Posts by ManInThe Bar 11 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2025
Nonsense
The business activity occured in the UK and counted as part of UK GDP. The same with any (eg) car manufacturer whether in Swindon or Tyneside or elsewhere in the UK.
Profits not reivested in the existing business might count against UK trade balances, and in this case losses that have been supported by funds from overseas will actually count towards them!
Errm, not sure that analogy serves you well.
You don't need to get modifications to your car, anymore than you do to your monitor or keyboard.
But you DO need the road surface to be modded regularly, especially when a hole is dug in it by malicious actors (AKA the water board)
Foolish comment.
Consider publicly funded schools. These typically have a fixed (and small) budget for IT refreshment and need to make their equipment last as long as it can. Money taken from the wider school budget to buy new PCs can only come at the expense of money spent on children's education. It has been a great relief to these institutions that MS have offered a relatively inexpensive way of maintaining support for W10
I connected a Laserwriter II to the serial port of a WfWG 3.11 machine networked off a NW 3.11 swerver using only the DIP switches and a manual written in French. It was horrifically slow, worked on French time ( 4 hours out of 8) but the print quality was great.
This remains my greatest achievement in the world of IT.
"I've argued since 1998 that long term Microsoft will become a Linux desktop environment as no publicly listed company can afford the staff cost for developing basic os functionality. "
27 years is a long time to have held this view, during which period Microsoft has managed to do what you assert is impossible.
I read this report in quite a different way from others
"The Met told us they were called to the institute on January 23 at approximately 2025 UTC to "reports that a man had entered the British Museum and caused damage to the museum's security and IT systems."
I don't think he has used ninja-knowledge, I think he has gotten liquored up after his last hour at work, forced his way back in, in so doing he has set off RedCare or equivalent.
The plod have arrived, probably struggled to get in at first, maybe went to see if some jewels had been liberated and finally found our hero in the server room where he had smashed up some equipment and/or disabled some systems at a basic level.
Exhibitions need to remain closed thereafter until the relevant equipment can be replaced/repowered in order that said jewels above can remain secure.
50 year old contractor - how/why had he been dismissed? Has his temperament done him down twice?
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