"However, there is no evidence that the data was ever accessed,"
I smashed some car windscreens on my street today because "there was no evidence" that their owners didn't want them smashed.
Posts by Michael Mounteney
16 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2007
Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder
Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux
Tuesday 17th October 2023 11:50 GMT
Even Microsoft has to face the truth
On Azure, support for Windows-hosted PHP stopped at 7.4 so if you want to run PHP 8.x, you have to use a Linux app. instance. Behind the scenes it's just Docker, but it's layered over with the usual expected insane complexity. I'm gently steering our CTO towards self-hosting, and my job will become 100x easier when we can finally switch off the last Windows service.
Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition
Windows 11 update blocking some users from logging in
Saturday 10th September 2022 08:23 GMT
How much abuse will windoze users take?
I cannot understand how Microsoft continues to sabotage its own products and yet still retain its customers.
Maybe I should ask my manager, who imposed 'Teams' on the company when Slack and Mattermost are out there and better in just about every way.
Thankfully I provide my own PC and don't suffer the daily headbanging insanity of fighting my OS to get anything done.
I've just about persuaded him that Azure, despite being so much cheaper than AWS, is not worth it.
Windoze -- Just Say No™.
Eric S. Raymond says you probably fit one of eight tech archetypes
Bolivian president's jet grounded so officials can look for Snowden
Israel plots gigabit fibre-to-home rollout
US faces critical lack of (mad) computer scientists
AT&T jettisons the last of its Usenet
Wednesday 10th June 2009 04:05 GMT
Triumph of technical mediocrity
I was musing the other day ... NNTP is being replaced by the technically inferior, but much more trendy, RSS and Atom. Inferior, because each poll requires downloading the entire cache of items, and because polling has to be sufficiently frequent to avoid gaps in the item 'window'. Shame.
Open-sourcers get with the git
Wednesday 21st January 2009 23:43 GMT 
So git is the only DVCS then ?
For the sake of completeness, it might have been worth mentioning that not everyone likes git's style; for example, that file renaming is handled by a dirty rotten hack. It's a pity that Torvalds succumbed yet again to NIH syndrome and couldn't bend his fine principles just a little, to avoid reinventing yet another wheel. So now we have Git, Bazaar and Mercurial slugging it out and ensuring 'diversity' in the open-source DVCS field.
His Steveness, because my opinions are perfect and it just needs everyone else to realise it and agree with me.
Cops coax half-naked Czech wolfman from Cardiff tree
Wednesday 31st October 2007 10:54 GMT
also more concerned about the road
@Mac
Yes, I was wondering as well why the police farce always have to act like complete tarts in these situations. They just seem to get their jolley by closing down roads, and transport systems in general, at the slightest provocation. Two juicy examples come to mind:
1. http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.518294.0.heathrow_tube_link_closed_after_killing.php
Was this dopehead killed on the tracks ? Nope. So why couldn't the police just require trains not to stop at that station ? Not dramatic enough, obviously.
2. When the M25 fuel price protests were on, the Police helped by prohibiting car traffic from using the outside lane `to keep it free for emergency services'. That was just SO helpful, wasn't it ?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
