Posts by Simon R. Bone

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Or.....

Just use Open Shell!

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Guaranteed Email Storage Profits?!

A friend of mine's uncle has a legal storage business - it's very profitable because law firms store boxes of case files with him and these need to be kept for decades - so his business only grows and grows - I see MS removing POP3 access WHILST selling one of the main email space providers via Ms365 AND selling the main corporate email client that using IMAP keeps emails with the email space provider as a very similar and lucrative business model for them - surely the competition regulator should look into this?!

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Re: So nobody did economics in school?

I'm afraid you and I appear to be the lone voice of reason here - I know Youtube creators who rely on ad income to fund their work and anyone viewing their content with an adblocker installed is ultimately endangering that - it's quite simple - if you visit someone's site, please abide by their rules eg for YouTube watch ads in return for viewing content - if you don't like ads then don't use the site, what gives you the right to think you can override their T&C's?! don't instead install a technical solution and start spouting concerns about "privacy" or CPU cycles when really you just don't want the minor inconvenience of sitting through adverts - if EVERYONE had an adblocker today half the Internet would disappear and what exactly would you replace it with??? Paywalls?! How on earth is that better?

Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux

Year of Desktop Linux = Year(now()) + 1

I'm just here for the comments :)

Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel

Not The Face

I did an online proctored exam a few months back and was constantly being told off for touching my face (!) I like to think holding and scratching my chin but apparently this could be some sort of Who Wants To A Millionaire cheat code...

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

Don't forget the Win3.1 GUI Elements Still In Use

https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-10/

Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical's Snap Store

The Year Of Desktop Linux Is Year(Now())+1

"noting that the build process for the application and new package is a lengthy one "which can require more than six hours per build on a fast computer." - weird that more non-techies don't use Linux ;-)

Right to repair? At least you still have the right to despair: Camera modules cannot be swapped on the iPhone 12

Catching Up

Not that it's good but isn't this what the car industry has been doing for decades ie. make most of your money on the servicing and fit parts that only approved dealers have tools to fix.

Are you able to read this headline? Then you're not Julian Assange. His broadband is unplugged

In All Fairness...

....If it meant being able to secure some Pamela Anderson action I would be very prepared to lose my WiFi....

Lightning strikes: Britain's first F-35B supersonic fighter lands

Why not buy the F35-A for RAF

I understand why the carriers need the F35-B and can't operate the F35-C but why isn't the RAF buying the cheaper more capable F35-A?

Microsoft and Facebook, swimming in the sea,
N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G

Why "Strange bedfellows"

Ms own a chunk of FB...

Database admin banned from Oxford Street for upskirt filming

Licensing?

Did he fall foul of Oracle's Core (Blimey) Licensing Scheme?

Ego and CEO are 66 per cent the same

Comedy Drama!

NOT "dramedy"

Tesla Powerwall: Not much cheaper and also a bit wimpier than existing batteries

Normalise the peaks?

Couldn't all the powerall's in the local neighbourhood be shared via a local microgrid to help normalise out any sudden peaky demand from a house?

Eat FATTY FOODS to stay THIN. They might even help your heart

On it!

You can crunch it all you like, but the answer is NOT always in the data

Stats 101

correlation does not imply causation

White House may ditch BlackBerry, adopt LG or Samsung, ignore Apple

Re: Don't really see a big deal here for BB...

weirdly enough they planned to do this in the 1930s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Satisfy my scroll: El Reg gets claws on Windows 8.1 spring update

Still One Question Unanswered

For a solely desktop user what is the advantage (other than longer support time) of upgrading to 8 from 7?

Server 2008-> 2012 yes, lots of benefit - but how is 7-> 8.1 going to improve my computing experience?

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

A lone tumbleweed blows across the Interwebs

Is this in any way related to the delays in rolling out high-speed broadband across the UK???

Perhaps they think this will mean we can all go back to using 56k modems...

Widow lost savings in Facebook stock, sues all concerned for $1.9m

Can I....

...sue her for my "pain and suffering" caused by reading about her stupidity?

Sanitary towel firm's 'CEO' sets traumatised man straight

Good work - also reminds me of

the blackcurrant tango ad from a few years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCBml5TuNI&feature=related

Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

Thinkpad...

...Accept No Substitutes!

Windows Phone 8: What Nokia and Microsoft must do

Re: @AC

er..... rather than looking at your Windows phone can't you just look out of a "window" for that?

How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m

was...

... it buying Facebook shares?

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

Re: XNview

oh and Classic shell

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

for those of us who believes GUI's peaked at windows 2000

XNview

very fast universal image viewer and manipulator

High Court asked to keep 'cheap DVD' VAT loophole open

Will actually lose money

I'm originally from the channel islands and have many friends who work in industries based on LVCR.

Yes it is a loophole but the main problem is that they are ONLY applying this restriction to the channel islands - almost borderline racism and also quite stupid -> the companies will just move their operations to other countries e.g. Hong Kong or Switzerland and continue to exploit the loophole but now from places that DON'T put buy from UK suppliers - don't forget 95% of the islands' internally consumed imports come from the UK - i imagine it is the other way round with Hong Kong!

Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit

win2k

oh dear.... oh dear....

I'm using this nice piece of freeware

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

to make my win7 box look like win2k so I can actually get work done efficiently - let's hope they can create something similar for win8

US nuclear aircraft carrier George Bush crippled by toilet outages

So a Nimitz carrier is cheaper than the new UK ones?!

Our new carriers are supposed to come in at £7b for the the pair (and may rise) - $6.2b = £3.9b, so why the hell didn't we just buy a pair of far more capable (toilet aside) Nimitzes?!

Where are all the decent handheld scribbling tools?

Here you go - viliv n5

http://www.dynamism.com/viliv-n5.shtml

8 hour batter life, runs windows 7, fits in your pocket reasonably well

I reading this page on one now

Windows 8 to boot in 8 seconds

I see....

"Windows 8 will retain the - optional - ability to perform a full cold boot, loading and initialising the drivers and services from storage."

What's the odds that Windows Update will require a cold boot after every time it runs?

UK's first Stealth fighter in successful catapult test

" the plane will surely be sold in large numbers"

surely that means you have far more chance of running up against an enemy with identical planes!

'Blitzer' railgun already 'tactically relevant', boasts maker

er....

which even Wikipedia lists as " widely regarded as a hoax" - oh look, what are those pretty black helicopters doing outside? Aaaaargh.....

Nutter repairmen scale 1,768ft TV mast

Why?

Why are their faces blurred out? Are they secretly claiming disability benefit or something?!

Trident delay by the Coalition: Cunning plan, or bad idea?

Polaris

didn't holding back on the upgrade from Polaris to Trident costs huge amount of money in the end because the Yanks had moved on and they had to reopen all plants and assembly lines to support Polaris for us?? would be silly to make the same mistake twice

Empires built on free code aren't cheap

you're forgetting one thing

whatever you're spending on hardware/software you generally need to spend 10-100x more on marketing to make it a success.

Visa tightens rules for small sellers

Shared Hosting

It's VERY difficult for small sites using shared hosting pass all the PCI tests which means they often have to plump for pricey (and OTT) dedicated servers...

Sony Vaio P netbook

I'm waiting for....

... the Viliv n5 - see http://www.dynamism.com/notebooks/viliv-n5.shtml

a windows pc you CAN fit in your pocket (if they ever launch it...)

2012 Olympic mascots cop a shoeing

Roar!!!!

Isn't the symbol of Britain supposed to be a Lion? So why not a that?!!? It lends itself well to merchandising etc. Or is the real problem that you can't trademark a lion...

Physicist unmasks 99-year-old mistake in English dictionaries

90+ comments?!

for a story about siphoning??

Slow day at work guys?

Twitter bomb joker found guilty

Because...

.... all the major terrorist masterminds reveal their plans on Twitter beforehand - can't wait to see the next James Bond... "The Spy with My Face(book)"?

Javascript guru calls for webwide IE6 boycott

But...

IE6 is better than IE5 ;-)

Steve Jobs issues open letter on Flash

So Why no Java?

none of his arguments against Flash would seem to apply to Java... which is ALSO banned, surely they're just worried about revenue loss from apps running on Flash/Java so bypassing their app store?

Giant solar-powered aircraft takes to the skies

@Trevor 10

er..... there are 24 hours in a DAY -> 44miles*24 = 1056milers per day -> 23ish days of flying

Open source - the once and future dream

Very Interesting Article!

2 points always interest me about FOSS though...

1. what percentage of programmers contributing in their spare time have full time paid jobs in firms selling proprietary/closed software? i.e. if all software became FOSS tomorrow would the economic model be self-sustaining?

2. there now seems to be a large degree of awareness in the business community about "free software" HOWEVER this has the trickle down effect that they then translate this to mean support and other professional time based fee should be on a lower rate than for traditional systems! i.e. the rather illogical "this software is free, why are you charging me to put it on my computer argument?"

'Larry and Sergey' to offload 10m Google shares

jammy....

... b'stards. That is all.

Police arrest MD of dowsing-rod 'bomb detector' firm

best way to clear his name...

simply ship him to Iraq and place him in the middle of a mine field with one of his "detectors" and place his big pile of money on the perimeter...

Chinese stamp on Avatar

Always makes me laugh....

... how people say we defeated communism - and yet almost half the world still live under such a regime!

iSlate? I spy more control from Cupertino

Maybe

the launch delay is due to their printer breaking down as they try and print "iSlate" labels to stick over all those Newtons they have left in the warehouse??

German strato-sperm airship prototype flies

re: "next up" & "My moped runs"

You do know that Viz cartoon must be 15 years old now!