Posts by Mark 110

Google Drive ate our homework! Doc block blamed on code blunder

Re: Misreading the problem

"The problem is a 3rd party reading what they have no business accessing."

Nah the problem is the Daily Mail in insisting it must be read!!

Re: GDoc sync

Upvoted you cause I nearly gave up on it too. They fixed it though. Haven't had any issues in a year or two.

Re: GDoc sync

OneDrive just comes with easily clickable options to do this. Works. I can access my docs when not online and they sync when I am.

'The Queen' is showing Geneva how to be polite on public transport

Re: They've obviously never been on the Tube...

"Whether this is good or bad depends on how much of a hurry you are in. A queue seems to result in less-packed trains and hence longer waits, but is much more civilized."

I'm 6'2" and 14 stone. If people try and get on when I'm getting off they have a low success rate.

Kubernetes bug ate my banking app! How code flaw crashed Brit upstart

Re: Oh dear ...

Well said. There's lots of comments further up making assumptions it hadn't been tested properly. It doesn't matter whether you go waterfall, agile, devops - there's always weird behaviours sneak through your testing every now and then. Doesn't matter who you are or how good you think you are.

All DevOps says is if you automate as much as you can you should reduce the risks and save time/money.

First iPhone X fondlers struggle to admit that Face ID sort of sucks

Re: 10"- 20"

You don't drink? Just sit around watching box sets and eating chocolate . . .

You will get loads more down-votes on here if you start drinking as well :-)

Re: Do you know what works better than Face ID and Touch ID?

The HTC equivalent of fingerprint unlock is about 99.9% reliable. Damp or oily fingures send me to the pin. I am not sure what this whole face ID thing is for to be honest. If you didn't want to touch the phone (usually with my right thumb, conveniently as thats the digit in the right place) then why would ytou want to unlock it.

I like the whole Android thing where if its within spitting distance of my car or headphones then its just unlocked. Feels a bit insecure to me though so never bothered setting it up. If I lived in my car or had headphones glued to my head then maybe I would. There might be a market for an implant . .

What just banked $7bn in pay dirt, is stroking its big growth, and rhymes with cold sweat?

"It has been particularly exciting to see our early investment in AI pay off, and move from a project to something helping millions of people. It's a new paradigm."

What??? Nothing in the story about AI revenues. Whats he on about? Regurgitating the latest buzzwords in your earnings call isn't what I would call a new paradigm - been going on since earnings calls were invented.

Microsoft says something more hyper than Storage Spaces is coming 'very soon'

Re: Good plan

Surely a big IT enterprise would never be so cynical . . .

The EU is sooo 2016. We're all about the US now, say Brit scaleups

Not just the British that have a bad history. Portugese in South America, the Ottomans, French in North Africa, American (CIA) faffing in just about every country in the world. That 'power corrupts . . ' quote is pertinent.

Our government does seem to display a complete inability to get off its addiction to military action over diplomacy.

Anyway - not really anything to do with this discussion in the first place.

What just counted $24bn in receipts, and rhymes with psycho loft?

Looks like . .

. . . noones listening to the anti Microsoft crowd in this comments section . . . (and yeah I know - thats just asking to be downvoted to oblivion - don't care!! Off to Barcelona around about beer o'clock)

Google India must pay back-taxes on $225m after cheekily funneling cash through Ireland

Re: Dodgy as f**k...

Wouldn't work - theres plenty of legitimate reasons for that arrangement.

Using it between subsidiaries to move profits to the lowest taxpaying subsidiary is well dodgy though.

So you are blaming the Indian tax authorities for Western companies hiring cheap Indian labour?

Teradata lights candles, turns on TAP, runs itself soothing analytics bath

Oh dear

My experience with Teradata is no good. It seems to be incomprehensible to anyone except Teradata. And even if you buy one of their boxes and get them in to get it working you will still be there 5 years down the line with a working box not processing any data.

Not all Teradatas fault that example.. There were some issues on the customer side too.

When I was at Unilever they had a Teradata platform I used to run into technically but have no business knowledge as to if it was doing what it was supposed to. From the first example . . . . If they do what they were doing there very often they will be out of business in 5 years time. They just sold some stuff (hardware for best part of a million, project and services for much more) and never made it work. As I said, partly the clients fault.

MoD: We've got a handle on contract costs. Audit Office: About that...

Re: Financial risks on Trident successor – a Conspiracy of Concealment

Jag - nice piece. Lots of sense in there. But I would like to know:

- who you are,

- who you work for

- and whether you collaborated with El Reg to get first post of a good essay on this article.

A quick google of you brings up lots of links to stuff you have written on the failings of defense procurement but doesn't answer my questions about who you are or who is paying you.

Please enlighten us. You don't normally get this passionate about stuff without being paid. So if you are going to go lobbying on forums you need to say so, in the same way this organ says when its doing PR stuff for IT companies. Full disclosure please.

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Edit:

This article says you are a 'Defence Procurement Advisor' but not who pays your bills: https://www.nuclearinfo.org/blog/nuclear-information-service/2017/08/financial-risks-trident-successor-%E2%80%93-conspiracy-concealment

Sky mobe ad featuring beefcake Tom Hardy banned for being 'misleading'

Re: No Less Misleading Than

Your example is probably an error. But yeah - errors should be punished.

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I remember I used to buy two fresh pasta packs from Tesco as part of my weekly shop. IIRC they were £2.50 each or 2 for £3.50 - something like that. Just dropped them in my basket for about 5 years (creature of habit and boring food tastes).

Anyway - suddenly the 2 for £3.50 offer disappeared to be replaced by new special super low price of £2.25 each.

Cunts!!!! Was around the time I started shopping elsewhere.

Itfs a thought but much mnore expensive than the current system of letting the viewers screen the adds. Just ban advertising . . .

Please activate the anti-ransomware protection in your Windows 10 Fall Creators Update PC. Ta

Re: so..

Upvoted you cos you talk sense - however one of the reasons I can't make the switch to Linux is it breaks my workflow.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for no major UI changes in Windows. Just clean up the rough edges still hanging around after the 8 debacle. Its not friendly having both the old XP / 7 interfaces and the new 8/8.1/10 interfaces popping in randomly. The new ones suck pretty hard for anything except basic on/off switches.

Re: OneDrive

It works for OneDrive. Well the way I have it set up on this machine anyway. On this machine to write to OneDrive it writes to a local drive which then syncs to OneDrive. I can apply the setting to the OneDrive folder in explorer (which in a physical sense is a local folder. So yes works (on this machine).

Need to update my laptop at some point. I don't store all OneDrive files locally on the laptop so that might be different.

Re: Network shares etc?

Finally got the update installed. Bit busy and the numerous reboots booting into Linux when I'm not there to tell it not too slowed me down.

It lets me protect folders on my NAS but not apply the setting to the whole NAS. I need to apply it to each folder. But in answer the answer to the original question - yes - you can apply the protection to network locations.

Re: Network shares etc?

Hmmm - no I won't - haven't had the update yet . . . installing now.

Re: OneDrive

Another one for me to try later. Or are you saying you already tried and failed? Will save me a task if you have.

Re: Network shares etc?

I'm wondering if you can just apply the protection to the network drive as you would the local drive on your machine. Will give it a go when I get home later.

Hey, big vendor: Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook blow even more cash on lobbying

We should have a law like that in the UK - that would make really interesting reading.

Feel the pension pot burn, Canadian DXCers

Re: Bah!

You should work for local government in the UK - pensiontastic. Though it might have been idle bragging from the guy on the course who reckoned if he wanted he could retire at 55 on 50% of his salary.

Credit insurance tightens for geek shack Maplin Electronics

Re: You cant have it both ways @Neil 44

Came here to moan about their cable prices. You all beat me to it.

Viasat: We're going to sue Ofcom over EU-wide airline Wi-Fi network

Re: Is it really necessary to mandate EU-wide aeroplane Wi-Fi?

Don't think its mandated. They are just building a Europe wide platform people can use if they want to. I'm sure airlines are allowed to roll their own if they wish. (Haven't checked though - bureaucrats can be daft sometimes)

Re: I Have to side with Viasat on this one

Not sure why you got downvoted. I agree.

AI might outsmart ITIL, make MTBF moot, says ServiceNow strategist

Re: "Artificial Intelligence might..."

We need to keep repeating this:

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Current AI is not intelligent and therefore is not AI

Re: ???

MI - and you would probably log it as some kind of preventative maintenance request from the AI rather than an incident.

And if you wait til you have had 50,000 requests until you sort the workflows for those requests out then you are doing it wrong. And you still need to build the data model and support structure for the AI to use - chances are you will have built your workflows around that (or vice versa) in the first place.

Might be useful for discovering the workflows you never got around to sorting and have been winging it in the meantime I guess.

Let's make the coppers wear cameras! That'll make the ba... Oh. No sodding difference

Re: Alternative Comparison

Ever phoned the police to try and report something recently. Pretty much the first question they ask is "Have you got CCTV?". Not sure they know what top do if you haven't.

Re: Better justice is the difference

@Flatpackhamster (where can I buy one?)

Agree completely. Surely the whole point is to provide evidence if things come to court:

1. Protect the officer from claims of misconduct

2. Inform the jury (juries believe cameras more than people - in my personal experience on a jury, though they tried hard not to believe the camera, wanted to believe the poor thugs lies because he had a 2 year old, poor luv. Shouldn't have caved the lads head in on camera then should he?)

3. Protect the innocent, and not so innocent, from police violence

In my experience police (the ones wearing cams) behave reasonably well. Its the ones that are unlikely to be wearing cams that we need to watch.

GE goes with Apple: Not the Transformation you were looking for, Satya?

Is OmniGraffle available for Windows? Might give it a go. I like Visio but theres some niggles that have been annoying me for 10 years. Just clunky way, round-a-bout, of doing things that I could do better. Its not had much investment.

Edit: No. Not available for Windows and had a quick dig around their website to see if i8t would do what I would want it to do. None the wiser. Looks a bit pants based on their website (and definitely their support pages) and no Windows demo version for me to take a closer look.

Re: "It would be really interesting to see Apple release Mac OS to OEMs"

So what you guys are sort of saying is:

1. Apple software wouldn't be any good on other peoples hardware (too difficult to keep it all working good). Kind of what I sort of said with my 'idiot tax' remark. Bad phrase - I would never call anyone an idiot for buying a Mac.

2. By implication, Windows might be better if they stopped letting OEMs use the software. Bit of a stretch, but if it works for Apple . . . ?

Be interested to see what the OEMs came up with if Microsoft suddenly dived down the Apple strategy. That could be the year of Linux on the desktop!!!

It would be really interesting to see Apple release Mac OS to OEMs. I think Windows would get slaughtered. But Apple would no longer be able to rely on the Apple idiot tax and their profit margin would crumble along with the share price.

Re: ArrrrrG!!!

I've tried and failed. I can't even get basic things like DLNA working properly on my laptop if I boot i8nto Linux (downvote away). Not like I don't want to - just too old and stuck in my ways.

Wowee. Look at this server. Definitely keep critical data in there. Yup

Re: Deception is good

Isn't there a law enforcement angle here? Sort of like the SmartWater/ID stuff where is anyone nicks your physical stuff the police can get it back.

Have a Law enforcement honey trap available to you with crap security and a load of sniffing tools to suck people in, identify them and then do whatever law enforcement do. Only the sniffing to identifying is hard and likely to just hit the the script kiddies rather than the pros.

You may not know it, but you've already arrived at DevOps Land

Re: DevOps, Serverless, ODFO

"I cannot stand this almost condescending attitude that consists in saying that DevOps is the only way to go"

I have pointed this out before. If you go on a DevOps course they actually make a point of saying that its definitely not the only way to go and is really not appropriate in certain environments.

Symantec's guzzled the Azure Kool-Aid, tells all its customers: Drink up!

Re: ??

And I actually acknowledged that in my post when I said "I appreciate your point about cloud adoption probably reducing the diversity of the technology landscape". I didn't articulate it great but . . . regardless of who is buying the servers to host the stuff someone still does.

I agree that the last thing we want is the only people making hardware being Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Which I pointed to in the quote above. Who is it not reading properly?

Hmmpf. Time for bed.

Re: ??

Thumbs down for what? That surely wasn't controversial was it. It wasn't like I said "Linux on the desktop - never gonna happen". Blah!! Off out to watch Liverpool beat Maribor 2-3 after a couple of dreadful defensive errors leave us 0-2 down at half time.

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"Symantec beaming a significant proportion of its IT to the cloud means that it will no longer need the servers and storage running those apps."

They still need the servers and storage don't they? They just want someone else to buy them and run them whilst they pay that someone else for doing it. I appreciate your point about cloud adoption probably reducing the diversity of the technology landscape. That's got knock on effects around innovation.

But saying apps running in the cloud don't need servers, storage and network is a bit silly.

Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox

Re: "The sound was better"

My main room has a Sonos Connect outputting to my NAD digital amp and very nice speakers I got off a Jehovahs Witness selling up to go and be a missionary in Sierra Leone (hope he survived the hurricane - he was quite chatty).

Its not like Sonos don't make stuff you can use, with optical I/o, with proper digitally designed audio equipment. I chose quite carefully. Not a small investment for a over a grands worth of audio kit on my day rate.

And the other two bits of Sonos kit which I already owned do their job just fine. Horses for courses.

The Google Home Mini: Great, right up until you want to smash it in fury

Re: Silly Valley

"Orac and Avon, it was always funny watching them spar."

What you mean there was more than one character in the thing? Wasn't it just all about Dayna?

(I was 12 at the time and my love of SciFi may have been overtaken by other urges that only became understandable a little later. Mmmmmm, Josette Simon)

Qualcomm takes 5G to spooky millimetre land

Oldham

Last place I felt like i was about to be mugged. Happened twice.

First time: Went to look at car. On my phone walking there just keeping better half informed and using Maps to get there - three lads suddenly tracking me, invading my space enough to regfister they were following me. 'Hard stare' they backed off.

Second time: Went to do the paperwork and finance on car purchase and waiting for the better half to pick me up. Messaging her on my phone. 3 lads getting closer and closer. Same ones I think - I hadn't concentrated first time. Gave them a 'Really?;' look. They wandered off looking a bit sheepish.

And yes it was raining.

Night out in London tonight: Beer, Reg and platform wars

Re: Tribes

Windows 8 is a slightly weird concept. It sort of worked, but noone ever used it how Microsoft intended. I just sort of ignored all the tablet interface and worked around it.

Re: Groups and strife

Yes its fine. Any paper that wears its heart on its sleeve and doesn't lie in the news articles (saves that for the Opinion) is fine. Guardian, Telegraph, Times (mostly), Indy. All good.

The Daily Mail demands apologies. Opinion pieces masquerading as news on the front page are a bad thing.

NHS: Remember those patient records we didn't deliver? Well, we found another 162,000

Re: Support your NHS

WTF are they still using paper for anyway?

Re: Death Camp Business?

Reminds of the time my ex turned up for her important appointment she had been waiting 3 months for only to be told the Test results had gone missing and they would have to start all over again . . . grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr