Posts by Charlie Clark

Re: "you'll want to get these latest security patches"

My S10e is security update: 1st February 2010. So, some manufacturers have finally got their game together.

Re: Who would not do this?

What's the chance that the aforementioned hacker would be in your proximity exactly at that moment..

Along with most of the more recent flaws, the risk of some kind of drive by attack is minimal (in comparison with say cars which often can be attacked while driving by) but useful if you can get hold of the device.

Re: It's been way more than a decade...

Exactly, just set up a project to do exactly this albeit with SFTP for the transport.

Re: It's been way more than a decade...

As has been standard for incoming for years…

Re: This reminds me of older business model than Microsoft

Fair point, though I've yet to see the policy applied elsewhere quite as zealously as in the good ole USA! Though global capital markets have made it easier for "activist" investors to try it around the world.

An executive wanting a portable home directory? What have you been smoking?

Any of the ones who knew enough to want one of those, probably already know how to setup an NFS share or their own, encrypted USB stick.

Re: Solved this problem years ago

Do think about your questins, how much offline stuff do we do nowadays?

Re: This reminds me of older business model than Microsoft

That's a bit unfair to IBM's engineers. Yes, it used to be like it or lump it, but they were at least engineers and produced properly engineered systems. The real problems were generally caused by management and the bean counters, as in so many big American companies once they become successful.

Red Hat has for years been trying to define RHEL as the Linux for business and has been following similar lock-in strategies as Oracle, Microsoft, et al. And it seems to be working, or at least lots of companies seem happy enough with the value proposition. Which is probably why IBM bought their company.

So, a desktop environment that's on a network but has nowhere to store profiles? Or shared data?

Log this invention with other great ones like the chocolate fireguard.

Re: "The decision will please US authorities"

I don't think this decision has anything to do with that. The French would quite easily use North Korean kit to piss off the Americans, if it thought it was safe. This the usual French industrial politics: IIRC Nokia got what was left of Alcatel-Lucent's networking kit and, as it's already in use at Orange, sticking with it makes most sense. Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei already cross-license much of the relevant IP so it shouldn't mean too much of a delay. For the technology that nobody in Europe needs right now™ anyway.

A lot of noise about 5G is being made by industry bodies basically looking for handouts.

Lucky you!

Re: Hopefully the UK will follow this

The fact is that such things will probably be followed for quite a time to come, not least because it means importing a lot easier and cheaper. People probably won't care about this but other EU rules that the UK decides to follow might grab more headlines.

Re: Hopefully the UK will follow this

Countries tend to get the governments they deserve…

Re: Hopefully the UK will follow this

From a perspective of safety and usability I like the UK mains plug but it is over-engineered.

Re: One hit wonder?

Take away the phone, though, and all that lovely high margin other stuff would disappear pretty quickly. But Apple has very loyal customers who like the value proposition (this is debatable but understandable) of the phone and don't mind paying over the odds for services and accessories in the generally misplaced hope that they will work better than other off the shelf stuff.

For me, the phone wars are over. Pretty much all the modern phones are fantastic and you now have to look hard to see the difference between Android and IOS – yes, I know there are some telltale signs but at a quick glance it does look they've achieved parity.

Otherwise, get an EU SIM for use abroad, just as we used to do.

You may well find that you will need proof on EU residency to do this. Telcos used to share the profits on roaming charges so there's lot of incentive to reintroduce them. But that's what taking back control is all about, right?

Re: A perfect demonstration of eccentric British understatement

Starts with Without particularly revealing my own thoughts on the matter and then In other words rejoining would not return us to the position we were in before 2016 - we would be much weaker and have less autonomy.

In other words conclusion based on speculation. No one really knows where Britain will be in 5 to 10 years or what the EU will look like, but we can assume the debate about membership will continue.

Re: Oh God No

They'll need to drop Gecko and much of the UI code if they don't want to take over maintenance of abandoned code and Gecko's important for handling of those awful HTML e-mails that people will insist on sending. It was this maintenance overhead that persuaded Mozilla to abandon Thunderbird.

Re: I've stopped using it

I'll believe it when I see it. When was the last announcement on this?

Re: flexibility and agility

I recently switched to MailMate on MacOS and FairMail on Android and pay for both: power users will generally be prepared to pay for a good e-mail client. After all, business users happily pay for a shitty e-mail client (Outlook)…

Non-power users don't seem to care because they mainly use messaging, where they'll need to reinvent the wheel.