How many of those 7000 actually use the system? If those that do how many are actually going to need meaningful training as opposed to a cheat sheet?
Posts by david bates
498 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Feb 2008
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader
I buy my books from Amazon, carck them and put them on my Kobo, because the Kobo store is an unusable abomination. It doesn't even handle changes of resolution gracefully.
So far I've been able to continue downloading and cracking Kindle books, even though I have no Kindle device. We shall see how this proceeds.
Amazon have already lost me as a Prime member due to changes to Music and Video. When my Alexa devices start to fail they'll be replaced with something else.
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI
Re: Watsonx?
Having tried to read the Holmes books I've come to the conclusion that Holmes was NOT a genius but, instead, insufferable.
It was simply easier and much less painful for everyone to agree with his nonsensical gibberings and give him a jolly good pat on the back for being so clever even if it was while they were on their way to the gallows.
Mind you thats not as bad as the preposterious garbage pumped out by a modern author who would have you believe that gallium killed a pond full of fish due to its toxicity after someone dissolved a small amount in the water (I forget why) and Holmes did some ad-hopc chemistry to find out what killed the fish. And sensible person would have noticed the pond was steaming merrily and appeared to have a giant boiler heating it parked alongside to get it up to the temperature required to melt gallium and perhaps this had killed the fish...
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter
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Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery
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FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them
Re: Car thing
Not even things that are bricked.
I'm on my third tablet. Teh first two are fully functional, but on the final version of Android they got are unusably slow. Theres no usecase for them unless you go into esoteric things like home automation hub (Alexa does that fine...) car touch screen (much more trouble than its worth) etc.
The latest tablet is 10" and £70....it'll never get an update and when it gets too old its cheap enough to slat without worry.
Re: Reminds me of TV sets
ePubor will strip DRM from Kobo, Google and Amazon (never tried MS). You might have to wait for an update as the standards change, but it gets there.
I have a Kobo eReader, and seeing as removing ones eyes with a spoon is less painful than using the Kobo store 90% of my books are from Amazon and de-buggered. If I can't strip it it gets returned.
Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
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Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
Re: What are they good at?
Im surprised to hear about the build quality.
I've just replaced a Thinkpad which died in use, and then refused to post with a Vostro. The Vostro, despite being cheaper is far more robust and actually has a keyboard that works.
Admittedly the Thinkpad did itself replace a Vostro that decided it didn't like chargers and throttled the chip in retaliation - a known issue and one I hope Dell have fixed. The original Vostro lasted at least twice as long as the Thinkpad though.
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off
HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
Did you re-write their contract when you had to close your office and everyone had to work from home to stop the company collapsing under COVID?
When the next lockdown hits (and it will) do you think that all the workers being forced back to the office will be willing to upend their homes lives again to help an organization that has no ineterst in quid pro quo?
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there
Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads
UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program
Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet
Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine
Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia
Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts
Re: Fancy that
Or if you live in Crewe...
Warning - your house is part of a major development that was built on a site used for building and maintaining trains for 200 years and we didn't bother to make sure the developer did the paperwork around decontamination so we don't know what's going on and your house is worthless.
Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs
Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours
Infosec still (mostly) a boys club
Ridiculous.
Do hospitals not have emergency response? Do they not have the concept of things under attack? Are nurses not taught about disease vectors and threats?
Are women not able to get on in the armed forces because of the real military 'machismo' or is it just the pseudo bit they find offputting?
How many areas of IT actually expose one to any of those phrases? Id imagine your average tester, developer, web designer etc wouldnt know a threat vector from a dustpan and brush.
No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron
Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
Trio of Rust Core Team members take their leave
How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT
God of War: How do you improve on perfection? You port it to PC, obviously
With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview
Re: oh really?
Not QUITE true.
Mint, for no particular reason, has suddenly decided it has no printers installed and throws a error when I try and install the printer it was using quite happily the other week.
Also Mint claims to be adjusting the screen brightness on my Thinkpad, but in reality is doing no such thing.
Google’s made-for-India cut of Android and the one phone that runs it delayed by chip shortages, testing
Re: Should the OS really require so much power?
Android isn't that light.
My Kobo reader has a 1Ghz ARM simply to handle the network connectivity and display a book. It has a web browser, but that's miserably slow, and it runs a cut down version of Android.
Windows 3.1 could do that and multitask on a 25Mhz 386 With 4mb of RAM, and do it with aplomb.