* Posts by JoJ

16 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2016

Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files

JoJ

Re: Man...

Bruce Woolley And The Camera Club I think you should find... but now it's in my head!

Another Video Killed the Radio Star (all rights hereby assigned to Bruce Wolley. (ask Guy re Pixelation definition if you need anything))

I heard you on the internet back in ninety two

Lying awake intent downloading all of you

If I was young it didn't stop you installing Yahoo!

Oh a oh

They took the credit for your videography

SD written, when tape was the technology

pixelating black boxes were what clients got for skimping on your fee

And now I understand the problems that brought HDTV

you can see

Oh a oh

no more Max Headroom

Oh a oh

What did you sell them?

Poor I/O killed the radio star

Poor I/O killed the radio star

Picture cameras came and broke your heart

Oh, a, a, a, oh

And now we meet in an abandoned studio

We hear the playback and it seems so long ago

And you remember the dongles used to go

Oh-a oh

You were the first one

Oh-a oh

You lost the last one

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car, we still can't find

that last archive rar

Oh-a-aho oh

Oh-a-aho oh

Video…

Copyright hereby assigned to Bruce and Guy Woolley.

Even Microsoft's lost interest in Windows Phone: Skype and Yammer apps killed

JoJ

Re: Support

I feel your pain and dread of the iPhone world.

I think it is probably the iPhone world to where we will have to go, after Windows Phone.

But Google up yourself some Samsung Note 8 Enterprise Version goodness, before you do!

It's only sold in America and Germany at present, but we're opening a German subsidiary, just to get our hands on the supply. And we're going to trial a private walled garden with the phones on actual IP addresses on the vLAN where on premises Azure and O365 will be running, delivered by customised MVNO (private label, to be flash) all for our own use, and one long standing customer who are a indy oil trading desk, who are not quite sponsoring the effort, but the industry verticals interest is making speaking to the Microsoft people much easier..

Enterprise Note 8 models.

Just check them out.

And help us get these in channel here!

JoJ

Re: Support

Why on the good earth was Microsoft's premier telephonic application ever even a separate distinct application on their premier telephonic product?

I know Skype integrated very well, so well that this news just booked us buying a crate of LUMIA 950XL just for the purpose of a smart Skype walkabout in the office, if nobody will be seen dead carrying one outside.

I realise this sounds like I am clamouring for a avuncular relationship, which just isn't going to happen, with Microsoft barely out of their salad days, but I expect from my software overlords a complete solution including telephony. Google can do it. Kinda. I keep forgetting which app is being shuttered next.... Hmm... Maybe this telephone lark is a financial mugs game. I think it must be. But I have to make plans on a decade plus timeframe. I have to assume that the application code we write today will still be chugging along come 2030 and beyond, if I'm to keep my job.*

And today we face a existential telephonic crisis because the new generations are not actually using voice telephony. It was bad enough to start out needing to get past gatekeepers to reach anyone who could do anything in business, but then I grew up and my contemporaries and I all acquired gatekeepers ourselves (even if mine is the force field of ingrained antipathy and synaptic scar tissue radiation still reverberating since our Oracle shop days) and yet woe betide you dare try to get a millennial in the end of the blower: only helicopter parents and social workers must have done that while they grew up "drop calling" one another and texting stuff they really didn't know would be understood by the other end, only teenage indifference to reality enabled a false sense of understanding... The experience is such a fright of passive aggressive silence... and this is the generation demanding care and consideration, oh my then stop biting this food hand I'm nursing here why don't you...

Oh yeah, back to being a mature fourth decade OFH, listen Dude Redmond Guy, We Pay T-H-I-S MUCH MOOLAH to you because we're really very happy when we forget reason and ho with your office not quite a year was that the extra nine you couldn't afford or did three quarters look funny on the logo, cos it wouldn't on my logs...

I mean we like the new slurpy stuff because we pay even another order of magnitude than most people to have the thing privatised to our desire. Self Slurp. (Great for security, think about it.)

But I really think that our contract alone could have paid for Windows Phone to carry on.

The sorry state of affairs is that if they only finally come out with anything at all, even in another year, we'll forgive them. If only they build atop what they can do now. Or yesterday. Or just all that they used to be good at..

*This is me, co-founder here, planning our to my last natural years in my business life. I grew up with Microsoft. Alongside, I may better say, because it was 1999 before I felt confident that we could go places with the OS, and if you learned how to write COM, COM+ etc, you're still good to today. I lived programmatically the life of any garden stone roof dweller, so long as it wasn't overturned, or I can withstand the glare, it's always nice and dank and warm under here. They don't fff with this work level, down here. Ever. And the awesomeness of hiding out in the dingly dwelling dankness just happens to be called a Mr. Don Box. You know, chief architect at Azure. Who designed the stuff I was just getting scatalogical about. And it's strangely...samey..whodda thunk? This is so cool to blog about it even if I know it's the reason I'll finally do a blog plop on the internet's, I almost don't want to say anything about this. But I have. The Azure plumbing is old skool Don Box, and if you ever found his books the salvation of fixing a VB OLE object to which source was never probably even backed up, and you want to change oh about anything of it, so you're living the COM raw memory interface definitions (which for their kind are actually loveable,), well Don is the don for all that. Azure is the absolute proof that Microsoft has come full circle to the early nineties. In this scenario, for the long term, it's a good thing.

Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

JoJ

Re: Speaking of carbon paper...

I deeply approve of carbon paper..now what was the good brand I couldn't get any of my employers to buy, the one with a look of a large After Eight mint to it. Those carbons really did triplicate..and who remembers the quadruplicate wads of stencils for the Gestetner? This was classy carbon, taking the imprint via a bullet stub intermediate sheet, that blunted your Imperial typewriter's cutting edge.

Bring carbon copies back!

Why?

Analog is harder to forge.

Even camera sensors are fingerprinted by their analog ADC traces. Anna is good. With a typewriter.

Airbus ditches Microsoft, flies off to Google

JoJ

Re: The words...

Boeing is in Chicago now....

Since the time of the cardboard 787 ..

He's cheesed it! French flick pirate on the lam to swerve €80m fine, two-year stretch in the clink

JoJ

Re: This:

Spare change to who first tripped over the evidence, you mean. .

Stephen Elop and the fall of Nokia revisited

JoJ

They had what everyone else wanted...

Everyone except for consumers.

The low hardware requirements for basic good phones.

The network kit blackberry would have killed for, to better integrate with network/ operator features.

The fruits of that huge r&d budget: patents that could have been a defensive moat, or favourably licensed to try to stem the knock off manufacturers by letting one or two produce ok wares.

Prior to stupidity they had unprecedented employee loyalty and by virtue of scale alone a disproportionate amount of talent.

I just finished reading Operation Elop, and I'm less than impressed by the paucity of context given to the wider strategy issues that such a large company faced. Maybe Elop was so monomaniacal. But if he was, the book treats the allegation as a given.

Symbian was always crippled by the way Britain makes far too much of its rare successes. This ensures that arrogance is the main kernel thread of any software originating from our shores, imnsho. The code which Symbian became created the new broom requirement of a Elop, only during healthy times.

The biggest lesson of reading this book is not industry specific at all. When Microsoft points to their$70bln pile, I have to wonder how, given the crucifixion probabilities in high tech worlds, how any board can be retained, who don't amass a appropriately sized rainy day stash of cash.

JoJ

Re: " current crap mobile OS (Symbian)"

Yep,

Try texting on a cheap MobiFone...

JoJ

Re: They would have needed x86 emulation for that

How about you just serialise the GUI APIs and I am sure that local rendering can be made to follow some more appropriate rules for the device screen.

Job ad for designer proves its point with MS Paint shocker

JoJ

Re: Polygraph Examiner

Isn't that originally The Golden Gate Evening News and Bay Advertiser Polygraph Examiner, once the foremost journal of record of the west coast?

JoJ

Re: Actually...

Into my fourth decade in advertising, only because of legal issues that prohibit euthanasia, I will gladly confirm that that is a very good advertisment indeed. Of course I couldn't say that in real life unless we'd extracted a six figure budget for opinion groups, colour psychology reaction cohesion, intranet-compliant cognitive impairment perdition therapy for the hapless customer employee who obviously doesn't realize that we his master's agency can fire anyone daring to touch and despoil our magnificence...

But the little echo of who once thought this advertising game was easy and so imagine how I'd be able to do so well... that voice definitely approved.

Oracle says SPARCv9 has Spectre CPU bug, patches coming soon

JoJ

Re: Solaris

It occurred to me yesterday that the benefits of a bygone era in which the cost of the minimum equipment for business was far higher than today, actually existed in the effect of serious attention being paid to the quality and performance and service we received for our strenuously squirreled sovereigns. Of course I will inevitably find the occasional delight in the availability of some"incredibly good value" tech twiddler, but I am entirely unsure about the much wider effect. I used to be able to assume that if a interviewee had emailed me from his own told via a MTA on their own carrier independent subnet, we were quite likely to have a productive meeting. El Reg readership, in the McGee days almost guaranteed I'll enjoy the encounter.

Today.. Ahm.. less so. I have been driven to despair and randomly quizzing the candidate for the acronym definition of television features, on my phone screening.

.UK overseer Nominet abandons its own charitable foundation – and why this matters

JoJ

Best Start-up Financial Advice -- Re: Not unusual, unfortunately

Note to self, prompted by the otherwise unexplained and unjustified conversion of a monopoly non profit to become a investment fund: I must remember to be sure to find a charitable purpose to satisfy the Charities Commission of the clearly fair deal that's not paying any tax for my first decade or two, whilst enjoying the respect and benefits of a unsuspecting board of highly experienced trustees generously provided by the industry I intend to compete in.

This offshore center, Great Britain, is warming up to be the friendliest place for crooks, come Brexheit.

HPE bows to inevitable: Integrity servers get latest Itanium engine and container off-ramp

JoJ

Re: I still kinda yearn

I am here for the sovereign wealth fund buyout, so we can hope to keep on schedule with those shiiiiti filling dump trucks they need to keep on moving so we don't have the view spoiled on the 99th floor by backpressure from the stack... HPE said the NVcrapeEx interface was coming, City Wide for 2012...

Meantime, the one up man's jittery between the tabs and the Kuntluneramic Hoowee Dowsers demands that you get this branding right. It's

Burgh KAL-=-ALPHA_SERVER UA45 if you please!

Microsoft's Surface Studio desk-slab, Dial knob, Surface Book: We get our claws on new kit

JoJ
WTF?

Re: Write your own drivers? IF THERE IS DEMAND, SELL DRIVERS!

Is there not a *market* for commercially written Linux drivers?

When buying premium machines for ergonomic features, I am valuing those against the cost of employee talent. In the same way NVidia can charge a significant premium for the latest Quadros, if a Surface Studio is what my talent can work better with, I will pay accordingly.

Who commented in the thread about releasing hardware specs, to enable drivers to be written, surely these would be provided, for a price, to a trustworthy outfit.

When NVidia first gave BLOBs, the horse was not so much looked in the mouth, as whipped for not winning the race the new owners so brilliantly rewarded the givers of their gifts. I am afraid Stallman created a poisonous rift in manufacturing a kind of self described evangelist who only was seen by normal folk as disruptive, at best. That resulted in the worst possible marketing for Linux in regular office contexts. Indeed I believe The Year Of Desktop Linux has been poisoned, until the legacy of technical apartheid finally leaves the Linux hordes.

After all, it is high value work. If you can write a good driver for immensely sophisticated hardware, or equally have the deep skills to provide a smooth, seamless, HighDPI UI/UX, you would be questioned hard by your wife, for working for free on such a involved, attention hungry (so family unfriendly) project.

For Linux to be a First Class Citizen, it has to behave more maturely, I believe, than it does now. The culture prohibits necessary growth. Growing up does not just mean the maturity to admit that you will always (in a clear and honest fashion that is obviously a superior management interface or mode human discourse) bawl out your key talent with potty mouthed dismissals. At least BG did that behind closed doors, and he was perennially inseparable from his speccy-spotty youthful image, until recently.

I'll put a price on what I would pay for Linux drivers AND a consistent HighDPI UI: $300.

It is easily worth that, if I or colleagues can work with greater ease with the ergonomics of a computer.

Meanwhile, I genuinely think that Ubuntu will soon enough be a first class citizen, thanks to WSL, for most purposes, on the Windows desktop.

But there are many more capabilities I want to use in Linux, than I believe will ever suit confinement within the NT kernel, because of the kernel accommodations specifically.

I nevertheless broadly agree that Microsoft would do itself a immense favour, in making the Surface Studio a Linux developer machine. Ideally providing a virtualisation in which both Windows and Linux could be pass through guest OSs, as even the free VMWare offering can do, in some hardware configurations. There is even a cachet that would attach to the Studio, in so doing.