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1712 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

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You can trust us to run a digital currency – we're Facebook: Exec begs Europe not to ban Libra

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Trust Facebook?

Don't make me laugh,

No, No and No.

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Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

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Re: Inertia selling

Since it is fraud: why not also report it to the police.

Ah yes, good ole PC Plod, you file the details on-line at Action Fraud then the police just ignore it.

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Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

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I'm off

For a nice juicy steak tonight and what ever comes with it

Just so long as theres nothing bl**dy vegan

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Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

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Re: Novell netware on Win95

Netware 3.11 with NT4.0 very good

The manuals weighed a ton though

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Ah, not that old chestnut

Once visiting similar user, before starting I asked if everything had a recent backup

Back-up? came the reply, whats that then?

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It's 2019, and Windows PCs can be pwned via a shortcut file, a webpage, an evil RDP server...

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Re: "exploits in the wild"

Best leave it switched off then?

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Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

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Mushroom

And the electricity for this...

Is comming from where exactly?

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Now on Amazon Prime: The Amazing Shrinking UK Tax Burden

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Amazon avoiding tax through accounting

What ever next?

TAAAS - Tax avoidance as a service?

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Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to

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Re: "Naturally, all user data is wiped with this option"

Now, now dont you go comparing Microsoft with cockroaches, one of them can actually adapt quite well.

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Apple blinks on iPhone repairs, touts parts program for independent tech mechanics... sort of

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But

I trust they hold the screwdriver correctly...

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Can't bear to part with that well-worn copy of Windows 7? Microsoft might let you keep it updated an extra year

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MS Missing a trick?

Much as I loathe W10, I can't help feeling they could make revenue from selling extended support for 7 for a few more years.

As opposed to ramming 10 down everyones throats, it would also provide more tiem to look at alternatives.

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Microsoft Notepad: If it ain't broke, shove it in the Store, then break it?

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Re: F*ck Microsoft Notepad,

...that would result in us having to use the cattle prod.

That made me smile

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Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

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The problem is

That nothing surprises me with Microsoft anymore.

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Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions

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don't expect anything to be free forever

Not heard of Linux then?

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Re: Old timer

Yes me too on XP in a VM. Does a fine job to be honest.

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Re: Ransomware

Clearly you've never used the RW versions of Photoshop or Lightroom? The very work of the devil where this is concerned.

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Re: Ransomware

Yes, you beat me to it

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Pirate

Re: Nope

Just a legalised form of ransomware

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Re: I've been recommending it to people for years

Likewise, but it usually gets those inane " so is it as good as MS Office?" type questions.

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Another 3,900 staffers gone, 3 data centres to be closed, and yet DXC revenues keep falling

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Re: Can't earn anything if there's nobody to do the work

This is what happens when you manage by headcount. Muppets.

Good luck trying to tell that to their accountants

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'Transformation' at Capita: Profits? Down. Revenue? Down. Order book? You guessed it

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Mushroom

Re: 1.85Bn revenue to return 31.2m

It's the Mr Creosote of the business world

Just a leettle waaffer thin mint? should do the trick.

Icon, as we know what happens next!

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Apple: Ok, ok, we'll stop listening in on your Siri conversations. For now, but maybe in the future

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Just another piece of intrusive shyte

That gets turned off and blocked

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Official: Microsoft will take an axe to Skype for Business Online. Teams is your new normal

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Trollface

Re: Never get too wedded to a particular product

From Microsoft

FTFY

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Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

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Even CPU's from 10 years ago are still pretty good

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It's official: Deploying Facebook's 'Like' button on your website makes you a joint data slurper

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Mushroom

Re: No f in button?

I never see any of that nonesense,

facebook and the like get resolved to 127.0.0.1 and are also blocked in NoScript.

Just to make sure, also been blocked in 'little snitch' as well.

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Plusnet holds off spirited charge from Vodafone in broadband complaint charts

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Once good

somewhat screwed up by BT

Think Id rather have them over BT though, just a bunch of thieves.

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Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

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No worries

Judging by Microsfts commitment records to anything useful.

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You ain't getting around UK data laws on a technicality, top judge tells Google

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Excellent news

The sooner these shysters respect the law the better, but 3 billion quid really is loose change.

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Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky

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All politicians who make promises...

Should carve them in tablets of stone like Labour did, then hidden in a warehouse before being flogged for a fiver on ebay for reformite.

Politicians making any whimsical statement is not believed until it happens, which is usually never.

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Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you

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Re: up to a 20 per cent pay cut overnight... For many, the cost of their current mortgage

Well, they could always join the RN Submarine service

After which, their crappy one bed room flat would feel like a palace.

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Microsoft tells resellers: 'We listened to you, and we have acted' (PS: Plz keep making us money)

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Re: Seriously

The very same people who thought pissing off their users with forced updates, telemetry and all the other nonesense was a fine idea?

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I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

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'Taskbar' = That was the cane when I was at school

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It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

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Re: "This measure is expected to impact 170,000 individuals" . . .

Agreed, but way beyond their ability to work out the consequences of their folly.

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'Is this Microsoft trying to be cool? Want to go to the Apple Store?' We checked out London's new retail extravaganza

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Trollface

Did they have a floor...

For telemetry, surveillance and bolloxing updates?

It is after all what Microsoft are best known for.

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Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

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Trollface

Alexa - I'm not feeling very well?

Shut up and take your pills, while I share this information with carefully selected...

Jeeze, why anyone would actually talk to that thing is beyond me.

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Yorkshire bloke's Jolly Roger flag given the heave-ho after council receives one complaint

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Pirate

Jolly Roger - flown on return by submarines

Yes, but it wasnt just for sinkings, there were different types of operations that would warrant an addition to the JR. Barmaid, for example.

In later years its appearance was opposed by the increasingly PC types in squadron who were generally despised and regarded as little more than 'bureaucratic seat polishers' by the crews.

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More households invite creepy smart speakers indoors: Arch-slurper Google top dog for Q1

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Re: The average 'joe public' does not care

Average 'Joe Public' is made up of roughly 50% idiots.

More like 85-90%. They suck this stuff like crack.

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Former UK PM Tony Blair urges governments to sort out online ID

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Re: Yeuch...

You never lived, no existed in the seventies...

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Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

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Biggest blunders?

Well, that'll surely be boy blunder himself: Steve Balmer, followed by Nadellas antics.

After that, theres everything else which is mainly shyte or shuttered, once its run its 36 month lifecycle.

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The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

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Spring?

Will now be 12 months long!

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We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

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Over fifty and still nifty

That was my 50th birthday present and quite a few fit ones too, a few years back now

Thankfully, my son advised me that its GILFs not MILFs that I need to search for now...

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As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris

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After the end of the cold war...

You really think its over?

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Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

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Re: Re NoScript

No Script breaks some shitty websites. But it’s a solution for 99% of people.

FTFY

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PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad

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Hello

It looks like your presentation is 256 slides too long

Either your audience will have fallen asleep or be very close to killing you.

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Microsoft emits next year's Windows Server for lucky Insiders... as for the rest of you, see you vNext year

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But

How does it do file and print?

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*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

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Re: Insane

I think they all have to go on a useless Crapita training course first, probably based on Access (which might even do)

Then they are told about big boys databases like SQL server and you need cluster (fucks) and all sorts of other expensive toys...

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Re: £4m for a database of drone fliers

He may be a liar, but he's got to be a damn sight better than May was as PM and Home Secretary.

So would a dead cockroach.

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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

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Re: Bill Gates and the international reputation of the English honour system.

On second thoughts, let us not go to Camelot, ’tis a silly place....

It's only a model

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Nope, we're stuffed, shrieks Apple channel as iPhone shipments enter a double-digit spiral

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Dear Mr Cook,

A simple lesson in sales.

There are two things that clinch a deal:

1. The price is right and

2. It makes sense

You have clearly forgotten both of those facts particually when asking $999 for a freaking monitor stand.

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It is with a heavy heart that we must report that your software has bugs and needs patching: Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, Intel emit security fixes

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I put the person from "Microsoft" on speakerphone

I used to get them here in France who seemed surprised when I spoke back in French, I keep them on the line as long as possible but eventually they'd give up trying to explain my PC had some sort of virus, despite not owning one.

Then we got a callblocker and strangely they seem to have 'gone away'

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