* Posts by teacakes

8 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2012

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

teacakes

Re: Main reason for the US to be against Huawei

of course, by your direct comparison, there's no corruption at all in China, no dirty dealings in international commerce and technology... Just the happy hard-working, regular & normal insane cult of totalitarian neo-fascism and gargantuan human rights abuses..?

teacakes

Re: Democrats

What wonderful, sincere, unbiased sources. Orangemanbadism in full flow.

UK government has 'no clear plan' for replacing ageing legacy IT estate, MPs report

teacakes

piss poor input, and management failures, and lazy freeloaders who can always parrot the rhetoric to blame the tools, since they believe they are 'owed' a one-button, 5-minute input, flawless automated solution, that allows them to have tea & biscuits all day and be free to gossip/bitch/discuss their lives for 9 minutes in every 10.

teacakes

technology and engineers don't matter anymore when you have people who are simply 'officers', administrators, sellers, and managers for managing's sake rising through the ranks, to hollow-out the already hollow organisations until they just another service/selling/middleman franchise.

Ooh, an update. Let's install it. What could possibly go wro-

teacakes

Re: I'll get the popcorn...

I can taste the salt from here

BT dismisses MPs' calls to snap off Openreach as 'wrong-headed'

teacakes

Legislate: 6 months to provide fibre to the property boundary or the channels become open access to licensed companies.

Gov won't do it, of course, they are soft and lack any ambition for such infrastructure beyond huffing and puffing. Besides, the security agency wotsits are probably happy to have minimal companies to 'work' with.

Sainsbury's Bank web pages stuck on crappy 20th century crypto

teacakes

Re: They still use XP

However...if it's an embedded version of XP -such as POSReady- then security updates are still actively produced, AFAIK.

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

teacakes

Paint.Net

SumatraPDF

Ultradefrag

Abiword