Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Caller Line Identification

You can add

- Insurance on your Sky equipment

- Not having a TV license

- About to be arrested by HMRC

- Being sued for non-payment of a debt

- Having a High court writ outstanding - pay up or else.

- Netflx subscription denied -(Attempt to get CC or bank details)

Re: Find a better one.

Good luck with that if you live in

an Amazon company town.

Re: For those against it...

To err is human.

To really fsck things up, you need a computer (or lots of them for the best effect)

Re: FCA

does not exist any more. It is part of 'Stelantis' with PSA (Peugeot, Citroen, Vauxhall/Opel)

Re: Why?

Perfect for all those PHB's out there to spy on their workers from the comfort of their plane/yacht/limo

You gotta make sure that they have their nose to the grindstone 24/7

Re: user content generated sites

also includes personal blogs if you have comments enabled.

I run a couple of websites and every comment has to be approved by one of the three moderators before it becomes visible.

We regularly get bot attacks that try to post things that promote Pron etc. Those get archived and the IP addresses blocked (for legal reasons to show that we have taken action). There are some 90,000 IP's in the blocklist of the DMZ that sits in front of the sites. We add around 100 IP's a week.

These sites are not indexed on Google etc.

Re: Litigation is in the DNA

More than 20 states are already lining up laws that will make it harder to vote in 2022. Georgia is going to make it really difficult. Gerrymandering at its finest.

We are so lucky to have a very different system here.

The process to elect a US President is totally broken and not fit for purpose.

Re: Money in US Pro Sports

not just pro sports.

College Football is really big business. I recall reading somewhere that Miami U Football budget was some $200M a year.

Silly money IMHO.

Even the Cheerleader squad had more than $1M to spend.

Not a lot of new features?

Well, the phone companies especially, EE seem to think otherwise.

What about 5G

Deathly silence... I guess no one really cares. I don't. If I could get 4G in more than one room in my house it would be great. Thankfully, these days, I make all my calls over WiFi.

Re: 300 days spent playing golf

And Trump was the one who slagged off Obama for spending 100 days in his second term for playing golf.

Oh... how the mighty have fallen...

Or is that just another bit of 'Fake News' (despite it being recorded but remember Mexico was going to pay for that Wall)?

re: the wholesaler/manufacturer gets the money for the product instantly

ROFL

Never heard of 30, 60, 90 or even 120 day terms then? Yes, the law says different but...

Ask any small supplier to the major supermarkets how long it takes to get paid... That is if they aren't too scared of being black-listed for speaking out.

Re: Does it mean it's been all for nothing?

Yes.

Most of them were next to useless and couldn't code their way to a 'Hello World' app in a month of Sundays without referring to the internet first esp Stackoverflow.

|We blocked that site for a month and out so-called 'consultants' from India did virtually no coding. Not having the ability to cut and paste code (that often didn't work) really stymied them.

I'm sure that there are many other examples.

Re: 700 bars ! Yikes !

Batteries that don't burn are being developed. H2 is explosive and there is really nothing you can do about it. Being the lowest number on the periodic table has some advantages but also many negatives.

Methane is a much longer molecule chain and is far easier to contain without leakage than H2.

H2 for cars is a dead end. There might be some uses for it in other transportation but for small vehicles? forget it.

Re: and .com domains belong to the US

Hey, El Reg are you listening. Let us return to the .co.uk and give the US back their domain. Unless...

as part of BREXIT you are relocating to the USofA?

Only joking but why did you drop the .co.uk ?

Re: Shite warranty...

Pity that your Tier-1 company didn't take Microsoft to court over this.

A scratch on a surface that does not affect the operation of what is inside should not void your warranty.

At least in some parts of the world with decent consumer protection laws, Microshaft would be mad to even try this. Like their EULA, MS would lose big time.

Re: Pacific Quay?

|yep.

Sorta like 'Greenland Dock' which just happens to be adjacent to Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.

Re: How to switch?

Something like this:-

dnf install centos-release-stream

followed by a

dnf update.

Then your /etc/redhat-release will read: CentOS Stream release 8

Not tried it yet but it isn't ecactly difficult.

Re: Fire hazard

Yep. I used to get a call from a local stonemason every six months or so to give his office PC a clean out. Sawdust is nothing to Stone dust. Add a bit of water and the stuff sets rock hard.

Eventually, I persuaded them to put said PC inside a cabinet that was screwed to the outside wall, A 4in hole in the wall and some flexible tube solved the issue or so I thought.

Three months later the PC fried due to water ingress. The Boss of the next door business decided to use a pressure washer on his car that was parked right next to said hole in the wall.

Now the hole is 2m off the ground.

Re: Fi-na-lly

Will MS do it right? That is the big question.

Their ARM efforts so far are really nothing much to write home about. Using Snapdragon chips is really nothing different from using a commodity X86 chip.

MS has a big skillset that needs to be filled. Apple took what? close on 10 years getting that experience before the M1 appeared. We could all see the writing on the wall with each successive A series CPU outperforming the best that the likes of Quallcomm and Samsung could offer. Now the M1 is wiping the floor with many X86 chips.

IMHO, MS really needs to get their offering sorted out before the end of 2021. Will they?

2021 ans 2022 will be very interesting times on the CPU front.