Posts by MJI

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

Office what's the point

We had a dev who liked an ofice full of staff.

Start chatting and he would moan about the chatting. I said then what is the point of us being in the office?

I was lucky, now permanent WFH due to the after effects of Covid, not being able to handle heavy traffic without a PEM, is less of a problem, than a 40 minute commute in a 20mpg car (offices moved fuirther from home).

They are moving again, to the next county East, I am roughly 1 mile from the border with the next county West.

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

UK treated badly

I suppose we will have to set to Ireland.

UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster

That word is not in my dictionary.

Perhaps we should get one for ElReg?

Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

I suppose pinch more TV frequencies

Losing enough as it is, no more BBC News channel for a start on Terrestrial.

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

Re: Clipper then VO

We have sites with 50 or more users, hammering the system, yet VO keeps rrolling on, the data is huge, but reliable.

We get a bad index about 3 or 4 times a year over all of our customers.

One piece of software kept Clipper and VO relevent even today.

Advantage XBase Server (now Advantage Database Server).

I preferer the NLM version, 4x quicker on same hardware to windoze service.

Clipper then VO

Probably one of the best DOS developement softwares there has been.

Very robust, pretty fast, very customisable.

Ran great in Client Server mode with Advantage XBase Server.

Still using Visual Objects for real world applications today. I find it a lovely language and dev environment to use.

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

Confused

"That is nothing to do with the Royal Navy"

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

Stop twatting about with the UI

And sort the bugs.

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home

Time to become a Paul O'Grady impersonator

And dress up as Lilly Savage?

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

Re: FF Android 149

I find it horrible, so much faffier to use.

And they removed the old menus, started yesterday, WTF. The return to sanity option was missing.

How much did google pay them to make it worse?

Now testing all the other browsers.

Waterfox, sausage UI and that new menu, install uninstall.

Brave, not great UI, gave up after 5 minutes.

Opera, did not gel.

Using DDG for now as it is quite simple and not too painfull.

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

My own findings

More than 2 mugs of caffeine tea a day, leave me in a fight or flight stage with brain locked out.

No caffeine I seem to be fine.

A heavy user I know, is starting to forget things at a regular basis, he lives on constant caffeine coffee, and energy drinks. Often jittery.

I think he is the outcome of addiction.

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: "if any other party gets into power."

Johnson sacked them

Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul

10 worked fine, 11 creaking under the load

My work PC downgraded last year from 10 to 11, and as time goes on gets slower and slower.

Adds features I do not use, hogging RAM and CPU cycles.

Some I can turn off, or taskkill.

Yet MS word now no longer saves without ai.exe running.

Adds more and more junk, so I struggle to run what I need.

Now feels slower than a Q8300 with 4GB RAM running Windows 7, in fact compile speeds are no better.

More cores, more speed, slower.

The same compiler however is rapid under WINE on my Linux box.

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

I have the better version

New build in a village with generally poor internet.

But they put really good fibre in our new estate.

I think we all want FIBRE

See above.

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 – even the Professional edition

Not used windows shutdown since XP

use shutdown in a command line as I can always find that.

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions

only seen my account so

not been able to transfer it all to my account.

Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B

Why am I thinking of Compo and Foggy?

With a name like that.

US struck Iran with copies of its own drones

Re: Proof this was long planned

To take heat off the trump-epstein files.

Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees

Windows stress

As soon as built, you need to start planning the installation of the next OS, and the next.

Can never rest.

A real stressor.

Constantly moving target.

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

A 965, nice

Re: A Microsoft Car would have

Don't worry, some manufacturers are already removing solid links between controls and what they control.

Steer by wire is here (in some countries) I expect brakes are too.

Re: It's a fleet, not one car

The Maestro was actually a pretty good car, nicer than the equivalent Fords.

A previous job had various pool cars. I managed to kill one, it had a terrible gear box, and terrible indicators, a Ford of some sort.

I think I blew the clutch or gearbox as it would NOT do 1-2 but 1-4, so I just abused it.

My car at the time had superb gearchange and handling, and was an old Rootes based hatch.

Best pool car though was an Astra van.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Re: Not a Trump thing.

I now have long covid as I caught it after a return to office. From people who went out and about without a care, and themsleves came into the office ill.

Yes been vaccinated so did not get too ill at the time, but it is over 3 years now, and only just starting to recover.

I nearly medically retired, luckily WFH is OK.

PEM is no laughing matter.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Update

Been able to run the IDE, compile, link, and run an application using Visual Objects, a WIN32 dev environment.

Mine updated yesterday

Only tested on Notepad++ so far

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

Re: I thought they were part of Stellantis

So they are then, over here, and in Australia we have no time for them, abandoning whole markets.

I reckon Blade Runner 2049 in correct, every car will be a Peugeot. 3/4s of my previous cars have been subsumed by them.

I thought they were part of Stellantis

And no longer existed as a company called GM

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

They ignore complaints

Reported a Martin Lewis ad.

Reply - Nothing wrong with it.

Do they want to make another multi million pound donation to him?

Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage

Seize and Sell ships for scrap

If proven to have ripped a cable

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

I have dropped two companies in it recently

One to a government body due to automated systesm looking around, leaving things going to an old home address.

One I moved a big pile of money as they did not answer my support ticket for 3 months.

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future

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

Recently checked

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

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

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

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

Re: Took some reading to understand

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No problem

Went Linux Mint

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

Re: There may be trouble ahead....

I thought all the content was on TPB.

BOFH: These office thefts really take the biscuit

Bitter

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.