Posts by Captain Scarlet

Firewalls? Pfft – it's no match for my mighty spares-bin PC

Re: That reminds me...

Thats my guess, I'm assuming just a mistake

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo

pfft I would shove a cricket bat or tyre iron through the bleeding thing

Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks

Excel and Access would both have issues with dodgy print drivers as well, I seem to remember Lexmark C750 drivers as well as HP Laserjet 2100 drivers causing these issues.

Thankfully these days Universal print drivers are available and don't cause as many issues.

Not too bright, are you? Your laptop, I mean... Not you

Re: Windows 10 blank screen

I must admit I haven't seen that before, I always tend to set brightness to 100% as enterprise spec machines always come with Matt screens which are hard to view in brightly lit offices.

Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

Yes but if its your product you want schools/colleges/Universities to be teaching it surely?

The more people who are taught a specific piece of software in schools means you are more likely to use it (For me in college this included Original Visual Basic 5, Office VBA, Photoshop Illustrator, etc...).

Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have

Re: Cliche

I take it you got a shoulder shrug when you swore at them

'Totally driven by supply': Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers

Re: Their shares fell?

Anyone ordering direct has known for over a year, current USB-C to ethernet adapters taking the longest.

Hopefully our order will arrive eventually.

After reportedly dragging its feet, BlackBerry admits, yes, QNX in cars, equipment suffers from BadAlloc bug

Re: 2012 and earlier

Assuming the downvoter wanted to point out its an MS system which is true, I believe Ford implemented Blackberries OS after my model Fiesta was revised.

2012 and earlier

So they are never getting updated by the manufacturer, never was able to get Ford to check for firmware updates for my 13 plates Fiesta's system which likes to throw wobblies when the car is off and lose active settings even know USA could download firmware to a usb stick themselves.

Eight-year-old bug in Microsoft's 64-bit VBA prompts complaints of neglect

Re: "[Microsoft felt] the 32-bit version a safer choice for most users"

Yes actually that is very annoying especially when if you was to use a mouse the folder would be sorted the moment you renamed the folder. You can wait a second though and it does then work.

Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

With how our governments IT projects tend go, it would have been unlikely to have been started before spiraling out of control never to be used by anyone

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

Re: I could see where this was going

I would prefer a 99 and a flake, but I suppose some people do want to be a bit murderous with the icecream man chime on the Mr Whippy vans going off at annoying times

Redpilled Microsoft does away with flashing icons on taskbar as Windows 11 hits Beta

Combined Taskbar buttons

Wait does this mean I won't have the option to not combine anything, as I can't stand combined buttons in my taskbar, I have deskspace for two rows and thats how I've had it since Windows 2k

Although I use both, Windows + R and a few characters where autocomplete fills in the rest in Run for me is always quicker than using mouse

BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

Re: ... to be continued ...

Nah, Marmitelaptopinsertion1

Don't most password policies require a capital letter and a number?

Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN

Hosting executables

Hosting any program is asking for trouble, can't expect AV to be able to detect everything.

NASA warns Mars: We're about to laser your rocks and start stealing them

Stop attacking the Mysterons

The continual we will be avenged radio announcements are getting annoying now :whaa:

Ubuntu on a phone, anyone? UBports reaches 18th stable update, but it's still based on 16.04

Re: Funny thing...

Nokia had already shot themselves in the foot long before the MS purchase, they certainly had the talent and several Reg articles appeared to show they had 2 touch OS' (One being Symbian correct me if I am wrong as its been a while since I saq that article) which looks like it could have launched at the same time as Apple.

Paid antivirus? On ads? Think of all the beer you could buy without that subscription

Re: "However auto-renewal has not happened here."

With the team viewer icon being on in the background I'm tempted to believe it probably has some form of internet connection. Probably behind a proxy of some sort.

Also its an endpoint solution, I would assume Eset would have something within the company itself like most other AV's (I use Eset myself but only for personal use).

BOFH: But soft! What light through yonder filing cabinet breaks?

Re: Hilarious!

Yup "cross threaded the mounting bolts and can't get it out"

Also had some cheap screws rounded out because a former colleague decided to screw the cage screws in to tight.

Lenovo says it’s crammed a workstation into a litre of space – less than three cans of beer

Only good thing for HP is because it uses the docking port, the docking station which has now been replaced with USB-C are cheap as chips

Ah yes the newer Ultrabooks come with a USB-C to ethernet adapter (Except due to the chip shortage they are likely to not arrive for a few months), hopefully that will be reversed like the ethernet being on a stupid £50 dongle with VGA every user always loses

I hope they don't do that to the ProBook and also revert things like ease of changing the battery and getting the bottom panel off with no screwdrivers required.

BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

Re: Rural coverage is still very poor

Haven't seen the Ofcom map before, have an upvote!

Re: Provided...

Yes but lots of people still prefer the way Nokia feature phones worked, so actually Doro is pretty near it.

You've patched that critical Sage X3 ERP security hole, yeah? Not exposing the suite to the internet, either, yeah?

I doubt it

I doubt admins would have patched, I know full well most customers will be behind a reseller responsible for telling them.

Since where I have worked we have been with 3 different resellers for Tetra CS3/Line 500/1000, none pass one patch messages.

Whilst on the subject I wonder if the older products will be checked, as the codes well over 30 years old.

The splitting image: Sufferer of hurty wrist pain? Logitech's K860 a potential answer

Re: Price

Knowing our luck in blighty it'll be £350 and £100 just to annoy us.

**Drinks Tea furiously**

One good deed leads to a storm in an Exchange Server

Re: Most organisations configured Notes networks completely wrong anyway

Well yes, it was designed in the era of dialup and where sites had a local Domino Server, so often older installs would have seperate notes networks for each server to a hub/central server. Normally configured to hold a certain amount of messages before transmitting them.

Not many people seemed to know having them on the same Notes network would mean the Domino servers would send direct rather than routing through a "central" server. Obviously when most companies replaced dial up with dedicated links it doesn't make sense to route via a hub. When bandwidth obviously increases may as well move Domino back centrally.

Re: Hotmail & Notes

Hmm I can't remember if forwarding emails was handled by an agent like out of office. Most organisations configured Notes networks completely wrong anyway.

Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills

Used to be able to get a Kebab at 1 in the morning back in the day, until they were forced to shut at 10PM.

Shame I miss the drunkenness at that time of the morning.

hmm if very very very hungover then yeah I can't do a full English, toast at the most.

If just hungover (So room not spinning) then yes I absolutely can.

Either I drink water, anything else makes me feel even worse.

Updating in production, like a boss

Actually yes I'll always do this as well, however I also tend to just a select * into tablename_date just in case as well.

The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?

Re: Tea

I know how much most consultants cost, screw that if you are doing something for our department, I'll be making the tea and telling people to bugger off with stupid questions, making sure we get our monies worth.

Just what is the poop capacity of an unladen sparrow? We ask because one got into the office and left quite a mess

Re: A cat

Unless the cat decides to bring you a live present, then its a bird flying around banging into everything

UK's competition watchdog gives £31bn Virgin Media and O2 merger the seal of approval

Re: Yeah Virgin customer service!

hmm I suppose I could have done, but at the time I had no script and I don't think I had ever encountered it.

We were a reseller for enta.net ourselves but we had our equipment we gave out next to us so we could tinker as and when was needed.

Re: Yeah Virgin customer service!

Only problem is when they have one script that is also the wrong script.

One of my first ADSL providers was a reseller, I used it with a router and one day it stopped working. The person on the phone had a script for a USB modem and couldn't respond to me going I don't have a USB modem I have a Router. After 30 minutes of getting no-where and trying to follow the script with the usual I don't have a USB ADSL Modem I can't create the connection that way I slammed the phone down. Phoned back that's when I realised it was a one man band outsourced helpline even back then.

As I worked for an ISP helpline at the time I thought I'll call next day, but first I put my number into the ADSL checker and that's when I discovered the problem was they had disconnected me. Phoned and got the same crap, asked for supervisor and apparently there wasn't one. Thought screw it signed up where I work, cancelled the direct debit and that's when someone called and asked why I had cancelled the direct debit. They threatened to disconnect me straight away, I obviously responded that they had already disconnected me which is why they were getting no more money from me.

Internet Explorer downgraded to 'Walking Dead' status as Microsoft sets date for demise

Re: Really? Really???

Yup have to agree, even now Google will say get a better browser when browsing on even other chromium based browsers

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

Re: I liked VB5/VB6

Except everyone then tended to use 800x600 monitors

Vivaldi update unleashes the 'Cookie Crumbler' to simply block any services asking for consent (sites may break)

Re: European websites

Don't we all, we are only human.

Re: European websites

To be fair I think he just forgot to add Union in his text.

"remember that the European Union does"

Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess

Re: instant tea and coffee

Kill instant tea with fire!

NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history

Re: It'll hit a tree.

Who flew this mini helicopter into my window!

Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia

Re: Gamers also have to contend with bots and scalpers looking to make a profit

Half had CRT's by this point, but most of us had at least a 500W power supply.

Very likely to be displays as very little power savings on the cpu and gpu at that point.

Re: Gamers also have to contend with bots and scalpers looking to make a profit

I miss going to LAN parties (Although the village hall we rented, used to have to boot one at a time to ensure a fuse wasn't tripped)

OK, Google: Unshackled from Windows, Edge team is free to follow where Chromium leads

Re: Starting to see sites that only work right with Chrome

Yup lots of big customers have made demands for Google Chrome, we need to go back to where a website isn't designed so poorly it needs a specific browser.

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Re: UPS Engineer

I can't find it but when The Planet had an explosion in one of its data centres in 2008 there was a lot of recommendations then. They had an explosion in the electrical room if I recall correctly that weakened 3 walls.

Fear the Walking Edge: Desktop support pulled, but legacy browser lingers on in Surface Hub, Xbox, HoloLens

Re: edge

Yes, because I want my Presto powered browser back >_< and I am now lazy (Although Firefox is installed as a secondary browser).

Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?

ended up with a device that could handle 1,000

"But somewhere along the line that mistake meant the company ended up with a device that could handle 1,000"

Sounds more like a Sales tactic to me to get a customer to buy something they don't need, but glad it was of use in the end.

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Re: I disagree with the article

I really wish the original Ask Jeeves search engine was still about, where you could ask questions and get results that way.

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

Re: If you cannot touch it do not complain when it evaporates

Are you sure he isn't your secret nemesis?

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

What you want to do if you haven't already, is say some comment that really annoys someone so much that every comment they see with your name on they will downvote you.

Oddly my unknown nemesis has stopped, I hope his ok (As I am 250 off 1k dislikes)