performed - unless they were just relying on Workday to make it all magically happen?
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight
Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 gives Intelsat satellite a new lease on life until the next rescue in another five years
UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain
Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down by electrical fault
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
The JavaScript ecosystem is 'hopelessly fragmented'... so here is another runtime: Deno is now a company
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed
Sunday 4th April 2021 12:43 GMT
Re: Confused ...
QNAPs run a Linux distribution plus (I think) BusyBox, but support a load of packaged apps (e.g. media apps, Docker and LXC Container Station). I run pi-hole as a LXC container for example.
If you want you can package your own apps as QPKG format to install them.
They are running a proper OS, but it is packaged so that you can run it as an appliance without needing to do much config. What they could do is set the firmware update to be automatic by default, so that sufficiently technical users can disable it to match their desired manual update cadence. This then catches the “set and forget” users whose devices would otherwise never get updated.
Saturday 3rd April 2021 12:57 GMT
Re: A safe connection to the Internet
My QNAPs receive firmware updates every 6weeks or so.
The QTS OS also let’s you apply them automatically if you want to.
The problem here - as with the more serious QNAP vulnerabilities of a couple of years ago - is where people set it up as a NAS or Internet-facing server and never apply updates. That is a problem, regardless of the device/manufacturer/OS.
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users
Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod
Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'
Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard
You put Marmite where? Google unveils its latest AI wizardry: A cake made of Maltesers and the pungent black tar
Deloitte settled HPE's Autonomy lawsuit for $45m back in 2016 and agreed to cooperate with US DoJ
Tuesday 30th March 2021 07:45 GMT
Not quite...
the auditors that we hired did a bad job and didn't find evidence of bad practices but have admitted they did a bad job
Not quite.
Deloitte were hired by Autonomy as their auditors. The only way they were hired by HP is in the sense that after HP had bought Autonomy, they had been the auditors of that company up to that point and so had a historical responsibility for previous audit opinions. This is why HP sued itself initially (as per the article) and then its former-Autonomy wing sued Deloitte, since HP itself had not directly paid Deloitte for the work, but its acquisiton had.
KPMG were hired by HP for the due diligence in the Autonomy acquisition and wrote the draft reports that was never finalised and went unread anyway by the CEO. KPMGs report is not under dispute.
‘Radiation upset’ confused computers, caused false alarm on International Space Station
Guilty: Sister and brother who over-ordered hundreds of MacBooks for university and sold the kit for millions
Oracle's 'self-driving cloud data warehouse' hides SQL behind a GUI... if needed
Wednesday 24th March 2021 09:38 GMT
Auto Scaling
If the workload outgrows the specified OCPU setting, ADW automatically provides additional OCPUs.
Might make it tricky to control spend here if it can burst up to 3x chosen/budgeted OCPU level?
One might expect a choice here to burst or not burst and accept any performance degradation without a billing hit?
Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century
Machine learning devs, rejoice: You can now rent up to 16 Nvidia A100 GPUs on a single machine via Google
Good news: An end is in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic. Bad news: Nitrogen dioxide pollution is on the up as life returns to normal
Listen to The Sound of Perseverance: Not the death metal album, but NASA's Mars rover on the move
Millimetre-sized masses: Physics boffins measure smallest known gravitational field (so far)
Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them
Monday 15th March 2021 14:28 GMT
Re: Where are the others?
Due to an administrative oversight, the AntiKythera mechanism was being transported on the same ship as the Kythera mechanism.
Dues to rough weather at sea, the 2 devices came within close proximity and the rest is history. Due to sea symmetry violation, only fragments of the AntiKythera mechanism survived.
Or something
Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns
Keeping up the PECR: ICO fines two marketing text pests £330k for sending 2.6 million messages
Monday 8th March 2021 12:29 GMT
Avon salespeople
There is nothing stopping Avon salespeople (who are independent agents) from drumming up business however they like, or indeed a 3rd-party firm marketing to those agents as a source of leads.
Avon's customer are the agents really, not the end consumer of their products.
Probably all that Avon can do is to remind their agents of the law and the dangers of using unvetted leads - but they can't enforce it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
