Posts by N2

Not very bright: Apple geniuses spend two weeks, $10,000 of repairs on a MacBook Pro fault caused by one dumb bug

Interesting story

And quite a comprehensive review on his blog.

But if it is true, why did it not show after the NVRAM reset?

Years ago I went through a similar problem with my Mac Pro, which was entirely my fault for tinkering. it was booting but the screen was black. A little button located on the motherboard near the battery reset the SMC after which it behaved.

UK taxman spent six times more with AWS last year than cloud firm paid in corporation tax

And so it goes on...

Until the law is changed and implemented correctly.

This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Can I pay for less?

Less bloaty tat, less CPU hog & memory useage might be a good start.

Like using the latest version of Microsoft Office? Love Offline Files? Not for long!

Why not upgrade?

To O2003? </luddite>

But it does not fuck things up.

UK's internet registry prepares a £100m windfall for its board members – and everyone else will pay for it

Monopoly?

That is all.

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

More evidence

That Cook is shuch a twonk.

I have no idea where they get $999 for a fekking stand

What's in store for Microsoft's US pop-up shops? Not much, they're being closed

This is the problem with Microsoft

Theres no commitment to anything, apart from eternally pissing off users with their up dates.

Select next great fad of choice and one minute it's all the rage, then dropped like a childs toy.

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

I stopped here:

Seamless updates "invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions"

As it's probbaly impossible, I hope not but Jeeze, have they some work to do.

Apple reckons mystery new material will debug butterfly keyboard woes in latest MacBook Pros

But then you have the horrid US enter key...

That the one with the rubber gloves in the special room at border control?

Re: Dear Apple

Thin = fucked, there's precious little room for heat dissipation

Apple arms web browser privacy torpedo, points it directly at Google's advertising model

Re: I'll carry on as before

Agreed,

AdGuard Pro on my phone seems to kill the slop.

Hosts file also works well

To all ad slingers --> see icon

Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register

Re: ABS

Nice one, how the truth hurts!

I wrote a little Access script once, to change the text title in the db window effectively suggesting some ones right arm was significantly stronger than their left.

If I remember correctly, it only triggered on 29th of Feb so it took years to discover.

Re: Aye laddie...

How long before someone e-mailed the boss a virus?

Indeed,

Unfortunately upper management seems far too heavily infected by this sort of twonk attitude.

Aye laddie...

Those were the days,

When you could get fired for introducing a virus on a 'non registered' floppy disc or heaven forbid, a registered one!

Even though your boss refused steadfastly, to deploy any sort of AV software.

Let adware be treated as malware, Canuck boffins declare after breaking open Wajam ad injector

Re: Block the lot!

Guardian reader eh?

I'd keep quiet about that!

Re: So...

warn users?

Surely not? You'd spend half your life clicking 'deny'

Hosts file, Adblocker ultimate and NoScript seem to do the trick

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Re: "they don't care if we're screwing the neighbours wife or murdering someone"

So if youre watching Mrs Teal, this is for £15...

Considering the severity of the issue

There is absolutely fucking nothing regarding the matter on their website

Or is it everyone else's job to sort out the mess?

Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps

Re: To be fair to Adobe ....

Its a trap, more like creative ransomware.

Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system

Re: Tube - 50K

Thats just to turn up.

Performance related pay, if you can hit the windscreen...

Portal to 'HELL' cracks open in street – oh sorry, it's just another pothole

Sounds like the Daily Fail

Where everything: soars, plunges or plummets along with washboard abs and very TINY bikini

In the claws of a vulture: Nebra AnyBeam Laser Projector

Re: Uhh

Why would you take a projector camping or hiking?

Because you can and your neighbour, no matter how new their car is won't have one. As well as the fact you need stuff, you know like all the other essentials: V8 diesel generator, UPS units, Satellite uplink, enough solar panels to power a blast furnace, those water pumps with carbon filters that can purify water from a puddle.

Brit broadband download speeds are still below the global average, hoots Ofcom

In fairly rural France

There is a fibre optic rollout throught the Vendee.

A recently connected friend gets 331 down & 111 up, thats Mb/s. Whilst the roll of purple cable advances towards our village, we still get 9.8 Mb/s down from the 'old' ADSL line.

Blame Canada! Zuckerberg subpoenaed to face Cambridge Anal. probe from Canucks

London

I generally find that people who say "London, England" are Americans.

Otherwise they mght end up in London Ohio.

File Explorer tweaked and Your Phone borked. A fresh Windows 10 Insider build arrives

Bork 18894

That is all.

Hate e-scooters? Join the club of the pals of 190 riders in Austin TX who ended up in hospital

Re: Make helmets mandatory - oh wait, we can't

Perhaps a severe knock to your cranium would have no ill effects then?

Late with your financial paperwork? Here's a handy excuse: Malware smacked your bean-counter cloud offline

never give unauthorized access to the data...

Until when?

Thats a fine crystal ball you have there sir.

Google jumps the shark from search results to your camera: Nest Hub, Pixels, and more from ad giant's coder confab

Re: make car reservations and buy movie tickets on behalf of users...

Agree entirely

My wifes flight from La Rochelle to UK was cancelled yesterday so late she could only interact with a chatbot because evryone had fucked off or refused to pick the phone up. So typed in NANTES caps to be sure as an alternative departure airport.

The ticket duly arrived: Naples to London - couldn't even get the right feckking country.

I see you're writing an app... Microsoft nudges AI Clippy-for-Code out the door, turns machine learning onto Word

I see you are writing an app...

Would you like me to fuck that up as well?

Firefox armagg-add-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

Re: Easy work-around for many

Tried that but did not work.

If I remember correctly

This very nearly happened to Mozilla about 2 years ago when a certificate was close to expiration - please correct if not

It would appear they learned nothing from this.

I also had to poke around their website for quite a while to try and discover what was really going on.

Not good enough really.

What a pain in the Azzz-ure: Microsoft Azure, SharePoint, etc knocked offline by DNS blunder

Re: If in Doubt, blame DNS

Oh shit, you found me out, that was my excuse too!

And of course IPV6 will solve all your woes...

Re: This will be fun...

"We want the stability of Microsoft"

That made me smile.

Cali Right-to-Repair law dropped, cracks screen, has to be taken to authorized repair shop

Amazing isn't it...

Trillion dollar companys

But they engineer obsolecense and difficulty to repair into their products, claim 'green credentials' and act like complete twats towards their customers. Then scratch their heads when profits fall.

A pox on their houses for eternity.

UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

UK is not a surveillance state?

Pull the other one.

The louder you shout, the less we believe you - actions speak louder than words.

UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs

...and enables us to get callers through to an adviser faster

Fuck off,

It always takes ages to speak to them, following which, the dolts just cock things up even more.

Microsoft promises to boil down its lengthy and confusing privacy controls… in 1,500-word announcement

Re: Too little too late, Microsoft (Facebook, Amazon, Google, et alia).

Agreed,

But don't forget your hosts file.

Apple iPhone sales down by double digits, Mac sales knifed by Intel CPU 'constraints'

Re: Nobody wants to acknowledge

Oh and I forgot

That fucking silly plant pot thing called MacPro 6.1 - ridiculous objet d'art.

Classic Mac Pro = miles better. my 5.1 still much used and very good too.

Re: Nobody wants to acknowledge

And of course, if you must shit on your own doorstep, then expect to have to clear up the mess or live with it:

Hard wired ram

Hard wired HDD

Hard wired battery

Just who wants any of that shite?

Sky customers moan: Our broadband hubs are bricking it

Re: It's been years since . . . .

Yes, agreed.

I thought it was the first rule of ISP installation to chuck the crappy hub and install something decent.

That way they can't dick around with it.

Say hi to pay-as-you-go on-prem IT: Dell, VMware tout private cloud-as-a-service, or rentable tech as everyone would call it

Re: Why you shouldn't listen to those with MBAs

Agreed,

MBA types do seem obsessed with leasing, upping the 'burn factor'

Buy, asset thrash then flog on E-bay can work for some kit.

Re: Private cloud? no such thing

Hmm,

So whats that grey fluffy stuff that hangs off my NAS box?

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

This 're-build public trust' bollox...

As some one rightly pointed out in a previous forum, trust is earned not demanded.

Watch the hand not the mouth.

Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names

Re: Protection Racket

This is where a government body should step in and ensure customers aren't being screwed.

Agreed, but that should have happened long ago when these 'fresh air' racketeers started peddaling their wares. But then they take their cut so never going to happen.

Facebook: Not saying we've done anything wrong but... we're just putting $3bn profit aside for an FTC privacy fine

Re: Could be a trend

By the way, we are still not going to give users a choice of browser

Theres always been choice, you just have to look for it - I really don't see that as a problem.

Brit spy chief: We need trust or we won't have a 'licence to operate in cyberspace'

Re: A bit of advice for the gentleman

Agreed, well said.

How can the public or anyone for that matter, trust any government dpeartment?

Microsoft fans celebrate the Easter weekend with some Sets-based upsets

Re: Microsoft is so 20th century...

Old enough to recall that NT 4.0 into Netware 3.11 was generally pretty solid.

Or at least, it diddnt seem as bad as the recent crop of shyte back then.

Microsoft is so 20th century...

Well, they'd be doing a lot better now if they stuck to 20th century policies, as opposed to the

spyware, shyteware, fuck it and run policies it has now.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Big drinkers?

Americans? That made me smile, 22 years in the Royal Navy I've witnessed countless Americans reeling after a few beers which are usually beer in name only, weak larger springs to mind.

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Remind me...

Something about never buying version one of anything?