This is the day that an Android alternative suddenly becomes a lot more viable. Thank $deity, because since Windows Phone left, there's room for a 3rd ecosystem.
Posts by J. R. Hartley
1016 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2011
Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away
And in current affairs... Apple recalls three-prong AC adapters after some shocking behavior
Bloke faces up to 20 years in the clink after gun held to dot-com owner's head in robbery
Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age
Dyin'... for some li-ion, from Taiwan? Electronics powerhouse spewing out data centre cells
Ethiopia sits on 737 Max report but says pilots followed Boeing drills
Thursday 4th April 2019 20:51 GMT
All they need to have on board are pilots who are fully aware of the system and how to shut it off if it goes faulty. Unfortunately many pilots were unaware of the system. Who's fault is that? Does Boeing provide training or do the individual airlines? There was obviously some detailed documentation on MCAS available as some previous pilots have disabled it.
We don't know whether 737 Max MCAS update is coming or Boeing: Anti-stall safety fix delayed
In a humiliating climbdown, Facebook agrees to follow US laws
ZX Spectrum Vega+ 'backer'? Nope, you're now a creditor – and should probably act fast
Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone
Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams
You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias
Brexit-ready BT sits back, watches profit rise in CEO's swansong quarter
Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain
Tuesday 29th January 2019 00:02 GMT
Do they still do it?
I haven't installed any of the OS updates on my Note9 since I got it, or my S8 before that, just in case.
I had suspected that this shit was going on long before it was confirmed, and I frankly don't trust any phone company at this stage.
Can anyone confirm or deny definitively?
The Apple Mac is 35 years old. Behold the beige box of the future
Golly 4G whizz: Vodafone caught using Three UK's spectrum
Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 03:50 GMT
Re: No, you don't wish you'd have bought it.
I sold off my Amigas (A3000, A4000T plus a lifetimes worth of Zorro cards) a few years ago to put a deposit down on a mortgage. It is a decision I still bitterly regret. I kept the CD32, for close encounters.
Last year I bought an A1200, and I'm working my way back up again, at great expense.
It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean
Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?
Thursday 17th January 2019 10:42 GMT
Look it's really quite simple.
There's just no need to upgrade any more, and people are becoming wise to it. I bought a top of the range i7 PC about 5 years ago, and apart from fitting an SSD and reinstalling Win7 last year, I won't be spending money on a PC ever again, until that one is pining for the fjords at least. If I didn't keep cracking my phone screen all the time I'd still be on my Galaxy S7 too. The Note 9 does nothing more than the S7 does.
We've reached peak something.
IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February
If at first, second, third... fourth time you don't succeed, you're Apple: Another appeal lost in $440m net patent war
If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home
Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP
Friday 11th January 2019 17:38 GMT
Re: It's downvotes all the way, er.... down
> Downvote for downvoting due to elitism.
Looks like you've already been downvoted for downvoting someone for downvoting. (Not by myself, I should add).
Never mind. I'm sure that we'll see downvoting of those responsible for downvoting the people who downvoted people for downvoting... ;-)
Downvoted.
Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans
Happy new year, readers. Yes, we have threaded comments, an image-lite mode, and more...
Found yet another plastic nostalgia knock-off under the tree? You, sir, need an emulator
Millennium Buggery: When things that shouldn't be shut down, shut down
Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?
Monday 31st December 2018 10:20 GMT
Re: Vindicated
"Throughout my working life (I recently retired) I harboured a secret Unix hostname convention. I never dated use it:
1: Name your hosts after common Unix commands
2: Write complicated and undocumented shell scripts to do mysterious things between them
3: Resign"
And make life hell for the PFY. Never change.
Staff sacked after security sees 'suspect surfer' script of shame
'Year-long' delay to UK 5G if we spike Huawei deals, say telcos
EU politely asks if China could stop snaffling IP as precondition for doing business
Amazon's creepy facial recog doorbell, Facebook open sources machine learning code and much more
Thanks to UK peers, coming to a laptop near you in 2019: Age checks for online smut
RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers
If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe
Sunday 11th November 2018 22:42 GMT
Re: Northern Ireland
"I think you'll find the Bloody Sunday massacre was what caused the civil war in NI.
I think you'll find you don't know what you're talking about."
I think you'll find I'm from Derry. I was there. A lot of people decided to sign up to the IRA in the days after the massacre. You know nothing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
