Posts by Captain Scarlet

VMware walks back ban on booting vSphere from SD cards or thumb drives

Re: Hardware?

Yes, although VMWare has changed where its heavy read/write operations are aimed at which I think is a good idea.

Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode

Oh power related calls

Just because someone can call meant their computer would work magically without power.

Had this earlier this week "My laptop just turned off", plug was slightly out of the wall but of course they checked that and it can't have been that :strangleannoyingusers:

BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office

Re: Designed to fail

hmm I've only had them fail during self tests (Including one which tripped and then melted its power input cable when I reset the trip), I must be lucky.

There are nearly half a billion active users of Start news feed, says Microsoft

Re: Fixed it for you

I should probably check how to script this.

Re: Fixed it for you

Just like the annoying weather widget I always see in the taskbar on other user machines

Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible

Re: Heres a suggestion

Tends to be a good time to go to the loo or make a cuppa

Re: Heres a suggestion

But marketing want shiny things!

macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

Re: A final shot to the head for a twitching zombie

VB6 mostly lives on in VBA, much still to my horror

British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles

Re: Too early.

Obviously you havent seen Arthurs video on traffic (NSFW)

Although :'( because it would be nice to at some point get up to the speed limit.

Re: Too early.

I didn't think Tesla's are meant to drive by themselves in a fully autonomous manner (Unless I missed something)?

Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options

Re: So many things wrong with the TV/Streaming model

its why many years ago most people got a recording digi box, save up what you want to watch and catchup skipping the adverts, or at least thats what we did in our household.

Funky Pigeon pauses all orders after 'security incident'

Re: Funky Pigeon?

I seem to remember getting some Only Fools and Horses fluffy car dice as a christmas present from WH Smiths many years ago.

Not good though, the dots fell off.

Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD

Teams running longer on AMD

I can see why we are forced to buy Intel still

ESET uncovers vulnerabilities in Lenovo laptops

Re: hardware switch to enable flash re-write

Well Helldesk would go around flip it and not flip it back.

Sungard files for Chapter 11 in US, keep eye on restructure

Re: Forecast cloudy

Yes less relevant for their other products, such as DR office suites (Only found out after pointing tot he articles before we had stopped using them for DR facilities). I also think for most of our non production users, the DR site has now become the office.

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

This data was from a deprecated service that had been moved into the core datastore of our products

Looks like changes were made, but not to the script.

South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes

Re: Great idea...

To be fair, most times they have the most appualing data where to dig up, even after someone has been around to mark up a road it hasn't been accurate.

Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

Ok downvoter maybe I wasn't clear, the machine came with Windows 7 Home, was around 3 years old when Windows 10 was released, auto updated but failed and was in an endless loop (So install via the media creation tool). Same occured every major update, Dell website itself said Windows 10 was not supported. Checking this it appeared to be because of the Intel chipset used, the intel site itself provided drivers for Windows 7 and I believe 8.1, thats it.

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

Well by the looks of it, the drivers were released years after the actual MacOS updates were released and like most places there doesn't seem to be a place to get notifications.

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

Have had my nans Windows 10 Dell Laptop be useless after applying an updated, basically would never finish any larger updates as the intel chipset driver were not actually supported after Windows 8.1 (Thanks MS for just popping up upgrade and doing it anyway). Ended up buying a cheap ProBook to replace it in the end.

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

Are you sure, a quick Google shows it should have a driver?

I must admit I was looking for a Universal Print Driver like most manufacturers do for Windows (tbh I would recommend as they are normally light weight and include mostly everything needed)

The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds

Re: Fuck that

As someone who has had consultants on site, as the customer it infuriates me when they all of a sudden start working on other customer issues when we have paid for their time.

If they have finished what they need to do and have documented everything then fair enough, but then again as a tight git I'll find them something to do.

GParted 1.4: New version of live partition-manipulation tool

GParted to a larger drive yes, I must admit Acronyis for me worked for moving from a mechanical HDD to a small SSD so I havent tried it on GParted but I've had no issues reducing the size of NTFS partitions with Gparted.

Yeah i used GParted after Acronyis threw a hissy fit, also use to move some partitions so I could expand some NTFS partitions.

If Acronyis fails (Only use because lazy and you always get a free license on storage devices) I always go to GParted personally.

UK Cyber Security Centre advises review of risk posed by Russian tech

Re: Time for keeping homegrown tech at home

I know BT used to do a lot of R&D, but do they still do much now apart (Apart from some trials of broadband products which seem industry standard I havent seen much) from rebading items with BT badges on them (Including Fibre GBics which one of our service providers engineer found comical).

Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice

Re: Microsoft doesn't have...

It is whatever you are used to (Can't stand OSX personally).

As someone who didn't know dragging the cd rom to the bin was how you eject them on Mac OS9 (Until then I used Dos and Windows 9x/2000 so this concept which was normal on most 8/16bit micros was completly alien to me)

HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy

Re: VoIP phones

I can't see why, conference phones for Cisco are just rebadged Polycom units normally (Unless anything has changed as last unit I purchased was the Cisco 8831).

The Poly solutions from the last 2 years actually integrate very well to Microsoft Teams.

The android tablet thingy with the X30 webcam pretty much are on par with the nuc under the desk solution. For me its better than the Barco Clickshare most people seem to want, go into the room, click start meeting, join the meeting from laptop and share presentation that way.

UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak

Re: "sources finger Capita-run system"

Are they still buy up small companies?

Only reason we had to use them years ago, they purchased several small companies, one relating to our voip system (Can't remember the others). Service then tanked we moved elsewhere.

Currently only Capita service I don't have issues with is O2 Business.

Win 11 adds 'requirements not met' nag for unsupported hardware

Re: What about?

Don't enable TPM, its what I did.

Epson payments snafu leaves subscribers unable to print

Re: So the moral of the story is...

Well thats most peoples stuffed since most software like Autocad and Adobe these days is subscription only.

AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens

Re: compatible

Good thing is more motherboards have the ability to apply Bios releases via a USB stick with no CPU in.

Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

Re: Just don't use ANY anti-virus

If you don't install your own, Defender is on by default unless this has changed?

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

Re: Hacking

I'm British, sorry I should have started with "Oi you!"

Hacking

Sorry but in my book cracking a password is not hacking, its cracking.

New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks

The searching in start kind of annoys me, for cmd or powershell just use the run box

Windows Key + R

command

Ctrl + Shift + Enter for the UAC popup

Can't remember where I saw the Ctrl + Shift + Enter tip from but one that is worth knowing!

Fedora inches closer to dropping x86-32 support

I wonder how many programs use a 32 bit installer, I found a lot of my programs which were 32 bit had 16 bit installers when I upgraded to a 64 bit version of Windows 7.

Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12

Re: There needs to be an AAAAAAA icon

Well this will be known integrations, the small bits of software developed will be out of scope until someone starts foaming at the mouth.

There needs to be an AAAAAAA icon

Linked to 40 systems O_O

Apple has missed the video revolution

Re: Apple had spectacularly bad timing

"People assume that the work is just offloaded to a GPU"

Well balls I just posted a comment above and now I feel an idiot (Nothing new there then), as yes your point is correct. Oh well I'll leave my stupidness there.

Re: My favorite irony…

I assume this is because hardware decoding and encoding, but surely they must have this on MAC??

Conti ransomware gang leak: 60,000 messages online

Re: Negligent use of this forum

These days logging into a web page with username and password of admin can be classed as "hacking" by the media, I ignore anything saying hacking on it as its normally cobblers.

FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years

Re: "It installs to a FAT32 partition"

I personnally had this on some 16GB USB Keys (Can't remember the brand as they are in the car and have copies of my mp3's split as the Microsoft based Ford Sync system can't handle more than 2k tracks)

Re: "It installs to a FAT32 partition"

A lot of USB keys are formatted as exfat.

I'm sure most people know, but if you have one of these you can format the USB Drive from exfat to Fat32 with plenty of utilites. I use https://rufus.ie/en/ (Other tools available) because I'm lazy.

Beware the techie who takes things literally

Yes but is this £10 per installed instance, £10 for unlimited devices doesn't sound right.

Chromium-adjacent Otter browser targets OS/2

Not even to display it?

Some users preferred Opera before that change

*Bursts our crying*

Dark-mode Task Manager unveiled by original's creator

Re: Light and dark mode but

Absolutly, I still prefer the Windows 2000/98 interface look hence why I am saying grey mode.

Light and dark mode but

I want grey mode, no need to make it dark or light then!

Re: Task Manager?

Yeah knowing what tasks are controlled by what process is actually very helpful.

Has enabled me to spot for instances two scripts/processes running and deadlocking each other (Useful to go back to support and go this isnt right surely)