Re: One reason to stay with Windows - Outlook
WhatsApp for Linux works a treat.
Posts by Gnomalarta
98 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2007
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month
Blue passports, French service provider: Atos bags £21m UK Passport Office deal
Feeling brave? GNOME 40 is here and you can have a poke around in the Fedora 34 beta
What's in Fedora 34? GNOME 40, accelerated Wayland, PipeWire Audio, improved Flatpak support, and more
LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with user-interface picker, other bits and bytes
No, you're not imagining the tech drought: Lenovo PC stocks one third of normal amid pandemic demand
Thursday 4th February 2021 12:36 GMT
Re: Pluck you!
Agreed, my backup Latitude E5410 is speedily running Fedora 33 KDE, 4GB RAM, swapping out the HDD for an SSD was like buying a new laptop for less than £100. I am glad though that I bought my Thinkpad in November as it looks like folks are going to be waiting ages as delivery times extend. Charlie.
UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent
Thursday 4th February 2021 09:55 GMT
Re: Catch 22
"I'll now have to sit tight and wait for the call from my GP."
Best way, my GP surgery in South Devon have been efficient keeping patients informed as to vaccination groups and sessions. The actual vaccination was well organised and friendly and included a vaccination 'passport' as well as an appointment for second jab. From here nothing but praise for a well organised process and a model of good communication.
Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'
Cisco challenges the tyranny of Outlook with short, self-terminating Webex meetings
England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Nokia 5310: Retro feature phone shamelessly panders to nostalgia, but is charming enough to be forgiven
Monday 20th July 2020 13:27 GMT
Re: This is NOT that suitable for older people @Franco
A little bit of easily controlled blood pressure and the natural change in vision that I experience has no effect on any part of my existence and at 74 I walk miles, cycle, garden and move through my life with a lot more joy and energy than I did at 50. Most the people of age that I know are the same. Being a glass half full person counts for a lot!
Monday 20th July 2020 13:22 GMT
Re: This is NOT that suitable for older people
Oh jeez, where to start with the tangle of blatant ageism? I'm 74 and every minute is precious and I'm just wasting five but it's important that ageism is called ou wherever it comes from and from whatever the motivation. I'm sure the OP did not intend to be ageist, most of us are before we start school, even the complements paid to people of age are often implicitly ageist.
Attention all British .eu owners: Buy dotcom domains and prepare to sue, says UK govt
Analogue radio is the tech that just won't die
My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day
Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere
Sunday 28th October 2018 14:01 GMT 
Rat Software?
"Through your e-mail, I uploaded malicious code to your Operation System. I saved all of your contacts with friends, colleagues, relatives and a complete history of visits to the Internet resources. Also I installed a rat software on your device and long tome spying for you."
I guess this a non-existent Windows issue. It's certainly not a Linux problem. Still can't work out how grabbing an old site password would allow access to my computer!
I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one
Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual
UK Foreign Office offers Assange a doctor if he leaves Ecuador embassy
Skype for Business has nasty habit of closing down… for business
World celebrates, cyber-snoops cry as TLS 1.3 internet crypto approved
Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper
2017 tablet market trended towards torpor
HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy
Wednesday 20th December 2017 09:39 GMT
There's a hole in our warship
Dear Lizzie, dear Lizzie.
There's a hole in our warship
Dear Lizzie, a hole.
How much did it cost you?
Dear Tresa, dear Tresa.
How much did cost you
Dear Tresa, how much?
Three billion dear Lizzie
Dear Lizzie, dear Lizzie.
They say it's quite normal
Dear Tresa, dear Tresa.
They say it's quite normal
To have holes in your plans.
How fast is a piece of string? Boffin shoots ADSL signal down twine
Wednesday 13th December 2017 15:52 GMT
Re: If the engineer has a quiet moment...
"The Michie Phone (pronounced "mickey" - named for the Australian who invented it) is another type of custom-built cave telephone system using only a single wire with a high-impedance earth return. These sealed, compact units are currently used for cave rescue communication in Australia and New Zealand, and a similar Single Wire Telephone system was developed in the United Kingdom. These relatively compact and lightweight systems have been used for caving expeditions around the world. Michie Phones are no longer commercially produced, and these single wire systems will not work with two-wire field telephones."
https://fieldphone.blogspot.co.uk/
UK border at risk of exposure post Brexit, warn MPs
Ofcom proposes ways to stop BT undercutting broadband rivals
Sunday 3rd December 2017 10:34 GMT
Re: If BT can lower their prices........
This argument, often trotted out, against re-nationisation always strikes me to be, at least, disingenuous, more likely it's FUD. Things have moved on: " Britain's only publicly owned railway was delivering all-time record levels of punctuality before it was flogged off by the Tory Government last year.
The last end-of-year report on the East Coast mainline found passenger satisfaction was also at an “all-time record” for any long-distance line by mid-2015.
Publicly-owned Directly Operated Railways also made more than £1billion for the Treasury before the line was privatised in May 2015, the report shows.
Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary Lilian Greenwood said: “This report proves once and for all that public ownership of the railways would deliver better services for passengers.
“It delivered record punctuality and satisfaction scores for passengers alongside better working conditions for staff.” DM, January 15th, 2016.
Then this on Wednesday: "The East Coast rail franchise will be terminated three years early, avoiding the embarrassment of another private firm handing back the keys to the government but potentially forfeiting hundreds of millions in premiums due to the Treasury.
Under a rail strategy announced by the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, a new partnership model will replace the franchise contract of Virgin Trains East Coast (Vtec). " The Guardian, November 29th, 2017. No need to make it up!
Yahoo! Groups! Go! TITSUP! for! Days!
Cisco puts UCS director on death row, to be replaced by cloudy 'Intersight'
UK Prime Minister calls on internet big beasts to 'auto-takedown' terror pages within 2 HOURS
HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD
Broadband providers almost double prices after deals end
Cheap, flimsy, breakable and replaceable – yup, Ikea, you'll be right at home in the IoT world
This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers
Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP
Trump signs 'no privacy for non-Americans' order – what does that mean for rest of us?
Geo-boffins say 'quake lifted bits of New Zealand by 8 metres, moved at 3km/second
TalkTalk boss: 'Customers think we're doing right thing after attack'
Wednesday 11th November 2015 16:10 GMT
You Don't Need To Make It Up
Wanting to know when my contract was up (30 days rolling!) I had to phone customer service. A nice Indian lady asked me a number of security questions and then asked me for me password!!!! I refused and explained why. At the end of conversation she asked me why was leaving TT, FFS.
TalkTalk downplays extent of breach damage, gives extra details
Online tat bazaar eBay coughs to YET ANOTHER outage
Brit balloon bod Bodnar circumnavigates planet
Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base
Cameron: UK public is fine with domestic spying
Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors
Tuesday 28th January 2014 16:47 GMT
Re: Bad faith all around
Looks like the marketing droids and accounting wonks have taken over. Like many, I am sure, it was a wonderful experience being shown the re-built Colossus and Tunny by one of the men that did it. As we were a radio club we got the technical tour and the story of how they managed to rebuild Colossus. Tony Carroll is very knowledgeable and if he goes all that knowledge and experience will be lost.
BYW, the local Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Club were also ask to leave as they did not fit into the new vision of BP.
I'm very glad to I got to see his version of Bletchley Park and feel sorry for all those who will merely get to visit a theme park.
If he does not have one then let's give Tony Carroll an OBE!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
