* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

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Crammed with unmentionables?

What old PC isn't? Or switches for that matter.

I've done many a fix with JUST canned air.

'Windows Vista' spotted doing a whoopsie over EE's signage

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Re: Yikes

That's odd. It's almost like companies don't have competent internal tech support these days.

Yes, that was both sarcasm and rhetorical. I'm seeing insanely low compensation for a really long list of required skills these days. I wonder why they can't find people.

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Re: Why use Windows?

Yeah... no. They are failing regularly. I've just spent the last 2 years "retiring" thousands of old PC, peripherals and XP/Vista/Win 7 that were slow and buggy and VERY unreliable.

Yes. Thousands.

Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee

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This ^^

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

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Stay classy Gitlab!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab

Oh, Y Combinator alumni. I think I see the problem.

Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it

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These days? Where have you been for the last 20 years?

Because Microsoft has always been utter shit is why I became a paid support person.

But for REAL fun, combine Microsoft with IBM support! It defines clusterfuck!

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Re: Of all the timings

Microsoft decided many years ago that the true purpose of a PC is constant fussy maintenance and NOT user productivity.

Not even joking.

I've installed 2 Linux OSs this past week. It's so damn refreshing.

Time to patch your lightbulb? Researchers demonstrate Philips Hue exploit

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The stupid

It burns bright.

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

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Re: Let's....

Well played Shafowgragon. Well played.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

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Re: Highly Reliable (marketing) post exbrit profits

Too damn true.

So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

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Pint

Memories

Best comments ever. I've done 99% of everything desribed in these posts yet forgotten half them.

Pints all 'round!

Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot

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Re: It's been said many times...

Cookies. That's when it all went wrong.

Tech outfits sue Uncle Sam over 'unlawful' H-1B admission charges totaling $350m over six years

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Re: Avoiding Fees?

I would say that's exactly the case.

They were deliberately trying to avoid the fees. In other words, fraud.

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

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Re: A fad?

4 million is still a damn big number.

Low code? Low usage, more like: Add G Suite's App Maker to the Google graveyard, it's switching off next year

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You just need a good business case.

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Google is becoming more like Microsoft every year

See title.

What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction

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Good enough for AutoCAD?

Sorry but that's not a very good reference.

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

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Google search has become almost useless

See title.

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The new design sucks

See title.

Fucking UX designers are shit these days. Of course I blame marketing.

Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit

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Boeing, boeing

...gone.

Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next

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All these comments yet...

The title of the article is what everyone should be concerned about.

It's not a joke.

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Re: Trump is great for Europe

"So all Trump supporters are idiots?"

In short, yes.

Co-Op Insurance and IBM play blame game over collapse of £175m megaproject

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IBM fail?

Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft

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Again?

MS still playing their old games.

WindiLeaks: 250 million Microsoft customer support records dating back to 2005 exposed to open internet

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Re: Only got yourself to blame, Microsoft

God help us all.

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Another day

Another hack.

Seems only a few years ago it was just once a month.

Good times. Good times.

UK Home Office opens AWS cash firehose even wider with £100m public cloud services deal

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Insanity. Utter twatwaffle insanity

That ANY government would out-source ANY of its digital functions, ESPECIALLY to another country, is disaster waiting to happen.

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

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Re: All too typical, unfortuantely

Your general comments are generally spot on.

It is beyond the pale how many companies have killed people in the name profit.

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Re: Nominative determinism?

"Cal-hoon"

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Insanely damning

Those emails should put to rest any blame going anywhere else other than upper manglement.

Flying taxis? That'll be AFTER you've launched light sabres and anti-gravity skateboards

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We used to have a term for all this

Vaporware.

Have we already forgotten this perfectly descriptive word? Especially in this day and age? Now more so than ever.

What if everyone just said 'Nah' to tracking?

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Re: We see that you're using an ad blocker

3 words: not my problem.

We’ve had enough of your beach-blocking shenanigans, California tells stubborn Sun co-founder: Kiss our lawsuit

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Call the sherriif

If this was you or I we would be sitting in jail already and bulldozer would made a new path to the beach.

Brit banking sector hasn't gone a single day of 2020 without something breaking

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You get what you pay for

Maybe the banks should pay for knowledge, skill and real tools?

Well I can dream can't I?

Greetings from the future where it's all pole-dancing robots and Pokemon passports

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Re: Crypto currency?

I've started calling it "mysto-currency".

Lynch lied about Autonomy's accounts, rages HPE to the High Court

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Exactly. This was, is and continues to be HP's fault.

Dell slathers on factor XPS 13 to reveal new shiny with... ooh... a 0.1 inch bigger screen

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13" screen?

13" isn't usable to me these days.

Smart speaker maker Sonos takes heat for deliberately bricking older kit with 'Trade Up' plan

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The more complicated it is, the easier it is to break plumbing

So, and I never get tired of saying this, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

Microsoft: Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, my PowerShell has gone RC

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Re: I really...

I'm with you. There is nothing intuitive about Powershell.

Typical damn Microsoft.

ACLU sues America's border cops: Tell us everything about these secret search teams targeting travelers

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Land of the fee, home of the knave.

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Re: "and believes the government needs to be accountable"

"Certainly she has been rabidly opposed to the rights in the 2nd Amendment, and without that the rest go away in time."

Bad news... all your rights have long since gone away.

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What fascist police stae?

No fascist police state here!

/s

IT isn't supposed to stand for Insider Trading... Palo Alto Networks sysadmin and pals accused of $7m shares caper

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Future CEO

Executive material right there. /s

Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail

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Re: I don't get it...

I was going to post exactly the same thing.

They could have easily made the real product.

Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!

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Beat me to it.

Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case

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Re: I want to know . .

Why? Because sod off, peon, that's why.

Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it's paired with an Android)

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Hard pass

How long before they discontinue it?

I already now how long it will be when they break it first.

Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart

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OpenWorld?

For second I read that as open wound.

Is there a difference?

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data

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Facsim?

What fascism?

You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™, comrade?

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Re: Dido Harding...

Oh hell. :(