Posts by Anonymous IV

Capita bungs staff £250 if they cheer up, smile for ad snaps

Everyone has their price

But £250 seems a bit cheap?

Assange calls for help from … Quakers?

Re: One thing I know...

"We should do what we do with any spoilt child, and just ignore him."

Ah, but you reckon without journalism's need to fill a newspaper, do a piece to camera, etc.

Deadly domino effect of extinction proved by boffins

Re: too simple a study

Was it an old Monty Python sketch, where a confident geologist was standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an enormous dinosaur based entirely on the discovery of a single tiny tail bone?

Australian Police want in-house social network

"A comprehensive online phone book is also on the agenda."

<slaps head> Of course! Why didn't we ever think of that one?

Office 2013 to eat own file-format dog food

Re: Need a suitable email footer

"If you cannot open the attached OpenDocument/s please upgrade to ..."

You don't see this as a teensy, weensy bit arrogant, quite likely to annoy the recipient?

Or is that your business model?

Climate change blamed for rise of life-draining horrors*

Doomed! We're all doomed...

Is there anything else that CAN be said?

Google may face grilling by MPs over 'immoral' tax avoidance

"Don't be evil" is in the Google Code of Conduct

But there's nothing about "doing good"...

Curiosity's new OS upgrade ready to go live

Transmission data rate

Does anyone know what the average data rate is for the transmissions from Curiosity?

Just curiosity, you see...

Why women won't apply for IT jobs

Verity Stob

Perhaps Reg Mangers (sic) could suggest that she writes an article on this topic?

Curiosity snapped mid-flight by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Verification

Playmobil - or it didn't happen!

Curiosity success 'paves way for Man on Mars by 2030s'

Re: Please could you run this past me again?

Thank you! Enlightenment dawns...

Please could you run this past me again?

"The parts are all designed to last three times their expected working lifespan."

No, I still can't make sense of this...

Microsoft RTMs final Windows 8 and Server 2012 code

The sound of wishful thinking...

"Microsoft is advising IT managers to start evaluating the code on Windows 7 machines first and then roll out any deployment side by side to minimize disruption, and to leave upgrading XP and Vista systems on the to-do list."

Yeah, right! (We start Monday...)

Skydiving daredevil Baumgartner leaps from 96,000ft

Re: What a view

Can't be long before Richard Branson tries the same thing. It would be a good distraction from giving his name to increasingly dysfunctional companies...

Australians receive SMS death threats

Precision extortion

Exactly $5000.00 - not a cent more, not a cent less (thinks: there might be a book in that?)

GPS-equipped sheep prove herd mentality exists

"More research is needed..."

Obligatory final sentence of any study report.

Microsoft promises Metro developers 'fame and fortune'

Re: The thing is

"Microsoft will report fantastic sales figures of windows 8 as it will be shipped on every new laptop and desktop and the shareholders will be happy and the price will go up

What they won't tell you is the amount that is being used in the wild as they will know only too well corporates and any savvy home users will be removing it before they've even setup their new laptop or desktop"

I wonder how soon there will be "Downgrade Rights" from Windows 8 to Windows 7, like there were for Vista back to XP?

Except that the customers will insist on calling them "Upgrade Rights"...

Yes, yes, the Olympics are near. But what'll happen to its IT afterwards?

Lightbulb moment!

The vast quantity of kit required for the London Olympics is probably the reason that the Cisco [charity] Donation Programme has been suspended.

"[We] will not be processing new donation requests at this time because increased demand for Cisco products has exceeded the programmes inventory."

There's always a reason!

BSkyB punches Virgin Media in ads watchdog fist fight

<modifier> unlimited

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

Microsoft offers beta of Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Re: Windows Server 2003 continues to suit me just fine

One assumes that you have investigated (or already use?!) BackupAssist to manage your tape backups?

YouView launches with pricey premium DVR

Still only the two tuners, then

Here was a chance for Humax to upgrade their PVRs, but they still appear to be resting on their laurels. Probably no chance of an increase in the number of series or individual programmes that can be set to record, either.

6/10 - Could Try Harder

DDoS blackmailers busted in cross-border swoop

DDoS on the cheap?

£46K doesn't really seem to be a very large blackmail amount. Perhaps these "hoodlums" (hoodies?) need some financial education from a Diamond geezer?

Amazon cloud knocked out by violent storms in Virginia

Cause and effect?

"Luckily for the Prickett Morgan household, we had just finished up watching several episodes of The IT Crowd over Netflix just before the storm hit."

Have you considered the possibility that this extremely rash and almost incomprehensible act may well have CAUSED this devastating storm?

Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...?

For "RBS managers" read "any managers", passim...

Low-cost Aakash tablet scheme is back on track

Re: Perfect

That would be a cheap shot - only if it was accurate. Seems you haven't read the relevant articles.

Screen idols: higher resolution means better laptops

Re: 1200 pixels!

Dell U2412M, 24" IPS panel, 1920 x 1200, height adjustable, about £220. Quite good.

RBS IT cockup: This sort of thing can destroy a bank, normally

Re: Hmm...

So that's one good thing about Fred Goodwin. I doubt there is more than one.

CAPTCHA-busting villains branch out from spam into ID theft

Re: ... Intelligence report, A CAPTCHA in the Rye ...

Oops! Must have missed off

[/irony]

from my previous post.

... Intelligence report, A CAPTCHA in the Rye ...

Good grief, aren't these report-writers well read, and witty with it!

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

Re: The Internet still works!

Mildly interesting to note that, for the villains of the piece (not villeins of the peace), Argyll & Bute Council, an anagram of 'Argyll Bute' is 'Great Bully'...!

WD beams in 802.11n Wi-Fi stations

"WD also launched today an [sic] £50 eight-port Gigabit switch"

Super. You can buy *two* TP-Link 8-port gigabit switches for about £52...

Girl Geek Dinner lady: The IT Crowd is putting schoolgirls off tech

Re: "lack of women in IT is a worldwide problem"

Ah, "The Principle Language"!

One of my former bosses advertised for a "Principle Secretary", which all us workers thought was a jolly good idea, since he didn't seem to have any principles of his own...

Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it

Re: When does thing launch again?

You are amanfrommars and I claim my £5!

MoneySavingExpert.com founder flogs website for £87m

Re: Independence

If anyone is interested in the often virulent responses of many users on the MSE forum thread discussing this sellout (oops, takeover) take 20-or-so minutes looking through http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=53495201#post53495201 .

UK music-rights collection: Where does all the money go?

Re: Rip off indeed

Perhaps the [b]actual performers[/b] get paid (or are supposed to), and not Bach or Mozart?

EE splurges £50m on OS-specific experts

Re: On the subject of dynamic typing

Surely it's better than "hunt and peck"?

UPS death in Pulsant data centre knocks out websites

Uninterruptible Power Supply

The Revenge of the Oxymoron...

Samsung Galaxy S III

Send in the cavilry

"There are cavils from critics who complain that it uses Pentile Amoled instead of the newer Super Amoled Plus technology..."

Gosh, yes, certainly I will complain - at that sentence's pretentiousness!

How I went from Unix engineering to flogging Google apps

Re: "The" cloud - pure mythology!

I wonder whether the original author is familiar with [b]The Cloud of Unknowing[/b]", "[i]an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century.[/i]"?

All the cloudy woffle of its proponents makes me think how prescient was the medieval author in choosing that title.

Migrating data from storage arrays

"Perhaps the long-term answer is to move the data into the cloud..."

Lots of interestingly-speculative calculations about how long it would take to move oodles of data across several interfaces locally.

But no calculation of how long it might take to move, say, 15PB of data into the cloud across the average ADSL2+ (or even fibre) link? Is it in the order of years? Lifetimes? Millennia?

Possibly the author got bored with the subject in the last few paragraphs, and thought he'd try to sneak in a bit of nonsense?

Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013

"the navigation is streamlined and intuitive..."

Not a use of the word "intuitive" that I recognise!

BOFH: Siri, why do users lie?

Someone complains about "PIN number" when Simon uses "pinnochio" as a verb?

What is pedantry coming to?!

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

Re: Openoffice?

Yes, and so does LibreOffice!

But LO is working to eliminate the need for the Java Runtime Environment... (yippee!)

Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers

Intellectual Property or Internet Protocol?

In these articles, please could we have a clue, preferably in the subject, but certainly early in the first paragraph, whether we are talking about IP or IP!

John Lewis Broadband - genius or foolhardy?

Isn't this scheme almost as expensive as Zen, but without Zen's proven level of ISP customer service?

Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS

Re: Related?

In the Google email address model [e-mail] can be written as [e-mail], or even [e-mail]. all full stops in the section before the @ sign are ignored...

6.45pm (Pacific Time)

Couldn't the author have gone to the effort of telling us what time that is in BST? It would save the rest of us having to work it out, or ignoring it.

French perfume house bottles 'Eau de new MacBook'

Re: Instinctive but strange

There was the instance of the chap who had just gone to collect his new company car - but rejected it because "it doesn't smell new", and told them to get one which DID smell new!

Student's Linux daemon 0-day triggers InfoSec Institute outcry

Re: The solution is obvious: Make root access forbidden!!!!1!one

There's also a lot to be said for write-only memory...