Posts by aaaashy

Using 1Password on Mac? Patch up if you don’t want your Vaults raided

Re: Does this also apply to 1Password 7?

Same :-(

Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers

no place for local variation when it come to software

i believe in a decentralised govt for the UK, council, being able to determine solutions for local problems EXCEPT when it comes to software, which should surely be bought by govt for use around the country ... and this should be backed up by a group of highly able software folks who know what they are doing, and can see the present and future requirements of that software ... and this one solution is then given to local councils, without charge, so that the continual upkeep of arcane solutions doesn’t bankrupt the councils ...

solutions that do not become uncontrollably expensive the moment you rely on them is the only affordable way forward

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

why is there not a single countrywide system for councils, that has been vetted by experts?

i have always wondered why it its left up to each council/NHS Trust/publicly-funded business to commission their own software solution? Why is there not a top level group whose job is to vet systems for their suitability and organise how they work within the relevant system. It has always seemed destined for eventual disaster, when each small segment of the country tries to do this, with, it seems, predictable failure, over-spending, and chaos caused. Surely every council/etc has the same, or similar, requirements ... so why the hell is this practice repeated ad naseum. Have no lessons been learnt? The amount wasted on trying to get unique systems to work is colossal.

Epic payment: Fortnite maker pays record $520m to settle FTC case

what an utterly repugnant company! what is it about coders who only want to use their talents to drain money away from others?

Grab some tissues: Meta's share price tanks after Facebook emits latest figures

Re: Host File

1000 IP addresses belong to FB? got the list? now if we could share a list like that to friends on FB that might cause a ruckus

Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam

Re: My solution - Silence Unknown Callers

if you are dealing with the NHS that will simply prevent any calls from them, they ALWAYS hide the number they are calling from - so NOT a good solution

End is nigh for iMac Pro as Apple stops offering custom configs of high-spec desktop

Re: 5,1?

my Mac Pro (mid-2010) is specified as a MacPro5,1 -

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro5,1

Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon

Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz

Number of Processors: 2

Total Number of Cores: 12

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB

Memory: 64 GB

Boot ROM Version: MP51.0089.B00

SMC Version (system): 1.39f11

SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11

UK.gov announces review – not proper inquiry – into Fujitsu and Post Office's Horizon IT scandal

sign the petition to help get this moving AGAIN!

http://chng.it/vbncZL6KzJ

Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm

this all sounds very familiar

IT and Govt never seems to work properly, and i can only assume it is because no one who is in charge actually understands just how it should be used, and the information it receives i not the correct information for the task at hand.

Why does this story sound so bloody familiar?

And why does it never end well?

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Removing ads from websites

While the likes of Netflix are reducing quality howsabout the numerous ads, especially the video ones, should be removed from websites too. They are unwanted, they use a ridiculous percentage of energy and seem to be a way of reducing server impact AND would be generally a good thing

Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics

Re: Contrary view

DailyMail appears to have no search window, have wasted 10 minutes trying to find out how to check your story, so why no link? does El Reg block messages containing links? <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/latest/index.html#news>

we'll see .....

UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*

Re: Virgin Media isn't Virgin Media

VM didn’t exactly have a great rep well before LM came on board

VM engineers working on someone else line also cut mine, and they then quickly disappeared before i could collar them .. it took over 3 MONTHS to get back online

fortunately i had a good neighbours BT wi-fi, which i used for that time, but without it i would have been totally cutoff

VM never accepted that it was their employee that caused the problem in the first place

so ever since that incident, i have always been very watchful anytime a VM van turns up in the street and continually check my internet link whilst they are in the area ... just in case

T-Mobile owner sends in legal heavies to lean on small Brit biz over use of 'trademarked' magenta

no one should be allowed to copyright a COLOUR!!!! pathetic!!!

I've got way too much cash, thinks Jeff Bezos. Hmmm, pay more tax? Pay staff more? Nah, let's just go into space

bezos is an utter shit

London Mayor backs talks with Uber after head honcho's apology

ffs!!!

uber are the unacceptable face of app-led capitalism and should have been slapped down YEARS ago

now this possible turnabout

ffs!! ... as i was saying

It's fluffy bottom line time at Adobe. That's a good thing, if you were wondering

Re: Not a chance

i look forward to hearing your thoughts when you reach 65 and finally realise that you are going to have to keep paying this same amount (or most likely multiple times more) just to access your own work

Re: "nobody seems to be complaining much these days"

you could be trying out all the alternatives, whilst CS6 still works

tho i am sad to see a number of those companies who are trying to fill the gap created when adobe went SUB only are worse than adobe ever was ... trying to continually sell presets, guidance tutorials etc etc ad nauseum

so many just jumped onto CC without thought for the fact that they would be paying for the same software for numerous DECADES .... and if they stopped they would not be able to work on THEIR OWN PROJECTS

Virgin Media only adds another 127,000 homes to Project Lightning

Re: Would love to join

i was a happy customer of theirs for nearly two decades, and then i moved 15 doors down the same road (3 years ago), went through a different street box and watched my speeds tumble from "as advertised" to nowhere near the advertised speed (300Mb/s only gives me 6Mb/s in the evening and weekends)

Oracle ordered to admit on its website that it lost the plot on Java security

so does that explain what is happening to my computer right now?

i have Java installed on my MacPro, and recently after updating to 10.11 from 10.9.5 i have been repeatedly getting a window appearing that says: "To use the "java" command-line tool you need to install a JDK. Click 'More Info' to visit the Java Developer Kit download website."

i click on 'More Info' and it takes me to http://www.java.com/en/download/mac_download.jsp which does not offer me anything other than the latest update to java ... in other words useless ...

i am unsure where to go to next apart from totally uninstalling Java, which will prevent me from using a number of websites that seem to rely on my having Java installed

maybe i should try totally uninstalling, but am getting seriously tempted to just leave it out ... a damn nuisance tho

£2.3m ZANO nano-drone crowdfunded project crashes and burns

we have been here before with Kickstarter projects ....

my gf purchased a 2nd tier (date when sponsoring the article) FREEDMAN CHAIR about 3 -4 YEARS ago

we have heard nothing since the rumours started then there had been a couple of accidents from people sitting on their chair which then collapsed, seemingly due to being assembled wrongly (but it also appears that it is very easy to assemble it wrongly due to the poor instructions and possibly poor construction)

i received this reply from a journo who had written about his experiences with Kickstarterr on the Freedman chair fiasco:- " .....this entire Freedman Chair project has become a massive failure. My chair sits against a wall holding a coat as a reminder of the $600+ I wasted on it.

I have learned the company that makes the chair (The Miracle Chair Company) is "In Administration" - insolvent and close to failure perhaps?

<https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08086051/insolvency>

Kickstarter has some important legal language about providing refunds if a project is not fulfilled, but it's not clear if they will invoke some sort of proceeding. I have contacted them for comments and haven't heard back.

For those of us that have already gotten the chair - we're probably screwed.

So, lots of silence about all this right now from the company, but I continue to dig for more details and updating my blog about it."

and i bet there are plenty more horror stories about Kickstarter pledged non-starters/non-finishers

anyone care to investigate a bit further???

Apple: Fine, we admit it – MacBook Pros suffer wonky GPU crapness

i am still annoyed that they "archive" equipment that is 5 years old and refuse to have anything to do it or supply parts for it ... and they call themselves GREEN???

NatWest 'spam' email cockup got me slapped with late payment fee, says angry Reg reader

if you think NatWest is bad try Virgin Media

if you think NatWest is and at sending (or, rather NOT sending) out paper or electronic bills you should try Virgin Media, they deny ever making a mistake and follow that up by cancelling all notification of aha you owe them and even screw up the website calculator, saying that as you have only just joined them there is no bill to see (when, in reality i have had an account for many, many years)

this conversation is beginning to show light on just why and how this could have happened

Virgin Media's 'little(ish)' book of deals contained BIG FIBS, rules ad watchdog

that is an unreal deal!!

i am on 120Mb, xxxlTV, phone and i get charged £85 pm

how the devil???