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Posts by Roger Greenwood
1074 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Sep 2006
Oh dear... Netizens think 'private' browsing really means totally private
My PC makes ‘negative energy waves’, said user, then demanded fix
Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet
I'm with you - right tool for the job. Standard office tools have a place but far too often we get engineering drawings somehow created in a spreadsheet and sent to us. That's room plans, schematics, mechanical panel layouts, anything to avoid using a proper CAD system. Completely inappropriate but cheap! As the article says, they are trying to reduce the amount of email, empower more of the workforce and do things differently - makes sense. Google started about 10 years ahead of Microsoft on collaboration and I'm not sure they've caught up yet.
Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76
Good luck saying 'Sorry I'm late, I had to update my car's firmware'
Swiss see Telly Tax as a Big Plus, vote against scrapping it
Spotify wants to go public but can't find Ed Sheeran (to pay him)
Full shift to electric vans would melt Royal Mail's London hub, MPs told
NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump
I see you're writing a résumé?!.. LinkedIn parked in MS Word
Lenovo literally has a screw loose – so it's recalled flagship Carbon X1 ThinkPads
Bring the people 'beautiful' electric car charging points, calls former transport minister
We're cutting F-35 costs, honest, insists jet-builder Lockheed Martin
Heathrow's air traffic radio set for shiny digital upgrade from Northrop
UK.gov puts Suffolk 7-year-old's submarine design into production
How fast is a piece of string? Boffin shoots ADSL signal down twine
2001: A Stob Odyssey
Munich council finds €49.3m for Windows 10 embrace
Does UK high street banks' crappy crypto actually matter?
Attitude of banks
True story:-
Lady asked to go into bank to draw out some money for her father.
No problem says the cashier - let me update your passbook while you're here.
Passbook updated. Hang on - unknown transaction - withdrawal from an ATM.
Cue big argument - cashier insists the system cannot be wrong. Lady insists her father cannot have withdrawn the money as the ATM was 100 miles away and he is too ill to travel. Cashier insists the system cannot be wrong. Argument escalates to senior supervisor who insists system cannot be wrong, no one can keep track of another person 100%, ill or not.
Lady says she can prove it was not withdrawn by her father - he hasn't got an ATM card.
Money duly restored to account.
Moral of the story - the system cannot be wrong. Except it can and you have to prove it.
Once more, with feeling: Dawn to take a closer look at Ceres
How many times can Microsoft kill Mobile?
Microsoft Office 365 Exchange issues for users across Europe
Apple's adoption of Qi signals the end of the wireless charging wars
Smart meters: 'Dog's breakfast' that'll only save you 'a tenner' – report
Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls
Hell desk to user: 'I know you're wrong. I wrote the software. And the protocol it runs on'
Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'
Ubuntu 'weaponised' to cure NHS of its addiction to Microsoft Windows
Researchers take the piss with pee-powered liquid energy project
'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever
Sympathise with this.
Today I used this little program, unmodified, and it still saves hours:-
// Withdrawable Plugs Program
// RG Started 29/10/96 last updated:- 4/11/96
// C++ - filename = wd.cpp
// IDE Notes :-
// set editor tab size to 3
// load project wd.prj
I am sure other readers will have more ancient stuff they still use?
Forcing digital forensics to obey 'one size fits all' crime lab standard is 'stupid and expensive'
Re: Not just commercial forensic labs...
"Consider that 17025 specifies that exhibits cannot be outside the exhibit store for more than n minutes at a time."
Not true - that is not in the standard. The word "exhibit" doesn't even exist in the version I have. It may be in your procedures, but that is a different problem.
"compliance bureaucracy"
Otherwise known as doing it properly with records i.e. ISO9001 without the old manufacturing bias. Minimum (external) cost is about £2k to £3K for the first audit for a small lab, then £1K per year after that, plus your own time of course. Any labs not already certified to ISO9001 may find this hard, but the 2 standards are very closely linked and compliance with ISO17025 means you are operating in accordance with ISO9001 (says so in the introduction).
Walkers' Crisps pulls backfiring Tweet campaign that paired Gary Lineker and a bunch of nasties
7 NSA hack tool wielding follow-up worm oozes onto scene: Hello, no need for any phish!
Faking incontinence and other ways to scare off tech support scammers
Windows 10: Triumphs and tragedies from Microsoft Build
Re: What Is Microsofts End Game ?
"we pressure the computer makers to ship LINUX versions"
Whilst I admire the sentiment, I don't know how you are going to do that. The fact is money talks - if enough folks bought something other than Windows (enough to affect the stats and the bottom line) then change would come. But sadly few people are that interested in this petty squabble of ours and therefore buy whatever is in the shop and from whoever has the largest marketing budget/slush fund.
For what it's worth, my last machine at home running an MS product was Win95 in 1996 on a second hand computer.
74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+
Re: Do we need attachments?
Regarding "two days quarantine", this would hit one of the main uses of email for business. We transfer drawings and specifications by the bucket load every day instead of using the postal service. We also receive orders that way - and they ring up 5 minutes after pressing send to make sure you got it (yes really).
So probably not realistic for health services either.
Today's bonkers bug report: Microsoft Edge can't print numbers
Microsoft plans summer CRM war opener against Salesforce
Time to make up: Realtime collaboration comes to Excel
Re: Less of a breakthrough . . .
The desktop version of old (2003?) had a facility we liked a lot - called shared spreadsheets or similar and it sort of worked most of the time. The trouble is it was very flaky and would hang - we got fed up of round tripping it through openoffice every week to clear out the cruft.
I have tried the online version but it still has a way to go in the user friendly department.
Open/Libre office never got there either.
UK.gov confirms it won't be buying V-22 Ospreys for new aircraft carriers
“long-range combat search and rescue” or “long-range high-speed delivery of mission essential spares and stores"
That's what drones are for. You can buy and operate a lot of drones for the cost of any chopper.
Immense range, lower risk to operators, high tech so keeping business happy with upgrades and replacements.
Wanted: Bot mechanic. New nerds, apply within
Plug and play
Surely this will be the future for most robots. Not all, of course, but central management and control solves a lot of day-to-day problems. This is already happening with infrastructure kit (electrical power, for instance) - you plug in new kit and it downloads all its settings from central management. Some kit has been doing this for decades (industrial controls) so it is only a matter of time before the mobile robotic chromebook arrives.
The folks who swap the kit in the field could be significantly de-skilled from days of ye olde fault finding.
A router with a fear of heights? Yup. It's a thing
Facebook shopped BBC hacks to National Crime Agency over child abuse images probe
Re: Facebook moderation is useless
Blame the algorithm?
After all, how much does one report of "bad" count against 50 "likes" - I am sure it won't be a real person looking at this until the scales swing the other way. If these images were in a hidden/private group it shouldn't be a surprise they were appreciated by the members. I wonder if any accounts have been suspended yet? Any arrests? After all, the real names policy will make it easy to identify them . . . . . . .