Posts by Captain Badmouth

Win 10 AE

Any truth in the rumour it's to be renamed Win10 A&E?

What's next..........

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3108405/microsoft-windows/microsoft-changes-win781-updates-pushes-even-harder-for-windows-10.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3108572/microsoft-windows/a-peek-at-the-future-of-windows-7-and-81-patching.html

Oo-er missus.

WinX anniversary edition

Gives a whole new set of meanings to the words "gift" and "giving".

Sic but true

"Imagine if I hadn't the experience to make sure my drive is backed up before letting Microsoft updates lose on my machine"

xbox problems too

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/08/xbox-one-controllers-and-windows-10-pcs-its-all-a-mess-right-now/

Obligatory backing track :

"Bork that funky x-box fanboy......"

Laser printer toner

I have a Dell colour laser which, like every other printer (HP I'm looking at you in particular) has a sneaky way of making you change your toner/ink. Most inkjet chips can be reset to get all the ink out, although the last time I looked hp's couldn't. My old Brother mono laser has a mechanical fungle which rotates with every print -this is easily reset to continue until toner exhaustion. The Dell colour laser time-out is gotten around by going into setup on the network connection and changing the toner cart type from Dell to generic (or whatever it's called, can't remember now) and lo and behold the cart is no longer empty. This is the strange bit though, when it thinks it has a Dell cart it will show you an ink level remaining on the interface and will not print until you change the cart that is "empty". When you change to generic cart, that display just shows a ? and it carries on printing, but, weeks or months later, it will announce that the cart is empty (and it is).

As for Dune, I wonder if Sting ever regrets appearing in that turkey?

Paris : Doesn't have to turn on the red light...

"Publication of the tool is made in the name of awareness, the pair say, as is much offensive security research"

Why is the security research offensive?

Problems, problems

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3104389/microsoft-windows/the-case-against-windows-10-anniversary-update-grows.html

Oh dear.

Review here, no change...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2972298/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html#jump

Last orders....

Ladies and gentlemen, last orders.

Or is it?

Trump and Putin

The Times has this, this morning:

"Republican national security experts warned that Donald Trump’s freewheeling rhetoric could provoke “an accidental war” if he became president after the tycoon suggested that he would recognise Russian rule in Crimea.

Asked if he would recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea and lift US sanctions on Moscow, Mr Trump said: “Yes, we would be looking at that.”

He made the comment during a press conference in Florida on Wednesday..."

Anyone going to tell me he didn't say that?

If he did he's an even bigger arsehole than I thought.

Wait, this is the best bit :

“Donald Trump says he gets his foreign policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe pageant,” Mr Panetta said. “If only it were funny.”

Bravo!

Sacre bleu! Quel domage pour MicroMerde. Allez France.

2017 : Paris, printemps et pas de telemetrie.....

Pardon, il n'y a pas des accents egumes.

BBC embarressment

They're obviously very touchy on the subject, perhaps a BBC insider on here could give us the lowdown? I phoned in a question to a BBC radio programme on internet security specifically asking why they needed flash player, predictably they turned it into a generic question about flash and why you should be careful from which sites you should download it.

Paris, the only flash player I'd have in my house, and even then.....

I wonder..

just how many hooks the likes of IS may have in the system already?

Take a deep breath.......

windows 10

Not even a triumph of style over function.