Posts by imcdnzl

NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral

Good to see being promoted but only way it will really change to a large scale is if the websites enforce it, rather than make it optional. And if they're changing things then why not implement passkeys and push people towards those...

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

How about the Big Softie?

It incorporates the size, employee nicknames etc

Haha! Conformist 'Droids! Yep, that's what's most profitable these days, says Nokia

Slight correction

Great article. One slight correction is that HMD don't "own" Nokia. They're just a licensee of the brand, albeit that most HMD staff are ex-Nokia.

UK Home Sec thinks a Minority Report-style AI will prevent people posting bad things

Re: Too complicated

I agree with "Pete 2" and think that The Register is running a badly written article. Home secretaries have done and said some pretty stupid things in the past, but to check for content when you submit is, potentially, perfectly reasonable. I didn't actually even see a suggestion that it would be vetted before you typed, which is what the article is implying.

HP users moaning over 10-minute login lag during 'Win 10 update'

App readiness / HP support link

There is a hotfix at https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/SOLVED-For-everyone-who-is-having-black-screen-after-login/td-p/6318990/highlight/true/page/17

App readiness / HP support link

As someone else says disable app readiness service as a workaround. Official HP forum link is at https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/SOLVED-For-everyone-who-is-having-black-screen-after-login/td-p/6318990/highlight/true/page/2

Microsoft loves Linux so much, its OneDrive web app runs like a dog on Windows OS rivals

Fixed now

Pleased to report that this has been fixed. There are lots of Linux users inside Microsoft also working with the product teams to make things better (Disclaimer - I work for Microsoft, opinions my own).

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onedrivefb-mso_o365brs/onedrive-for-business-open-is-very-slow-on-linux/3d33dc1b-3cc3-4c24-9998-9ab96bad31fc

Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood

DarkTrace protects against internal threats so pointless to imply it was failing. DDoS comes externally and needs to be deal with upstream. I'm guessing William Hill didn't do practice runs with their upstream providers which you really need to do from my past experience... Or they may not have even paid for DDoS protection.

Microsoft Office 365: You don't need 27 floppies, but there is desktop friction

Re: "The horrible details are here"

If you click through to the original article (link at bottom) then it does have the link. Agree it should be posted in this re-post though.

OK Google? Firefox to nibble Chrome extensions from 2016

Microsoft too

Microsoft is doing something very similar with their Edge browser. It will apparently be trivial to port over Chrome extensions.

Nokia to take $6bn bath on Navteq following AlcaLuc purchase

Yep that was my understanding too - that they wanted to buy the maps business but had to settle for licensing it. Kind of hope that Microsoft do get it as they are doing a lot of nice stuff at the moment.

Multiple user accounts coming to Android phones 'n' slabs

Already on tablets

This has been on Android tablets for quite a while now....

Will be great to have it on phones too.

Feedly gets Greedly: Users suddenly HAVE TO create a Google+ account

The change has been rolled back

They've just rolled it back now http://blog.feedly.com/2013/11/08/thanks-for-the-feedback-re-google-authentication/

Well Google+ will be useful for something now ;-)

It is a bit of a wilderness there and use less and less although the photo stuff is pretty good and it's becoming viable as a business social network now they've fixed some of the issues.

Nokia HERE iOS maps app review

Trains

Ovi maps / Nokia Maps also didn't cater for trains and I don't know if they do yet either.

This was due to TfL not publishing the train data for a long time and they released around a year ago from memory. It is a separate data feed from tubes though and so Nokia has to write the software. Obviously they haven't yet.... Google took a few months to write as I recall.

What would be lovely is if there was a standard format for public transit info and then any operator in the world could easily integrate rather than each one needing to be done...

Formula 1 revs engines through Virgin Media

Any word on whether this is in HD on Virgin?

Transition leaves frustrated corporates locked out of Google Groups

How to get support

I've found you really do need to take Google support from an authorised third party. Have more thoughts at http://www.next-genit.co.uk/events-1

Also Google Groups is not officially support for corporate use from memory - the SLA that applies to other products may not apply..

Panasonic TY-CC10W Skype camera

Useful for business

We're using these (well actually the Samsung Skype TV) as a low cost alternative to Tandberg/Cisco/Polycom video conferences in our business. Works great.

Yes it doesn't work with old clients but that will be sorted in a few months. Do agree it is for early adopters at this stage.

Ten Essential... Symbian Apps

You forgot Gravity

Gravity is probably the best Symbian app out there - have a look at http://mobileways.de/products/gravity/gravity/ It does Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader etc etc

Sure Signal not so sure

Using it since the beginning

I've used this service since it first launched as no Vodafone coverage inside the house. In the first monthly it was only usable about 20% of the time. It is now usable about 90% of the time and is relatively stable. Would love it to be 100% but great to be able to do work from home now!

One minor quirk is that the A-GPS gets confused by it, so all location based packages stop working...

Microsoft made a phone, and I hate it already

Symbian as mobile computing

Given your thoughts on this, perhaps Symbian has a bit more going for it still...

Vodafone's Access Gateway denies access

Was bad, now much better

I had real problems when first setup, but now running much, much better and all good for me.

This has been a great addition for me as no O2, T-mobile or Vodafone coverage for me and work uses Vodafone for phones