Posts by Dan 55

Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge...

And the UI was, of course, better than Notes'. However lately MS has had some entirely self-inflicted wounds in that respect...

'It's legacy stuff brute-forced in': Not everyone is happy with Citrix's cloud

Re: "Citrix Cloud"

It's not-yours all the way down.

Dudes. Blockchain. In a phone. It's gonna smash the 'commoditization of humanity' or something

Techradar didn't understand it either, so they asked Hdac who didn't answer.

Re: Blockchain. AI. Cloud. Cures Cancer!

I pity HTC's developers. They've had to implement some requirements which are nothing more than a collection of bullshit bingo words.

Sounds like Gavin Belson's spiritual advisor.

Brit privacy watchdog reports on political data harvests: We've read the lot so you don't have to

Re: CA will rise again.

They've already risen...

For €10k, Fujitsu will tell you if your blockchain project is a load of bull

Give me €5000 and two-and-a-half days...

... and I'll reply to your email with "yes, your blockchain project is a load of bull" as well.

Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything

Re: I've got a better solution...

it's the labelling of jars 'Kitchen Utensils' (with spatulas and whisks poking out the top) that I don't understand.

To the Bat Kitchen!

Mine's the black cape.

I do like the cover title

Very discreet. Will certainly deter anyone who's prying.

GitHub given Windows 9x's awesome and so very modern look

Re: Now, if only Git could work under Windows...

1. git != github.

2. Requiring "half of Linux to be installed" is a problem with the Windows port, not git itself.

Re: It looks old fashioned and...

Now that it's obvious what you can click on, it exposes yet another shortfall with the design - there are too many buttons, so they should be moved into menus.

But at least you know what you're clicking on, which is an improvement.

Imagine a patent on organizing computer files being used against online shopping sites. Oh, it's still happening

Re: IMO

Sounds like Hypercard, which came out five years before the patent.

Gemini goes back to the '90s with Agenda, Data and mulls next steps

You can download Agenda on other devices to see how it works

Only thing is it doesn't pop up a soft keyboard, so you need a hardware or BT one.

Link.

OK, so they sometimes push out insecure stuff, but software devs need our love and respect

Re: Top 10 far from the most common root causes of failure

Moronically obsessing about SCRUM-agile as your development path to Utopia, and being all smug about how you're achieving your weekly sprint, having implemented x bits of micro functionality, rather than producing quality code and eliminating technical debt.

Oh yes.

But everything needs a billable end customer, so there's no end customer for eliminating technical debt, yet all end customers benefit. So we just layer more and more crud on top of whatever it was the company was originally selling a decade or two ago, and we might even document it.

And then the marketing dept claims it's offering SaaS.

Banks told: Look, your systems WILL fail. What is your backup plan?

Re: Week-long?

I'm surprised two people managed to parse that gibberish and understand its intended meaning enough to upvote it.

(There were problems that shouldn't have been there two months later.)

Week-long?

The best known failure of late is of course TSB and its week-long meltdown and subsequent PR crisis

There were problems that there should have been two months later.

California lawmakers: We swear on our avocados we'll pass 'strongest net neutrality protections' in America

Re: Another View

Go through Google News.

Re: Another View

How a Rich Californian Hijacked the Legislature

Threatened with a ballot initiative, lawmakers pass a ruinous data-privacy law.

Damn the rich global elite wanting privacy. Why can't they be like the rest of us, and the big telecos and internet companies who are on our side, who don't want any of that fancy privacy stuff?

Hoping for Microsoft's mythical Andromeda in your Xmas stocking? Don't hold your breath

Re: "looking at them in one of those electronics shop windows"

Ah, so you mean it was a success outside of the US, like Nokia in its heyday.

Keep Windows off it.

Netbooks were fine, then XP muscled in (remember, everybody was supposed to run W7 but MS couldn't make it happen), then specs had to be increased to run Windows properly and the price went up, then W7 got squeezed onto them, then the form factor died as the price matched bigger more expensive laptops.

Every step you take: We track you for your own safety, you know?

Re: Alistair is easy

Yes, it only requires a US megacorp to plough millions of dollars into logistics to keep him happy.

This will work...

... at least until someone follows the delivery man round all day and collects the packages.

Windows 10's defences are pretty robust these days, so of course folk are trying to break them

Re: FFS!

Hey, if you're going to execute any old tat through e-mail or a web browser, at least it's readable XML instead of binary as in PIF or LNK files. That's progress!

Re: Security for Windows 10

It should go as far as the inside wall of the heavy lead tank that surrounds everything, no air gaps. MS have got all the details for you.

We might be skimming the Surface, but it looks like Microsoft's readying a wallet-friendly device

Re: Nothing new

18 months, as usual.

A Microsoft spokesperson told El Reg: "We have nothing to share on this."

As much as MS tries to copy Apple, it's not Apple.

Hurry up and make a deal on post-Brexit data flows, would you? Think of UK business – MPs

Which way do you think the data is going to flow in a hypothetical UK-US data deal? It certainly won't be from Google or Facebook to us.

And the EU won't allow the US access to EU data via a UK free-for-all slurpgrab. They have the GDPR, if the UK doesn't implement it then there will be no UK-EU data deal.

So any UK-US data deal is just yet another exercise in Brexit foot-gun national humiliation.

Re: Policy

"Fuck business" is paragraph 2) section b) of UK government policy.

"Fuck everyone" is paragraph 2) section a).

"We're having our cake and eating it" is paragraph 1).

ZX Spectrum reboot firm boss delays director vote date again

Have they got the money for boxes?

Re: "Leaks"

There's also the post where Levy pretty much accuses Clive of being a dribbling vegetable. As Clive has outlived his usefulness (or is getting tired of the whole thing and wants out of this nonsense), he's promptly thrown under a bus.

And there's a new post about RCL failing to pay a new manufacturer, just like they failed to pay the old manufacturer.

They won't share photos because they're going to send out different versions made from whatever crap sticks together in the office.

They won't share a video (apart from that one where you never see more than five seconds before it disappears under an effect) because it runs like a dog.

The few units they do send out will be to friends who they know won't kick up a fuss because they've fallen apart after five mins.

Thunderbird gets its EFAIL patch

Re: Good to see it's still in development

They don't have enough resources to fork Gecko so they've got no choice.

If Thunderbird pooled resources with Pale Moon, Waterfox, Basilisk, and SeaMonkey they might be able to maintain an older Gecko but open source is like herding cats.

Re: On SettingContent-ms files...

Ok, I'll tell my Dad who's running W10 Home that the easiest way is to block it himself by changing group policy.

Re: On SettingContent-ms files...

You don't need to explain it to me, I read the link given in the article, which is where the mention of Office was.

And in that linked page we find that MS decided it wasn't worth updating Office to filter out this filetype (see text I quoted from the linked page above). I guess they will when the exploits roll in... indicating MS is following the Adobe whack-a-mole method of bug fixing and Thunderbird, with much more limited resources, is more proactive.

On SettingContent-ms files...

MSRC responded with a note that the severity of the issue is below the bar for servicing and that the case will be closed.

So Thunderbird is more secure than Office.

I'll guess we'll just have to wait for someone to exploit it before MS do something about it.

They grow up so fast: Spam magnet Hotmail turned 22 today

"And then go back to GMail."

Speak for yourself.

Mail.com (GMX)

ProtonMail

Runbox

Fastmail

Posteo...

IBM fired me because I'm not a millennial, says axed cloud sales star in age discrim court row

Re: Dear Millennials

Yes, there are so many career paths on offer that it is merely choice that decides you do an unpaid internship instead of a paid one. Also your wages are purely choice too. Finally people don't chose to be middle/old age but do choose to be young, sort of like Benjamin Button, right?

Re: Dear Millennials

Aren't unpaid internships and being paid thruppence ha'penny a kind of ageism too?

Uh-oh. Boffins say most Android apps can slurp your screen – and you wouldn't even know it

Watch Google not fix it

Everything will stay the same for those apps targetting Android P or earlier because compatibility, apps targetting Android Q will have yet another permission added to the list (probably Others) which people will ignore.

Brit bank Lloyds carves out role for ex-Microsoft design guy Dan Makoski

Makoski's first day at Lloyds will be next week, although it is not clear what he will actually be working on, other than "human centric design".

When the batch runs go down again overnight and can't be recovered in a timely fashion due to outsourcing the job to people who don't know, he'll have the responsibility of crafting the friendly error message (or perhaps it'll be an emoji) that everyone will see the next morning.

Euro bank regulator: Don't follow the crowd. Stay off the cloud

Re: That's an interesting piece of reading for other Orgs

TSB (or Sabadell) also had the great idea of cloud-based banking.

Hands up if you didn't lose data in the Typeform breach

Looking at a comparison of survey software, it seems the only one which gets it is the one from Germany - on premises. All the rest are ripe for the picking.

GDPR

Who's paying the fines for this, Typeform or the end businesses?

New Android P beta is 'very close', 'near-final' but also just 'early'

Re: Wonder what it'll break ?

Indeed. And the end users pay with their data.

Re: Wonder what it'll break ?

The best that can be said about Android is that it's free.

It's not free.

Dear Samsung mobe owners: It may leak your private pics to randoms

Re: Samsung software

The person who downvoted that obviously hadn't read the Enlightened thread on TDWTF.

Samsung software

Just say no.

Budget hotel chain, UK political party, Monzo Bank, Patreon caught in Typeform database hack

Re: Dates of birth

You could set that very date on an iPhone 5 or something and it would get stuck in a boot loop.

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

Re: Captain!

You learn something new every day, I thought he was really called Otto...

Pi-lovers? There are two fresh OSes for your tiny computers to gobble

Re: PDF viewer...

Web browsers don't show BMPs, they do some layout as well...