Posts by Captain Scarlet

Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions

Re: Notepad++ FTW

Why do I have a feeling you were at some point a Lotus Notes User (Since I'm the same and I did the same in Notes for leaving emails open between sessions).

If not apologises for calling you a possible Notes user like me!

Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater'

Yes got an Ainsley Harriot one, but was delayed and came through to late for the christmas party that year, which was a shame.

Wore it last year though

Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU

Re: UK workarounds ?

Actually yes have to agree MS Teams forcing everything to open in Edge is infuriating, one which installing another browser can't fix.

Re: UK workarounds ?

If you mean Edge just install another browser (Since every other user already uses Google Chrome without realising)

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?

Can confirm this happens in real life. Instead of looking at a plug socket to see if its switched on, you will have people who think its your job (Like refilling paper in printers).

Re: Guy was an arse BUT..

You have never heard of cleaners or handymen/women before, problem is often cleaners have nowhere to plugin hoovers in some parts of our office so its going to happen.

Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools

Re: Shocking!

In my experience machines left in perfect condition always fail more than areas where they aren't ideal.

Numerous times I've been proven wrong by bloody HP SFF's living forever and actual industrial machines failing just out of warranty.

Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?

I don't think you can get away calling an OS ToS these days.

Re: Window Maker for a Windows user

Well they seem to be doing ok so far (From the looks of it other forum users have used it before as well).

I wish them luck in continuing

Pro-Russia group exploits Roundcube zero-day in attacks on European government emails

Being on D365 I have to laugh when Microsofts own security product MS Security (Or whatever its called this month) blocks emails from Microsoft as Spam

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Re: No corruption here.

Obviously meant Meter, but I make the error twice.

Obviously deserve the distance type jokes

Re: No corruption here.

Only the metre readers, I think mine is read by a metre reader once a year.

Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

Re: Future

Half way through Emerdale, Eastenders and Cornation Street is when we have peak Kettle demand.

No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL

Re: I presume it's opt-in?

Its amazing how far they are used, for WordPress its on nearly every one of our sites.

I've given up with asking why do you need this css/js/font on someone elses CDN, you just get a look of "What? Please stop talking to me and go away."

Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030

This sounds like something Wally would come up with, if not drinking coffee.

Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

Possibly, I've found the same and have tried to add photos of areas I know decent photos of areas are missing.

I've corrected my sisters road where she lives as it didn't exist, that was accepted fairly quickly (Although the road has a street name plate which was visible on Google Maps). I do get annoyed with the your amendment is helping, especially if I suggested it be changed over 10 years ago (Or whenever they introduced it).

Re: Were there no signs indicating that the Bridge was out?

I've updated a few, one was put back and turned out the company (Currys PC World) said I was wrong so Google put it back.

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Probably, about 8 years ago the automated gate I was using at Luton airport had the taskbar present, I can't remember if it was an issue with the Windows License, it was something license related but was Windows 7.

Then again might be different as my Passport always worked at Luton, never at London City or Stansted.

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Re: I don't understand...

Ah yes I can go through about 4 jars of pickled onions in a weekend and agree pickled onion vinegar is nice on chips!

Re: I don't understand...

Thats a pizza type, ok I'll park my usual Tuna Pizza and try a bangers and mash pizza, does it come with gravy?

Also how does that differ from Toad in the hole?

HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop

I understand if its actually heavy, but these aren't, they are bog standard HP Pro/EliteBooks often have the exact same hardware as their larger counterparts and its the extra plastic and lcd panel adding the weight.

If its a Toughbook vs a standard machine then yes they will be massive weight differences.

Also blame users:

"My laptops to heavy and I need a new one"

Show the new laptops are basically made of thing plastic bags and only save 200g

"Yes thats way lighter"

*Next week*

"The screen is too small on this laptop"

*Go BOFH mode*

Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy

Re: I'm interested in this bit

We may never know, training some users can be impossible (Especially for users like me who go, ah ok thats easy enough and then I immediatly forget what I have just been told).

From experience every ERP project I have heard of where I work wants to use standard functionality, but that always ends up with bits being adapted.

Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure

Re: Damn!

Nice to see people still have such websites :D

Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else

Re: Chromebook Your-Personal-Lifetime Software Updates for Free

I thought they all had the same keyboards, seems odd to make another one with less keys when they can buy it off the shelf.

That sucks although HP laptops under 14" tend to be annoying using fn keys for lots of functions, but there is normally a delete key top right of the keyboard.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Or take public transport anywhere, I don't want some smelly person squashing my bananas!

CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display

Laptop screens

I have to say using a laptop stand alone hurts my neck and having a second display like this won't help.

Will stick with my external monitor setup for the work laptop.

Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place

Re: Legacy??

I think you mean the Microsoft Jet Database Engine

Resilience is overrated when it's not advertised

Re: Failover backup redlining

You have backup generators O_O

Posh

The price of freedom turned out to be an afternoon of tech panic

Re: Spreadsheet imports

Sadly so, its easier to identify as a tree or an alien.

Spreadsheet imports

Crap in crap out, the amount of time I have wasted because people don't check spreadsheets that they believe are correct.

Always double check spreadsheets and check random rows.

Rapid7 prepares to toss 18% of workforce to cut costs

Qualys sounds very similar to that

Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform

Re: that's a shame

hmm probably sent the bill to customers like us

Simple charging to much, they wanted 4x more the year prior to their buyout for us so their equipment was mothballed (Taking up space waiting for the asset value to drop to zero)

Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results

Mojeek hmm

Not heard of that before, I'll give that a go

Virgin Media O2 offers plug-in 5G network in a box

Re: Got the T-Shirt

Or maybe this (I'll probably be wrong again)

Re: Got the T-Shirt

Oh wait 100% correct, still have Telefonica on their emails and I completly forgot

Re: Got the T-Shirt

We still have users who use them (O2 Boostbox), much better than having no service but O2 are binning them next year

Odd British Sugar would use Virgin since they are an O2 customer hmm

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

Re: QWERTZ/QWERTY.

AZERTY have come across lots of times, but the worst was an ergonomic keyboard during my work experience.

It was impossible, I could touchtype then but had to resort to proding as it was not in a layout I had seen before or come across since (Didn't even feel that ergonomic and this was after Microsoft had released their own ergonomic keyboard)

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Re: XP was great

I used Windows ME nuff said, it was only stable when I had 512MB of RAM and thats when I then experimented with Windows 2000 Pro. I assume because I had 512MB at that point I didn't experience this.

Re: XP was great

When i started running Windows 2000 I had 333mhz let alone a 64 bit instruction set, but comparing Windows ME to Windows 2000, I seem to remember 2k was slightly slower but rock solid stability wise apart from some early DirectX games which would just exitr for no reason. But I was into Counter Strike 1.1 by then.

Maybe they have memory like me, which can sometimes be miliseconds (I think I complained on one article that Firefox wasn't tested for something even though I had read Mozilla was tested).

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

Re: Boss didn't like their tone?

You try making Zrrrt sounds with lungs full of fine toner dust

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

Re: Windows giant aware of Teams social engineering phishing attack

Ah yes where the number is required on my company mobile phone and 1 out of 5 times it decides not to show me a number.

Thanks Microsoft

Re: If you don't know the person sending it, it's generally a (very) bad sign.

Using DMARC should render this impossible, however Microsoft they don't respect "p=reject" and instead of rejecting like we want they quaratine the bloody emails.

Microsoft, if I want you to quarantine I will use "p=quarantine". I don't care if emails are rejected because it relies on us know who uses our domains. Any problems we can simply change p to quarantine

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: I'm ashamed to say I didn't know or had forgotten about the browser functions!

I used to know most key combinations, but my memory has failed me.

I must admit I had no idea middle clicking a link opens it ont he background, I always held Ctrl so I'll 100% be using this (Since Windows 10 likes to assume I am not clicking Ctrl on occassion, especially when copying and pasting)

You've patched right? '340K+ Fortinet firewalls' wide open to critical security bug

Re: Not Surprised

I also wonder if some of these are shadow IT projects, someone puts in a gateway to make it easier to get in.

I have certainly come across enough 3G/4G gateways on industrial equipment that was somehow missed off all documents which said "No IT envolvement"

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: I went into the office for 40 years

When I started working at my first IT job, we used dial up to dial in and access systems remote. 56k was painful, expensive, more people used landlines to speak to people and fax, in my view this wouldn't have worked for many applications or services.

Also why do you have a thing about baby goats (I can't stand people calling children "kids" so trololol)?

I am lucky our office has not pushed people back but yeah sitting in traffic is inefficent and when in everyone tends to be sat with headsets or in meeting rooms on meetings.

Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware

Re: What devices are these?

You assign a utility account which will the meeting room, sign in on the device and thats how that device know what room it is.

Ones I have seen are glorified tablets, but some small Intel Nucs also available.

Users put the room in the invite and when you go to the room at that time you should have the option to start the meeting.