Posts by trickie

Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades

In my experience system administrators who fail to update their software over 8 years look exactly like those that fail over 10 years.

Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff

The problem here is the automated driver. None of the other drivers on the road seemed to have trouble with the cones or with having both a lane coned off and a car both blocking a lane and reversing into traffic at one point.

OOP there it is: You'd think JavaScript's used more by devs than Java... but it's not – JetBrains survey

So what? Perhaps the 40% of the respondents represents 1% of none-java developers. Who knows? The fact something is a big number doesn’t make it significant. So in that case the whole premise of the “article” would be garbage.

This is a thinly veiled advertisement. I’ve no problem with that. But the author doesn’t call that out. That’s bad journalism. Call it what it is.

Honestly, do you really think this counts as journalism?

“But we can trust this data with some assumptions as we do have quite a lot of respondents who are not our customers."

And what percentage of all developers does “quite a lot” represent? No one knows. Why can we trust this data?

“Such bias is no reason to dismiss the survey, particularly from JetBrains, which is the dominant commercial vendor when it comes to IDEs. The company also has free community editions, and Android Studio is based on the community version of IntelliJ.”

Why is it no reason to dismiss the survey? Because you say so? Because they do? Because they have a free version?

Hmmm, where should I dump those unencrypted password files? I know - OneDrive

BS!

I call BS. There isn't one word in their report about how they got their "estimate". Saying "is based on real life data from more than 600 enterprises and 27 million users" is meaningless. It's just throwing big numbers around as though that makes the result "better".

You're not doing your reputation as a news source any favours if all you do is reprint crap like this from advertising agencies without at least thinking about it.

SNAFU: Blighty's judges not trustworthy, says their own website

Re: Expired cert does not mean in the clear

Hardly. The certificate has expired, not been invalidated. If you care then you can still see the signature chain. If you could trust the certificate yesterday based on that information, why can't you trust it today?

Yes, maybe we should keep hackers in the clink for YEARS, mulls EU

And this is the EU's business how?

So not content with telling us what laws to enact, the EU now tells us what the sentence should be as well. Remind me, just what does the national parliament do in all this?

BT to end traffic throttling - claims capacity is FAT

Your graph seems to be in Kft rather than Km so your 2000 feet is about 609m. According to Wikipedia at 1.6Km VDSL2 speed is the same as ADSL2+

Major Freeview EPG revamp to go ahead after appeals rejected

Not again. My Sony TV hasn't been happy since the last time they changed things. Now on half the channels I just get "no schedule information available" for the EPG. I have to switch to another channel and look at the EPG there. Why not just leave things alone?

Google swims with the fishes

Re: The use of this is?

It's as useful as the streetviews of Scott's cabin in the Antarctic. It's for fun! And long may Google keep at it.

Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 12 voice recognition software review

Re: Interesting

I use the predecessor (11.5) to help with my incipient RSI as well.

Punctuation you have to spell out. It'll likely have a good crack at some commas in lists say.

Yes it's contextually aware. That's the whole point of the software and where it gets its reliability from. It also knows how apostrophes work.

The important thing - which this "review" completely missed - is that the program is adaptive. This is also the big difference between it and cloud versions (as though anyone cares where it runs!). When you use it it will make mistakes. You'll be tempted just to go and correct the errors using your keyboard. Don't. Instead you need to invest the time to correct mistakes using DNS itself. Then it will learn what you meant which increases the reliability hugely.