Posts by Eccella

BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit

Superb plot twist

One of the best. Splurted coffee over the keyboard at the end.

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger

Re: Osman is only good for the big stuff

I can't quite remember, was a Truss established as a unit of time?

Does it not subordinate to a lettuce?

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

American English at work?

Trash is an unusual word to use in English English. Perhaps the exec would not have been so confused if it had been labelled Waste Paper Basket?

The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month

I worked for Rank Xerox and at the Business Efficiency Exhibition in the NEC in 1980 or 81 we had a demo suite of the Networked Star systems. To illustrate how a network would pass data between workstaions we had fluorescent tubes which flashed as something was done on one workstation then sent to antoher workstation for editing. These were sit down hourly shows. At nearly every session the comment would be passed " Oh I couldnt work in an office with all thos flashing lights!"

Defra 'confident' it has 'handle' on risk for 30% of apps out of support

Hope as a strategy!

"hopefully, they won't fall over and won't be subject to [a] risk of cyber-attack"

This can’t be a real bomb threat: You've called a modem, not a phone

Ahh. Maplin. Those were the Days!

Apple emits emergency fix for exploited-in-the-wild WebKit vulnerability

Most important.

The update fixes an issue that may cause Braille displays to stop responding. Is this a Webkit issue as well?

Desperate Nominet chairman claims member vote to fire him would spark British government intervention

Pressure on the undecided major vote holders

Reading the current list of un-committed voteholders I would urge anyone that is supportive of Public Benefit's campaign and uses one of those companies for their domain, to write to them requesting that, as a minimum, they publically affirm abstention or better still to vote for the EGM resolution. I have contacted the investors dept at Go Daddy with this request. Wondering what corporate speak reply I get!!

How do you save an ailing sales pitch? Just burn down the client's office with their own whiteboard

Did they get the deal?

Nothing worse than being left in limbo. Or is there a sequel?

Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

Privacy by design

If only the ICO actually followed up on its own mandate and guidelines:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/accountability-and-governance/data-protection-by-design-and-default/

In a world of Bring your Own Device (Everything including desk and Chair) this should become the norm. Effort has been directed solely for the benefit of the Enterprise with no consideration for the rights of the individual. Why should I have my employer have access to all my personal data on my personal device?

France fines Google, Amazon €135m total for slipping ad cookies into people's computers without permission

Re: Two words...

Finland applies that rule for speeding. % of your annual income according to how many kph over the limit you were. Anecdotely, but pretty sure its' true, a senior Nokia exec got fined over €100,000 and a jail sentence

Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong

Not Smiling

Does the FCA have a definition of an Online Bank? If it's not available then they are no longer Online and ergo not providing Banking services. The blandness of response is not only staggering but also insulting. Get honest with your customers, it would improve trust. Feel that I have to vote with my feet, as soon as I can get online again!

HP to Xerox: Nope, your $33.5bn bid falls short of our valuation

I recall Vodafone swallowing Mannesmann after the Germans made an offer. Voda sold all the art in the Dusseldorf board room and were labelled "Cultural Barbarians". Whether that could be called a sucess is another matter......

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

Patrick Moore

Astronomy for the masses, appeared with Morecombe and Wise, made eyebrows fashionable!