Posts by PeterM42

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.

NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board

What would you do with $2.5Bn - $7.4Bn????

I could think of something more useful that collecting a few rocks.

HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO

HP need the money....

....to compensate for the lost (or returned as not fit for purpose) printer sales they must be experiencing, due to their printer software being ABSOLUTE CRAP.

As someone who volunteers at a help drop-in, we see multiple problems with HP printers. If it can't be fixed (the usual case) I recommend dumping it and buying ANYTHING BUT HP.

Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact NHS-Palantir contract

Re: Perhaps, though I might be sniffing glue today...

To paraphrase a well known saying:

Never attribute to money-grabbing, what can be attributed to corruption.

In my experience, NHS admin are NOT capable of organising the proverbial p1ss-up in a brewery.

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

To be expected.......

The kids at Microsoft have found it difficult ever since Bill Gates left.

Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit

I hope it gets FULLY tested

Unlike certain software from Boeing.

Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs

Criminal Acts by Fujitsu, surely?

"....we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of the subpostmasters [and for] that we are truly sorry."

Sounds like conspiracy to me.

Re: Fushitesu

".....And what happens to the staff employed by Fujitsu?"

Easy - INSOURCE them!!!!!!!!

Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant

IMHO

Having been outsourced to Logica, then Wipro, my opinion of the whole outsourcing business is:

- It's great for the outsourcing provider bosses who draw huge salaries.

- Crap for the employees who get treated like sh1t.

- The service supplied will nearly always be inferior to AND more expensive than running the service in-house.

Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady

Oh Dear

A combination of Microsoft and HP Printers - NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!

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