Posts by Snapper 400 posts • joined 8 Nov 2010
I've still got clients deliberately running older versions of macOS so they can run Office 2011. They take one look at 'Microsoft 360' * and decide na!
*for new readers of El Reg, it's called '360' because at leat 5 days a year you won't be able to access it or your work (unless you are sensible and keep a LOCAL copy).
I visit lots of IT clients in my job.
The variety of methods and results are....mixed, but this one about ten years ago took the biscuit (which was stale).
1) Put Earl Grey teabag in mug.
2) Pour hot water from tap into mug.
3) Put mug in microwave to heat it a bit more.
4) Remove from microwave to test heat.
5) Return mug to microwave if heat not deemed sufficient.
6) Add tinned Carnation milk to taste.
7) Dip biscuit in liquid and suck noisily.
Funnily enough I found enough urgent things to do that I wasn't able to finish mine.
Microsoft were damn lucky to start when they did.
They were able to create a virtual monopoly by fair means and a lot of foul. If they came out with the type of crap 'improvements' that they have done but with serious competition they'd have gone to the wall decades ago.
I've always been open to hearing good arguments for leaving and, hand on heart, I'd have voted Leave if I thought the advantages outweighed the benefits. And I can understand the sentimental urgings of just wanting control back. But every single argument has turned out to be either highly inaccurate, hearsay or propaganda from people I would not buy a used snail shell from.
Search YouTube for UKIP campaigners telling a farmer of glass eels that he'll be able to sell to new markets of people that the EU was preventing him from. Now he has no clients in the EU and has to find a new client base in places like Belarus from scratch, if his finances can keep going while does that. And he still doesn't know if the people of Belarus eat glass eels.
Look at the votes on this article, many from people who have to make important, unbiased decisions faced with evidence that may not be obvious and needs interpretation, and see how many down votes anyone who thinks Leave was a good idea get. Coincidence?
Yeah, I had to do that to get my son into the only decent local school, a Catholic one. Trouble was he's gay, and from the headmaster down had a seriously bad time in his teens.
We should just remember what the organised religions can be like given half a chance. The school said if he wanted a place we couldn't put down any other school on the list of preferences. Totally illegal. They should not have been able to find out from the local education authority what we had put down, but we were warned by parents already at the school that the EA was thoroughly penetrated. UK circa 2006.
Religion poisons everything.
William Rees-Mogg also wrote -
Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad
The Great Reckoning: Protect Yourself in the Coming Depression
and a few others on the same lines. Which suggest that Smoggie may have had a few tips from his pater about deliberately creating a depression and a world gone mad so he could make a modest profit.
The proles don't matter and never did!
Especially if you sell the replacements and fitting in your Apple Stores lower than even your registered Apple repair people can buy the parts for. I've seen a huge number of broken screens and liquid spillages during lockdown but as soon as the clients get a sniff of what Apple are charging I've lost the sale.
And how many of the displays had a separate mains SWITCH next to the cable input in addition to the sexy one on the edge of the display that was so easy to turn off when installing/moving/kicking the screen!
"Find the plug in the wall socket, is it turned on?"
"Fine, now follow the cable to the monitor."
'No, it's not the computer, it's the screen for it, so you can see what you are doing."
"you see where the cable is plugged into the monitor, is there a switch next to it?"
"Yes, it IS difficult to see isn't it!"
"Have you got a torch?"
"Okay, can you now press the tiny unlit button at the bottom left of the monitor?"
"Yes, it's on the outside edge where you can't see it easily."
"Okay, now switch the computer on."
"Excellent."
"No, you don't have to do this every day."
You are just repeating propaganda, you know it, we've heard it all before.
I voted Remain, not because I was convinced remaining in the EU was a good thing and I really wanted to hear both sides of the argument, but I had no trouble seeing through the sheer blatant lies and confusion Leave relied on, with the goal-posts that Leave came up with constantly changing as each point they put up was disproved and they had to change their story AGAIN.
I'm still willing to believe there are sound reasons for leaving the EU, but I never heard one during the campaign, haven't heard one in the past five years and I'm not looking forward to the next decade or two as we reap the negative benefits of getting BoJo and his clowns into government, which is really the only 'success' story apart from a lot of rich people getting a hell of a lot richer.
What are you going to do now, say something with 'vaccines' in it? ONLY thing the UK government gets right amid utter ineptitude causing one of the highest death rates in Europe, and it didn't have ANYTHING to do with your precious Brexit
When we were in the EU we were not prevented from trading with other non-EU countries, that's one of the biggest and easiest Brexit lies to call out right there.
And how many people were persuaded to vote leave by claims that EU Red Tape would go away, and anyone pointing out the freaking obvious, in that if we didn't remain in the CU and SM, we would be a third country and subject to the rules that non-EU countries have to deal with, was treated to the infinitely lazy 'Project Fear!'
Result = Government spends taxpayers money trying to persuade the populace to eat more shellfish in order to save the fishing industry it so comprehensively and deliberately sold down the river.
If Synology were selling these at a premium price I would agree, but they shouldn't be any more expensive than Seagate or WD RED PRO's. I've used the Toshiba Enterprise drives (which these Synology drives are) for the last few years after being let down badly by WD a couple of times, and the Tosh's have never had a problem. Cheaper than Seagate and WD 'Pro' drives as well.
Eric Brown was slated to fly the Miles M.52 in 1946, nearly a year before Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.
The difference in the planes was astounding. The Miles would take off from a runway, fly supersonic for about 20 minutes and land back on a runway.
The Bell X-1 had to be carried aloft underneath a B-29, gave only a couple of minutes supersonic and had to touch down on skids to land.
The Miles would have been a far safer aircraft, but was cancelled mainly due to cost reasons but 'Officially' because of the danger to the pilot.
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