Posts by WylieCoyoteUK

El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa

who makes it

Yorkshire tea served medium strong, milk no sugar, in bed on Sunday morning.

But, and this is the important part-made by somebody else.

Samsung: Never mind Steve Jobs, let's snap off a piece of stylus biz

signatures

Our engineers use android phones to clear breakdown calls, and finding a stylus that allows a customer to sign on a touch screen is quite difficult. most of them are not easy to use.

First video inside thinking fish's brain captured by boffins

Grocer's

I wonder if a scan would show up the thinking that causes a grocer's apostrophe to appear in a headline

New stats: Blighty's PC market ended 2012 on its KNEES

win8 launch encouraging win7 purchases

"But in a bizarre turn, IDC figures showed a 7 per cent spike in the commercial PC segment"

Hardly bizarre, businesses are upgrading to win7 PCs to avoid win8.

My local supplier is offering win8 PCs cheaper than the same machine with win7

Biz users, hard-up punters: Nobody loves Windows 8

To be honest, I think it stinks.

BUT....(and here is the punchline) only because TIFKAM can't be deselected at will for those who it doesn't work for.

The underlying OS is a definite improvement on 7. Even for many office users, who only use one or two applications, it will not be a big problem.

The patches that restore the start menu are a nono for many business users, simply because of their narrow support window.

I personally use over a hundred applications on my work laptop. I support 6 different MFD manufacturers, all of their software, and cutomers that use them, and use loads of different applications, from Office to Photoshop to Equitrac.

I have to run 6 VMs just for the cost recovery server tools.

For me, it is great big fail.

When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn...

Facebook by another name...

Personally, I tried Linked-in and realised that it is just Facebook for fat old business types.

And frauds

I looked up an old colleague, and apparently he's been "headhunted" for every job he has held in the last 20 years.

Yeah right, I know that it actually went like this:

1.Left in a huff because he went after a team leader position and didn't get it.

2.Left before the area manager could sack him

3.Was made redundant when they closed his division

4.Jumped ship before the downsizing got him

He has also claimed to be in roles he never held (luckily, the firms in question no longer exist as such, so no one can check).

Mind you, he was always a Bull**** merchant.

Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?

Scuse me, but

I am I the only one who noticed that the green and blue lines in the first graph are almost mirroring each other (not identical, but quite closely).

Which sort of defeats the main argument.

It would seem that if Wages rise, profits drop, and vice versa.

Mine's the one with a brown envelope sticking out of the pocket.

Half of us have old phones STUFFED in our drawers

Not all are acceptable

Maybe I use mine for too long. I checked on a website up a while ago, and all the old phones I have are not considered suitable for recycling.

Design guru: Windows 8 is 'a monster' and 'a tortured soul'

He has made some good points.

Let's face it, TIFKAM is a mess.

Besides the lack of consistency and usability on a desktop, Live tiles just create a screen full of noise, and they are being sued by another company who couldn't sell them either.

How many people actually used Active desktop? Desktop gadgets? Personalised menus? all basically "new ideas" that ended up as annoyances.

The thing is, you could turn them off or choose not to use them. Not so TIFKAM or the Ribbon (yeuck).

How much of the eye-candy survives, and how much is actually of any use?

Sinofsky's gone, 8 is tanking, MS have gone very quiet while they try to recover something from the wreckage.

HP warns consumers: Don't downgrade Win8 PCs to Win7

We always downgrade to vanilla 7 anyway.

Removing the HP crapware is so time-consuming and causes all sorts of stability issues, so we always wipe them and install vanilla 7 anyway.

There are all sorts of rubbish on them from Mcrappy encryption to Notone AV, to all sorts of hp branded nuisances.

None of them serve any valid purpose on a business machine.

I just LOVE Server 2012, but count me out on Windows 8 for now

Re: Thanks for the warning..

You forgot Reddit

Win 8 ready for slate ... but biz customers can wait

More than likely a corporate pause

Like those editions that MS would like you to forget:

ME, Vista, 8

Most large companies will skip 8 altogether.

I think MS know that already.

Microsoft spruces up crap apps in early Win8 update

Been here, refused to buy the tshirt

Remember Active desktop? and the 2 people you know who used it for more than a week?

And Aero... which is apparently "really Cheesy" now?

"a bit rubbish " is a stunning understatement.....

Ubuntu 12.10: More to Um Bongo Linux than Amazon ads

Unity is Ok with me

I quite like Unity, been using it for a while now.

Compared to say Win8, it is quite a nice easy to use interface.

It is especially good for newbies and non technical users.

Mind you, since I bought a tablet, I mainly use my desktop for writing and image manipulation, so I'm in Android more than any other OS these days..

Tibetan STATUE found by 1930s NAZI expedition is of ALIEN ORIGIN

Where's the godwin's law factor?

You're all nazis

There is life after the death of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Start button

Re: Jesus Christ on toast.

So lots of laptops are sold. big deal.

Most people hate trackpads, one of the first laptop add-ons purchased is a mouse.

In businesses and schools the desktop is still king. Many businesses users have multiple displays because they have been proven to increase productivity.

As for getting people to use keyboard shortcuts, about 50% of users still use a mouse to move between fields on the screen, and click OK, even after being shown how to use tab and enter, they use the mouse clicks for cut and paste instead of ctrl-c ctrl-v.

The trouble with keyboard shortcuts is lack of consistency in applications. i.e. apart from some basic ones, they don't always work or they are different in different applications, trust me, I train people all the time on a wide range of software from different sources.

New electronic labels squeal to spare you from food poisoning

Just more unecessary junk packaging

Of course this will use up more limited resources and increase pollution levels in landfill, but obviously that's worth it to preserve the lives of illiterates with no sense of smell.

LCD to have killed all* other TV technologies by 2016

I notice that 3D is not mentioned ... at last.

I'm sure I had my specs in this coat.....

Oz sysadmin says Windows 8 not ready for business

Maybe 8 is just a ploy to clear out the XP holdouts.

Sysadmin "Will you look at this!" (shows IT manager win8.... short pause as it sinks in)

IT manager "Right, we'd better get all the XP machines moved to 7, buy some extra licenses just in case, then dig in until windows 9".

Expect an upswing in win7 licensing around September.....

Redmond man unmasked: UK.gov open standards stalled

Fees clawback?

I don't suppose they will be recovering the fees from this a**hole will they?

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 'release preview' for June

Another Vista

Yes, if properly patched and with suitable hardware Vista is OK. Thing is that 7 works better, on a wider variety of hardware, and requires less resources than Vista.

Many corporates skipped Vista, in fact, I rarely see it. Most of my customers are still on XP, and they will be skipping Vista for 7.

Most of those who actually installed Vista were less tech-savvy, or had no choice at the time.

Out of a couple of thousand businesses, I have only seen one total Vista rollout. In fact I have seen more all-Mac rollouts than all-Vista.

Most are now running a mixture of 2003, 2008, XP and 7.

Some I have talked to (including my own company) are planning to update to 7 in the next few months just so that they can avoid 8.

8 isn't actually that bad for those among us who use 3 or 4 programs. For techs like me who have to install and use over a hundred, it is just rubbish. Which is a shame, because underneath the metro interface, it is a nice fast OS.

Great HR mistakes of our time - Aviva fires 1300 by email

cowardly?

Incidentally , for those who are going on about sacking someone via email being cowardly, apparently lots of *ssh*les these days dump their p[partner by text message.

Re: I wonder...

They probably sent him a text message.

Fired myself

In my last job, I had to compile the figures proving that my team leader post was no longer required.

As I was looking forward to my redundancy payment and I already had another job lined up, I was well motivated, but it did feel a little weird.