Posts by Richard 36

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

When my aunt had driving lessons, it had to be explained to her which way to turn the steering wheel in order to make the car turn left.

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

2033? No story here, surely!

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

How did Oracle persuade them to change from SAP?

Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week

Pants? How will they check people's underwear?

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

"Oh, coq" - James May

The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?

Re: Tea

Yes

Apple's app transparency rules: Google's privacy labels for Chrome and Search on iOS highlighted by DuckDuckGo

It seems to me that most people don't care that Google collects their data.

I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?

Best not to keep wearing the same underpants

UK might still be in lockdown but tech jobs rise above pre-pandemic levels and beyond, according to ONS

Let's hope that they are not all jobs with FaceBook

Is it Patch Blues-day for Outlook? Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide, leaves everyone stumped

How many errors can Microsoft make?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Architect

In my time I've been a Software Engineer and a (Software) Systems Architect. Concrete architects complained about the latter.

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

May I suggest that all you guys go onto Trustpilot and review 123-reg?

Re: they have simply stuck those domains on auto-renew

Sound like an expensive way to access the Internet

Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to

Yes, the registry has always been completely crazy, and all that. On the other hand, Windows 10 is working fine for me - except that Outlook 2016 crashes whenever I try to print a mail item on my Samsung Xpress M2835DW printer ...

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

Re: He should be proud that of that guy

Many head-on collisions, many American drunks.

Ad watchdog: Amazon 'misleading' over Prime next-day delivery ads

Tax

I'm more concerned that they are too powerful to be taxed properly