Posts by PeterM42

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Don't forget.....

...HS (Human Stupidity)

HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

HP would do well........

.....to turn their printers back into PRINTERS (ie: a device for printing) instead of a personal details collection device.

I once got a client to return their HP "printer" as "not fit for purpose" for this reason.

Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed

"When you get there you're all alone!"

What about The Clangers and The Soup Dragon????

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Artificial Intelligence.......

.......Human Stupidity.

BTW, Microsoft Maps has multiple significant errors just in my local ½-square mile. Makes one wonder about the rest of the world.

NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms)

DON'T LOOK UP!

Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

Ah! - the pleasures of cloud computing.

You know it makes sense!

- OH! WAIT!........

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

TPM is no longer an issue......

From an ISO, just run setup.exe /product server to upgrade.

It doesn't install server, but does the upgrade!

Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive

OneDrive is a NIGHTMARE

I volunteer for a charity which runs computer help sessions for less knowledgeable users and always tell them to get their data (usually photos) out of the clutches of MicroCRAP, onto their OWN storage (+backup of course), then delete OneDrive from their system.

US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance

Re: Time Compression

Microsoft's decline is easily tied to the departure of Bill gates.

Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe

Another Day...............

.............another MicroCRAP F-UP!!

Boeing abandons plans for crewed Starliner flight in 2023

BOEING

Bits

Of

Everything

In

Neighbour's

Garden

Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system

In my day.....

ionising radiation was measured in Rontgens, recently it seems to be Sieverts. So what with these "Grays"?????

Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth

Re: But these AI days ...

"The true measure of technology is not how well it matches human intelligence, but how well it survives human stupidity."

Is actually a VERY profound statement.

UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement

This Project needs a name.

I suggest "FUCKUP":

Full

Universal

Computer

Knowledge

Ultranet

Project

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in

IBM

It's a Big Mess

At last, Microsoft lets Windows 11 share files with Android apps

Too Right

In my experience most users don't have a CLUE about filing. then wonder why they can't find anything.

What do we make of the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? It doesn't take a magic leap to guess

A must-have item

For the insanely rich.

CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules

Discover...what the Universe is for and why it is here....

,.... it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

Yes, this HAS already happened.

Welcome to WOKE world.

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

Re: Juicy deets

I could have written that!

ONEDRIVE is enough to drive users over the EDGE.

Sorry about the pun, but..........

Re: Forced upgrade

Surprised ANYONE uses Skype now MicroCRAP have buggered it.

Re: Windows 11 use has jumped from almost 9 percent in March (2022) to 23 percent in April.

And please note "Windows 11" is only NT 10.0.22nnn.nnnn

NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail

Well, after all......

.....it IS Rocket Science!

Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS

Oh! The IRONY!

Close down to replace a UPS?!!!

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Microsoft used to do things people liked......

......but not anymore.

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

OneDrive......

Has aspects of a virus....

1) It tries to be discreet.

2) You no longer "own" your desktop.

3) Someone else has control.

etc.

British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue'

364½....

.....strikes again????

Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious

Another Day......

....another screw-up from MicroCRAP

UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog

Re: WTF!

EMIS seems to work quite well - makes prepeat prescription requests easy.

Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365

Office 364½ strikes again

'Nuff Said!

Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices

Re: Windows 10 the last Windows you will ever need

Actually "Windows 11" is just late versions of 10.

At a CMD prompt, type VER<rtn>

Microsoft's Outlook: Cloudy with a chance of junk-mail-stuffed inboxes

will be interesing to know what went wrong:

- An upgrade?

- A downgrade?

- New "Features"? (aka "Bugs")

- Someone pulled the plug on the server to vacuum the Data Centre?

- Disgruntled employee?

- Disgruntled about to be ex-employee?

- Banana skins on the server room floor?

Or was it just what we have come to expect? - Lack of testing, Poor change control, Incompetence?

We need to know.

Apple: No more sneak-peek previews of iOS unless you pay for the privilege

If it's APPLE.....

.....it's got to be charged for at an extortionate rate.

After all

A.P.P.L.E. = All Proprietary Products Ludicrously Expensive

Not satisfied with Virgin Media and O2 merger, Liberty Global takes 5% Vodafone stake

It's a variation of the Golden Rule"......

Whoever owns the fibre makes the money.

Zoox blurs line between workers and crash test dummies in robo-taxi trial

Re: Call me when the can navigate...

Potholes - you forgot the potholes!

We used to drive on the road,

Now we drive on what is left of the road.

Conversational AI tells us what we want to hear – a fib that the Web is reliable and friendly

"....and guaranteed that ChatGPT ......

would be integrated across the entire suite of Microsoft products. That means not just Bing, but Office, Github, and – very likely – Windows."

OMG - We really are all DOOMED!

US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030

".........modernization is planned to be completed in 2030"

By which time it will be out-of-date............

Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken

Is this anything to do with........

.......Microsoft's incredibly awful 364½ products?

Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI

Re: That explains something

SPOT ON, Denarius.

It is so easy to spot when Bill Gates gave up - windows 7 and Office 2010. After that it all went downhill.

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

Re: Advertising Standards

What about 364½, 363½, etc? Outages don't necessarily last ALL day.

Oh! Wait.........

America's nuclear fusion 'breakthrough' is super-hot ... yet far from practical

Oh really?

Nuclear fusion has always been the energy source of the future.

Still IS the energy source of the future,

.And always will be the energy source of the future.

Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

Ah! - Is that anything to do with......

..... Office 364½ ?

The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security

, if they fiddle with it much more it will be Windows 11.

Go to the cmd prompt and type VER.

Windows 11 IS Windows 10.

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

What you have to remember...

....this IS rocket science.

HP pays $1.3m to settle dispute over printer security chip

I am pleased I am not the only one who disses HP

The last person I know who bought an HP printer, took it back as “not fit for purpose” and got an alternative make.

That was after I had taken AGES trying to make it work.

HP need to re-think how they go about producing stuff.

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

Another IT and Financial.......

.........DISASTER on it's way.

$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid

Re: You could not make it up.....

Not at all. Why would anyone in their right mind bid for a poison chalice?

China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute

Some way to go

In an electronic world where Office/Outlook 2019 cannot successfully send a simple PDF to an email recipient, I have grave doubts that much will come of all this "Metaverse" hype.

Blimey, Facebook app won't always rotate to landscape orientation.

Microsoft looks beyond the US with Windows Subsystem for Android

Sod the games........

......I want it to run Aquamail in place of the useless Outlook mail client.

Anyway, Japan? Japan? What about the UK? We do exist you know.

Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting

Re: I Prefer to call It....

"Outhouse......because it's full of shit and it stinks."

WINNING COMMENT! - Go to the top of the MicroCRAP Class.

2010 worked, but since then..............