* Posts by gv

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Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

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Flame

"Missing UI features such as taskbar positioning irritated users"

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

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

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

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Happy

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%'

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Re: Age verification mandates work like chocolate teapots.

"Clem H. Fandango"

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

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Happy

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

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Big Brother

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?

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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

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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

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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

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Joke

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'

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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

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Alien

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

Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance

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FAIL

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

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Flame

Vertical Taskbar?

See title.

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

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Childcatcher

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

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

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Re: SaaS

Software application available sometimes

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

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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

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Facepalm

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

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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

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Happy

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

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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

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Devil

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'

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Pirate

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

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Alert

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

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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

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Mushroom

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

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FAIL

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

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Boffin

Does it run Linux?

See title.

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

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Re: Less UNIX philosophy...

AKA Windows 11...

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

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Happy

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

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

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Mushroom

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)

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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

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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?

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FAIL

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

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Boffin

Paperless Office

I'm still waiting...

Microsoft embraces its inner penguin as sudo sneaks into Windows 11

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"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

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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.

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

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Alien

Was this person heard muttering: "Dialysis? ... What is this, the Dark Ages?"

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

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London's finest thespian

There's only one man for the job: Steven Toast, last seen in Tinseltown.

Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?

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Choices, choices, choices

"paradoxically both lightweight and cluttered with multiple redundant choices"

That's exactly why I use Linux as my daily driver: sometimes it's useful to have gVim, Kate and Gedit open with different files...

The same with window managers/desktop environments: I like being able to run IceWM one day, i3 the following day, GNOME the next day.

Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds

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Webex is still a thing?

See title.

Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

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Facepalm

Re: 81%? 84%?!

Learning on the job whilst delivering to tight deadlines is always good for your stress levels, especially if the product doesn't work in the same way as described in the documentation ...

X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent

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Coat

Re: This is what happens

"Let that sink in."

GNOME 45 formalizes extensions module system

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'Enterprise' Distros

An advantage of using an enterprise distro is that it will be quite a while before you're affected by these things.

Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'

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Re: I think it is the perfect time to start a new company : Gloom

"I didn't get where I am today without registering the appropriate domain names, Reggie."

ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks

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Like a new employees once the probation period has ended...

Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian

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Scrollbar on the left

I have this for konsole, xterm and rxvt.

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

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"The Land of the Free"

See title.

Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week

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Re: if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it

Exactly: two-hour daily commute into some air-conditioned nightmare to spend the day on Zoom calls with people in Europe, the US and India.

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