Posts by F0rdPrefect

Re: Side-effect by accident or by intent?

Why would when VAT is claimed have any effect on when invoice is paid?

Two totally separate procedures and often done by staff in different offices.

Re: IofT

"Connected and interfaced to the house alarm, presence detectors, people schedule and secure remote control via smartphone - definitely yes. You are looking at a couple of hundred quid saving on average for a 3-5 bedroom house where there is nobody 8:00 to 15:00 and has reduced occupancy 15:00 - 18:00"

My idiot, non-connected, 1970s technology, timer handles that for me.

Re: people's unique advertising ID numbers

You mean you don't block Google Analytics?

Re: Sigh

You may be warned, but for the less technical, it is not always clear exactly what the app is asking for as the categories are so broad.

As for Android 6, how am I supposed to upgrade my Moto G 2 to that?

Re: At least they get to update

KB3102810 is supposed to fix that on Windows 7.

But I'm on Win7 and don't have that problem, so for now I won't be installing that one, either which brings my No Thank You list up to 8. Mostly to do with Windows 10.

An "invoice" from the "police"?

If you request some forms of disclosure from them then you may get an invoice and if you are expecting one, you may get caught.

Though the guy I am aware of who did found it an easy clean.

Re: Chemist Direct?

Don't email.

Write, recorded delivery to the MD.

Details available FOC from the Companies House Beta site.

Re: Just ******g ignorant is what your point is

So that is why big pharma spends more on advertising than on research is it?

Re: No matter why, good for Google.

"Ironically, I've had to disable Flashblock on (Google's) YouTube as they changed it so that it didn't work with Flash disabled"

But it does work with no Flash installed.

So far the only thing that I have found that needs Flash is the BBC, which is good as I want to read the news, not have somebody wittering at me.

Re: Say it is true

32GB ROM + 3GB RAM

from http://wileyfox.com/storm/

Re: but I have a soft spot for Sony

their hardware is damn good, and their commitment to ASOP and the dev community is second to Nexus only.

Pity that their commitment to thier customers, by upgrading the OS as so sh*te.

Experia arc S, for 2.5 years and never an upgrade, even thought a new release of Android came out 3 months after I bought the phone.

Sony were duly added to the same list as Medion, for exactly the same reason. That is the never do business with again, list.

Re: Never used Spotify...

Use http://www.radioparadise.com/ and they have their playlist on their website and on twitter, if that's your thing.

Listener supported radio, by voluntary donation!

With a wide selection of music.

Re: No thank you.... So smart guy

Or like most people, you have nothing to hide and don't care

I think that I'd like to hide my banking passwords, especially from M$ as I don't want the IRS claiming that I ow them money on income already taxed in the UK due to my details being held on a US server.

We are testing this at a MAJOR gov't agency and are looking to deploy before the end of the year

Which country?

Re: Works for me, too

So you want to directly or indirectly pay for content somehow?

They can do adverts, just don't try to target them as my business is my business.

And anyway, the targeting is rubbish, when I have had to use unprotected computers at clients as it always seems to show adverts relating to things already bought.

Re: "so-called" skills shortage is right ...

@Greg16, I've yet to meet the salesman with proper technical knowledge.

That is why there are jobs such as pre-sales support.

And very few techies would sell vapour-ware, but many sales people would and have.

Re: Good medical practice

So in order to get my diabetes meds I'd have to put in my repeat request as usual, go back two days later, pick up the prescription forms, wait for them to be signed (30 minutes to two hours) then take them to the pharmacy (and wait 30 minutes for them to be filled).

Change pharmacy to one who will sort the repeat out for you.

We use the one in the supermarket where we do our weekly shop.

We drop the repeater in a week before we want to collect and the prescription is ready for collection the following week, together with the next repeater.

I actually do it for collection a week before I actually need them to allow for cockups eg one time the drugs were held at the surgery pharmacy, rather than being sent to mine, so I had to have a day off work to sort things out.

"they are just a bunch of ignorant oldies"

My experience is that it is the oldies in government IT who understand the problems, or at least are suspicious of the possible problems, while the youngsters are too gung ho and enthusiastic about new stuff to even think of the risks.

Re: i thought i'd educate myself

Which British accent?

We've probably got more of them in just Scotland than the Yanks of Redmond realise, Never mind Wales, Northern Island and England.

Re: Breasts

"Two or three?"

Depends if it is Eccentrica Gallumbits or not.

Pre-dating the Schwarzenegger film by quite a few years..

Re: Easily solved.

If it has a tuner you need a license.

No you don't, if it is not capable of receiving broadcast. IE no connection to an aerial, Sky dish or cable supplier.

Then you can happily use it just to play back your VCRs and DVDs and to take feed from 'tinternet via broadband.

"Get PostgreSQL on GNU/Linux, switch all desktops to Linux"

Oooh! The boom in consultancy for re-inventing all of the unique functions that have been created for the various government departments, and the training at the desktop.

"They would have to train everybody for Windows 8/10 anyway, might as well train them to use Linux."

a) what makes you think that they are going to move off XP/7?

b) The few that i am aware of are/have already decided that ClassicShell is the way to go.

Re: just standard OTA (Over The Air) updates

"Depends on how your device was built. Many WiFi-only tablets do a periodic phone home over the Internet to perform OTA updates. Your device may do this if on a WiFI connection even if it has mobile data."

It is a Moto G 2nd gen. but I have no idea if it has been updated since I bought it. And as I bought it SIM free I'm not sure who would push the update.

Re: I still want to know...

I want to know how they will deal with roadworks with Stop/Go boards.

Are they going to be able to read?

Oh and narrow roads with passing places are not just a west country phenomenon. Essex County Council have deliberately reduced the width of a number of roads, eg B1010 south of Maldon such that passing places are required so as to slow traffic.

Having had to call 999 to get an ambulance (18 months ago) for my collapsed son (the day after he was discharged from hospital having had major brain surgery) I have to say my experience was the opposite to yours.

Brief questions to confirm that an ambulance was needed, and then after taking our address, talking me through checking airways and some other bits while we waited for the ambulance.

At least I knew they had received the message and received it NOW, unlike texts that I have experienced taking over 24 hours to arrive.

I wouldn't trust text to call a taxi, let alone in for something serious.

Re: Hmm

"How many times has it "re-imagined" (I would love to kick the a**e of whoever it was that conjured that) Sherlock Holmes?"

Three times, by my count.

1951, 1964/5, 1983, 2010.

I only remember 3 of them.

ITV on the other hand has done 2 and shown 3 USA productions.

Some still are running on DOS

Or were up to the end of 2013 when my son ceased to work in retail.

Just as well they were as it meant he could call his old Dad for some ideas when it went wrong and the support line was not answering.

As for stores not checking who you are, I have been let into the server rooms of much more "security concious" organisations than the retail trade, just by asking and without the person letting me in knowing who I was.