Posts by gv

Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots

Re: Good

Some of us would prefer not to speak to a human: just give us a comprehensive knowledge base and a good search.

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Re: It's CLEAR that when they let the DEVs egos get in the way, the end user's get the shaft

With widescreen monitors, it's unforgivable not being able to place the taskbar vertically.

OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

Re: Obligatory ST:TOS Reference

Orac: "There seems little point in wasting time on such an explanation, since you would be incapable of understanding it."

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

Re: "to leverage AI tool"

"I didn't get where I am today by lining my ducks in a row, Reggie."

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

Microsoft and "industry leading solutions that are critical to ensuring the highest level of organizational security and productivity" is a canonical oxymoron.

Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations

"You're not going to put jet fuel in a car."

https://wonderfulengineering.com/happen-put-jet-fuel-car-answer/

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Re: Wish I knew what kind....

Bought a Unicomp keyboard years ago for around £100 and it's still going. Looks like the price has gone up: https://www.keyboardco.com/category.asp?sr=unicomp

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Re: My 2 cents...

If there's a regedit for it, surely the "brightest and best" at Microsoft can add a right-click option on the taskbar to save me having to fire up the registry editor?

Re: My 2 cents...

I just want a vertical taskbar...

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

Re: Microsoft was founded

"If the company has gone all-in on Microsoft's cloud email services"

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

I've never forgiven them for shutting down Demon Internet...

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

"Missing UI features such as taskbar positioning irritated users"

Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam

You're not taking my shiny, red stapler!!!

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Re: It's a nice toy.

Works quite nicely on my 15 year old Lenovo T61 with 2GB RAM.

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

"Clem H. Fandango"

Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity

Man in a Suitcase

My favourite Ron Grainer theme, which I have as my phone ringtone.

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

Most large corporates now tend to deploy "endpoint management" software to audit what's on the machine and enforce policies, which usually will not run on Linux. So, if your company laptop doesn't communicate with the endpoint management server, expect awkward questions followed swiftly by a re-install of the corporate Windows build.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Re: replaced ... by ... CFO

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

UK financial regulator slammed for failed tech transformation

Re: FCA is corrupt or incompetent

The "Fundamentally Complicit Authority" as Private Eye has dubbed them.

Lenovo’s enterprise hardware biz booms but profit remains elusive

Not buying Lenovo again...

Of the various brands of laptops that I have, the only ones that have had fatal mainboard failures are Lenovo. One (work) laptop keeled over twice in its three-year warranty period and the consumer laptops died shortly after the warranty expired.

The corporate buyers at work removed Lenovo from their suppliers list some time ago.

Meta's plan for nuclear datacenter reportedly undone by bees

I'm up for this if someone can design a nuclear reactor to take up the same space as a Vaillant combi boiler...

Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error'

Re: Almost sounds like Apple...

"We're sorry you feel your disk space is being hoarded ..."

Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm flying over Langley Air Force Base

"Excuse me. We are looking for nuclear wessels."

Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance

Re: Design Choices

A few years back, I had a company-issued Samsung mobile phone which refused to hard delete the Facebook app. This set my policy on buying Samsung products.

Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2

Vertical Taskbar?

See title.

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

How about because it's morally and ethically the right thing to do?

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Re: SaaS

Software application available sometimes

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

Re: Just bad luck?!

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

Of course, the context menu in Windows 11 that pops up when you right-click on the desktop and has it's own context menu, which looks completely different, is the epitome of polished proprietary software.

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Re: It worked on my machine!

The old chestnut "don't put all your eggs in one basket" should always apply to your core IT in all circumstances.

The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard

My Lenovo T61 with its glorious keyboard is still going strong (apart from the battery). Currently running MX Linux on it.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Who, me?

I thought he was implying the engineer had a Keith Floyd-esque liking for a particular grape-based beverage?

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

The IT Support department that mandates Microsoft across the corporate fleet reaping what they have sown.

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Re: Home Taping Is Killing Music

Going to wire up my laptop's microphone to the laptop's speakers while I stream BBC Radio 1 like the 80s...

New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features

Those big corporates that have put all their eggs in the Microsoft basket may, at some point, be in for a rude awakening

Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey's support site

Re: Looks like the intern

Having attempted to use the 'To Do' functionality in Office365, I can completely understand why the certificate was not renewed.

Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef

Re: Wifi controlled barbecue problem?

"Your bbq-ers were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill

Re: Surprising...

Being forced to exit the UK and Europe: "ultra-successful".

Microsoft's new Surface Laptop 7 has arrived. The recovery images have not

Does it run Linux?

See title.

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Re: Less UNIX philosophy...

AKA Windows 11...

IT infrastructure scared away potential buyers of struggling e-commerce site

I'm only here for the sneering tone...

VBScript nudged nearer to the grave with next big Windows 11 update

Pinned to taskbar

I'll decide what's pinned to MY taskbar, thank you very much.

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)

Re: Mint and Flatpak

For those of us running an "enterprise" distro, Flatpak (and Snap) are good options for getting the latest versions of software, for example, LibreOffice.

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance

Last Dell I bought had an AMD Ryzen and runs Ubuntu: full details are apparentlty on the dark web...

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?

Re: The flagship OS and its hardware requirements

Nothing compelling and some things downright annoying (not being able to have a vertical taskbar for one).

AI won't take our jobs and it might even save the middle class

Paperless Office

I'm still waiting...

Microsoft embraces its inner penguin as sudo sneaks into Windows 11

"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald

Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints

I have a landline (no FTTP in this part of outer London) but I only get billed for outgoing calls, so for the last few years, it's cost me exactly £0.00.