Re: The business of Outsourcing
@AC: Anonymous for a reason, are we?
Posts by ChaoticMike
21 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2014
HPE is still swinging the layoffs axe: 500 more services folk get chop
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Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows: The spirit of Clippy lives on
Britain's FBI wants 'Five Eyes' cosy hookups with infosec outfits
Friday 18th September 2015 09:11 GMT
Re: So what would you do to improve matters?
>>Pedo's - Catch a Pedo collate contacts catch more, found a website hosting material then monitor everyone who looks at it and every one of their contacts using warrants which will be easily obtained from a court
Same AC here... seriously, I can't actually understand what you are suggesting. And for your other 'Catch a..' examples, too.
And tell me how your system weeds out mischievous individuals with an axe to grind on their neighbour? A situation no different from the good old days when a word in the ear of your friendly neighbourhood beat copper would have to be investigated, malicious *or* well intentioned.
My point being, it is more complicated than you think. HUMINT > SIGINT. Which I *think* is actually what you are saying in "Once identified use good old fashioned police work to confirm if these people of interest are actually pedoterrorcriminals by coollating it with local law enforcement data and monitoring of the suspects all with a warrant from a court."
>> I'll tell you why they don't want to do that
Which 'they'?
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Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.
Thursday 16th July 2015 09:03 GMT
Re: @codejunky Ha
>> I do wonder if it would have been a good idea for old XP machines being thrown away to be bought up and install linux for the older users.
Hmm. My elderly Mother in Law was sold a Surface Pro running 8 (and latterly 8.1) last year, and she has had nothing but trouble, entirely down to the UI. I showed her a Linux Mint box, and she was instantly more at home because I'm guessing it's no coincidence just how much like the Windows '95/XP shell it looks. (Apologies; I don't usually write such tortuous grammar).
The kicker would then become how well she could get on with LibreOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox or Chrome, because with the best will in the world, again they represent a significant change from the Office applications she is used to (you have no idea how hard it was to get her away from Outlook Express, even though the Windows Live Mail client was demonstrably better, whilst looking very similar).
Management of change is (a) ****ing expensive, and (b) rarely sufficiently well planned. The thing I hate most about the IT industry (25 years experience now, currently an Enterprise Architect) is that the rate of change is so stupidly fast for rarely more than incremental hangs in capability. We are still doing a lot of very similar tasks to what we were when I started, but it appears in many cases to be harder or more complicated than it used to be. Maybe I'm just an old fart (51...!).
(Shouty icon because there doesn't appear to be a soapbox)
LOGITECH - TECH = 'LOGI' ... that's non-Logitech tech, is it?
Five lightweight Linux desktop worlds for extreme open-sourcers
Friday 10th July 2015 07:14 GMT
Re: Bad marketing El Reg
Erm... but I didn't think the Reg was indulging in any kind of 'advertising ', and as far as communication with Joe Public, do you really think there are many non-geeks reading a fairly focused web-site's extremely focused article on the minutiae of the smallest usable Linux?
(End of *my* rant... sorry...)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
