* Posts by MJI

7080 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future

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MCP WTF

Male Chauvinist Pig

That is rather rude.

But is it accurate about them?

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

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Recently checked

My RAM is now 4x more expensive than last year.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

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Re: Damn.

I am running 128GB of Corsair RGB RAM for 18 months and it seems fine.

I am in my 60s, but flashy lights were not much more. And lights up under the computer desk nicely.

Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall

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Linux

Built a new PC last year

Was considering the OS, 10 at work had just gone to 11, so made the decision, Mint.

Still running it.

Much more pleasant than 10 or 11.

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

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Re: Took some reading to understand

Yes, but read that once sentence, it could have done with some more punctuation.

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Took some reading to understand

"Tesco sued VMware’s new owner Broadcom and Computacenter"

Does Computacentre own VMWare along with Broadcom?

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

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Re: Hookers

Like many people my first thought was Rugby. I know of the other usage, but coming from a city with a top flight team, it is pervasive.

Balls at primary school were ran with, not kicked.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

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Re: This is a cross party issue

It would have saved the career for the bloke researching KLAAS Dominator Combines.

I wonder if it got spell checked?

Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

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Major was OK I thought, Blair untrustable - did not like at all, Brown not really PM material - but a human.

Cameron a fool with referendums, May, could not read, Johnson an idiot and borderline criminal, Truss a lunatic.

So Sunak was not too bad compared to the previous bunch, and was definitely the best post Cameron.

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He warned us about the lettuce.

And he was right about it.

She was totally mad!

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

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No problem

Went Linux Mint

Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

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Re: There may be trouble ahead....

I thought all the content was on TPB.

BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit

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Bitter

Some people are very intolerant of certain bitter chemicals, tonic water for an example is disgusting. Yet sprouts fine.

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Biscuits

I do have a soft spot for McVities.

Hobnob Oaty Creams

Chocolate Hobnobs

Milk Chocolate Digestives

White chocolate Digestives

Can't eat dark chocolate as extremely bitter, in the list with stout and coffee.

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Re: South Up Map

Custard

When you prefer Bird style custard to all the post French versions.

Ambrosia is nice as well.

Proper British custard.

Try it with bananas.

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

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Re: Hows that!

a link normally takes a few seconds,

First link of the week takes about 5 to 10 minutes since my work PC got replaced with 10 now 11 jobbie.

Also was quick many years ago with a real server not a cruddy Windows box with slow drives.

Jaguar Land Rover U-turns to confirm 'some data' affected after cyber prang

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Were OK up to 2007

Prior to the Fordification they were a pretty solid buy. But since then and the Tatafying, not so safe.

The only OK Ford bit was the Freelander 2.

The V6 Diesel - snap.

The Defender engine - wears out, engine swaps getting popular.

Will the new Defender last as long as a TDi200/TDi300/TD5 Defender?

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

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Well Tesco deliver.

Asda owned by a right pair of chanchers.

Morrisons - where are they?

Sainsbury - a dump.

Also sometimes use Iceland delivery due to town centre shop, not easily accessable.

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TBH we buy mainly frozen veg, but we also use small independents.

Tesco get used for toilet paper, frozen stuff, tins, and the like.

Meat we use a butcher, a bit cheaper than Tesco as well, and better quality.

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Re: Popcorn time

Dues to my local shop being them, I hope Tesco win.

They are a British company too.

But regardless, customers do need to stop companies like Broadcam gouging them.

Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

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"Of course the right-leaning centrists are now voting Labour or Lib Dem because the Overton Window has moved wholesale to the right, and anyone who actually leans left is looking at the Greens (who, amazingly, had the most competent manifesto at the last GE - proposed to engage in infrastructure renewal and investment, whilst working to insulate the UK from global energy/gas price fluctuations!)."

I find it is more likely to be Lib Dem as Labour are too authortarian. Actually locally, a lot have gone Green.

Ex Conservative Centrists are also more likely to be pro EU, as I said what is the difference between Sunak and Starmer, both are similar placed about EU. Well it wound up a Labour supporter!

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

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Real/32

I used to use it, pretty good OS,but was a dead end the way the market went.

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Re: Nope. It was Win95 that got the ball rolling.

I remember deleting Windows 2 for more disk space

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

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No I am not.

Stil coding myself as I trust my code a lot more than some random LLM.

Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

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To be honest, I would say, start with Mint Cinnamon

As this is one of the more well know ones, as good as any to start with, then if not happy, distro hop.

Latest Windows 11 insider builds hide secret File Explorer dark mode

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Still no seconds

Rubbish software, not able to show the time of a file.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

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SECONDS

Bring back seconds in file manager

Was ONE reason I went to Mint

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

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Re: Training

Everytime I use some MS tools they have changed, the whole UI changed recently. that was not easy. Various tools got removed, file associations removed, menu options added and removed.

Sometimes it feels like a whole new seup each month.

My home PC just sits there being the same since built.

And used it with no training.

Wife llikes it.

Home is Mint

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

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I find ads difficult

Popups are very annoying, moving ones terrible and distracting, noisy ones infuriating.

Banner ads are fine and in the right place I welcome them.

Why?

In the right place, lets say a forum about a certain device, a new accessory appears, an advert is shown, you would investigate and possibly buy. This is like magazine adverts, directed and interesting.

But too many other ads are fraudulent. Reporting is useless, so block them/

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS

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Re: a slightly less sh1te settings page...

MS Mouse

I have one on my Mint box

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

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Re: Sad times

Game employees.

Forced to sell sports tat as they are pushed over to that rather than games.

Used to use Game until they started to fail.

Got launch day PS4 from them.

PS2, PS3.

Now all gone

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Novatech

Got MOST of our current PC from there, apart from ebuyer for the firewire card, and scan for the cooler

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What a bucket of shit site now

Just had a look, it is dead to me, no motherboards and since when did adidis make computer components.

Not even got the firewire card I bought a few months ago from them either.

(Got HDV stuff)

Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

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Re: Don't believe cheap surveys

That explains our buyers solicitor

For really stupid questions

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Looks like it has gone.

Real pictures not LLM ones

Well you said real estate agents not virtual estate agents

Windows 10 turns 10: Dying OS just worked, lacked compatibility chaos

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Windows went wrong.

When they removed seconds from the file manager.

If a lot of files are being written in a short time, it is a total nightmare to check them.

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Re: Windows is so [straightforward]

You want notepad?

It has now gone and there is this weird program instead.

US sends 33,000 smart 'strike kits' to make Ukrainian drones even deadlier

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Need more directed energy weapons

To zap them out of the sky.

Future will be drones vs DEW.

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck

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Found a bug

Not botherng to report because they are never bugs but design decisions.

Doing an online jigsaw puzzle, going full screen meant the mouse kept dragging the whole browser as an image rather than the puzzle pieces.

Waterfox works fine

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

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Re: the thickness of screw threads was not fully standardized in the US

Discovery, prop bolts still BSF.

Stroke of engine is 88.95mm

Stroke of B Series 3.5"

3.5" = 88.9mm

Yes they made the last Diesel with the same kit as the B series

Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

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Just push Mint

As good as any other distro and has a useful software installer.

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

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it is a scam to get more money for TACO

Microsoft do changes which means you need a new PC.

They remove support from the old one.

Taco puts tarrifs on the neccessary components to replace it.

Money

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

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Re: Our fast trains are not very fast

Some of the APT engineers are not very impressed by the Pendolinos.

Was lack of funds that scuppered APT not technology

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

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People booked when it was thought taco was banned from standing.

Would lose money.

VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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Re: Fork it

Waterfox, simply because they still allow change of search engine in search box.

Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person

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Who is buying it all to pay them?

I have not personally bought a Tesla, nor anything Oracle, I do use Amazon, and I do not understand why FB is so rich.

Is it real money, ir magiced money?

User demanded a 'wireless' computer and was outraged when its battery died

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One of mine ran their phone on ethernet because it was quicker

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

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Re: This is Trump saying it

Trump and Obama combined have the same IQ as Obama

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

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Re: Really pissed off with MS

But it is getting worse, and it was fine in 2003 AFAIR