Posts by dermots 22 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Nov 2010
Advertising on the Channel 4 app (or whatever they are calling it these days) has to be the worst though, surely? 3+ minutes unskippable each ~12 minutes or so and if you are just trying to catch the last 5 minutes of something you missed it makes you sit through multiple of those blocks to get to it...
The comments about the climate control pre-conditioning and sitting with cabin heating on indicates a bit of confusion. There's the ability to advance set your climate control to pre condition the interior of the vehicle. That's manual in the app or set on a schedule you want it. Pre-conditioning the battery for charging is a different thing and is done automatically when you add a supercharger stop into the navigation. So you don't set that 30-45 minutes before leaving, necessarily, even if that's about the time it starts to precondition the battery before charging.
From the linked article: “a debit card in Nahas’ name was used to purchase Coleman 48qt coolers, insulated flex ducts, extreme weather foil, insulation sleeves, and a water-based sealant tub, all items located in the crawl space”.
The accused is clearly going to be desperate to find out who stole these items from him and used them to construct the mining rigs in his very own workplace. The nerve of those unknown criminals!
"How did they know your work phone number"
"Had to be delivered to work (for safety and convenience)".
The sender would have included a phone number for the receiver in the shipping submission, in case of delivery problems but also used for gathering of taxes/duties.
The get out of jail of being able to remotely connect into a PC requires a PC, so where would it be? Local? Then just use it directly with none of the downsides of the ‘smart monitor’. In the office? At whose hot desk and who manages it? Seems this terminal was built for the 2010s not the 2020s.
Intuit forced all perpetual license owners of QuickBooks Desktop (the PC application as opposed to the cloudy app, QuickBooks Online) onto a subscription basis when HMRC demanded we file VAT directly from our accounts package (Making Tax Digital) a couple of years ago. We still have the data on our in-house servers despite paying monthly for the right to use the program.
Now QuickBooks have announced that QuickBooks Desktop is being discontinued and after February 2023 we won't even be able to access our own data going back 25 years. The export options are raw ledger information, impossible to interrogate or unwieldy PDF reports with truncated descriptions.
We have been begging Intuit to free the program into a read-only perpetual license without support but they have outright refused this, even if we offer to pay for it on an ongoing basis. "Move to QuickBooks Online" they say. QuickBooks Online is missing many of the features of Desktop. I won't be moving to QBO I can assure you.
I can tell you from experience that without a drain under that boiling water tap, not only will you get puddles on your desk from the inevitable drips, but the tea will be lukewarm and not properly brewed. The water in the pipes will be cold, you need to run that first without your mug underneath until boiling water starts to come out.
I started saving my pocket money for the ZX80 and before I could afford it the ZX81 was launched. After begging the advance to get the ZX81 I didn't have enough for the RAM pack. But I well recall the advice to use a frozen milk carton - it put me off even wanting the RAM pack! Space Invaders in less than 1K - amazing, but you had to shoot the left and right half of the invaders separately!
"...and someone else said they were too short to reach the post box. (If that last one is genuine, things are only going to get worse for this person, as MPs are pushing to ban low-level letterboxes.)"
Sorry to pour cold, humourless water on any part of an article demonstrating the absolutely incredible sense of humour that exists at HMRC, but the MPs were discussing (as your wording rightly says) letterboxes, not post boxes (as your wording also rightly says). But I suppose it is possible that the chappy was hand delivering to HMRC in person.
More interesting would be to hear HMRC's laugh-filled ripostes to these zany justifications they've received. I'll bet there are zingers such as "late filing fine" and "penalty surcharge enclosed"...
I was one of just 3 pupils in the first ever Computer Science A Level course at my school and our teacher wangled a very memorable visit for us to IBM in Chiswick. There we had the opportunity to see this imposing beast of a laser printer in action - with the continuous paper feed as single sheet handling just wasn't up to the job at the time. Our guide said they had issues selling it to many customers because most of the existing install base of computers didn't have data processing that could keep up with the printer, leaving it mostly idle. At the time only the major banks were happy to shell out for new printing *and* computers.
Between myself and my partner we had 3 Misfit devices, one failed within warranty and was replaced by them. This replacement and the other original one then failed just after the warranty period ended. Support is bad, quality abysmal.
Have been using a Samsung Gear Fit2 for over a year and despite some occasional glitches I love it.
Hi defence may have been that he just an engineer following orders, but he was more senior than that:
'Liang, 62, whose title in the U.S. was "Leader of Diesel Competence"...'
(https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2016/09/09/the-first-vw-exec-tumbles-in-dieselgate-with-more-sure-to-follow/)
Whoever requested it, approved it, allowed it to proceed is also guilty, but if the "Leader of Diesel Competence" devises and implements a way to avoid regulations, he'd appear to be culpable.
As the original spotter of the problem I can say it is certainly a "price tracking" type of problem. In this case the idiots are tracking two of their own products - they probably meant to track the Amazon offered listing.
On Friday the Amazon one jumped from 899.99 to 999.99 and that's when the independent seller's listed items went bonkers. I notified Amazon and they were not in the slightest bit interested saying (correctly) that pricing was a matter for the sellers themselves. I think the more expensive one peaked at £1.2M before they spotted the problem, perhaps tipped off by an El Reg reader.
They have "fixed" it now so the prices are "only" 15% and 70% respectively more expensive than Amazon's own listed product (which is the highest spec model). I bought that one, from Amazon. It's very nice so far but I would not value it at a million.
By not allowing multiple user profiles in even the simplest form, Apple have purposely (cynically) engineered-in the need for multiple iPads rather than sharing. Anyone who has basic access to the iPad has access to any email accounts etc set up on it. It's not even possible to give a guest casual access without your email etc being accessed. Given that it was sometimes advertised as the ideal casual "pick it up and use" device this is woeful and is the reason I cannot recommend the iPad to anyone who asks me.
Point taken about the manual brightness control, but the auto brightness definitely uses the ambient light sensor at the top centre of the screen surround, hence the hole in some covers at around this point.
More often, cover are far thinner around the edge and simply do not obscure the sensor at all.
The hole in the top centre of some screen surrounds is for the ambient light sensor, not (necessarily) for a future camera. The cases that block this light sensor make the iPad very difficult to use as there is no manual brightness control. I bought one such case and had to manufacture a hole over the light sensor position.
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