* Posts by Yugguy

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Over 50? Out of work? Watch out because IT is about to eat itself

Yugguy

Re: A few words of Interview advice

Ok which shiny-suited foetus voted me down?

Bloody kids these days.

(;->

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Re: A few words of Interview advice

" yet when you're 55 you'll probably stll expect a salary commensurate with your age."

Er, in a word, NO.

I'm working currently with a chap approaching 60, does a parallel job to me but he's a coder. We are both on the same pay scale as the chaps in their 30s on the team. The fact that they are younger but at a similar level to me does not bother me as I expect to be paid fairly for the job I am being asked to do, at whatever age I am.

Frankly it was only when I was much, much younger that I imagined being paid a grand per year of my age. I've just about managed it so far but there is NO WAY I can continue this apart from going into management which I DO NOT WANT, or going back to consultancy/London/abroad and never seeing my family which I also DO NOT WANT

I am satisfied that I am being paid a fair wage for the 3rd/4th line support/projects position that I am in and as long as that continues I'll still be happy.

Yugguy

Re: A few words of Interview advice

I do this too - I'm a 44 year old techie and that's what I want to stay as til I retire. So I make this VERY clear in performance reviews and interviews.

I am quite capable of learning new stuff for the next 20 years. I can alternate between support, projects, staff training, you name it.

And while the architecture, hardware, software, processes etc., will change vastly as the years go by, problems and problem solving won't.

SWINGBELLIES! Take heed AGAIN: Booze shortens your life

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" And the extra years that I'll get will be at the end of my life, when my body is frail anyway"

Not neccessarily.

Resistance training is proven to slow the progress of osteoporosis. There may also be a link between cardio and reduced dementia risk but that hasn't been proved.

I like my ale and wine, and good food. But I take care of myself because weights and cardio mean that between now and the day I die I'll look good and there's a better chance I'll feel good too. Right now at 44 I look better than most blokes half my age. And I like that.

Kanye West: Yo, DNS... Imma let you finish, but this gTLD is one of the best of all time

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This stuff makes me glad I'm old

And no longer have to give a shit about conforming to the latest fashions.

Not that I ever gave that much of a shit in the first place.

Fashion is for people who don't know what they like and need someone else to tell them.

Car? Check. Driver? Nope. OK, let's go, says British govt

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Would you actually, really get in one?

Straw poll - would you, or would you not, actually trust your life to one?

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Re: Interesting ethics ahead

Exactly - and if they'd used that kind of logic then Spock would still be dead.

Cortana to form circle of life in Windows 10

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"Cortana in different moods "

So, once a month, will she refuse to do anything and hide under a duvet?

Watch it: It's watching you as you watch it (Your Samsung TV is)

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If my TV had voice recognition

It would have fucked off a long time ago.

Drunk on Friday night? Then YOU probably DIDN'T spot Facebook's privacy tweak

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Re: Please, do explain

It's so not.

CommVault CEO: Quick, throw me some more sales reps

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Re: I agree, Simpana is good

The GUI is excellent. The range of different agents that can be accomodated within one commcell is excellent. Dedupe is superb. However, it is FAR too sensitive to its environment.

Hence my not quite as good comment.

Yugguy

Simpana is good...

Just not as good as Commvault thinks it is.

It is my lot in life to be Mr. Simpana at work.

'Revenge porn' bully told not to post people's nude pics online. That's it. That's his punishment

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Re: Not sure who is being punished the most here...

Aye. Looking at that, let's face it, conning women is likely to be the only way he'd have a chance to see them naked.

'One day, YOU won't be able to SENSE the INTERNET,' vows Schmidt

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The internet of things

Can FUCK OFF.

The end.

FIVE Things (NOT 10: these are REAL) from the WINDOWS 10 event

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I'll be sticking it on our laptop

Purely because the damn thing came with Windows 8 and it's detestable. 10 can't be any worse.

FBI-baiter Barrett Brown gets five years in chokey plus $890,000 fine

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EFA

"For the next 35 months, I'll be someone's bitch." Barrett should have said in a statement.

Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?

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California Man

The ONLY film I have ever walked out of the cinema during.

Normally I will sit there suffering as I've damnwell paid my money, but not that one.

Windows 10: The Microsoft rule-o-three holds, THIS time it's looking DECENT

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Re: As much as it pains me to say this...

Superb - I'm going to have to renable Google Now on my phone just so I can try this.

Obviously it will be disabled as soon as I get bored with gibbering.

Capita IT Services raises the axe AGAIN

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Every outsourcer in the world does this

Insource the staff, then sack them.

Put it this way, when your manager starts saying "we are on a journey together", it's time to worry.

Netadmin wanted for 'terrible, terrible, awful job nobody wants'

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Be nice to actually make a difference

Hell, at least they are honest.

MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY

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Re: Contact

Feck, you're right. Good job I'm not a radio scientist.

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Worst four words to hear AFTER sex?

"Ows about that then?"

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Re: Contact

Worst 6 words to hear before having sex:

"Can you guess what it is yet?"

Yugguy

Re: AKA Meatfucker

I had to google it.

German iron meets Monaco's highlands: Audi A1 review

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It doesn't matter what engine is in an Audi

They all still think they're the fastest car on the road.

Facebook is MORE IMPORTANT to humanity than PORTUGAL

Yugguy

Re: WTF.....

Indeed - the first thing I did when I got my Xperia Z3 was to disable ALL social media plugins.

Pull up the Windows 10 duvet and pretend Win8 and Vista were BAD DREAMS

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It's not difficult you know

It's quite simple really.

Revolutionary is for bleeding edge geeks in California.

The rest of us, in mainstream business, who employ and have to support REAL people who struggle in to work through traffic, have kids and families and holidays and bills and worries, we DON'T WANT revolutionary. Ethel who works in HR and has only just got to grips with Windows 7 and the UI that's basiclally been the same since Windows 95 doesn't want to have to relearn EVERYTHING she's struggled to learn in the last 15 years.

We don't mind small changes, bit by bit, but we don't want to have to be retraining ALL our staff because some divorced from reality developer is all excited about the latest new UI.

Give us evolution, not revolution.

Grand Theft Auto 1997: 'Sick, deluded and beneath contempt'

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Re: GOURANGA

I've also wondered about this. I remember seeing them handing out leaflets in the early 90s, and then they all seemed to disappear overnight.

Kiss your Glass goodbye: Google mothballs techno-specs (for now)

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But they made you look a bit...

Even in an early version like this was, surely they could have created a better form factor.

One that didn't make you look a bit "special."

Bloke in Belgium tries to trademark Je Suis Charlie slogan

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Re: WELL DONE

I don't think the terrorists are stupid, just that their fundamentalist mindset simply stops them from being able to consider certain outcomes.

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Re: WELL DONE

It shows how hugely the terrorists have failed here - they've raised the visibility of a tiny magazine read by about three people to a global level.

But their mindset would have prevented them from ever realising this.

Stop viewing Facebook at work says Facebook at work on Facebook at Work

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I remember Lync

And all the managers getting very excited about being able to keep tabs on us ALL THE TIME.

You go fast, but we go 'further' and 'deeper' – Voda tells 'Speedy' EE

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I want cover not speed

Given that I can't get 4G in half the places I visit its speed is irrelevant. I'd just like to actually get it.

Windows 7 MARKED for DEATH by Microsoft as of NOW

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We've just rolled out Windows 7

At my workplace.

I guess we could have rolled out 8

Except we didn't fancy having to retrain EVERY SINGLE STAFF MEMBER.

I guess we'll worry about what's going to replace 7 in 2019.

Google crashes supposedly secure Aviator browser

Yugguy

Re: SO what to us on Android then?

I just meant which is the nicest to use?

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SO what to us on Android then?

I've got an XPeria Z3 Compact. I've disabled all the Sony and Google bloatware, and disabled Chrome cos it's sh1te.

What's the best android browser to use then?

Got a 4King big TV? Ready to stream lots of awesome video? Yeah, about that…

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Re: Just got a 4K....

I realise I'm probably in a minority on here for saying this, but I can't think of anything worse than having my living room dominated by a giant TV. And I've got a big lounge. The 40inch we have now is plenty big enough thanks.

Yugguy

My SkyHD box will autodownload the latest Sky Movies releases during the night so they can be watched immediately.

It also gives the option when manually choosing a film to download in hd or sd.

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I don't need 4k

Thanks, but, no thanks.

When my newish HD Samsung finally dies, if 4K is then the standard broadcast format, I guess I'll get one.

But given that BBC1 can't even do local frigging news in even HD yet excuse me if don't get excited.

IBM hastens END OF HUMANITY with teachable AI 'brain'

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Any task?

I'll start to really worry about AI the day an AI brain can be pointed at any problem, or multiple problems, and tackle them all without reprogramming.

For instance, right now I am typing this, clicking on Admin Tools on a Windows 2012 VM, picking my nose and pondering reaching down to my second drawer to get a cough sweet. My subconscious is also mulling over what to have for lunch, wether to pop to the shops, where's the best place for a beginner's family ski holiday and a hundred other unrelated things.

When an AI can do all that at the same time I'll be impressed.

Microsoft lets devs with form skip MCSD exam

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Re: Desperate ?

Did you read the article? Your code has to pass review before it goes on the store.

You could try:

10 Print "Hello World"

20 Goto 10

But it probably won't pass muster

Ford recalls SUVs … to fix the UI

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I don't roll back on hills

Cos I know how to use a fecking CLUTCH.

I don't need the stupid auto handbrake bollocks.

But then that's how I feel about 90% of recent "innovations" Like VWs that light the foglight when you turn the wheel. UTTERLY POINTLESS.

Toyota to Tesla: we can play the free patent game as well

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Where exactly can you refuel?

A quick google shows about 10 stations in the entire UK.

Here's a quote regarding the flagship Honda station in Swindon:

"The station provides refuelling capability at both 350 & 700 bar and is capable of refilling 4 cars per hour"

4 an HOUR????

I know it's very early days but...

End well: this won't. European Copyright Society wants one EU law to rule 'em all

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Gunther says it will take 10 years

And a LOT of lavishly funded trips to meetings I expect. Choo choo!!! ALL aboard the EU gravy train.

Renault Captur: Nobody who knows about cars will buy this

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Leave the letters on

What next?

The Cli? The Lagun?

El Reg tests portable breathalyzers: Getting drunk so you don't have to

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Drive-Right pill

Just invent one of those. Ask Mr DiGriz.

UFOs in the '50s skies? CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'

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Re: I am outraged by you all

Well I gave you an upvote. No one else seems to have a sense of humour.

No Santa, no Irish boozers and no regrets: life in Qatar

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The "Irish" bar

The "Irish bar" only exists outside of Ireland.

Spent a fair amount of time in co Cork, the pubs there are for the drinking and the craic.

And NO foamy drawn shamrocks in your stout.

Oracle snaps up Facebook data slurper Datalogix

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Data Mining is bollocks

If all this slurping and mining and targetting is going on, how come, as a 44 year old male who likes heavy metal, am I offered a free Olly Murs album off Google? I'd rather stick a spike through my ear drums than listen to that gurning chimp. It can't be my youtube history or my online purchasing profile. I have never bought an mp3 or CD of or listened to or viewed an Olly Murs track, ever, and neither have my wife or daughter who I sometimes buy music for online.

Targetted ads??? I wouldn't actually mind if they were. Like when's the next Manowar or Tool album out?

Google's first stab at control-free ROBOT car rolls off the line

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Re: No just no

I dunno. Do you really think thrusty salesman wanker is going to give up his Audi? Do you really think chav boy is going to give up his utterly ruined, er, I mean customised Halfords special? Do you really think grandma in the wilds of north scotland will give up her old faithful Landy?

Personal transport ownership has been entrenched in our psyche since we first jumped on horses. It's not going to disappear. Our cars are our caves, personalised for us, where we escape and feel safe.

BONK for CASH in Brixton and help us EAT the RICH

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Pound?

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahnd, surely?