Posts by Duffaboy

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

I live in Birmingham and i can guarentee that

The Labour faithful even though they face an over 20% rise in council tax will return the same incompetent councillors we already have to suffer. They have already done this in 1 ward

Users rage as Microsoft announces retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams

They will be getting rid of MSPAINT next

Just wait and see

TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened

Teamviewer hasn't worked tor ages.

I used to use this quite a lot but i'd say in the last 12 months or even longer it has been as much use as a chocolate tea pot. Regardless of installing the latest versions at both ends you get errors when trying to connect to someone who needs remote support. I use Quick assist instead now, it's clunky but it works.

I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it

Loved that game.

Never crashed on me

Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95

What a brilliant game that was

Very imersive and fun to play espicaally the FMV, am i right in thinking there was an end credit gag regarding star wars ?

Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU

If it wasn't for the Z80

I would not have had a 35year career in IT. Thankyou Zilog

Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland

Tony Blair Knew

So you may want to check your facts before pointing the finger in the wrong direction

Fujitsu's 30-year-old UK customs system just keeps hanging on

I reckon

It will still be in use this time next year.

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

I live there unfortunatley

The same incompetent council gets voted in time and time again by their party faithful, the voters have misplaced loyalty and the ruling Labour Party know that they can mess up and saddle us citizens with the bill without any redress. A 21% rise in everyone's council tax has been approved and they are laughing all the way to the bank, as the new price is now set in stone and will never come down, so the next rise scheduled after 2025 will default probably back to 5%.

Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool

Re: Not all heroes

Ah but you forget the fix is been offered for free and there is no-monetary gain, so I hope you posted with irony there.

Not all heroes

Wear capes.

Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered

Remote Access

I can not think of any systems that cannot be remotely accessed you would need this feature to offer support and fixes.

After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor

eDirectory ?

I was a Netware Engineer for a brief period until Micorsoft killed it with NT server and was struggling to think what eDirectory was until a quick google came to my aid, Good old NDS that's what it is.

Hands up who wants a PC? Lenovo reports declining returns

It budgets where blown during the COVID-19 Pandemic

It departments suddenly had to overnight get their office based staff working from home, that's probably the most likely cause of the reduce spend as they have used future budgets as well.

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

Inflation has many causes

Supplier and retailer greed.

Short supply of goods

War in Ukraine.

We see recently that many super markets and Energy suppliers making Bumper profits, why is this ?

They ramped up prices way further than needed thus fueling inflation, this then has a trickle down affect to the lowest point i.e. us the consumer

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

I live in Birmingham

The amount our council waste on dumb projects is staggering, the Labour Council think it is their money and not it's citizens. Millions upon Millions are wasted by BCC and yet they are still voted in.

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Business are you thinking of Out Sourcing

Then think long and hard about giving your business who have a track record of ballsing things up, again and again and again.

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

Windows 10 will be the last ever Operating System we ever write.

Erm, Windows 11 will be the last..

Erm Windows 12.......

Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

I have always wonder why people do business with them.

I

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

It staggers me

That companies still put faith in C(r)apti and trust them

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

I thought it was Knackered

When I couldn't get to Downdetector

You sir Win the Internet Today

Brilliant Post :) :)

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

I hate teams

There that feels better, got that off my chest

Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider

Re: Most tasks can be condensed onto 1 page of A4

Most will stop reading after the 1st page

Most tasks can be condensed onto 1 page of A4

Time and time again I have experienced processes that make no sense when they should be no longer than an page of A4. 20 odd pages before you get to the point of what you actually have to do.

Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract

The staff will be safe

The staff will probably be ok if they work in the UK, as they will be TUPED out, so all that will change is the company name everything else will be exactly the same.

JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

Dear JD Sports customer, if you do not pay us 1 Million in Bitcoins

Then we shall with hold your trainer and shellsuit order you have 24hours to comply.

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

If it was working before then the first thing you must always ask

WHAT HAS CHANGED

Tales from four decades in the Sinclair aftermarket: Parts, upgrades and party tricks

The ZX Spectrum or Speccy

Without that machine I would not have had the successful career I have today thankyou Sir Clive.

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Pray tell how they got this information

Really did they survey all the HR departments of all IT companies, me thinks this is a stick your finger in the air and guess job.

Capita to see wave of UK government contracts come to an end by 2025

Re: Ahh the talented government

jeremy your back me old comrade

Funky Pigeon pauses all orders after 'security incident'

That might explain my constant account lockouts

Last week my account was locked out even after a password reset and a correct login attempt, something was amiss

Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15

InkBall

The only thing good about Vista

Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4

I am sure some consumers have no idea what they are buying.

Your average non-tech purchaser will look at the price first and make their buying decision on that, `not realising until later that the Chrome book will not exactly do what they though it would.

Expired cert breaks Windows 11 snipping tool, emoji panel, S Mode features, other stuff

Early adopters

You are doing the testing for Microsoft, that's why I wait till the O/S is embedded in before I will install it. Windows 10 is just fine for me.

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

Re: The continuing non-arrival of the paperless office

We will be using shells soon :)

Revealed: How to steal money from victims' contactless Apple Pay wallets

Neither Apple nor Visa responded to requests for comment

Sums it all up in that sentence alone.

Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files

Re: Command Prompt

OLD SKOOL

Come on Who

Switched on Windows Update,

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

The thing with sales and commission is

The salesperson is only focused on their pockets and will sell you anything to get some extra wedge. For me that's not looking after the customer, however it's a double edged sword, no commission no sales, but if you do have commission and you have the preverbal selling sand to ....

Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls

Only if they can find them

They will most likely be hiding offshore some where

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

I would never buy Tosh again

The way they treated me as a loyal customer for several years and always singing their praises to my customers, I would never ever touch their products again nor endorse them. Never have I ever wanted a company like Tosh to go under but for then "Toshiba" I look forward to that day happening vey soon

BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages

Re: 2006 to 2016

JAKE URABFP

2006 to 2016

Did i miss something as i only skimmed the article, did it take BT 10 years to figure out what was causing the fault ?

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

Mulder and Scully

Strike again

Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang

This is what happens when you

1. Slash your IT spend

2. Don't pay for top quality IT professionals and instead try to pay mid 20K salary

3. Invest in the latest tech and software

Microsoft sheds some light on perplexing Outlook blank email incident: Word was to blame

Re: Nprmal.dot

They're at it again, they have switched my p and o keys around. Sorry for the typo i wrote the post in anger

Nprmal.dot

I had an issue a few years back when outlook menu items were missing it was caused by a corrupt NORMAL.DOT, for this issue in the mentioned article, i was up till 0100 trying to fix this when i did a news search on Outlook and discovered the Muppets at MS had caused the issue. Why do these morons not test their code ?

Suffice to say by morning everything was working.

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Look after Mr Bond.

See that some harm comes to him...

Ever wondered what it's like working for Microsoft? Leaked survey shines a light on how those at the code coalface feel

Re: "better deals on offer"

Everyone knows that most of the profiles on Linkedin are full of BS and fake info.