Posts by PeterM42

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

Whatever.....

They don't make 'em like that any more.

Do they Boeing????

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

Some facts:

AI is clever stuff, but it is NOT "intelligence".

50% of the population are BELOW average intelligence.

Nuclear fusion is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.

Quantum Computing is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.

Microsoft still cannot produce fault-free software.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Easy Answer:

I always treat OneDrive as a VIRUS.

So perform required steps to remove said VIRUS.

Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar

Re: 90 Minutes to install a patch????

Test, test and test again. This is NOT Microsoft.

The only thing you can do quickly when it comes to aircraft, is crash.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: Surface Hub reboot?

Or even a proper computer such as the Blackview MP60 with decent storage and full-blooded Windows.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226158667320?_skw=blackview+mini+pc&itmmeta=01JRB4CQRV53BJGZY4VQNSWQNX&hash=item34a81b6638:g:Uj4AAOSwSHBmTwdp&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dosaM5zcivxQ8S0nozJwYnMMjICHClQqJXVCAO%2FUQcNTteTjqiwsWjej9c6VvhtinxluvKCgEi1z9WwBQcCJoojsxds1Z%2FCtfZf2%2BikwNXYSG25CFDF%2FBtxqpk5yHRbdLQncdS27VYS3VZOV1tVkqV2cz%2Fs3xg8EeaUcxuwbAbMQkXdNCgOJ3u9IMFdbGJa6sDLELbUbcCjLmSZD7Q323zqEJCm7hkuECZq5CxKU861OJTtvCdT9N0ROCQiV3HiqO6zH0dP0gPETc%2FJrr3dYQiphie9Py13AA%2BU7P1m91SKw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8r8suTCZQ

UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay

Oh dear

ANOTHER £16Bn down the drain.

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

"I assume intelligent people working in councils."

Ah! - spotted the flaw in your argument.

Anyone who understands the computer industry knows that a move to Oracle in not necessarily a good move.

Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update

Another day......

.....another M$ screw-up!

Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU

Microsoft/Office 364½ sounds like a dream

"The company attributed its most recent cloud failures to a problematic code change. It has yet to explain why so much of Europe appears to be experiencing a slowdown or complete outage in the EAC.

The company says: "The Exchange admin center (EAC) is a modern, web-based management console for managing Exchange that's designed to provide an experience more in line with the overall Microsoft 365 admin experience."

Judging by recent outages across Microsoft 365, we'd say it has done a stellar job there."

ie: SNAFU - Situation Normal All FOULED Up - Microsoft "Normal".

Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time

HP deserves to die

No more great products.

Give us TOTAL CONTROL over your HP printer

Charge exhorbitant amounts for ink

etc

etc

Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

"Microsoft's AI less useful than expected"

No surprises, there. I tried using Microsoft Maps once; whole large buildings such as schools were apparently located about ½mile away from their actual location.

PATHETIC!

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Barrel

"I met the BARREL coming up!"

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Re: Oracle

"West Sussex County Council will be hoping its Oracle project achieves the savings it promises."

It won't.

£40million buys you a lot of in-house staff and (electronic) card indexes.

Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in

Actually....

...A new hospital would be useful.

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

What a lot of people don't realise is that.....

AI can also mean Asinine Ignorance as recently demonstrated by UK's very own Keir Starmer.

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff

Definitions of AI

Asinine Incompetence

Asinine Ignorance

With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record

Re: AI definition

Or even

Asinine Ignorance

AI definition

Asinine* Incompetence.

Asinine* - Google it if your English is inadequate.

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

And the "Chocolate Teapot Award" goes to..........

MICROCRAP!!!!!

Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders

Another failing attempt by MicroCRAP.........

...to do what others CAN DO with apparent ease:

eg:

EMail

Browsers

Search Engines

Maps

Operating Systems

etc.,

etc.

Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help

Oh Dear! - Microsoft making a mistake?....

Yes - by trying to do away with Control Panel.

It wasn't broke, so they decided to fix it!!! (so that it is now DIFFICULT to get to what you want.

Thank you, post-Bill Gates people - YOU HAVEN'T A CLUE!!!!

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

Simple answer...

....STOP WASTING PUBLIC MONEY on something so OBVIOUSLY USELESS!!!!!!!!!

Western Digital wasn't the only one - Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems

A bit like Boeing

Microcrap has changed from a company that makes great systems

to a company that makes great money for shareholders and (b)sod the engineering.

Snowflake slams 'more MFA' button again – months after Ticketmaster, Santander breaches

Now we know why......

........they are called "Snowflake".

Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service

What's wrong with 2 of them?

Gemini = twins?!?!?

Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda

Ah!

So THAT's why their petrol is not always the cheapest now.

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

Hope they have improved.....

.....since they rolled out their desktops and laptops for a certain charter airlines' Y2K push.

Before Fushitesu, I had only ever encountered 2 video driver hardware failures despite supporting very many PCs - but many of theirs failed.

Never had a network card failure until, I think, every single Fuji desktop needed their network cards replacing.

Don't even talk about performance and compatibility!!!!

The laptops were OK, until the creakiing hinges finally broke.

At home, I have a few 3½" external drives for backup. The performance of the Fuji one is very poor.

Microsoft mistake blows up admins' inboxes with fake malware alerts

Microcr@p 364½ strikes again

GROAN!

City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle

Why do people work for councils?

Nobody else would employ them.

Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build

Surely the answer should be simple.......

Android on the desktop.

Millions (if not billions) of people have it in their pockets, so why not on the desktop?

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

If it's Boeing.....

....I'm not going

Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene

Only Accept.....

.....when you know WHO is trying to access.

Microsoft to intro checkpoint cumulative updates for Win 11

Re: Why Windows update takes ages.

The mixing of applications and OS is a major design failing of Windows (and many other OSs).

To ensure better security (and efficiency), the OS should be as isolated from applications as possible, with only well-defined links between the 2.

And don't get me started on DLLs!

Re: I'm not sure

I have always felt that the registry is a major security hole in Windows NT.

A simple .reg file cqn cause havoc.

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

Look back in history.....

.......to the Russain Revolution - 1905

Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel

Come back Windows 7

All is forgiven.

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity bows out to make way for Delta Class successor

Another Ego project

Richard Branson should stick to airlines, when it comes to anything that takes off the ground.

Virgin Atlantic may not be top of the heap, but it is a good PROFITABLE business. "Space Travel" does not bring home the bacon.

HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights

What is it with HP?

First their printers become unusable, their desktops were SLOOOOOWWWW and now their laptops.

Are they trying to justify getting out of the PC/printer business by upsetting customers?

I volunteer with a computer help group and always groan when someone says they have an HP printer.

When they ask what should they buy, I say "Anything BUT HP."

Microsoft updates accessibility feature Voice Access to auto-restart

When in doubt.....

.......turn it off and on again.

If that fails, stop using it - it is obviously not tested properly.

Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs

Re: Expectation Vs. Reality

The Reality is that Microcrap are continuing to make home networking a difficult as possible.

It wasn't broke (Windows 7), so they decided to fix it.

GROAN!

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

I am amazed.....

......that ANYONE noticed Bing was down.

And using Microsoft maps could lead you anywhere given the high number of errors in my local area.

Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

If it's Microsoft.....

......you can't expect it to be SECURE, surely?

Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you're mostly grown up – now fix the spam

Re: I still use my Gmail...

ABSOLUTELY! - GMail is VASTLY better at filtering spam than Microcrap's hotmail/outlook.com/live.co.uk etc.

Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer

PS

Will it fix the potholes in our roads?

If not, I can certainly think of something better to spend the money on.

And then......

.... a flash of lightning welded the power switch ON.

And an apocryphal deep voice boomed, "There is a God NOW!"

Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays

Re: Hmm

"I am not surprised our immigration system doesnt work correctly, it doesnt even know how many people have entered the country."

SPOT ON!! - Ignore those 19 downvotes. Our government does NOT have a clue about many things, but especially immigration.

Just remember - Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech and look at what is happening in Eire (Republic of Ireland) now.

Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard

Ah - OneDrive

The Devil's cloud storage.

When you have lost your desktop, etc. once, you are more likely to do the RIGHT THING - retrieve your files, then delete OneDrive.

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

Re: Any particular Android apps?

Aquamail

X-Plore

MobilityWare games

Plus many others.

There goes......

........the only GOOD reason to go for Windows 11.

It works really well for now. Pity you have to sideload all the decent apps, but performance is good once the WSA is loaded.

Typical of Microsoft to ditch the best thing they have done since W7 and Office 2010.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

".....Windows 11 lacks a killer feature....."???

Er,... what about Windows Subsystem for Android?

Even my "non-compliant" Windows PC runs it beautifully.

Just need the Google Play Store, now.