Spot on. I was a very active user. I gave Musk the benefit of the doubt & hung around for a few weeks but the tone of the whole site deteriorated. My twitter addiction is now cured. I can't ever see myself indulging in it again & I can't be the only one
Posts by jockmcthingiemibobb
74 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2012
Twitter will lose 32 million users by end of 2024, Insider Intelligence predicts
Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year
Email out, Slack and Teams in for business communications
Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus
Apple seeks geniuses to work on 6G cellular modem before it's even shipped own 5G chip
Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'
Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it
Re: "an upgrade will have to happen in the coming months or years"
Pfft. More importantly if it's backed up correctly and you' workstation data isn't particularly sensitive then who cares? Half our workstations are still Windows 7. Only a lack of apps or hardware actually shitting itself will take my Win7 laptop out my cold dead hands.
See that last line in the access list? Yeah, that means you don't have an access list
Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit
In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere
I get 50Mbps from my local WISP. Decent router too (I could plug in my own). Starlink is faster (at the moment) costs nearly twice the price per month (and that's before the extra $15 electricity), is damn expensive to setup and his higher latency. Plus I'd have to trust prices won't increase after Starlink has it's IPO.
Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing
British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica
SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for its Starlink mobile broadband base stations
Windows 10 quite literally projects its deepest, darkest fears on to New Zealand
SpaceX’s Starlink finally reveals its satellite broadband pricing for rural America: At $99 a month, it’s a good deal
Re: Be careful what you wish for
As usual the Register ignores the excellent service that local WISPs provide. At the end of a 50/15 Mbps microwave link here and the performance in the service and evening is leaps and bounds better than the supposed 1Gbps connection over government paid-for fiber my friends in town have. I feel much the same as you about local service; if I have an issue I ring up, someone answers the phone (or calls back within 5 minutes) and if there's a problem they can't sort remotely they usually send someone out the same day.
Net neutrality lives... in Europe, anyway: Top court supports open internet rules, snubs telcos and ISPs
Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?
Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions
TeamViewer is going to turn around and ignore what you're doing with its freebie licence to help new remote workers
BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work
Re: Use a second wifi hotspot
I can't understand all the downvotes. Ir's almost as if most El Rego readers don't understand how WiFi repeaters work....or rather how often they don't work or cause horrendous interference. Modern homes have a lot more wireless than WiFi routers.
ISP I work for flicks dozens of powerline kits a week. They work excellently in 99% of homes. We pretty mutch ditched WiFi repeaters/MESH due to the huge amount if support calls they generated.
National Lottery Sentry MBA hacker given nine months in jail after swiping just £5
Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack
American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum
Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam
Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G
Nope. Your sub 1GHz refracts around trees and has less through buildings than 2.5/3.5GHz. Try pushing your 2.4GHz WiFi through some wet trees if you don't believe me. The mm wave stuff essentially equates to a few 100 metres and won't penetrate bulidings at all (unless you enjoy sticking your cell phone to the window) so moby companies envisage masts on every second or third buildings. That's why bar a few showcase examples at festivals and tourist spots, "proper" 5G will never go outside cities.
Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table
Re: I call bullshit on these statistics
Yep, and prohibition worked so well in New Zealand :-( My pet hate is the fun police in most small rural towns who implement unnecessary booze bans. There are already laws to target violence, drink driving, theft and anti-social behavior but somehow the goons reckon it's not OK for anyone to have a beer at the sidelines after a game of footie or have a glass of wine with the Mrs at the beach. Free country my arse.
What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS
Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC
Misleading headline much. Look, it boils down to this; if a WISP invests their own money in underserved community then gets government funded competition they should be compensated. Otherwise the WISP can't invest in other underserved rural areas and the lost revenue has to be passed on to their remaining customers.
Perhaps the feds should be funding the WISPS to upgrade to >25Mbps and extend their reach to areas fiber and LTE providers have no interest in (even with subsidys) as is done in some other countries not led by an idiot.
'My entire company is without comms': Gamma's Horizon cloud PBX goes DOWN
Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again
What can I say about this 5G elixir? Try it on steaks! Cleans nylons! It's made for the home! The office! On fruits!
Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist
Just how rigged is America's broadband world? A deep dive into one US city reveals all
Ex-UK comms minister's constituents plagued by wonky broadband over ... wireless radio link?
Australia won't prescribe its national broadband network a high-fibre diet
Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...
T-Mobile owner sends in legal heavies to lean on small Brit biz over use of 'trademarked' magenta
Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...
Car-crash television: 'Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?' 'Yes I do,' replies AMD's CEO
EE unveils shoebox-sized router to boost Brit bumpkin broadband
Parity calamity! Wallet code bug destroys $280m in Ethereum
Ofcom wants automatic compensation for the people when ISPs fail
'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court
>While what you say is undoubtedly veridical, it marks you out as a bit of an amateur.
Probably and that's the main reason I got out of that area of IT. Kept getting told how to do a better job by experts..
>Upgrading Windows is vastly inferior to a clean install.
I'd agree, upgrading Windows IS vastly inferior. But I never said it was my first choice and I never said I never do clean installs. But did customers always pay me to do backup their data (I did anyway), perform a clean install, migrate their user data and reinstall their applications? Beside, they've often lost the install media and didn't have the savvy to photograph the product key that was fading away on the bottom of their notebook or power supply. So economic reality won. I'd also like to point out that most of the time I'd receive the laptop/workstation AFTER windows 10 (or previous versions) had updated and borked.
>You can't reinstall the previous Windows version if you lack install media and the Product Key.
That's for that Captain Obvious, but exactly what has that got to do with my original post?
Yes, sometimes I had to use install/recovery media, bootable linux, mount a hard drive on another PC or whatever it took. Points I was trying to make was
a) Doing an upgrade, Windows stores data in windows.old
b) That anybody CHARGING folks to fix borked Windows 10 updates should be competent enough to have the means of accessing that data.
c) I never lost anybody's data from a Windows update..
I probably should have stated that yes, the windows update rollback is often a dog and I probably just got lucky with point c. However its amazing how many laptops are out there with perfectly good customer data in a windows.old folder that end users have no idea exists because some muppet has charged them an arm and a leg to fix their failed windows upgrade, not bothered (or known) how to transfer their data and just told them that it's gone and it's all Microsoft's fault.
Yes I agree that I've seen that message, I've seen upgrades fail, I've seen clean Win 10 installs fail and I've seen rollbacks fail.
BUT
I've done hundreds of windows upgrades and have NEVER lost access to the old data. It stores it in windows.old. .Whilst I wouldn't expect Joe Average to be able to recover it, ANY even semi-capable IT outfit who CHARGES should be able to reinstall previous Windows version, the old user profiles and if necessary pertinent registry data.
LTE-U R gd 2 go: FCC gives unlicensed spectrum its coat, pushes it out the door
Re: This should not be a huge problem
So all the WISPs using Cambium, Ubiquiti, Mimosa and Mikrotik 5ghz gear are doing so illegally? I don't think so. This is a sad decision for these small innovative businesses as the LTE-U will undoubtedly cause issues. End customers will just end up having less choice and paying more to the usual big telcos