Posts by Roger Greenwood

Re: missed opportunity

Try getting a user to hold a scope probe and watch the 50hz hum jump. Shirley this proves the user is radiating and is the source of the problem!

I'm with you - right tool for the job. Standard office tools have a place but far too often we get engineering drawings somehow created in a spreadsheet and sent to us. That's room plans, schematics, mechanical panel layouts, anything to avoid using a proper CAD system. Completely inappropriate but cheap! As the article says, they are trying to reduce the amount of email, empower more of the workforce and do things differently - makes sense. Google started about 10 years ahead of Microsoft on collaboration and I'm not sure they've caught up yet.

Re: The Endless River...

"All we need to do is make sure we keep talking"

Re: Case study

Candidate for rant of the week - lovely.

"24 flats, all with 230v mains" - I put money on these flats being fed from a 3ph supply so getting the feed from more than one crossed would be interesting.

Re: Valuable minerals?

but those three are particularly difficult to separate from the ore (managerium)

Are you sure it's a screw?

Pozitive.

I think you will find that Dalek poo gives a better power to weight ratio

Re: air gapped

on the contrary - surely it should be cloud based?

Re: I can tell them that for free

A: all of them as we can't afford any more

Re: Keep politicians away from IT decisions

I feel Linspired

Re: Microsoft is trying very hard to kill itself.

"What have they screwed up on Server?"

SBS

Re: We've contacted Microsoft for comment. ®

They will be busy "tasking out some actions to the team"

Re: Common sense is free!

But, but, 7 is much more than 2! :-)

Exactly - the fine should be related to the number of calls/complaints. £100 per complaint would do it - half to the person called to encourage reporting.

Re: 95% done or 95% of the work remaining?

. . . and you'll never get to 100% - mission creep will see to that.

Re: Not just commercial forensic labs...

"Consider that 17025 specifies that exhibits cannot be outside the exhibit store for more than n minutes at a time."

Not true - that is not in the standard. The word "exhibit" doesn't even exist in the version I have. It may be in your procedures, but that is a different problem.

Re: 1Up

"The Mythical Man Month" was by Frederick P Brooks as all El Reg readers will surely know.

Re: What Is Microsofts End Game ?

"we pressure the computer makers to ship LINUX versions"

Whilst I admire the sentiment, I don't know how you are going to do that. The fact is money talks - if enough folks bought something other than Windows (enough to affect the stats and the bottom line) then change would come. But sadly few people are that interested in this petty squabble of ours and therefore buy whatever is in the shop and from whoever has the largest marketing budget/slush fund.

For what it's worth, my last machine at home running an MS product was Win95 in 1996 on a second hand computer.

Re: Do we need attachments?

Regarding "two days quarantine", this would hit one of the main uses of email for business. We transfer drawings and specifications by the bucket load every day instead of using the postal service. We also receive orders that way - and they ring up 5 minutes after pressing send to make sure you got it (yes really).

So probably not realistic for health services either.

Re: Anyone know how to get your account deleted?

Just fill it full of garbage then it's hard to sort out the truthiness - there are surely enough desperate users among 500m who accept all requests to be your friend. Works for facebook :-)

Re: Less of a breakthrough . . .

The desktop version of old (2003?) had a facility we liked a lot - called shared spreadsheets or similar and it sort of worked most of the time. The trouble is it was very flaky and would hang - we got fed up of round tripping it through openoffice every week to clear out the cruft.

I have tried the online version but it still has a way to go in the user friendly department.

Open/Libre office never got there either.

“long-range combat search and rescue” or “long-range high-speed delivery of mission essential spares and stores"

That's what drones are for. You can buy and operate a lot of drones for the cost of any chopper.

Immense range, lower risk to operators, high tech so keeping business happy with upgrades and replacements.

Yup - will be a cooling issue. If you remove all the air you remove the risk of flash - hence vacuum circuit breakers.

Re: Facebook moderation is useless

Blame the algorithm?

After all, how much does one report of "bad" count against 50 "likes" - I am sure it won't be a real person looking at this until the scales swing the other way. If these images were in a hidden/private group it shouldn't be a surprise they were appreciated by the members. I wonder if any accounts have been suspended yet? Any arrests? After all, the real names policy will make it easy to identify them . . . . . . .

Re: CoSocius

"As of the 1st of April 2016, these functions have reverted to being delivered as in-house council shared services."

"Porridge fans"

We're obviously getting old and less relevant to the yoof of today.

The line was a bit obscure and UK centric but it was used in many episodes. Thank you for noticing - small victories.

Re: Did the bees learn to fake injuries too

"Do bees eat pies?"

I bet they do.

Re: Is this why BT infinity bills are going up by £2.50/month?

You assume that the left hand is conversing with the right and that they can co-ordinate their actions?

Big assumption.

/cynic