Posts by Ali Dodd 112 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Apr 2018
Can't even set their TOTP secondary auth properly - you either use their rubbish proprietary tool or you own choice of TOTP generator. If you do the latter the QR code is not even configured correctly as it comes up as 'Default'.
Documentation on their suite less than a month old has links to blank pages, utter mess. If I could get us to move off their platform I would.
more that we have an excellent idea and either the US nicks it (Computers, Jet Engine, Radar, etc) or we have a great idea and are too short-sighted or for political reasons it gets the funding cut - Supersonic Flight, UK orbital rocketry (seriously the only country to put a working satellite into orbit and lose the ability ON THE SAME DAY??).
Shame the IT dept. were basically not supporting the users properly but I'll bet that thing chugged along till it didn't, which was probably after this chap left and then was dumped on IT with no information whatsoever but had to be fixed.
Seen that before (and much much worse), glad I no longer work for a Uni..
"Echo chamber are not interesting, regardless of your political bias.. What's the point of reading stuff to which you already know the response..
If the goal is to read actual articles or having decent public debates, interviews etc, then Social media is the wrong place to start with."
Am on mastodon, it's not an echo chamber unless you make it one for yourself & it's a nice friendly place to chat, catch up with things you are interested in and be well social in may ways. For modern social media it's pretty damn social really.
However if you are just looking for an argument that's another room, this is abuse*..
*obligatory python**
**not that one
'but we've always done it that way' is not a practical reason to NOT change it - you may not know how it's broken or at least bent/inefficient and you shouldn't decide not to change until you do evaluate the process properly. Pig headed people who want thing to stay exactly as they are will kill a project.
I've ever witnessed started with we'll change our processes to fit the system and ended up with trying crowbar the system into working how the organisation' processes work. The reality should be a little in between but never is. There's a lot of "we can change" (but don't) and usually it's because people want to do everything 'how they've always done it' and won't accept that that's not a reason to carry on that way, Change is good ffs.
If they did compete you know that Apple would lock all iDevices into their own search engine and behave exactly as Google has.. Why not a ruling that affects the MARKET not just the dominant player so it stops anyone pulling this shit in future.
the backup process is bloody terrible and you may have a nice list of authenticated account on restore but that's all it is a list and you need to reset them ALL up again. That has happened to me in the past.
Authy is good but been bought in the last couple of years and they have stopped various good features like the desktop version. Been most impressed by Authenticator pro, great set of backup options (and secure export - no lock in!), easy to use and even has a smartwatch option so I don't even need to get my phone out to view a TOTP.
Now it should be enforced across all banking by the regulators, no disappearing evidence please.
BUT more importantly use of disappearing messages should be banned in any Government role including ALL MPs with the crime of TREASON attached to breaching this. It is unbelievable that the criminal just threw away shedloads of evidence with no repercussion
"It is impossible to properly sterilise a human and have them survive the process."
True is we were to put an unprotected hum on the surface of mars, but that would kill them. I would say it's possible to sterilize a sealed suited human, otherwise effectively we have likely already have buggered it up with everything we sent to the surface so far..
no limits as if you know what you want you ask for it and can have it.
This is just a suggestion tool mainly aimed at removing those who don't have the need. Those with an IT dept would probably want the top level (if they can afford it) and would do due diligence to select their level. Implying this is somehow malicious from MS is disingenuous at worst
Actually points to MS trying to NOT fleece customers for once. The top sub comes with a load of features and tools which are useful to a larger organisation with dedicated IT staff who will be able to get the most of of these additional tools, which would otherwise never be used or implemented correctly causing issues. For example, Intune is in the premium which without serious IT skills is a waste of time for most businesses, as is Entra ID and Purview.. these are not in basic or standard and that makes sense as they are deeply technical and need proper implementation (and the equivalence of cloud = 'no it skills needed' is about as relevant as Tesla autopilot = no driving licence needed).
The server meals in first and business class with METAL knives. Obviously a terrorists only ever fly cattle class. Also as pointed out lots of plastic items could be used as a very effective knife, not to mention things like mirrors allowed in carry on can make really REALLY good blades with very little work.
Its theatre and bloody stupid.
and I'm not just talking about the trolls here spouting cr*p.
"Twenty-five percent stuck their smartphone in a special cover so hackers couldn't steal their data" Really? Might as well not step on the cracks in the pavements as otherwise they will swallow you up.
Serious lack of critical thinking around right now, not to mention the anti-science idiots. What doesn't help that we have in our purview to stop is bad naming and explanations of our stuff, like incognito
Think it's all their non-india clients so a total of 4billion is tax. It's a interesting test case because are they paying tax of those earnings in the country they are billed in - if not then sure India should charge it. If they are then in theory no. However that's the slight absurdity of international tax that allows companies to get away with paying a pittance anywhere, like Vodaphone using Luxembourg for tax purposes despite earning a huge profit in the uk for uk services (think they still do that?). Tired of this corporate(and billionaire) tax evasion bull, if you charge for work in a country, pay tax in that country as you are making money due to that state so should have to contribute to the running of that country - do not care if you are headquartered on the moon. The fact is if you earn from a country you should pay towards that country, same goes for if you live in a country or have citizenship of it you should support it and pay taxes.
yup and that's because they have a megalomaniac dictator who has nuclear weapons and a desire to make his mark on history, which could get even messier... Kid gloves are required (or some really clever assassination plan which needs to be perfectly handled to not blow things up even more)
Hydrogen to replace natural gas will not work as it leaks from everything. The space programme can't solve their issues with it leaking how in earth will terrestrial distribution?
Hydrogen is also less efficient by a considerable margin and is it exceedingly unlikely to ever have party with charging technologies - mainly due to conservation of energy.
Hydrogen production I'm sure can be improved, but again why spend energy creating it from water to just turn it back into water, CoE again losses. From Methane it's never going to be efficient or not have CO2 issues.
Hydrogen is fundamentally not the most common solution, might do a fraction but still it's difficult to work with & harder to store.
Indeed this is the actual cause, I head the street was effectively closed to traffic for Chinese New Year and the robocab didn't understand this so as they seem to want to do it tried to barge through and was met with more than just Fireworks outside the vehicle
don't think it's like a glue gun, it's just riding along the tracks and attached to the top of the engine so as that eats itself it pulls it along towards the engine.
I think it's great, much more likely to be used in military rocketry I suspect to extend range of those with the low thrust size they are planning.
thats a flat rate no 'installation' direct from Starlink. Must be sold cheaper in Spain as more rural areas more competition + standard internet is much cheaper as gov has properly invested in it unlike UK where a few quid is shoved at BT who do a little and then wring their hands saying it's hard can we have more cash.
Saw a similar thing long time ago, someone trying to change language settings in office (multinational staff in company). IT writes guide and emails it to staff. Staff member has problem with it and another techie goes to help. Brings up the guide email and in the email itself (not even full screen) tries multiple times to click on the screenshot menu (despite the actual menu showing above the screenshot!). Fails and gives up going to get help. Other non IT staff member points out issue and correct menu & user fixes it themselves and tell techie it's all fine now.
Massive fail by techie who has left that profession now and moved onto project management. Probably for the best as same techie didn't know what a heatsink was, slight lack of technical aptitude.
I didn't mind the Metro and it was great on a touchscreen. Improved in 8.1 but yeah a simple choice would've helped & the odd hide the close X issues did not help at all. Shame they have not learnt as the WORST thing about Windows 12 is again it insistence of hiding all your apps in the start menu, Painful.
don't the German pay for their country-wide local transport ticket by taking profits from running UK railways badly?
On a serious note the studies that say making public transport free (or seriously cheap) reduces poverty, reduces car travel massively and increases productivity and general population health so the country benefits even monetarily way more than it costs?
but an astonishing amount of comments here don't seem to know that MS Office is the new name for the entire online service formerly known as Office 365 - not 365 apps which is what the new name for Office suite(nothing like a confusing Microsoft renaming!). So this is 1TB of storage online per user plus unlimited email archiving (effectively) plus everything else so sounding like telephony inc VoIP via teams to standard lines, Intune, a large threat protection suite (which isn't actually that rubbish) for Mail, documents and connected machines AND a load of other bits too which some are quite useful (not all..).
Certainly not the equivalent of the £60 pa personal plan, more likely the e5 full caboodle which is more like £50 pcm normally.
Sounds like a good deal, excepting the usual MS 'changes' and the eggs in one basket side of things but for normal users on windows it's actually rather sensible. NOW if the NHS had it's own build of Linux and internal team to support that plus a good telephony provider for VOIP, etc, etc.. we'd have an alternative (so wish this would happen, they are so big it would revolutionise the use of Linux in the workspace for ordinary users).However, as it is the 6m pound gorilla who we know and can publicly be shamed to some extent will have to do and is not the worst solution possible.
Designed to be secure by default, run in house for NHS. Can build connectors/convert to legacy systems and bring them on board to remove legacy shite. Stop paying MS billions for licencing and forced upgrade paths.
Software for the NHS by the NHS and not external consultant companies wanting some of the pork.
Support THAT and you might help Kier. It'll take time but it'll make a huge difference. With modern builds of Linux the users 9 out of 10 times don't even need to know they are not on MS
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