I had honestly forgotten that Windows 8 existed and that I had to use it at home until Windows 10. Nobody I knew used it apart from me.
Posts by Sir Sham Cad
637 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8
Larry Ale-ison institute invests in Oxford pub linked to Tolkien, CS Lewis
Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times
More X subscription tiers could spell doom for free access as biz bleeds cash
UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction
Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
Were people really PAYING for low-resolution background images for their phones for "a few years"?
Yes, and I worked for a (now defunct) company specialising in early personalised 3D avatars where the VCs panicked, brought in someone to pivot the company to sell said low-res images of the custom, personalised, hi res 3D image as that's where the quick money was.
Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU
Re: A little homily comparing two basketball players?
Since I can never let a good metaphor go un-tortured, I would suggest one player owns the court and gets to place their hoop anywhere they like and only they can score points in their hoop and the other player needs to sneak their hoop in if they can at all.
Still, I cannot find it in me to have any sympathy with Zoom
Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations
US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones
Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal
Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud
Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data
Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica
Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway
Re: not uncommon
Oh God. Back in 2002 (at my current employer) we had a bespoke-built Intranet system on a physical Dell server and a copy on a PC (same OS, in theory identical) as the test server.
Microsoft patches. Worked fine on Test. Rolled out to Live. Irretrievably broke the Live server which needed complete rebuild plus a full rebuild of the bespoke software at considerable additional cost.
This will now identify me to approximately three people in the world.
NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
Infineon to offer recyclable circuit boards that dissolve in water
Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain
Re: Switching to a non-cable area? Fugedaboudit...
Same experience here. Moved home recently, already checked to see if I could port my service and couldn't. Tried to cancel and All I got was chatbot that couldn't help. Called up and was told to use chatbot. A long time later (hours) I got through to somebody in, well let's not call it "cancellations", it was the "customer retention" side. Asked my reason for wanting to cancel and would I consider a different tariff (new 24 month contract ahoy). Didn't read a damn thing from the chatbot or anything else I'd divulged. Had to give them my new address so they could confirm that they couldn't help me and then agreed to cancel the service.
I was out of contract and should have been able to phone up and say "cancel and confirm my last payment date".
Better than Plusnet, though, who won't even let you cancel if you're dead!
Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise
Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform
You're too dumb to use click-to-cancel, Big Biz says with straight face
Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead
BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'
Parker Solar Probe uncovers mystery of 'fast' solar winds
These Microsoft Office security signatures are 'practically worthless'
Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio
Clippy was the first Microsoft Annoyance that had me screaming "oh just FUCK OFF!" across the office because it was an extra unwanted/unrequested step I needed to dismiss whilst getting on with the work.
Windows system messages always popping up in the bottom right hand corner of the screen right where I'm trying to scroll is Clippy's legacy.
For old times' sake, then: "FUCK OFF, Clippy!"
Software rollout failure led to Devon & Cornwall cops recording zero crime for 3 months
Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight
Ride-snare: Lyft ruse helps cops cuff suspect in tech CEO murder case
Jaguar Land Rover ropes in Gorillaz to help it lure 5,000 'electronic wizards'
Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...
Crapness of WannaCrypt coding offers hope for ransomware victims
Healthcare tops UK data breach chart – but it's not what you're thinking
Re: As long as someone admits to having an incident.
The ICO actually tend to take a lighter touch if you self report so it's very much in the interests of the org that has the breach to report it.
One example of how a data breach can occur in the health service, for example, is with automated mailing (snail and e) of patient discharge summaries to the GP that is registered on the patient record only for the GP to have changed so a GP gets information sent to them regarding a patient that is no longer theirs.
Data quality can cause data breaches.