Posts by Rick Giles

Re: Lync

" I actually worked somewhere years ago which used it for just that."

I to worked at a place that was aquired by another place and they brought Notes with them and were kicking the MS Exchange admins out as fast as they could.

A few people understood how to use Notes for more than just email and actually improved their departments efficiency.

After I left, I hear there was a rally cry from the Wintel group and they began re-instating MS Exchange.

I bet you can guess what happened to everyones productivity after that...

Re: Or

"As long as we have XP and Windows 7..."

Yes, but half of your argument is going away April 8th, 2014...

Can we assume full steam ahead on Linux for you then? Good, I knew we could.

Next customer in the queue, please!

Re: Phone market, it's still early days.

I was with you until this comment, "The crazies can have their Slackware/Gentoo/Arch phone...". That's when you got the DV.

Mines the one with the Slackware install media in the pocket...

Re: MattEvansC3

"So Safari should be safe for quite a while then!"

Use Lynx...

Re: Well yes... I guess

"Half of the old frisbees have been sold on Amazon"

I suspect the RIAA will be ringing you up shortly. Once you relenquished possesion of the physical media, you no longer have the right to have a "archive copy".

@Turtle Re: Insight.

"...unhappy netizens who grumbled that the overhaul was glitchy, difficult to navigate and 'severely degraded'".

"And to think that just a few days ago the Reg advanced Marissa Mayer as a candidate for Steve Ballmer's job."

Sounds like a perfect paring to me. We'd be getting the same as before.

I'll get me coat.

Re: Power Cuts

For just a moment, I thought you were referring to the devices that needed the time set on them...

I'll get me coat...

Re: Mandatory Access Control

I would trust or knowingly run an application or operating system that the NSA had touched. Secure my ascii.

"You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more.”

Thank God we still have the 1st Amendment here. At least, until they get rid of the 2nd one and then it'll be a free for all.

Re: Could it be ....

"I have yet to find something useful that office 2013 does that i couldn't do with office 97."

Yes, relieving you of your hard earned money.

Re: @mybackdoor

Lets not forget the whole "The sun never sets" business either. I think that a lot of those countries hated the crown back in the day, You should be happy that your not in the spotlight anymore.

Re: BAH! newbies

In my day, printers printed in four feet of snow, in the dark and up hill. Both ways...

Re: AC Stuart Longland Pot, meet Kettle

"not being blown up or having the aircraft I'm travelling in deliberately crashed into a building by some Islamist nutjob"

You seem to be forgetting who really instigated all of this so that they could justify the control they now have.

Re: hmmm...

I don't want any of them f*&kers spying on me.

Mines the one with the FreedomBox in the pocket...

Re: Bad idea

" Do you trust your government?"

About as far as I can throw those fucktards.

"Why are people so against innovation in the US?"

We're not against innovation, we just don't want Barry to have an distinguishing or positive marks on his (illegal) presidency.

If the car costs more than $25K, then it is out of my price range.

@Destroy All Monsters Re: No Fun allowed!

Fun is allowed... as long as you pay the appropriate fun tax.

Mine's the one with the original US Constitution in it, you know, the one before 1871

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1871

@Jad Re: Never received it....

.PST files are the worst. There's not really a good backup solution when they have them stored locally on the machine. And, Micro$oft doesn't support them on a network share. We found that out the hard way.

We used to have a utility that would copy the PST about every 15 days to there home folder on the server when they were logging out or shutting down. It would take a while for some of them to complete as they were close to a GB in size. I'll bet you can guess what they would then do because they couldn't wait for the copy to finish.

-Paris coz I got something she can find out the "hard" way.

@firefly Re: Sega

Ahh, the consistency of English. So how do you pronounce - LIKE, HIKE, BIKE, PIKE, MIKE, DIKE, TIKE, etc?