Posts by Tezfair

Try the other BT....

BTSync

Poor quality

Of all the brands we have supplied to end users, whether domestic or enterprise, WD are the only brand that give us the most problems. There's not a month that goes by that we sent drives back. Earlier this year the replacement for a month old HDD failed and that also had to go back.

subtle marketing here?

I'm sure the Reg gets a fee for all these subliminal MS adverts. There's always a theme, whether its hyper-v week, or virtualise your desktop week or get on the cloud (week 1 - server 2012 , week 2 - 365, week 3 - W8).

I forecast clear skies around here, not a cloud in sight

"8.1 is a big improvement"

Where?

Like Office 2013 it demands to have a MS account to continue (unless you go back, disable the lan and try again, and then you can set a local account (I was hyper-v'ing mine)) did I miss this in W8?

It looks the same other than a token icon in the bottom left corner

Why can't they simply make a pure desktop version and pure tablet version? And app this, and app that. p*ss off. Its just bloody software wrapped up in a fancy name.

I can see consumers now opting for Android on their new PCs (HP slate21) and the many PC variants that will now spring up. MS will simply pull out of the desktop market opting to tie up the business market in the cloud only.

I can wait

It will be on the BBC this Christmas

You have to reboot your own server now?

aww bless

Some where to put all those fake hotmail / live / outlook accounts...

The ones you have to make to activate Office 2013

in space no one can hear you sms

Let me see...

Take the money from the debit card, or the credit card which charges 29.9% APR. Wonder which one they prefer?

Oh great...

....another price increase coming shortly

Marketing scare mongery

XP is old and W7 could be seen as an improvement however there will be some applications that can't or will never be able to run under x64.

I look after lots of XP desktops running against SBS 2003 box. Am I going to upgrade? no. Why? businesses can't afford to ditch a working machine for a new one

I will accept there is a security risk, but on the basis that all my client use non IE browsers and have industrial strength AV and AS on the servers and on the desktops, their systems will not suddenly all stop working on 2nd April 2014

I have one customer that still uses Server 2000. It amazes me that its not died, but it still works, its not exposed to the internet, so where's the problem?

What actually happened...

This is the batch where the auditors came around and all the children were sent home so the cleaners had to fill in for a few days.

"a quarter of Microsoft's business customers are now using it,"

Which cloud is he referring to... the one called cuckoo land??

no windows

but they can afford the internet and electricity. doesn't make sense

"Soon, 1 million users will pay us for 4G"

Actually, we will as next month they are increasing the monthly contract rate by £1, and it went up only a few months ago too.

so which happens first...

1. you wipe out your battery

2. you wipe out your data allowance

Babbage's engine

Best steampunk computer ever

I wonder..

Couldn't *we* send them an invoice for our time and expenses? Maybe we could call it..

attendance fee

obligatory card usage fee

patronage fee

buyer fee

Oceans 14

IRL?

???

Why can Visa even fine companies? they are only a financial company not a government body.

I have a customer who is in the process of having a PCI DSS done from sysnet, yet the criteria that the software compliance check was done was actually quite a few years old and I drew their attention to this - and was ignored.

If I recall the compliance failed on something like SP1 on exchange 2003 not being installed yet they were running SP2 and all the patches that MS had put out was installed too.

Im clearing down my debts with visa, some of my unused cards are now 29.9%, so it seems that they are just getting far too greedy. Time to stop using visa completely. Robbing gets.

My cost effective solution that costs $0.00

format c: /s

Windows 8 and Office 2013

Because everyone knows they are out there but no ones really that interested.

Samsung

Apple are making more people aware of Samsungs products so in essence they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Im not interested in ianything, but I have been giving consideration to the Note2, especially when my contract is up and I can ditch this Windows Monster 7.8

Falling down

He can now point Tiverton CC over to Bradworthy as one blew down over the weekend.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/30/wind-turbine-blown-down-devon

Farms

Dairy farms are the worst as they have pc's running the parlour equipment and these are fly magnets. I wish I had taken a picture of the one which I had to replace a mobo, it wasn't just 'brown' in fly muck, but was thick in it. The guy thought I was bringing a new pc back as it was a cleaned beige box when I returned it.

"now they just carry an iPhone"

Says it all really, all the whohar over a W8 laptop but they don't use a W8 mobile.

I suspect that the laptops are highly locked down with only the few tools on the screen they need to use so in some sense its not really metro they are using, just chuffing large shortcuts on the desktop.

It does make you wonder why if they can do the same job using an iphone why BT didn't just have a cheap tablet.

Seems there was a very large discounted deal to be had to get MS's sales figures up.

Need to rush out and buy...

Sunglasses and headache tablets

one version too late

If surface was able to run Windows 7 and thus all 'normal' software it would have been a success.

I have an andriod tablet I use for playing quick games in the evenings, the wife has an Ipad 1 for playing scrabble. Neither of us want to sit at a desktop and use a big computer / laptop.

Where the surface would have worked is as a direct laptop replacement with maybe some form of docking station for supporting a larger screen. This way it would have been the PC during the day and play at night and all the software like accessing network files, outlook etc., means that the end user could switch in and out of work as needed.

I use a laptop so that my work follows me (IT Support) when needed. A surface could have been an ideal business tool.