Posts by big_D

Re: Putix?

It's easier to put a back door in, if it is your own code...

@AC

I know it is a Mac thread, but please don't shoot me.

Me to, although I would say, that if Apple brick the device for security reasons, they should unbrick it, if it is taken to an official Apple dealer or repair center and proof of ownership is shown. They can charge a "small" handling fee for re-pairing the TouchID and cable, for example, then the device works again.

This sounds like a car manufacture saying, that because you replaced the brake pads yourself, you need to junk your car and buy a new one - it wouldn't fly.

I could understand that they would refuse to repair or replace under warranty, if the device had already been repaired by a third party, but to make it irrevocably "dead" is dispicable.

Re: re.Mutti

Although I've never heard the term (living here since 2002) and my German wife hasn't heard the term either.

Re: That's Bundeskanzlerin Frau Doktor Angela Merkel to you

Chancellor Mutti was new to me, so I asked my German wife, she has never heard the term either.

Re: Just

All they needed to do was put a more modern, emissions compliant drive unit in the thing. There are a lot of them out there, even from their parent company.

Whilst it is a brilliant utilitarian vehicle, it can't compete with a Range Rover or Land Cruiser on the gruelling school run, so it probably isn't worth the investment in "cleaning up its act" to sell it to those who actually could benefit from one.

I can remember hurtling across Ashdown Forest in a V8 long bed with the windscreen clapped down.

Re: The more they push

Motherboards came with CDs. After installing Windows you would install the software on the CD (which had appropriate sections for whichever Windows version it was) and various drivers and utilities appropriate to the chipset and CPU. In this way new features could be added to the base platform. For example Windows XX might have had no mechanism to monitor or control fan speed or CPU temperature but the software on the CD added this*.

This works to a certain degree for chipsets and other motherboard features, but it won't work for new CPU features, the whole OS needs to be recompiled to take advantage of new Opcodes.

Re: The more they push

They have just said that the old OSes won't be updated to support new features in new CPUs and they won't guarantee that they work. That is exactly what you described with W9x on a quad core i7.

As far as I can see, they aren't proposing a way to block Win7/8/8.1 from running on newer hardware, they just won't guarantee it will work.

Like XP before it, you might find that new C-States aren't supported, for example, and hibernation etc. might need to be disabled. In the release I didn't read anything that explicitly stated that Intel will be dropping X86 / X64 in the next generation of CPUs.

I'm guessing it will be the same as with W9x and XP. New features won't be accessible (E.g. MMX opcodes in W95) and if, for example, new power modes are introduced that cause conflicts, you might need to disable hybernate and sleep in W7.

Re: The more they push

They did this with W9x, Windows NT, 2000 and XP, where is the news here?

Re: People don't care

People do care. I certainly care when my acquaintances upload my address to Facebook and Co. and I get messages telling me to join, as my friends are there.

My wife is really vocal about it and is paranoid that photos of her will land online. When we go to parties etc. she explicitly tells people with cameras that no pictures of her can be loaded onto the Internet.

Re: Now What?

Android caller' call ID is a little different, it checks it against the contact list on the phone. It doesn't send it to the Chocolate Factory, who then send out emails trying to recruit the caller to use Android...

As to the first point, the damage has been done - and WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Xing etc. also do similar things, as the ruling suggests. Using the contact list in that way is illegal. The only thing they can really do is fine the networks and ensure that new businesses don't break the law.

Re: vulnerable

@ZSn the 1020 had a great camera, the best for its time, but technology has moved forward. The 950 matches or surpasses the 1020 in most situations, and it is fast.

My 1020 takes brilliant photos, so does the 950, I would say the 950 has the edge, especially as the new software modes are supported by the 950 camera and not by the 1020, so multi-shot sequences and the new "video-photo" mode mean you can often get a decent shot on the 950, where the 1020 makes an okay shot.

Re: Really?

There was a "bad" beta preview in November where the battery of my 1020 would drain in half a day, instead of 2 days. But the next update cured that and battery life is back up to being comparable with Windows 8.1.

The same for my 950, it drains over about 1.5 - 2 days, unless I spend hours playing games, then it obviously needs recharging daily.

Re: I wonder if

The Nokia Tool will revert to 8.1. I've used it a couple of times when testing W10M on my 1020. Works a treat.

That said, I only used it to reset to 8.1 for the couple of Beta W10 updates that needed 8.1 as a basis.

Re: I must be a masochist

I've been through iPhones, several Androids and I am now on my 3rd Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile phone.

For work I have the choice of iPhone or Android. I have had Android the last couple of years, because I find it more flexible than iPhone, but my private phone is a Windows Phone and that is where most of my apps are installed, the company phone was just used to do email and phone calls - I now have a 950 privately and I have put the company SIM in the 2nd slot for now.

Re: Really?

@Falmari - could it be a dodgy app or app update? Try disabling them.

I had a couple of games that would sit in the background and drain the battery quickly. Deinstalling them had the battery life back up to normal levels (Pastry Paradise was one example of a big drainer).

There was a dodgy update in November, but since then the 1020 has been running around 1.5 days between charges and my 950 is doing 1.5 - 2 days.

Re: Yawn, another El Reg piece dissing MSFT

It is a shame. The problems with Windows 10 come down to mainly poor communication from MS and many sites bashing W10.

Trying to push the updates on people doesn't help.

Which is a great shame, it is an improvement over 7 and 8, although OneDrive on W10 is currently a step backwards over 8.1. Hopefully the Redstone update will sort that out.

Re: Yawn, another El Reg piece dissing MSFT

I've been running it on my 1020 since the summer.

Oh, and you can go back to Windows 8.1. Microsoft have a reset tool that will re-install 8.1 on the phone, in fact it was a necessary step for beta testers a couple of times, you had to go back to 8.1 and then install the 10 update again.

I'm was happy with it on the 1020 and I now have a 950. My wife now has the 1020 (she had a 630, but wanted a flash for photos). She hasn't really noticed anything detrimental over 8.1 on her 630.

Re: Emergency access to the whole damn vault?

I would like to know how they do that, because, before the LogMeIn takeover, they proudly boasted that the key was never on the server and it was decrypted at the client... If that is so, how can they give emergency access?

Do they create a OTP for access, which is then stored centrally? Still not a good idea.

Re: I'm waiting until it goes to 11.

I upgraded 3 PCs at the weekend for relations. All 3 went smoothly. No problems at all, and they were all 3 to 8 years old.