Posts by Wayland

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

Cloudy wording

If she was told to save her data to One Drive or even to The Cloud then she would have saved her data. She was told data would be saved in The Cloud and then told a load of BS about how amazing that is.

As long as a user can access their files they are not concerned where they are saved, C: drive, D: drive, Z: drive, OneDrive: all pretty much the same if it's working properly. Making The Cloud into this amazing new innovation that changes everything about the way we work is utter BS when you've just got to save your Word document. That does not change at all.

It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

Re: "This measure is expected to impact 170,000 individuals" . . .

They are pushing through the EU calendaring. The day after the 30th October will be 1st November. November will have 31 days. BREXIT will be skipped.

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Re: 'lagging behind' is a good thing

So can we use ReactOS for anything yet?

WINE won't run MS Access, will ReactOS?

Re: Shades of SCO saga

True to a point. However people are adaptable and the technology to read these would spread through the population. It's interesting that Android phones are more popular than Windows phones when Windows was the more familiar system.

Re: ReactOS is in Alpha

That's the IBM to HAL 2001 computer.

Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

Re: Document formats

The point is that Word docs invite editing where as PDF invites you to just print it.

Microsoft gently leads workhorse Windows Server 1903 for a pad around the paddock

If you're attempting to do something very new and needing the latest of everything then yes you'd be going with SEC.

However if you're just building your usual server the only changes you'd want are bug fixes and security and you'd even avoid those if you could get away with it.

The Tech press is obviously concentrating on all the new trendy stuff but most of the commercial effort is going to be in the continuation of legacy business apps into the future.

Lyft, Uber drivers boost app surge prices by turning off, tuning out – and cashing in

Re: Regulated pricing

Exactly. It was touted as amazing new technology but really it was just avoiding the regulations that make normal taxis both safe and expensive.

Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data

Re: Hang on: what does "all data" mean here?!?

All your data. The context is obvious, all your data on this database.

Just because a database server can host thousands of databases does not mean it should. It would have been safer if each customer had their own virtual server running a database but I suppose people wanting to get on Oracle would need a piece of the big dog not the whole little dog.

'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco

Re: Evidence in a trial?

Hunting for that particular OFF SWITCH when the airplane passengers are in crash positions and people are taking turns to slap the hysterical woman?

Here's how it should work. Pilot's hands on the controls then the plane does exactly what he says. Pilot's hands off the controls then the Autopilot can do whatever it's programmed to do.

The autopilot should never overrule the pilot. Humans in charge of machines, always.

Who flies the plane

Planes should not fly themselves unless the pilot lets go of the controls. They should not override pilot when he is flying the plane. If the pilot is actively flying into a mountain then the plane should obey. If the pilot lets go then the plane should avoid the mountain.

Pretty simple really.

What has happened in the 737 case is that the pilots knew what they were doing but the autopilot did not. Had the autopilot simply backed off whilst the pilot had his hands on the controls then there would not have been a crash.

OK so what happens when the autopilot is correct and the pilot is wrong? Well obviously the pilot would crash the plane but that's is how it should be. It's the age old question "If God exists why does he let bad things happen?" The answer is that we humans are supposed to be in charge.

Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy

Re: Actually, even Uncle Sam got a clue now

The best password would be a random generated one of 9 characters that you commit to memory forever and never share. If a password is not remembered it's written down or lost and has to be changed. Both security weaknesses.

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

Re: Goodbye Youtube?

If the Internet was like this then all the troubles of the world would fade away;

https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https:%2F%2Fi.etsystatic.com%2F15396856%2Fd%2Fil%2F7f07bf%2F1354472715%2Fil_340x270.1354472715_13bt.jpg%3Fversion%3D0&sp=1b3a3db567b183ba4140ca904f4609b8

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored

Re: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Western Digital's HGST?

HGST used to be Hitachi which was the IBM drives. So WD has them now? Funny old corporate world.

Who had 'one week in' for a Making Tax Digital c0ckup? Well done, you win... absolutely nothing

Re: Anyone got a script?

Natalie, the current MTD is just a bunch of fields off your VAT Return sent via an API. However it's what the accountants have been trained to do by the likes of Sage which is the real plan. Accountants are actually HMRC TAX agents. The big plan is to have instant direct access to everyone's accounts.

Sage have been training accountants to tell clients that this is already required. All your books have to be uploaded to The Cloud. Sage have actually released Sage Line 50 Cloud to support the MTD. They are conflating the two. Now when you use Sage all your Sage books are copied to The Sage Cloud. Next stage would be providing HMRC access to these.

This -lie- marketing strategy works because most people can't get their head round what MTD is at this stage since it's pretty pointless.

Re: VAT helpdesk

Digital Records, what bollox! All HMRC know is that you submitted through the API, they don't know if your records are digital or if you wrote them on the back of an envelope. Anyone who delayed this until Octobre is quids in.

You don't need a PhD to phish a Brit university: Nonprofit claims 100% hit rate is easy peasy

Re: That girl in the pic...

She has the glasses of someone trying to look smart.

New Zealand cops cuff alleged jackasses who shared mosque murder video, messages online

No you're not expected to be punished by the authorities for doing something that's legal.

"The murder of JFK wasn’t a terrorist attack on an entire community. "

Yes it was. It was an attack on all of the President's supporters and arguably on the whole USA.

Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!

"The simple fact is that the availability of such content, unchecked, is driving the problem."

No, the shooter played you and you fell for it.

Subscribe to PewDiePie is clearly just to trigger you leftie Californian fools into thinking that PewDiePie is some kind of NAZI radicalizing people to become right wing nut jobs.

It is further made obvious when he credits Candice Owns as one of his heroes.

His whole aim is not to kill 49 Muslims but to set the left against everyone who is not a leftie. It's clearly working well and would be very entertaining if it was not so dire for Free Speech.

IR35 contractor tax reforms crawl closer to UK private sector with second consultation

Re: Tax loss for HMRC

>It doesn't go to HMRC - the VAT you charge a client, just gets claimed back by said client.

Yes it goes round and round but at some point somewhere some schmuck pays the VAT.

Re: Tax loss for HMRC

The problem is that of control. You get too much control of your life as a contractor, too much freedom. Making you go permie puts you back in the cage where you belong. They can't put it like this, they pitch it as you're earning too much money tax free and should be reigned in.

Re: I love the spectacularly timing of it all

A friend was contracting in Germany. When his contract ended he received quite good dole money from Germany whilst back in the UK. No wonder the German banks have lent more than the GDP.

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

Re: A simple mitigation

>I had not known this was a possibility.... Thank you for my something new learned today!

Yes crossing a VM into the host machine is what SPOILER is about.

The big deal with the x86 CPUs is that they have security rings where programs can be fenced off and run in their own closed area. It's been pretty much the point of these rather than simply taking the CPU from an Acorn BBC Micro and supercharging it (Acorn RISC Machines > ARM).

Breaking out of that secure area pretty much destroys all security. Being able to read any RAM in the system means reading any encrypted data in unencrypted form since it assumes RAM is secure.

Re: It's interesting...

> more likely to be eclipsed by a quantum computer than ARM.

No, quantum computers are as different from our current computers as a MOOG Synth is from a BBC Micro. Totally different technology with a totally purpose but with some overlap in functions.

ARM servers are very similar to Intel servers when both are running Linux. The overlap is 99%. The ARM are probably better at running lots of small services where as the Intel might handle heavy tasks better.

Re: It's interesting...

>there's no way of ensuring one has full control of that computer.

I remember when we first started putting Windows 3.1 on our DOS computers. In the DOS days we knew what every file did. If a new file turned up we wanted to know where it came from and what it was for. If not needed it got deleted.

My friend was tearing his hair out trying to keep on top of Windows 3.1 using this method. I told him to give up, that he could never know what all the files did.

That was when we let go of total control of our PCs.

Re: I am always disappointed in modern computing

I remember when they fitted child proof lids to plastic tubs of washing powder. I had young children at the time so this was important to me. A few months later they released a new improved tub that had an additional lid for convenience. This extra lid was not childproof.

It's not that hard to figure out when you've created a feature that bypasses security but it still happens.

Re: Well I never ...

If the computer is running simulations rather than Internet traffic I don't think there is a problem.

ReactOS 0.4.11 makes great strides towards running Windows apps without the Windows

Re: The difference is the driver model, and how the compatibility is designed

Test old business critical and embedded bespoke programs to see if this will run them. If it does then you can carry on using them for a few more decades.

ODB-II reader

The problem with an ODB-II reader would likely be accessing the serial port. I wanted to use RUFUS on my Linux Mint to format a USB stick since it's very good at making bootable sticks. The problem was access to the hardware.

Re: Window of Opportunity?

MS Access 2010 on WINE would be good. That will be how I test React OS too.

Re: Window of Opportunity?

>There might not be much Wine won't run in two, three years.

Some sort of WINE React OS merger or technology sharing might get us there.

Re: Exactly!

>What Microsoft have actually said is that Windows 7 will not be enhanced to use the new features added to later CPUs, while Windows 10 will be.

What they have done will be enough to deter most people. I have some customers on RYZEN and Windows 7 and it works OK but with extra effort on my part.

React OS is likely to be very useful soon.

Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?

Bomb, what is your one purpose in life?

To explode of course.

Re: the error is in call it "AI" !!!

If the rules are how to calculate benefits entitlement then it ought to be possible to get these 100% accurate. However even those type of things are subjective in the real world.

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Re: Count me in.

Tuffnells - The Big Green Parcel Machine

If you want to send a parcel you will need a carefully tuned version of IE.

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Re: LOL

The smallest thing can keep you trapped in MS Office. However most people using MS Office are not doing anything that's not exactly the same in LibreOffice.

Re: LOL

"eventually abandon the office suite altogether" - well it happened with Lotus.

I was not a fan of their products myself but Lotus Notes allowed ordinary office workers to get some amazing things done.

Whilst I would spend a week coding something up in MS Access my bosses PA could code the same thing in Lotus Notes in the morning and be graphing the results from the users by the afternoon.

OK so in terms of programming style it was a bit amateur but you can't argue with how effective it was.

Why did this amazing tool go away? Was it so real programmers could keep their jobs and not be replaced by the bosses secretary?

Re: Office 2003

And those Dead men can keep on functioning as long as we can maintain the operating environment.

However it is really time to recode these bespoke business tools in a language with more longevity. COBOL perhaps?

Yeah but 1-2-3 only works in Linux Mint 18 and won't work in Linux Mint 19.

Re: Office 365

You're such a square, not hip and trendy.

My chemical romance drowns tomorrow's money, warns TSMC: Chip maker's yields rocked by bad batch

Re: Hmmmm

It looks like a strategic move to me. Helps those customers products on 7nm and knobbles the encombant products. This may have the effect of making NVidia products scares and even more expensive whilst boosting AMD.

It's not something they could do on purpose but they can get away with it by accident. Notice they are careful not to pin the blame on the actual supplier of tainted material.

Black Horse slowed down: Lloyds Banking Group confirms problem with 'Faster' payments

Got Paid then charged

On Friday my customer paid in advance for some parts and the money was instantly cleared. I then bought the parts online. By Saturday I had a letter informing me I had gone overdrawn but they had made all the payments. By the way this cost £15.

So the letter writing and billing parts of Lloyds Bank are working with great efficiency.

Attention all British .eu owners: Buy dotcom domains and prepare to sue, says UK govt

Re: Wow, it's almost...

Rol, the principle of the democracy is that only the people who vote care about the outcome. Also that the majority of the voters rule everyone.

Perhaps you don't like that system but personally I say fuck the losers.

It'll soon be even more illegal to fly drones near UK airports

Or Helicopters near football pitches or near hospitals.

Re: Keystone Cops

Teiwaz, I never used to be anti-semetic but I have come to loath the BBC.

Re: Keystone Cops

veti,

Gatwick was shut down for days due to alleged drones sightings and you believe there was an invisible UFO holding the airport hostage. During that time thousands of people would have had nothing to do but look for the drone. If someone spots the drone they will point it out to everyone and someone will have a suitable camera.

It is not credible that there was a drone.

Re: Keystone Cops

It's {Current Year} and the meda do as they are told. They are told the news is to be of a drone shutting down Gatwick and they run it. What journalist worth his salt is going to throw away his career by independently investigating and contradicting the absolute god's honest truth that he has been told already? Leave that to the Internet.

The police were unfortunately not told what the story was going to be so did try to find out what was going on and ended up looking very stupid. "Oh, we think the only drone sightings were of our police drone", dumb dumb dumb. They could have used the police drone sightings as proof there was a drone.

Re: The silence is deafening

chivo243

"searching for "gatwick drone may have been police department" brings up many hits on DDG, but I don't think many are reputable news publications."

Sarcasm?

If you had kept up on this you will know that drone clubs have said that the event could not have happened the way "reputable" publications are saying mostly due to the battery life of drones. They don't fly for hours, just minutes. "Repultable" publications have claimed that the drones were highly modified to fly for extended periods. This would be like saying the highly modified electric car can go ten times as far with the same performance as the standard one. Easy to say but never been done.

Some speculation links the event to the sale of Gatwick to a French company just after. To me it seems just as likely to do with the legislation they wanted to pass. Drones can be pretty handy tools for truth seekers so it's good if the police have a list of addresses to raid.

The problem with registration is you make yourself a target.

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

WildWest

Incompetence is when the gun goes off accidentally whilst you are waving it about. Conspiracy is when your workmates hold the victim down whilst you stick the gun in the back of their head and let off 7 shots into their brain as they squirm.

Thinking you're smart because you quote Hanlon's Razor; gullible.