Posts by AMBxx

BT gently returns to mobe biz with cheap SIM-only swoop

Re: BT subsidiaries?

Doubt it. We don't get the online sports stuff, only via satellite. Look on the bright side - no overseas call centres with plusnet.

Analyst dons Tim Cook mask, thinks: Glass went well for Google. Let's do that, too

Patents

Just waiting for the patent application - two lenses perched on nose, supported by hooks behind ears.

Zuck: Get your FULLY EXPOSED BUTTOCKS off my Facebook

Breatfeeding pics

Must admit, beyond me why anyone would want to post a picture of themselves breastfeeding.

Grab your pitchforks: Ubuntu to switch to systemd on Monday

Re: Cue...

One day, all the cool Kidz will switch to Windows ;)

Sick of Chrome vs Firefox? Check out these 3 NEW browsers

First step

Remove the damn search bar and prevent any more being installed. I get fed up with telling people to type an address into the address bar for them to just type it into whichever search bar they've accidentally installed.

Even worse if you're trying to give them a remote support address,

'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross

Tweets

Maybe if he concentrated more on writing and less with sharing every thought?

Lenovo shipped lappies with man-in-the-middle ad/mal/bloatware

Re: Kill the root certificate

I have nearly 400 root certificates in there! Not sure if that's good or bad.

Anyone know if there's a tool somewhere to scan them for anything malicious?

SAP's 10-year HANA gamble: A life without the big boys and girls

Re: Another "Integrate the stack" ploy.

HANA is a brilliant product, just not convinced something that big is needed for every deployment.

That said, looks like good consultancy rewriting all those reports.

SCREW YOU, BRITS: We're going through with UK independence ANYWAY – Scotland

Re: Hmm something fishy about Sturgeon

There's the old joke about an American tourist too, "Scotland is the most beautiful part of England"

Re: The next step?

You'll need to move Hadrian's wall a long way north, unless you're planning on giving Northumberland to Scotland too?

HELP! Windows Phone update 8.1 broke my Lumia

At least I know it's not just me!

My Lumia 1020 was rock solid on the developer preview. The USB charger stopped working, so got a replacement under warranty. Turning on the new one upgraded it to the official supported release. Now reboots multiple times per day. Bluetooth and wifi both drop for no reason.

Annoying the the developer preview was rock solid

Cortana to form circle of life in Windows 10

Re: "Cortana in different moods "

You, sir, are driving a pink bus on behalf of the Labour Party and I claim my £5

Cortana Says

It looks like you're writing a letter. Can I help?

I think we should be told if any of Cortana's code comes from Clippy and friends.

BBC bins pricey Windows Media, Audio Factory goes live

Re: And if....

Can I add client-side Java to your list?

PLEASE!

Squezebox

My Squeezebox stopped working last night for all the national stations. Still works for local. Supports non-wma, just Beeb not sending them properly.

wma may be hated for being MS technology, but it's great for low bitrate streams.

BT coughs £12.5 billion for EE as fourplay frolics pay off

Re: For those about to leave...

As an O2 customer, I was just relieved that BT didn't buy them. Question now is whether or not there'll be an O2/Sky or Vodafone/Sky merger.

Satya Nadella, Year One: Has Microsoft's new CEO cut the mustard?

Dumb article

What's the point of reviewing the bloke's first year, then complain that he hasn't been around long enough to influence anything that happened in the year?

A year with Canada's Volvo-esque smartphone – The BlackBerry Z30

I'll take one

Just needs a proper keyboard

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

Re: Loved?

Right, so the new network stuff and HyperV are just fluff?

Microsoft Azure was most FAIL-FILLED cloud of 2014

99.9%?

I'm sorry, but that's just not good enough - there should be no single point of failure. The major outages have been due to some really dumb system design,.

Moving my website to Azure was a really bad mistake.

AMD plugs firmware holes that allowed command injection

Re: x86

Says x86 in the article, not x64

Then:

"This is the only way to push vendors to update BIOSes for older platforms."

Either you're wrong or the article's wrong. I have no idea which.

x86

Old stuff. I doubt the motherboard manufacturers care enough to fix.

Samsung BlackBerry gobble DENIED: We're not for sale to Sammy – execs

Re: Blackberry is NOT for sale

Maybe Blackberry are buying Samsung?!?!?!?

Seriously though, BB are slowly getting their act together. Any potential buyer is a year too late.

Windows 7 MARKED for DEATH by Microsoft as of NOW

Something wrong

You appear to have relevant experience and knowledge. You're on the wrong site - this one's for Apple lovers and those odd people with Linux.

Remember Corel? It's just entered .DLL hell

100 millions users?

Come on, I loved InfoCentral, but Corel's days are long gone.

They're all running Windows 95 too.

QWERTY-tastic BlackBerry Classic actually a classic

Yes, please

If they've fixed the BBM battery thrash problem in 10.3, I'll take one. I like my Lumia 1020, but still get keyboard envy every time I use my wife's Q10.

Forget Google's robot cars, now it's on to ANDROID cars

No chance

Sorry, but have google tracking me in my car too? Then they do an OS update and my car stops working?

Hopefully, BB's QNX will grab some more manufacturers.

Pitch Black: New BlackBerry Classic is aimed at the old-school

Re: Also

To delete from the server at the same time, you just need to make a small change in your settings.

Easy enough.

BBM

If they've fixed the bug in BBM that wipes out your battery randomly in under 20 minutes, I'll switch.

ASA slaps Ebuyer AGAIN - this time for ignoring regulator

Re: So who to use now?

Another vote for Scan - hard to judge them when it goes wrong as they never seem to fail. They use DPD for delivery, so timed slots.

That's Yodel for you.

I used to use Ebuyer a lot. Last order, for a laptop, was delivered to a random address. Ebuyer refused to refund until the laptop was returned from the mystery address.

Never again - Scan & Quiet PC for me.

Microsoft opens smiley-kids jangly guitar doc-maker to all

One Note

Looks like One Note with pretty formatting.

Does it integrate with MS Barney?

TalkTalk customers demand opt-out fix for telco's DNS ad-jacking tactics

Talk Talk

Aren't they the people you use if you like complaining about poor service?

Win Server 2003 custom support: That's NOT going to be fun

Depends

If it's just a file and print server that doesn't connect to the outside world, leave it in place.

If it's running a public web site, time to upgrade.

Plusnet could face DATA BREACH probe over SPAM HELL gripes

Never really understood

Why would anyone use an ISP provided email account? Just makes it more difficult if you change ISP. Depending upon your personal preferences, MS, Google, Apple, plus more provide perfectly usable portable email accounts if you don't want to have your own domain.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Thin plot, great CGI effects

Not a fan

Watched about 30 minutes of the first LOTR film. Gave up. Glad I've gained over 10 hours of spare time.

Lawmakers should grab red pen and let it RIPA on snoops law – experts

Nothing to hide

THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!

Cloud Printing from a Chromebook: We try it out on 8 inkjet all-in-ones

Print speed

I always smile about quoted print speeds - I don't care if I can print 10 or 20 pages a minute.

But 2 minutes for a 5 page doc?!?!? No thanks. I'll stick to my cheapo £180 Dell with Windows.

Car-crash IT: HUGE write-off for Universal Credit - PAC

Pretty good for public sector IT

Better than they managed in the NHS

Microsoft's dodgy new Exchange 2010 update breaks Outlook clients

Exchange 2013

Guess it's the only way to get folk to upgrade to Exchange 2013 with all its PowerShell nastiness.

Wish I'd stayed on 2010 :(

Microsoft: Hey, don’t forget Visual Basic! Open source and new features coming

VB was useful

It was much simpler than the big step to C++ so a great way into Windows programming.

Shame it can't be turned into a sort of cut down C#, removing the complexities of OO rather than being a C# alternative.

Firms will have to report OWN diverted profits under 'Google Tax' law

Re: It is only a draft law

Immoral tax? As soon as morals came into the discussion, we all handed a big pay day to the accountants. Tax law needs to be simple, easy to understand and hard to dodge.

Uber? Worth $40 BEEELLION? Hey, actually, hold on ...

It's a bargain

They said similar things about Boo.com - look how big they became.

A first look at Google’s Android Studio 1.0: Climbing out of the Eclipse kitchen sink

The horridness of Eclipse is all that keeps me working in C# rather than Java.

EU law bods: New eCall crash system WON'T TRACK YOU. Really

What about pedestrians?

Surely they need a similar system so that we know where they all are and can call an ambulance on their behalf?

Time to leave the EU.

18 million iPHONE USERS HAVE NEVER BONKED to ApplePay

Re: Meh

Best use of NFC on a phone is to confirm you've been able to disable touch payment on your credit card. Once you've done that, just disable it on the phone.

EE's not-spot-busting small cell trial delights Cumbrian villagers

Re: Signal strength?

Box on outside of wall. Cables inside.

You can't change the laws of physics.

Bit disappointed

Where are the Pringles tubes?

Give nerds their own PRIVATE TRAIN CARRIAGES, say boffins

The only people talking will be the PITA recruitment consultants

One year on, Windows 8.1 hits milestone, nudges past XP

Re: I need a compelling reason...

Hmmm, anyone thinking XP Mode, VMware Player, VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox are equivalent to HyperV needs to do some homework on different types of virtualisation.