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Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Hyde

Picture this

I think I just filled up my hard drive.

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Survey: Just 1 in 3 Euro biz slackers meets card security standards

Hyde

Having project managed the successful achievement to the standard for a major UK lottery I can confirm that meeting this standard and adhering to it from an operational perspective is the least I would expect from any organisation that processes my card data. You only have to look at the recent breaches reported on this website to see how many organisations are caught out by even basic phishing/social media and hacking activities. It annoys the hell out of me that Apple insist on having my CVV data held on their systems just to set up an Apple device. If it weren't for pester power of my children I'd ban Apple products from my house for this simple breach of the standards.

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Why do Smart TV UIs suck?

Hyde
Facepalm

TV UI's

Great article, and yes they are all pants. I have Sony equipment and whilst I don't have an issue with the concept of the XMB, it would have been better if this were customisable <sp?>. Also don't understand why a good many UI's, XMB included, insist on grouping my media types, Pictures, Music, Video etal. My media often tells a story and can be in more than one format. Why you simply can't point these things at folder structures or virtual 'Albums' based on meta data and play/present whatever is in there, God only knows.

My pet EPG hates are:-

1. Forced to use a genre front end menu before even getting at the EPG.

2. Not being able to see the full programme description for a highlighted programme.

3. Adverts in the EPG would make me return the set!

4. A piddlingly short list of channels per screen, especially if combined with 2. above.

5. inability to jump to end of epg data.

6. I have others too ;-)

Hyde

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Microsoft warns of RDP attack within next 30 days

Hyde

Slow IE9 page loads after applying patches

Anyone else experiencing very very slow page loads in IE9 on Vista after applying the patches issued yesterday? Rolled back my laptop after applying yesterday's patches and IE9 returned to its usual response times. Installed the patches again today and back to slow page loads. I'm talking about a minute to load a page that previously took a couple of seconds. Happens with all sites I visit.

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