Posts by alpine

Confirmation that Apple customers are thickos.

Nice piece of pink twisted pair from your breast pocket up to the hearable, to make the battery last more than half an hour. Yes, a vast market there...

Capita

Just another daily cockup by the kings of cockups. Tv licences should be abolished and the contract to Capita terminated immediately. It's the 21st century: the tax is an anachronism from the 1930s.

It's April 16th and all of a sudden Google Earth Pro is reporting an invalid security certificate to my Win 10 machine. This is totally ridiculous.

Ethics

Reminds me of the old IBM salesman's manual giving all the 'ethical' rules that were to be used during sales projects. Of course, the rule book could be interpreted and then used in exactly the opposite way to the claimed 'ethical' intention. No wonder we relatively gentlemanly chaps in UK firms lost out all the time...

Do they still use that manual I wonder?

Wierdly odd

Despite Microsoft's constraints, HP did manage to provide some very odd WIndows machines. Nothing was ever quite the same as a normal windows installation. Very annoying to support.

"More than a million Britons"? FAKE NEWS

There is no check on age, nationality, residency in the current farcical government petition system, so this article is fake news.

Xiaomi Redmi 3S

Android 6 ( its Miui fork), 3GB, 32GB, dual sim, lte, 13Mpixels rear camera, Snapdragon octacore 430. £159. Brilliant phone and probably made in the same place as the Swift.

BT Owned

'Nuff said...

Applespeak

Is this all Applespeak or do all Californians talk like this now? Absolutely DIRE.

"Thanks for reaching out"

"my colleague Michaela, copied here, is our point person,"

Etc...

"Without those fixes, you'll be better off unplugging your machine for good."

Not really. By far the vast majority of 'security' fixes relate to things that have never been seen in the wild but result from investigations by supposed security firms who are of course on to a nice little earner.

Not an asus issue, but I dual boot my Dell XPS13 with Win 7 and Win 10 for various reasons. I reformatted the drive to get rid of all the 'secure' boot stuff. It all works, but Microsoft or Intel are certainly still up to sillies because when I choose Win 7, the machine loses the sound drivers on the Win 10 installation and I have to reinstall them each time...

An MoD network forum. On the INTERNET? Were they mad?

2040-50?

Or will it be like the pension age where they keep having to increment it earlier than expected? 2020 anyone?!

WoW!

"your timezone could pull you into negative time"

Apple lead the way again, the first phones to time warp. And the space time continuum has curved corners. No one has ever surpassed their innovative minds. Their 'Joney' deserves another knighthood for his second piece of brilliance.

He's probably just latched on to how much they've paid for their football deals and that it will never match their subscriber revenues.

Talktalk's been fine.

As it usually has been for me for 6 years now.

India

Probably shortly JLR's parent company will open a new plant to build them in their home country, free of EU interference.

RFC

The clue that explains why it was all so successful is in the initials on all the fundamental standards. They're still called RFCs, or were when I last looked, which I admit was some time ago.. 'Requests for comment'... Cooperation was the key.

Anti-localism

And all in the name of 'localism', as Big Brother strides further over our lives. Localism? The truth is the exact opposite, encouraged by weak councils who have been conned into believing renaming their main committee as 'the cabinet' gives them some importance, as well as more fees.

It's very sad to see.

Landbased?

And what about land based travel. You know trains n' boats n' cars?

Rubbish

Active Directory has always been rubbish under the covers, since its first incarnation limped out of the starting blocks. Nothing's changed.

SM

They should reintroduce that most beautiful car, the Citroen SM. I wonder whether SM would be a good brand? In some circles, possibly...

They could merge with the old Bond brand, for even more excitement. The SM Bond.

Former?

'Former' state monopoly? As long as BT is allowed to hang on to Openreach, it still is a state monopoly except in those highly restricted areas covered by cable.

I'm sure Steve Jobs put an entry in his diary.